History TearJerker / YandereSimulator

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* YandereDev went out of his way to show that killing random students in his game can have dire consequences in the long run.

** Dev stated in May 2017 that if the final game sells well enough to justify DLC, Kokona would be a good candidate for a postgame rival (along with Phantom Girl, Midori, a pair of twins, etc). Her story would be a meta reference to the game's long alpha development period – Kokona is trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where she's constantly reliving a week of her life over and over. The only way to escape that loop is to kill Ayano.

* As mentioned above, Saki Miyu came close to challenging Kokona's place as the game's resident Woobie in the mid-October 2015 build. This is because she's probably the nicest girl in school… and the first one you're able to kidnap and mind-break. After you kidnap her, initially she's scared but also annoyed – stay in the room with her long enough and she'll ask for a television to relieve the boredom – but as you torture her and her sanity drops, her dialogue changes.[[labelnote:†]] There seem to be four phases based on her sanity level: 100%, 97.5%-50%, 47.5%-2.5%, and 0%.[[/labelnote]] [=Mom0ki's=] excellent voice acting makes her difficult to listen to if you have a conscience.
** Just before her sanity hits zero, instead of screaming and begging you to stay away like she did before, Saki simply closes her eyes and lowers her head, asking Ayano why she's doing this.
* In a meta example, [=YandereDev=] has on occasion made posts, tweets, and even a video detailing the issues that he keeps having with e-mails that had wrecked the development schedule for the game. Partway through the video, in fact, he goes into a small speech about how he misses the way things used to be when development was more simplistic and he actually had time to work on the game.

** Then there's why Ichiko left: she's convinced she has a sister somewhere. That leaves three theories: either she's completely lost the plot after being groomed all her life, her father has been lying to her, or this has something to do with FUN GIRL, who has her own tragic backstory.

* In a way, the teachers' reactions to murder are this. If a Teacher's Pet leads them to a body, they'll stop to react with horror for a second, before getting closer to call the police and keep an eye out for the killer. The voice acting makes it clear that they're pretty disturbed by what they're looking at. If they realize that Ayano is the culprit, they respond with a mixture of fear and anger before giving chase. As strict as they are, [[CoolTeacher they still care about their students]]. [[AdultFear One could only imagine what's running through their heads at exactly those moments.]]

** By far the worst one, though, is when Ayano blames the delinquents for her being covered in blood. She says it in a [[CrocodileTears very melancholic voice that sounds like she's about to break down in tears.]] Genka visibly [[ChokingGasp gasps]] after Ayano tells her, and says [[ThisCannotBe "No, it can't be"]] in an equally melancholic fashion. Genka truly believed that her [[AdultsAreUseless inaction with the delinquents]] nearly got an innocent [[BitchInSheepsClothing (to her knowledge, anyway)]] [[AdultFear girl killed.]]

** One example is the Student Council, a small group o four elite students who act as hall monitors and disciplinarians. If Ayano kills one of these girls, the Student Council President, Megumi Saikou, will order security cameras and metal detectors placed around campus, essentially turning the school into a concentration camp. This will permanently create a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere that causes the students to become scared and paranoid of each other. While her face isn't shown during the end-of-day text, if you look closely her hands are shaking, likely out of a mixture of anger and grief.

** Honami Hodoshima is a [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] [[CuteBookworm bookworm]] whose only mistake was to fall in love with Jokichi, and judging from the conversations she has with him, it probably took her a lot of courage to start a conversation with him. She canonically was crushed to death by a falling bookshelf.

* The ambiguous fate of the Journalist. In 1989, he discovered Ayano's mother, Ryoba, was stalking and killing girls who spoke to the boy she had an obsession with--her Senpai. He reports his findings to the police, and Ryoba is taken to trial. However, she's able to con the entire country of Japan into believing her as innocent, and that the Journalist was only seeking attention. The Journalist disappears from public view and loses his wife when she has their only daughter, who is speculated by fans to be Info-Chan. The Journalist encounters Ryoba again, thirty years later, but he screws up badly... Fearing for his life, he records his entire story on cassette tapes for his daughter to find, and flees to America. Unbeknownst to him, Ryoba is following suit.

