Gray's Cozy Nook

DISCLAIMER

To each their own. While we may not agree to each other’s likes and dislikes, please behave respectably towards one another. Understand that while other’s like a certain aspect in a game or character that may seem abnormal or obtuse to yourself or others. Realize that it doesn’t mean that the person who happens to like these elements in a GAME, supports these actions in real life scenarios. I already know I’m not a fire breathing leviathan in human skin, but in a game, let me be an evil destructive Goddess is all I’m saying…

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To whoever wrote the message for the picture above, I agree with you, no one in their right mind would love these kinds of people in real life. However, that’s welcome to the world of fantasy, romance, and reality bending in gaming. Gamers can get closer to the more ominous aspects of our imagination in a safe place without putting ourselves in a truly dangerous situation. I do like Yanderes, and that may offend some people, while I can only vouch for myself about what I like in a game. The main point I want to state is that even if I like a Yandere in a game, this is not a type of person I’d associate myself with in real life or even be romantically involved with.

In a post that I made on Otome Amino (this is an otome group that is for ages 13+, and is handled by a good group of moderators), there was a challenge that about your otome husbands, and if you would have a relationship with them or not in real life. While I love Yanderes in games, you best believe that in an actual situation that involved a Yandere person. I wouldn’t be the helpless MC crying my eyes out–oh no, I’d be the one the Yandere needs to run from.

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Case Management Meeting: Yandere Types

Gray’s Interpretation: IMO, a yandere is what we people like myself define as someone who is ‘crazy in love’ or “obsessively in love” to the point they allow their desire of love to cloud their judgment and actions.

The world’s definition of a Yandere? A term for a person who is initially loving and caring to someone they like a lot until their romantic love, admiration and devotion becomes feisty and mentally destructive in nature through either over protectiveness, violence, brutality or all three combined. Yandere characters are mentally unstable, incredibly deranged and use extreme violence or brutality as an outlet for their emotions. Yandere are usually, but not always, female characters. (Fandom Wiki)

Yandere personalities can differ depending on game or story, whether they were sweet little cuties, tsundere buttheads, or the quiet kid who kept to themselves in the back of the classroom. The term Yandere is a mixture of Kuudere, Dandere, and Tsundere, so it basically means… If you’ve played DDLC before, you can get a little crazy psycho of love in any character type you’ve met.

Consider the Yandere trait something that can be an added element to add either the horror, suspense, or thrill aspect in a game. Most of the time love between a Yandere and an MC rarely ends well, and if it does end well consider yourself and loved ones safe… until someone dares to harm you again.

You can call these lovers … truly ‘crazy in love’ that they really will do about anything to keep you by them. But… people tend to categorize these yandere types under one word without realizing there are stages or subcategories they fall under. Depending on what situation you find yourself in with a Yandere, it’s good to understand the basics of what KIND you have found yourself with versus thinking that all of them can become love-driven killing machines (albeit most people do think this way).

TYPES OF YANDERES:

mugai-gata 無害型 

Harmless type.

“As long as she’s/he’s happy, I’m happy.”

Now, this is a rare one, okay? These are the ones who are obsessed with you but won’t try and kill your love interest or you if they can’t get your affection. They will try very hard to get to be your boyfriend but if they lose, they overall just want you to be happy, and won’t plot something dangerous against you and everyone who happens to be acquainted. (Fandom Wiki)

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Now, here’s an interesting but fairly twisted example… When a character has two personalities in one body, and both have a Yandere categorization. I’m certain some people will recognize this character as Ukyo from Amnesia, he is the last route of the game but also the ‘true route.’ If you thought Toma was the scary one, then Ukyo makes Toma look like a wolf that needs more cuddles and treats.

So Ukyo’s is a Dandere character, however, he carries a mixture of Mugai-Gata & Jiko-Gisei-Gata in his ‘normal’:

We already explained the mugai version above, but what is a jiko-gisei-gata?

jiko-gisei-gata 自己犠牲型 

Self-Sacrifice type.

