Happy (belated) New Year to all who see and read this!
This January 2025 recap contains wordy paragraphs and shoutouts. Buckle up and get comfortable with the number of words on this post!
Credit: Phat Meowsa
To start this post, let’s discuss the game and the new update written by Slimytent12! :D
Game Recap
After Amai was released, YandereDev redirected his focus to addressing all the issues related to her week. He resolved the reported bugs, introduced a unique process for getting her expelled from school, and added a social media feature to provide players with a more engaging and interactive way to uncover her secrets. However, he is not finished yet; he has a checklist of improvements he wants to make to Amai’s week before moving on (you find here).
Before concentrating on enhancing Amai’s week, he intends to implement a series of features for Custom Mode first. These features are primarily based on player requests, and he aims to work on them this January.
Many items from the "to-do list before moving on to Kizana" were completed before October 21, 2024. These include features such as the social media function, which replaced the "snooping through bookbag" feature, and more.
Since October 21st, 2024, several significant updates were made, including:
A major "1980s Mode Revamp" update, where nearly all of the cast was drastically remodeled.
A new design for the Basu Sisters, with a new option to discover what lies beneath the cherry tree…using a pickaxe.
The ability to customize Ayano’s appearance at her home.
The ability to kidnap male students;
New “Schoolday” tracks.
New music tracks for the Light Music Club rhythm minigame in 1980s Mode.
Various improvements to Custom Mode, which include:
The ability to decide a student's task.
The ability to determine a student's reputation.
The ability to enable or disable a student’s club accessory.
The ability to customize a student's pose in their student portrait.
The ability to customize female students' skin tone, among other features.
As shown, almost all of these updates stem from that to-do list.
Our next topic is contributors shout-outs, written by Tuxedoshlyukha!
Contributors Shout-outs
2024 was an excellent year for this Wiki, as there have been over 300+ unique editors throughout this year! Thinking about it, that is a huge number of people! With that said, let’s talk about the contributors to this Wiki who played a heavy role, and at the end of this long shoutout list, we will also mention editors who edited only once on a page after October 10th, 2024.
A list of our major contributors, to everyone in this list, thank you for your time and effort in keeping this Wiki up to date! We have arranged everyone's name alphabetically so you can easily find your name. :)
@Aidorusas/@MegamiIsAss5555– Reverted all edits made by a vandal who used a bot to paste a vandalism template three times on every page using their rollback permission. Renewed some characters' topics and fixed some sponsor in the Easter egg pages by correcting grammar and moving pages to fit their proper names. Added new portraits from the game, the new schoolday OSTs to the 202X Music page, and updated old images with new ones. Added Bankotsuko’s illustrations to her page.
@AlexXLarashipper – Adding mathematically correct ages to characters, name meanings, fixed links, and corrected grammar/spelling on many pages.
@Amasoumapandinha – Uploaded new images and added them to pages (the most notable ones being the Battle Axe and Chainsaw pages — check them out!), updated character pages including their routines, linked pages to words, fixed the messy Akademi article by rearranging some content and adding new pictures, fixed the Aishi House page by reorganizing the images into proper galleries, and added new images to the customization page.
@Crying Jenna2912 – Uploaded new images, corrected grammar and spelling, added information to the Befriend and Betray articles, updated portrait file names on many pages, added the GalleryTabs template to the Ajia Ashitomi page, added new trivia to a couple of pages, added some characters to the “Small Characters” page, and updated the Confession Tree page.
@Dankaccino - Reverted a couple of pages hit by vandalism, added some information to a draft page about security systems, added the recipe to craft a headache poison in the “Poisoning” page, and added some information to a couple of pages.
@Discu - Was a major contributor to the page “Tutorial (1980s)” by adding new images, and information, and changing the article from a stub to a completed article. They also added a few pictures for the 202X tutorial page.
@Dynablox001 – Uploaded new pictures for many clubs' pages and updated a few pictures on Ayano’s page to reflect the latest build.
