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In my first entry to this year’s “Tsundere Appreciation Month”, I gushed over some of my favourites, particularly looking back at the tsunderekko who have made a positive impact on the archetype and who I think are memorable for various reasons. Today, with just a few days left in Tsundere Appreciation Month, I want to [...]

I’ve personally noticed that in the past three years or so there’s been an increase in how visible otaku culture has become. In fact, Akihabara, the so-called “Otaku Holy Land” has seen a significant shift in its visitor population; the Japanese government has invested in the area as a major tourist attraction for both Japanese [...]

October marks the beginning of “Tsundere Appreciation Month” at The Nihon Review, an occasion that’s enticed me out of my self-imposed hiatus, at least temporarily, to open our month long celebration of everyone’s (or, at least, our) favourite moe archetype. “Tsundere Appreciation Month” started last year after a random thought about what makes tsunderekko so [...]

Although I fully intended to conclude my last article within two posts, I felt quite unsatisfied with the way the article concluded; my research into the origins of tsundere further back in the 80s ended up taking up more space than I had intended. My fellow colleagues Sorrow-kun and Elineas noticed that I had left [...]

In continuation from earlier, we now have the tools to take a look at how tsundere have become, perhaps, one of the leading icons in the moe boom in recent years. First, let us take a brief look at a possible development of the modern tsundere.