“If it’s for you I wouldn’t mind dying!”

He doesn’t mind dying for you, he will sacrifice himself dutifully no matter what the cause to keep you alive. He loves you so much he would be willing to sacrifice his own happiness, soul, you name it; he wants you to live. He will do it for you.

[SPOILER ALERT] When you play his route you realize that Ukyo’s ‘normal’ side is obsessed with keeping you safe and out of harm’s way even if it means killing himself to do it. When he lost the heroine the first time, he made a wish to be together with her again, but fate is a very cruel person when you try to mess with her tapestry of life.

Due to Ukyo’s wish to twist the hands of fate, he locked himself into a very horrendous spiderweb of ‘a life for a life’ in his story due to his wish of wanting to be with the heroine again. However, because of the strings of destiny and his constant interference, Ukyo would see the heroine die countless times which is what creates his split personality. (Fandom Wiki)

Meet Ukyo’s ‘dark’ side, who is also a mixture of two Yandere subtypes:

shuumatsu-gata 終末型 

Final type.

“I don’t need a world where she doesn’t exist.”

His love of the heroine and consistently losing her in every world to either the clutches of fate or his own hands, his mind distorted and cracked into the split personality we see in the game. Which in turn created this personality that you see above, one that sees that either you exist or you don’t, either way, whether you exist or not; he also will disappear but also end people’s lives (mostly yours) to end his world. (Fandom Wiki)

bouryoku-gata 暴力型 

Violence type.

He “uses violence” (bouryoku wo furu 暴力をふる) towards you.

Due to the fact he can’t ever be with you, his dark side makes it his civil duty to harm you and put an end to all his suffering and yours. He takes pleasure in this aspect of being able to kill you since you’re the reason he was created in the first place. (Fandom Wiki)

While I have mentioned these subtypes above I’m going to mention that Ukyo’s ‘dark’ side can also be classified as:

Yangire

(also referred to “Cute and Psycho”) is a Japanese term used to refer to normal people who suddenly become violent, sometimes due to a past trauma. Yangires are very similar to Yanderes, both are people who suffer from a personality disorder and can easily become violent and extremely dangerous. (Fandom Wiki)

• Phew–! Ukyo was a lot of representations, but he’s a great example of subcategories for the Yandere and helping people understand the types.

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I’m very certain everyone has heard the title or name Diabolik Lovers, it is an acquired taste for anyone looking into a world where there are vampires and pure sadism and domination. I feel, personally, that the game lacked a few things, one that the heroine shouldn’t be submissive to everything that the vampires do to her. This game is borderline questionable in certain aspects, just like Maggot Baits.

The reason I state this is that all the men in Diabolik Lovers have a Yandere quality that makes the game thrilling to people who prefer to have an obsessively scary ordeal fall upon them. While I’ve read translations of the game and played a bit of it on my own, IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE, and please do not bash others who like the fantasy world of this otome.

There is one particular Yandere I wanted to list from the game just for the sake of this post as this type does appear every now and again in mangas/anime, and now, in otome:

kyouki-gata 猟奇型 

Bizarre-Seeking type.

“I love you, so… can you give me your fingernails? I want them so I can always have a part of you with me!”

He is an extremely acquired taste and can be considered one of the more terrifying of the bunch with his personality. Kanato represents a bizarre Yandere who… Well, he can be a mixture of many Yandere types but I’m going to use him as a bizarre version. These are the types who will kill you BECAUSE they love you, and he may or may not… preserve your dead body somewhere and dress it up cutely and act like you’re alive still…

Or take a few locks of your hair, fingers, blood… and make tea with them…

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sokubaku-gata 束縛型 

Restraints type.

Another type of Yandere that others are more familiar with in Otomelandia is Toma from Amnesia, I will say this now, he was the first route I played and I took my time analyzing him in his route. He’s the classic version of a Yandere, one who is in love with you, but his love and desire to have and protect you cloud his judgments and sense of reasoning. In his thoughts, he felt he was doing his best to protect you until he figured out what was going on and found who the culprits were.

