Shoku Tsuburaya is one of the male students who currently attends Akademi. He is the substitute president of the Cooking Club, and is the suitor of Amai Odayaka.
Appearance[]
Current[]
Shoku has collar-length auburn hair, the fringes on the sides nearly extending to his chin. He also has a long, curly ahoge on the center of his head that extends from the part in his hair. He has bright green eyes.
He wears the default school uniform unless customized by the player. As the substitute president of the Cooking Club, and is filling in for Amai Odayaka while she is absent. Because of this, he wears the "Red Armband of Leadership" with a resemblance of a cupcake on his left arm. After the first week, he no longer wears the armband as Amai has returned to Akademi. As a member of the Cooking Club, he wears a light yellow kerchief and a light yellow apron with a dark gray pocket trim, dark gray scratch marks on his right pocket, and a print of a steak on the bottom left corner. If the Cooking Club is disbanded, he will not wear his kerchief or apron anymore.
If the player tells him Amai's taste in men in order to matchmake him with her, he will have a tan, wear glasses, and have a lip piercing and earrings.
Previous[]
Before the April 17th, 2021 Build, his hair was dark brown.
Personality[]
Shoku striking a cute pose.
Trusted to operate the Cooking Club when the leader of the club is not present. A connoisseur of good food, with a very discerning palate. Dreams of becoming a world-famous 5 star chef.
Among the Personas that are currently implemented in the game, Shoku 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 discovers a corpse, he will run to the most populated place in 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 incapable of self-defense unless Ayano kills Amai in front of him.
Routine[]
Shoku preparing some food in the Cooking Club.
At 7:00 AM, Shoku 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. Then, he travels around the school to give the food to various students.
At 8:00 AM, he walks to Classroom 3-2, sits at his desk and plays on his phone. He starts his morning classes at 8:30 AM, and leaves to eat his lunch outside the Cooking Club at 1:00 PM.
He 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, he heads to the Cooking Club and stays there until the end of the day.
If the Cooking Club is disbanded, Shoku 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
- "Shoku Tsuburaya wants to find Amai on social media. Befriend all four members of the Cooking Club - Kenko, Seiyo, Ajia and Saki - ask each of them how to find Amai on social media, and then report back to Shoku."
To complete Shoku's task, the player has to befriend the Cooking Club members. Which include Kenko Sukoyaka, Seiyo Akanishi, Ajia Ashitomi and Saki Miyu. Once all of them have been friended, the player must ask each of them about Amai when interacting with them using the "F" button on their keyboard. They can then go on their Phone, and open the app Social Media to check everything about Amai.
Before the September 15th build, Shoku's task used to be about getting Amai's conversational topics. The player simply had to complete his task by buying Amai's conversational topics from Info-chan, or read her diary found in her Bookbag.
Topics[]
The Conversational Topics that Shoku has opinions on are as follows:
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Relationships[]
Amai Odayaka[]
- Main article: Amai Odayaka
Shoku is Amai's suitor, and Ayano can aid Shoku to be matchmade with Amai.
Shoku's strong love for Amai is shown when he asks Ayano to find out about Amai's Social Media so that he could pursue a relationship with her.
If he was matchmade with Amai, she would tell him about her problem. Shoku would then confront Rei Ando and Minato Ando, with Rei denying all wrongdoing. Minato would then recognize that both of them could get into serious trouble if Rei continued her antics. Finally, he would force Rei to apologize and cease her behaviour.[2]
Trivia[]
- Shoku was implemented in the August 18th, 2018 Build.
- His first name, Shoku, comes from (食事: shokuji), meaning "meal", while his surname, Tsuburaya, may be a pun from the word "tsubu" (粒), meaning "grain", or from "Tsuji", a Japanese culinary institute. Alternatively, his name may simply come from the word “shokutsu” (食通), meaning “gourmet”.
- Tsuburaya (円谷) is a real Japanese surname which means "round valley".
- He shares the same surname with Geiju Tsuka; the latter's real surname is Tsuburaya. This was an accident, but YandereDev doesn't want to change their names because the fanbase seems to enjoy drawing artwork of them as brothers.[3]
- Tsuburaya (円谷) is a real Japanese surname which means "round valley".
- Even though Shoku has a specific task and is in school for the first week, he is the only student you cannot get a task for in the first week.
- Shoku is one of seventeen students who changes their appearance after an event, the others being Banri Masayuki, Bunzo Ohta, Eiichi Asari, Etsuji Odaka, Hozumi Takeda, Gema Taku, Hachiro Iso, Kagemori Takagi, Kokoro Momoiro, Kyuji Konagawa, Okimoto Furukawa, Osana Najimi, Miyuji Shan, Seiyo Akanishi, Tadaaki Sunada and Yahiko Onoda.
- In his case, he will change his appearance if Ayano Aishi tells him what type of traits Amai is attracted to.
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