* Ayano's father as shown in the tenth Basement Tape. He's essentially been {{whipped}} to the point that he won't fight the woman who took his life away and calls herself his spouse. Then again, she's a yandere who's willing to hurt him or even kill him if he refuses to be her husband, so it doesn't seem like he has much of a choice.
** Made somehow worse in the late-July 2017 video, [[https://youtu.be/ydIf-EAmn0c "Yandere-chan's Childhood"]]. In it, we see that Mr Aishi is unwilling to accept that his daughter is an emotionless husk. He takes her to multiple doctors and buys her toys, ''anything'' to try and make her happy. Nothing works, and Ryoba, who has the same condition, doesn't believe anything is wrong. Ayano pities him and wishes to not see him so upset, so she starts acting "normal", which allows them to be a functional family, but she soon adds that her father has already realized she is faking her emotions.

* Ayano can frame another person for any murder she commits. In the debug builds, only Kokona can be blamed by default. Mindslaves can also be arrested if their suicide is interrupted, and the delinquents can be framed, too, if Ayano kills someone with their respective weapon.

** This also applies to killing one of the Basu sisters in view of the other.

* In a way, the teachers' reactions to murder are this. If a Teacher's Pet leads them to a body, they'll stop to react with horror for a second, before getting closer to call the police and keep an eye out for the killer. The voice acting makes it clear that they're pretty disturbed by what they're looking at. If they realize that Ayano is the culprit, they respond with a mixture of fear and anger before giving chase. As strict as they are, [[SternTeacher they still care about their students]]. [[AdultFear One could only imagine what's running through their heads at exactly those moments.]]

* The fact that Ayano is most likely a ChildByRape. Listening to the Basement Tapes makes it pretty abundantly clear that poor Senpai-of-1989 is not with Ryoba Aishi by choice, and Ayano's conception was most likely not a willing one for him.

* Musume Ronshaku's kidnapping scene. She's spoiled rotten by her father, but still.

*** To elaborate, after being released, Musume will gain a permanent ShrinkingViolet posture, identical to Oka Ruto's. Instead of walking around the courtyard, she will instead sit on a bench and stare at her feet with dull grey eyes. Instead of going to the pool with her friends, she goes to the same place near the fountain, sits, and stares.

** Made even sadder if you use Saki as a mindslave and Kokona as a victim– she's killing her best friend.
* The Basu sisters are very close – the only time they're ever apart is during class, as they're in different grades. Normally, they spend morning and lunch chatting together on the roof. The late-July 2016 update gave them a unique routine quirk – neither sister will handle the death of the other well; if one of them dies (and the other didn't get the opportunity to attack you for it), the surviving sister will spend all her free time sitting alone in mourning.
* Some players have noticed that, during the cutscene where Ayano invites Kokona to her house, there's a picture behind Kokona the entire time. Looking through the data files gives a better look at the picture, which sums up the entire situation with Ayano's parents: [[TheBadGuyWins Ryoba is blissful]], but even though [[TheUnreveal his face is obscured]], you can tell that Mr. Aishi is unhappy.

** In contrast, however, he also said that if you kept Osana alive in favor of killing Senpai's sister, [[NoSympathy she wouldn't try to help him calm down.]]
* As mentioned above, Kokona is the current recipient of every elimination method. In addition to her likely being the optional beginners' tutorial (and thereby accidentally giving Ayano the idea of killing to begin with), he also declared her an ideal candidate for a possible post-game DLC rival if the game does well. What's her story? She has to relive a week of her life over and over, and she can only escape the loop if she kills Ayano.

