The moment you join Gakuran, the game builds you a randomized character based on its population statistics. You choose a name and gender, and everything else, from ethnicity and height to hairstyle and hair color, is rolled for you. None of it is locked, though. You can keep your character exactly as rolled, reroll individual traits, or fine-tune the whole thing to match a character you have in mind. This guide explains every rerollable stat in Gakuran character creation and how the game generates them.
How Character Creation Works
Character creation in Gakuran is designed to inspire, not restrict. The random roll gives you a realistic starting point drawn from weighted population data, but you are free to adjust any trait afterward. If you want to roleplay a specific look or recreate yourself, you can reroll traits individually until it fits.
Names
Your first name is chosen and rerolled freely by you, with a length limit of 3 to 12 characters. Last names work differently: they are preset in-game surnames, and which ones you can roll depends on your character’s ethnicity. In total there are 4,428 unique preset last names, distributed across ethnicities like this:
- European: 838
- Latino: 795
- Middle Eastern: 769
- Indian: 755
- African: 712
- Japanese: 559
Gender
You pick Male or Female during creation. Gender affects more than appearance: it determines your available hair and face IDs and factors into the ethnicity-based height data. Female characters are also 10% slimmer than male characters.
Ethnicity
Gakuran’s world is overwhelmingly Japanese by design. You have a 95% chance of rolling a Japanese character, with all foreign ethnicities combined making up the remaining 5%. The available ethnicities are Japanese, European, African, Middle Eastern, Latinx, and Indian. Your ethnicity drives your available surnames, height averages, and natural hair color pool.
Height
Height is one of the most important stats because it directly affects combat: taller characters hit harder with more health and bigger hitboxes but attack slower, while shorter characters are faster with smaller hitboxes but less health and damage. Height is not a fixed value. Instead it is randomly generated around an average for your demographic, so heights near the average are common and extreme heights are rare.
Male height averages, tallest to shortest, are: European (178 cm / 5’10”), African (175 cm / 5’9″), Middle Eastern (173 cm / 5’8″), Japanese (171 cm / 5’7″), Latinx (170 cm / 5’7″), and Indian (167 cm / 5’6″).
Hair and Hair Color
Once your ethnicity and gender are set, the game picks a hairstyle at random from the list available for that demographic, with every style in the category having an equal chance unless specified otherwise. Hair color is then pulled from your ethnicity’s natural color table, defined by RGB values. Japanese characters mostly draw from natural black shades, while European characters can roll a wider range including black, brown, blonde, and auburn. There is also a 5% chance your character rolls a dyed hair color instead, generating an artificial shade like red, pink, or another color outside the natural table.
Age, Birthday, and Grade
Your age, birthday, and grade are generated automatically and currently do not affect gameplay. You can roll a First Year, Second Year, or Third Year student. For now these are just flavor stats for your character, though the developers have hinted they could influence gameplay later.
Nameplates and Year Colors
Your nameplate displays your character’s last name in Japanese, using kanji for known surnames and katakana transliteration otherwise. The outline color of your nameplate tells everyone what school year you are in: blue for First Year, purple for Second Year, and yellow for Third Year.
Rerolling Tips
Because height feeds directly into combat, it is the one stat worth rerolling with intention if you plan to fight seriously. Everything else, from names to hair color, is purely cosmetic and roleplay flavor, so roll those to match the character you actually want to play. Remember that the random result is meant to be a starting point, not a limit.
