- Confirmed. See here.
- It was put into the August 12th 2015 update, so Confirmed!
- Considering one of the planned rivals is the Swim Team Captain, this kinda goes without saying.
- A pool isn't in the game (yet?), but you can now drown a rival in the fountain in the courtyard or in the bathroom.
- Swimming pool confirmed. See here.
- Confirmed. See here.
- Confirmed, for better or worse. YandereDev originally intended for Info-chan to be the final rival (she was the other yandere mentioned multiple times throughout this Wiki), but changed his mind for unknown reasons – possibly because he does not want her to be killable.
- Confirmed.
- However, the Nurse we see in the debug builds is the Substitute Nurse. The regular non-rival nurse who will be at school the other nine weeks has yet to appear.
- Also, the real reason Info-chan can't tell you anything about her is because she has no AI, just like Rival-chan (a.k.a. Original Osana), Counselor Kunihito, the Delinquents, and the Placeholder Club Leaders.
- Confirmed. Source.
- Yet also Jossed, in a way. Megami Saiko, the Student Council President, is a classic Sue in the sense that she is absolutely perfect – the richest, smartest, most popular, etc. – and her character bio explicitly states she has no weaknesses. However, she's not naïve in the slightest and nothing about her is Played for Laughs. If anything, she's what happens when a Sue is Played for Drama and pitted against you. So... perhaps she is a deconstruction in a way. Regardless, she seems to know exactly who Yan-chan is and what she's capable of. As the final rival, she'll be very difficult to defeat.
- Amusingly, there is a more-classic Mary Sue in the game – Mai Waifu – but she's such a blatantly over-the-top example that she becomes a clear Parody Sue.
- Yet also Jossed, in a way. Megami Saiko, the Student Council President, is a classic Sue in the sense that she is absolutely perfect – the richest, smartest, most popular, etc. – and her character bio explicitly states she has no weaknesses. However, she's not naïve in the slightest and nothing about her is Played for Laughs. If anything, she's what happens when a Sue is Played for Drama and pitted against you. So... perhaps she is a deconstruction in a way. Regardless, she seems to know exactly who Yan-chan is and what she's capable of. As the final rival, she'll be very difficult to defeat.
- This has been known for a while now… it's been confirmed, and said throughout this trope page, that the Yandere mentioned in the tapes is Yandere-chan's mom.
- Secret Basement Tape 1 clinches it – the girl's name is explicitly stated to be "Ryoba Aishi". Almost certainly Yan-chan's (a.k.a. Ayano Aishi's) mother.
- Dev has confirmed that Senpai prefers his solitude and that he's actually not very popular… at least to start.
- As of November 2015, the school has been massively expanded. There is a Drama Club room and yes the masks are in there.
- Confirmed. If a character with a Heroic or Strict personality sees you commit murder, they will attack you, forcing you to win a quick button mashing minigame to defeat them.
- Confirmed, sort of. One of the upcoming rivals is stated to be a substitute teacher.
- Confirmed. Here.
- The only possible exception is Imouto-chan, Hanako Yamada. That's the Japanese equivalent of Jane Smith and is only meaningful inasmuch as it dovetails with Senpai's just-as-boring name.
- It's probably Compensated Dating.
- That's socially unacceptable, but not actually criminal. However, Info-chan also caught her selling her used panties, which is illegal in Japan (and has been since the early 90's).
- —''Kokona telling her friend about her darkest secret
Kokona receives a phone call from an unknown person at 7:40AM where she says, "Hello? Ugh- I told you not to call me when I'm at school! Like I said, that was a one-time thing! I don't wanna do that again! ...H...How much did you say...?...Well...if it's just...one more time...then I guess it's okay...How about tonight? Where we met last time? In Sisuta Town? Okay then...see you tonight."
Obviously, she is being paid for sex, AND NOT being domestically abused by her father. He goes to her room and cries about the huge debt to a loan shark that he is struggling to pay. The loan shark keeps raising the interest, and is threatening violence if he doesn't get paid back pronto. Kokona is trying to help her father pay off their debt, even though she hates doing gross things for money.
- Considering the game's setting, and as noted above, it's probably Compensated Dating. Enjo Kosai (the Japanese term for it) doesn't always involve sex, but it can, and the general assumption is that it does. In the "Driving Your Rivals to Murder" video, Kokona states that she only goes to dinner with the men she dates and that it doesn't go any further than that.
- Confirmed by the one-two punch of the Rival Introduction Video (in which Kokona does not appear) and by the Matchmaking update video. Dev said at the end of the latter that the final two elimination methods – Sabotage and "Unique" – necessitated adding Osana to the game, meaning Kokona would finally get the time away from being his guinea pig that she most certainly deserves.
- However, he has also teased the idea of there being a first-day "tutorial" so players can familiarize themselves with controls and mechanics. It would involve helping out a member of the Drama Club reharsing a play about a serial killer, who would be... you guessed it: Kokona.
- Confirmed by Basement Tape 10.
- However, Ryoba never even attempted to give her husband a reason as to why she wanted to leave the country; she literally just said "Pack your bags darling; we're going to America!" and dragged him out of the house, while saying the duration of their sojourn "depends on how fast I can track [the Journalist] down."
