Hanako Yamada

This page is for the version of Hanako Yamada in 202X Mode. For her Mission Mode counterpart, see Nemesis.

Hanako Yamada is the ninth upcoming rival and one of the female students that will attend Akademi in Yandere Simulator.^[5]

Appearance

Once she is implemented, Hanako will wear the default school uniform with a red heart hairpin unless customized by the player. It is also known that she will eventually wear special stockings to make herself stand out,^[6] as well as unique panties^[7] that suit her personality.^[8]

Hanako has fair skin^[9] and black hair tied into pigtails that reach her shoulders with two strands protruding, similar to the first drafts of her appearance. Her bust size is 1.2.

When outside of school, Hanako wears casual clothing that leans slightly more toward "cute" than "plain". She would also wear at least one cute accessory per outfit.^[10]

Personality

“

Hanako is Senpai's younger sister. She loves her big brother more than anything in the world and depends on him for almost everything. She is very possessive of him and becomes upset when he won't spend time with her.

After nine weeks of gameplay, Hanako decides that she just can't bear to be enrolled in a different school than her beloved brother, and transfers into his school so that she can be with him all day long.

Hanako is deathly afraid that if her brother gets a girlfriend, he'll forget all about her and refuse to spend time with her. She has made it her mission to stop him from getting a girlfriend at all costs so that nobody else can have her big brother's attention. Senpai would never want to do anything that would make his little sister cry... this would spell doom for anyone who has fallen in love with Senpai.

”

— Description on Official Website.

If she would see another student getting bullied, she'd step in and tell bullies to stop.^[11]

She was revealed to be Nemesis in the alternate timeline of Mission Mode after Taro Yamada was assassinated by Ayano Aishi.^[12]

Routine

His sister will remain in another city and school until the ninth week when she is introduced.^[13] Since she will always be close to Senpai, it is presumed that she will have a similar routine to him. In order to eliminate her, the player will have to find a way to eliminate her during the few moments she is away from Senpai.^[14] If the player fails to eliminate Hanako by Friday, she will force Senpai to promise to not get a girlfriend by the Confession Tree.^[15]

Topics

The topics towards Hanako are as follows:

Positive	Negative

Justice Reading Solitude Family Nature	Drama Occult Cats Violence Gossip

Relationships

Senpai

Main article: Senpai

Hanako does not have a crush on Senpai, but she doesn't want him to ignore her. She doesn't lust after her brother, but loves him to the extent that she does not want him to get a girlfriend. She wants all his attention and does not want anyone to divert his attention from her.^[16] She is also extremely clingy, possessive of him, and would never want to leave his side.^[17] If she is killed, Senpai's sanity variable will greatly decrease.^[18] At the end of the sister's week, she will force her brother to agree that he'll never get a girlfriend.^[15]

Taro asked his sister not to call him "onii-chan" at school, because it's too childish. She could have complied with his request by calling him "onii-san" but instead decides to call him "senpai".^[19]

If she convinces Senpai never to get a girlfriend, she will eventually develop into a self-reliant, independent person who wouldn't rely on Senpai.^[20]

Osana Najimi

Main article: Osana Najimi

Hanako and Osana have known each other since they were children and used to play with each other alongside Senpai when they were little.^[21] Osana might be the only person that Hanako would be willing to "give" Senpai to. Hanako wouldn't really look at Osana as competition, or a threat, or an enemy. Hanako would be very sad if Osana died.^[22]

Suitor

In the future, Ayano Aishi will be able to matchmake Senpai's sister with her suitor. Ayano will have to make Hanako love the boy even more than the latter loves her own brother.^[23] If she ever got a boyfriend, she would become independent from Senpai, and he would be happy for her.^[24]

Trivia

She is two school years behind Senpai.^[25]
Like her brother, her name is the Japanese equivalent of a "Jane Doe".
- The name "Hanako" (花子) consists of kanji "花" (hana) meaning "Flower", and "子" (ko) meaning "Child", making her name meaning "Flower Child". The kanji "子" can be also switched with the kanji "籠" (ko) meaning "Basket", making her name mean "Flower Basket".
If a week-long cultural festival were to be added into the game, YandereDev has stated that she may be the rival of this week.^[26]
Hanako appeared as a playable mortal in Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals, before its removal from the Steam storefront on September 27th, 2023.
She did not attend the same school as Senpai and Osana because her grades were not good enough.^[27]
- YandereDev has stated that Akademi has an entrance exam, and Hanako didn't pass the first few times she applied. She kept applying, though, and eventually passed.^[28]
Her favorite animal is a rabbit.^[29] Hanako also owns a pet rabbit, according to YandereDev in a Discord message^[30] and his March 17th Development Blog Post.^[31]
- Her brother did play and feed her rabbit when they lived together.^[32]
Hanako's original design was a result of YandereDev giving the artist only two words "little sister" and "no other descriptive terms".^[33]
- The summary of the discussion for this design was '"a lewd/jailbaity version might make you feel a little less bad about offing her”'.^[34]
She watches cute animal videos.^[35]
In an email, YandereDev answered that if Hanako wasn't in Japan, she'd still be in Japan, or wherever Taro goes.^[36]