Shinji

**Shinji Yamazaki** (山崎 伸治, *Yamazaki Shinji*) is the one of the main characters of game/series of *Saiko no Sutoka.* He serves as the protagonist and player character during Yandere Mode and as a character in Nightmare mode.

He is Akira's best friend.

## Plot

### Before events of the game/imagination clash's series

Not much known about Shinji's past, most information we get from Akira. As protagonist said, they have met each other when they were kids, and Shinji "always was on my side". They spend a lot of time with each other and go to the same class. It can be assumed that they met at school when they went to elementary school.

Shinji has a big brother, who is a member of the Yakuza, but it doesn't seem that anyone is bothered by that. It's unknown what kind of relationship Shinji has with his brother. However, Shinji doesn't seem to be a "righteous" person, since he easily starts to bully Saiko, and seems to be a bully at school.

As Akira said, Shinji is very popular around the ladies

### Meeting Saiko

After Saiko started chasing Akira, Shinji decided to talk with Saiko. In the beginning he look friendly and polite, but then he noticed scars on Saiko's hand. He's changes his attitude and call Saiko "deviant", telling that stalking won't end well for her. Saiko gets mad at him, and they become enemies

After discovering that Saiko was still chasing his friend, Shinji started bullying her.

In the game, Shinji heads back to school at sunset to find his friend Akira, who has mysteriously disappeared. However, this leads to him falling to Saiko's trap. Shinji tries to bring medical supplies to an unconscious Akira as Saiko asks, only for a gas bottle to fall on him when he opens the Infirmary doors. This eventually leads to his demise tied up to an infirmary's bed.

When playing Yandere Mode, Shinji can attempt to leave the school, which will trigger Saiko's aggressive behavior. In the good ending of this mode, he flees from the school's main building after getting the code to grab the exit key and using it, without attempting to save his friend Akira. He gets cocky, celebrating his escape and walking off, but as soon as he walks halfway down the steps, Saiko drops a flowerpot on his head, causing him to collapse to the ground, dead.

In Normal/Hard mode, his body and head can be found separately in a locker and cabinet in different classrooms respectively, serving as jumpscares when opened. These don't make a sound that Saiko can hear.

Shinji on the bathroom's mirror during Yandere Mode.Shinji's decapitated body in an unopened locker.Shinji's decapitated body on the floor.Shinji's head that has fallen from the open cabinet.Shinji's head on the floor.Shinji, seen in one of IMAGINATIONCLASH's videos.
## Appearance

Shinji is a very "generic"-looking male Japanese student. He has fair skin, short messy light blonde hair, and blue eyes. He wears the same school uniform as Akira.

## Relationship

### Akira

> «Anything for my friend»
> (Shinji to Akira, part «Voices»)
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Akira is Shinji's close childhood friend, whom the Shinji is always ready to help. Despite Yamazaki's obnoxious personality and character, he is shown really care about Akira and been loyal to him. He's try resolve his problems, such as stalking from Saiko and having crush on Yui, even sometimes Shinji's ways is too radical. Akira truly tell that he couldn't image the things without his friend.

However, in good ending (Yandere mode) ,Shinji is leaving his best friend to Saiko,without trying to save him. He might not remembered that his friend still in school,or just throw him,not caring about his life

Shinji's death deeply shocked Akira. After escaping of school, Akira started to see nightmares of Shinji in depending on whether he was an ally or an enemy.

### Saiko

Saiko is Shinji's enemy, and also object for bullying. The main reason of enmity towards her was Saiko's obsession with Akira. Upon meeting her, he calls her a "deviant" and tells her to stay away from Akira or it won't end well for her. It didn't stop Saiko but made her hate Shinji after that. She continued stalking before Shinji noticed.

After started bullying her, he stole her diary and posted the pages all over the school. It is unknown how else he bullied her.

Canonically, he follows Saiko-chan's instructions during the evening (Yandere Mode) despite her strange demeanour. They search around the school for Akira since his disappearance, whom eventually gets discovered unconscious in a locker. Saiko then asks Shinji to get medical supplies from the infirmary to help Akira, promptly giving him the key. Opening the door of the infirmary will make a gas bottle fall next to him and make him gradually fall unconscious. Shinji is then captured and tied to an infirmary bed, and is beheaded by Saiko after speaking to a tied-up Akira in Normal/Hard Mode's intro.

### Yui Ichikawa

Yui is Shinji's classmate. He knows that Akira has a crush on Yui. It is unknown what Yui and Shinji's relationship status is.

## Personality

Shinji is outwardly shown to be an unpleasant person to be around. He never thinks about his actions, considering them right.
It's believed he previously bullied Saiko by acting harsh towards her and stealing her diary to spread the drawings found around the school, resulting in her humiliation. He quite self-confident, cocky. Probably, Shinji's behavior is more or less dictated by the fact that his brother is a Yakuza.

Although his friendship with Akira shows him as caring friend, Shinji can easily leave his friend for his own sake

## Trivia

* Shinji appears in the game during Yandere Mode, Normal, Hard, and Nightmare Mode.
* in Nightmare Mode, The developer confirmed that you may see a headless version of himself roaming around and may be another way to attack Akira.
* Shinji's bullying of Saiko started in episode 7.
	+ Akira asks Shinji for help to tell to Saiko to stop chasing him. Shinji, as his friend, helps him. At the school entrance, he tries to get Saiko's attention by offering to be friends with her. But the marks on her hand catches his attention, and he pulls her arm, revealing the marks to everyone. Then, he calls her a failure and tells her to stay away from Akira. Saiko goes into a state of rage and their rivalry starts from this point.