Tsundere / Anime & Manga

aka: Anime

Wha— of course you'd find Tsundere characters in anime, baka! It's from where the language itself came from! Do you even think?!

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Harsh (Tsun)

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:
  • Karane is the typical harsh type, constantly lying about her feelings type (although she has a better control over her emotions than most tsunderes).
  • Kurumi is very sweet-natured unless she's hungry — unfortunately, due to her Hyperactive Metabolism, she's nearly always hungry, so she's nearly always harsh.
  • Mai sees Rentarou as unworthy to be dating her colleague Mei, whom she considers her older sister despite not being blood relatives, but no matter how much she insists that she hates him, it's always apparent that she is in love with him.
  • Chapter 144 introduces Karane's family, and each and every one of them is a tsundere. Karane's grandparents, her parents, her siblings, and her niece and nephew, the latter of whom is an infant, are all introduced in a two-page spread giving some variation of "It's not like we're glad to meet you or anything" upon meeting Rentarou. The volume extras also introduce us to the family's pet tsundere hamster.
• Akkun to Kanojo:
  • The titular character Akkun is very tsun around his girlfriend. He acts aloof, calls her names, and appears disinterested in her. However, he thinks she’s adorable and gets flustered when they spend time together.
  • Also Akkun's younger sister, Chiho. Unlike her brother, at the front of Non, she's always shows her dere, but hides her tsun. On the other hand, she appears to demonstrate a growing romantic attraction toward Akkun's friend, Matsuo, and to him she consistently shows only her tsun while fighting to hide her dere, though this becomes progressively harder to do.
  • Non's father is the same way with her mother. He acts aloof and distant, but he actually loves his wife and also gets embarrassed when they're together. Non even notices the similarities in which her parents act around each other and compares it to her relationship with Akkun.
• Amatsuki: Tsuyukusa is pretty much the epitome of an Tsundere; he becomes easily flustered when either Heihachi or Toki is involved, and has used pretty much every stock tsundere expression in the book at least once. Also, his relationship with Bonten strangely resembles that of a tsundere and Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Now that's when Tsuyukusa becomes all snarky, rude and flustered.
• Asteroid in Love: Due to often seeming to have an unpleasant disposition, but actually being a nice person at heart, Mikage Sakurai has been described as a tsundere In-Universe. In this case, no romance in involved.
• Battle Spirits Shonen Toppa Bashin has several.
  • Masako Inogashira, who not only will vehemently deny any affection towards her old flame, Card Sensei, is also one in a platonic sense with her own students. She very much wants to avoid Becoming the Mask, so tries to pretend she has no affection towards them. It doesn't work.
  • Suiren is also one, of the aloof and pessimistic variety. She's much more partial to pounding someone in Battle Spirits, than admitting she's worried about them.
  • Student Council President Setsuko Kirishima is very harsh, prefering not to show her more caring side.
• Battle Spirits Sword Eyes has Haqua Estoc. He has trouble admitting to his crush on Kizakura, and also plays this role in a platonic way with the other Sword Eyes of Light, trying really hard to not be friends with them. Naturally, he's voiced by Rie Kugimiya.
• The Beautiful Skies of Houou High is Ouran High School Host Club meets Maria†Holic. Yui is very violent towards Kei and often hits her, even as he's blushing and admitting his feelings. Notable in that he has trouble admitting even non-romantic feelings.
• Berserk: Casca. At the beginning of the series, she wants nothing to do with Guts, won't even give him the time of day, and doesn't understand what the hell Griffith, who she has something of a thing for, sees in him. She's not too shy about the hostility either, even punching Guts at every opportunity. The deredere comes later on in the saga as the two of them learn more about each other's pasts and they get a bit closer, especially when Guts heroically protects her on the battlefield eventually they become lovers about the time that Griffith gets himself captured and put to the torture Casca even becomes very doting towards Guts sewing up his injuries herself and even becoming pregnant with his baby. And then the Eclipse goes down.
• Black Cat: Rinslet became a Harsh Tsundere in the anime. She is always negative about whatever Sven or Jenos says, frequently screaming things like "That won't work!" or "You idiot!" Unlike in the manga where she was dere about Train, in the anime, she has a few (very, very rare) instances where she is slightly dere towards Sven.
• Black Clover: Noelle is the harsh-type "tsun-tsun". She keeps her dere side hidden very well, but her concern for her allies is clearly shown in spite of her high-and-lofty demeanor. It gets taken up a notch when she begins to realize her feelings for Asta alongside Mimosa. She realizes her desperation at Mimosa crushing on Asta is jealousy, and then insists that she feels nothing for him.
• Black Lagoon: Revy is a borderline psychotic version of this. When she's being angry and confrontational she's bad enough, but when she lapses into Whitman Fever during the Nazi arc, she's even worse. She has even tried to shoot Rock on two different occasions during the first season, with her "dere-dere" side surfacing during the "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc from the second season (though there was that time she saved Rock at the end of the first season, something she swore she would never do). Other dere-dere moments include: inviting Rock to join the Lagoon Company at the end of Episode Two, the infamous "Cigarette Kiss" in Episode Seven, threatening to kill Gretel if she ever fucks with Rock again (hey, we did mention that Revy was psychotic?), and trying to stop Rock from watching Yukio's suicide. She also smiles several times at Rock during the Yakuza Arc.
• Bleach:
  • Ichigo Kurosaki tries too come off as cold and tough, but deep down, he is very caring and protective of his loved ones.
  • Rukia Kuchiki is usually outwardly rough and violent, but she has a weakness for cute things and acts deredere around Ichigo's family and schoolmates. Deep down, she is very caring of all her friends.
  • Lisa Yadomaru in appears to be one of these. Specially towards her ex-leader, Shunsui, whom she rushes towards when he's laying injured on the ground... and then promptly kicks on the head for pretending to be almost dead.
  • Momo Hinamori's Zanpakutou spirit Tobiume seems to be a bit of a Tsundere. Most of the time she's self-assured, tends to argue with her pal Haineko, and insults Momo over her obsession with Aizen. When she's alone, however, she is fiercely defendant over Haineko's insults over Momo, and proceeds her dere-dere mode.
  • Also applicable to Jinta in his relationship to Yuzu, Ichigo's sister. He's more the awkward type and usually doesn't know how to act in her presence.
  • Uryu Ishida constantly claims that he has ulterior motives for helping Ichigo or that he was just passing through. After the Time Skip, this becomes such an obvious excuse that he stops even bothering to make it.
  • Soifon has a reputation within Soul Society for being the harsh, cold captain of the second division. However, whenever she's in the presence of anything that even resembles Yoruichi, she turns into little more than a gushing fangirl.
  • We also have Kensei Muguruma, who spends most of his time yelling and scowling, but he also saves Hisagi from a Hollow as a child, and there's his Ship Tease with Mashiro.
• In Blue Exorcist, Izumo Kamiki is harsh and arrogant, looking down on her classmates. At the start, she only treats her friend Paku nicely and dismisses others' attempts to get closer to her, but she gradually softens and becomes more helpful, especially to Rin and Shiemi.
  Izumo: I hate you! But... thanks anyway...
• Blue Seed: Gun girl Koume Sawaguchi: the dere side only comes out in the final few episodes when she's alone with her Love Interest.
• In Boarding School Juliet, Aby snaps at his overzealous best friend, "Who would fall in love with an idiot like you!" Based on what happens 14 chapters later, the only answer one could give is: "You".
• Boys over Flowers: Tsukushi is this to Tsukasa, thanks mainly to Tsukasa's initial Jerkass behavior toward her. She even kicks him in the face on one of their first meetings!
• In Brave10, this seems to be an Unno family trait. Rokuro's sharp-tongued and quick-tempered, but occasionally Yukimura catches him off-guard with unexpected praise, which gives rise to brief moments of deredere. Nanakuma is arrogant and haughty, but is covering up an inferiority complex and acts like a dog wanting praise around his master, Nobuyuki.
• Cardcaptor Sakura:
  • Li Syaoran is grumpy and tsuntsun towards lots of people, but goes very deredere and red-faced in front of Yukito and later, Sakura.
  • Chiharu Mihara alternates between slapping her crush Yamazaki around for his outrageous lies or acting very sweet and awkward when they're in private... only to slap him again when he completely misses the point of her advances.
  • Yue turns out to be this way towards Sakura. Due to his stubborn Undying Loyalty towards his first master Clow Reed, he's got issues coming to terms with the fact he's come to care about Sakura enough to accept her as his new master.
    Yukito: (to Sakura) [Yue] says he's very worried about you.
    Yue: ...I didn't say "very."
  • Touya acts like an non-romantic Tsundere towards Sakura. He loves to tease her and doesn't openly show her affection, but is always watching out for her without letting her know and won't forgive anyone who even tries to harm her.
• Case Closed:
  • Kazuha Touyama, thanks to her constant bickering with Heiji.
  • Ai Haibara is accused of being one in a joke by Professor Agasa, who is talking to Conan at the end of Chapter 825.
    Conan: What part of any of that is 'dere'?
• Asa from Chainsaw Man was a Sour Outside, Sad Inside loner who ends up falling for Idiot Hero Denji as a result of Uptight Loves Wild. Her first reaction is an outraged and indignant "Excuse me?" while flushing with embarrassment when Yoru reads her mind and determines that she's developed a crush on Denji. Amazingly enough, in the very next chapter she starts acting cold and cranky with Denji in a splitting image of classic tsundere behavior, all on the assumption that he doesn't actually love her back. She only succeeds at speeding up their date and letting him take her to his house.
• Cheeky Angel: Megumi is deredere towards girls (especially Miki) but usually tsuntsun towards guys, most notably Genzo. This is probably because she used to be male.Although she was never male at all. Even when she knows this and she kisses Genzo in the last volume she acts rather tsuntsun with him and insists on behaving that way even at the end.
• City Hunter: Kaori Makimura is a pretty classic Harsh type, with her wrath most often triggered by Ryo's mokkori ways. Expect hammers labeled "100 tons" or "National Shame" to follow. But if Ryo does anything affectionate towards her, blushing ensues.
• Code Geass:
  • Kallen Stadtfeld/Karen Kouzuki. Tough and badass Action Girl at one moment, sweet and vulnerable at the other. At first she thinks Lelouch is an arrogant Jerkass, but adores his alter ego Zero as a brave freedom fighter. After learning his identity, it takes her a while to get adjusted to the concept, but eventually she ends up falling for the man behind the mask. Illustrated perfectly in an official comic that shows Kallen reacting to Lelouch and Zero doing the exact same thing (slashing Milly/Tamaki's expense accounts for frivolous spending) by calling Lelouch a tightwad and reverently admiring Zero for being meticulous.
  • Lelouch himself qualifies as a male example. Normally he's a snarky Magnificent Bastard who calls concepts such as "justice" and "honor" jokes (though typically as part of a facade) and talks down to most people. Despite this, he goes out of his way to protect and look after those close to him, even his best friend-turned-rival and his Mysterious Waif partner with a Sugar-and-Ice Personality and frequent rival in snark.
• Cowboy Bebop: Faye Valentine starts the series as an angry con artist who continually cheats and insults the people around her. But for most of the series she is a Harsh Tsundere as her tough veneer is punctuated by moments of childlike openness.
• Crimson Spell: Halvir Hroptr is an Insufferable Genius with very little consideration for other people. He deres only for Prince Vald (himself a Sweet type provoked into tsun behavior by Havi's Jerkass behavior).
• Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth: Claude Claudel has enough Berserk Buttons to fluster him often, but he does have his tender moments with Yune, and with Camille as a child.
• Cross Game: Aoba is a tough and somewhat tomboyish Tsundere. Most of the plot focuses on her shift to Sweet over more than six years.
• Rebecca in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is aggressive and insulting to the rest of Maine's crew, especially to her brother, but she does care about all of them no matter how much she denies it. The Protagonist David's the one person she acts sweet towards, with the worst he gets usually being Anger Born of Worry.
• Dear Brother: Mariko Shinobu starts as a Clingy Jealous Girl Yandere for Nanako. After some episodes where she almost commits a Murder-Suicide with Nanako and then goes on a hunger strike, she becomes more of a Clingy Jealous Girl Harsh Tsundere for Nanako, Kaoru, and later Takeshi.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro’s crow of all things. It always acts bossy towards Tanjiro, even pecking him a lot, and sees Tanjiro as his subordinate; but it will not tolerate other crows not showing proper respect towards Tanjiro, as seen when Muichirou's crow thought Tanjiro was a lesser demon slayer and his crow immediately picked an argument with her.
• The song "Not so Fast, Sexy Girl" featured as an SD video clip on the Devil Hunter Yohko music video collection, starts of as a slow-paced ballad describing a sexy girl. A guy makes a move on her, she just shrugs her shoulders and smiles... and then, the music suddenly switches to rock as she decides to kick him in the crotch. Yes, even the tune is tsundere.
• Digimon:
  • Yamato "Matt" Ishida from Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 is a male example. This is confirmed by his voice actor, Yuuto Kazama, and Gabumon's voice actress, Mayumi Yamaguchi, in an interview included with the Japanese DVD boxset of the series.
    YK: He's the type that can't express friendship very well. It's hard for him to just come out and say things like thank you.
    MY: He's tsundere.
    YK: Yeah, that's the word we use now to describe people like him. (laughs)
  • Rika Nonaka from Digimon Tamers starts off as an apparent Jerkass (her "tsun" side), but through the wonders of Character Development, we eventually see that she does, in fact, have a "dere" side, shown now and then in her interactions with Takato. She actually gives a textbook example near their return to the Real World, when she learns Takato has sent an e-mail to her parents for her, going from mad that he did it in the first place, to embarrassed and appreciative, only to whiplash right back to furious when she learns he stuck hearts and smiley faces in the text.
  • Jellymon in Digimon Ghost Game is this towards her partner Kiyoshiro as she messes with and berates him, but does care for him and calls him "darling".
• In The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., it's done to the extreme by Saiki's grandfather, of all people. He acts cold, stern, indifferent, and even annoyed towards his family when they visit, then shows the audience how completely overjoyed he is just to have them nearby after he leaves the room, in a way that's obviously meant to parody your typical anime's young girl tsundere. It's (thankfully) completely non-romantic, but that doesn't stop him from squealing and blushing like a schoolgirl at simply brushing past his grandson. Much of his inner monologue is him trying to get himself to confess how he really feels to them, then getting angry at himself for failing to do so.
• Akina, title character of Don't Become an Otaku, Shinozaki-san!, tends to be tsundere towards herself more than anybody. She frequently invoking the Tsundere catch phrase of "It's not like I wanted this or anything" when justifying her developing otaku habits.
  Akina: (regarding her newly purchased book about seducing otaku girls) It's not like I wanted this book or anything!
  Narration: She stayed up all night reading it.
