#kimi rants

[yanderefan-kimi]

What makes a good yandere character for you? What are some of your favorite yanderes? And what are some that you like the least?

Aaa my first ask! Thank you so much!! Yes, as you can tell from my username, I do like yandere characters quite a bit! And I'm super excited to finally start ranting about them lollll Alright, this might get pretty long so I'll put my answers under the cut!

What makes a good yandere character for you?

This is a very subjective question, but first I'll explain what makes a character yandere.

"Yandere" comes from the Japanese verb 病んでいる which means to be sick. This can refer to any sort of illness, but with yandere characters, it's referring to ailments of the soul so to say. Basically a "yandere" character is anyone who becomes sick with love. Which is really vague, I know - but that's how it is.

A character can kill for love and still not be considered yandere. A different character can respect their target's (the person they are affectionate toward - their "darling") free-will and autonomy and still be considered yandere. It's vague and open to interpretation. What one person considers yandere, another might find them just being possessive.

Just getting a few common misconceptions out of the way first:

-Yandere characters can be abusive to their targets, but just because a character is abusive, that doesn't mean that they're yandere

-A character doesn't have to go around killing people to be considered yandere

Okay, with that out of the way, time to talk about my favorite kinds of yandere characters!

I like characters who are subtly manipulative, the characters that mess with their target's perceptions of reality to mold them into someone who can accept their isolation. I like to describe the buildup as "walking into a spider's web, and only after you think to turn around do you realize that it's too late." These characters can appear to be very doting (溺愛) to their targets and lull them into a false sense of security, and usually only show their true selves to people they see as their love rivals. These characters can also be commonly described as haraguro (腹黒) or scheming.

But I can go for any sort of yandere character! I'm not so good with gore tho so I try to avoid that, but any other type has their own appeals. There was this huge chart about the different types of yandere characters and their "symptoms" I found before, maybe I'll dig it up and explain it in detail in another post eventually. But for now I will move on to the next question!

What are some of your favorite yanderes?

I can explain a bit more about the kind of yandere characters I love by using some of my favs as examples! Please note that I read a lot of shoujo, especially because the yandere trope is gaining some good popularity in that demographic, so these are all male yanderes. Though, I do love me a good female yandere character too!

My absolute favorite yandere character is Haruma from 恋と心臓 (Love and Heart) Seriously, no one does it as well as him. I don't want to spoil anything since it's more fun to experience the craziness yourself and the series is available in English!

But to give a brief summary: Yoh (the main character), having lived a life where she didn't have anyone she could rely on, is incredibly independent. But then her childhood friend (who she doesn't remember), Haruma, moves in with her and suddenly she finds herself in the position of damsel in distress again and again, with Haruma being the only one to save her.

It's a great blend of psychological horror, romcom, and drama with a huge dose of unhealthy relationships and a happy ending! I recommend it to everyone who is comfy with the subject matter.

Kuroyuki from Nightshade deserves special mention for being the reason I started liking yandere characters in the first place.

I never really got the appeal before him, but when I played Nightshade, I liked him from the start. I tend to love comic relief characters (who are secretly quite sad/serious) so he caught my eye right away and then when the cray-cray hit, I was like,

Oh no, that's hot.

And it was over for me after that lol. Yandere love interests in otome games have a reputation for caging, and Kuroyuki has a subtle approach to this. He spins this (not entirely false) tale that everyone is trying to kill Enju (the main character) except for him, and that he's the only one who could protect her. I won't go into his backstory, but an unhealthy amount of delusions feed into his obsession as well.

The game is fun and intense, and I highly recommend it if you would like to cry. Check out my Why you should play Nightshade PowerPoint here:

If you're looking for other good otome games with fun yandere characters, I also recommend: Amnesia: Memories, Taisho x Alice, and Mystic Messenger.

After Kuroyuki, I started reading a lot of Japanese webnovels with yandere characters (I literally have a page in my browser with just the yandere tag on shousetsuka ni narou that I browse thru regularly) I could probably do a whole post just about yandere characters in webnovels, but for a quick recommendation, I suggest checking out Kotoko-sensei's (琴子) works or, for something a bit more bizarre, check out Inaida-sensei's (稲井田そう) works. (I once went thru a phase where I was obsessed with all of Inaida-sensei's works around 2~3 years ago.)

Anyways, on to the final question!

What are some yanderes that you like the least?

Well, I tend to dislike the yandere characters that are not well thought out. It's easy enough to put a knife in a character's hand or make them shove someone in a cage, but it's not interesting unless they have a compelling reason why. What leads them to decide they have no other choice but to kill a rival (or their target) or take away their target's freedom?

