I’d like to get this out because it has been lurking. ツンデレ is a craze, I’m sure, because I’m also part of it (love these type characters [I'd link wikipedia but they took their nice list of them down]). I do, but I’m not sure I can take the real-life tsundere relationships in my life (thankfully I’m not a part of them). So here’s my 3 reasons I’m going to exclusively include only ツンデレ characters from anime and manga in my real-life.
Real ツンデレ do not look this way.
1) They usually aren’t cute. In an extreme case, a RLTs (real-life ツンデレ) are so angst-ridden and stressed about their “romance” that their natural health is extinguished. Problems such as sickness, irritablility, stress-induced breakouts, unnatural eating habits, etc etc are unpretty things. The anime world is usually pretty. I shouldn’t have to explain why this is bad, I consider health pretty important, and one of the main constituents of health is happiness. Yup, tsunderes are often discontent, and only happy during spontaneous parts of the day. Can a RLT ever be content? Dunno, but I have hope for the beauties of a&m.
Fighting is important to the tsundere.
2) Bickering is sort of natural in relationships. Yet, I’ve heard some of my cousin’s ツンデレ relationship battles and its plain ridiculous. Even if we expect relationships to have conflicts, how could it be worse for tsundere? Easy, the conflict material is as noticable as the canine eyeball noticing the difference between grey10 and grey20. I often don’t understand the reasons, but with anime these fights are entertaining and more legit. For instance, when Louise is jealous over Saito spending some time with Siesta, I get her anger because she doesn’t know how to deal with jealousy. Annnd, they were not “in” a relationship. RLT are usually official relations, so they take it too seriously at times. You’re not eating your corn with the proper utensils!!! Oh dear lord, kill me. May be I should try to find some ツンデレ relationships that aren’t official, and see if thats cute.
Too stuborn to suggest some detail, forget it.
3) Its really difficult to converse when the other party isn’t listening. Here’s the ツンデレ case. I try to give a hint to a ツンデレ about their relationship and how they should relax sometimes, and suddenly, I’m the bad guy. Ah bad words, I hear bad words… SHUT OFF THE EARDRUMS! That’s probably what happens, because tsunderes in real life don’t want to listen to anyone about it, stuborn, and its hard for them to change. Anime/manga characters on the other hand, learn to open up with time. Seeing these characters glisten with little bits of happiness is delightful and uplifting. I really don’t know if RLTs ever have these moments because they usually aren’t open to progress (probably because by the time their 20+ they’ve quit wanting to change/adapt for the better). 32/f/tsundere-land = NO!
So that’s my simple beef with real life ツンデレ. I don’t know if my analysis is legit, but I won’t delve because I take fictional tsundere over real life ones any day. Now I’ll recite the ツンデレ theme.
I like it when you’re nice to me.
I’d like to be nice to you,
But then I get mad,
and am too confused.
I enjoy your voice
just don’t say anything annoying.
When I blush and feel so high
I don’t know what to do.
I must get angry to hide,
and I may try to stab you with a chopstick.
“I’m sorry”, is what I say inside,
though it never will surface in my voice.
It may not seem like it,
but “don’t run away from me!”,
I choose you, on my agenda.
Hey look at me, don’t look at her!
Take it, or leave it,
“dear me, I hope you take it.”
I’ll never say these words aloud,
but this song will play on.
Ryan A
