Students

Students are NPCs that attend Akademi High School, the main setting of Yandere Simulator.

Most students follow a specific movement pattern. Currently, the only implemented students that do not have specific movement patterns are Yandere-chan, Info-chan, Rival-chan, the Phantom Girl, the Placeholder Club Leaders, and the delinquents.

Routine
This is the daily routine of all NPC students as of the November 15, 2015 Build, except for the aforementioned NPCs who do not have a routine yet:


 * 1) Walk into the school.
 * 2) Change their outdoor shoes with indoor shoes in the Locker Room.
 * 3) Move to the plaza, the roof, the Computer Lab, or to their clubs to participate in club activities.
 * 4) Go to their assigned class.
 * 5) Go to the cafeteria, the club rooms, or the rooftop. The students that go to the gossip area are supposed to eat, but there are no implemented eating animations yet.
 * 6) Go back to class.
 * 7) Change their indoor shoes with outdoor shoes in the Locker Room or go to their clubs.
 * 8) Leave the school or participate in club activites.

Yandere-chan can interact with most of the students. In the future, the students will react when the protagonist bumps into them. If a picture of a student's face is sent to Info-chan, she will send the player their name, club (if they are in one), persona, possible crushes, self-defense, and any possible additional information. Info-chan will not give Yandere-chan information on Senpai, Rival-chan, delinquents, or herself. If YandereDev can manage it, there will most likely be at least 90 students in the full game. NPCs will be 99% Japanese with similar skin tones.

Main Characters

 * Main Article: Main Characters

Test Rivals
Rival-chan uses Osana Najimi's old model, so they are often confused with each other. Rival-chan only exists to test the red rival outline of Yandere Vision and to stand in for Osana.

Victim-chan was the first test rival. Her looks were meant to resemble the first rival, Osana Najimi. She was eventually removed from the game only for the purpose of being used for a demonstration.

Kokona Haruka is the current test rival. Although she might not be an actual rival in the final game, she is being used to test elimination methods. As shown above, she has a crush on Senpai, so Yandere-chan has a reason to eliminate her - however, eliminating her will not win the game. The player will still lose at the end of the week since she is not programmed in as an "official rival".

Since so much work has been put into her, she may become an official rival. If she does, then she will become the President of the Drama Club.[21]

Rivals

 * Main Article: Rivals

'''Note: Not all rivals have made their appearances yet. Some only have concept art available for portraits. Others that have been added to the game are not complete (either in routine or appearance) and are subject to change before the final build.'''

Females
All females have the same eye shape as Yandere-chan because currently the female student models are reused.

Males
All males have the same eye shape as Senpai because the male student models are reused.

Easter Eggs

 * Main Article: Easter Eggs

There are currently five Easter Egg students in Yandere Simulator.

Former Students

 * Main Article: 1980s Mode

Former students from the 1980s. They are all adults (except Phantom Girl) but they still play an important role in Yandere Simulator.

Removed Students

 * Main Article: Removed Content

The deleted students, Victim-chan and Witness-chan, can be seen in the JSON file of some old updates (from March 1st, 2015 to April 8th, 2015) as well as the "How To Get Away With Murder In Yandere Simulator" video.

It was impossible to meet both of them in the game, as they were already removed when the build was deleted.

Spinoff Game Students

 * Main Article: Kuudere Simulator, Kuudere Simulator 2, Burning Love.

These characters have only appeared in their respective games. Sakura appeared in Burning Love, Tsundere-chan and Kuudere-chan in Kuudere Simulator, and Himedere-chan in Kuudere Simulator 2.

Hypothetical Students

 * There may be a Kickstarter reward allowing a fan to create a student to be implemented into the official game.
 * There will be at least one exchange student, but their nationality has not been decided yet. They'll most likely be American so the student can be a comically exaggerated American stereotype..
 * It may be possible for the player to add their own students in the future.
 * There will be one character in Yandere Simulator who YandereDev has always envisioned as someone who tortures animals. However, it is not Yandere-chan.
 * In addition, there will be one Mary Sue/absolutely perfect student. YandereDev has not revealed whether she is a rival or not.
 * If YandereDev could make a student based on himself, he would make a student who is in the Gaming Club, a Loner, and has no crush, unless he added a student who resembles his favorite video game character. Still, he has no desire to put himself in-game.
 * YandereDev will only make parodies of characters that he cares or knows about.
 * An NPC with Rival-chan's appearance might be in the final game.
 * There may be a student that looks like YandereDev, but is the complete opposite of him otherwise.
 * YandereDev would love to include a gothic lolita character or a ganguro character.