This is why I tend to dislike side characters who are yandere (especially in harem series) because they're usually not given a whole lot of depth or character building - like a main character would have.

I think a lot of the appeal from yandere characters comes from their depth, complexity, and how they can be hypocritical by nature. I love them but I hate them because they care about other people. I don't want to scare them but I need to protect them. I don't care if they hate me as long as they stay by my side.

If I were to name a yandere character I dislike, though, I would have to say Yuno Gasai (from Future Diary) who is a rather famous case. I don't think she's a bad character - in fact, she's a really great character and a good example of what happens if obsession is left to fester in a high-stakes, dangerous environment. But her character has been boiled down to crazy anime girl who kills a bunch of people for her crush by the internet, which has completely changed the way many people view the word and perceive the trope of "yandere." I just find it irritating and as the self-proclaimed saleswoman of yandere, it makes my job a lot harder.

Can yandere be considered problematic? Sure, absolutely. But does it have to involve murder, rape, gore, or other triggering content? Absolutely not.

(This goes for this whole post, but please note that I am talking about fictional characters, and this in no way reflects real life people)

All in all, I'm very passionate about yandere characters and yandere content. I just find them so compelling, and especially love exploring relationships involving a yandere character - because it usually involves having to come to some sort of compromise. I could probably rant on and on and on about it but this answer is already so long lol

Thank you so much for the ask again! And anyone can feel free to send asks if they would like me to clarify on any of this! I do love ranting about these sorts of things

#ask #zer0stormz #thanks for the ask! #my ask box is always open #yandere #male yandere #yandere characters #koi to shizou #love and heart #nightshade #nightshade kuroyuki #kimi rants

[mrfangirlapocalypse]

The entire yttd fandom waking up to draw strawberry floormaster is so funny

#yttd #cyber's rants #kimi ga shine #your turn to die

[piastrispastry]

First we had the rumors of Kimi Antonelli going to Williams, replacing Logan Sargeant as soon as Imola.

Quite frankly, this makes absolutely zero sense. How on Earth can the Cratchit’s of the F1 world right now afford the boy people are proclaiming is “the next Max Verstappen”? They couldn’t afford a spare chassis for the first five races let alone a whole driver swap.

Secondly, Williams failed Logan in bringing him up to F1 too early, that is a fact that I believe James himself has admitted (though don’t quote me on that). So say they do, hypothetically, bring Kimi up it would just show that they have learned absolutely nothing. It would have meant that Kimi would be doomed to fail.

Kimi is not ready. It’s as simple as that. He’s skipped F3, had three races in an F2 level car so is only just finding his feet. Never mind the fact he is only 17, a literal child. There are so many voices trying to put him down because he is not winning every race in F2 yet who totally forget these things. He has quite literally went from the baby pool with armbands only to have them taken off him and pushed in the deep end with the instructor saying “now swim!”.

I have every faith in him that maybe, come next season he might be ready for F1. Maybe in 2026. That’s ok too, he’s young, he has time. Putting him in the hardest car on the grid to drive is stupid.

Logan’s made mistakes yet, but he is again in a car which is extremely hard to drive. He deserves the second chance Williams claimed to have given him, I am yet to see that chance. I hope he will get a point at his home race just to throw it in Williams’ face.

So no, I don’t believe this rumor.

#f1 #formula 1 #piastrispastry #jess’ f1 rants #logan sargeant #kimi antonelli #organising this is so therapeutic what the hell #williams f1 #williams racing #logan sargeant deserves better

[0urosboros]

YTTD chapter 3 spoilers

i hate when people who have finished the game call shin "sou" like that is NOT his name and how do you not know that ??????? plus shin sounds better than sou. also the REAL sou is Midori my ongly doodle schmoople shnookums cutie patootie pookie wookie bear. sorry I have a chemical imbalance in my brain

#yttd #your turn to die #kimi ga shine #sou hiyori #midori yttd #shin tsukimi #yttd spoilers #yttd chapter 3 #I LOVE MIDORI UNAPOLOGETICALLY ‼️‼️‼️❤️ #rant post #rant

[ill-procastinato]

Is it just me, or does Kimi look EXACTLY LIKE TINTIN?!

#i literally don't have anyone to rant this out to #either they don't know Tintin #or they don't know Kimi #but LOOK #LITERALLY THE SAME #kimi raikkonen #kimi räikkönen #tintin

[greenapplebling]

So I've learned some stuff about Malleus' mom, Maleonor (I think that's her official English name), and apparently she has a bad temper and is self-sacrificial...

Thanks, Twst. I didn't need to kin Malleus harder than I already did...