** At the end, Kokona loses it and beats Musume with the baseball bat Yan-chan provided her, and by the time she's out of it, Musume is dead. By the time she realized what she'd done, Yan-chan had already called the police. What's worse, Yan-chan had already set a perfect alibi for herself, stabbing [[TheWoobie Kokona]] in the back at the end.
* November 6th, 2017 gave us a canon elimination method. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LDncgTOI9Q Rejection]] That sounds bad enough as is, but the video actually makes it a bit more depressing, and disturbing. Yan-chan first puts poison in Senpai's food to make Osana seem that she did it. Then, she ruins a book Senpai loaned to Osana by dumping it in the school fountain. Third, Yan-chan steals her phone and takes panty shots with it to make Osana look like a perv. Yan-chan then fiddles with her phone a second time, making Osana miss her date with Senpai. Finally Osana's phone gets stolen ''again'', this time to upload an edited audio clip that makes it sound like she's bad-mouthing Senpai.]] Throughout the entire elimination, it's clear Osana is saddened that Senpai is disappointed in her, making it clear she values his friendship and doesn't want to let him down. The rejection cutscene has Senpai state he doesn't like her that way. Osana will panic and ask what she did wrong, but Senpai will simply tell her to stop and will walk away. Osana will remain confused and heartbroken.

* If the [[https://yanderesimulator.com/characters/#! mysterious woman with the suitcase]] really is the daughter (aka Megami's aunt) mentioned in the headmaster's first tape, that would mean that either she abandoned her responsibilities and hasn't spoken to her father, who built Akademi High for her and therefore was betrayed by the daughter he loved so much, or he did something that caused her to leave her family. Needless to say, something bad might have happened between them.
** Confirmed and elaborated on in the second headmaster tape. It turns out that the whole "built the school to make her happy" thing was just a cover story, and the true purpose of the school was to be the final step in his plan to groom her to inherit his empire, which had been going on since ''childhood''. Shuyona is not surprised that she would get fed up and leave him after all that. In addition, Shuyona realizes that her brother, who had a normal childhood up to this point, is going to be put through an ''accelerated'' version of all that.

** Then there's why the woman left: she's convinced she has a sister somewhere. That leaves three theories: either she's completely lost the plot after being groomed all her life, her father has been lying to her, or this has something to do with FUN GIRL, who has her own tragic backstory.
* The Counselor, Genka Kunahito, looking [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness troubled and tired]] in the Delinquent video. Considering the previous image was of a TranquilFury Headmaster and that her job is supposed to be keeping Akademi students in line, she's only just realized what she's gotten herself into: she only has ten weeks to reform the Delinquents back to the way they used to be, or they'll all be expelled, and GENKA WILL GET FIRED.
** The Delinquents themselves count. Originally, they were five ordinary students targeted by bullies, who were unable to prove to the school that they were being harassed. It progressed to the point where they all decided to kill themselves. They only found peace from the bullying when they decided to follow Osoro Shidesu, the eighth rival. They learned that if they kept a fearsome attitude and appearance, they will be left alone. It's tragic because this is how kids act in real life now.

* Sakura Hagiwara has an incurable heart disease and will die before she's in her thirties. Then again, killing her out of mercy will only let her lose out on what she could experience before then, like a miracle cure...

** By far the worst one, though, is when Yandere-chan blames the delinquents for her being covered in blood. She says it in a [[CrocodileTears very melancholic voice that sounds like she's about to break down in tears.]] Genka visibly [[ChokingGasp gasps]] after Yandere-chan tells her, and says [[ThisCannotBe "No, it can't be"]] in an equally melancholic fashion. Genka truly believed that her [[AdultsAreUseless inaction with the delinquents]] nearly got an innocent [[BitchInSheepsClothing (to her knowledge, anyway)]] [[AdultFear girl killed.]]

