But seriously, she was my waifu that got my free tutorial ring, and I fully expected to never get another ring because free to play guy, but then first anniversary gave a new free ring.
Her artist actually still around. Just VERY BUSY. Yumisaki Kaede has over 35 girls under her care. The latest one for this Christmas and New Year are Neptune and Laffey's wedding dress.
Unless they let other artist make her wedding dress....which I highly doubt it.
EDIT: If you want to say runaway artist that the girls badly needed replacement or get the artist back is the one who created Hood, Renown and Repulse.
I'd say let hori or gocho double up on kaede workload, hori done a good job on javelin skin and it's due time for him to get his own ship or taking over some of the load
Although somebody said that skins are decided very well on advance (like half a year or more) it's good odds that nimi bride is already on the pipeline, it's just doesn't make business sense to saturate the release so to speak