Yandere

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The word Yandere ( Japanese ヤ ン デ レ ) refers to a certain character archetype that occurs in Japanese popular culture .

A Yandere is a mostly female character type who feels a strong affection for another person, but often, mostly from unrequited or disappointed love , later falls into a psychotic state. In this state it is not uncommon for violence to occur until the affected character becomes a murderer or commits suicide.

The opposite of Yandere is called Tsundere and describes a development from a contentious, sometimes brutal character to a nice and loving personality. In contrast to this, the term Yandere itself is not so widespread, as it was only propagated in more recent anime , manga , Ren'ai games (e.g. Ren'ai adventure and Ren'ai simulations ) or eroge .

Word ancestry

The term Yandere is made up of a combination of the words yanderu ( 病 ん で る , dt. “ To be sick”) and deredere ( デ レ デ レ , dt. “Flirting, in love”). The term Yanderekko ( ヤ ン デ レ っ 娘 ), which describes a girl with a described personality, is also rarely used in a substantiated form . The term Yandere, on the other hand, is described as gender-neutral.

history

Although characters with such a development existed before, the term was used in 2005 for the characters Kotonoha Katsura and Kaede Fuyō from the Ren'ai Adventure School Days by 0verflow and Shuffle! created by Navel. Both are rather shy characters who are in love with the protagonist. When he turns to other girls, however, Kotonoha Katsura murders them and Kaede Fuyō attacks her friend Asa Shigure and condemns her in the worst possible way, whereupon she almost succumbs to a heart attack because of her ailing nature. The term was then included in manga and anime and was thus widely used.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ま じ カ ル! 2008SP . In: 現代 視 覚 文化 研究 . tape 2 . SansaiBooks, 2008, ISBN 978-4-86199-123-3 , pp. 20 .
  2. ↑ Japanese-German dictionary. (No longer available online.) In: Wadoku.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 3, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wadoku.de
  3. ↑ Japanese-German online dictionary. In: Wadoku.de. March 14, 19, accessed March 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ Richard W. Kroon: A / VA to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment & Other ... , page 760, 2014
  5. ↑ a b ま じ カ ル! 2008SP, p. 21