** One example is the Student Council, a small group of elite students who act as hall monitors and disciplinarians. If Ayano kills one of these girls, the Student President, Megumi Saikou, will order security cameras and metal detectors placed around campus, essentially turning the school into a concentration camp. This will permanently create a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere that causes the students to become scared and paranoid of each other. While her face isn't shown during the end-of-day text, if you look closely her hands are shaking, likely out of a mixture of anger and grief.
** Miyuji Shan, the lead singer of the school band, is a more personal and heartbreaking example. She has a fun, spunky personality and wears bright red makeup to match it. She also loves her band mates so much that if the player kills any of them Miyuji will break up the band out of grief and show up to school without her makeup or piercings. If you compare her old pic on your smartphone with her post-murder look, it's like looking at two different people.
* The July 2019 build finally introduces the Mysterious Obstacle to killing Osana: her best friend, Raibaru Fumetsu. She was the original leader of the Martial Arts Club with a 100% victory streak until she was finally defeated by Budo. For her though, it was a relief, and she felt she could leave the club to him so she could pursue other hobbies. That's when she met Osana and the two of them became close friends, to the point where they wear matching accessories and are virtually inseparable. If Ayano kills Osana in front of her, Raibaru will go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Ayano has no chance of beating her in combat and will immediately get a game over, but it's a PyrrhicVictory for Raibaru. Her best friend is gone forever.
* Even [[AlternateUniverse Mission Mode]] has a surprisingly tear-jerking setup. Think Nemesis is just a random NPC who exists solely to present another obstacle for Yan-chan? Not at all. As it turns out, the ''Retribution'' [[https://yanderesimulator.com/manga/nemesis.html comic]] reveals that she's actually '''[[BreakTheCutie Hanako]]'''. Senpai was Yandere-chan's first victim in this alternate universe, and his murder turned Hanako from a sweet, bubbly LittleSisterHeroine into a bitter, vengeful SerialKillerKiller who dedicated her life to hunting down Ayano; with full intent to make her ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pay in blood]]'' [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her crimes]].
-->'''Nemesis''': (''drops a polaroid photograph into Yandere-chan's lap'') This is the first target you were hired to assassinate. Do you remember this boy? '''''Do you remember his name?'''''
-->'''Yandere-chan''': [[VisibleSilence …]]

** One method is to drive Osana to suicide. You even get a voice-over of Osana's mother calling for her daughter, only to walk into her room and be horrified at the sight of Osana's hanged body; the player only sees her legs hanging there limply.

** If the player kills Osana's best friend Raibaru, Osana will run to her corpse and breakdown upon realizing that her friend has died. Her voice sound extremely devasting, making the player feel bad for what they done.

** What's even worse is Yan-chan doesn't ''need'' to make Horuda a mind slave. If Yan-chan shows a picture of someone talking to Musume and claim they're the cause of all her bullying, Horuda will attack them of her own volition.

* Kokona's widowed father, due to his situation and what you can put him through, hypothetically. [[spoiler:He puts himself in crippling debt to keep Kokona at school. How would he feel if he learned she was bullied to death there, or killed? Or if she never came home?]]

** Even discounting Kokona's suicide for a second, the thing that makes this reputation hit all the more tragic for Kokona is that even Saki Miyu – her best friend who gladly lent a sympathetic ear when she tried to talk about [[spoiler:her father's alcoholism and debt]] – abandons her. Granted, Saki's reaction to the gossip was shock and disbelief, but eventually, being near a student with that kind of a reputation would lower her own, so she had to abandon her to preserve her own reputation. Even if it's understandable, having your closest friends abandon you like that will ''really'' hit home for a few fans.

** It's really telling that [[InAWorld in a community]] that has a [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential thirst for bloodshed and sadism]] that rivals the likes of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''' community, [[EvenEvilHasStandards this is generally considered one of the few lines most fans seem hesitant to cross.]] Given the fact that fans love being able to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder]], [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] and [[SerialKiller massacre]] to their heart's delight in this game, that should speak volumes on how much of a MoralEventHorizon this all is.