FYI, Toma’s ‘Amnesia After’ Story brings more clarity to his main story in the original game, where he actually encourages the MC to find someone else due to his actions in the previous game. Call it his ‘redemption’ story, but he openly admits and keeps telling the MC that she shouldn’t be with someone who could do the things he’s done to her. He’s an extremely complex character, but he’s another character analysis for another time!

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DV-gata DV型 

Domestic Violence type.

“It hurts? That’s your fault! Next time learn your lesson and stop looking at other men!”

Now, this is the yandere type we need to be wary of as these are the ones who will result to domestic violence on you and others. Whether it’s out of jealousy, feeling ignored, everything that you do is your fault and you shall be punished…They will beat you and say it is your fault, whether it’s pent up rage or emotions, you will deliberately be punished for something they do not like.

This is by far the most dangerous and UNACCEPTABLE Yandere type, the ones above are scary, don’t get me wrong. However, this is the one I steer clear from in any game if I can, because it takes into account characteristics of reality that I can’t ignore even in the fantasy realm of gaming.

Just a heads up, Natsume from Ephemeral is not a DV-Gata, however the picture I used is a good quote representation of what normal DV’s would say TO YOU and not the other party…

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Twisted Love for a Yandere

It’s tough as a gamer to have a place where you draw the line because there are situations in games that can trigger us, and this is where fantasy and reality become a gray area. In the broad reality that we stand in, this kind of behavior is not something anyone wants or can take pleasure from, Yanderes can be harmless but in other instances they cannot be. What I do feel, is that people who like Yandere type characters,  is that we are intrigued by the thrill and fear factor, because most of the people I have spoken to, who like this character type–are horror fans.

I believe the reason why these types of personalities are placed in a game, or characters carry the Yandere trait, is to create the atmosphere for thrill-seekers. I understand not many want this kind of thrill as it this character, just like the Dom Type (i.e. Eisuke Ichinomiya ~Paid Version~, Victor MLQC) can cause others to feel that these figures are crossing the lines of fantasy. This is a double-edged sword, a lot of us are looking to escape reality or focus our emotions on something other than the places we are currently present in.

However, it do feel that we can have a moment with a game when we feel it has gone too far with the ‘fantasy’ shield, and it’s using certain imagery and concepts to gain attention or notoriety.

I Digress

When we sometimes wish to leave the world of reality we come into situations in a game that can resemble something that can occur in the outside world. This is the tough part, it’s here where we choose to either forfeit the game safely and go a different route or read/play on. It is also here that as gamers, players, friends, and family we have to respect each other’s opinions on game elements.

So if we have friends who like a character that you did not like, it’s okay to disagree, as long as you already know that they know, that going to a casino in Japan and trying to get employed as a maid so they can find the black market and be sold to a handsome bidder IS NOT AN OKAY IDEA AND THAT THE IDEA NEEDS TO STAY FICTIONAL… It should be dandy.

You should also know I’m not a human, and I’m actually a reincarnated goddess who sacrificed herself in order for the world to be safe (poking fun at Star Crossed Myth), and now I gallivant as a human for the sake of balance. Guys, I’m poking fun here, so humor me, this is where I bring about understanding what is reality and what isn’t, and where the shield of fantasy allows us to safely explore these tastes.

I’m fairly certain I’m walking the shadows of between what is acceptable and what isn’t, as even I disagree with a concept or idea that doesn’t help develop a character or wasn’t necessary to be included in the story.

Although my favorite character type is Yanderes, I understand where the lines must be crossed and the walls must be built. Call it my bleeding heart for dark, macabre, and horror-filled stories that make me captivated about this type of character in games. However, I know where insanity and reality must be stopped.

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Gray’s Corner

Here’s a little chart from Fandom Wiki to assist you on understanding the Yandere, and when you should start running.