@EddieWinters172 - Added trivia mainly about Muja Kina and a few other characters, gathered information about the characters and made paragraphs about their personality, added some information to a few characters' pages regarding their appearances, and corrected the tone and spelling of the added trivia.
@Enayy – Updated some characters' conversational topics to reflect their current portraits, added the 2 basement tape audios, completed an outdated page, and renewed some 1989 placeholder tasks.
@Featherwing0976 – Created the 202X Akademi Map, added valuable information to the burial page, and linked some words to the Aishi House page.
@Fellow neighborhood cat – Updated pictures for Kuudere Simulator games, Alphabetical Killer Challenge, Easter Eggs, Kidnapping, Newspaper Club, Kyoshi Tachikawa, and Buraza Town NPCs. Corrected grammar and spelling on the Mission Mode page.
@Flafiku – Revamped the Ayano Aishi and Aishi Family pages by rearranging trivia to their proper places, added new trivia about the Aishis, created a new template for the majority of eliminations found in the Content Checklist, and added them to their respective pages, cleaned up the SNAP page, uploaded new pictures for outdated pages, created a map showing a family tree of the Aishis, and adjusted page grammar and spelling.
@G8mf2fh – Was a heavy contributor on many pages by correcting grammar/spelling/punctuation involving characters after the 1980s Revamp Update to ensure readability, adjusted image sizes, and fixed links to pages.
@Giulio-kun – Added club accessories images for 1980s Mode, corrected links, and small grammar errors.
@JSmith33099 – Created and added information about YanSim characters featured in other games, uploaded photos related to the latter contribution, and had a small, but important role in unifying the Game Collaboration page.
@Miilanders2690 – Added the Outdated template to numerous character pages with old appearances, added new portraits from the game files, updated 1980s students' appearance descriptions after the major revamp update, added trivia about Sakura and Yaku, corrected grammar and spelling on a dozen pages, and updated the Removed Content page.
@Noar catt – Added the Objects Navbox on the necessary pages and revised the file names for several portrait image pages.
@Ohsosilly – Updated and refurbished outdated articles, corrected spelling and grammar, changed links to their proper pages, added character names to specific images, added the outdated template to a couple of pages, and changed the point of view in many paragraphs to reflect the two protagonists.
@Ppanconchocolateee – Added missing portraits for every character, including bugged ones for the rivals. Expanded the Gardening Club page by adding information for growing poisons using seeds. Added the Outdated template to pages with outdated images, mainly for 1980s characters: corrected typos and adjusted grammar.
@PoppyStardew – Archived many links across a dozen pages using a special website to save them for future use, and corrected spelling/grammar.
@SSeiiJiseii – Corrected grammar and spelling, added links, and updated the reputation pictures for 1980s characters.
@Ŝenezala – Remade the Yandere Simulator article from scratch and translated it from Russian to English. Fixed the main page and a few other minor things, removed some minor outdated templates on pages, unified the Uniform page with the Clothing page, created the “Userbox” template, created the Manual of Style and Guidelines page for the Wiki, updated infoboxes by adding categories to them, and changed templates names slightly using her bot across the entire page catalog.
@Slimytent12 – Uploaded new pictures of Ayano to her gallery, italicized all game names on their pages, corrected spelling, grammar, and punctuation on multiple pages, updated the History and Bug Fixes pages for Yandere Simulator, added a new notice template ({{Trivia}}), added the new illustrations for the bakery owners, added trivia to a few pages from the Discord server, and fixed the Aishi Family page by adjusting the ages to be mathematically correct.
@STYSAR20101829 – Corrected spelling and grammar of added trivia, and welcomed new trivia to different pages that they provided.
@VelvetBlossomlover – Added new trivia about Dafuni Bureiku.
@Yumut – Adjusted the entire Characters category page by moving some of the trivia in the “Appearance” section to the Trivia section and added two subsections to the Appearance section for readers. Borrowed some trivia from the Russian Yansim Wiki and added it to a few character pages, created the Okada family pages (except for Sutemi) and filled them with information from the Small Characters page, created the Basu Mother page, moved some images to their proper pages, and added “Cole” from Blush Blush to the Game Collaboration page.
