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Early Gull
Jul 17
calling an actual ex yandere feels mean tbh. for characters, sure. real people, maybe just dont
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Dashing Okapi
Jul 17
I always forget it is katakana in Japanese, ヤンデレ just looks so fandom-y
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Patient Puma
Jul 15
Careful using it for real people. In anime chat it can be playful, in normal dating talk it sounds like calling someone unstable or dangerous.
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Bronze Mouse
Jul 10
Yuno Gasai, immediately
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Quick Lemur
Jul 7
The yan part is from yanderu, not yan as a name. i have seen beginners split it like yan + dere and then wonder who Yan is
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Silver Newt
Jul 5
Menhera gets mixed up with this a lot. Roughly, menhera is broader unstable or needy behavior, yandere is the love obsession aimed at one person. Not perfect categories, just how people separate the slang.
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Polar Kiwi
Jul 2
the menhera note helped, I was absolutely using those like the same bucket before. In fan comments people toss both around so much that the difference gets blurry fast
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Curious Stork
Jul 3
same. yandere is the one-person obsession one
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Solid Condor
Jun 29
Plural in English can be yandere or yanderes. I normally dodge it with yandere characters because yanderes looks a bit silly, but it isnt wrong.
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Loyal Seahorse
Jun 27
not gendered btw. male yandere characters are a thing, just less common in the old famous examples
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Lucky Gibbon
Jun 22
Japanese usage is often ヤンデレキャラ or ヤンデレな子, so dont force it to be only a noun. In English too, yandere character usually sounds smoother than repeating a yandere over and over.