I swear to God if Malleus starts making self-deprecating jokes I'M DONE

#at this point we're practically the same person #i hate it here #malleus is baby BUT HE NEEDS TO STOP BEING SM LIKE ME #i don't like when i kin characters this hard #this is like kimi no todoke all over again #yami rants #twst #twisted wonderland #malleus draconia #twst malleus #twst maleonor #maleonor draconia #twst book 7 #twst book 7 spoilers #kinda #personal

[shin-tsukimi-enjoyer]

YTTD Artbook

It’s so low quality but it says “he’s pained by the feeling that everyone is out to get him” this made me so sad :( Shin just wants to be genuinely loved but he never gets the opportunity to have that 💔

and yet he’s always hated :((( just proving his feeling right…. He really one of, if not, the most tragic character in your turn to die.

#your turn to die #yttd #kimi ga shine #shin tsukimi #yttd shin #yttdposting #sou hiyori #yttd rant #artbook #rant #YTTD artbook

[lennies-blog]

I don't get what Prema is doing in F2 like..? 🤷‍♀️

First they qualify in P17 + P18 which is horrible, of course, but last year the first 2 races weren't great either (they finished P15 + 17 in the Sprint and P14 + DNF in the feature race) and they still only missed out both championships by a few points.

I thought maybe they just need this first weekend like last year to get the finetuning right and next weekend will be better.

Then the sprint starts and the drivers don't have any pace (not surprising) and they suddenly pit Kimi after half a race?? And one lap after that Ollie as well?? They didn't even show it OR commented on it (at least in my stream).

Then first Kimi and the lap after Ollie set fastest lap, which wasn't surprising either as they had the freshest tyres. But it was a 1.45 sth laptime, while all other drivers were driving a 1.49 or 1.50 at that point and they CONTINUED to keep that pace (well dropping slightly of course, as the tyres wore off) for the remainder of the race!! Like how???

I think I checked in Lap 19/23 and they both still drove a 1.48, still 1-2 seconds faster than the rest of the grid. In the last lap, Kimi still had a 1.48 laptime while ALL other drivers (except for Fittipaldi who just pitted the lap before) had a laptime btw 1.50 and 1.53.

Like where did Prema suddenly get that pace from??? I'm no expert, I dont know if I'm missing something?? Are those laptimes like normal if you pitted halfway through the race? It just seemed so fast, they were making up 30 seconds of lost time after the pitstops and still overtook like 4 more drivers who all had an additional 6 second gap! I would have loved to see them race for another 8 laps or so, just to see how much further they could've going up in the order😅

Okay sorry about my rant, that's it for now 😅 I really hope Prema can just unlock that same pace straight away for the feature race and I can just watch Kimi and Ollie climb up the ladder into the points 🤞😌

#prema racing #ollie bearman #kimi antonelli #formula 2 #f2 #sorry this is a long rant 😅 #would love to hear other thoughts on it! i have no other people to discuss F2 with 🥲❤

[leclercings]

Had a dream about Kimi Raikkonen.

This saga of dreams about F1 drivers continues...

#f1 #formula 1 #leclercings rants #kimi raikkonen

[every-orochimaru]

wait... if YOU'RE married to orochimaru... and I'M married to orochimaru... who's driving the plane⁉️🚨🚨🚨

Kabuto obviously. He's been practicing with Microsoft Flight Simulator in his down time. Check out his setup, dude.

#man i could rant all day about kimimaro's setup #but seriously who needs more than 2 monitors at ANY given time #what is this guy doing in here? #why is he tormenting kimi with blue light? #actually there are four separate keyboards #suggesting these are individualized monitors #do the sound ninja four have an esports team?? #i bet they play fortnite exclusively #not orochimaru

[yanderefan-kimi]

Okay, so, I'm freaking out cuz first Cheritz drops this gorgeous, gorgeous new title screen:

And everyone looks so beautiful, so gorgeous, all very smoochable (I'm especially going feral over Saeran and Jaehee, my favs)

And then on twitter Cheritz reveals that this Saeran is ACTUALLY Unknown/SE Saeran (?) (I say ? cuz everyone is alive and all in this wedding-themed party??)

I thought for sure this Saeran was GE Saeran since he looks so soft and happy here (the chibi expression especially reminds me of Ray/GE Saeran) but there is No Way GE Saeran would be wearing his outfit from the original timeline. His shoulder is covered up so we can't see if he has his tattoo, but I really don't think GE Saeran would subject himself to wearing a choker after he finally removed the chains from around his neck.

SO I'm just kinda freaking out cuz we've NEVER seen SE Saeran looking THIS soft. He's either shown as angry or sad or apathetic but HERE he's looking a little shy to he wearing these clothes (wonder if he's holding the flowers like that to hide his face a little. The way he's holding it specifically to cover his lips makes it look like he's keeping a secret) but he looks SO HAPPY.