Trivia

 * Students with something noteworthy about them (such as rivals and Easter Egg students) might have ironic names.
 * In the future, students in a group may murmur or chatter together when you walk by them.
 * When a student who wears glasses loses their glasses, their line of sight might be reduced.
 * There is a reason why the students will still come to school when they know there is a serial killer on the loose, but YandereDev has not released this information yet. It may be because in Japanese culture, getting a good education and upholding your family reputation is very important.
 * In very early debug builds, all students were recolors of Yandere-chan's model, with the only difference being the hair and eye color (light blue). Before students had names, they were all named "Student-chan" within the game code. They were given different hair colors in the February 15th, 2015 Build. Five corpses of "Student-chan" used be seen on the title screen before the March 17th, 2016 Build, when they were removed.
 * YandereDev quickly makes students by modifying lines on an XML sheet and exporting the XML as a JSON file. Within the current game engine, however, he has to place all physical destinations of where a student has to go. In the future, the game will automatically assign students' destinations.
 * There will be some comic relief moments in the full version of Yandere Simulator, during particular NPC conversations.
 * Some boys in the school are very big perverts, as they buy panty shots from Info-chan.
 * In the future, two "special" NPCs that are popular among fans may enter a relationship.
 * The player may be able to distract students with small firecrackers in the full game.
 * As of the September 20th, 2015 Build, students' clothes, hair, and animation codes are not active when Yandere-chan is far away. This is to improve frame rate.
 * Since Info-chan is a notorious name around the students, her default reputation will be -999. But her true identity will have a rep of "0", as no one knows who she really is.
 * The names of the first six male and six female characters (not including Student-chan) are the most popular Japanese given names of 2012.
 * Pippi and Ryuto will be the only rhythm game references in Yandere Simulator.
 * Some students will stay after school at the end of the day to clean up classrooms, but there are no animations for this yet.
 * A fictional anime called Magical Girl Miyuki will be popular among students, and they may talk about it occasionally. "Did you see last night's episode of Magical Girl Miyuki?"
 * YandereDev stated that he might even add a magical girl in the game for fun.
 * Students will have an age of "???". It may be this way due to the fact that 16-18 year old students seen naked may be called "child porn."
 * Yui Rio is currently the only student who has an Evil persona. In the full game, there will likely be no more than five students with this persona. YandereDev's reason for this is because an evil student witnessing murder is a 'Consequence-free murder'.
 * Budo Masuta is the only fully programmed NPC who doesn't appear to be scared at low School Atmosphere. However, if the Martial Arts Club closes down, he will become paranoid.
 * YandereDev has stated that a Japanese teacher told him nobody at school would be openly "LGBT" and only "come out" after graduating.
 * YandereDev "has some plans for students who act as amateur 'investigative journalists'".
 * In the future, the delinquents will only willingly interact with the player if Yandere-chan's reputation is low enough. YandereDev believes that the delinquents should arrive at class late when they are fully implemented. They will not help the player with murder nor take the blame for it.
 * In the future, it's possible that if Yandere-chan gets too popular, some students will stalk her and murders would thus always have witnesses.
 * According to YandereDev, Yandere-chan would only befriend students for manipulative purposes.
 * YandereDev would love to keep the original 12 students in the game, but he might have to ditch some NPCs if the production puts limits on him.
 * There are two characters who have abused an animal once during their life. It is unknown if these characters are students or not.
 * YandereDev would like to rename some characters.
 * YandereDev may have the female students in the game act more like "real Japanese schoolgirls" and perform lewd actions such as sneaking up on another girl and pulling up her skirt. He was most likely kidding when he mentioned this.
 * YandereDev hopes to implement the ability to put custom skin and uniforms on students in the future.
 * In the future, students will be programmed to carry their bookbags.

Bugs

 * Students sometimes get stuck on each other or props.
 * If a student is beckoned by laughter, they may sit down, play games, or read once they reach their spot.