Gakuran Updates & Patch Notes

v8.009 is the going-out patch: the two headline additions are places to spend time in rather than systems to fight with. A karaoke bar opened with a full karaoke system — pick a song at the television or the iPad on the table for 100¥ and sing on stage while everyone else cheers or heckles — and Dante's Yakiniku, which shipped unfinished in v7.856, now actually serves food: sit at a stool by the bar and a menu opens. Both count as green zones, so neither can be turned into a fight. The one combat addition is Striker, a new fighting style in the Epic tier (10%) whose perks are built on timing — Broken Rhythm accelerates each hit in the chain from 0.35s to 0.12s, and its crit is a feint that fakes at 0.15s and lands at 0.45s. See the Styles guide for the full perk list.

The biggest quiet change is NPCs: they now respond when you talk to them. Each has its own personality, reads its own stats (grade, age, height, ethnicity) and yours, reacts differently to /s shouting or whispering, remembers your name if you tell them, and knows the time and its own location well enough to tell you which class you should be in. Private servers were completely reworked too — join codes, several permanent servers per owner, and role and player permissions — and you can now block players on the phone. Cosmetics grew with 10 new skateboard skins (the old unique decks were discarded and replaced with better versions; owners keep theirs), three new uniforms including a Kakegurui set in a brand-new Unique 0.5% uniform tier, and a new rare Glacier Blue hair color at 0.0015%. Instruments and the flip-phone music player each gained four songs, among them Kaikai Kitan, Welcome To The Jungle, Rolling Girl and Kyouran Hey Kids!!.

Quality of life: rerolls now arrive automatically whenever a new update ships, so a patch tops you up without a code. Skateboards can be despawned even while someone is riding them, character spins can be undone or kept, gamepads got virtual cursor support, and the flip-phone's 2048 was redesigned. On fixes, the developers claim a 25–50% FPS improvement from optimizations they declined to list, plus fixes for music-room instrument audio, Dante's lighting, various auto 3v3 basketball bugs, and the jump-plus-emote bug that froze you in mid-air. Two things landed on the board after release: an anti-jump evasive — after two people hit you, press Q within about 1–2 seconds to dodge with i-frames, aimed squarely at stun-locking in group fights — and a warning that skating is currently broken on mobile (no pushing, ollies or hopping off) until it is patched. The update shipped with SINGALONG and EATUP as active codes, and both are still live; three more codes came and went in the five days after it, so check the Codes page rather than an older list.

v7.856 is the sports-and-activities patch, and it also quietly undoes the version reset from the previous update: the board renumbered v2.679 as Update #22 and shipped this one as #23, putting the v7.x line back in place. The headline is Wing Chun, a new fighting style in the rarest "???" tier (0.075%) — and mechanically the most distinctive addition in months, because its critical is a true counter that punishes an opponent the moment they commit. It is still the only counter style in the game; see the Styles guide for its recommended build and cooldown.

Basketball was completely reworked and remade — the old basketball item was removed outright, and you now start automatic 3v3 games by hopping on the spot (the developers themselves warn to expect bugs). Skateboards arrived alongside a whole new skate park area: you can buy a permanent board from the glowing deck rack in the courtyard, ride with WASD, boost on Shift, and trick with Spacebar, with Ride, Put Away, and Drop living under Emotes → Traversal. Skate decks roll their own rarity — 95% Common across Basic, Sky, Maple and Bolt, 5% Unique across Koi, White Tiger, 2003 and Oni — a lineup v8.009 has since replaced.

The map grew again with Dante's yakiniku restaurant, which is open but not yet cooking — the board says the staff are waiting on ingredients — while Gakumart's register now actually sells food. Jobs expanded too: a school newspaper job pays you to photograph specific areas and players, and the camera itself was made easier to use. An arcade clubroom landed with Pacman, Space Invaders, Astro Crosser and an air hockey table, Connect Four joined the chess clubroom, and instruments gained 11 new songs (amnesia, Blind, crash, eve, Faint, Floods, Gurenge, il vento d'oro, Jane, Unholy Confessions among them). Quality of life: you get more rerolls on your first pack purchase and can gift multi-rerolls at once, items can now be placed rather than only dropped, the player list shows playtime (tracked from launch day), and you can freely enter and exit first person while holding an instrument. One fix: a player leaving mid-grapple no longer bugs out the person holding them. The update shipped with three new active codes — SKATERBOY, WINGCHAN and WHY — see the Codes page for current status.

v2.679 is a huge content-and-systems patch — and it resets the developers' version numbering, arriving as their new Update #1 after v7.500 (so "v2.679" is the current live version, not a rollback). The headline is a brand-new fighting style, Ali, which lands in a new ultra-rare "???" tier at a 0.075% roll — rarer than Legendary — alongside a second fighting-style slot so you can hold two styles at once. Hakari was reworked and promoted to Legendary (1%). A whole new town expanded the map, together with a new Gakumart store where you apply for shifts on an in-game Indeed app to work a job. Character customization grew with 8 new faces (2 male, 6 female), 4 new uniforms (2 unisex, 2 female), 196 new hair IDs, and hair you can now fine-tune just like accessories — see the Styles and Faces guides for where everything lands.