Along with the above editors who have been positively contributing to this Wiki, the recent changes also welcomes everyone in alphabetical order: **hyieu**, A Waffle House employee, AbsoluteBanger, Aeenaaaa, Akitoya For Life, Albzz10, Aloafkaikat, AnimePrincessMii, Anthohermieee, ApolloSuneast, Ayanoochann, Black squad team, Calinoponthedoge, Chloesakuramoon, Combustiblehead, Coruuki65, CyberNine5, Disneygirl93, Dotcomdot, Doubled3ckerbusperchance, Emb1406, EpicCoolGuyLikEBfdi69, FelineLuv, FreyasSweet, Ghostgoop1980, GracieSonoram, HamilHeads75, Hazelllllllll, HelloYu, IamCocodadawg, Idekkkkkkkkkk, ILovePlayKidsYay2009, Itsmehahahehehoho, ItzSari, James Plays 4 Games, KarlosMush, KarolinaKawa, Katsanagi, Kaylee0826, Keroba, LacunaEclipsed, LevyG4rmadon, LinEn13, Lopoy28., Lovydov, LuckyNyamber13, M00n.l0v3s.u, Madotsukiiiiiiii, Maikochansama, Mehmet59, MichelleYuigahama, Ministério Étrom, MochiSarina, Monapebbleinmyshoe, MonoKunin, MoonlightScars, Nekomiru EN, Noisy miner, Nosebreather, NotDussy, NovaBloom34, O-OhNo, OARZLeader12Official, Oliviare, Onlycuziwantedpudding, PFG Frankly, Qtforkittiesss, RafaelaVoul123, Rasyafadila, Ravenshheart, RoboBox, Rose x diamonds, Sailor-Kay7669, SakuraMimi12, Sifkeen1, SirRobowisan11, SisterLemon7, Sky530022, Sternzocker1, Sumi the silly!!!!, Talapinka, Terreliv2-fduser, The girl who has no friends, Tms1324, Tsumugi20, Valerietitova, WhatLoveMeans, Winterespa, Xx.yazh.xx, Yandesei, YHaruRBLX, Zaklad pogrzebowy, Zarasutoobuazu, Dawnxyz24, TheMusicFreaksisthebestnocap.
We apologize if we missed anyone or anything while putting together this list. The Recent Changes page was reviewed, and everything was recorded by hand. If there is something you did or someone that we've overlooked, please don't hesitate to share in the comments!
Interested in contributing but unsure how or what to do? The Editors server has a public to-do list and a bunch of helping materials, and if you're confused, the staff team and other members will be happy to help you.
And now a few words from Ŝenezala!
Quick Wiki Recap
2024 brought the wiki to several major milestones. It was the year when an actual community began to form again - both in editing and casual chat area, when a lot of internal systems and technical parts got a long-needed revamp, and overall, it finally came back to an "organized community" state instead of "random people trying to keep it together but barely communicating with each other".
The most noticeable visual changes happened in 2023 when I got to finally fix the wiki's background (it used the 2016 Senpai customization background), and the main page, and give it proper dark and light themes, but after that... Not much had happened, frankly. Yes, a bunch of articles had been rewritten and improved, but there isn't that much a single person, or a few people who have no real contact with each other, can do. A lot of things that were done in 2024 wouldn't be possible without cooperation, and a lot of them wouldn't be even thought of.
There were and I'm sure there will be some rough moments, but overall, I'm really happy that I've got to work with you all! Thanks to everyone who has visited and contributed to this little Internet corner in any way, and take care!
Closing Sentence
2024 has been an outstanding year for this Wiki. Contributions from many individuals have helped keep numerous pages up to date, and even if it’s just a small single edit, it has made a significant impact. This collective effort has made 2024 the most productive year for the Yandere Simulator Wiki. Thank you to each one of you for reading this post and being a part of this community. We look forward to making 2025 as wonderful as 2024 has been.
That's all for now! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the wiki over the past months. Until next time! ;)
Sincerely, the staff team.