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Welcome to the Yandere Wiki. We are a collaborative character database for a popular type of character in Japanese media. Here you can find an extensive collection of all yandere characters for those who enjoy the character type or just want to learn more! We currently have profiles for 121 characters from 93 different series.
Yandere is a sickness born from too much love
A visual representation of "yan" (top) and "dere" (bottom)
Yandere is a sickness born from too much love. The key to yandere is that they are not yandere from the beginning and are unaware that they are sick. When they see the person they love talking to another person, they feel a small sense of jealousy. It is rare for them to become sick just from that incident, but over time they will gradually become yandere. The more they think about the person they love, the more they "love" them, and they become afraid that the person they are deredere with will disappear and their love becomes heavier and heavier. This cycle causes their possessiveness to become very strong because of their strong love and they begin to have thoughts like "But they are mine." They become so attached to their love interest that it's impossible to let go and they may begin having insane thoughts or doing immoral things to improve their relationship, such as stalking their love interest or even using violence as a last resort towards anyone who "threatens" their relationship. They entrust themselves to their love interest based on the act of devotion, trusting in their love interest's kindness. They probe the deepest recesses of their love interest's heart to more perfectly form their greatest self within their love interest.
Yandere (ヤンデレ) is a combination of "yanderu" (ヤンデル), meaning "(mentally) sick", and "deredere" (デレデレ), a mimetic word for "being overly affectionate and acting lovestruck" (cute, cuddly, gentle, pampered, clingy, being dependent on, a lovey-dovey spoiled side you show in the presence of someone you're attracted to)". A yandere character has both sides: a yan(deru) side that acts mentally sick when they are feeling obsessively in love or possessive, and a cute & overly affectionate dere(dere) side that desires lots of close affection and spoils and pampers their beloved.
Yandere explores the extreme devotion of love and how it can change a character over time. While a yandere character who is mistreated or taken advantage of can become more "sick", a yandere character who is loved and has their feelings consoled can return to being "deredere". Just like any other sickness, how it is treated will determine the outcome and the appeal of yandere is in the process of slowly breaking down and the backdrop that is a result of that. The idea of a character who can sometimes act crazy, but also becomes cute and affectionate for their beloved is also a form gap moe that is a huge appeal for many fans.
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Yandere Four Heavenly Queens
In 2007 during a radio show, the author of the Yandere Encyclopedia guidebook asked Japanese viewers to vote for their favorite yandere characters. The top four characters were then given the label of the "Yandere Four Heavenly Queens" (JP) for their instrumental impact on making the yandere genre popular.
| Kotonoha Katsura | Yuno Gasai | Kaede Fuyou | Shion Sonozaki |
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FAQ
What's this about?
This wiki is meant to be an easy to access database for yandere characters from anime and manga. The characters are ranked according to the "Yandere Feats" they had in the series, which is the crazy things they have done or said for love. The characters are ranked in 5 statistics: Sickness, Boldness, Devotion, Lewdness, and Status. The ratings are to help users find the types of yandere characters they like the most so a scale can be found below:
How do you measure Sickness?
Sickness is how far a character's mental health has deteriorated as a result of their love being too strong. All yandere start with a score of 1, but over time they become more and more mentally unstable as a result of jealousy, possessiveness, or their relationship not going well. A character with a lower score only occasionally displays mild yandere traits and will act deredere most of the time, while a character with a higher score will act sick most of the time. As a character's sickness rises their level of rational thinking disappears and they may begin to act out more and more to keep their beloved for themself.
Characters should be rated based on their peak sickness, so even if they later recover that should not reflect this rating. For visual novels, this means the character should be rated based on any potential "bad endings" if necessary, so if a character is only a "3" in one route, but a "10" in another route then "10" is what should be added.
- Possible Yandere Tier
- 1: Character has no mental illness and only displays mild yandere-like tendencies.
- 2: Character has no mental illness but feels close to becoming full yandere. Characters with a rating under 3 will be marked as "slightly yandere".
- Harmless Yandere Tier
- 3: Character occasionally acts mentally ill, but is loving and affectionate almost all the time. They only have traits of more mild subtypes and are completely harmless.
- 4: Character occasionally acts mentally ill, but is loving and affectionate almost all the time. They are generally harmless but may begin having more negative or violent urges that they can suppress.
- Violent Yandere Tier
- 5: Character acts loving and affectionate when things are going well and mentally ill when they aren't. Characters who display violent outbursts should be rated at least a 5.
- 6: Character acts mentally ill often, but is still very loving and affectionate. They may begin having more murderous urges that they can suppress.
- Murderous Yandere Tier
- 7: Character acts mentally ill a lot of the time, but is still very loving and affectionate. They will often blank out when committing extreme acts and may be able to snap themselves back into control before doing something they'd regret. They will only resort to murder as a last resort. Characters who's sickness has risen to the level of murder should be rated at least a 7.
- 8: Character acts mentally ill most of the time, but is still loving and affectionate. They will often attempt to commit extreme and obsessive acts in an attempt to save their relationship and murder may be their first impulse. However, they can still be reasoned with and still listen to their beloved above all else. Characters who's sickness has risen to the level of absolutely losing it in fits of obsessive and sickly murderous anger should be rated at least an 8.
