yandere
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese ヤンデレ (yandere), a portmanteau of 病んでる (yanderu), contraction of 病んでいる (yande iru), progressive tense of 病む (yamu, “to be sick”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).[1][2]
Developed on the model of tsundere (“being cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time”).
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yandere (plural yanderes)
- (chiefly Japanese fiction) A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent and murderous means to maintain an exclusive bond.
- 2012, Jazmine Brusola, Rabble Rousers: A Fate/Zero Anime Review[3], Flyleaf (Ateneo Literary Association), page 14:
- Looking at anime charts, there's always the harem series with the dense hero and a bunch of girls whose personalities are pulled out of a set cast of tropes (the Childhood Friend, Tsundere, Yandere, and Lolita, for instance).
- 2014, Olivia D. Knight, Please, Let Me Be a Seiyuu![4], BookRix, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- “Believe it, man. In fact, she's seriously creepy. Like creepier than that pink-haired girl from Future Diary.”
“Wait, what?” Sam got that reference quickly, but was not happy with the comparison. She wasn't a psychopathic, murderous Yandere stalker, from what he could see.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yandere.
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character who fits the archetype of being genuinely kind, loving, or gentle, but suddenly switching to being aggressive or deranged
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