tsundere

plural tsunderes

1. InternetJapanesefictionA fictional character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side.

   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.

   2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page

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   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.

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

   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).

   2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157

comparative more tsundere · superlative most tsundere

1. Showing qualities typical of a tsundere.

   Ah, the cactus. / Truly the most tsundere of plants.

   2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X