• Dragon Ball:
  • ChiChi, Goku's Victorious Childhood Friend. Originally, ChiChi is more the Sweet type, prim and proper while having a massive crush on Goku. She would only lash out at Goku when he was rude or did something stupid. After Dragon Ball Z rolls around though, she becomes more Harsh. She then went back to her more sweet personality after the Cell Games.
  • Also, Launch in Dragon Ball. This is due to a physical split personality disorder, where sneezing would cause her to shift personalities. Dere-dere side is sweet and has blue hair, tsuntsun side is a trigger-happy blonde (unless she's near to Tien, where she acts more deredere)
  • Also Videl at the end of Dragon Ball Z and, to a lesser extent, Android #18 after she marries Krillin. More specifically, Videl is always in tsun-tsun mode with Gohan before blackmailing him into training her. Later on, she showed her dere-dere side as she began to develop feelings for Gohan. After marrying Gohan and having Pan, she displays no tsun-tsun traits. Recent depictions of her also show her as much more mellow around everyone but being annoyed or embarrassed by her father's antics.
  • Bulma is also somewhat of a tsundere, especially in Dragon Ball, especially when it comes to Yamcha who she's either flirting with or yelling at in the span of the same chapter, but seemed to have mellowed over time.
  • Vegeta and other Can't Catch Up shonen staple types are proto-tsunderes. "Don't be mistaken, it wasn't my intention to save you. I'm the only one allowed to beat you, Kakarot!"
• Dungeon Friends Forever: Ryuuka is quick to vehemently deny any romantic feeling whatsoever for Van, but regularly is shown becoming jealous when he interacts with other girls or blushing at fond memories of their times together, only to vehemently deny doing any such thing. Harpy-san outright calls her a tsundere in chapter 9. In chapter 21, when flat out asked to confirm whether or not there's a boy she likes, Ryuuka denies it in such a half-hearted, wishy-washy, dere-ish way that everyone' except the boy himself, realizes she totally has a boy she likes.
• The titular “villainess” of Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte. She’s so far on the harsh side that she has her Love Interest Sieg convinced that she absolutely detests him. She’s even self-aware of the strangeness of her behavior, having several “Why am I like this?!”-type scenes. This leads to her Demonic Possession and death in most of the game routes. It takes “divine intervention” (actually the protagonists speaking through the fourth wall) to get Sieg to recognize the concept of a “tsun de raix” and understand Liese better and try to save her.
• Fairy Tail:
  • Erza. With a Played for Laughs reputation as The Dreaded and Natsu and Grey terrified of her, she tends to run their team with an iron-clad fist (literally and figuratively), as well as taking things humorously seriously, and admitting to being far more comfortable in armour. However, she has her moments of lightening up and even Squee.
  • "Charle" (or "Carla" as Crunchyroll prefers to call her) is this way towards (mostly) anyone who isn't Wendy. She's haughty, abrasive and has a no-nonsense attitude, especially the "he-cat"^note as she derisively calls him Happy^note ironic considering that Happy (a non-tsundere) is voiced by none other than Rie Kugimiya, who is well known for her tsundere roles.. It takes The Reveal about her past for her to mellow out.
  • Highlighted by Sherry and Ren in chapter 165, they have obvious crushes on each other... but they're both tsunderes, and both trying to act like they don't care they'll have to part.
• In the manga Flag Capture in the First Move, one of the four-page chapters has a tsundere mockingly ask if her classmate will be alone for the holidays. He then responds that he won't, which catches her off guard and she panics. Realizing she missed her shot, she then wishes him luck and hopes he'll be happy. He then proclaims he is actually talking about her. She bursts into tears and hugs him, demanding he not let her be bored while she cries into his chest.
• Food Wars!:
  • Erina Nakiri is a textbook Harsh type. She has a lot of pride in general, which keeps her openly expressing a lot of her emotions apart from disdain or anger. The only person she openly admits she likes is her assistant/best friend Hisako, and she finds it hard to relate to other people. She often butts heads with her cousin Alice despite her being possibly the closest person to her after Hisako. While at first she takes to hate Soma for petty and irrational motives, she gradually grows to respect him after she sees how hard he works despite coming from humble origins (though the revelation of him being the son of her idol definitely helped), and later it becomes obvious that she loves Soma's cooking and later, becomes attached and attracted to Soma himself, but her stubborn pride will never let her admit it in anything other than inner monologue. It's even lampshaded in the final chapter by Soma, who believes she will remain like that for years.
  • Ikumi Mito, aka Nikumi had a bold and aggressive personality, but her defeat at Soma's hands reveals that deep down she would like to be more feminine. And no matter how much she denies being attracted to Soma, or how often she yells that she doesn't care about the Don RS, she quickly embraces the donburi style, and is usually one of the first to offer help or support for Soma in whatever he asks of her.
  • Nene Kinokuni, particularly in regards to Satoshi Isshiki. They were rather close as children, but Nene became envious that Isshiki was able to take so easily to the arts and crafts that she took years of hard work to master. During Isshiki's match with Tsukasa, he reveals to her that she was his inspiration for his love of cooking (at a time where he was at odds with his own family and on the verge of giving up on it), an admission that deeply touches her to the point of tears. When he loses the match and notices how intently she's looking at him, she fervently denies any concern she has over him.
• Fruits Basket:
  • Kyo Sohma is a male Harsh type, as shown in his interactions with Tohru. He starts out being grumpy with her, but then he will try to be nice, while being embarrassed about it. Or else he'll do something nice but deliver it in a grumpy manner; a good example of this is when he serves her leek porridge (his most loathed food) when she's sick.
  • There's also a subversion in regards to Akito Sohma. She was starting to shape up as a Harsh Tsundere, according to Yuki's testimony (he remembers her yelling at him, then stopping herself and calmly picking up a bowl she had thrown), but at some point she completely lost it (read: the psychological abuse coming from her mother Ren got to her head) and everything got worse. She actually became a mix of Yandere, Manipulative Bitch and Broken Bird, and it would take her many years and a massive Break the Haughty to even start to get better.
• Lan Fan from Fullmetal Alchemist. Tsun to those who insult her Bodyguard Crush, dere to said crush Ling Yao. She's also pretty insecure without her mask.
• Full Moon: Takuto Kira is probably the best example of the male Harsh tsundere, having all the traits of your average tsundere characters, showing all the tsuntsun traits 1 through 3, yet shows a very deredere side mostly through physical actions of kindness. He is prone to blushing and changing the subject whenever given a compliment or a "thank-you," especially from Mitsuki, the girl of his affections. His tsun-tsun side gradually fades to the more dere-dere side, especially towards the end of both the manga and the anime.
• A non-romantic (we think) version in Game×Rush: Memori is this towards Yuuki, complete with for-the-lulz physical violence, blushing, and "I'm not doing this for you." Yuuki occasionally displays this towards Memori, as when Memori 'fell asleep on guard duty' to let Yuuki leave the hospital; Sayako sometimes displays this towards both boys, blushing and reprimanding them for failing to treat her as their boss (which she technically isn't).
• Mika Seido in Geneshaft. Throughout the series she yells at pretty much everyone at one time or another especially when her captain Hiroto Amagiwa, whom she held personally responsible for the death of her friend, going so far as to punch him in the first episode. However, she's the only one who is always by his bed when he's greatly injured, although claiming it's a The Only One Allowed to Defeat You.
• Get Backers: Ban Mido is extremely tsun-tsun. His dere is revealed only to his Heterosexual Life-Partner Ginji, his Not-Quite Little Sister Himiko, and very very rarely to a couple of other characters...if they do something extremely heartwarming and/or heartbreaking.
• Kirie in Girls Bravo, who is also his Patient Childhood Love Interest. Particularly weird as she may be partly the reason Yukinari is afraid of girls.
• Gravitation: Reiji (nicknamed "Rage") is an amazing example, going from shooting Shuichi with a bazooka to declaring her love for him all on the same page.
• Hanasaku Iroha: Minko is exceedingly tsun, but towards everyone other than her love interest: her mentor Tooru. She particularly takes it out on her perceived competition, Ohana, coming to call her "balut" (a Vietnamese street food that consists of chicken embryo boiled within its egg).
• Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite. Ryuuka is harsh and insulting to her intended husband Taro most of the time (e.g. calling him "midget"), but will on rare occasions shows her attraction and liking for him.
• Nagi Sanzen'in of Hayate the Combat Butler, who loves to use Hayate Ayasaki as her living cosplay doll (as in the Wholesome Crossdresser variety), complete with an excuse that Hayate is her butler, only to gush in private over her assumption that he dotes on her.
• Hellsing's very own Integra in the Manga acts highly Tsundere upon the portions of the story that isn't about gore and war, flinging BAKA and URUSAI at Alucard when he pushes her buttons. Or when Seras brings up something that embarrasses her around Alucard or about Alucard at the end.
  • Seras acts like this too towards Pip Bernadotte, dodging his kisses and only respecting him as a superior, until he saves her from Zorin Blitz and is dying and manages to kiss her fully and she soon gives into the kiss and drinks his blood to power up and has Pip live inside her always as a familiar.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers has several characters that fit this character type:
  • England is the embodiment of this trope. He's heavy on smirking, especially when around France. When he's in deredere mode, though, he sometimes shows such vulnerability that he qualifies as The Woobie.
    England: D-Don't get the wrong idea, though! I'm just counting because if you don't go to sleep, I can't go home. I'm not doing it for you, or anything...
  • Switzerland is a combination of this and He Was Never My Heterosexual Life Partner to Austria. The Gunslinger is especially fond of The Violent Approach (duh). As for the dere part, just catch him when together with his little sister Liechtenstein.
  • Himaruya actually calls Germany a Tsundere in the notes. He seems to be Harsh and fond of a mix between Cold Shoulder and Smirk (less about merely throwing insults around or having mood swings, more about being grumpy and a Drill Sergeant Nasty to Italy). He's usually a 'take no guff' guy around everybody, but you can just tell he's making exceptions for Italy. To hammer on the point, the Valentines strip has Germany going pretty much into full-blown deredere mode.
  • South Italy is a fierce mix of all Harsh varieties, partially out of insecurity that Spain only wants him for his inheritance, and partially because he's not a good cook/housekeeper like his younger brother. And yep, Romano's Tsundere side is specially strong when around Spain.
  • Wy was one toward Sealand in Hetaween 2011, insisting that it was a "coincidence" that she is wearing the dress he told her to wear. Lampshaded by Seborga, who commented that she must have been influenced by England (mentioned above).
  • Molossia. He flips Sealand, Seborga and Wy off when they ask him to be their new friend, but runs back to join them as soon as they leave. He also shows signs of being very self-conscious about letting his other side being seen.
  • According to Word of God, The Netherlands is also a Tsundere, his Tsun-tsun especially strong around Spain. His Dere-dere side can be seen when he's interacting with Isolationist!Japan, and there are a few hints of his softer side when around his little sister, Belgium.
  • Ladonia is at first hostile to the other micronations, looking down on them and proclaiming that he'd never be friends with them. He changes his tune when Sealand says he likes him and calls him "interesting," and is later shown to have joined their group. He's had friendly moments with Sealand, no matter how much he seems to outwardly dislike him.
  • Czech Republic, after she and her former partner Slovakia separate, proclaims how happy she is now that she doesn't have to "listen to his prattling," only for her to muse that "it's not like he doesn't have good traits" when she's alone. She only admits to missing him in a roundabout way.
• Hidamari Sketch: Natsume, Sae's Unknown Rival, keeps going up to Sae as if trying to pick a fight, then runs off flustered for some reason. Her actions are enough to identify her as a schoolgirl lesbian.
• Honoo no Alpen Rose: While Johann is enamoured with Liesl, she's less willing to admit her feelings for him, and prone to getting angry at him. However, after the train incident, she's more outspoken about her love for him.
• Hyakunichikan!!: Chiho's friend Kanami is one with a Precocious Crush on Shuuto, getting jealous when the other girls play with him.
• I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying: Rino Juse used to be a Tsundere back in college (she is even voiced by Rie Kugimiya), but she mellowed out considerably by the present day.
• Nagisa in the manga If I See You In My Dreams is Tsundere all the way, her tsun-tsun side suffered by her suitors (specially Masao Fuguno) and her dere-dere exposed to her first love (in the manga) or when Fuguno is genuinely honest with her.
• Iketeru Futari: Akira Koizumi is usually violently Tsundere towards her "boyfriend" Saji Keisuke. Since Saji is a completely over-the-top idiotic pervert this is initially understandable, but she softens up a lot as she comes to appreciate how much he loves her for who she really is, since she's actually quite a lonely girl. He's also apparently pretty good in bed.
• Ikki Tousen: Ryoumou Shimei starts as a Sociopathic Hero with Yandere traits, but slowly mellows out as she befriends main character Sonsaku Hakufu and gets into a Slap-Slap-Kiss dynamics (only darker) with the local Handsome Lech, Saji Genpou.
• Inumimi: Emina Kusunoki. Let's just say she does not take lightly the fact that Yuichiro Sleeps Cute with his dogs-turned-human.
• Inuyasha:
  • Inuyasha is a good example of a male Harsh type. Kinda jerk-ish and rather blunt, but he also has his moments where he shows genuine concern for his companions, especially Kagome. His consideration remains clumsy but heartfelt.
  • The Big Bad Naraku is this towards Kikyo. He can't seem to decide whether he wants to kill Kikyo or be with her, though the latter he keeps under wraps most of the time.
• Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Yuriko Star is a rare example of a Tsundere whose behavior is due to environment rather than nature or issues; being as much the Straight Man (well, Straight Woman) as Yamamoto, yet lacking his reluctance to physically assault a superior officer, it's only natural she acts the way she does around an irritating, flirtatious goofball like Tylor. She's debatably the healthier one of the two — poor Yamamoto essentially ends up an addict to tranquilizers and something called a "neuro-cleanser" for quite a while.
• Caesar Zeppeli from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency is a male version of this. He cares deeply about Joseph◊ but will always insult him if he's about to notice. It's also very easy to read the subtext as implying him to be in love with Joseph.
• Junjou Romantica has Hiroki Kamijou who has a huge temper (he likes to throw things at his students) and often flips out over the idea of doing cutsey couple things with his boyfriend Nowaki, especially PDA type stuff. However, his boyfriend seems to think such behavior is cute.
• Kagerou Project:
  • Takane Enomoto is a class-A grump and has a Friendless Background, due in part to her illness — which wrecks her sleep cycle, and therefore her mood. She's shown to be quick to anger with everyone (except Ayano), but has a buttery Hidden Heart of Gold for her love interest Haruka... not that she'll ever tell him. Especially since they're both technically dead and resurrected — and Haruka is missing his memories.
  • Azami. After being chased and attacked by humans for an unspecified amount of time, she eventually gave up on people and resigned herself to a vow of silence and isolation in a small forest. Understandably, she's annoyed when a human appears and insists on staying with her. Between insulting and threatening him to try and make him go away, she eventually realised that she had fallen for the young man. Their union produced Shion, Mary's mother.
