Midori Gurin

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Midori Gurinishi
Role	Student
Class	1-2
Club	Gaming
Persona	Phone Addict (February 2nd, 2018) Inquisitive (Official website) Social Butterfly (February 1st, 2016 - February 2nd, 2018) Loner (August 12th, 2015 - January 15th, 2016)
Reputation	-20 (overall) Liked: -50 Respected: -10 Feared: 0
Crush	None
Strength	Incapable
Appears	Week 1
Voice	Cait Myers/Mom0ki(2015 - 2023) Michaela Laws (Yandere Simulator Merchandise)

Midori Gurin (real name: Midori Gurinishi) is one of the female students who attends Akademi.

She stars as the main antagonist of Midori Forest and a running obstacle in YandereDev's Greatest Nightmare. She was the second student to be introduced as an Easter Egg after Pippi Osu.

Appearance

Current

Midori has waist-length apple green hair with two strands reaching her stomach and apple green eyes. She also wears vivid orchid lipstick. She has a bust size of 1.

She wears the default school uniform with green socks and green panties unless customized by the player. She has a red ribbon tied around her phone, which has a green case. If the Gaming Club is disbanded, she will remove the red ribbon from her phone for the rest of the game.

Previous

Midori's first hairstyle was waist-length and green with bangs parted evenly on both sides. Her panties were changed to green for the "Senpai Customization Update" because of a Twitter conversation. They were later changed back to white because YandereDev was waiting for some panty models that could be attached to a girl's body. Her stockings were green but were also changed to white, most likely for similar reasons. She was the first student to have different-colored panties. As of the August 15th, 2016 Build, she once again has green stockings and panties.

In the November 15th, 2015 Build, her hairstyle was changed to one similar to Sakyu's first hairstyle. With straight-cut bangs, her hair was longer and not tucked back into a ponytail. YandereDev thought the old hairstyle was ugly. He would like Midori's hairstyle to look a specific way, but there are no volunteers to work on this.

Her hairstyle as of the January 1st, 2016 Build had her hair in the back go to her elbows. On her left and right sides, she had some hair that went to her elbow, while some of it only went down to her chin. Her bangs were cut short and met in the middle.

As of the February 8th, 2016 Build, Midori has bangs parted in the middle with hair that ends right below her bust.

As of the October 15th, 2017 Build, Midori's stockings have been replaced with short green socks.

As of the August 18th, 2018 Build, she has a red bandana tied around her phone, symbolizing her membership in the Gaming Club.

As of the May 2nd, 2019 Build, her socks have changed color to match her hair.

Personality

A very curious and inquisitive girl.
She has gained a reputation for constantly asking foolish questions, which can often irritate her teachers and fellow classmates.
Claims that she is a video game character who can see beyond the fourth wall of the game she's in, but has given up trying to convince people to believe her.

— Description on Official Website.

Known for irritating her classmates and teachers by constantly asking foolish questions. Stubbornly insists that she is a video game character who can see beyond the fourth wall of the game she's allegedly in.

— Description from Info-chan.

Midori striking a cute pose.

Among the Personas that are currently implemented in the game, Midori is a Phone Addict. She will happily pose for a picture if Ayano Aishi aims her Phone at her. If she sees a corpse or witnesses a murder, she will take a photo and text it to the Police while running out of school. She cannot participate in physical fights against murderers.

Her character is part of a running gag in some of the videos YandereDev uploads, where she was created to personify a person spamming YandereDev with useless emails, which explains her personality.

According to YandereDev, Midori is very stupid. In the Death Demon's ritual, it is revealed that she is incapable of realizing when she is annoying other people. She also had a tragedy that struck her as a child, which was failing an exam.

Although she is a joke character, Midori still has her interests. Her favorite foods and drinks are anything green, such as lettuce, green tea, or spinach. On that note, when she eats M&M's, she only picks out the green ones because they "taste better". She also loves nature, but purely because the environment in nature is (mostly) green, not about nature itself.

She also automatically likes someone better if they have green hair.

Routine

Default

Midori playing an augmented reality game with her other club members.

