Additional Information on Notice Me Senpai

In addition to official questions and answers and information presented in game, some of the social media admins and developers provided additional canon information in their Tumblr reblogs.

This page exists to compile that information in order to achieve the greatest understanding of the Notice Me Senpai characters and setting.

## **Tumblr Reblog Additions**

This category compiles information that was added to reblogs of art on the Skillshot Labs Tumblr page. All text has been copied letter for letter to preserve the original text and meaning.

### **Izumi-senpai**

**Post:** *On an Izumi Artwork by patches-n-pockets, the artist depicted Izumi sitting on a windowseat, reading a book with a rainy window beside him.*

**A Dev Posted:** "Nice izumi-senpai art by @patches-npockets :D I would imagine he does this often on rainy days."

### **Touru-senpai**

**Post:** *An art of Touru-senpai and Kyouya-sensei together. The caption read "Today is Father's Day~"*

**A Dev Posted:** "We forgot to mention in 3-A's Senpai Story feature that Touru-kaichou is extra salty that Kyouya-sensei is 3-C's homeroom teacher."

### **Kyouya-sensei**

**Post:** *On a comic of Kyouya wearing a dinosaur costume and it's release in game.*

**A Dev Posted:** "Kyouya-sensei likes dinos. yes he does."

**Post:** *On an artwork of Kyouya in his delinquent days outfit, with a focus on the red headband he wears.*

**Jakey Posted:** "Kyouya needed to keep the hair out of his eyes when he got into fights :))"

## **Admin Q & A**

In late 2017, developer Jakey opened a Q&A session that allowed for additional questions that may not have been answered in the previous Q & As, or for questions that catered to newer senpai such as Viktor or Itsuki.

**Q1:** *"aaaa i wanna know more abt kouhai tbh!! (; v ; is her grandma still healthy or--"*

**A1:** "Grandma is quite old and has become a bit fragile, so she can't get too tired. Kouhai-chan lives with her and takes care of most of the housework so grandma doesn't get worn out. But grandma is still well enough to occasionally accompany kouhai-chan to the school to visit and say hello to everyone. Thanks for your question! :D"

**Q2:** *"Hello! I was just wondering if you liked got7? Since jae-senpai reminds me of GOt7's JB!"*

**A2:** "Let me just say I would take a bullet for Jackson Wang. I really would. HAHA

So yes, I do like got7 =)) They're super silly and have great personalities and have good chemistry as a group ;u; Interviews and variety shows are always fun with got7. Can't count the number of times I have almost passed out laughing.

Jae does contain some got7 vibes/references ;u; The moose dabbing is a reference towards something bambam said in one of their fan-meets. And JB likes breakdancing. Hehe.

**Also some info on Jae as a character that is not in the game:**

Jae is half-korean. He goes back and forth from Korea, where he mostly works, and Japan, where his family lives. His extended family on his father's side resides in Korea. During one of his many visits there, he decided to try to audition for the company that he currently works for because he wanted to learn more about dance (since K-pop idols get intensive dance training) and share his love for dance with the world. :D"

**Q3:** *"Hiya. Thank you for doing this. You guys are awesome! OAO Is it okay to ask what was the relationship between Seiichi and Touru or the student council members ? (Aside being a bodyguard towards Jean haha)*

**A3:** Hello!

Well, Seiichi really helps Touru carry out all the student council goals and plans. Touru often runs his plans by Seiichi because Seiichi can often point out the weakness of Touru's plans. He sometimes relies on him to think of an alternate plan as a fail-safe. Touru often asks Seiichi to help to carry out certain projects that he himself cannot personally monitor due to the number of things he has to do. Seiichi is often tasked to document all the work that the student council does and he keeps all the records digitally. When Touru asks for certain data about the school or past projects, Seiichi is always ready when an answer.

Touru often acknowledges that his job would be ten times harder if he didn't have Seiichi as his VP. He is also very grateful that Seiichi is an incredibly patient person and will always listen to him when he gripes about problems that the student council faces. When Touru gets upset or angry about something and flies off the handle, Seiichi is often the one who tries to calm him down, although sometimes even that doesn't work.

Hope I gave you a good idea of their dynamic! Thanks for the question."

**Q4:** *"How do you feel about the shounen-ai ships in notice me senpai?"*

**A4:** "HAHA. Go ahead and ship away :'D It's always fun seeing which senpai you guys like seeing together when I look around tumblr and the interwebs. Hehe.

There are some ships that really make sense so I see why people would ship them. ~~*I personally have my own favorites as well. Hehe.*~~

Although technically in the game, all routes are open and you can make all the characters fall in love with you. Realistically speaking, the main character will end up with one person, using one route/storyline right? And it's an all-boys school. So there's bound to be *some* shounen-ai. Hehe.

**Q5:** *"Do you ship any of the senpais with each other instead of the player/MC?"*

**A5:** "I decided to answer this one next since it's related to the last one.

Uhh, I guess the main ship is always the MC x senpai but if I had to pick my top 3 fave senpai ships they would be:

3 - JeanTouru

2 - YamaSuzu

1 - Kyouharu

lol

**Q6:** *"How did Jae (Double J) join his boy band? Same with Yamato and Black Star?"*

**A6:** "Lol my phone ran out of battery last night before I could send my answer to this question and I ended up not posting yesterday, sorry. I'll try to answer a couple of questions today to make up for it.

