Kenko Sukoyaka is one of the male students who currently attends Akademi.
Appearance[]
Kenko has chin-length green hair with long bangs that hang over his eyes. On the left side of his head, there are three braids, each of which is tied with a ribbon, the colors going from red, to blue, to yellow. On the back of his head, he has a maroon-colored rectangular barrette clipped to hold up the remainder of his hair. His eyes are purple.
He wears the default school uniform unless customized by the player. He also wears a light orange kerchief with a dark green stripe. His apron is a lighter shade of orange, with a dark green pocket trim and a print of a radish and carrot on the bottom left corner. The right pocket has a dark green diamond pattern with holes. If the Cooking Club is disbanded, Kenko will no longer wear the apron and kerchief.
In his official illustration, he is shown to be holding a large Bookbag with multiple carrots in it, one is in his mouth, while another is falling out of the bag.
Personality[]
Kenko Sukoyaka is a member of the Cooking Club at Akademi. He is deeply committed to maintaining a healthy diet, and is always eager to passionately share the numerous benefits of nutritional food whenever the opportunity arises. Although it can sometimes pain him to see his fellow clubmembers and classmates eating sweets and junk food, he respects the lifestyle choices of others, and never judges people for their dietary habits.
Although he is a nice, friendly, and positive person, he has a reputation for being a little bit eccentric. Among all of the healthy and nutritious types of food that he is enthusiastic about, he appears to be especially passionate about carrots specifically. In fact, he seems to be absolutely fixated on them. He has been overheard asking if anyone can provide him with "128 carrots," insisting that any more or less would be an unacceptable number.
When asked to explain exactly why he needed such a large quantity of carrots, he explained that he had recently begun working as a food supplier for farm animals, and was in charge of supplying a farmer with food for his livestock. However, the next time someone asked him the same question, he stated that he needed the carrots for an avant-garde art project. And, when someone else asked him for clarification, he said something about a science experiment to determine whether or not carrots maintained their nutritional value after being frozen and thawed for varying lengths of time.
Because of his inconsistent replies, nobody is entirely sure what the truth is, what he *really* needs that number of carrots for, or why he feels a need to hide his true intentions. This has led to many wild theories, ranging from "He enjoys swimming naked in a giant swimming pool full of carrots" to "He is holding someone prisoner in his basement and is forcing them to eat carrots." Perhaps no-one will ever know the truth aside from Kenko himself.
Kenko Sukoyaka is committed to maintaining a healthy diet, and intends to abstain from junk food for his entire life. He doesn't judge others for their dietary choices, but he evangelizes the benefits of healthy food at every opportunity.
Committed to maintaining a healthy diet; intends to abstain from junk food for his entire life. He doesn't judge others for their dietary choices, but he evangelizes the benefits of healthy food at every opportunity.
Kenko striking a cute pose.
Among the Personas that are currently implemented in the game, Kenko is a Social Butterfly. He will give Ayano Aishi a cute pose if she aims her Phone at him. If he sees Ayano commit murder , or if he discovers a corpse, he will run to a highly populated area of the school and call the Police. If Ayano approaches, he will scream for her to go away, and if Ayano commits another murder in his eyesight, he will curl into a ball. He is unable to fight back in physical fights against murderers.
YandereDev imagines Kenko as a nice, friendly, positive, and happy person.[2]
Kenko worries a lot about the health of his clubmates and classmates, and constantly resists the urge to suggest better diets for them.[3] While healthy food is his only type of food that he is interested in, he is not outright obnoxious about it when he is discussing various foods with his clubmates.[4] His only proper flaw is that he is sometimes too eager to encourage others to eat healthy.[2] He dislikes reading and studying because he finds them boring.[5]
His weakness, according to the official characters website, is "Carrots".
Routine[]
Kenko preparing some food in the Cooking Club.
At 7:00 AM, Kenko enters the school grounds with the other members of the Cooking Club. He walks to his locker at 7:05 AM and changes from his outdoor shoes to his indoor shoes. At 7:15 AM, he walks to the Cooking Club on the First Floor and prepares some food there. He then travels around the school and gives the food to various students.
At 8:00 AM, he then walks to Classroom 3-1, sits at his desk, and plays on his phone. He starts his morning classes at 8:30 AM, and leaves to go to the outside of the Cooking Club to eat his lunch at 1:00 PM.
He afterwards walks back to class again at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. Lastly, he heads to the Cooking Club and stays there until the end of the day.
If the Cooking Club is disbanded, Kenko will socialize with the other former members in the Home Ec Room during periods in which he would normally attend it.
Task[]
- Main article: Tasks
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Kenko Sukoyaka needs exactly 128 carrots. Find 128 carrots somewhere, bring them to school, and tell Kenko about them. |
| To complete Kenko's task, the player can leave through the bedroom door and head down to the sliding glass door in the living room, where they can access the backyard. An option reading "Bring Carrots To School" can be found when stepping near the planting bed. When the player clicks "E" on the option, they have the choice to take all of the carrots in their backyard to school in a duffel bag. Once the player does that, they will arrive at school next to the duffel bag full of carrots. | |
Topics[]
The topics Kenko is Negative/Positive/Neutral towards are as follows:
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Relationships[]
- Midori Gurin: Midori thinks that Kenko seems like a nice and friendly guy. However, she can only relate to someone who loves anime and video games, so she doesn't really try to befriend him.[6]
- Sumiko Tachibana: If Sumiko and Kenko met, they'd probably talk about healthy food together.[7]
Trivia[]
- He was implemented in August 18th, 2018 Build.
- Kenko was added to YandereDev's "characters" on May 17th, 2025.
- His first name, Kenko (健康/ケンコー: Kenkō), means "healthy", and Sukoyaka (すこやか/健やか) also means "healthy".
- As of April 7th, 2020, he will reject any junk food (such as that from the Vending Machine) offered to him.
- While this means that the player cannot offer him a Salty Snack and then electrocute him at a water fountain, other methods of electrocution still exist. For instance, the player can still put emetic poison into his bento at lunchtime, create a leak at the sink, and then use a power strip to electrocute him in the bathroom that he goes to.
- The reason why Kenko needs 128 carrots is that he had agreed to supply a farmer with food for his animals and had the carrots ready. The carrots were either destroyed or lost, and he needs to replace the 128 missing carrots, or he would lose his supply contract with the farmer, or the animals would starve.[8][9][10]
- Kenko grows a lot of vegetables, and always has plenty to spare.[10]
- In the September 1st, 2024 build, his hair model was updated, but his portrait wasn't until the September 3rd, 2024 build.
Illustrations[]
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