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Sorry this is so late, but better late than later, right.....? (x2.... I posted this message last week too.)
This is a weekly series posted every Tuesday (sorta) to discuss the terms anime fans use today.
Today we have 'The Dere Episode'!
Tsundere
Taken from TV Tropes
The term was originally used to describe characters who began with a harsh outgoing personality, but slowly revealed a soft and vulnerable interior over time. Over the years the character archetype has become flanderized, and is now generically associated with a character who flips between the two emotional states at the slightest provocation, and usually at a specific person rather than a general sociability problem.
Example: Asuka Langley Soryu from Evangelion
Kuudere
Taken from TV Tropes
The term was originally used to describe characters who began with a harsh outgoing personality, but slowly revealed a soft and vulnerable interior over time. Over the years the character archetype has become flanderized, and is now generically associated with a character who flips between the two emotional states at the slightest provocation, and usually at a specific person rather than a general sociability problem. [..] Cold on the outside... sweet on the inside.
Example: Rei Ayanami from Evangelion
Yandere
Taken from TV Tropes
The word "yandere", a term that blossomed in moe fandom, refers to a character who is crazy about someone else...often literally and violently. [...] The character almost always appears perfectly cute and harmless on the surface... but underneath they may be obsessive, controlling, and sometimes just plain insane. Woe to anyone who happens to be the object of their often genuine affection. Even more pity should be saved for anyone who gets in the way — the psycho-obsessive is amazingly unwilling to put up with any rivals (but the rivals had it coming).
Example: Yuuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki.
Questions
Please note, you can use any type of 'dere' if you know them, but for simplicity's sake I only included the most popular 3.
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Are these descriptors/character tropes overused?
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Do they stick characters into a 'box' of non-unique traits or do they provide a good initial framework?
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Do these/ Can these character tropes apply to people in real life?
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Which of these tropes do you like, which do you dislike, and why?
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[–] pingas-9000 ago
Honestly these tropes have to be really well done and have a reason behind them if they're going to work at all.
This is why they usually do not work.
The majority of the time you get the same old overused "B-Baka!" bullshit and it's just fucking annoying.