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Amai Odayaka is the second rival of Ayano Aishi and the President of the Cooking Club in Yandere Simulator.
Appearance
Amai has short, French beige hair. She has summer green eyes and thick eyebrows. She wears dusty pink lipstick. Her bust size is 1.1. Amai's height is 161cm (5'3").[4]
She wears the school uniform with white slanted mint striped stockings, a greenish-cyan kerchief, a dark mint green apron with baking and flower themed patterns, and the "red arm band of leadership" with a cupcake on her left arm. If the Cooking Club is disbanded, Amai will remove her armband and apron for the rest of the game. When outside of school, Amai wears cute, girly, and feminine clothing:[5] on Saturday of the first week, Amai wears a short-sleeved mint green t-shirt with a subtle, simple, white-outlined floral pattern, a white circle skirt, a light brown belt at her waist, her usual stockings and mint green shoes.
Normally, she doesn't wear any accessories at school, but if Shoku Tsuburaya gives her accessories while matchmaking, Amai will wear a red bracelet with a cupcake on her left wrist, a dark teal choker with a cupcake attached to it, a yellow cupcake hair clip on the side of her head, and a yellow cupcake ring on her right ring finger. Her phone has a teal case and a cupcake charm hanging from it. On Saturday, she wore two necklaces; one pearl and the other a simple cord.
Personality
Amai is the president of the school's cooking club. Her culinary skills are far beyond her age, and nothing makes her happier than seeing people enjoy the food that she has prepared.
Amai will be absent from school during the first week of gameplay, but she will meet Senpai immediately after the events of Week 1, at a point in time when Senpai is feeling sad and vulnerable. She will quickly forge a bond with him, during a point in time when Senpai deeply needs a new friend.
With her kind and caring nature, it's easy to see how Senpai could easily fall for her within a week's time. If nobody stands in her way, Senpai will belong to her in no time at all. Remember: the fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach!
The president of the Cooking Club.
Someone has been sabotaging her family's bakery.
Suspicious of the owner of a new bakery.
Among the personas that are currently implemented, Amai is Lovestruck. If she witnesses a murder, she will run to Taro Yamada and inform him that there is a corpse in the school grounds, and the two would run away from school and call the police. But if Amai witnessed that Ayano have commited murder, she will run to Taro Yamada that Ayano Aishi is the murderer, which causes an automatic Game Over. She will happily pose for the camera if Ayano aims her phone's camera at her face.
In the Mission Mode, Amai is a Social Butterfly. If she witnesses a murder or sees a corpse, she will run to the nearest populated area and call the police. If Ayano approaches, she will scream for her to go away, and if Ayano commits another murder in her eyesight, she will curl into a ball.
Overall, Amai is portrayed a caring and hard-working person, her life centered around her family bakery and cooking in general. Despite her gentle personality, she isn't naive or insecure; she may stand up for a bullied student[6] and privately expresses her suspicions towards Rei Ando to her family and criticizes the existence of the occult, but rarely states her suspicions as an accusation and almost always ends up saying something to ease the situation, disliking gossip and unwilling to cause unnecessary drama. Despite being a confident person overall though, Amai can be shy in certain unfamiliar situations, such as during her confession under the cherry blossom tree.[7]
When Amai was 13 years old, she possessed almost all the characteristics of her current self, however, it is explicit that she was very childish and immature, her embarassing secret being that she secretly spat in the food of a customer who was rude to her mother and bragged about it on the internet, describing the situation as "deserved and funny." She was also extremely addicted to anime and video games around that age, spending excessive amount of time on these activities, but eventually became worried about wasting her life and completely cut video games and anime from her life, and claims to feel happy about it.
