Akademi

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Akademi is a prestigious post-high school academy where the main course of the gameplay takes place.

Overview

Akademi's national anthem, which YandereDev declared canon at some point, but may change in the future if he came up with a new anthem.

Akademi is a prestigious post-high school academy that simulates the feeling of a high school environment for people who prefer a high school atmosphere over a college atmosphere. The protagonist, Senpai, the ten rivals and the rest of the students, currently attend this school. Along with the Aishi house and Buraza Town, it is the main setting for Yandere Simulator where the protagonist takes out her rivals. Akademi is very famous, being synonymous with Harvard or Yale within the in-game universe. Akademi is best described or in a similar nature as a Juku school, being private, fee paid schools that offer preparations for key school and university exams. The key difference is that Akademi attempts to recreate the school environment and atmosphere as a high school.

It is regarded as an elite school with students from wealthy families attending it. Students from age 16 to 18 can join Akademi. Upon joining the academy, a student can decide whether to join as a first, second, or a third year student.

Every student will wear the default school uniform unless customized by the player, except for the student council members and teachers, who wear special uniforms.

Every test result are published on the schools bulletin board. Thus every student knows each others grades.

History

Saisho Saikou founded Akademi around 1985. He informed Kocho Shuyona that Saikou would be bankrolling Akademi and that he created Akademi for his daughter to give her the "perfect, ideal high school life". However, it was actually a part of her intense training.

After Ichiko Saikou graduated, Akademi started being used as a training ground for future Saikou Corp employees. In short, if Saikou Corp notices a that student meets the company's criteria, they will approach them shortly before graduation with a job offer.

In 1988, Ryoba Aishi started attending Akademi where she met her senpai. Since then, she didn't hesitate to harm or kill any girl who threatened to take her senpai away from her, and she showed no remorse for any of her actions. Her first victim was Sumire Saitozaki. Ryoba cleaned all the evidence except a single blood stain, which made the police believe that it was a possible murder case.

An investigative journalist had noticed that Ryoba was stalking an upperclassman. He also got information from one of the students that she supposedly had taken a knife out of the cooking club the day the murder had taken place. After that, he became certain that it was her who killed Sumire.

The journalist eventually convinced the police to arrest Ryoba. Due to the unusual nature of the case — a schoolgirl accused of murdering a classmate for the sake of love — the media chose to sensationalize the case, resulting in international attention. Word of Ryoba's arrest quickly spread throughout the entire nation, and the trial turned into a media circus.

However, Ryoba was able to escape a guilty verdict by manipulating the emotions of the court, tricking all of Japan into thinking that the journalist only accused her of murder for the sake of sensational headlines and because he was jealous of his apprentice's skills as a detective. The court, the media, and the entire nation fell in love with her.

Despite Ryoba being declared innocent, a massive blow was dealt to the school's reputation.

Akademi was still considered an elite school with almost all the students coming from wealthy families. Despite this, the school's applications dropped drastically after the disappearances in 1989. If it wasn't for the headmaster lowering the standards for the students to apply, the application rate would've dropped even lower.

The headmaster fell into depression after the trial, as is evident from the headmaster's tapes. He is convinced that Ryoba is indeed the culprit and the journalist was telling the truth.

Map (202X)

The map is currently a work in progress.

Trivia

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• Saisho Saikou ordered Akademi to be constructed in 1984, outside of Buraza Town.
• Akademi was built by Saisho Saikou in 1985, the founder and former CEO of Saikou Corp for her daughter Ichiko Saikou, the former heiress of Saikou Corp.
• In the internal game files, Akademi is referred to as SchoolScene.
• The original layout of the school was based on Yasogami High School from Persona 4.
• The protagonist may be able to call the school to explain that she is "sick" if she misses a day of school because of torturing a student.
• The reason why there are no security cameras is that the school cares about its reputation. They don't want to create an image of a school where students are in danger, need protection, or surveillance.
• The police and the media stay away from the school because the headmaster bribes the police as said in Mysterious Tape #2.
  • The Headmaster's Tapes will reveal more about the backstory of the school.

