There are many crazy characters in anime - and also many with great feelings. When these meet in madness, you get a yandere.
Even though the world of anime has created a lot of clichés and archetypes of characters, there are a few that are always particularly well-received by fans. One of these archetypes is the “Yandere”. Mostly young women with a pathological obsession, whose love and misguided protective instinct is often the trigger for acts of violence.
You won't find a more loyal soul than a Yandere - but also no one who turns life upside down (or even ends it) so destructively.
Because Yandere is so popular, we'll show you the 5 best (or worst) Yandere and the anime series they come from.
What is a “Yandere”?
Yandere refers to (usually female) characters in anime who are in love with another person. This love does not always have to be reciprocated and often takes on pathological traits. Yanderes are usually caring and loving towards the person they love, but at the same time they can become psychotic murderers when jealousy or the threat of abandonment arises. “Yandere” is a combination of the Japanese words yanderu (“to be sick”) and deredere (“to be in love”).
Even though the majority of yandere characters in anime are female, the term is fundamentally gender neutral and there are male yandere as well.
Yuno Gasai-Mirai Nikki
Alternative names: The Future Diary
Genre: Action, Supernatural
Episodes: 26
Stream available on: Currently no streaming provider is known. Available for purchase only.
What is Mirai Nikki about? The god of time has grown old. To find a successor, he organizes a murderous game. Twelve participants are given different diaries that predict their future. Using these predictions, they must try to kill each other in order to be the last remaining participant at the end.
Yukiteru, who is not very quick-witted, ends up in this game more by chance. However, he had the clever Yuno Gasai at his side - who would not allow Yuki to meet an early death under any circumstances.
What makes Yuno Gasai a yandere? Yuno Gasai is considered by many to be the archetype of modern Yandere – sometimes referred to as the “Queen of Yandere”. In particular, her image from the first episode, in which she holds her own face in her hands and looks obsessively into the camera, has become a meme and is often representative of Yandere in general - it has often been synonymous with the "Overattached Girlfriend." ” memes used.
Satou Matsuzaka – Happy Sugar Life
Alternative names: White Sugar Garden, Black Salt Cage
Genre: Drama, Yuri, Horror
Episodes: 12
Stream available on: Currently no streaming provider is known. Available for purchase only.
What is Happy Sugar Life about? Happy Sugar Life revolves around the story of Satou Matsuzaka - a student who works part-time and apparently lives in an apartment with the mysterious girl Shio. Satou is hopelessly in love with Shio and every minute with the little girl is the most beautiful thing she could ever imagine - her “Happy Sugar Life”. But this life is put in danger when more and more people start looking for the missing Shio.
The heart of the series is a variety of characters who all come into contact with Satou and mostly have a traumatic past behind them, which now leads them to irrational actions.
What makes Satou Matsuzaka a yandere? Satou does absolutely everything to preserve her “happy sugar life” with little Shio. She knows that Shio is wanted by the police, her family, and a few others, so she locks her in the apartment. She is a kidnapper, even if she manipulates Shio in a way that the girl barely understands.
Misa Amane – Death Note
Alternative names: /
Genre: Supernatural, Drama
Episodes: 37
Stream available on: Currently no streaming provider is known. Available for purchase only.
What is Death Note about? Death Note is about the star student Light Yagami, who looks forward to a glorious future in the police force. One day, however, he comes into possession of a “Death Note” – a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. Light's sense of justice quickly changes and he begins killing criminals one by one to create a perfect world.
It doesn't take long before various secret services become aware of these strange murders. A cat-and-mouse game begins between Light and his pursuers.
Light gets help early on from the owner of a second Death Note – Amane Misa.
What makes Misa Amane a yandere? “A yandere would kill for you” – and that is exactly the definition of Misa Amane. For her beloved Light, she carries out his murders and even draws suspicion on herself in order to save him. Although she is not as intelligent as Yagami, she is quite clever when it comes to manipulation.
Shion Sonozaki – Higurashi: When They Cry
Alternative names: Then the Cicadas Cry, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural
Episodes: 26
Stream available on: Amazon Prime Video
What is Higurashi: When They Cry about? Higurashi is a very complex story set in the fictional village of Hinamizawa. Strange murders take place here every few years and the village's residents seem to be afflicted by a curse that causes them to do strange things. The story repeats itself several times and takes a different course each time, with different characters always coming into focus.
At the center of this story are the children of the village's 3 large families - Sonozaki, Kimiyoshi and Furude - but also the boy Keiichi Maebara, from whose perspective a large part of the action takes place. He quickly becomes friends with Shion Sonozaki - one of the daughters of the great families.
What makes Shion Sonozaki a yandere? For many, the image of bloodied, laughing Shion is the epitome of insane Yandere. Shion has exactly one goal in life and that is revenge for her beloved Satoshi, who was driven mad.
Kotonoha Katsura – School Days
Alternative names: /
Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 12
Stream available on Crunchyroll
What is School Days about? School Days is about Makoto Ito, who secretly takes a photo of his classmate Kotonoha Katsura and saves it as wallpaper for his phone. In class, his seatmate Sekai Saionji asks him about it and he admits that he has feelings for Kotonoha.
Sekai then sets himself the goal of bringing the two together - which ultimately succeeds. But Sekai realizes too late that she now has feelings for Makoto.
Makoto, on the other hand, seems to be on his “lucky streak” and after a short time is hardly interested in his girlfriend anymore. He changes partners all the time and breaks hearts just as quickly - which ultimately leads to deadly jealousy.
What makes Kotonoha Katsura a yandere? Kotonoha is cute, intelligent, and polite, at least at the beginning of the series. She is quite reclusive and has no friends until she comes into contact with Makoto and Sekai.
After Sekai no longer takes his relationship with her so seriously and has fun with other girls, Kotonoha begins to change.
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