Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-35092836-20180410082214/@comment-34481364-20180429210435

Personally I feel like it's a matter of preference.

In my opinion Senpai is rather bland (which is pretty obvious considering his placeholder name literally means "Ordinary Joe/John") in appearance (unless customized), personality, and backstory. I see quite a lot of others who can probably agree with me on this. Until more things have been added to him, I think he's just really meh.

Budo, on the other hand, has all of the things that Senpai (personally) lacks. He has this interesting hairstyle, is kind and brave yadda yadda, strong as heck, pretty outgoing, leader of the Martial Arts Club... the list could go on and on. My point is that currently, Budo just feels more of a "complete" character than Senpai.

Now, onto why people would ship Ayano/Yandere-chan with him.

He's good looking in the eyes of many people. Yandere-chan is essentially the player, so like Travid117 mentioned before, it's like a self-insert.

Even if those people don't find Budo himself handsome/don't love him romantically, they could still ship Yandere-chan with him because of their sort of clashing personalites. I know that Yandere-chan's "personality" really depends on the player's choices, but think about how she is often portrayed. A heartless, cold, and violent psychopath. This completely opposes Budo's personality, a cheerful, brave, kind hero-type guy. You know what they say, opposites attract!