Tag: yandere

Yandere is a Japanese term for a personality that is initially extremely loving and gentle, then at one point becomes deranged or psychotic, often brutally so. Yandere is a combination of the two words yanderu (病んでる), meaning to be sick, and deredere (デレデレ), which is defined as exhausted or lovestruck. Much like the tsundere term, there is also the related noun yanderekko which refers to a girl with a yandere personality, much like how a meganekko is a girl with glasses. See also yangire, a sibling trait to the yandere.

The term is not very well-known compared to tsundere simply because it is a much newer term that has arisen in order to classify girls in recent anime, manga and visual novel video games that have this personality. Usually these girls are first presented as timid, shy and weak in varying degrees, which are more or less traits that stereotypically describe young Japanese girls. Additionally, these yandere girls have darker aspects of their personality that, as noted above, often goes beyond simply being cold and can turn very violent, even leading to the girl committing murder or suicide. This dark side is most of the time kept to herself and is usually the product of traumatic psychological stress experienced by the girl in her past. Also, the yanderekko will often be paired with the male main character of the series she is in and due to events involving him in the plot, will cause her to turn extremely aggressive, violent, and psychotic. Besides the general aggressiveness of their darker sides, the yanderekko may also display an occasional psychotic episode or behavior related to their specific form of psychological illness.