At 7:05 AM, Midori enters the school grounds with the other members of the Gaming Club. She walks to her locker and changes from her outdoor shoes to her indoor shoes. Then, she plays an augmented reality game with Mai Waifu, Ryuto Ippongo, and Pippi Osu. At 8:00 AM, Midori walks into Classroom 1-2, sits at her desk, and plays on her phone. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM. At 1:00 PM, she leaves to eat her lunch near the Gaming Club alongside her clubmates.

Midori walks back to class at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. Afterward, she continues playing the AR game with Mai, Ryuto, and Pippi. At 5:00 PM, Midori walks to the Gaming Club and plays a game on a laptop until the end of the day.

If the Gaming Club disbands, Midori will still play the AR game with her former club members, except for Gema, who would play games outside of the clubroom.

Week 2

Midori enters the school grounds at 7:05 AM. She walks to her locker and changes her shoes. She will then go to the second floor to read outside of Classroom 2-2.

At 8:15 AM, Midori walks into Classroom 1-2, sits at her desk, and plays on her phone. She starts her morning classes at 8:30 AM. At 1:00 PM, Midori will leave to eat her lunch in the Plaza near the Fountain.

Midori walks back to class at 1:30 PM and participates in cleaning time between 3:30 PM and 4:00 PM. At 4:00 PM, she will head to the Plaza to read until the end of the day.

Early builds

Before the June 29th, 2016 Build, Midori would instantly spawn on the rooftop at 7:04 AM and stay there throughout the entire day in a similar fashion to how Rival-chan stands under the cherry tree. Unlike Rival-chan, Ayano can interact with Midori like a normal student. After the June 29th, 2016 Build, Midori would walk to school and stay on the rooftop all day.

As of the October 1st, 2017 Build, Midori went to the rooftop at 7:15 AM, after changing her shoes. She fell off, landed on her feet, walked back to the rooftop, and stayed there until 8:00 AM. She also stayed on the rooftop between 1:00 PM and 1:30 PM. After 4:00 PM, she changed to her outdoor shoes.

In the July 24th, 2016 Build, she typed on her cell phone whilst talking about the emails that she's sending. As of the February 3rd, 2018 Build, she no longer mutters while texting.

In older builds, she did not go to class.

Task

Main article: Tasks

Description of the favor from Midori Gurin

This favor requires...	Description
	This student needs to write a report, but can't find the necessary information online. Help them get the info they need.
The player can visit the left side of the first bookshelf near the indoor window in the library and grab the book by clicking "E". As this object does not take up space in the player's inventory, it can be checked by opening the phone menu and checking through the inventory app to see the item "Japanese History Book".

Topics

The topics Midori is Negative/Positive/Neutral towards are as follows:

Positive	Negative
Video Games Anime Cosplay Memes Socializing	Drama Violence Reading Gossip Solitude

Relationships

• Parents: Midori's parents might be exactly like her.
• Mai Waifu: Midori and Mai are friends. Midori's obnoxiousness does not annoy Mai, as she is described to be a compassionate person with her friends.
• Kenko Sukoyaka: 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.
• Maka Tansei: Midori thinks that Maka seems like an interesting person. Because she is naturally optimistic about people, she thinks of Maka as being fun and quirky and unique, rather than weird and cringey.
• Unagi Denkashiza: Midori has heard the rumors that Unagi was formerly a delinquent and is a bit scared of him.

