Yandere

This is a new word to me. The Japanese word Yandere refers to a person that is seeming nice at first, but is a complete psycho. Or someone that is completely obsessed with someone that they can be quite violent.

My first thought that came to mind when I heard this was Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni or When They Cry. That anime is straight up crazy. Nearly every main character in each alternative story arc ends up killing someone in the sickest most sadistic ways.

*SPOILER alert*

Another would be School Days. The two girls are Yandere to the max. The guy cheats on these girls and one girls stand him to death. The other confronts her, cuts her open and she the takes his head and cuddles with it on a boat.

To a smaller extreme there is Kaede from Shuffle. This girl has jealousy issues she did something she regrets to her cousin when she was a kid and yes it was a psycho moment. Later in her life she loves him, but only because she's so sorry for it. But her love turns to obsession and she attacks the friend of his that later becomes his girlfriend. She shoved her into a wall hard and yelled at her to get out and give him back to her. Her eyes screamed psycho. Din't get me wrong. She's really not a bad person, but she's very mentally unstable. She's the lesser extreme of yandere.

Men can be yandere, too, but I can't think of any that I have seen. Anyways, yandere. Crazy stuff. :)