How come yandere never took off with Mirai Nikki? It's been ten years since it aired and the only times yanderes are featured are when they're the butt of the joke and not taken seriously. I always expected to see more yandere material but it just never took off, I can only think of a handful of manga/shows that have come out since then.
Yuno is still forever the best girl btw.
It's hard to give depth to a character who is essentially defined entirely by one trait.
We did get Koharu no hibi from the post-mirai nikki wave.
Notice that all the yandere that are actually characters whose yandere personality comes from the plot rather than some character design attribute are almost never called “yandere”, such as say: Misa Amane, Rin Kokonoe, or the Yuno from Uwa Koi whose love interest was also called Yukiteru, for whatever reason.
They only call it “yandere” when it's a singular, lampshaded, cartoonish fetish attribute.
This was a gem how the hell has it not been animated yet?
Also there's that one LN that's mentioned in every yandere thread that I try reading everytime but drop it because it's insanely autistic.
This, honestly. Sonething like Re:Zero is brimming with yanderes, including the main character, buts its not usually brought up as a yandere series.
It is hard to write a romance where the love interest is already 100% captured.
women are incapable of feeling love
Simply because it's hard to write an original yet interesting yandere story. Even Mirai Nikki turned into a trainwreck at the end.
It's so much easier to write isekai shit with the same recycled RPG mechanics that the modern braindead audience loves to consume.
Also, turning a regular character into a yandere over the course of the story is easier, but creators these days aren't willing to take the risk of "ruining" their heroines because they are afraid of getting hurt on social media.
Because Yuno is already the perfect yandere, there is no room for improvement, just bootlegs.
But do those even meet the criteria? Rin, for example, is certainly fixated on sensei but I would stop short of calling her a yandere because she lacks the defining feature, which I feel could be summed up as "abandonment of all external norms in the context of the relationship". Her actions are well beyond the pale but they stem from her traumatic and sexualized childhood and not because she's fit for a padded cell. She was even ready to let Houin-sensei take her man if he should so choose - for any yandere worthy of the name, even the idea of that would be unthinkable.
>ten FUCKING years
no way brothers. i had just started college then. where does it all go...
>lucky star was 30 years ago
its over
It's a gimmick archetype with no real value and depth. Seriously, why would anybody want a yandere as a love interest? That's bat shit insane territory.
Rin almost killed Kyouko at one point as competition, threatened to frame Aoki for rape multiple times, bullied the former teacher away from school, threatened Aoki with a knife and there was dialog where Rin claimed to be capable of shutting off emotions and empathy and being able to kill without remorse.
Misa killed reporters just to get Light's attention and then threatened to kill all females in Light's vicinity.
People somehow miss these things when they're more so realistic consequences of the plot rather than waifubait attributes.
>Line up the men.
My point stands for Rin. Despite her wildly inappropriate behaviors and mental health issues, she still has a firm grip on reality and I feel that disqualifies her from being considered a yandere.
Misa, on the other hand? Sure. She's way off the deep end.
I think yandere heroines might be a thing of one-shots and doujin because they take over ideas. Like, if I try to imagine some complicated story and setting with nuanced characters, but one character is secretly so aggressive and warped that it would shock the rest, she dominates and makes it a lot shorter.
Wasn't Happy Sugar Life a show with a yandere MC? I haven't watched it yet so can't tell for sure.
It's the fun kind of autistic though, but yeah the infodump in the first volume is pretty bad.