In contrast to her old personality from five years ago, Amai is very mature and responsible and is committed to her duties to her family's bakery and club, going so far as having to attend class online during the first week and prioritize the quality of the food above all else, such as not adopting a cat so as not to risk fur contaminating the food her family prepares, despite her wanting a pet cat very much. As a result, most of her thoughts are positive and related to food.[8]
Amai loves cooking, unable to imagine anything she would be more passionate about than food. According to her blog on Sai-Press, "her brain is food" and the only professions she would pursue if she couldn't be a cook are artist and gardener because, for her, cooking is art and growing plants is similar to preparing food. However, does have other hobbies, although intertwined with cooking, one of which is posting on social media.[9] She posts her culinary arts on Sai-X and another social media platform called Saikougram where she has around 10 000 followers on, having the third largest number of social media followers after Kizana Sunobu,[10] but her follower count could drop significantly if Ayano sabotages her event with Taro on Friday.
Being busy with her family's bakery, Amai had never dated anyone and feels extremely worried about spending her whole life without experiencing love and wants a boyfriend who cares deeply about her, falling for Taro because of his caring personality. Although inexperienced with romance, she acts with confidence and persuasion but focuses more on demonstrating her care towards Taro instead of pure flirt, not caring about the impression she gives on others or coming off as desperate. During her confession, she said she was doing everything in her power to win his heart.
Routine
Regular
Currently, the regular routine can only be seen in Mission Mode.
At 7:05 AM, Amai enters the school grounds with the other members of the Cooking Club. She walks to her locker at 7:10 AM and changes from her outdoor shoes to her indoor shoes. At 7:15 AM, she walks to the Cooking Club and prepares food with the rest of the members. She then walks around the school to give the food to various students.
At 8:00 AM, Amai walks into Classroom 2-2, sits at her desk, and plays on her phone. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM, then leaves the classroom at 1:00 PM to eat lunch at the Fountain in the Plaza.
Amai walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. Afterward, she heads to the Cooking Club and stays there until the end of the day. If Ayano joins in club activities, she will prepare a meal from 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM.
If the Cooking Club is disbanded, Amai will stand next to the fountain in the plaza.
Week 2
- Monday
At 7:00 AM, Amai and Taro Yamada talk by the school gates. Amai tells Taro about a Bake Sale happening at the plaza and convinces him to visit the sale at lunchtime to give him free sweets.
After going through the school gates, Amai gets a phone call from her mother and runs to the eastern side of the school entrance to answer it.
After the phone call, she walks to her locker and changes from her outdoor shoes to her indoor shoes. At 7:15 AM, Amai leaves her bookbag in Classroom 2-2.
At 7:21 AM, Amai thanks the cooking club members for agreeing to help her in the bake sale and tells them their schedule. Afterward, they go to the Home Ec Room to prepare the food. At 7:30 AM, they go to the school plaza to start the bake sale.
If the Cooking Club is disbanded, Amai will sulk in front of it while her remaining friends look at her, but will still run the bake sale.
At 8:00 AM, she then walks to her classroom and sits at her desk. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM and continues the bake sale during lunchtime, from 1:00 PM to 1:24 PM. If the Monday event hadn't been sabotaged, Taro tried her food and liked it.
If the events were sabotaged, Taro and Amai go to the Rooftop, where he tells her that some students got sick because of her pastries.
On Monday, Amai skips her lunch and continues the bake sale instead. But as of May 15th, 2025 Update, she will eat her lunch after her Monday event with Senpai, which allows Ayano to kill her with any poison as early as Monday afternoon.
After lunchtime, Amai walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. She continues the bake sale until 5:00 PM and goes to her club with others after it.
- Tuesday
At 7:00 AM, Amai asks Taro if he knows how to cook, and he admits he hasn't cooked anything in his life. Amai offers for Taro to cook with her, though he is worried that he'll make a mess. Amai offers to make him an apron with his favorite color, black, so he can be cool and stylish while trying to cook.
Amai holding the gift bag containing the black apron for Senpai.
