If there’s one arche­type peo­ple fall back far too eas­ily into, it’s the tsun­dere. But really, this per­son­al­ity attribute is nei­ther that sim­ple nor cheap…

[Sora]

Since my post on explain­ing the real life psy­chol­ogy of yan­deres, I’ve been on the hunt for a rec­og­nized psy­cho­log­i­cal dis­or­der that would clas­sify the tsun­dere. Unfor­tu­nately, no such con­ve­nience seems to exist, and while the tsun­dere may be the most overused anime char­ac­ter arche­type of recent years, it is also com­plex enough that few series have truly done it jus­tice. Read the rest of this entry »