• Kaiju No. 8:
  • Kikoru Shinomiya has clearly developed a Precocious Crush on Kafka, but her pride causes her to be dismissive of his compliments and affections no matter how obvious it is that she enjoys them.
  • Reno Ishikawa also counts as a tsundere himself. While he tends to be blunt, he does really care for the well being of others and shows gratitude for those who have helped him, Kafka being one of the people he's come to respect. In fact, he even acts like a traditional tsundere when he denies caring if Kafka goes through with trying to join the Corps again after encouraging him.
  • Mina Ashiro, as well. It becomes especially blatant after Kafka finally manages to join the Corps that her stoic aloofness towards him is obviously more out of professional discipline than any real malice.
• Kaleido Star: May Wong mixes this with Spoiled Brat and some traits of The Ace. Mid-way through the second season, though, she's brutally Brought Down to Normal, gradually learning to embrace her deredere side.
• Kamisama Kiss: Tomoe is a sarcastic asshole towards everybody else 90% of the time but there are several moments were he shows that he really does care for them and that he can be kind when he wants to. Nanami, Tomoe's opposite number is a female Sweet type; normally she is very sweet and caring, but piss her off and the claws will come out.
• Karneval: Gareki is a Harsh male version, especially when Yogi teases him. In fact, both Yogi and Tsukumo are awestruck at his surprising deredereness innocence regarding snow (which he had never seen) at one point in the manga.
• Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple:
  • Kisara Nanjou is an aggressive Action Girl who practices martial arts, enjoys humiliating her opponents, and one of her major Berserk Buttons is being looked down as weak because she's a girl. Her dere side tends to come out only when in the presence of a cat, and more rarely with her Love Interest Ukita (and even he doesn't get spared from being beaten up by her when she gets mad).
  • Natsu Tanimoto, aka Hermit, might count as a male example. He puts up a front so everyone in school believes he's kind and soft-spoken, and everyone not in their inner circles believes he and Kenichi are close friends. While Kenichi does consider him a friend, Natsu remains in denial and constantly mutters that he's gonna kill him one day, despite the numerous time he's come to his aid one way or another and making unbelievable excuses.
• In The King of Fighters manga and games KoF: KYO by Masato Natsumoto, which centers specifically around Kyo Kusanagi's story, Kyo's girlfriend Yuki is re-written as a Sweet Tsundere who can alternate between being genuinely kind to her friends (specially Athena and Shingo), hitting Kyo with schoolbooks for being Late for School before smiling sweetly at him, yelling at Iori Yagami for wreacking havoc and dress up very cutely for an arranged date with a Dogged Nice Guy...
• Deconstructed in Kotoura-san. For most of the anime Haruka's mother Kumiko has been very harsh towards Haruka (who the former has disowned for a decade). It is only at the last episode that, after some mind-reading, that Haruka noticed Kumiko treated her disowning Haruka—which is also very traumatizing for Haruka—as Her Greatest Failure.
• Lady!!: Sarah starts as a non-romantic Type A to Lynn, who's just arrived to England. Lynn tries to befriend her, but Sarah ignores her and refuses to acknowledge her as a sister. This just ends up making both sisters miserable - Lynn feels left out by everyone at her new home, and Sarah is reminded that she's not an only child anymore and Lynn can do things she can't because of her illness.
• In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), Ghanti starts out as a minor antagonist, but begrudgingly finds herself developing feelings for Link.
• Love Hina:
  • Naru Narusegawa is so violent that she's famous for her "Naru punch." She's so overly violent that it's almost impossible for her character to even come to terms with the fact that she has a crush and eventual love of Keitaro. Even after she accepts it, she still turns violent at the drop of a hat without giving Keitaro a chance to explain himself. As a contrast, in the manga she is still very hot-tempered, but shows a more sympathetic character development.
  • Motoko Aoyama followed down the same road, going from beating up Keitaro because he gets in her way to beating up Keitaro because she doesn't know how to deal with her growing feelings for him.
• Lucky Star: Kagami Hiiragi is outright designated as one by Konata, complete with the explanation that it's appropriate for twintails. This reference is probably due to the prevalence of tsundere with Girlish Pigtails at a time when the term started to come into general usage. However, Kagami's dere side isn't actually focused on romantic feelings but more on her loneliness; despite her sarcastic outer demeanor, she cares about her friendships with the other main characters more than she'd like to admit and is secretly disappointed that she's never in the same homeroom class as them. The Lucky Channel segment of the anime even includes Minoru Shiraishi giving an extended rant over the term "tsundere" and how it has evolved over time, from a transitional personality process to someone who switches back and forth constantly; in the end, he wonders if "tsundere" is really the right term to describe Kagami at all.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • Teana (towards Subaru) in the third season. During their time at the academy, she was often annoyed at her mistakes, and didn't want to become friends with her. However, after meeting her sister and getting to know her better, she starts becoming close to her, but claims that calling her by her first name is merely to distinguish her from Ginga, and has trouble openly admitting how highly she regards her.
  • Also, Alisa from the first season. She gets angry at Nanoha for not telling her about the magic-related problems weighing on her mind, but when Nanoha goes off to search for the Jewel Seeds with the Bureau, she's the first to offer to copy notes for her. When Nanoha returns, Alisa is pleased to see her, but doesn't show it as openly as Suzuka does.
  • Vita has varying degrees of tsun and dere depending on who you are. She's almost completely dere around Hayate after warming up to her by having some of her cooking. Around her friends and fellow Wolkenritter, she can often be blunt and temperamental, but is quite protective of them, especially Nanoha after she was injured on a mission with her. She projects a Stern Teacher image around her pupils, but is blinking back tears while telling them not to cry over their parting.
  • Agito also starts out as this, initially being hostile to everyone except Zest and Lutecia, and eventually warming up to other people, often showing a dere side around her new Lord, Signum.
• Macross:
  • Alto in Macross Frontier is full blown Harsh. He blows hot and cold to both love interests (Sheryl and Ranka). Lampshaded in this fan comic that depicts him getting a traditional, Tsundere twin tailed hairstyle, from Sheryl no less.
  • Mirage from Macross Delta falls a bit on the harsh side as well, especially to love interest Hayate. Naturally, her service uniform involves thigh highs.
• Maid-Sama!: Misaki Ayuzawa, main character and aggressive female Student Council President is a pretty textbook Harsh example, though having to bully the uncooperative guys of what used to be an all-boys school into line kind of explains it. Still, her interactions with most of the student body (the boys mostly, though there are a few exceptions), and Usui in particular are pretty much by-the-book for the character type.
• The Mazinger series:
  • One of the Trope Codifiers: Sayaka Yumi from Mazinger Z, Kouji's hot-tempered and often downright slap-happy girlfriend, and one of the first Tsundere girls given a major role in almost any anime/manga. Her Type varies: she's Sweet in the original manga, but Harsh in the anime series.
  • Justified with Jun Honou from Great Mazinger, in that being half-African, there are feelings of frustration that make her irritable at times and aren't related to her relationship with Tetsuya Tsurugi. Of course, it wouldn't be so bad if Tetsuya was not a Tsundere, too (he is Asuka Langley Soryu's template, in fact).
  • Maria Grace Fleed from UFO Robo Grendizer was another Tsundere. She definitely is Harsh; Kouji has slap marks to prove it.
• Midori Days:
  • Ayase fits Harsh with the main character, Seiji.
  • Seiji fits Harsh with Midori herself as well.
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Saikawa challenges Kanna, only to admit that she just wanted to be friends when the latter starts crying (although friend probably isn't the right word).
  Saikawa: Those clothes are too cute and you're good at everything. It makes me so angry that I want to give you a hug!!
• Domon Kasshu from Mobile Fighter G Gundam develops some Tsundere traits as a part of his Character Development in the second part of the series. Some of his later scenes with his partner Ms. Fanservice Rain Mikamura mark the point very nicely.
• Mobile Suit Gundam 00:
  • Soma/Marie could count as a Tsundere, thanks to a literal split personality. Marie likes Allelujah, Soma... doesn't. For a while, since they end up together
  • There's also some speculation about Tieria Erde also being a Tsundere, specially towards Neil!Lockon. In one of the 00 games, when Lockon and Tieria get caught in an extremely hard mission and Lockon almost dies as a result, Tieria's reaction is textbook tsundere: sounding like he's about to cry or hyperventilate when Lockon comes close, then going tsuntsun and denying it.
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Miorine Rembran is a solid example of Classic Tsundere. She is introduced violently headbutting Suletta and chewing her out due to an Unwanted Rescue. She doesn't soften in their next few encounters, but there are hints of her sweeter, vulnerable Hidden Depths that grow more obvious as her relationship with Suletta deepens. Just watch her baka's go from annoyed to affectionate to downright emotional over the course of the show. There's even a track of the OST in Episode 3 called "Tsundere" that plays when Miorine flicks Suletta's forehead and accuses her of being sex-crazed.
• Monster Musume: Cathyl is a bit of a hothead, often squabbling with her boyfriend, and she's quick to threaten to beat up Kimihito if she gets uncomfortable while he's milking her. But when making up with her boyfriend after their misunderstanding she reveals a softer, shyer side.
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun:
  • Mikoshiba tries to put on a cool face and be a suave ladies' man, but secretly has a desire to feel needed and usually ends up blushing in complete embarrassment whenever he actually flirts with a girl.
  • Hori is the very strict leader of the Drama Club. He usually hits Kashima, the star of the club, really hard when she skips practice to flirt with girls, which is often. However, he praises Kashima's skill like a proud parent when he's not seeing her shirk her duties or do something completely bizarre.
  • Seo is like this towards Wakamatsu, but in an equally subtle way. She's rude (apparently unintentionally) to everyone except Waka, who is the only person Seo is ever directly nice to instead of neutral. She's never exactly rude to Wakamatsu- he's the only person she'll pass the ball to in basketball, even if she does hit him in the face all the time. "Waka" is also the only one she's ever given an Affectionate Nickname to.
• Mozuya-san Goes on a Rampage deconstructs and spoofs the concept with a very harsh tsundere, who here is medically diagnosed with the trait as a form of bipolar disorder. Mozuya is hypersensitive to compliments, attacks anybody and anything that makes her really happy, and is quick to put down the people she loves in an attempt to push them away, but she melts when people show their true affection for her and craves their attention and love. She's very aware of how she comes off to people, which only makes her self loathing worse. There are other examples of tsunderes in the story, such as her classmate Chizuru and her grandfather, another clinical case who evolved himself into a Kuudere.
• In the ecchi manga My Balls, Elise gradually develops a crush on the male protagonist which leads to gradual emergence of her deredere side. She was even revealed to have a conscience that, instead of the traditional Good and Evil, consists of her Tsuntsun and Deredere tendencies.
• My Bride is a Mermaid: Maki's attitude towards Nagasumi softens into a harsh-but-caring one, although it's unclear whether she actually has feelings for him or is just trying to break him and Sun up as usual.
• My Dress-Up Darling: Sajuna "Juju" Inui is a Harsh-type by default, coming across as aloof and somewhat haughty, and even acting aggressively when her buttons are pushed (which may be linked to her physical complexes about her body). She tends to show her kinder side only when she's alone with her sister Shinju, or when discussing her personal interests like the cosplay.
• My-HiME:
  • Natsuki Kuga fits the description, displaying an abrasive exterior but hiding a sensitive side that loves puppies and collecting lingerie.
  • Minor character Akira Okuzaki is also a textbook example, keeping up a rough facade but slowly opening up to her roommate, Mai's brother Takumi.
• Myself ; Yourself: Nanaka. What is the first thing she does after she meets up with Sana in a long time? Give him a big slap in the face for not even remembering her. Not to mention give him some cold treatment until he finally cools her jets by playing a song that she half-composed as a farewell present on a piano.
• Nana & Kaoru: Kaoru is a sterling example of a male tsundere — on the surface, anyway. His reason for giving his childhood friend Nana the cold shoulder isn't because he can't bring himself to admit an attraction to her, but that she must not discover that he's in love with her, because A) she's destined for greatness and he feels that a loser like him would just slow her down B) it would probably end their "breathers" if he couldn't be a good dom. Yet he keeps slipping up and acting chivalrously, going the extra mile for her, complimenting her and so on — it's hilarious and adorable. Nana has her tsuntsun moments as well, through she is more Sweet.
• Naruto:
  • Temari is very aggressive, especially in her initial appearance, and is definitely troublesome, but she also possesses a softer, more gentle side, and even forms a sort-of relationship with her Chunin exam opponent, Shikamaru.
  • Shikamaru's mother, Yoshino is quite tsundere-ish, acting all bossy to her husband but being actually caring, which just goes to show that Nara men have a thing for troublesome women.
  • Karin is tsuntsun toward just about everyone, especially Suigetsu, with whom she keeps picking fights. The only one she's deredere with is Sasuke, acting all cutesy towards him, and even then, only when they're alone — in public, she's just as tsuntsun towards him as she is towards everyone else.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • Asuna Kagurazaka is a Fiery Redhead who's caring and protective towards her friends, especially Negi and Ayaka.
  • Akamatsu himself describes Chisame as a borderline tsundere. She's an extremely grumpy Meta Girl, frustrated with all the weirdness around her and complaining about everything all the time, but when it gets right down to it, she cares for everyone around her a lot (not that she'll admit it).
  • Anya is Negi's childhood friend with a crush on him, but is extremely violent and jealous. She tries to burn Negi with her fire magic when she sees him "flirting" with other girls.
  • Evangeline occasionally lapses into this. She treats her apprentices, Negi and Asuna, as her servants and abuses them with Training from Hell. Any implications that she cares about them or any of her classmates will be met with unconvincing denials.
  • Emily Sevensheep is a bit tsun-tsun towards Yue Ayase, but she clearly likes her and even nearly dies protecting her.
  • Back in the tales of Ala Rubra, Princess Arika was very tsun-tsun towards Nagi, Negi's father. She slapped him at the slightest sign of disrespect towards her and the most positive thing she could say about her feelings for him was she "did not dislike (him)."
  • Fate Averruncus sometimes shows signs of this towards Negi. His behavior towards Negi is full of Homoerotic Subtext and Foe Romance Subtext, but he's such an Emotionless Boy that he won't ever do anything that makes it too obvious that he has any positive feelings for Negi.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • Deconstructed with Asuka Langley Soryu in the anime. Her anger, haughtiness, and combative attitude make her a bad match for the Extreme Doormat Shinji. She does have some feelings for him, but both are very bad at communicating their true feelings. The more time they spend together, Asuka only gets more frustrated with Shinji's passivity, taking it as a sign that he isn't interested in her, and this causes her harsh treatment of him to get worse.
    • It's played straight in the manga, where Asuka is shown to be capable of being genuinely nice to Shinji, albeit very brief and in rare moments.