At 7:10 AM, Amai leaves her bookbag in Classroom 2-2. At 7:15 AM, she sews an apron for Taro in the Sewing Room and leaves it next to her desk. This will give Ayano a chance to swap the black apron for a pink apron while she is out of the classroom.
At 7:21 AM, Amai prepares food with the other club members. At 7:30 AM, they go to the school plaza to start the bake sale.
At 8:00 AM, she walks to her classroom and sits at her desk. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM, and at 1:00 PM, Amai goes to the rooftop to give Taro the apron. If Ayano didn't replace it with another one, he will thank her for making it and tell her that he can't wait to use it. Afterward, Amai eats her lunch in the school plaza before going to class at 1:24 PM.
After lunch, Amai walks back to class at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. She continues the bake sale until 5:00 PM and goes to her club with the others after it.
- Wednesday
At 7:00 AM, Amai asks Taro if he knows how to cook now, to which he replies negatively, so she gives him a beginner recipe and tells him that she won't be able to help him during this time.
At 7:10 AM, Amai leaves her bookbag in Classroom 2-2. At 7:21 AM, Amai prepares food with the other club members. At 7:30 AM, they go to the school plaza to start the bake sale.
At 8:00 AM, she walks to her classroom and sits at her desk. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM, and at 1:00 PM, Amai goes to the rooftop to ask Taro how the dish tasted. If the event wasn't sabotaged, he would say it turned out great. Afterward, Amai eats her lunch in the school plaza before going to class at 1:24 PM.
After lunchtime, Amai walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. She continues the bake sale until 5:00 PM and goes to her club with the others after it.
- Thursday
Amai walking to the rose bushes to have a picnic with Senpai.
While walking to school together, Amai and Taro have a conversation about kitchen equipment. At 7:00 AM, Amai invites Taro to a picnic next to the rose bushes near the Gymnasium. Taro asks about bugs being there, and Amai assures him that there's nothing that would attract them.
At 7:10 AM, Amai leaves her bookbag in Classroom 2-2. At 7:21 AM, Amai prepares food with the other club members. At 7:30 AM, they go to the school plaza to start the bake sale.
At 8:00 AM, she then walks to her classroom and sits at her desk. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM, and at 1:00 PM, Amai and Taro go to eat next to the rose bushes. They go back to class at 1:24 PM.
If the events were sabotaged, Taro and Amai would go eat somewhere else due to insects swarming the bushes.
After lunchtime, Amai walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. At 4:00 PM, Amai makes ingredients for pastries that she will serve on Friday. Afterward, she goes to her club with the others.
- Friday
The cake Amai made in the Home Ec Room.
At 7:00 AM, Amai will tell Taro that she has a Saikougram account where she makes cake art and asks him to visit her account and check her art.
At 7:10 AM, Amai leaves her bookbag in Classroom 2-2. At 7:21 AM, Amai prepares food with the other club members. At 7:30 AM, they go to the school plaza to start the bake sale.
At 8:00 AM, she then walks to her classroom and sits at her desk. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM and eats her lunch in the school plaza from 1:00 PM to 1:24 PM.
After lunchtime, Amai walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and attends the club leaders' meeting in the meeting room between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. She continues the bake sale until 5:00 PM and goes to her club with others after it.
At 5:00 PM, Amai goes to Taro's locker and leaves a note asking him to meet her under the cherry tree. If the player matchmakes her, she will go to Shoku Tsuburaya's locker instead. Amai will run to the Confession Tree and wait for Taro or Shoku. She will confess her love to him. If she successfully confesses to Taro, the game will be over.