*** The May 2016 build adds more ways to frame a rival, and requires one successful attempt each day. In other words, Kokona gets ratted out for selling used panties[[labelnote:*]] (let the record show she's actually guilty of this one)[[/labelnote]] and then framed for stealing, smoking, taking upskirt photos, and cheating before finally being expelled.

** The above mentioned animatic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908F0cP0j4c released]] is ''very'' bad news for Kokona: [[spoiler:Yandere-chan uses the info about Kokona's father's debt and Musume's role in it to literally drive Kokona to murder her. Seeing Kokona just ''snap'' is equally sad and terrifying, as it shows humans are very much capable of doing just that.]] Ayano gets off the hook without getting her hands dirty at all.

** What's worse is, before [[spoiler:fleeing the country]], he [[spoiler:chose ''not'' to warn the woman Ryoba was stalking, out of the hope that her death would be linked back to Ryoba and get her away from society.]]

* [[spoiler:Ayano's father]] as shown in the tenth Basement Tape. He's essentially been {{whipped}} to the point that he won't fight the woman who took his life away and calls herself his spouse. Then again, she's a yandere who's willing to hurt him or even kill him if he refuses to be her husband, so it doesn't seem like he has much of a choice.
** Made somehow worse in the late-July 2017 video, [[https://youtu.be/ydIf-EAmn0c "Yandere-chan's Childhood"]]. In it, we see that [[spoiler:Mr Aishi is unwilling to accept that his daughter is an emotionless husk. He takes her to multiple doctors and buys her toys, ''anything'' to try and make her happy. Nothing works, and Ryoba, who has the same condition, doesn't believe anything is wrong. Ayano pities him and wishes to not see him so upset, so she starts acting "normal", which allows them to be a functional family, but she soon adds that her father has already realized she is faking her emotions.]]

* [[https://yanderedev.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/short-comic/ This short fan-comic [=YanDev=] posted on his blog,]]. [[spoiler:Ayano is petting her cat while asking Info-chan if Senpai has any allergies. Info-chan informs her that Senpai is allergic to cats. Yan-chan, without hesitation, snaps her cat's neck and throws them out the window before thanking Info-chan for the heads-up.]]
** Shows up again in Yan-chan's [[https://youtu.be/ydIf-EAmn0c backstory video.]] As she reached adolescence, Ayano had become desperate to feel ''something'', '''anything'''. [[spoiler:She finds a stray cat, and in an attempt to feel some kind of emotion, she kills them brutally.]] It didn't make her feel anything, however.

* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DcXGsLWog video]] [=YandereDev=] released on Valentine's day 2016. It starts out cute, with a Rival [[HopeSpot successfully confessing to Senpai]]. Only, [[spoiler:a tear-strucken Ayano was watching the entire time. Her immediate response is to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill the rival]], [[IfICantHaveYou then Senpai]], and [[MurderSuicide herself]].]] It's a blunt, disturbing look at what Ayano feels about Senpai, and what she is capable of if he's somehow stolen from her. [=YandereDev=] confirmed that [[spoiler:the video has something to do with the teased SNAP mode.]]
* The fact that Ayano is most likely a [[spoiler:ChildByRape. Listening to the Basement Tapes makes it pretty abundantly clear that poor Senpai-of-1989 is not with Ryoba Aishi by choice, and Ayano's conception was most likely not a willing one for him.]]