- Confirmed by the tenth basement tape. Ryoba knows that the Journalist fled to the United States after she realized that he was following her around and is trying to track him down to kill him, dragging her husband Jokichi along with her.
- Confirmed. YandereDev is going to have a special ending for killing everyone within one day.
- However, it's not clear what this ending – or any endings – will be like. It may not be a Bad End.
- YandereDev has stated that killing an entire class's worth of students in a single day will result in the Headmaster of Akademi High ordering a school shutdown, which will be a Game Over (though probably also an achievement).
- It's finally been implemented. Killing fifty students or more causes the Headmaster to shut down the school. Senpai starts attending another school to which she can't follow him to.
- Confirmed. Blood sacrifices in the Occult Club let you commune with demons and make deals with them.
- Most likely bludgeoning, as a student running around on fire and screaming at school would be VERY noticeable.
- Confirmed! They weren't originally meant to be weapons in the game, but YandereDev liked the model the volunteer made as a "screening task" and decided to put them in. In the future, they will be available as bludgeons. There will a future elimination method where you can set people on fire, but it's unclear if the extinguishers are going to be involved.
- The Kill It with Fire elimination is in, but no fire extinguishers are involved. That said, you can now kill someone by hitting them with the fire extinguishers.
- Confirmed! They weren't originally meant to be weapons in the game, but YandereDev liked the model the volunteer made as a "screening task" and decided to put them in. In the future, they will be available as bludgeons. There will a future elimination method where you can set people on fire, but it's unclear if the extinguishers are going to be involved.
- Confirmed. Imouto-chan (actual name Hanako Yamada) is a Clingy Jealous Girl with separation issues. Her "confession", such as it is, involves her making Senpai promise he won't accept any love confession for the foreseeable future.
- For what it's worth, an earlier draft of Hanako had her as much more jailbaity and pervy.
- Confirmed! See the characters page on the website.
- Info-chan is the only member of the Info Club, so confirmed.
- As of March 31, 2020, SNAP has been implemented. While she doesn't have to kill everyone she sees, anyone she gets close to is subjected to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, ending up dead afterwards, except for Senpai, whom you are required to find a knife first before killing, followed by yourself. So confirmed.
- The main game is planned to be a ten-week campaign. Yan-chan will ask Senpai out at that point because there are no rivals left. So… this WMG's topline is correct, but the reasoning behind it is not.
- The Azzman part is debunked; he is known to heavily mod the game to make his videos more interesting.
- Rule of thumb – if your primary source about a game mechanic is an AzzMan video, it's probably modded unless he specifically says he's playing the game "vanilla" (which he sometimes does whenever a major new build is released).
- For what it's worth, Pippi actually does have the "Loner" persona, as shown if you take a photo of her face and send it to Info-chan.
- Her persona has been changed to "Phone Addict".
- The drama club girl might be more social than the previous rivals, and spend most of her time with her friends. This would make it harder to isolate her for a murder. Meanwhile, the occult girl is less social, but has a paranoid personality even when the atmosphere is light, making it hard to sneak up on her. Maybe she's able to communicate with the phantom, and got tipped off to something being wrong with Yandere-chan.
The athletic girl is physically stronger than the previous rivals, and is able to overpower Yandere-chan in an direct assault like the teachers. The teacher rivals would work similarly.
The little sister isn't super-strong, but is difficult to kill because she spends all her time with Senpai. And you don't want him to notice you getting your killing on.
The class president might also have super-strength, and is also a detective who noticed that everyone around Senpai is disappearing (at least, in the non-pacifist route), and is getting closer to him to catch the culprit. At this point, a new mechanic might pop up: the rival has planted evidence implicating Yandere-chan in the event that she disappears, and you need to get rid of it before the police arrive or it's game over. Additionally, the class president might employ a bodyguard that follows her around and is nearly invincible.
- The drama club girl might be more social than the previous rivals, and spend most of her time with her friends. This would make it harder to isolate her for a murder. Meanwhile, the occult girl is less social, but has a paranoid personality even when the atmosphere is light, making it hard to sneak up on her. Maybe she's able to communicate with the phantom, and got tipped off to something being wrong with Yandere-chan.
- The topline is Confirmed by Word of God, but the bullet points are not.
- Osana's complication is that she's friends with the former Martial Arts Club president, who follows her everywhere and acts as her bodyguard.
- Amai spends every day hosting a bake sale in the courtyard, surrounded by people.
- The guess regarding Hanako is Confirmed; she is physically weak, but very clingy towards Senpai and spends most of her time around him.
- Megami has extensive self-defense training, the authority to install obstacles like metal detectors and security cameras, is incredibly popular, and knows to watch out for Ayano.
- Interesting, but sadly, probably jossed. Word of God says no students with crushes on Yan-chan are planned, let alone any yandere for her. Unless YandereDev has changed his mind again, of course.
- The topline, however, could still be true. If you text Info-chan photos of your murders, she'll congratulate you on a job well done, though she also admits she has no use for such things.
- Interesting theory. However, the very first iteration of Mission Mode still had Senpai in it. He was removed because it made no sense to have him (plus his aura and ability to cause insta-Game Over made the mode annoying to play).
- The Mission Mode alternate universe did have something unfortunate happen to Senpai, but he wasn't Ret-Gone'd. He was simply killed by Ayano.