Task
- Main article: Tasks
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Amai Odayaka wants ten people to taste-test her macarons. She left them in the fridge in the Home Ec room. Grab the macarons, hand them out to ten people, and report back to her. |
| To complete Amai's task, the player can go to the fridge on the left side of the Home Ec Room, grab the plate of macarons, and hand out the samples to 10 different students, asking for their feedback on their taste. Students who cannot be provided a sample include the Student Council, the Delinquents, Kenko Sukoyaka, or Amai herself. | |
Topics
The topics Amai is Negative/Positive/Neutral towards are as follows:
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Miscellaneous
- Favorite song genre: While Amai doesn't listen to music to avoid distracting herself when following cooking recipes accurately, she would listen to something gentle, like bossa nova.[11] According to her old Sai-Space account, Amai mentioned that she used to listen to acoustic indie/folk.[12]
- Videos and TV shows: She watches cooking videos and cooking shows on TV. She used to watch anime, but she stopped after realizing that anime started to dominate more of her life, suppressing her, and distracting her from developing cooking skills.[13] On her old Sai-Space profile, Amai said that her favorite movies were romantic comedies.[12]
- Skills: As is obvious, Amai can cook and bake well, and is skilled at identifying edible and inedible foods. She can also do meal preparations in the latter situation.[14]
- Favorite food: Amai's favorite food is a unique pastry that her mother prepares. While it doesn't look impressive, the taste is what makes it Amai's favorite. The taste is also nostalgic, reminding Amai of her early childhood. Her mother makes it for Amai's birthday annually, which is a chocolate eclair cake that her mom makes, which is subtly different from any other chocolate eclair cake because her mom has a unique recipe for it.[15][16]
- Collection: Amai would collect "cupcake-themed fashion accessories".[17]
- iPhone: If Amai had an iPhone, she would have the third-latest model.[18]
- Orientation: On her old Sai-Space profile, Amai stated that she is straight.
Relationships
Taro Yamada
- Main article: Taro Yamada
Like most rivals, Amai has a crush on Taro and will confess her feelings to him on the Friday of Week 2. Amai was aware of Taro's existence, since she attended Akademi for a year and has seen him around,[19] but finally notices her only on Saturday of the first week. Seeing him being depressed over something, she tries to offer comfort, and when Taro tells Amai that he feels troubled because of what happened to Osana, Amai realizes he is the exact type of person she wants to date.
Amai is the one who fits Taro the most in terms of personality, which is "nice, kind, sweet, caring, loving, supportive".[20] If Taro entered a relationship with her, she would convince him to join the Cooking Club.[21]
Family
Amai's family consists of her mother, father and older sister, who she loves. Amai cares deeply about her family, seeing them as the most valuable thing to her; she sees her parents as her heroes and even calls her mother "the kitchen goddess"; she is afraid of disappointing them. Her sister, Satoko, is more energetic and playful than her younger sister, but they have a positive relationship.[22]
Amai is "too nice and kind and sweet" to physically hurt anyone unless protecting her family;[23] her love for them is so strong she could be provoked/manipulated into murdering the person she believes is responsible for damaging/destroying her family's bakery.[24] An artwork showing her in a hypothetical Drive to Murder scenario, covered in blood and carrying plates with human organs, was shown in October 2017 Progress Report video.
Shoku Tsuburaya
- Main article: Shoku Tsuburaya
Amai fully trusts Shoku to run the cooking club while she is away. Amai probably chose Shoku to operate her club more for professional reasons than personal ones, as Shoku is a connoisseur of good food with a refined palate, so she probably chose him because, of all the members of the Cooking Club, he was indeed the most competent.
Shoku has a crush on Amai and wants to find out everything about her to have a chance to win her heart. Although she trusts him with such responsibility, it is not known for sure how close they are, as Shoku does not have any of Amai's social media usernames and has no knowledge of her personal life. Shoku is Amai's suitor, and Ayano can match her with him to eliminate Amai.
Amai finds tanned skin, sunglasses, straight hair, jewelry, and bravery attractive in boys. She also prefers boys who use cute and elegant compliments instead of vulgar ones.
Others
- Info-chan: During Amai's introduction cutscene, Info-chan tells Ayano to make Amai suffer, the same as with Osana. Her reasoning for doing this is unknown.