  • In Rebuild of Evangelion, Asuka Langley Shikinami on the other hand is a classic Harsh tsundere. She acts rough, sure, but later shows a genuinely sweet side when she attempts to cook for "baka-Shinji." And later volunteers to pilot Unit 03 so that Rei can bring Shinji and his father closer together. She does this for Rei, who in most incarnations she doesn't care for at all. This alone should clue you in that Asuka Shikinami has more in the way of dere-dere than any of her Soryu counterparts.
  • Misato acts tsun-tsun towards her Old Flame, Kaji. In her case, it's mostly driven by the fact that she is still in love with him, but there were very good reasons that their previous relationship didn't work out, and most of those haven't changed. Kaji having a fondness for flirting with other women doesn't help either.
• Nichijou: Misato is heavy on the tsun. She attacks her love interest and anyone who makes even the slightest reference to her possibly having feelings for him. And by heavy, we mean heavy artillery. She once misinterprets a question about her cooking as a question about her getting married to him. Her Hyperspace Arsenal style of tsundere-ness led to many fans calling her a "gundere."
• Ninja Scroll: Kagero the Ninja-Girl is a rare example of this trait played for tragedy, as she could not learn to express love and tenderness until it was too late.
• Onani Master Kurosawa: Sugawa proves herself to be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Reformed Bully as this with Kurosawa. This also receives Lampshade Hanging when the target of her affections struggles to remember being told about this trope.
  "Sugawa is so... How's that word Nagoka taught me? Tsun... Tsun... Baka?"
• One Piece:
  • Nami is notorious for her wild mood swings towards several male characters of the show, the three most clear examples are her relationship with the Power Trio of the Strawhats pirates Luffy, Zoro and Sanji:
    • Nami is very open towards main character Luffy when he comes crashing into her life, but quickly gets aggressive when he tells her about his pirate nature due to her Dark and Troubled Past with pirates. Nami continues to dislike Luffy for a while then she after numerous heroic deeds she sees he is a "good" pirate and much nicer to him. Then she seemingly pulls a betrayal and her vicious side surfaces again acting all Femme Fatale to Luffy and the boys mocking them for trusting her so easily. Luffy refuses to believe Nami is as cruel as she says and he's right as Nami is just putting on a act to protect and save her village from The Big Bad. When her act fails and Nami is left sobbing helpless she finally gives in and begs Luffy to help her. Luffy naturally agrees and smashes Arlong Park to the ground after this Nami has unwavering loyalty to Luffy and is much closer to him. Although she'll still get frustrated with his stupid antics, when going gets tough she becomes very doting and nice, hell the majority of the One Piece Film: Strong World is about their relationship.
    • Nami is also harsh with Zoro though much of this anger is justified as Zoro doesn't do much on the ship besides lift weights and sleep though she is quick to get into a heated argument with him, Nami is even quicker to show her soft side when Zoro get injured. Zoro is also very harsh with her calling her a "stupid woman" for running off in the heat of battle but only he's only putting up a front to mask his concern for her safety like on Skypeia when she gets swallowed by a giant snake he can't focus on the battle.
    • Nami's attitude to "love-cook" Sanji is a strong example; despite casually flirting with him on their first meeting (so she wouldn't have to pay for the food) Nami remains oblivious and uncaring to Sanji always throwing himself at her, only beating him up when he gets too grabby. Though she shows the occasional care for his safety in battle, Sanji only gets her annoyed with his antics... until he leaves on Zou. Not only does Nami chase after him in the anime, she sulks for two days, cries about him in Luffy's arms, won't shut up about Sanji for the rest of the Zou arc, and is the first to volunteer to go with Luffy to save him. Nami's harsh side quickly returns when she sees Sanji again (even crying out in joy) but is shocked to see him beat down Luffy and indirectly insult her (as an act for his family). Nami buys his ploy and slaps him in the face and bids him goodbye, heartbroken. Despite saying she doesn't care about Sanji after that, Nami becomes very upset when Sanji's bride-to-be, Pudding, plans to murder him.
  • Nami has nothing on Pudding though, who seems to be a direct parody of this trope. After Sanji compliments the one feature she was always ashamed about, her personality appears to have literally split into "Tsun" and "Dere", resulting in a bizarre character that is deeply in love with Sanji (even acting like how Sanji usually acts around beautiful women) and threatens him with an agonizing death in the next second.
  • Dadan constantly states how annoyed she is to be taking care of her three foster children and treats them running away to live in the woods as a blessing. However, she's actually very fond of the boys, she just refuses to admit it to anyone. When they are in danger she will risk her own life to save them and the death of Ace leaves her miserable.
• Only the Flower Knows: Misaki starts out this way. He's very reserved, and frequently acts irritated towards Arikawa (understandably, after he embarrasses the poor boy in public by telling him that he loves him in his dreams). He gradually warms up to him, though, acting less irritable over time and getting flustered in his presence. By the time they get together, he's lost most of his tsun, and mostly comes across as shy rather than standoffish.
• Tachibana from Otomen identifies (male) Tonomine as a tsundere/oresama (portmanteau: tsunsama) type (and Tachibana knows his stuff, being himself a mangaka).
• Peter Pan no Bouken's rendition of Tiger Lily. Specially towards John Darling.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Kasumi/Misty is Harsh. She can be violent and furious, complete with wielding a mallet-of-doom (especially in the beginning or when you mention the word "bike" around her) or motherly, caring and romantic (especially after obtaining Togepi). Early seasons seem to hint that this is because of the lead-character of the show, Satoshi/Ash, yet later seasons make it less obvious and let her become more deredere than tsuntsun.
  • Musashi/Jessie is a more extreme version of Harsh, as she has pretty intense mood swings.
  • Iris's Dragonite in the Best Wishes series is Harsh as well. Just seeing the way he lets Iris catch him makes it pretty clear.
  • Officer Jenny is usually one of these. They vacillate between A and B in their various incarnations, but every one of them has a quick temper and a nice side.
• Blue Oak/Green Okido from Pokémon Origins, is a male example. An arrogant, condescending jackass who takes every single chance he has to mock and taunt Red's choices and actions throughout the series. He reveals his Dere side after losing his Pokemon Champion title to Red.
• Hayate from Prétear. He's a total Tsun to Himeno throughout the early part of the series at least in the anime due to Takako falling in love with him years before and inadvertently turning her evil when he rejected her. Of course he mellows towards the end of the series.
• From The Prince of Tennis, Kaidoh Kaoru and perhaps Shishido Ryou can be considered male versions of this. Both are rather snappish (although Kaidoh sort of grows out of it by the end of the series), but Kaidoh enjoys playing with cats (specifically Ryoma's, when it wanders away) and is much less harsh towards his sempai, especially Inui. Shishido softens up whenever he's around his doubles partner, Ootori.
• In Princess Tutu, Fakir is typically distrustful and hostile to everyone. He shows a soft side when he’s kind to duck!Ahiru. Even when he and Ahiru grow closer, he continues to call her an idiot yet blushes furiously when he catches her without her clothing.
• Psychic Squad: Kaoru fits exactly, particularly in the flashback when they first meet Minamoto. To quote Shiho, "What amazing Tsundere powers!"
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Kyoko Sakura acts hostile towards Sayaka because she disapproves of her values, but she develops a soft spot for her. Made obvious in episode 7, when she tries to help Sayaka, only to go back to being angry and aloof when her advice is refused. In episode 9, she sacrifices herself to put witch!Sayaka out of her misery.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: Out of the five Nakano sisters, Nino is the one who starts out as the most tsuntsun towards Fuutarou. Unlike Itsuki, whose attempt to be nice was met with a rather rude reply from him, Nino simply takes to hate him because she doesn't want him in their home, without him doing anything to personally slight her. This makes her switch to deredere when she meets "Kintarou" all the more jarring for him. Once she learns the truth and accepts having fallen in love with Fuutarou, she becomes much nicer while she retrofits her aggressive personality from hostility to her romantic pursuit of him, finally subverting this trope.
• Ranma ½: Ranma Saotome is a non-violent Harsh tsundere. He enjoys teasing and tormenting Akane, and often provokes fights with her through intentional insults as well as bluntly spoken unpleasant truths. However, his harassing Akane is presented as his clumsy way of expressing his attraction to her, akin to a little boy pulling a girl's pigtail because he likes her but doesn't know any better way to show it, and he can express surprisingly tender or romantic feelings on rare occasions.
• Narumi is a harsh type towards Hibiki in Re-Kan!, largely because she doesn't want to hear about the latter being able to talk to ghosts.
• Rooster Fighter: Elizabeth hates Keiji's guts and can't admit that's what she likes about him.
• Rosario + Vampire: Moka Akashiya has two personalities; one is the super sweet and loving Outer Moka and the other is the cold and proud Inner Moka. Early on, only Outer Moka loves Tsukune while Inner Moka treats him with detached disinterest, but Inner Moka gradually falls for Tsukune as well. When the other members of the Unwanted Harem call her out on it, Inner Moka blushes and beats them up, telling them to "know their place."
• Rozen Maiden has three.
  • Shinku is the first one we meet. She tells Jun that he is her "servant" and physically abuses him when he does something she doesn't like. (Everything from slapping him in the face to shoving her heavy case into his leg.) Her deredere side shows itself more as the Rozen Maiden franchise progresses.
  • Suiseseki likes Jun, but generally shows him her Tsun-tsun side. She is haughty, rude, and it takes one season for her to admit she even likes him. Her deredere side is only triggered when Bara-suishou is well on her way to defeating her in Traumend and she finally asks him to be her medium during The Covenant episode. She is in complete denial until this point, even though she is previously seen looking up other Sakuradas in the phone book trying to get them to be her medium. Suiseseki is the resident prankster of the bunch on top of that.
  • Suigintou in Träumend begins as Harsh. After being awakened by her medium Megu, Suigintou promptly tells her that she doesn't need a medium. She begins to show her deredere side as soon as both girls begin to talk about their bodies as junk.
• Sailor Moon:
  • In the manga, Rei Hino/Sailor Mars is an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl and a Defrosting Ice Queen. In the first anime, however, she's more outspoken and Hot-Blooded, fitting as a Harsh Tsundere quite well. She starts out very tsuntsun, switching a bit more to deredere as time passes; she especially acts like this towards Mamoru (first season only; she backs off as soon as he and Usagi are revealed to be each other's true loves), Yuuichirou, and especially towards Usagi.
  • Usagi's cat, Luna, acts annoyed or uninterested around Artemis, her Dogged Nice Guy, and even fawns over Yaten in front of Artemis, but in reality is quite fond of him.
  • In the anime, Sailor Lead Crow was this to her partner Sailor Aluminium Siren. Even if you don't ship them together, you can't ignore how Lead Crow nagged on her partner but ultimately cared for her. She was heartbreakingly deredere when Siren was killed.
  • When Zoisite became Zoycite in the DiC dub, her personality shifted to this; where Zoisite was cruel to everyone but Kunzite, Zoycite had moments where she seemed harsh towards Malachite despite loving him deeply.
  • An/Natsumi is like this towards Eil/Seijirou until the very end of their arc.
• Saiyuki has Sanzo as the male example. He is short-tempered, has little patience with anyone, a foul mouth and attitude, and constantly shoots people (even those in his party) while spewing death threats over the slightest annoyance. However, in one episode on Reload, the same pissy monk reluctantly agrees to babysit a stray kitten the party stumbled on after fighting youkai in spite of his crippling fear of triggering his allergies to cats, and gradually warms up to the cat enough to nap with it and grow heavily concerned over it when it was injured trying to save him from a surprise attack. Every once in a while, however, he is a lot calmer in talking with Hakkai without the need of violence, and genuinely cares for Goku among the others of the group (whether he admits it or not) that he gets even more pissed when they're particularly injured or in danger. In cases where his party passes by a town in need (where the monster of the episode may be lurking), he also is charismatic and shows a bit of care in the welbeing of whoever the party has to save (namely female one-of characters). His past incarnation, Konzen, is also the same, but his tsun-tsun is a lot more toned down and he's a lot more willing to show he has a dere-dere side.
• Saki: Kyouko is this to Suzu, her teammate on the Himematsu mahjong team as despite writing on her forehead when she loses, she has great faith in her abilities. 15 months before the nationals, when Ikuno told Kyouko that they were considering putting her on the team, Kyouko declined, arguing that Suzu would be a better choice, as while Suzu doesn't rank well under Himematsu's ranking system, she has great potential when outmatched. Kyouko then asked Ikuno not to tell Suzu that Kyouko recommended her, saying it would be embarrassing.
• Sakura no Ichiban!: Misao is heavy with the tsun as she is hot tempered, almost always in a bad mood and often puts her hands on Asami when the other girl annoys her or does something wreckless. However, there are several instances where it's shown that she cares a lot for Asami even though she vehemently denies it.
• Samurai Deeper Kyo: Kyo is very heavy on the tsuntsun. Hoo boy. He regularly calls his Love Interest dog-face and Servant #1, and has a really obnoxious habit of randomly feeling her up, no matter who happens to be watching. But the few moments in which he shows that he cares about her and the way he fights when she's in danger are surprisingly genuine and heartwarming, especially near the end of the manga.
• Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi has both types. Older sister Ibuki is a very kind, sweet girl who pounds anyone into oblivion when they cross her, specifically Yoichi whenever he shows signs of being an Accidental Pervert. Younger sister Ayame tries to play it cool all the time, but can't always hide her attraction to the samurai.
• Cloudcuckoolander Umino Masachika from Satou Kashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai fits this at times. When asked why she told her new "good friend" to go to hell in the middle of class, she responded that it was "an expression of love!"
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei:
  • Mayo Mitama is described as a Tsundere by another character, but parodies the type by having a barely evident "dere" side, and a "tsun" side so outright psychopathic that no amount of "dere" could counterbalance it.
  • In episode 5 of the second season, the apologetic Ai Kaga briefly "becomes a tsundere character" for all the wrong reasons... Which prompts Itoshiki to wonder if a tsundere without the dere side is possible nowadays. Manga Fangirl Harumi Fujiyoshi is quick to reply that it is, since the dere side can be "filled in by imagination."
• School Days: The most straight-up Tsundere is the local Patient Childhood Love Interest, the bossy and no-nosense Alpha Bitch and sportswoman Otome Katou. Her deredere side is more evident in the games.
• Non-romantic example: In Servant × Service, Touko often hangs around the welfare section of the ward office and challenging the staff with welfare laws. Reason is Big Brother Worship; she just wants to hang out more with her big brother Taishi, who works there.
• Shadow Star:
  • Satomi Ozawa is a quite dark version of this; apart from being one of the main villains, her relationship with her (ex-)boyfriend Bungo Takano is more screwed up than usual. In the manga, she only softens up to him again after a rather severe case of Break the Haughty.
  • Norio Koga, the resident gay character, is a possible male Tsundere. He's usually a very grouchy guy who likes to tell Takeo Tsurumaru that he hates him (though to be fair, Takeo can be quite an ass) but secretly has romantic feelings for the guy that go as far as wanting to have his baby. His deredere side doesn't show much, and when it does, it's fairly downplayed.
