“I never intended to expose millions of preteen girls to the kind of content that is present in Yandere Simulator.” And yet, here we are. “My intention was to develop a game for a mature, adult audience with an interest in anime and stealth games,” YandereDev told me. That responsibility goes to the famous YouTubers, like PewDiePie and Markiplier, who “noticed” him. YandereDev, the game’s secretive developer, says that glamorising panty shots and dismemberment to his young fans makes him uncomfortable, but claims that he is not responsible for his game’s popularity. It may (or may not) come as a surprise, then, that Yandere Simulator‘s fan base is largely teenaged girls. If gore isn’t your thing, she can blackmail girls with panty shots. She can electrocute her enemy while she’s peeing in the school bathroom. She can dismember a student, stuffing her limbs in a cello case before incinerating her. She can publish their darkest secret on the internet to provoke them into suicide. Aishi must analyse her victims’ personalities, assessing their weaknesses to custom-tailor their demise. Yandere Simulator is called a simulator for a reason. In anime, a yandere can be recognised by her emotional fluctuations between relative calmness and lovesick fury. The term is a portmanteau that describes a woman with an all-consuming and dangerous romantic obsession. “Yandere” is a combination of the Japanese words “yanderu” (“to be sick”) and “deredere” (“lovestruck”).
It’s a minor detail for a girl whose violent love leaves a trail of bodies in its wake. A bland older student, Aishi’s senpai has no idea she exists. In the game, which is still in development but available for PC, you play as the psychotic Japanese schoolgirl Ayano Aishi, who will do anything to be with her senpai - including torturing and killing her competition.
Yandere Simulator would be less messed up if it was just about murdering high schoolers.
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