- Sickness Yandere Tier
- 9: Character acts mentally ill almost all the time, but still has a shred of hope that their relationship can be fixed. They are almost completely mentally gone as a result of their relationship going poorly and may recklessly commit extreme acts without thinking about the consequences. They will only resort to killing their beloved as a last resort as they still want to be with them. However, they can still be returned to loving and affectionate with the right conditions. Characters who's sickness has risen to the level of murdering their beloved should be rated at least a 9.
- 10: Character is completely mentally gone with no going back to deredere, the sickness has completely taken over. Characters who's sickness has risen to the level of despising their beloved, no longer caring about their beloved's happiness, or who only have bad endings should be rated a 10.
How do you measure Lewdness?
Lewdness is how much a character has lewd thoughts or has a lewd behaviour towards their beloved. The opposite of lewdness is pureness, so the purer a character is, the less lewd they are. Romance is the balance between between lewdness and pureness.
- Innocent Tier
- 1: Character has only pure child-like feelings towards their beloved. They may do things such as hugging, cuddling, or giving cheek kisses to their beloved, but they don't even lewd them in their own mind.
- 2: Character has only pure child-like feelings towards their beloved but has considered wanting to do more intimate romantic acts with them.
- Romantic Tier
- 3: Character is very pure and romantic towards their beloved but may become embarrassed at the thought of doing lewd acts with them.
- 4: Character is very pure and romantic towards their beloved and has considered wanting to do lewd acts with them, but never acts on those feelings.
- Balanced Tier
- 5: Character is very pure and romantic towards their beloved but also has normal levels of desires to do lewd intimate acts with them.
- 6: Character is very pure and romantic towards their beloved but also has strong levels of desires to do lewd intimate acts with them.
- Perverted Tier
- 7: Character is very pure and romantic towards their beloved but is also very perverted and may attempt to do things such as groping them excessively, stealing their beloved's clothing so they can sniff them later, or attempting to seduce them with their body.
- 8: Character is often very pure and romantic towards their beloved, but is also quite perverted and has a tendency to express heavy lewd desires in the presence of their beloved. However, they may become a little embarrassed when the time to actually follow through with their desires comes.
- Erotic Tier
- 9: Character is very erotic and primarily shows affection through lewd acts, but still has a more pure and romantic side they show on occasion.
- 10: Character is very erotic and only shows lewd behavior towards their beloved with little to no pure and romantic behaviors.
How do you measure Boldness?
Boldness is how much a character is willing to show affection towards their beloved and how willing they are to act crazy in front of them.
Measure it according to how timid or bold the character is from the beginning of the relationship, so if a timid character is too shy to confess until the very end they should still keep that lower rating since it took them much longer than a bold character who confessed right away. The same can also apply regarding acting crazy in front of their beloved, if they're normally a 3 and hide everything, but then eventually their sickness rises to the point they act differently than usual and act crazy in front of them, then 3 is still what should be added since it's not necessarily an example of their inherent boldness.
- Watch From Afar Tier
- 1: Character is too timid to even interact with their love interest up close so they only admire them from afar. If they ever confess their love it will take a very long time.
- 2: Character is too timid to interact with their love interest, but will make attempts to interact with them from the beginning even though they are too shy to actually follow through with it. If they ever confess their love it will take a very long time.
- Shy Tier
- 3: Character will interact with their beloved from the beginning but are too shy to even attempt to openly discuss their true feelings or confess until much later on.
- 4: Character will interact with their beloved and may shyly attempt to do acts of physical affection early on, but are too shy to actually go through with confessing until much much later on.
- Indirect Confession Tier
- 5: Character confidently shows lots of physical affection towards their beloved from the beginning in a way that strongly implies they are in love with them, but they will not directly confess until later on. A sort of unspoken confession where everybody involves knows how they feel, but they have not directly stated it yet.
- 6: Character will indirectly confess their feelings from the beginning and shows lots of physical affection towards their beloved in a way that strongly implies they are in love with them, but they will not directly confess until later on. They may do things such as dropping hints or saying they "love" something about their beloved without actually saying they're "in love" with them.
- Direct Confession Tier
- 7: Character confesses their love from the beginning but will hide their crazy side because they don't want their beloved to think less of them.
- 8: Character boldly confesses their love from the beginning but will hide their crazy side because they don't want their beloved to think less of them.
- Unapologetic Tier
- 9: Character boldly confesses their love from the beginning and will show mild crazy acts in front of their beloved, but will hide the full extent of their sickness. They may do things like displaying occasional possessive behavior in front of their beloved, but hide the fact they're also spying on them.
- 10: Character boldly confesses their love from the beginning and will openly commit any crazy act in front of their beloved.
How do you measure Devotion?
NOTE: This category is receiving an overhaul so please be patient for updated ratings.
Devotion is how much a character is committed to putting their beloved's happiness over their own. A character with a higher score is more selfless and would never do anything to harm their beloved and would even be willing to sacrifice their own well-being to please them, while a character with a lower score would be more willing to act selfishly or inconvenience their love interest.
