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Yandere are often seen in anime as chaotic characters. They usually have dead eyes, are covered in blood, and have an unhinged laugh. They are overwhelmingly jealous and want their lover to be with them, and them alone. It’s not a strange occurrence for a Yandere to murder their love interest’s entire family with the intent to have them all to themselves. But within this archetype, which female characters showed the Yandere nature best?
Update on September 10, 2022, by Sarah Prado: The yandere trope is one that will never get old. While most yandere girls are usually seen as deranged in their obsession with those they love, not all are like this. Just because they look and act sweet, they do have dark tendencies that will show up. Regardless, these ladies will bring chaos and death to those that threaten them or the ones they love. If it means burning the world down or killing a few or thousands of people, they will do it. They are entertaining to watch because of how disturbing they are.
14 Megumi Shimizu (Shiki)
It would be easy to feel sorry for Megumi since all she wanted was to leave the village, but her transformation into a Shiki leaves little sympathy for her. She was obsessed with Natsuno to the point that she was stalking him. He knew it too but didn’t do anything to stop her. Her obsession with him was so strong that she killed Tohru Mutou just because he was close to Natsuno. She even killed her childhood friend Kaori because she got close to him.
She didn’t mind killing the villagers and saw becoming a Shiki as a good thing. Considering that the villagers constantly picked on her because of her looks, it’s no surprise that she was more than happy to kill most of them after becoming a Shiki.
13 Kofuku (Noragami)
Kofuku might not seem like a typical yandere, but this sweet and bubbly girl has a dark side that even Bishomon, the goddess of war, won’t mess with. She’s fully aware of everything going on around her and isn’t afraid to threaten the gods if they threaten her or hurt anyone she cares about. Though she’s not worshipped and considered a nameless god, most gods will avoid her because they fear her unusual abilities and how powerful she is.
After seeing Bishomon and Yato fight, Kofuku opened a vent to stop them. She loves to have fun and be a little mischievous, but this usually causes a lot of chaos in the world around her. All the characters should be happy that Daikoku is there to keep her in check because Kofuku could potentially end the world if she wanted to.
12 Satou Matsuzaka (Happy Sugar Life)
This young teen might seem sweet and innocent at first glance, but she’s one of the most disturbing yandere girls out there. Satou had a very rough life growing up and has a very warped view of love. She grows a rather unhealthy attachment to Shio, an eight-year-old girl who was abandoned by her mother. She took the young girl in and they lived together, but Satou kept Shio locked up under the guise of protection.
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If anyone ever caught a glimpse or met Shio, Satou would kill them as a twisted way to protect her. She even killed her best friend Shoko since she found out that Satou technically kidnapped the young girl.
11 Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia)
Himiko is a pretty twisted individual much like her companions, but it’s her twisted view of love that makes her utterly terrifying. Once she’s attached and “loves” someone, she is willing to hurt anyone and everyone who gets in her way or feels threatened by them. She is very possessive of Izuku Midoriya and truly believes what she feels for him is affection even though she tries to attack him. The only other person that she feels affection for is Ochako Ururaka, whom she tries to be like because she loves her.
Her sadistic tendencies and overall demeanor are enough to make most people scared of what she could possibly do. She is very happy when trying to kill someone, smiling when doing so, and has a creepy look of lovesickness.
10 Misa Amane (Death Note)
Misa might not have the crazy yandere face, but she definitely has a lot of yandere traits. She was more than okay with giving up half of her lifespan to get the Shinigami Eyes to help Light. She became obsessed with him and swore her life to serve him. Light uses her feelings for him for his own gain and she never once sees him as evil.
She is perfectly fine with killing anyone who gets in the way of Light and his goals. As long as she remains Light’s number one tool, Misa is willing to shorten her life as many times as needed and kill whoever he says needs to die.
9 Konishi — Charlotte
To put it lightly, Konishi is madly in love with her classmate, Oikawa. Unfortunately, he developed a crush on the innocent Ayumi Otosaka after being transferred to the school. After this, Oikawa started neglecting Konishi and spent more time with Ayumi.
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This didn’t sit well with Konishi, and she took matters into her own hands. One normal school day, she follows Ayumi into the hallways and pulled out a box cutter. The twelve-year-old girl then tells her she must die, so that Konishi can keep Oikawa all to herself.
8 Nina Einstein — Code Geass
A calm and shy student at the Ashford Academy, Nina is a member of the Student Council. After a while in the series, she begins working for the government to create weapons. She is strongly attached to Euphemia, a princess, to the point that Nina considers her a Goddess and often seeks her for emotional support. However, after Euphemia’s death, Nina’s mental and physical health become unstable.
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Her unhealthy attachment and one-sided love cause Nina to go berserk. In a frenzy, Nina arms her Ashford’s Ganymede Knightmare Frame with a prototype nuclear reactor that would destroy Tokyo. Thankfully, Nina is captured before anything bad can happen.
7 Akane Hiyama — Renai Boukun (Love Tyrant)
Akane is the school idol and seems like an angel to everyone around her. However, when it comes to her crush, Seiji Aino, she transforms into a psychopathic character. She is madly in love with him and will kill anyone who tries to date him.