Under the hood, instruments were heavily optimized and visually reworked with a new "arrow" note shape and 15 new songs, while the Yenapp and Socialink phone apps were completely remade. The emote wheel was reworked — it now opens in a seat to change your sitting animation, works in first person, and adds a backflip emote (which can fail) — and jumping and falling animations were added (jump too far while carrying someone and you'll ragdoll). The flip-phone gained four playable games (Tetris, Connect Four, Jumper, and a reaction timer) behind a redesigned launcher. Settings and private-server panels were fully redesigned, you now spawn nearer to populated areas, rerolling mid-combat is disabled (fixing an infinite-stamina bug), and a carry-consent toggle lets you opt out of being carried. A follow-up balance pass tuned Ali. The update shipped with a new active code, ALI — see the Codes page for the current status.

v7.500 is a big cosmetics-and-quality-of-life patch. The headline is 48 new accessories across every category except WAIST, alongside a full revamp of the accessory-adjust system that now lets you scale accessories up and down (on top of the position and rotation controls added in v7.465). Character customization grows further with a new female sailor uniform and 10 new faces — 2 catboy faces plus a batch of mysterious "???" faces — so see the Faces guide for where they land in the rarity tiers. Stairs are now functional, applying a speed debuff with proper climbing animations.

The in-game phone's flip-phone UI was reworked and the old phone UI removed. The music player added 4 new songs, the emote wheel gained 4 new emotes, and private servers can now play and customize custom music/sound IDs from the 'music' tab. Two economy tweaks landed too: you can now buy bulk rolls once you've purchased the 50x rolls pack more than twice, and you can buy the original accessory directly from its UGC creators. Fixes: the back sliding door no longer overshoots. No active codes went out with this wave — see the Codes page for the current status.

v7.465 was the biggest content patch in a while: it replaced the old school with a brand-new school building, added a chess clubroom where you play ranked matches against other players or NPCs with an ELO rating, and dropped a large batch of new faces for both male and female characters — the whole face roll was reworked into rarity tiers, so see the Faces guide for the new odds. Cat ears joined the cosmetics, and accessories became freely adjustable for position, rotation, and size. On the phone, the music player page was redesigned and reworked with 5+ new songs, and instruments gained a new track. A 2026-07-23 sub-update followed with a fixed (and a second) music room, a search bar for the song wheel, another female cat face, major FPS optimizations, and lighting-system rework.

v7.400 expanded the map and added Kure, a Legendary-tier fighting style in the 1% roll bracket — the headline addition of that patch. The phone kept growing into a platform: the Music app's Japanify got a full rework (playlists, artists, likes, and an improved interface) plus 10 new songs, the Camera app gained filters, and a Weather app let you check the current in-game weather for roleplay. Instruments received 8 new songs, and rerolls became giftable to other players through the Stats menu. On balance, the v7.203 parry stun was reverted so getting parried no longer stuns you for a flat second.

The most recent full patch adds voice chat to the in-game phone (you can now VC through calls), a new "walk" section of walk variants on the emote wheel, and a large batch of private-server commands and fixes. Players affected by the reroll ban can re-roll if they still have rerolls on their account, and can top up more through codes in the meantime.

Balance changes: getting parried stunned you for 1 second (this was reverted and lightly reworked in v7.400, so it no longer applies), and the Slugger style was retuned to deal +30% damage (up from +25%) while only taking +10% extra damage (down from +25%), making it far more forgiving. Hallways are now counted as "areas." Fixes cleaned up double hit-sound and VFX playback, an unanchored object in the principal's office, an M1 combo that continued without holding, mobile HUD button layouts not saving, and an eraser-refresh spam bug.

The game's growth since launch is easiest to read off the cumulative numbers, which we re-checked against Roblox's own API on 2026-08-22: over 200 million total visits (up from about 54 million in mid-July) and more than 677,000 favourites, while the official Gakuran Roblox group has passed 7.5 million members — it crossed 2,000,000 back on 2026-07-07. Concurrent players peaked above 55,000 when we observed them on 2026-07-13; we don't reprint a newer peak here because a spot check only catches one moment of one day, and the site's live player counter is the honest place to read that number. A bad update caused two waves of false anti-cheat bans in early July; the developers auto-reversed them and issued reroll compensation codes for the downtime.

The biggest story is Closed Community (CC): on 2026-07-09 the developers polled CC candidates and released a world-lore document, signalling that CC — with faction roleplay, clubs, and school events like basketball games and concerts — is coming soon. New behaviour rules were also added, such as trapping or holding players hostage now being a bannable offence.

Two of the biggest previously-teased items just shipped in v7.465 — the school renovation (a brand-new school building) and the lighting overhaul — leaving the full city area, meant to expand beyond the current school map, as the headline feature still on the way. An earlier sneak peek showed a Japanese schoolyard courtyard in full sakura (cherry-blossom) bloom.

The in-game phone is clearly being built into a platform: previewed features include voice calls, a music player, a working camera app, and "Yenapp," an in-game Yen payment/transfer app. Cosmetic and prop previews include droppable headphones that play music others nearby can hear — and the long-teased skateboard, which finally shipped in v7.856 along with a skate park to ride it in. v8.009 has since made the phone a moderation surface too, adding the ability to block another player from it.