Talk:Kasuka Mado/@comment-26306690-20160124141702/@comment-189.152.160.15-20160125183225

Akira.

Her mother, for one, was always shown with shorter, unbraided hair, while braids are pretty much Akira's defining trait. (In omakes, it was revealed Kasuka was the one to braid her hair before she passed away; afterwards, Kureo did, even as she was older; and even Akira has been portrayed braiding Kureo's hair. Quite an important thing to her character.) Additionally, pretty much every character who was dead before the events of the series has been shown without their eyes, which is not the case here - and it would be an extremely strange moment to reveal Kasuka's face in full.

Secondly, that's a mental image Urie is making. When he is told Kasuka rejected Kureo because she didn't want to change her last name, she imagines Akira saying the same thing, and then decides it's completely plausible she'd do that - that's why she's then compared to her mother. Something like "That sounds like something Akira would do as well."