English

Noun

tsundere ‎(plural tsundere)

1. (chiefly Japanese media) A fictional character who fits the archetype of being cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side.
   • 2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books (2008), ISBN 9780345506283, unknown page:

     I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.

   • 2010 August 14, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc, Usenet:

     Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.

   • 2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company (2012), ISBN 9781476600840, page 157:

     Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:tsundere.

Coordinate terms

• kuudere, yandere

Translations

Anagrams

• dentures, endurest, sederunt, underset, unrested