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"Kichidere" (JP) is a term for a character who has gone insane and usually acts like a crazy lunatic, but whose romantic feelings toward their love interest are surprisingly cute and deredere. They have usually experienced some kind of psychological trauma during their childhood which caused them to develop severe mental illnesses and twisted ways of thinking. However, despite this side of them they will show a more loving and overly affectionate side towards their love interest. Often their love interest is the one who shows them happiness for the first time which causes them to fall in love. Their love interest will want to save them and help them to overcome their trauma and insanity. The love they have for their love interest will motivate them to continue improving themselves and slowly over time they will become a better and happier person. In some cases, with the help of their love interest they may even be able to completely overcome the trauma that caused their mental health issues and become a purely deredere and normal cheerful person.
This is not to be confused with:
- Unofficial:Kichigire - A mentally insane character who becomes angry and completely snaps.
- Yandere - A character whose love, admiration, and devotion to their love interest is so strong that it causes them to become mentally unstable. Unlike a kichidere they were not crazy before falling in love, but their mental illness is caused by a too strong love.
Characters from Anime, Manga & Light Novels[]
- Akame ga Kill
- Esdeath ♥
- Bakemonogatari
- HUNTER×HUNTER
- Koroshi to Uso no Marriage
- Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven
- Anemone ♥
- Megumarenai Otonatachi
- ⭐ Ryo Yajima ♥ [1]
- Menhera Marumaru Sasetemita
- Hana ♥
- Mirai Nikki
- Minene Uryuu ♥ (tsundora)
- My Hero Academia
- Himiko Toga (platonic)
- Jin Bubaigawara / Twice (platonic)
- ONE PIECE
- Shihai Shoujo Kubaru-chan
- Kubaru ♥
Characters from Video Games & Visual Novels[]
Characters from Live-Action & Novels[]
Characters from Other Sources[]
- Hololive
- Houshou Marine ♥ (Love Trap be Junkie)
Official Characters
Characters who have been officially labeled as Kichidere in their source material will appear here with a ⭐ preceding their name indicating that they are an official example of this archetype. To make a character show up in this list, add a character to one of the above lists and use the {{Official}} template alongside a citation to where the character is referred to as this type: whether its in the series title, description, manga panel, anime/game screenshot, or author comment.