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Mirror
Purpose	Changing the protagonist's outer persona Changing Ayano's hairstyle (202X Mode only)
Location	Female bathrooms Third floor staircases (North & East wings) Light Music Club Hallway of the Aishi house (202X Mode only)
Inventory Type	Can't be picked up

The mirror is an object that allows the player to change the protagonist's outer persona in school, and her hairstyle at home in Yandere Simulator.

Appearance

Akademi

The first mirror is a small square mirror with a wooden frame hung in the Light Music Club room. In 202X, it is on the left side of the clubroom. In 1989, it is on the opposite side of the room upon entering. There are also two mirrors near the staircase, in the northeast staircase of the Third Floor. One is by a small table with a potted plant, the other is in front of an empty table. These mirrors reflect the environment in real-time. They are disabled whenever the player is not near them, and can be disabled in the settings menu.

Each bathroom and the female showering room also have mirrors in them, but they do not render actual reflections. The mirrors are rectangular and have no frame. However, they are not found in the boys' bathrooms.

Home

Main article: Aishi House

The mirror in Ayano's home is above a big, dark brown oak vanity with one border in a full and half size, two drawers, and four semi-thick legs. The mirror rests perfectly on the middle of the wall, with dark gold decoration on the top and bottom dark brown frame of the mirror. The mirror is manually disabled regardless if the player has their settings for the mirror enabled or disabled.

Another mirror can be seen in the back side of the hallway, however, it has no functionality and serves purely decorative purpose.

Gameplay

Home

To see all of the options to customize Ayano's hair, press here.

The mirror in Ayano's home is found in the second floor hallway when she decides to leave her bedroom. Using the mirror lets the player to customize specific parts of her hairstyle without the use of Easter Eggs. The options include 11 bangs, 10 ponytails, 5 strands (also called sidelocks), and 1 braid. Due to the issues with the models, certain combinations result in visible gaps between individual parts of the hairstyle, which the developer plans to fix "at some indeterminate point in time in the future".

Please note that in order to color Ayano's hair blonde, the player has to purchase blond dye using Nozama online shop, not to use the mirror.

Controls

• Mouse — change angle;
• ← and → — change currently selected part of the hairstyle;
• ↑ and ↓ — select different part of the hair to change;
• Q — quit the screen.

School

Ryoba standing in front of the mirror, which is rumored to be haunted.

The mirror can be found in the Light Music Club room and every bathroom, as well as two by the staircase in the North-East corridor of the third floor leading to the rooftop, (the Occult Club members investigate one of the mirrors). When the player moves closer to it, it will give them the option to cycle through eighteen different persona poses for the protagonist, including her default pose.

Different persona poses will provide different benefits to the protagonist while the specific pose is active.

Changing personas to "Tough" or "Edgy" is an important step in joining the Delinquents.

In some personas, the protagonist's face expression changes, this includes the gentle, chill, girly, haughty, lively, shy, tough, and aggressive persona.

Personas and Benefits

Want to see these outer personas animated? Check it out here!

The following personas are available for the player to select upon being near a mirror.

As of the January 1st, 2025 build, if the player has the same outer animations as the student they are socializing with, they will get a socialization bonus. This only applies to female students, however.

Trivia

• The mirror was implemented in the March 28th, 2017 Build.
  • It was improved in the March 6th, 2018 Build.
• If the player activates the Delinquent Team Skull Easter Egg, they will be able to access one other pose, this being the dance the delinquents do.
• The "Scholarly" persona used to be called the "Bookworm" persona.
• The Gentle persona was added because YandereDev didn't like that Ryoba Aishi's idle animation was Akane's, and so he changed it.
  • Before the January 5th update, it was known as the 'Akane Persona', after the Student Council member of the same name.
  • Before the Gentle pose was added, it was known as "Grace" in Pose Mode.
  • The Akane Persona is now known as Sweet, and Ryoba now has the Gentle Persona.
• In Custom Mode, the player can apply these personas to students.
• As of the October 9th, 2024 build, players who were encountering a low frame rate whenever any mirrors were active had a new option to disable mirrors. It is found in settings.
  • To disable them, the player has to open their settings using their Phone/Notepad, open "Detail Options", and then click "Disable Mirrors/Monitors" with either A or D on their keyboard.
• According to the Seven Mysteries of Akademi page, one of the mysteries involves the mirrors in the third floor staircase. The rumors were that "a student was climbing the stairs at night, but she wasn't going anywhere. When she looked in the mirror, her eyes were black with bloody tears."
• Before the November 15th, 2024 build, the mirror in Ayano's home was purely cosmetic.
• There is a combination of over 500 styles for the player to choose for Ayano.