Trivia

• She was implemented on August 12th, 2015 Build.
• Midori was added to YandereDev's "characters" on December 28th, 2019.
• Her nickname, Midori (緑), means "green" in Japanese, referencing her green color scheme. Gurin is adapted from the katakana transcription of the English word "green," グリーン (gurīn). This means that her name is "Green Green" in English.
• As of the July 1st, 2020 Build, her real name is Midori Gurinishi.
  • A possible kanji representation of Gurinishi is 倶利西, which means "club", "benefit", and "West" respectively.
• She is YandereDev's "favorite" character.
  • She is YandereDev's favorite female character in the school.
• If she were to be a rival, she would be a DLC and have omniscient (or, at least, Genre Savvy) knowledge of Yandere Simulator and its mechanics as a result of constantly asking YandereDev questions.
• She was based on the chibi who shouted, "YandereDev, YandereDev!" during YandereDev's "E-Mails, Volunteers and Progress" video, who asked often repeated questions. This ended up turning into a running gag with Midori Gurin, who has made several appearances in the videos since. She has been killed six times in his videos:
  • 1st time: "E-mails, Volunteers, and Progress - Part 2".
  • 2nd time: "Dumpsters, Buckets, Bathing, and Electrocution in Yandere Simulator".
  • 3rd time: "The Gaming Club".
  • 4th time: "January Osana Progress Report - Part 2".
  • 5th time: "March Progress Report".
  • 6th time: "The Origin of Midori Gurin".
• She was the second student who could be pushed off the roof, the first being Kokona Haruka.
• Her voice actress, Mom0ki (Cait Myers), was not credited in the "I Want My Senpai Back" video's description. The description was later updated to include her.
  • Her voice actress also made a non-canon SoundCloud where she does short voice samples as Midori.
• Despite her abilities in YandereDev's videos, she will never break the fourth wall.
• Pressing M on the title screen of Yanvania: Senpai of the Night used to cause her to say her signature phrase and then the afterlogue, instead of Beldere-chan.
• She will have no function in the final game.
• She is a one-time gimmick.
• She makes a small cameo in the Gaming Club's games by appearing in the fighting game and being kicked in the face by Budo Masuta.
• On June 20th, 2016, YandereDev shared a parodied song called "YANDEREDEV YANDEREDEV!!!" created by the voice actress for Midori on his blog. The song is about Midori's emails.
• Before the June 1st, 2016 Build, if the player pressed the G key in the Debug Menu, Midori would walk to the edge of the roof where the player could push her off.
• As of the August 15th, 2016 Build, the player can go to the Light Music Club and summon Midori as the female victim by praying to Tatoro. If she is killed, she cannot be summoned the next day.
• She is based on Churuya, a parody version of Tsuruya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
• During a Twitch stream, at around 30 seconds in, YandereDev stated that her birthday is likely April 1st.
• As of an unknown build, if the player teleported to the roof using the Debug Menu, Midori would be teleported to the roof as well (even if she's a corpse and hasn't been disposed of yet), and ignore the Gaming Club routine. However, she doesn't type on her phone, nor say anything about emailing YandereDev.
• On June 1st, 2017, her voice actress, Caitlin Myers, was featured in a heavy metal song by XanduIsBored called "Resentment", which is about Yandere Simulator, specifically about Ayano herself and how she'll kill anyone who she sees as a "threat" to Senpai. Caitlin wrote the lyrics and performed the death screams during the bridge.
• She is thought to be the first student created by YandereDev.
• As of the January 15th, 2023 build, a new portrait pose for Midori, titled "f02_midoriPose_00", has been found in Pose Mode.
  • She also has another unused animation, in which she can be seen texting on her phone while unconsciously swaying side to side.
    • This animation was used in older builds of the game.
• Midori, along with Kumi Demura, is the only student who needs 25 friendship points to get befriended.
  • Midori has known Ayano since her kindergarten and elementary school years.
  • Midori thought of Ayano as her friend.
• Her job would be a journalist, as she loves interviewing other people with questions.
• Midori is going to live a long, natural life.
• Midori would pick Animal Crossing when deciding on a game that she wanted to be in. She would answer very impulsively without thinking about which game she'd be stuck in for eternity.
• YandereDev does not envision Midori as the Gaming Club's former leader.
• If the Gaming Club did not exist, Midori would join the Occult Club. Although YandereDev said he didn't remember answering this question, the reasoning for Midori joining the Occult Club is to understand the nature of her reality, as she has a sense that she is in a video game, which is one aspect of a larger, unseen universe.
• Her grades are below average.
• Midori thought that the red bandana Gema Taku gave her and asked her to wear around her forehead was stupid, so she incorporated the bandana by lacing it on her phone.
• Midori would want to take over the Gaming Club after Gema graduates.
• Midori is into Gacha games.
• Midori listens to Vocaloid, video game soundtracks, and bubblegum pop.