- Rei Ando: Amai suspects the owners of the bakery of sabotaging her family's bakery using rats. This is later confirmed to be true, and one of the owners, Rei Ando, was in fact trying to eliminate her competition. YandereDev imagines that if the decapitated woman in Amai's driven to murder illustration were drawn in 2024, it would've been Rei.[25] Amai will solve her rival bakery problem alone if Ayano doesn't help her or if she isn't paired with her suitor.[26]
- Cooking Club: Amai's interactions with her club members are more like "interactions between friends than interactions between a leader and followers." She often compliments their food, and when they ask for advice, she provides them with suggestions on how to improve or prepare their dishes better.[27] If someone would criticize her, she would apologize and ask what could be improved.[28] If Amai dies, they all will be too depressed about the loss of Amai to remain together.[29]
- Uekiya Engeika: If Amai and Uekiya ever interacted, it would be humorous.[30]
- Akane Toriyasu: If Akane were part of the cooking club, both girls would get along.[31]
- Her Pet: She has a pet hamster[32][33] named Ham-Ham. He's a Syrian hamster, which means that he has white and golden fur.[34]
- Oka Ruto: Despite Oka's weird interests and inability to socialize, Amai would be willing to be friends with her, alongside Asu Rito and Hanako Yamada.[35]
- Umeji Kizuguchi: Umeji would like to be friends with Amai.[36]
- Efude Nurimono: Amai might say that she is friends with Efude, but they don't necessarily hang out together outside of school.[37]
Trivia
- Her name is a play on the words "甘い" (amai; sweet) and "穏やか" (odayaka; gentle, calm); if mixed, it will mean "sweet and gentle".
- Druelbozo said on one of his Twitch streams that the president's name was Japanese for "sweet muffin". This would have been "Amai Mafin". When asked if the name was serious or not, Druelbozo stated "Amai Mafin" is her real name and should be taken "seriously".[38] This ended up being false as, as of the 28th of September, 2016, her official name was revealed to be "Amai Odayaka," staying true to only the "Amai" part. Druelbozo later stated that he was originally joking when he said her name was Amai Mafin, but was glad that YandereDev kept the "Amai" part.[39]
- There's also a Japanese name "Amai" (亜舞), which consists of kanji 亜 (a) meaning "sub-", "second" or "Asia" and 舞 (mai) meaning "dance".[40]
- Ryoba's postcard in the second week hints at eliminating Amai via burning. However, it is not officially confirmed yet if the Story Mode rivals will each have a "canon" elimination method
- In 2017 YandereDev said that Amai's reason for being absent in the First Week was that she was sick. This was changed.[41][42]
- After beating the game, the player will be prompted to try the "Amai Challenge". It had no reward for completing it and was implemented solely to let players experiment with game mechanics and see what could be the difference between the weeks. It was first implemented in the December 22, 2020 Build[43] and lost most of its functionality on March 15, 2024[44] as the work on the actual Amai's week started interrupting it. It was removed in the May 1st, 2024 Build once Amai's actual week was released.
- The player was given 1 day to beat the challenge. Amai and other cooking club members were operating a bake sale at the school plaza, many students' routines were adjusted to make it harder to eliminate and dispose of Amai's body, and the incinerator was out of order.
- Out of all of the 202X rivals, Amai ranks #4 in intelligence and general competence.[45]
- In an email, YandereDev answered that if Amai wasn't in Japan, she'd be in France.[48]
- Before May 1st, 2024, the player could not talk to Amai.
- The initial release of Amai was an experiment on whether or not it would be an acceptable release model.[49] YandereDev feels unhappy with the quality level of it, and doesn't wish to do that again.[50]
- He stated that one thing he learned from implementing Amai's week is that a rival's week should involve more interactions than just the bare minimum with the relevant characters, and plans to give both Amai and Kizana more interactions with other relevant characters. [51]
- She was born on May 1st.[52][53]
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