Super Mario Odyssey producer confirms that Toad's head is not a hat

The Super Mario universe is full of mysteries, like why Mario and Donkey Kong are friends now, whether or not their names are really Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, and why some of the characters from Super Mario Bros. 2 can pop up in other games if that whole adventure was a dream, but one mystery has divided the entire video gaming world: Is the “mushroom cap” on Toad’s head a hat or is it part of his head? Various sources have tired to solve that mystery with science over the years, like examining split-second frames of Toad being electrocuted to see if there’s any skeletal structure beneath the mushroom cap or using hacks to get a game’s camera to clip into the cap and see if he has a head beneath it, but now Super Mario Odyssey producer Yoshiaki Koizumi has offered a definitive solution to this mystery.