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16	Yandere High School is a Platform/YouTube series based slightly off of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. Its creator is Creator/{{Samgladiator}}, along with many friends of his from Minecraft. The first season ran from August 1th, 2015 to December 14th, 2015, and season 2, under the name ''Tokyo Soul'', ran from December 19, 2015 to June 24, 2016. It can be found [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTti-0kgVpeX_YnfeIZ-lv8hMd9Xg2vyS here.]] It does not have any specific genre, but is generally comedic in nature. It is a Minecraft roleplay of two roommates, Samgladiator and Taurtis (with a third friend Grian being added later on), and their wacky adventures in high school in Japan.
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18	There's also a prequel series, simply called ''Yandere''.
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21	!! Yandere High School contains examples of:
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23	* AbhorrentAdmirer:
24	** Kawaii Invader, a girl with blonde hair and a black beard, is this for Sam. What makes her more abhorrent is her possibly {{Yandere}} behavior towards Sam, especially since her StalkerShrine for him contains items like his saliva.
25	** In ''Tokyo Soul'', Sam learns that in another dimension, he's this for Invader and she despises him instead of the other way around.
26	* TheAlcoholic: The first episode has Sam drinking right before school.
27	-->'''Taurtis:''' Why are you drinking before school, Sam?
28	-->'''Sam:''' Because I need a little buzz before school gets started.
29	-->'''Taurtis:''' You have a problem, I think we need to talk about this.
30	-->'''Sam:''' What's the big deal? I don't see what the big deal is, Taurtis.
31	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Dom has feelings for Kawaii Invader, who has a crush on Sam, who has a crush on Sookie.
32	* AlternateUniverse: Sam, Taurtis and Grian journey into a different timeline when they get the Necronomicon for Mr. Chupa. They learn that in the alternate timeline, Sam is more of a VillainProtagonist than his current AntiHero counterpart who killed Invader's mother. As a result, Invader has a crush on Grian instead of Sam, much to the former's dismay.
33	* AmbiguousGender: Ellen, much to Grian's chagrin. [=DaPieLord=] as well.
34	* AndIMustScream: The season finale for ''Tokyo Soul'' ends with Sam, Taurtis, Grian and Jerry [[spoiler:returning to their universe and finding out that everything is gone except their house. Literally, there's nothing in the house at all: no beds, no books, no computers, no [=TVs=] and no couches. There's no one else there except for the four of them. They also learn that they won't age and they can't die no matter what they do. In short, they're basically stuck in purgatory for the rest of ''eternity''.]]
35	* AttractiveBentGender: Sam and Taurtis, both to Dom and Sookie, who actually accepts Sam's affections for once as "Samantha".
36	* BadassTeacher: Rowan, and, as late revealed, his wife Okami, as they and their daughter Silly are a SWAT squad.
37	* BigBad: Yuki is revealed to be this for YHS. [[spoiler:She killed Gareth's wife, leading to his haunting of the school, because Taurtis jokingly had an interest in her. She also framed Chan-Yandere for running over Salex, Taurtis' girlfriend, and led her father's yakuza against Sam and Taurtis in the first season's finale. The showdown resulted in Sam, Taurtis, Grian, and Dom having to go into the witness protection program and move.]]
38	* BlackComedy: Starts to become this shortly after [[spoiler:Gareth's suicide.]] Sam often reminds Taurtis about his girlfriend's death, laughs at Sookie when she wears a neck brace (which he inadvertently caused, by the way), wears a dead character's head, etc.
39	* BlandNameProduct:
40	** Lots of things are made by "Crab Co.": Gamecrab, [[Platform/YouTube Youcrab]], Nexus Galaxy Crab... Subverted with iPhone in the first episode, then jPhone later. [[Website/{{Tumblr}} Fumblr]].
41	** Taurtis attempts to sell a mock product of Doritos. This leads to a lawsuit from Doritos and Invader getting violently sick after eating it.
42	* BlatantLies:
43	** Stormforce claims that the drugs that he's selling are "special sugar".
44	** The TV and Gamecrab in Episode 37 are marked as "not stolen". (note: Sam and Taurtis's apartment was broken into and raided because Sam refused to give a special edition of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' as payment).
45	* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Jts, who was involved with Hidden,]] dies while serving in the war in Denmark.
46	* BusCrash: Hidden's journal reveals that [[spoiler:Jts]] died in the war.
47	* ButtMonkey: Sam. The gym teacher picked him out the first day as especially weak, people mocked his teddy bear, and a teacher stole a cookie from him.