Alternatively, this can be viewed as a "happiness meter" from the point of view of their beloved. All yandere characters act solely for their beloved under the notion of devoting themselves to their beloved and always protecting their beloved, but if their sickness becomes too strong they may do actions they believe are helping their beloved that are actually negatively affecting them. If their beloved is very happy then the rating will be much higher, but if their beloved suffers or becomes frightened as a result of their actions that negatively effect their beloved then the score will be lower.
- Selfish Tier
- 1: Character cares more about their own happiness and will selfishly disregard their beloved's happiness and either attempt to kill their beloved or leave them in a state of wishing they were dead if they feel betrayed or abandoned. Characters who kill their beloved must be rated a 1.
- 2: Character cares more about their own happiness and will selfishly harm their beloved if they feel betrayed or abandoned. Characters who physically harm/mistreat their beloved or who no longer act for their beloved but rather act for themself must be rated a 2 at the highest.
- Makes Them Miserable Tier
- 3: Character will do extreme actions that make their beloved completely miserable, such as killing their beloved's friends, isolating them to the point of loneliness, etc., but they still believe they are doing things to make their beloved happy.
- 4: Character will do mild actions that make their beloved miserable, such as constantly stalking them, constantly checking in, constantly accusing them of cheating, etc., to the point it negatively affects them and makes them second guess the relationship, but they still believe they are doing things to make their beloved happy.
- ? Tier
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- Mild Inconvenience Tier
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- 8: Character is strongly devoted to their beloved and will never do anything to majorly inconvenience them, but may cause them some mild inconveniences.
- Pure Happiness/Worship Tier
- 9: Character is fully devoted to their beloved and will never do anything to inconvenience them or make them unhappy, but not at the cost of their own well-being or happiness. They will never even entertain the idea of ever doing anything that could even possibly cause their beloved an ounce of harm, but they will also not sacrifice their own well-being just to make their beloved happy.
- 10: Character is fully devoted to their beloved and will never do anything to inconvenience them or make them unhappy, even at the cost of their own well-being or happiness. Everything they do is solely for the sake of making their beloved happy and they will never even entertain the idea of ever doing anything that could even possibly cause their beloved an ounce of harm.
How do you measure Relationship Status?
Status is the current circumstances between the yandere character and their beloved. The most recent status should be added, so if the character never makes it past the "crushing" stage before moving on then that should be added.
- Crushing: Character has a one-sided love for their beloved or their feelings were not reciprocated.
- In a possible relationship: Character's feelings have been reciprocated by their beloved, but it has not yet been confirmed whether or not they are in a relationship.
- In a relationship: Character is in a confirmed relationship with their beloved.
- Engaged: Character is engaged to be married to their beloved.
- Married: Character has successfully married their beloved.
How do you measure Personality Traits?
Personality traits are the type of ways a character's yandere tendencies manifest.
- Cured: Characters who have completely recovered from their mental sickness and are back to being a purely mentally healthy deredere person again.
- Delusional: Character suffers from paranoia or cannot accept their current reality and creates a fantasy world in their head.
- Dependent: Character has an unhealthy reliance on their beloved and depends on them for nearly everything to the point they are practically helpless on their own.
- Harmless: Character does not behave negatively towards others. They do not attempt to isolate their beloved or display violent tendencies.
- Incestuous: Character's beloved is their blood relative.
- Isolating: Character wants to immerse themself in a private world with their beloved and will isolate them from all others to exclude the presence of other people from their lives.
- Possessive: Character is intensely attached to their beloved and has a strong desire to always be with their beloved and to have their beloved exclusively for themself.
- Stalker: Character will follow their beloved around or spy on them to try to learn every single small detail about their beloved that they can.
- Suicidal: Character will attempt to kill themselves if something happens that compromises their relationship or if their beloved dies.
- Violent: Character shows aggressive or even murderous behavior towards other people for getting close to their beloved.
- Worshipping: Character deeply idolizes their beloved to the point they will listen to everything their beloved tells them to do without question similar to a master-servant relationship. They may even attempt to change their entire appearance or personality to match what they think their beloved will like the most.
What about the Background?
The background should detail the upbringing of the character and the series of events that led to them falling in love and becoming prone to yandere tendencies, such as the character having a lonely childhood and grasping onto the first person to give them love.
What about the Feats?
The deredere/yanderu feats should discuss the various love related actions they perform in the series. The "deredere" feats will be about the lovey-dovey and overly affectionate cute things they do with their beloved, while the "yanderu" feats will be about the obsessive love or mentally sick things they do with their relationship isn't going well. Remember that to be a yandere character they must start out as genuinely sweet and innocent (not pretending) and only start to decline because their love is too strong and it starts to make them sick. They also must act deredere (sweet, cute, overly affectionate, doting) towards their love interest. If they don't show dere and only show yan, they're not yan-dere!
What about the Gallery?
Every character needs a gallery of pictures from the series. This both proves the feats/development they have and makes the page look nicer. A profile won't be accepted if it doesn't have a gallery.
What about the Content Categories?
It's not necessary to worry about adding categories as simply filling in the {{Character Data}} template will automatically add them. See the template page for a full list of available categories.
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