* [[spoiler:The Flame Demon's]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds backstory]] in ''Burning Love''. It may or not be canon, but it's definitely tragic. [[spoiler:He was born a normal human in 1431, to a wealthy noble family. One day, he and his family were attacked by a group of envious peasants hoping to steal some of their valuables. He only survived because he hid somewhere the peasants couldn't find him. However, this didn't prevent him from witnessing his parents [[CruelAndUnusualDeath be beaten and burnt alive]]. He made a DealWithTheDevil to get revenge, and gave the peasants everything his family experienced and worse. Doing so, however, meant he had lost his humanity.]] What's worse is that later on, [[spoiler:he reveals that ''all'' demons were once normal humans who made a pact similar to his.]]
* [[spoiler:Musume Ronshaku's]] kidnapping scene. She's spoiled rotten by her father, but still.
-->[[spoiler:'''Musume''']]: [[spoiler:"... Daddy... Please... Help... I'm scared... I don't wanna die..."]]
** Even though she's returned unharmed, [[spoiler:Musume]] has been severely psychologically scarred by the experience. Even though Ayano helped Kokona, it was at the expense of another girl's sanity.
*** To elaborate, after being released, [[spoiler:Musume]] will gain a permanent ShrinkingViolet posture, identical to Oka Ruto's. Instead of walking around the courtyard, she will instead sit on a bench and stare at her feet with dull grey eyes. Instead of going to the pool with her friends, she goes to the same place near the fountain, sits, and stares.

* Osana's DarkSecret was hinted at in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DVCF7WvLAE this video]]. [[spoiler:Apparently someone is threatening her and someone close to her somehow.]]

* September 30, 2017 gave us the concept of [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908F0cP0j4c "Driving Your Rivals To Murder in Yandere Simulator"]]]], which has a number of these moments.
** This video paints [[spoiler:Musume Ronshaku]] in a much more negative light. She [[spoiler:berates her for her practices of compensated dating, calls Kokona a slut by implying she sleeps with the men that she goes on dates with, and tells her maybe she'll be able to buy herself some self-respect.]] The entire time, we're treated to images of Kokona slowly breaking down in tears as [[spoiler:Musume]] continues to berate her. Even worse, in current builds, Musume now has an entire gang of girls who are just as cruel as she is.
** At the end, [[spoiler:Kokona loses it and beats Musume with the baseball bat Yan-chan provided her, and by the time she's out of it, Musume is dead. By the time she realized what she'd done, Yan-chan had already called the police. What's worse, Yan-chan had already set a perfect alibi for herself, stabbing [[TheWoobie Kokona]] in the back at the end.]]
* November 6th, 2017 gave us a canon elimination method. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LDncgTOI9Q Rejection]] That sounds bad enough as is, but the video actually makes it a bit more depressing, and disturbing. [[spoiler:Yan-chan first puts poison in Senpai's food to make Osana seem that she did it. Then, she ruins a book Senpai loaned to Osana by dumping it in the school fountain. Third, Yan-chan steals her phone and takes panty shots with it to make Osana look like a perv. Yan-chan then fiddles with her phone a second time, making Osana miss her date with Senpai. Finally Osana's phone gets stolen ''again'', this time to upload an edited audio clip that makes it sound like she's bad-mouthing Senpai.]] Throughout the entire elimination, it's clear Osana is saddened that Senpai is disappointed in her, making it clear she values his friendship and doesn't want to let him down. The rejection cutscene has Senpai state he doesn't like her that way. Osana will panic and ask what she did wrong, but Senpai will simply tell her to stop and will walk away. Osana will remain confused and heartbroken.

* If the [[https://yanderesimulator.com/characters/#! mysterious woman with the suitcase]] really is the daughter (aka Megami's aunt) mentioned in the headmaster's first tape, that would mean that either she abandoned her responsibilities and hasn't spoken to her father, who [[spoiler: built Akademi High for her and therefore]] was betrayed by the daughter he loved so much, or he did something that caused her to leave her family. Needless to say something bad might have happened between them.
** Confirmed and elaborated on in the second headmaster tape. [[spoiler:It turns out that the whole "built the school to make her happy" thing was just a cover story, and the true purpose of the school was to be the final step in his plan to groom her to inherit his empire, which had been going on since ''childhood''. Shuyona is not surprised that she would get fed up and leave him after all that.]] In addition, [[spoiler:Shuyona realizes that her brother, who had a normal childhood up to this point, is going to be put through an ''accelerated'' version of all that]].

** Then there's why the woman left: she's convinced she has a sister somewhere. That leaves three theories: either she's completely lost the plot [[spoiler:after being groomed all her life]], her father has been lying to her, or [[spoiler:this has something to do with FUN GIRL, who has her own tragic backstory.]]