48	* CharacterDeath: There are several deaths that make things go FromBadToWorse. Warning, major spoilers.
49	** [[spoiler:Gareth]] was DrivenToSuicide after his ex-wife's disappearance.
50	** [[spoiler:Salex]] was in a car accident and it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Yuki]] was behind it.
51	** [[spoiler:[=JtsTheDane=] ]] is killed while fighting in the war in Denmark.
52	** [[spoiler: Stormform]] is shot by Okami and Pail Blart during a drug bust.
53	** [[spoiler:Karu, the {{Yakuza}} leader,]] is shot by Sam, Grian, and Paul Blart.
54	** [[spoiler:Paul Blart]] is decapitated by [[spoiler:Yuki]] in revenge of her father's murder.
55	** [[spoiler:Rowan]] is stabbed by [[spoiler:Yuki]] and drowns in the boys' locker room.
56	* ChekhovsGun: Doritos, which are seen as a running joke from the first episode onwards, become a larger plot point revolving around the invention of 'Tauritos', Taurtis' own brand remake.
57	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Taurtis and Grian don't appear again in season two of ''Tokyo Soul''. Nobody mentions what happens to them, much less the rest of the cast from the first season.
58	* ClarkKenting: It's pretty obvious that Sam and Taurtis are dressed in girls' uniforms. Only a few seem to notice.
59	* ClassClown: Taurtis, right off the bat when he makes a joke about the teacher's ex-wife.
60	* ContinuityReboot:
61	** Season 2 of ''Tokyo Soul'' resets everything, from the setting to all of the characters except for Sam. A few from the first season return later, such as Jerry, but the second season shares little in common with the first.
62	** ''Yandere High School'' also has one. A few supporting characters return, such as Okami, but the map is entirely remade from scratch, and many other familiar characters are notably absent.
63	* CoolTeacher: Okami. She has a Gamecrab in her classroom, likes to read manga, and celebrates certain events with fireworks.
64	* CrazyJealousGuy:
65	** The reason for Dom's initial hatred towards Sam was because Invader liked him.
66	** Sam's jealousy of Soul escalated so much that he attempted to poison her... only for it to backfire and accidentally poison Sookie.
67	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: When Taurtis is dressed as [[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Saitama]], he tries to punch Cthulhu [[spoiler:who has possessed Igbor]], but he fails.
68	* DisneyDeath:
69	** Anytime one of the characters dies in the roleplay. Since it's a Minecraft roleplay where the characters spawn back, it makes since that this happens.
70	** In the ChristmasEpisode, Hidden, Mr. Dorito, Taurtis and Grian are fed to the giant Snowman. After the Snowman is destroyed, everyone survives.
71	* TheDitz: Taurtis. In the ''first minute'' of the series, he doesn't know what day it is. He stays up all night gaming on a school night, doesn't know they have two televisions, and thinks "weird" is a cute nickname. It becomes more serious later on, when he pays too much money for things, gives away their only house key to their gym teacher, and tries to [[spoiler:switch sides in the middle of the season finale battle.]]
72	* TheFellowshipHasEnded: In a meta example, Taurtis and Grian are not expected to reclaim their roles in the latest reboot series. The exact reasons aren't known, but in response to a comment asking why Taurtis couldn't come back, Sam confirmed that he and Taurtis are no longer friends.
73	* FunnyAnimal: Soul is an owl, Carl is a crabman, Pete, his daughter Patty, and Henry (in the second season) are pufferfish. Freddy is a miscellaneous fish.
74	* GoodCopBadCop: Sam decides to do this with Taurtis and Grian when they arrest [[spoiler:Yuki]]. Sam tries to play the good cop and Grian plays the bad cop very effectively.
75	* GymClassHell: Rowan's gym class is this. He sets up a difficult obstacle course, has the class play dodgeball a couple of times, and sets up an arena for students to fight one another.
76	* TheHero: Samgladiator. However, the story flip-flops between him really being an AntiHero or VillainProtagonist.
77	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Taurtis and Sam. Some HomoeroticSubtext can be found, such as kissing each other's wounds.
78	* HighSchool: Each series centers around a high school.
79	* HonoraryUncle: Taurtis is this to Patty after he adopts several of her siblings that her father, Pete, disowns. Unfortunately, they die because Taurtis doesn't know to keep them in water.
80	* IncompatibleOrientation: Unfortunately for Sam, Sookie is into girls.