Old test environment.

• There used to be an old test environment that YandereDev later removed in the May 24th, 2015 Build. He said that later in the game there would be better environments.
• Despite the game using a lot of Japanese themes, signs, and boards in-game will be in English instead of kanji. (Kanji are characters used in the Japanese language.)
• There's a rival school, but there will be no rivals from there. It will appear in a flashback because a very important character from that school plays a role in the game's backstory.

A different design of Akademi.

• The name of the school is similar to the Japanese katakana spelling for "academy": Akademī (アカデミー).
• YandereDev thinks there should be an option for the player to press a button and see a map of the school. However, he won't prepare something like this until the school is 100 % finished.
  • As of the April 18th 2019 Build, a Map of the school can be toggled by pressing the "Spacebar" key on the keyboard, and the "Back" key on an Xbox Controller.
• The second kanji on the school logo, "高", is sometimes used as an abbreviation of the Japanese word for high school, "高等学校". This may or may not be intentional.
• YandereDev has stated that his vision of Ayano's school's uniform closely resembled Kotonoha's uniform from School Days. This is now possible thanks to the breakthrough on May 22, 2016.
• After it was suggested to him, YandereDev is considering the idea of the school layout being shaped like the Saikou logo from above.
• There were possibly originally plans to have a baseball field at the school, but the plans were scrapped. In the game, The Basu sisters discuss that and answer why.
  • On that note, the Basu sisters discuss the mysteries of Akademi.
• Akademi has the world's best overnight cleanup crew.
• Akademi has had as many as 240 students in attendance. To make room for the extra students, typically unused rooms in Akademi had been used. They would repurpose the rooms into classrooms and then name it with the same system with the two other classrooms. For example, the Meeting Room would be "Class 1-3", the Sociology Room would be "Class 2-3" and the Art Room would be "Class 3-3".
  • With six classrooms in the South, and 3 classrooms each in both the East and the West wing, most of the school's lifespan had these rooms in operation.
  • The headmaster approved more applications in 1990, which resulted in 240 students attending.
• Akademi's population was low in between the years from 1985 to 1988 for the purpose of a "CEO training simulation". This was intended for Ichiko.
• Due to various controveries (the 1989 Ryoba Aishi trial being one of them), applications from students to Akademi have dropped from 240 students to 90 students. This amount of students would even be lower, had the headmaster not lowered the standards for more students to apply.
  • This has resulted in people like Midori Gurin to apply and be accepted at Akademi, despite not meeting the full criteria or standards like the school's usual clientele.
• Entrance exams in Akademi only run for 6 hours. Depending on the amount of people applying, the exam period could last for days. For example, if 900 students applied for the exams, the exams would run for 9 days. This would make 100 students per day writing the exam with different questions and answers to prevent cheating.
  • Students write their entrance exams in the school gymnasium with desks and chairs set up.
  • No matter how many people apply, a maximum of 240 students will be permitted at Akademi.
• There is no true high school that can rival Akademi, since it is only a few. But there is a high school, in which some Akademi students have rivalries with the students from that opposing school.
  • This is the same high school that has the "rival gang" who fought Osoro Shidesu.
• Akademi started to allow 16 year olds in school after 1989.
• Prior to 1990, Kocho attempted to establish a "reward system" where if someone got good grades, that they could break school regulations by wearing a lot of accessories, and change their appearance. In 202X, out of desperation, he removed this system entirely and allowed students to do what they wanted with themselves.
• The school size is 145 × 192 meters (475.72 × 629.92 feet). It was previously 250 × 250 meters (820.21 × 820.21 feet).
• The portraits of the students and faculty members are IDs taken by a professional photographer.
• The final exams at the Academy are difficult.
• The graduation on the Academy takes place in March.
• There are 6 classes per day and there are usually 3~5 lessons per week but it depends on what's being taught that week.