Yandere is a portmanteau of two Japanese words. The first is yanderu, which means "to be sick," and the second is deredere, used here for "lovestruck." A yandere is often sweet, caring, and innocent before switching into someone who displays an extreme, often violent or psychotic, level of devotion to a love interest. Such behavior might include brutally murdering other girls out of jealousy.
The term originates and is used predominantly in Japanese media, such as anime and manga, reaching back to the 1980s, though yandere took off as a character type in the early 2000s. However, yandere can sometimes refer to characters in other genres as well.
Yandere is a spinoff from tsundere, another anime character archetype, one applied to characters who are sometimes deredere, or lovestruck. A tsundere, however, has a tough, cold, and moody personality that later changes to gentle affection.
~References~
Yuna Gasai from Future Diary, Ayano Aishi from Yandere Simulator, and Kotonoha Katsura from Scool Days to name a few.
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