• Shaman King: Kyouyama Anna serves as a good example of Tsundere, though more of the tsuntsun than the deredere. In the flashback chapters when we witness Yoh and Anna's first meeting, young Anna is very cold to Yoh, saying he's lame and that she cannot believe he's her future husband. It is later revealed that Anna is being followed by an oni of her own creation, who attacks anyone who tries to get close to her, which is partly — but not wholly — the reason why she pushes Yoh away. When Yoh promises to become the Shaman King for her, Anna begins to warms up to him. However, she never lets herself go very much into deredere, maintaining that tsuntsun with Yoh by forcing him through incredibly difficult training and often refusing to help him out of near-death situations. However, her affections for him are seen now and again, and it's easy to see in those moments how much Yoh means to her, like when she briefly broke down crying when Yoh was possessed by Tokagerou to save Ryu, her reaction to Yoh's Evil Twin Hao trying an I Have You Now, My Pretty on her, or her serious Heroic BSoD when Yoh almost dies at the hands of Hao.
• She's My Knight: Haruma Ichinose, being basically an expy of Mikoshiba (see Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun above), is a quintessential male tsundere, putting on a "ladies' man" facade while blushing in embarrassment whenever he tries to flirt (or Mogami seems to be flirting back at him).
  Miyoshi: You like her, don't you?
  Ichinose: WHAT?! O-o-o-of course not! She barely even looks like a girl!
  But, I mean, what if she fell for me? That would mean I'm cooler than her, y'know?
  I guess I could go out with her if she asked. She's not bad looking, and she's nice, and cute...
  So anyway, I don't like her at all.
• Utau Hoshina of Shugo Chara! — mainly towards Amu Hinamori (because she refuses to admit she's her friend) and Kukai Souma (because she refuses to admit she may or may not like someone other than her brother).
• Space Pirate Mito: Kafuko is Harsh and usually uses the smirk on Aoi, the protagonist, to try and hide her crush on him. She also tries to discourage another girl that she notices getting close to Aoi by listing off all his faults, but only ends up revealing her crush and encouraging the girl instead.
• An early example would be Kasha Imhof (towards Cosmo Yuki) from Space Runaway Ideon, though she is definitely more on the tsun-tsun side throughout the series. The closest she comes to dere-dere is during the Kitty Kitten arc, but she finally acknowledges her feelings for Cosmo half-way through the Be Invoked movie... only to die shortly afterwards. And then, everyone else dies.
• Spy X Family: While he was showing signs of it before, Damian dives headfirst into this trope after Anya gives a very tearful apology for punching him. It's mostly because he can't believe that he'd be developing feelings for a lower-class girl.
• St. ♡ Dragon Girl: Momoka is normally a sweet girl but Ryuga's teasings always manages to draw out her violent side.
• Suzuka from the manga of the same name is extremely harsh towards Akitsuki, despite having strong feelings for him. Several times, while they were officially dating, she told him that she hated him and to leave her alone, or flat out punching him. Once she comes back from America and even more so after the unintended pregnancy and their marriage, when she fully realizes how much Akitsuki loves her, she warms up quite a bit and only acts tsun towards Akitskuki-kun when provoked.
• Male example with Manabizaki from SWOT. He's usually foul-tempered and really gruff and dismissive. No, he didn't come to save you — he was just on his way to the test/class/study-session and the bad guys got in the way. He doesn't like Hasuno. She's a damned ex-delinquent and the people attacking her were making too much noise, so he couldn't study properly. What?! No, he is not blushing!
• Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee: Niche is a rather extreme one. Default mode: rude and violent. Occupation: Dingo for Letter Bee Lag Seeing. Likes: Lag Seeing. Dislikes: armor bugs, when Lag talks to girls with larger chests than her own, or to almost everyone else, for that matter, and underpants, especially the little ones that go "pi" when Niche moves.
• Tentai Senshi Sunred: Sunred is a romantic version of this towards his girlfriend Sayoko, appreciating and loving her but being really bad at expressing it honestly under his very gruff and jerkish personality. On a platonic level he's also this against his 'Arch-Enemy' Vamp and the rest of Florsheim — ever since he retired from being a Sentai hero he has no friends or colleagues left, and only his former enemies bother to check in on him (even if it is just to fight him to the death and Take Over the World).
• To Heart:
  • Shiho Nagaoka qualifies, especially when she develops feelings for Hiroyuki in the last two episodes of the anime.
  • As well as Yuma Tonami from To Heart 2, who finally admits to herself she likes the male lead in the second episode of the 2 part OVA To Heart 2: Another Days.
  • Ruri Himeyuri could also be classified as a Tsundere, given the way she treats Takaaki and how overprotective she is of Sango.
• To Love Ru: Yui Kotegawa spends much of her time scolding the other cast members for their (mostly unintentional) indecent behavior, but as the series goes on she finds herself in love with Rito.
• Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidou Kyuukyuu Keisatsu: Taiga Yagura is very aloof at first, especially towards Gou, and unwilling to admit he sees Gou as a friend. He does mellow out quite a bit over time.
• Tonari no Kashiwagi-san has Sayaka. Yuuto and Kotone even discuss it at one point, trying to figure out her feelings for Kazuki. Once they start dating, Kazuki gets very proficient in pushing her dere buttons, usually to her embarrassment.
• Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: Kurogane starts out pure tsuntsun (Often easily annoyed by Fai's antics, never calls anyone by name, etc) but eventually reveals a deredere side first when he meets a lookalike of his princess (Tomoyo-hime) in Piffle World (and Fai teases him about this — but then again, Fai teases him about everything), and then when he unflinchingly offers to give up his own blood to save Fai — almost a direct parallel with Syaoran offering to pay Yuuko's price before she even names it in order to save Sakura. A crowning moment for the Kuro/Fai ship, which had until that point looked like unrequited love on Fai's part, and a great display of "Kuro-rin"'s "deredere" side.
• The Tyrant Falls in Love: Souichi is antisocial and ill-tempered to pretty much everyone, but doles out most of his punches, kicks, and verbal abuse to Morinaga. Except for when he accidentally lets slip signs that he cares for Morinaga more than he'd like to admit, upon which he's reduced to furious blushing and stammered-out denials. It certainly doesn't help that Souichi's supposed to be a homophobe, which severely hinders him from accepting the idea of him being in love with another man, much less being affectionate towards one.
• Ushio and Tora:
  • Tora is one of the rare clear male examples — he refuses to admit that he considers Ushio a friend and generally goes ballistic if anyone implies that they like each other. He also consistently threatens and attacks Ushio (Violent Approach, check), insults him (Taunt, check), or tries to simply ignore him. (Cold Shoulder, check.) Nevertheless, he always shows up to help Ushio in tight spots, often with a " Don't get me wrong, I just..." excuse. (Defender, check.) All in all, it's pretty obvious they share a strong trust and respect for each other; they just won't admit it.
  • In later chapters, Tora develops a very similar (but less violent and far more romantic) relationship to Mayuko, whose life he keeps saving. What is his motivation for going out of his way to help these people he claims he doesn't like? He's the only one allowed to eat them. (Which, of course, he never gets around to doing.)
• Vandread: Hibiki Tokai, having grown up in a world where men and women were raised separately and conditioned to view each other as mortal enemies, is completely clueless as to how to act around girls. Even once he starts to open up to Dita, he fiercely denies becoming close to the opposite gender. Definitely the "doesn't believe that men should show weakness" variety.
• Zero Kiryu from Vampire Knight counts as one. He developed this persona towards the Day Class girls excluding Yuki.
• Vermeil in Gold: Deconstructed with Lilia Kudelfelt, Alto Goldfield's Childhood Friend. She's blatantly crushing on Alto, but she's so stubborn and unable to speak with him without seeming rude, which makes it impossible for her to actually advance towards Childhood Friend Romance. Vermeil's appearance ends up leading to a total collapse of any chance she might have had if she had tried to be more forward with her feelings.
• The Wallflower:
  • Sunako is this towards Kyohei. At first, their relationship is rather rocky as she's completely turned off by how "radiant" he is, to the point where she becomes distraught and has an urge to kill him. Eventually, the hostility she had towards him gradually fades as she starts to warm up to him in later chapters, though she still can't stand him at times, making it a love-hate relationship between the two. It is hinted many times throughout the manga that she developed feelings for him, but doesn't realize this until the last chapter. Maybe.
  • Kyohei is a male example. He's rough and rude towards Sunako even though he obviously likes her. The most he'll admit is that he likes her cooking, though.
• Wandering Son: Maho is one of these, mainly towards her younger brother (well, sister). She was introduced as a normal, if someone mean-spirited and bratty, sibling but got increasingly more tsundere and aggressive with time. Still for all their tussles she does love Shuu.
• The World God Only Knows:
  • Mio puts on a harsh front towards Keima, but has feelings for him deep down. Keima even identifies her as the type of character who puts up a strong and arrogant front to hide her vulnerability. She particularly likes to use a whip to motivate him, and it's pointed out by Morita that it looks like she developed a Casual Kink for it. She partially loses her tsun side after her arc.
  • Haqua becomes this right after a few chapters of interacting with Keima. And considering the scythe she's waving around it's better to steer way clear of her outbursts.
  • Diana, the goddess residing inside Keima's friend Tenri. She says she has no interest in such a disgusting man like Keima and is only trying to help Tenri, but still blushes a lot around him and is a Clingy Jealous Girl when Keima pursues or shows interest in anyone not named Tenri.
  • Ayumi. Since she's part of the track and field team, that means painful kicks for Keima.
  • Chihiro. One of the girls that acts jerkier to Keima in spite of her clear affections for him. She is also one of the few who can actually defeat him verbally.
  • Tsukiyo tries to be The Stoic, but tends to get violent and have outbursts around Keima.
• In ×××HOLiC, Kimihiro Watanuki is most often this towards Shizuka Doumeki (with occasional instances where he shows his dere-dere side). Towards beautiful women, however, he's pure deredere. Except for Yuuko, in which case he's also a Tsundere.
• Nene Odagiri from Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches who is madly in love with the eponymous Yamada, but spends most of her time trying to bite his head off. She is one of his most supportive and helpful friends (when she isn't trying to steal him away from his girlfriend, that is), but absolutely refuses to admit that she has a soft side to her. And yet, she can't help her more tender emotions from showing now and then.
• Yowamushi Pedal has Arakita Yasutomo, who acts very harshly towards Shinkai Hayato. It may not be romantic, but it's because Arakita and Shinkai's relationship works because Shinkai ignores his angry behavior.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • Mai Kujaku/Valentine and Jou/Joey from the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, often towards each other. Though it takes some defrosting following her first defeat to bring out the former's dere.
  • Seto Kaiba from the same series, despite constantly trash-talking them, spends a lot of time helping out Yugi and company while insisting that he doesn't care about them and has ulterior reasons for doing so. He also got very passionately angry when Yugi lost in the Filler Arc, as if such a thing was a personal affront to him as a rival, and Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions is driven primarily by his Yugi obsession.
  • Aki Izayoi from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds combines this with Defrosting Ice Queen, starting off (quite justifiably) tsuntsun and terrifyingly violent toward just about everyone, but eventually seemingly warming up to Yusei. She basically becomes more of a Sweet, Moe girl by season three.
• Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Karin offers a platonic example. After having trained for years to be a Magical Girl Warrior, she insists that she has no time for frivolous things like friendship. She only attends the Hero Club's social events to keep an eye on the other girls. It's not like she's enjoying herself or anything.
• Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: Sagiri starts out as a textbook example of a Harsh type, initially having a bad temper, being quick to jump to conclusions, and threatening Kogarashi whenever she thinks he's being a pervert. Once she realizes he's not a bad person like she initially thought, Sagiri's attitude towards Kogarashi softens considerably and she stops threatening him for Accidental Pervert moments.

Sweet (Dere)

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Kishika typically presents herself with a chivalrous knightly persona, but will vehemently refuse anything that could cause her to lapse into an infantile state.
• Angel Densetsu: Ryoko is always sweet to her Love Interest Kitano and pretty nice to normal people, but has a fiery temper when provoked by challengers and people who annoy her.
• Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Takao likes to act haughty and aloof, but only when she's trying to impress. The rest of the time she can be quite sweet and downright melts around Gunzou, which is lampshaded by most characters, to her annoyance.
• B Gata H Kei: Yamada is an adorably perverted Cloudcuckoolander, until she gets near Kosuda.
• Case Closed:
  • Ran Mouri. Since she's a national-ranked karate girl, her violent tendencies come in handy more than once.
  • Sumiko Kobayashi exhibits slight tsundere traits in her and Shiratori's focus episodes. She's normally the sweetest and kindest Cool Teacher, but when she suspects that Shiratori is using her to forget about his former love Sato, she freezes up towards him big time, and it takes him quite a bit to get to her.
• ChocoMimi: Mimi is firmly dere. The only character that triggers her tsun side is Mumu.
• Crimson Spell: Prince Valdrigr is friendly, noble, and kindhearted to everyone he meets, but Insufferable Genius Halvir and Vald's own mixed feelings about him bring out the tsun.
• Dagashi Kashi: Tsaya is of the dere variety as she's overall a nice and pleasant person, but gets flustered when ever her crush on Kokonotsu is brought up.
• Doraemon: Shizuka (Sue) is one of the nicer characters, but if Nobita does something stupid or tactless, she won't hesitate to punish him.
• Dramacon: The lead protagonist, Christie, is usually a kind person around her friends. However, when she's around Matt, she goes all tsuntsun on him. He kind of deserves it when he acts like a jerk or makes some kind of inappropriate comment about her. She gets better in the other volumes.
  • She was also like this to her ex-boyfriend, Derek. To be fair, he flirted with any girl he saw and paid little attention to her at all. This, along with the Attempted Rape scene, was the reason why she broke up with him.
• Fairy Tail has several Harsh tsunderes, but they also give us a Sweet one with Levy McGarden. She's sweet to everyone, but often gets angry at Gajeel Redfox, resident Jerk with a Heart of Gold. We can all see where this Ship Tease is going....
  • There's also Lucy Heartfilia. Although it's mostly Played for Laughs (and probably riffing on other anime's use of the trope) and everyone in the guild is... rowdy, the normally cute, flirty, light-hearted celestial wizard can have a violent temper at times, especially when finding tresspassers in her house. Which happens every other episode.
• In a Boys' Love example, Randy "Ryo" McLean from FAKE can be seen as Tsundere towards his partner and love interest Dee Laytner. Doesn't help that Dee is not only an ex-The Casanova, but quite the Handsome Lech who is often chased around by Crazy Jealous Guy JJ.
  • Carol fits a bit more as the typical Tsundere towards her best friend and later boyfriend, Ryo's adoptive son Bikky.
• Fly Me to the Moon: Tsukasa is a Nice Girl but can be cold to people who get on her nerves.
