These characters are the most important people to Yandere Simulator's plot. Some of the main characters are not implemented yet.
Ayano Aishi
- Main article: Ayano Aishi
Ayano Aishi, also known as Yandere-chan, Yan-chan, or Ayano, is the main character of Yandere Simulator. Her job is to eliminate all rivals before the week's current rival can confess their feeling to Senpai.
If Ayano does not successfully eliminate the rival or manage to ruin five rival interactions with Senpai before Friday, said rival will confess her feelings to Senpai, and he will accept them. Ayano will become heartbroken and receive a Game Over.
Ayato Aishi
- Main article: Ayato Aishi
Ayato Aishi also known as Yandere-kun, Yan-kun, or Ayato, is the male counterpart of Ayano Aishi. At this time, this student is merely hypothetical and does not actually exist.
Ayato is available from the Easter Egg menu as an experimental mode. As he has not been fully implemented, NPCs will still address him as Ayano or Yan-chan, also his voice and laughing is still feminine.
Taro Yamada
- Main article: Taro Yamada
Taro Yamada, more commonly referred to as Senpai, is a main character of Yandere Simulator. He is Ayano's love interest and obsession. She can only confess her feelings to him after all ten rivals have been eliminated. However, her confession won't be accepted if her reputation is below -100, which will result in a Game Over.
If Ayano does not successfully eliminate the rival or manage to ruin five rival interactions with Senpai before Friday, said rival will confess her feelings to Senpai, and he will accept them. Ayano will become heartbroken and receive a Game Over.
Taeko Yamada
- Main article: Taeko Yamada
Taeko Yamada is a female counterpart of Taro Yamada, an Akademi student and Ayano Aishi's obsession, which makes her of the main characters of Yandere Simulator.
Currently, the option to choose her as the female Senpai is not available and does not appear in the game. YandereDev states that it will be available sometime during the game's development. If not, the Senpai Gender selection screen will be removed.
Info-chan
- Main article: Info-chan
Info-chan is a main character in Yandere Simulator and Ayano's main source of assistance. Males and females alike give her money in exchange of panty shots of female students.
Info-chan can give Ayano all the information she has on an NPC if she is sent a picture of their face. If Ayano sends her panty shots, Info-chan can provide other services, such as Schemes and Drops.
Info-chan is not in 1980s Mode, as she was not born yet.
Ryoba Aishi
- Main article: Ryoba Aishi
Ryoba Aishi is a main character in Yandere Simulator and Ayano's mother. She is also a yandere and the protagonist of 1980s Mode.[1] She will not appear in Story Mode for 10 weeks,[2] as she is hunting down The Journalist.[3] Please visit Basement Tapes to understand more of her backstory.
Jokichi Yudasei
- Main article: Jokichi Yudasei
Jokichi Yudasei is a main character in Yandere Simulator and Ryoba's husband and Ayano's father. He is also Ryoba's senpai in 1980s Mode. He will not appear in Story Mode for 10 weeks[2] to assist his wife in chasing down The Journalist.[3] The Basement Tapes explain more of his backstory.
The Journalist
- Main Article: The Journalist
The Journalist is the main character and antagonist of 1980s Mode in Yandere Simulator. He was trying to reveal Ryoba's crimes to the public and was the mentor of Sonoko Sakanoue.
Rivals
- Main article: Rivals
Every week during the 10 weeks in the game, a new female student will fall in love with Senpai and become Ayano's new rival. It is Ayano's goal to eliminate the rival before Friday of each current week. There will be one rival per week.[4]
If she fails to do so, her rival will confess her love to Senpai and Ayano will be left heartbroken. The only exception to this is Hanako Yamada, who won't confess her love to Senpai: instead, she will make him promise to never date, so that she may have all of his attention.
Osana Najimi and Amai Odayaka are currently in the game. Kizana Sunobu makes an appearance in the game and she could have been added by editing the json files, just like Osana used too, but was quickly removed due to the fact that she was only added for a video. Oka Ruto was in the game for a decent amount of time before getting pulled for the development of her as a rival. Muja Kina was in the game as the nurse before getting replaced by the official nurse, because Muja is only a substitute nurse. Megami Saikou can be seen on the laptop, and at the end of day sequence if a student council member is killed.
1980s Mode has 1 tutorial rival and 10 fully functional rivals who are all present in the demo.
Currently, the only rivals available to play with are Osana Najimi and Amai Odayaka from Story Mode[5] and the 10 rivals from 1980s Mode. The rest for Story Mode will be in the full game when it comes out.