Citations:tsundere

English citations of tsundere

Noun: "(Japanese media) a fictional character..."

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• 2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books (2008), →ISBN, 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.

• 2008 March 8, sanjian [username], “Re: Lucky Star - What animal are you?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

  That's why Kagami is my favorite tsundere.

• 2008 August 17, D B Malmquist, “Re: What anime are we watching this summer? Why?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[2] (Usenet):

  "Yakushiji Ryoko's Case Files" - for Ryoko. This is what happens when a tsundere grows up and decides she both enjoys controlling other people, and has a real talent for it.

• 2008 November 21, Dave Baranyi, “Toradora Inspiration”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[3] (Usenet):

  It was a good thing that I didn't have too much to drink with dinner, because my wife is something of a real-life "tsundere" and any incautious answer along the line of, "Oh, girls in anime wear them" could have been very hazardous to my "health".

• 2009 April 23, Blade [username], “Re: Riumiko Takahashi's Kyoukai no Rin-ne”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[4] (Usenet):

  However, on that note, at least so far she should shut up the people (incorrectly) predicting that she'll be "a total tsundere" since she never showed a hint of a temper (and I hope it stays that way).

• 2010, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company (2010), →ISBN, page 70:

  The selected girl is normally the one who looks after him, the childhood mate, or else the tsundere—i.e., the character type that is initially distinguished by a tough and emotionless demeanor but progressively turns out to be sensitive and innerly troubled.

• 2010 August 14, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎^[5] (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, 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).

• 2012, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Vol. 2 , Yen Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  That their son was labeled a tsundere and then propositioned by Commodore Perry?

• 2013, Oliver Neale, Electronic Sue, Lulu.com (2013), →ISBN, page 101:

  Was that it - she couldn't stand the thought that he was genuinely happy because to her, true happiness was impossible? If only she wasn't tsundere.

• 2014, Andrew James Pritchard, Mark of the Crow, Lulu Press (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  when^[sic] she stepped back into the bedroom Kumar was still asleep, looking as peaceful and angelic as he did a moment ago, so in a bit of a tsundere mood she gave him a kick to wake him.

• 2015, Rennel De Castro & Tayler Rice, Taren I: The Awakening, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  "Harsh," I reply with a sigh, "Well, we'll be here for quite a while so just keep trying! Who knows, she might be a tsundere, like Tara."

• 2015, Jessica McCall, "Hysterical Shakespeare: Celebrations of merry sexuality", in The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays (eds. Evelyn Gajowski & Phyllis Rackin), Routledge (2015), →ISBN, page 147:

  Shrew, while currently popular and textually familiar to modern tsundere fiction – stories where characters are originally cold and hostile to one another before gradually growing close – ends on one of the most hotly debated speeches in Shakespeare.

• 2015, Deborah Shamoon, "The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime", Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (eds. Lilian Chee & Edna Lim), Routledge (2015), →ISBN, page 100:

  Each girl is color-coded (as in Sailor Moon), and their personality types also reflect moe characteristics, with Madoka as naïve and innocent, and Homura and Kyoko as variations on the tsundere type.