What’s unbelievable is that Seiji himself is not safe from her violent nature. If she sees him with another girl (“cheating: on her as she likes to put it), Akane won’t hesitate to stab him multiple times. Although all the characters are immortal, that doesn’t excuse Akane’s Yandere tendencies, as they still feel pain.
6 Ringo Oginome — Penguindrum
In Penguindrum, Ringo is a student at Ohka Garden Girls’ High School. Before it was revealed that she had a Yandere nature, the anime already showed fans how mentally unstable she was. Ringo Oginome’s older sister died in a terrorist attack, which led her family to fall apart. This caused her to act like her deceased sister, in the hope that it may fix her family.
Ringo becomes a stalker following Keiju Tabuki, her sister’s crush, to the point of obsession. When he gets engaged, Ringo drugs both Keiju and Shoma Takakura, her friend. She then drags her “lover” to the bedroom and attempts to harass him while pretending to be his fiancé, even wearing a wig to look like her. This scene will certainly give fans a lot of goosebumps. Luckily, Shoma wakes up and stops her before things go too far.
5 Minatsuki Takami — Deadman Wonderland
Also known as Hummingbird, Minatsuki is the younger sister of Yō Takami in Deadman Wonderland. She used to be a normal girl, until one day an earthquake occurred while she was in the garden with her mother. Minatsuki’s mom chose to save her plants rather than save her daughter. From here, everything went downhill. Minatsuki became a liar and developed a sadistic personality.
Minatsuki convinces her brother that their father is abusing her, which leads to a fight between them. After growing up, she kills her father with her own hands and enjoys watching her brother suffer, thinking he’s the culprit. Minatsuki even reveals that she gets very excited if she sees someone suffering or in pain, even if it’s her own brother.
4 Haruna Niekawa — Durarara
A former student at Raira Academy, a rumor starts spreading about Haruna Niekawa and forces her to leave. Haruna Niekawa is in a relationship with her teacher Takashi Nasujima. She prides herself to be the owner of Saika, a demonic blade, but later finds out that she’s not the true owner but instead possesses the Daughter of Saika.
After she leaves school, Haruna keeps thinking about her “lover” obsessively. Eventually, she learns that Takashi was cheating on her with Anri Sonohara. This angers her to the point where she starts attacking random people, including her father, to transform them into her “children” so they can attack Anri. Afterward, when Haruna managed to find Takashi, she smears her blood on his face to show him her “love.” This right here is a clear sign of her Yandere nature.
3 Lucy (Elfen Lied)
Kaede is a diclonius girl, an evolved species superior to humans, and is the main protagonist of the Elfen Lied series. In the orphanage where she grew up, she was constantly bullied by the other kids for having a different appearance. This bullying caused her personality to split into three; Kaede, Lucy, and Nyu. When the orphanage kids beat up her puppy and killed it in front of her, Lucy, her psychotic personality, came out and killed all the kids in a fit of rage.
After growing up, she became incredibly sadistic. She severs limbs and blinds enemies, and if that isn’t enough, she leaves them to bleed to death rather than ending their lives. Despite her indifference to human life, she will not harm Kouta, the show’s male protagonist, nor kill in front of him.
2 Kotonoha Katsura — School Days
One of the two main heroines of School Days, Kotonoha is sweet, intelligent, polite, and reserved. In fact, she is so reserved that she doesn’t have a single friend until she meets Sekai Saionji and Makoto Itou. After getting to know each other, Kotonoha and Makoto became a couple. Their relationship had many difficulties, as Makoto would sometimes forget his girlfriend and mess around with someone else, mainly Sekai.
Kotonoha’s Yandere nature comes out when Makoto is ignoring her or spending time with other girls — and things get gruesome quickly. She’s obsessed to the point where she will use her body to keep him with her. In the anime, Sekai stabs Makoto to death, after which Kotonoha cuts off his head and shows it to her on the school rooftop. Then, she kills Sekai and cuts open her stomach to make sure she’s not carrying Makoto’s child. In the end, Kotonoha is seen on a boat hugging Makoto’s severed head and feeling content.
1 Yuno Gasai — Mirai Nikki (Future Diary)
For the most part, Yuno is sweet, feminine, and shy, especially around her crush Yukiteru Amano. But, it’s a mask to hide her dark side, which is ruthless, cold, and calculating. She doesn’t mind sacrificing people in cruel and violent ways to ensure her and Yukiteru’s survival. This side of her was born because of her mother’s constant abuse when she was a child.
To make her feel better, Yukiteru promised to marry Yuno. Her obsession with him grew quickly after this promise, to the point that she was willing to harm those who she believed would take Yukiteru away from her: friends, family, enemies, and particularly other girls. The only way to calm her down is for Yukiteru to declare his love for her, much to her joy and his dismay. Sadly, her “lover” is not totally safe from her Yandere tendencies. Yuno once kidnapped Yukiteru when she thought a Diary User would kill him.
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