• Fruits Basket: Kagura Sohma is a rather curious mix of Tsundere and Yandere. She largely exhibits traits of the Sweet type, as she's normally very nice to other people...but when it comes to Kyo it's a whole other story, as she's openly affectionate towards him but will easily snap and beat him half to death whenever he runs away from her or rebuffs her advances. She's ironically also on friendly terms with her "rival," Tohru.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Winry Rockbell is a really sweet and cheerful girl who almost never gets angry, unless Ed breaks the automail she made for him, which usually results in her beating him up with her wrench.
• Future GPX Cyber Formula: Asuka Sugo is generally a sweet and caring girl, but her tsun side comes out when somebody/something pushes her buttons. In EP 32, for example, she throws stuff at her friend and teammate Hayato when he accidentally sees her wearing a towel. It has since mellowed out after the end of the TV series.
• Heaven's Lost Property: Sohara is normally quite nice, but Tomoki's perversion triggers her violent side.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • In the Highschool AU mini-game, Gakuen Hetalia, the main character Seychelles is Sweet. She's mostly sweet and demure, but as soon as England or France get pushy on her, she goes very tsuntsun.
  • Taiwan also has some shades of this. She's more often than not a Genki Girl, but snaps rather fast when China annoys her.
  • There have also been fan interpretations of several characters as Sweet tsunderes; see the Fanfiction section below for more info.
• Two oldschool examples are Honey from Honey Honey and Candy from Candy♡Candy. Both are blonde, plucky, cheerful Heartwarming Orphans who go grumpy towards Gentleman Thief Phoenix and Troubled, but Cute Terry, respectively. Though Candy is pure deredere towards her other possible love interests, Anthony (who dies in an accident) and Albert (Anthony's uncle, who may be more likely to get to her, since Terry stays with Delicate and Sickly Susanna instead.)
• Liz Ricarro from IGPX is a more muted tsundere — her arguments with Takeshi don't always extend to violence; most of the time they get along more or less fine, she usually has a concrete reason for berating or attacking him (Takeshi does kind of have an ego), and both are trained martial artists anyway. Takeshi puts it best in episode 2: "If you're not screaming, you're not happy."
• I'm Gonna Be an Angel!: Mikael is Harsh with Raphael and Sweet with anyone else with a mix of Yangire. He usually acts like a nice, kind and polite gentleman that is until everything goes according to his plans — if not, he might turn into a full-blown Yangire). And when around Raphael, he's a straight-up Harsh Tsundere with very occasional dere side popping out in critical moments.
  • Also, Natsumi is mostly Sweet: she's genuinely sweet and kind, but especially in the first season often acted very tsunderish towards Yuusuke — slapping him, tearing his love letter and being an overall bitch. She might be more of a Defrosting Ice Queen since by the end of the series she almost completely mellowed down.
• Inuyasha:
  • Kagome Higurashi. She is sweet and understanding most of the time, but make her mad and she'll unleash her violent side upon you, which is especially bad for Inuyasha since she has power over a cursed necklace that will slam him into the ground. Note that she warmed up to Inuyasha quite faster than the other Takahashi Tsunderes towards their love interests.
  • Sango is also a tsundere towards her love interest Miroku, who she harshly criticizes and hits when he behaves like a pervert, but when not provoked by him she's basically a Yamato Nadeshiko.
• Kamisama Kiss: Nanami is usually a sweet person, but the only one who provokes her Tsun-Tsun side is Tomoe. Even with his snarky and rude behavior, she does show her Dere-Dere side.
• The Kindaichi Case Files: Miyuki, mostly towards Kindaichi because he is a lazy jerk at times.
• Kotoura-san: Haruka is usually Sweet — she's mainly The Ingenue, but can be very tsuntsun when Manabe is being a pervert or an idiot.
• Little House with an Orange Roof: Natsumi Tachibana is one of these, though her ex-husband's rampant infidelity is more reason than a Tsundere usually has.
• Macross Frontier: Sheryl Nome demonstrates this in moderation, though her particularly Dere moments means she's about to hit you with The Tease. Has a crush on a certain someone in the Harsh list, and some Les Yay vibes with her Moe love rival Ranka.
• Maison Ikkoku: Kyoko Otonashi expresses Tsundere qualities as a subversion of the Yamato Nadeshiko personality: basically, her outwardly perfect Japanese housewife persona hides her childish, almost bipolar bouts of tsundere-ness. She is an interesting case, as in that when the audience meets her parents, it's shown that her mother is a tsundere and in flashbacks, that Kyoko was even more openly a tsundere in her youth. (Interacting with her parents seems to bring this out in her). It's as if Kyoko is the mascot for teenage tsunderes who manage to grow-up and become the Yamato Nadeshiko that most of them want to be (and it's been speculated that she became a YN after having been widowed very early, rather than anything else). However, her old tsundere behavior is still there, ready to breakout if she relives old childhood experiences.
  Godai: The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice... but when she laughs... the world is mine.
• Major: Kaoru Shimizu is generally a very sweet and kind girl, but her tsun side really flares up when she's around Goro. As the series advances, and especially after they finally begin dating each other her dere side takes over.
  • The sequel, Major 2nd has Mutsuko Sakura, who is also a dere type by default, but sometimes Daigo gets on her nerves by being clueless to her feelings and insensitive.
• Since Domon Kasshu evolves into a Harsh Tsundere as Mobile Fighter G Gundam advances, his partner Rain Mikamura can't be less than he is. She's the sweetest and most motherly girl around, but Domon is among the few who can push her buttons.
• Anime Chinese Girl Fa Yuiri from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam also qualifies as Sweet Tsundere in regards to her neighbor and partner Kamille Vidan, specially when Sarah Zaviaroff or Rosamia Badam are nearby. In the sequel Gundam ZZ, where the more mature Fa is the Team Mom, Elle Vianno and later Roux Rouka (though she's a bit more of a Defrosting Ice Queen) become the local Tsundere.
• Rockna from Mon Colle Knights is a mix between this and Yandere. Mostly sweet and innocent, but becomes violent towards her dad or Mondo when they act rudely or hit on other girls.
• Monster Musume: Miia is usually sugary-sweet and demure, as long as she has Kimihito to herself. However, whenever she feels her claim on him is threatened, she quickly grows irritable and aggressively domineering even towards her beloved "Darling".
• Mamiko, the heroine of Nozaki's Shoujo Genre series in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. Her personality is based on Mikoto's own Sweet tendencies (though her looks were based on Chiyo Sakura, after her and Nozaki's Forgotten First Meeting). Or as Nozaki puts it in chapter 20, while providing some guidance for Hori when he's ill:
  "Even though she likes Suzuki, she can't be honest with herself and always ends up saying the wrong thing, so on one hand, she feels depressed, and on the other, she's worried about the other girls' actions, thinking, "Can I trust Suzuki?" Like that."
• My-HiME: Mai Tokiha flips back and forth between "hot" and "cold" around Yuuichi Tate, as she occasionally has to deal with his practical jokes and moments of perversity (accidental and otherwise), and the Clingy Jealous Girl who always hangs around him. Being the new girl in town, she still wants to do right by everybody... even him.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Natsumi is usually a very nice, unconfident girl, but has troubles coming to terms with her feelings for Kotaro and her budding Belligerent Sexual Tension with him (mainly due to the fact that he's still a kid).
• One Piece: Before we meet Princess Mansherry, she's described as "bitter, selfish, cruel, spoiled and ill-tempered." Later, when we meet her in person, she is very unlike this description. It turns out she's actually sweet by default, but harsh towards Leo (the person who gave that description), because she is in love with him and easily frustrated by his being Oblivious to Love.
• Peter Panno Bouken has Tiger Lily as a Harsh type... and it makes Wendy Darling a Sweet one. She's the most maternal and sweet girl, like any other of their incarnations, but this one also gives her a Hot-Blooded side that makes her downright terrifying in the rare times she when she gets mad, like the time when she went Almighty Mom on none other than Captain Hook and was THIS close to go Talking the Monster to Death on him.
• Oddly, the main Shaymin of the 11th movie Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior was quite tsundere, not to mention cocky and snobby too. (For people who don't know... Shaymin are a species of Pokémon, not a human.)
  • It wouldn't be the first time a Pokémon acted like a tsundere. That award goes to the shiny Celebi from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky, towards her loyal knight Grovyle. (Okay, technically Celebi are genderless, but trust me, this one was female.)
  • Also from the anime: Haruka/May. Seemed awfully sweet compared to the aforementioned Harsh tsundere Kasumi/Misty being Satoshi/Ash's previous companion, but had more than enough tsuntsun to go around when certain other people annoy her. And stay clear of her food. Even Sweet types can become killbots when their buttons are pressed.
• Seigaku Fangirl and local Tomboy Tomoka "Tomo-chan" Osakada from The Prince of Tennis, contrasting with her girly best friend Sakuno Ryuzaki. Tomoka is very open about her crush-like admiration for "Ryoma-sama," acts very sweet and protective of Sakuno, behaves cheerful and tomboyish towards others in general and has a borderline Slap-Slap-Kiss relationship with another of Ryoma's friends, local Chew Toy Satoshi Horio.
  • The manga and the anime show Ryoma's mother, Rinko Echizen nee Takeuchi, as being quite the Tsundere towards her boyfriend and later husband Nanjiroh, before their marriage. Nanjiroh seems to like his girls feisty, too, since he teases Rinko a lot about her rather flat chest in the first stages of their relationship.
  • Eiji Kikumaru can also count as this, for at least one instance. He's usually a happy, bouncy sort of character, but when Oishi injures himself and he is forced to play a singles match, he proceeds to put on his serious and totally wreck his opponent.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: Itsuki is this. It doesn't help that Fuutarou's quite an ass by himself prior to his Character Development in which he and the youngest quintuplet started on wrong foot, which makes Itsuki's harshness to him somehow justified. She is also the second-to-last quintuplet who accepts him as their tutor (much sooner than Nino does) helped by the fact that she quickly grows fond of his little sister Raiha, and their shared circumstances regarding to their deceased mothers who they adore even after death, even defending him from Nino when she goes too far. She's civil most of the time with Fuutarou until he does or says something that turns her into a ball of temper, like making fun of her Big Eater tendencies.They seem to get along much better despite their bickering, and she's the only quintuplet who does not develop feelings for him, at least not until he's already made his choice.
• In Romeo × Juliet, whereas Curio's Harsh male Tsundere tendencies are a bit arguable depending on how one sees his relationship with Francisco, Team Mom Cordelia is definitely a Sweet Tsundere towards Benvolio.
• Both Misao Makimachi and Kaoru Kamiya in Rurouni Kenshin, despite the latter having the looks and garb of a Yamato Nadeshiko.
  • In Kaoru's defense, she has to deal with Yahiko Myoujin and Sanosuke Sagara on a daily basis, and neither of them ever have anything nice to say. Kenshin is genuinely nice to her and is therefore much less of a pain in the ass for her to deal with, but he does has a bad habit of saying the wrong things at the wrong times, which brings out Kaoru's tsuntsun side like nothing else.
  • Kaoru even gets an image song titled "It's Not That I Like You or Anything."
• Sailor Moon:
  • Usagi started as a mild version of Sweet. She was a Cute Clumsy Girl crybaby, but when Mamoru showed up and teased/criticized her, she went all tsuntsun on him. On the other hand, she mellowed out almost immediately after they got together.
  • Naru Osaka becomes a Sweet Tsundere when she falls in love with Umino, after the terrible death of her first love Nephrite.
• Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi: Female Protagonist Ibuki is kind, treats others well, and admired by most characters. Except when Yoichi does something perverted, or ends up in a compromising situation with another woman.
• Sawachika Eri from School Rumble. She only shows her Tsun-Tsun side to her friends, and Harima.
• Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: Jun "The Swan" is a kind and dedicated girl who cares deeply for her teammates, but she has quite a temper on her as well. Odd example in that her temper is usually set off by adopted little brother Jinpei or Dumb Muscle Ryu's wisecracks rather than her crush Ken.
• In Yaoi series Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi, we have Ritsu. He's normally a nice, friendly, and helpful guy to everyone he meets. However, when it comes to his boss/ex-boyfriend from high school, Takano, he turns tsuntsun on him. This is because Ritsu vowed to never fall in love again and a misunderstood moment that led to the two breaking up.
• Sonic X: Amy Rose will start off as sweet and gentle, but will later become nasty due to her occasional mood swings and will use her trademark hammer on anyone who's enraged her the slightest. Particularly the only thing that sets her off is when Sonic does his own thing instead of spending time with her. By the Metarex saga, she graduates to Harsh where she is abusive to almost every character.
• Soul Eater: If Black*Star does end up with Tsubaki, it would stand to reason that his relationship with her is like this — he's very nice to her, but a bit of an ass to everyone else in the beginning.
  • Arguably, Maka Albarn. She's generally sweet and nice... Until Soul does something stupid. Or you mention her lack of chestage.
• Special A: Hikari Hanazono has shades of Sweet. While usually a Genki Girl, she has her tsun moments when coming to terms with her feelings for Kei.
• The main character of Suki × Suki, Touka, is generally kind to all around her, with the exception of Ryoutarou. Touka has sincere feelings for Ryoutarou and her hostility comes from her getting nervous when face to face with him. The manga's plot focuses on Touka's ability to become invisible at will being used primarily to hover over Ryoutarou as much as possible and express the feelings she can't say openly, oblivious to the fact that Ryoutarou's the one person who can see her.
• Tenchi Muyo!:
  • Another possible "matured" Tsundere is Princess Ayeka. She attempts to put on a dignified personality, but is certainly suppressing violent tendencies (even in the OVA, where she has a much sweeter personality). The trigger for her adoption of her dere personality? The loss of her Love Interest and half-brother, Yosho. Of course, she targets her violence out on to her rival rather than her Love Interest.
  • This seems to be the main Les Yay argument put forward for Ryoko and Ayeka.
  • Kiyone sometimes is interpreted as one as well. Particularly in her relationship with Mihoshi (who from Kiyone's perspective might be considered a weird form of The Rival combined with The Load). Since Mihoshi is a Genius Ditz, the constant clash is widely interpreted as Les Yay.
• In the Tiger & Bunny drama CDs, we see that Kotetsu's wife was Tsundere towards him, at least when they were still in high school. When she started calling him by his first name, for example.
  Kotetsu: Um, uh... did you just call me...
  Tomoe: Ah! Um! I-I-I just thought Kotetsu T. Kaburagi w-was too long, so I thought I would give you a little nickname!
  Kotetsu: But Kotetsu's my real name...
  Tomoe: I-It's not like it matters or anything!
• Kazuki from Tona-Gura! is shown in the beginning to be a nice girl who is looking to her childhood friend moving back next door. Her "tsun-tsun" side emerges upon discovering that said childhood friend had grown up to become a pervert. Later, though, she remembers that he had always been somewhat like this, even as a little boy, which he largely still acts like. She also finds that she has become somewhat more uptight than she was. Mind you, this hardly solves everything. The indication at anime's end is that he will try to be more playful but respectful than perverted, and she will try to be just serious, rather than angrily decrying his nature at every turn.
