Aaron's Analysis: Tsundere
“The Japanese term tsundere refers to a character who “runs hot and cold”, alternating between two distinct moods: tsuntsun ( aloof or irritable ) and deredere ( lovestruck ). The term was originally used to describe characters who began with a harsh outgoing personality, but slowly revealed a soft and vulnerable interior over time. Over the years the character archetype has become flanderized, and is now generically associated with a character who flips between the two emotional states at the slightest provocation, and usually at a specific person rather than a general sociability problem.” – http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsundere ! Extremely popular in anime, this character trope actually annoys me. By ‘annoy’, I mean I loath the concept do to it becoming a disease to the medium and I’d rather the trope die so it can’t poison any more shows by dragging them down. This isn’t to say there aren’t any anim...