81	** Taurtis is eager to "help" Sam get with Sookie by [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier giving him a little chop-chop.]]
82	* LadyLooksLikeADude: Invader, mostly because of her beard. Subverted when she shaves it and she looks more like a girl than before.
83	* TheLancer: Taurtis, to Samgladiator.
84	* LittleBitBeastly: Sam, albeit [[ZigZagged zigzagged.]] He is either [[HalfHumanHybrid half-bunny,]] or a guy with a bunny hat. When his father comes to school, he also has bunny ears, which doesn't clear it up any further.
85	* MinorLivingAlone:
86	** Just about every character is a teenager who lives in their house/apartment. In ''Yandere'', Sam's father is shown in the house, implying that he originally owned the house before Sam and Taurtis took over the rent.
87	* TheMovingExperience:
88	** After a lawsuit from Doritos and being evicted from their first house, Sam and Taurtis are forced to move to another town. They still go to the same school, but they have to take more time to get there.
89	** Sam, Taurtis, Grian and Dom are all forced to move to Tokyo in ''Tokyo Soul'' where they go to a different school.
90	* MissingChild: In a few episodes of the prequel, ''Yandere'', Silly decides to hide out in a toy store from her mother, Okami. Cue Okami desperately searching for her while Sam withholds the fact he knows where she is.
91	* MurderArsonAndJaywalking: Grian and Taurtis list reasons why Sam should break up with [[spoiler:Yuki: she still wants to go out with Sam even after knowing that he killed her father, she's killing people in town (which includes their friends), she wants to kill Grian, and she stole Taurtis's favorite pillow.]]
92	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Sam and Grian hadn't been searching for Taurtis in the TS season finale, [[spoiler:the [[ItMakesSenseInContext Zombie Minions]] wouldn't have gotten in their dimension and the whole universe wouldn't have ended.]]
93	* NoSenseOfDirection: Taurtis. He doesn't know where the school is in the second episode.
94	* OldHeroNewPals: Most noticeable in the reboot of ''Tokyo Soul''. Sam is still the main protagonist, but much of the supporting cast is different. Some of the new characters are played by the players of former characters.
95	* OnlySaneMan: Grian is the only one willing to point out how messed up each town is.
96	* PaperThinDisguise:
97	** ZigZagged. When undercover from the Yakuza, Sam, Taurtis and Grian put on novelty glasses. Sam and Taurtis forget Grian, to the point where he introduces himself as Grian, and they still don't make the connection. He just rolls with it, pretending that "Grian" tells "Grian the wizard" things, and sometimes that he has wizard powers. Earlier on, Grian was forced to dress up as Taurtis by Sam, who then forgets that Grian isn't Taurtis. Taurtis then shows up as an amnesiac, who gets dubbed "Jerry". HilarityEnsues.
98	** The {{Yakuza}} do this when Sam and his friends are in hiding. They wear clothes that are obviously too small for adults.
99	* ThePeepingTom:
100	** Taurtis occasionally spies on girls. At one point, he recorded Yuki in the bathroom and watched the video later.
101	** Yuki is always seen going into the boys' locker room. It gets to a point where a sign is placed outside the locker room telling her to stay out.
102	* {{Poltergeist}}: After Sam, Taurtis and their dates get out of the haunted school, they stop by the store to take shelter from the rain. Suddenly, the lights start flickering and the door starts opening and closing by an unseen force.
103	* PoolScene: The first series features a couple of episodes by the school's pool.
104	* PortmanteauCoupleName: In-universe. Taurtis and Sam's classmates pair Sam with Kawaii Invader, calling it Invadiator.
105	* {{Prequel}}: ''Yandere'' takes place before the events of ''Yandere High School'' when Sam and his friends are all in elementary school and Gareth's wife, Jane, is still alive.
106	* PutOnABus:
107	** Jts goes back to Denmark for war.[[spoiler:Then it's revealed that he died on the battlefield.]]
108	** A majority of the ''Yandere High School'' characters don't appear in ''Tokyo Soul''.
109	* RuggedScar: Jts the Danish exchange student has one because he was involved in a fight with wolves.
110	* RobotMaid: Mezaka to Pete and Carl's store.
111	* RunningGag:
112	** Taurtis "looking both ways" in ''the middle of the street'', and various other versions of "Why aren't you using the crosswalk?" HarsherInHindsight when [[spoiler:Taurtis' girlfriend Salex gets run over by a car.]]
