Talk:Raita Niitani/@comment-10483040-20140718173424/@comment-11372432-20140721012446

It's cuter that way. In all seriousness, though, it's to differentiate him from the other characters and the background ones too. In other words, it was a design choice.

But maybe we'll get an origin story for why he has the hat when he becomes a main character in season 4. I'm guessing his father sent him the hat after visiting Eskimos for his job as a reporter, then disappeared without a trace and now he wears it as a last memento of his father and so that his father would recognize him as he grows older. (Note to those who don't get sarcasm, this whole paragraph was sarcasm lol. And yes, that was absurdly elaborate, that's what makes it so funny.)