• Kosumo from Towa Kamo Shirenai is textbook Sweet. She's kind and gentle, but if you do something she dislikes, she won't hesitate to call you out.
• Asako from Ushio and Tora. She's nice and friendly to everyone, except Ushio. Lampshaded by one of her classmates.
• Alicia Melchiott of the Valkyria Chronicles anime adaptation has this early on, complete with calling her love interest Welkin "baka"! Of course, she only switches to tsundere mode at specific instances and she definitely mellows out.
  • Similarly, whenever we see Edy Nelson, another member of Squad 7, she's beating up on poor Homer. She's definitely more tsuntsun, though.
  • Those two characters are also the ones with the most well defined Girlish Pigtails. Coincidence?
• Vassalord: Charley is normally a very nice person — religious, kind, considerate...except when it comes to his "master" Rayflo, who brings out the tsun in him big time. Rayflo even comments "Cherry, sweet and kind to everyone...everyone except me that is!" Still, Charley obviously has affection for him, however badly he tries to hide it.
• Ai Amano from Video Girl Ai. Note that she was not supposed to be a Tsundere — until Youta played her video in a broken VCR. Len Momono from Video Girl Len fits a bit more.
• Kaori Miyazono from Your Lie in April. She's normally nice and cheerful, but she's still short-tempered and prone to violent mood swings.
• Ayano Sugiura from YuruYuri, a stereotypical example. She's nice to everyone, but she's always confrontational to and keeps saying stuff like "I'm not doing this for you!" to Kyōko Toshinō. Her most obvious moment is when she bought a pudding for Kyōko (while characteristically denying it), got ice cream from her in return, and just stored it in the fridge so she could look at it every day.
• Keiko Yukimura from YuYu Hakusho, kind and helpful towards everyone unless she's dealing with Yusuke. And even then, the possibility of having Yusuke seriously hurt or dead sends her into tears, if not into an Heroic BSoD.

Unsorted (May have mixed traits)

• Ah! My Goddess has a couple of examples:
  • Sayoko is something of a split case depending on the medium.
    • In the manga, she initially tried chiseling in on Keiichi and Belldandy's relationship as one of many ways to spite Belldandy (who became the new "queen of Nekomi Tech," as Sayoko put it). She would later warm up to Keiichi, and stopped interfering in his relationship with Belldandy, but kept trying (and failing) to upstage her.
    • The animated incarnation itself is something of a mixed bag. In the OVA, she had all of one Jerkass moment; the rest of the time she's fairly nice, to the point of giving Keiichi advice. In the TV series, she starts out quite rude to Keiichi and goes out of her way to ruin Belldandy. She outright falls for Keiichi after receiving the full force of his Nice Guy personality (and failing to manipulate him). She reluctantly gives up on him when she realizes he'll never return her feelings. She still wants to upstage Belldandy, but she and Keiichi stay friends.
  • Skuld, Belldandy's younger sister, is a non-romantic, but probably straighter, version. She's a little too attached to her older sister, and will usually play dirty to keep her close (especially where Keiichi is concerned), but has her sweet moments, even when not with Bell or her love interest, Sentaro. Like Sayoko, she varies, from a Yandere to just a Bratty Half-Pint, depending on the incarnation, which is why she's more apt for the "Other" folder.
    • Regardless of incarnation, Skuld tends to have a very short fuse where Urd is concerned, and their fights are responsible for the majority of collateral damage in the series.
• Ai Kora:
  • Sakurako is Sweet; she's normally a nice girl, but Maeda's idiocy and perversions tend to bring out the worst in her. Aloof and hot-headed ninja-girl Kirino is a clear example of Harsh; in the Valentine's Day chapter, Kirino whips up a veritable feast of confections for Maeda, but insists that she was making giri-choco ("duty chocolate" given to co-workers or close male friends) and got carried away. Then she insists he eats it all and not let it go to waste.
  • Parodied in chapter 15, where Maeda is baffled as to why one of the most popular waitresses at the maid cafe is the grumpy Asagiri, while the suddenly moe-obsessed Shibusawa waxes on her appeal.
• Alice Quartet: Makino likes Yukino very much, but gets extremely defensive about it whenever it is pointed out.
• Bakugan: Runo is constantly fighting with Dan, to the point that their lovers' quarrels often get in the way of the Battle Brawlers' battles. Of course, neither one of them wants to admit that that's what these fights are.
• Berserk: Farnese starts out as tsuntsun, she's clearly attracted to Guts from the moment they meet but the fact that he saw her in a rare moment of total vulnerability during a demon attack, alongside his status as an enemy of the Holy See, initially fill her with murderous rage. After following him to Albion and having to be rescued by him from the Mock Eclipse she renounces her faith, joins his band and is tacitly appointed as Casca's caretaker, which gradually turns her into a total deredere, as remarked by Serpico, she even seems ready to give Guts up if the way she helped Schierke heal Casca is anything to go by.
• Brain Powerd:
  • Hime Utsumiya is a huge Tsundere to male lead Yuu. The two of them flip-flop quite often around each other, and at first never seem to really get along, leading to Yuu's frustration over not understanding why she takes offense at things like the stolen kiss during their reunion. Later on, however, the two built mutual respect that eventually solidifies in love.
  • Higgins Saz from the same series can be considered a Tsundere as well. She usually seems aloof and antisocial, and will pointedly ignore people who haven't earned her respect, while seeming still quite distant to others who did. However, she cares about people a lot, and drops her cold facade when around her beloved or her best friends, especially Kanan.
• Buso Renkin: While it becomes less prominent as the series progresses, Tokiko can become angry whenever Kazuki does something really stupid, but she still cares for him and can be very sweet when he does well.
• The Dangers in My Heart: Both on the surface and in his head, Kyōtarō Ichikawa is sour, dismissive and deconstructive about nearly every casual activity. Some of his inner monologues even include classic Tsundere lines. When he actually admits to enjoying something, he’ll either have a matter-a-fact or wishy-washy tone about it. That said, he's too nice and too shy to be openly "harsh", and his actions display how kindhearted he truly is.
• DearS: Neneko. Though she's a lot more subtle about it than most, preferring to yank Takeya's chain (mainly by making him do stuff for Ren) instead of directly attacking or insulting him.
• D.N.Angel:
  • Riku. Through the magic of Sibling Yin-Yang, her twin sister Risa is deredere-er than her.
  • It's also implied that the main lead's mother, Emiko, was somewhat like this when she was younger: whenever a boy tried to confess his love for her, she would respond that she would go out with him on one condition: "When we're married, we have to have a boy!" When the boys got understandably flustered, she'd angrily insist on the condition.
• Fly Me to the Moon: Chitose is very hostile towards Nasa, but seems worried about him when she learns that his apartment burned down.
• This was originally Ranpha Franboise's personality in Galaxy Angel. This was modified into a general overbearing romantic and gold-digging streak in the television series, probably because tsundere need a boy to emote at.
• Mika Seido in Geneshaft, who throughout the series yells at pretty much everyone at one time or another, especially her captain Hiroto Amagiwa whom she holds personally responsible for the death of her friend punching him in the first episode only to be the one who is always by his bed when he's greatly injured, although claiming it's a The Only One Allowed to Defeat You.
• In one episode of the second series of Genshiken, the guys are taking a break together while at a major anime/manga convention and, in the course of discussing erotic games, start figuring out the plot path to Tsundere and fellow club member Chika Ogiue as if she was a character in such a game, even calling her a "Tsundere" explicitly. Said Tsundere is actually listening in all this time, and getting more and more frustrated with her conflicting desires to both confront them and avoid being noticed, because she swore up and down that she had no intention of going to the con.
• Gintama: Gintoki is capable of deploying tsundere strategically, such as when he outsmarted other guys in the toilet episode in Kyuubei arc, or when he wooed Kyuubei in a group date.
• Girlfriend, Girlfriend: Saki is uncomfortable about expressing her emotions (especially in public), and because of this she will sometimes fall into stock tsundere behavior.
• Great Teacher Onizuka:
  • Urumi Kanzaki had a number of these moments... though a bit of a Yandere streak as well.
  • Anko Uehara started to develop into this when she began to fall for Noboru Yoshikawa. Before she was merely a bully jerkass.
• In addition to the aforementioned Nagi, Hayate the Combat Butler has several others who are or, strangely enough, become tsundere. Hinagiku is the most prominent, but Sakuya, Athena, and occasionally Maria at least have moments of this. Then the side characters start taking a crack at it... Whenever a character is more on the "tsun" side, their "dere" side is likely to scare Hayate even more since he isn't expecting it, and has no idea what it means.
  • Hinagiku herself is an interesting mixed case. She is actually "dere" by default and is popular at school for her kindness. But for the first part of the manga she showed her "tsun" side quite often since she was interacting mostly with Hayate and was in complete and utter denial of her feelings for him. Once she realized it for herself she began to mellow out. Lately, she's mostly in a friendly, neutral state and goes into blushing "dere" or flustered "tsun" moments based on Hayate's actions.
• Heaven's Lost Property:
  • Tomoki is always going on about how he's annoyed by Ikaros causing trouble and claims he could never develop feelings for a girl with wings, yet he gets depressed when Ikaros tells him she wants to leave him and blushes when she's acting cute.
  • Nymph loves Tomoki and wants him to be her new master, but that doesn't stop her from getting angry and violent towards Tomoki when he's being a gross pervert or when she's simply flustered about him.
  • The older Harpy twin is a very gruff woman and finds Tomoki's perversion annoying, but develops a soft spot for his kindness.
  • Astraea can act abrasive towards Tomoki, calling him stupid and hitting him when he's acting like a sex offender. She eventually does admit she has come to like him for his kindness, although she tries to say it's only friendship despite all the blushing.
• A very ironic case: In Heroic Age, the Silver Tribe are Straw Vulcans, that handle their emotions to selected individuals. After she gets better, Yuti La can't handle her emotions to Prome O anymore, and she becomes a Tsundere, perhaps Sweet, over Karkinos.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers has quite a few examples. England and South Italy are very obviously Harsh, and Word of God is that Germany is, too. Switzerland also shows definite signs of (past and vigorously denied) Harsh toward Austria, and fans have speculated that America is being subtly tsundere toward England. Then there's the aforementioned Sweet Seychelles. As it's a manga about countries, and countries go to war, there are few other Sweets.
• I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School: Yukata constantly gets exasperated and violent towards Matsuri, but it's obvious she loves and respects her greatly.
• Is This A Zombie?: Haruna. When it comes to Eu, she's a straightforward example. When it comes to Ayamu though, she's an enigma of emotions. She can and will be harsh, but she has also been nice to him without a hint of embarrassment or the denial that a tsundere often shows when expressing their "dere" side. It almost seems like she lacks the common sense to know how to be tsundere around him.
• Oh boy, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. While all the characters clearly have distinct personalities, motives, and traits, one could argue that every student council member is a tsundere, and even some characters outside the student council as well. Here are the strongest examples:
  • The female protagonist, Kaguya Shinomiya, is one of the most distinct, but also kind of played with. Starting off, she would seem like more of the "tsun" type; cold, meticulous, and very closed off. As the series goes on and her crush on Miyuki becomes more blatant, the "dere" side of her becomes more apparent, wanting to make the president as happy as possible while also opening up to other people. Her newfound gentleness clashes with her cold persona so hard, that internal conflicts are represented as arguments between personifications of those traits: Ice Kaguya (tsun) and Idiot Kaguya (dere).
  • The male protagonist, Miyuki Shirogane, is a less straight forward example, but still clearly shows tsundere traits. Like Kaguya, he usually does his best to hide his feelings through a condescending attitude and harsh remarks, but unlike Kaguya, he doesn't do this to everyone; only those he gets competitive with or annoy him. Compared to Kaguya's "tsun" coming from her harsh studies and powerful family, Miyuki's "tsun" comes from his need to show power despite coming from nothing (as he is one of the rare students that was not born into money) and an insecurity of people thinking poorly of him. However, because he isn't as bogged down in family politics or social needs, he is overall more approachable than Kaguya, and is able to get along with just about anyone in the cast as long as he's not trying to save face.
  • Yu Ishigami is another strange example, as he is normally a fairly lax character, not usually wanting to intrude on others' problems. However, if he's even a little agitated, he becomes the most brutally honest character in the series. Ishigami is normally at his most "tsun" when interacting with Fujiwara and Iino, the former of which being borderline despicable with her antics, and the latter of which because his own antics end up anger her, and her harsh personality pisses him off. On the flipside, his "dere" side shows more often whenever people show him support, most notably with Kaguya, Tsubame, and Iino whenever they manage to get along.
  • Miko Iino is arguably the most straight forward example in the student council, even when compared to Kaguya. Her strong, rather naive sense of justice makes her act "tsun" with people who are breaking rules, even the mundane ones (which is normally what causes her clashes with Ishigami, who's normally very lax when it comes to minor rules). However, it doesn't take much to get on her "dere" side; just a few light compliments, and she'll become incredibly nice to the compliment giver (given that she doesn't hate them). All of this likely came about because of her parents' general lack of presence in her life, as her sense of justice makes her feel connected with them, but she is also mentally starved for acceptance and comfort.
  • Unlike the rest of the student council, Chika Fujiwara is the least likely to be described as a tsundere. In fact, she is by far the most "dere" character of the council in their debut. But as time goes on, she does in fact grow a "tsun" side, and it is exclusively towards Miyuki. After Fujiwara trains Miyuki in many, many skills (that he always starts terribly at), any and all respect for him is lost, and she tends to be especially mean to him. She can't even bring herself to accept him going out with Kaguya (for Kaguya's sake, ironically) and openly announces that she will try to ruin their relationship.
  • Outside the student council, the most blatant example is Maki Shijo. As Maki appears in the series more regularly, it becomes apparent that she is set as a Foil for Kaguya, so their personalities turn out to be fairly similar. Like Kaguya, she normally acts cold and condescending to most people she meets and carries a prideful aura around her, but unlike Kaguya, she is not as difficult to approach, so she starts with more friends at the beginning of the series (although she's not so lucky in the love department). Ishigami even calls her "Tsundere-senpai."
• Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Ma Renka starts out pretty aggressive, beating Kenichi up just because he doesn't "focus in one style" of martial arts. However, she quickly falls for him and begins showing it openly, while acting rather passive-aggressive to her love rival, Miu.
• Kimagure Orange Road has our heroine Madoka Ayukawa who is considered as the root of the tsundere archetype. A thoughtful, deep and emotional Mood Swinging Sweetheart, she's an incredibly good-hearted and selfless person, and actually a very Nice Girl, but when others make her angry she's not soft at all. It's in her moments of anger that she comes across as abrasive, and pissing her off is sure not a good idea. Madoka is also very reserved, and doesn't trust others very easily. She's more likely to fall into the deredere category, but she's a complex character and it's hard to say which type she really is. The traits as a tsundere are not extreme, but they're still there.