** The Delinquents themselves count. Originally, they were five ordinary students targeted by bullies, who were unable to prove to the school that they were being harassed. It progressed to the point of where they all decided to kill themselves. They only found peace from the bullying when they decided to follow Osoro Shidesu, the eighth rival. They learned that if they kept a fearsome attitude and appearance, they will be left alone. It's tragic because this is how kids act in real life now.

* Even [[AlternateUniverse Mission Mode]] has a surprisingly tear-jerking setup. Think Nemesis is just a random NPC who exists solely to present another obstacle for Yan-chan? Not at all. As it turns out, the ''Retribution'' [[https://yanderesimulator.com/manga/nemesis.html comic]] reveals that she's [[spoiler:actually '''[[BreakTheCutie Hanako]]'''. Senpai was Yandere-chan's first victim in this alternate universe, and his murder turned Hanako from a sweet, bubbly LittleSisterHeroine into a bitter, vengeful SerialKillerKiller who dedicated her life to hunting down Ayano; with full intent to make her ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pay in blood]]'' [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge for her crimes]]]].

-->'''Nemesis''': [[spoiler:[[WhamLine He was my brother.]] (''Senpai can now be seen in the photograph'') '''[[WhamLine His name was Taro Yamada.]]''']]

** One method is to [[spoiler:drive Osana to suicide. You even get a voice-over of Osana's mother calling for her daughter, only to walk into her room and be horrified at the sight of Osana's hanged body; the player only sees her legs hanging there limply.]]
** Another method is to [[spoiler:make it look like Ayano has befriended Osana by retrieving her cat from a stalker, only to drug Osana's tea so that Osana can be tied to a chair and eliminated. Osana never sees it coming.]]
** And yet another method is to [[spoiler:kidnap Osana and break her down until she loses her independent will, so Osana can be ordered to kill someone (including potentially her friend Raibaru) and then herself.]]

** And the worst part of it all isn't even that the [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential player went out of their way for this]]. [[TruthInTelevision It's how sadly commonplace this can be in the real world]]: bullying of this nature and being subsequently DrivenToSuicide ''does happen,'' and its generally such a sadistic way to torture somebody that it's no surprise at all that the community regards this as a MoralEventHorizon. [=YandereDev=] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped really hammers in]] [[VillainProtagonist what kind of person Yandere-chan is]] with this line:

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[[caption-width-right:254:This is ''[[YouBastard all your fault]].'']]

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* The Headmaster Tapes. They document thirty years of one man's life going to Hell.

* Even Mission Mode has a tearjerking moment. Think Nemesis is just a random NPC to present another obstacle for Yan-chan? Well the [[https://yanderesimulator.com/manga/nemesis.html comic]] Retribution reveals [[spoiler:she's ''Hanako''. Turns out Senpai was Yandere-chan's first victim in this universe, and his murder turned Hanako from a bubbly girl into Nemesis.]]

** This video paints [[spoiler:Musume Ronshaku]] in a much more negative light. She [[spoiler:berates her for her practices of compensated dating, calls Kokona a slut by implying she sleeps with the men that she goes on dates with, and tells her maybe she'll be able to buy herself some self-respect.]] The entire time, we're treated to images of Kokona slowly breaking down in tears as [[spoiler:Musume]] continues to berate her. Even worse, in current builds, Musume now has an entire gang of girls who are just as curel as she is.

* The July 2019 build finally introduces the Mysterious Obstacle to killing Osana: her best friend, Raibaru Fumetsu. She was the original leader of the Martial Arts Club with a 100% victory streak until she was finally defeated by Budo. For her though, it was a relief, and she felt she could leave the club to him so she could pursue other hobbies. That's when she met Osana and the two of them became close friends, to the point where they wear matching accessories and are virtually inseparable. If Ayano kills Osana in front of her, Raibaru will go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.