Perhaps, given a small change to the events that play out in the Secret Endings, we would be able to see this soft-looking, shy, happy Saeran in the original timeline as well.

Now excuse me as I go scream over how gorgeous everyone looks and run to the store to buy materials for making a wedding dress.

#mystic messenger #mysme #saeran choi #new mm title image just dropped!! #i love love love this image so much #secret ending spoilers #se saeran #kimi rants

[mrfangirlapocalypse]

you know how floor masters are based off of desserts and stuff? Yeah? Okay, so what's midori based off of? It's the drink, midori, right?

midori is a melon flavored drink. you know what a melon is? Green! But watermelons are special! They are melons that are red with black seeds (I swear this is going somewhere) Midori's scarf... is red! With dots! LIKE WATERMELON SEEDS HE IS A WATERMELON TRUST ME I WAS THERE HE TOLD ME

#cyber's rants #yttd #kmgsn #kimi ga shine #your turn to die #midori yttd #sou hiyori #floormasters #i swear im not crazy!!

[russilton]

you know every few weeks the short hair problem comes up again and I honestly could write a whole fucking essay on this but I think as a society how we look at men and masculine bodies just has a deep problem. like it's in the same corner as the small dick energy thing you know what I mean? Like you are not talking into the void?? There are people here who love their hair like that and it hurts when you talk like that, like I don't understand why people always make such a big problem out of hair. why are you making fun of someones body on the fucking internet, and no you don't get a pass just because they are men??

THANK YOU MONTE I realise we are deep in the “it’s not that deep” territory, and everyone loves to wave that flag when they see themselves within a criticism (I’ve done it I’m not immune), but it really is something we need to work on, or at least just reframe your way of speaking!

As a Jack fan I sit with it all year. Every time he shaves his head he gets called bald or ugly or egg shaped in my tags. I do embrace the egg joke when I can, but as a guy with a buzz cut just like Jack… it’s not great being called ugly! It’s a choice I made for my head and I love it, as does my partner, it shouldn’t matter- but it isn’t nice! I love when Jack fires back at people who lose their minds about it.

I get the same comments about finding mclaren Lewis hot- he’s gorgeous to me! But I’ve had so many anons acting aghast at that! The only thing not hot about it is that he was forced to do it.

Online fandom is often a space dominated by folks who will point out sexist language about women’s appearances, rightly so, but then parrot the same thing about men without a blink. No it’s not the same, no this is not a men’s rights issue, and it’s not anywhere close to the systemic severity women face. It’s just about not becoming the thing you hate. Leave peoples hair and unsettling eyes alone, I don’t care if “but men do it first-“ be better than them.

It hasn’t been lost on me that the more people started to find George attractive with his longer hair, the less insults he got from certain sides of F1blr. I don’t care if people pick the drivers they find hot, I did- just don’t shit on a guy cause you aren’t into them, there are plenty of decent reasons to hate tax avoiding millionaires, half of them with racism problems.

It’s easier just focusing on what you like when you can- if you don’t like it it’s not ugly, it’s just different and not for you. I don’t like george’s current haircut much, it’s not ugly though, it’s just different to what I’d choose. When you call a body part ugly, it’s never going to affect the guy who can’t see your posts, but it’ll hit someone you know. You are allowed to like other things more, but call it that, don’t act that something you don’t like is automatically gross.

#asks #monte’s tag #wank/rants #mark rambles #ignore this i caught kimys flu I can’t hold in the opinions

[cadetral]

cant wait to become the most insufferable person on earth when kimi ni todoke s3 comes out

#i will not shut up lmaoidbwke #not only that #i will also act like a millennial and all of my rantings will end with “uhhmm akchually ive been a fan since 2011 so im better than u #yeah and rhe worst part is i wont even be sorry #kimi ni todoke #kimi ni todoke season 3

[schumipng]

hi i just found out that my crush classmate is named after Vettel 🥹

he showed me a picture frame of his old ferrari baby clothes and his pictures as a baby with it and i just

#we’re both F1 fans and we send each other vids and stuff #but we barely talk IRL even though we have 3 classes in a row together #teenage boys am i right 🥲 #his dad is a Vettel fan he named his son after him 🥹 #he’s a kimi fan and i’m a seb fan so technically we belong together- #i’m delusional #thank you for coming to my ted talk #sebastian vettel #formula 1 #f1 #euvi rants

[chiisana-lion]

YOURE KIDDING ME.

#OHHHH MY GOD #IGNORE THE REST OF MY MANGA WISHLIST KINIHITO WAS ONE THING BUT KIMISHINU TOO IM GONNA DIE #duck rants about something #kimishinu #kimi ga shinu made koi wo shitai