Talk:Kaede Fuyou/@comment-71.251.154.95-20200809071154

I recently came across a play-through of the visual novel. Man they did Kaede dirty in the anime. Her character in the novel has some important similarities such as her forgivness issues, but even under Asa's route she never has the mental snap that throws her into a tailspin. Alas under that route she does not get a happy ending and her story ends with her crying after all the confessions are laid on the table. (Rin states he doesn't regret his choice but knows that he broke his promise he made to Kaede as kids in the process.)

Under Kaede's story she has the same forgiveness issues but she learns the truth and understands her actions on her own as she gets older and goes into the whole devotion thing. (As opposed to the hidden postcard bolt from the blue that set eveything off.) Even when Rin confesses she says they can't be together at first despite their mutual love. She has a very emotion breakdown similar to her talk with Asa in the anime but she confesses it all to Rin. Why she was having such a hard time forgiving herself for her actions and how it was why she didn't want Rin to return affections to her. But Rin explains he forgave her years ago, and the two renew their promise and have a happy ending.

But the anime had to go and wreck her character by making her go off her hinges and make her all yandere.