Osana Najimi

## Voices

**Osana Najimi** (緒沙那, *Najimi Osana*) one of the female students who attends Akademi.

## Appearance

Osana has orange eyes and orange hair tied into twin-tails reaching her knees, the ends of her hair fading into a blonde ombré. Her scrunchies, bow, thigh-high stockings, and panties are a salmon-pink white polka-dotted pattern. She has a bust size of 1.

She states that many boys ask her out, suggesting that she is also considered attractive.

## Personality

Osana is based off the tsundere character trope found in Japanese anime and manga. She acts hostile and irritated towards Senpai to conceal her romantic feelings for him, although her true personality appears to be kind and friendly as she acts as such towards other students. She has a tendency to softly speak of her affections towards Senpai in between her aggressive outbursts towards him, and also frequently expresses her kinder side during her events with Senpai.
She is implied to be self-conscious and worrisome, as she often speaks to Raibaru on the topic of romantically pursuing Senpai, unsure of whether or not she has been too desperate or harsh with him. However, Osana will willingly follow the player if they have high reputation, even if Ayano has only spoken with her to complete her task. Although this behavior suggests that Osana easily believes her fellow students, it can be considered unusual that she exhibits gullibility despite her implications of issues with trust. For these same reasons, it is also unknown why Osana is able to become good friends with Raibaru in a relatively short span of time.
Osana appears to be a popular student due to her high reputation. She is close friends with Raibaru (another popular student) and is seen sunbathing with the Bullies.

Osana and Senpai have been close friends ever since they were very young children. They have always lived next door to each other, and have always walked to school together.

Despite their closeness, Osana is quite rude and harsh towards Taro; she is always easily irritated and quick to anger when he is around. The reason for this behavior is because Osana has developed romantic feelings for Senpai, but is afraid of letting him know how she truly feels about him.

She doesn't want him to know how she truly feels about him, so she is mean to him at almost every opportunity. However, her true desire is to confess her feelings to him underneath the cherry tree behind the school...and if nothing stops her, that day will come very soon.

## Eymology

* Her first name *Osana* (幼) means "Child", while her last name *Najimi* (なじみ) means "Friend" in English. Her first and last name *osananajimi* (幼なじみ) together mean "Childhood Friend" in English. The word *Osananajimi* is also a Japanese term for common trope in the romance genre, which is characterized by the fact that one or both childhood friends fall in love with the other. Another term for this common trope is *Childhood Friend Romance.*
	+ There's also a Japanese name "Osana" (緒沙那), which consist of kanji 緒 (o) meaning "thread", 沙 (sa) meaning "sand" and 那 (na) meaning "what".

## Trivia

* It is unknown if her and Kyo Sohma are related.
* Osana's design was inspired by anime characters such as Asuka Langley Sohryu from *Neon Genesis Evangelion* and Rin Tohsaka from *Fate/stay night*. Her twin-tails and stockings, in particular, were inspired by Michiru Matsushima from *The Fruit of Grisaia*.
* She is the second tsundere character to be introduced by YandereDev, the first being Tsundere-chan from *Kuudere Simulator*. YandereDev has said that Osana Najimi is "Tsundere-chan with an actual design that had effort put into it."
* At one point, YandereDev considered splitting Osana into two characters - a gentle childhood friend with Rival-chan's appearance, and a tsundere childhood friend. They wouldn't have been sisters, however, as that would mean eliminating one might affect the other so strongly that she couldn't consider dating.
* Osana's character type is a trope known as *Patient Childhood Love Interest*.
* YandereDev said on Twitter that Osana's birthday will be in January, most likely the 1st.
* Her "trademark" color is "probably" orange, but her favorite color is salmon or persimmon pink, like her scrunchies and stockings.
* In the final game, Osana may tease Senpai about how he stands under the cherry blossoms all day, a reference to how long Rival-chan was under the cherry tree.
* Osana performs the same "hip sway" animation as "Sansdere-chan" from Bad Time Mode.
	+ The animation can be found with the name "f02\_tsunIdle\_00".
* YandereDev said that the fastest possible way to put Osana into the game would be to take all of the code that applies to Kokona and point it at Osana.
	+ As of the demo, most of her code is unique and is different from Kokona.
* Osana does not have a camera reaction when Ayano aims a camera at her, instead it will causing a reputation penalty.
* Osana will refuse to follow Ayano if she joins the delinquents, but can still be ordered to go away or to go distract another student via intimidation.
* In the October 16th, 2016 update, it was possible to add Osana to the game by changing ID 33's name from "Unknown" to random words in the JSON file.
	+ As of the January 3rd, 2017 Build, it was no longer possible to add Osana by editing the ID 33's in JSON files. Attempting to do so would trigger an Easter egg involving Fun Girl.
	+ As of the August 18, 2018 build, her student ID has been changed to 11.
* Originally, if Raibaru died or went missing, Osana would patrol the school the next day.
	+ However, as of August 31st, 2020 Build/Official demo, she will mourn her best friend's death instead. She will only patrol the school if she loses a friendship with Raibaru. (If Raibaru's reputation is -30 or lower) or during mission mode.
* Before her implementation, Osana's Student Profile had her named as "Reserved".
* Osana's relationship with her parents is fine.
* At one point in time, YandereDev had decided on a name for her cat but has now forgotten it.
* She's 158.5 cm tall (about 5'2).
* If the befriend elimination method is used on her, she will no longer interact with Senpai anymore.
* Osana will not be able to get harrased by the bullies if her reputation was -33 or low enough. This is because that the bullies were fears of Raibaru's presence, so they will only harass and bully Osana if Raibaru is absent on school.
* Osana's embarrasing secret is that she used to write fan-fictions where she romances boys from her favorite anime's. According to Hoshiko Mizudori, her username was "The Ginger Ninja" on fansmut.jp
* She is the only rival who is classmates with Ayano. The others are either faculty members, like in the case of Mida and Muja, or in different classes.
* She appears differently on the title screen depending on how the player eliminates her. For example, befriending Osana makes her appear on the title screen holding her cat. Violent eliminations show Osana lying dead in a pool of blood and Ayano holding a bloody knife behind her back instead of a love letter.
* She and Hanako Yamada, Mida Rana, and Muja Kina are the only rivals who aren't in Classroom 2-2.
	+ However, Mida and Muja take up the two empty seats in Classroom 2-2.
* She and Kizana Sunobu are the only rivals who have Rival Specific Eliminations revealed.

* She, along with Gema, Kokoro, Kyuji, and Miyuji, are the only students to change their appearance after an event.
	+ In her case, she will change her appearance if she is peacefully eliminated and still assists Akademi.

* If Osana is alive during week 2 and deals with her stalker problem without the help of Ayano, there are 3 possible outcomes.
	+ If Matchmade: Suitor solves her problem,
	+ If not matchmade, Raibaru solves her problem.
	+ If Raibaru's dead or missing, Osana goes to the stalker's house and confronts him herself.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/osana/submitted
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/YandereDev/status/664324748227186689
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/YandereDev/status/649713774367084544
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/YandereDev/status/645124883924447232
5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/yandere\_simulator/comments/7t7ofs/questions\_about\_osana\_najimiinfochanjournalist/
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/YandereDev/status/660601445696188417
7. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/yandere\_simulator/comments/50nfnp/whats\_happening\_to\_kokona/
8. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/yandere\_simulator/comments/f6g4jq/osanas\_hair/