113	** Taurtis using Doritos to solve everything. Except for Gareth's problems. It makes him even more depressed.
114	** People pairing Sam with Kawaii Invader and him repeatedly saying, "ShesNotMyGirlfriend".
115	** The movie poster changing every morning.
116	** [=JTheStar=] showing off a different car at least once a day.
117	** Just about every morning, Sam buys a train ticket and Taurtis (and sometimes more people) steals a ticket that he bought.
118	** Sam raiding graves for clothes and for ingredients for his salex.
119	** In ''Tokyo Soul'', Taurtis repeatedly takes things from Sam's locker.
120	* SadistTeacher: Rowan. He yells at his students, beats them, ogles them, and jumps into the bath with them.
121	--> '''Sam:''' I feel a little violated, Taurtis.
122	* SailorFuku: The female uniforms.
123	* SchoolSportUniform: Each school has designated uniforms for gym class. Sometimes, Taurtis ends up wearing the girls' uniform.
124	* SchoolNurse: One of [=PufferFishPete=]'s jobs is this.
125	* SenseiChan: Okami. Subverted in that she is married to the gym teacher, Rowan, and they have a daughter together.
126	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Sam -> Invader. [[ShipperOnDeck Taurtis]] keeps trying to "help" them, though.
127	* ShippingTorpedo: Dom, see She Is Not My Girlfriend.
128	* ShoutOut:
129	** The start of the series, some of the music and one of the classmates are one big shout-out to ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''.
130	** [=KawaiiInvader=]'s father is [[Film/PaulBlartMallCop Paul Blart]].
131	** The second season's name, ''Tokyo Soul'', is similar to ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''.
132	* StalkerWithoutACrush: After a bad first impression in class, Gareth decides to stalk and harass Taurtis. This behavior eventually diminishes, mostly because [[spoiler:Gareth kills himself.]]
133	* SweetOnPollyOliver: Dom kisses both Taurtis and Sam both who were disguised as girls. Once he learns the truth, this causes him to question his sexuality.
134	* UnfazedEveryman: All sorts of weird things occur throughout the series (characters become ghosts, anthropomorphized animals go to school and have jobs, Taurtis has several clones made, aliens invade Earth, etc.), but Sam doesn't treat it like any of it is strange.
135	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: See Sweet On Polly Oliver.
136	* WhichRestroomDilemma: When Sam and Taurtis are dressed as girls, they have this when deciding where to go to change for gym.
137	* VerbalBackspace: In the pilot, Taurtis casually mentions murdering someone. It's never stated if he was joking or serious.
138	* VerySpecialEpisode: This series has a few of these. They include holiday episodes (ChristmasEpisode and HalloweenEpisode), a BeachEpisode and other specials like a BirthdayEpisode and a ''Franchise/StarWars'' special. By the way, all of this episodes, except the BeachEpisode, are separate from the main storyline and are just done for fun.
139	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: See Verbal Backspace.
140	* WhatTheHellHero:
141	** When Sam breaks up with Invader, students at the table call him out for it. Either they didn't realize that Sam really didn't like Invader or they were calling him out on how he started the conversation.
142	--> "I've never liked you."
143	** Sam and Taurtis are occasionally called out by other characters for things like lying, ripping off a product, crossdressing, being insensitive to other people's needs, killing people and other things.
144	* WeirdnessMagnet: Let's see, the series features {{Funny Animal}}s, oddly skin-colored people, ghosts, a creature called "The Drinch", a man-eating snowman, genetic cloning, Cthulhu, aliens, [[Franchise/DespicableMe Minions]], dimensional travelling, and other strange things.
145	* WrongNameOutburst:
146	** While Taurtis is suffering from amnesia and is going under the name "Jerry", Sam calls him by his real name rather than "Jerry".
147	** Sam also calls Okami "Amy", which may be the name of Okami's user.
148	* {{Yandere}}: It's in the title for a reason.
149	%% The reason Salex is dead was because [[spoiler: Yuki]] wanted to be with Taurtis. She almost had it, too... that is, if Taurtis didn't get together with [=ChanYandere=].
150	** Sam initially had dorky attempts when he tried to talk to Sookie, but he soon turned into a StalkerWithACrush who refuses to give up his crush after she came out of the closet. He once attempted to [[MurderTheHypotenuse poison Soul]] to be with Sookie.
151	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: ''Tokyo Soul'' focuses on Sam and his friends relocating to Tokyo to hide from the Yakuza.

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