Anyway, Jae was put into a group with other idol trainees by his company to debut as an idol group/boyband. (Btw random trivia about Jae's nicknames Double J and Jaejae, both are references to got7's Bambam. Bambam likes to call himself "Double B" lol and well "JaeJae" follows the same form as "BamBam" 8')) hehe)

Yamato started out by playing gigs with one of his childhood friends, who is still his drummer. They met other musicians in those gigs and these musicians had the same musical tastes as they did and they would hang out and jam from time to time. Gradually, the line-up for BLACK STARZ was formed 8D

Thanks for the question! :D"

**Q7:** *"as a huge astrology nerd i just HAVE to ask: how did you decide each senpais birthday?"*

**A7:** "Hmmnn some birthdays are there because they're near the birthdays of the anime characters the senpai remind me of 8')) Others are there because of special occasions/holidays (Cupid =almost valentine's, young =children's day in japan). And some of the birthdays are based on the birthdays of the members of our team hehehe

Mine is the same as makoto's lol"

**Q8:** *"I want to know more about Viktor! How did he come about his vampirism.. I mean, his "genetic condition"? Was it inherited? Did he get it during one of his many trips to Europe?"*

**A8:** "Well, let me just come out and say it :)) Viktor is really a vampie. Legit :)) He just says "genetic condition" so people like kouhai don't get scared. Haruka and Kyouya know what he is though. So does the principal of the school, who happens to be Viktor's relative on his mother's side. (You'd think without any connections Viktor would just get away with frequent vacation leaves? Heck no :)) In any other school he'd prolly be fired already) Haha.

But yeah, he's a vampire. He moved to Europe for some years right after high school, that's where most of his father's side of the family is from. When he came back to Japan, he was already a vampire 8')) He was then hired to become a teacher at the school."

**Q9:** *"What sources do character designers use for the clothes? A vast majority of clothes really work for the senpai, whether it's because of color scheme or just general design!"*

**A9:** "How it usually works is we decide on what kind of theme we're going to go for for the costumes. Then I'll write down what kind of costumes I want to see each senpai in. Either I describe the general idea of what they should be wearing or me and/or the team find pegs on the internet for the outfits and I'll assign which peg goes to which senpai.

If my description is kinda generic I usually give people free reign to try to fit the outfit to the senpai's perosnality. Generally most senpai already have a set of colors that work for them and have like a "favorite" thing that serves as their emblem. Then everything runs through me again for final approval to see if I think the outfit is something the senpai would wear or if it's according to my description/peg or just to see if the outfit doesn't have strange visual inconsistencies .

Hope that answers your question 8')) thank you"

**Q10:** *"I'm kind of interested in the story between Kei and Touya. In some CG they seem really close. Would you like to tell, oh the mother of adorable senpai? I'm Kei's girlfriend anyway, knowing the relationship between them is important right"*

**A10:** "Kei sometimes asks Touya to help him make his ninja disguises. Touya sort of treats it as an Arts and Crafts project so he's always happy to help out. Kei visits him from time to time in the school Art Room to ask about disguises and sometimes stays behind to watch Touya paint for a little while."

**Q11:** *"Thank you for doing this, Jakey! Could you tell us anything more about the past of Haruka, Kyouya, and Viktor? It's interesting that the latter two went from being delinquents to teachers, and if Haruka didn't talk with them in high school, what prompted their change in behavior? Was it something in school, an outside factor, or their plan all along?"*

**Q12:** "Oh boy this is going to be a long post. I'm gonna try to answer the last few questions today while I can.

Well, let me tell you first how Kyouya and Viktor became friends. Kyouya and Viktor were classmates in high school. Viktor didn't really pay attention to Kyouya much as he branded him as just another delinquent. But one day, he saw Kyouya being cornered by a bunch of bullies outside the school, clearly outnumbered. Viktor was debating with himself if he should help Kyouya out or not but turns out Kyouya didn't need help at all. He single-handedly beat the entire gang all by himself. Viktor was quite impressed with this feat and he approached Kyouya afterwards and said "You're pretty strong, aren't you?". Ever since that time, Viktor has never stopped bothering Kyouya, even helping out with his fights (although Kyouya would always say he doesn't need help). And they slowly became friends.

So technically, they're not really delinquents for the sake of being delinquents. It's more like Kyouya, with his short temper and low tolerance for bullies, would get into trouble with other delinquents and then sometimes Viktor would interfere and also get in trouble. HAHA. They don't seek out trouble. Trouble comes to them. LOL.

As for why Kyouya-sensei became a sensei, well the principal, who was just a young sensei then, was always understanding of Kyouya even though he was a delinquent. He knew that Kyouya deep down was a good kid and never stopped supporting him. He was an important figure to Kyouya in high school and is probably the main reason by Kyouya became a teacher.

As for Viktor, well, he needed a place to wrok that knew about his condition ( well about him being a Vampire) and a place that would allow him to take frequent vacation leaves. What better place than his uncle's school HAHA. Viktor genuinely loves talking about history though. He often visits historical sites when he goes abroad. So agree to become a teacher and be able to talk about history AND get infinite vacation leaves? Sure, why not.

Their reasons for being teachers are quite different from each other. But somehow in the end, they still ended up working in the same place. HAHA."