• Komi Can't Communicate:
  • Manbagi starts becoming one towards Tadano, starting in Chapter 136 when she expresses anger after getting embarrassed when Tadano compliments her appearance without her over the top makeup. Chapter 194 implies that she drops the act altogether, as she admits to herself that she likes Tadano.
  • Yamai's groupies think Yamai is one, but is reality, she's a Yandere. She starts acting Tsundere towards Nakanaka in the second year, however.
  • Chocolate the cat is an animal example. She's a cranky Perpetual Frowner, but actually likes coddling up to Komi, although she tells her underling cats that she's only doing it out of pity.
• In a rare male example, Ritsuka from Loveless is something of a Tsundere, though he certainly leans more toward the tsuntsun than the deredere. There's also female examples in Nagisa, who is conspicuously tsundere for Ritsu-sensei, and maybe Kouya as well.
• Lovely★Complex: Risa Koizumi exhibits this behavior, but that is mostly due to the indecisive and hard-to-read behavior of her love interest.
• Akira Kogami from Lucky Star. Her dere side is just a facade she puts up on Lucky Channel. Her tsun side is TERRIFYING; it's no wonder that her co-host Minoru completely snaps in episode 21. She is definitely no sweet Tsundere as she is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Martian Successor Nadesico: Ryoko Subaru, whose similarities to a more mature and professional Asuka Langley Soryuu are not entirely coincidental (it becomes a full-blown Actor Allusion in the dub). Arguably, Akito acts this way toward Yurika, as a rare male example.
• Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch: Hanon takes the standoffish approach toward Dogged Nice Guy Nagisa.
• Mana from Mermaid Saga. Her type is a bit difficult to place. She swings between being mostly headstrong and stubborn and mostly childish and naive, with moments of the opposite sprinkled in. Probably has something to do with the fact that she was raised like a princess by a group of mermaids who secretly planned to eat her.
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  • Princess Cagalli Yula Athha has definite Tsundere moments, mostly when around the male leads, although she seems to have grown out of it (in a way) by Gundam SEED Destiny.
  • For a male example, there's Yzak. He spends most of Seed as a Jerkass who has a chip on his shoulder because Athrun is team leader and not him. However, despite his hostility, he does grow fond of Athrun, and it's learning about Dearker's association with the Archangel that causes Yzak to begin questioning his orders. By the time of SEED Destiny, he's fully embraced this role when it comes to Athrun. When Yzak sees Athrun, he yells at him about not being the one to give orders anymore... but smiles when Athrun takes the leadership role anyway. Similarly, he charges into Athrun's room when he's pulled from his duties to show Athrun around, but expresses his fondness for Athrun when he suggests Athrun rejoin the ZAFT forces after.
• The concept is parodied in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, when Sequential Artist Nozaki sketches a character who switches between sweet and cold between each panel on the same page. The others remark that the character needs to seek help.
  • There is a direct example, though. Wakamatsu is...strange. He's normally a very sweet guy.... except to Seo. He's scared of and annoyed by Seo, but he loves Lorelei. Thing is, Lorelei is Seo's pseudonym. This would normally put him in another category entirely, but for some reason, he felt uncomfortable when he thought Seo had a boyfriend... So really, Wakamatsu is a "Soft" tsundere in the sense that he's dere-dere to everyone but Seo brings out his tsun-tsun side, but he's also "Harsh" tsundere towards Seo herself.
• My Bride is a Mermaid: Lunar mellows into this in the second half of the series. She'll openly flirt with Nagasumi, but violently deny actually liking him, while she claims to hate Sun despite it being clear that Sun is very important to her.
• My Monster Secret:
  • Asahi and Mei have a brother-sister version of this, acting harsh and dismissive to each other when everyone can tell that they really do care about each other.
  • Nagisa evolves into one of sorts after her feelings for Asahi awaken, only the "tsun" part isn't her denying her own feelings, but simply being completely unable to keep her composure when she's alone with him. More generally, she's constantly switching between her calm and gentle demeanour and her Hot-Blooded rants.
  • Genjirou is this towards his daughter. He keeps on insisting that he doesn't care for what she does, yet flies to her in a hurry if he thinks anything happened to her (or is happening between her and Asahi).
• It's almost difficult to determine which category the title character from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water falls into, because of the conflicting depictions of her personality. In the canonical episodes (1-22, 31) she is an anti-social loner who distrusts humans, meat, and has a very bad temper. But she mainly has No Social Skills—she doesn't know how to act around other people. Even so, she finds herself growing to care for Jean, the boy who demonstratively shows how much he cares for her. Even though there are moments when she loses her temper at him (undeservedly), she often seems to feel guilty and tries to do something reconciliatory (he always forgives her). In fact, when Nadia isn't brooding over her relationship with Jean, she goes out of her way to do something nice for him, although she doesn't feel comfortable about admitting how she feels about him. She is completely transformed by the end of the series into a genuinely caring and trusting young woman and marries Jean. On the flip side, she is ungrateful to Nemo and even openly insults him and his crew for "killing injured people" (who in fact, are her enemies, the Neo-Atlanteans). (We find out that she became like this because of poor parenting and a tragic childhood.) On the other hand, in the island/Africa episodes, Nadia is portrayed as a completely unlikeable Jerkass, losing all of her sympathetic traits and being almost chronically nasty to Jean (especially episodes 24-27 and 29). She even betrays him (cruelly and very inexplicably!) in the Africa arc (episodes 32-33) after admitting he's more important to her than the Blue Water. Except that none of this actually happened. These episodes were never supposed to be part of the show in the first place. The final five episodes quickly disregard them.
• Naruto:
  • Sakura Haruno in Part 1 is tsun-tsun towards Naruto, the anime (of both Part 1 and Shippuuden) tend to exaggerate this. By the end of Part 1 and throughout Part 2, after a bit of Character Development, she becomes more gentle, appreciative and caring of Naruto as a friend and teammate, but still has a short temper with him. In Naruto Gaiden, she is shown to be very sweet, protecting and caring towards hers and Sasuke's daughter, Sarada Uchiha, but she is still prone to rage-fits, like when Sarada asks her if she is indeed married to her father, she doesn't take it very well.
  • Kushina, Naruto's mother, was very violent as a child, and disliked her future husband, Minato, for assuming he was weak and undependable. She eventually acknowledged him as strong ninja after saving her and would later marry and have a child with him. In meeting her son for the first time, she punched him on the head for making fun of her laugh, and the Alternate Universe version of her even broke down a door in fury in the Road to Ninja movie after Naruto refused to eat dinner with him. Otherwise, she did seem to mellow out after getting married, but never quite lost her temper.
  • Kurama, the Nine-Tails is very tsun-tsun towards Naruto. Same also with Shukaku to Gaara and his predecessor (the Suna Monk).
  • From Boruto:
    • Naruto and Hinata's eldest son, Boruto Uzumaki, is very tsun-tsun towards his father, due to his resentment for the lack of attention his father gives to him and his family because of his duties as Hokage, but he deeply loves his father and pretends to begrudgingly accept his invitation to eat ramen with him, and on another occasion after learning that his father is coming home for dinner Boruto acts all tough and uncaring, while his mother and younger sister, Himawari, share a knowing smile in the background.
    • Sasuke and Sakura's daughter, Sarada Uchiha, is tsun-tsun towards Boruto, as she easily gets annoyed by him, and they are shown constantly bickering. But at the same time it's shown that she actually enjoys teasing him and keeping him in check, further situations strongly imply that she actually has a crush on him.
    • Chouji and Karui's daughter, Chocho Akimichi, is revealed to be one in the Anime Episode 67, when after using her Butterfly Super Mode, Chocho becomes slimmer and more attractive, and catches the eye of an actor she has a crush on; throughout the episode she acts all aloof and uncaring of him... while constantly tending to his needs.
• Nichijou teacher Kana Nakamura gradually develops a tsundere attitude toward coworker Manabu Takasaki as random events convince her that he has a crush on her. Her thoughts about him are consciously dismissive, but she tends to become flustered when they interact.
• In Penguindrum, Ringo Oginome seems to be this for Shouma Takakura. Specially seen when, in the same scene, she expresses relief that Shouma wasn't seriously hurt when he took a Diving Save for her, and then beats him herself when he calls her "fool" for giving up half of her Destiny Diary to save him, specifically telling him how worried she was for his safety. Her type isn't 100% clear, so we're leaving her among the unsorted examples by now.
• Potemayo: Guchuko is completely this for Kyou. Her method of showing appreciation is to leave freshly slaughtered livestock on her desk or front porch.
• Ranma ½:
  • Akane Tendo is infamous for this trait, but actually switches between the Sweet and Harsh archetypes depending on who she's interacting with. When she's interacting with most people, she's polite, soft-spoken, forgiving and generally kindly, only exploding in her iconic fits of rage when truly provoked — usually due to a person acting like a pervert. When she's interacting with Ranma, by comparison, she's far more aggressive and temperamental, defaulting to bickering, snarking, teasing and angry outbursts that can range from simply yelling at Ranma to hitting him with a Megaton Punch or a convenient random object. Only on rare occasions does she express to him her sweeter, gentler side in general, or her love for him in particular.
  • The anime gave Shampoo some rare moments that made her come across as a bit of a tsundere towards Mousse, in contrast to the manga where she really seems to just hate him. For the most part, she treats Mousse with naked disdain, but she has done some nice things for him over the anime series, even if these are often immediately walked back. The most notable example is the second Non-Serial Movie where Shampoo looks genuinely worried about Mousse after he defeats one of the Elite Mooks to save her.
• Rent-A-Girlfriend: On the clock, Chizuru is very sweet-natured. Off the clock, she acts pretty coldly towards Kazuya and dismisses his feelings for her, but she does help him when he's in a pinch, tries to give him some heartfelt advice when he's down, and tends to call him stupid whenever she's touched by his actions.
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei:
  • The "returnee" student Kaere Kimura falls into this category, while conflating it with bipolar. She has reconciled her Japanese heritage with her time spent in an ambiguous foreign country by splitting her personality into a stereotype for each — the perfect Japanese Yamato Nadeshiko and the loud foreigner who threatens to sue over every problem. The "dere" side is in love with the teacher, while the "tsun" side threatens him most often.
  • Mayo Mitama is described as a Tsundere by another character, but parodies the type by having a barely evident "dere" side, and a "tsun" side so outright psychopathic that no amount of "dere" could counterbalance it.
  • In episode 5 of the second season, the apologetic Ai Kaga briefly "becomes a tsundere character" for all the wrong reasons... Which prompts Itoshiki to wonder if a tsundere without the dere side is possible nowadays. Manga Fangirl Harumi Fujiyoshi is quick to reply that it is, since the dere side can be "filled in by imagination." So true, indeed.
• Tsukiumi from Sekirei. At the start, she refuses to accept Minato as her Ashikabi, or master, going so far as to try to kill him once they meet. After Minato protects her and calls her his Sekirei, Tsukiumi immediately switches over to deredere, accepting Minato and deciding that she is now his wife. Of course, when she finds out that Minato has three other Sekirei, who she sees as rivals in love, she flips back to tsuntsun. She's usually more tsun then dere as both the manga and anime go on, usually only going dere when she's alone with Minato.
• In Sgt. Frog, Giriro is most definitely tsundere for Natsumi, trying to always be aloof around her despite his huge crush. Natsumi herself has an odd, platonic sort of tsundere relationship with, of all people, Keroro. She complains constantly about the chaos caused by "the stupid frog" and his platoon, and bullies and abuses him at the slightest provocation. When Keroro gets in real trouble, however, Natsumi shows she really does think of him as family.
• Slime Life: Darul tries so hard to come off as a "tough but fair" style boss, despite only keeping Slime around because he's adorable. Even if we weren't privy to her inner monologue, it would be apparent from her blushing expression and affectionate gestures that all she really wants is to give Slime a big hug.
• Spy X Family: Twilight is a tsundere, according to his own adopted daughter Anya.^note Which makes you wonder where she learned that word, since she's at most 6 years old and Japan may not even exist in this world. Most likely it's a Translation Convention. He tries putting on a stoic face, but secretly enjoys being thanked for his work (an unusual thing for a spy).
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Yoko Littner is tsun-tsun in the early episodes with her behavior towards Kamina — initially yelling at and chastising him for his reckless behavior. This stops the moment they kiss and establish a relationship. After his death, she becomes generally levelheaded, logical, reasonable and kind, but can get hotheaded if provoked, even using the stereotypical "baka" in the original Japanese dub.
• Tiger & Bunny:
  • Barnaby is usually very aloof and leans more towards Sugar-and-Ice Personality than tsundere; his tsun tendencies are fairly few, but when he is in that mode his Heterosexual Life-Partner Kotetsu has managed to get a smile out of him once or twice (which he, of course, hides).
  • Kotetsu (yes, the same guy who was mentioned both in the previous example and the dere folder above) has something of a knack for drawing out the tsundere in those who're fond of him; proven by the fact that Karina (who has a huge crush on him) has also displayed such tendencies solely where he's concerned. Because she's equal parts tsun and dere, she can't really be classified.
• As implied by the title, the Tsuyokiss - Cool x Sweet anime and game take this to the natural extreme, giving the whole cast this personality type.
• Karin and Soyogi from Umi no Misaki... though, if you'd been brought up to sleep with some dude you don't know, you might develop a cranky side too.
• Urusei Yatsura has two prominent ones:
  • Lum is credited as the first tsundere^note She isn't, that's Sayaka Yumi even though she exhibits less of its archetypical characteristics. It should be noted that, unlike most tsunderes, Lum's problem is less with Ataru being a pervert and more with him being unfaithful — perhaps because she's similar, she understands his desires to see girls naked or go on dates, she just wants him to do all that with her, rather then chasing after random women in the street. She is still a bit bad-tempered and *very* possessive of him, zapping him with electricity whenever he hits on other girls.
  • Ataru is probably the first male tsundere, towards Lum. In addition to being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he does actually love Lum, but hates to show it — he's still 17 and does not want to be tied down just yet. The fact he does is seen most clearly in the episode where Lum has to return home for several days to renew her passport and in the Beautiful Dreamer movie. Lum herself is actually aware of this thanks to a listening device in a doll of herself from the aforementioned episode.
• Val × Love: Natsuki is brash and rude towards Takuma, and won't stop reminding Takuma of how mediocre he is as an Einherjar, but never hesitates to save his skin when she needs to.
• Wandering Son: Chiba has swayed between the two. She was originally Sweet, a sweet but blunt elementary student who had somewhat of a temper. After a few volumes, she evolved into a Harsh type. Currently she's somewhere in the middle.
• Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: While Kogarashi normally averts this, his de-aged 11-year-old self acts unfriendly towards Yuuna because he still thinks all ghosts are evil and suspects Yuuna only wants to possess him. When he finds himself getting concerned about her, he reminds himself he shouldn't trust a ghost and pretends to not care about her.

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