Category:Yangire



Summary

Yandere (ヤンデレ) and yangire (ヤンギレ) are archetypes referring to characters whose external cheerfulness, kindness, and innocence mask their internal mental instability.

They appear normal on the outside, but are insane in the membrane. These characters often abandon their masks and succumb to madness as their stories progress.

The prefix yan- in both terms is derived from the word yamu (病む) in reference to being in a state of mental illness. The suffix -dere in yandere comes from deredere (デレデレ), which has been appropriated in modern otaku culture as "being lovey dovey". The suffix -gire in yangire comes from kireru (切れる), "to snap suddenly and violently".

The fundamental difference between the two archetypes is the source of their primary motivation. Yandere are driven to action by romantic attachment whereas yangire are driven by literally anything (and sometimes nothing at all).

Gire

The suffix gire (ギレ) is sometimes added to these personality words instead of dere (デレ). Its meaning in words such as tsungire and yangire is that of "snapping" or "being mad" instead of dere's "being in love."

The word gire comes from the verb kireru (キレる), which means "to snap" or "to be mad (at someone or something)." Basically to be full of it. To lose your patience. To be done with. To have had the last drop. To burst with anger. To get the last string holding your anger down cut. That's what kireru means.

The gire versions of personalities often have nothing to do with love or romance at all. People often attribute ~gire as more violent versions of ~dere, but these two words aren't actually related. A character deemed ~gire doesn't even need to be in a romance or anything. They just lean towards aggressive, abusive or violent behavior.

The part of the word kireru that becomes the suffix is kire, but it becomes gire instead because of a process called rendaku that changes the pronunciation of suffixes.

Yangire

A yangire (ヤンギレ) character is a yandere devoid of love and filled with rage. Which is some pretty bad combination considering the yan of yandere means "mentally sick." So now you have someone who is mentally sick and that has snapped.

A common type of yangire character is the one that has gone through some sort of trauma and then snaps and goes on a killing spree after getting triggered. Generally speaking, yangire characters have no faith left for the world so they don't care much about killing or getting killed. They just want to watch the world burn.

As one would expect, a yangire character doesn't necessarily have a romantic interest. A yandere would have one, and would go around killing everyone around her lover in a very jelly genocide, but a yangire is a strong independent character who needs no romantic interest in order to start a massacre.

Anyway, yangire characters are pretty much crazy and crazy violent. All you need to know is that they are crazier than yandere characters and that ought to say a lot.

To sum up the generalised differences between yandere and yangire:

Yandere: "I'll kill anyone who gets between me and senpai."

Yangire: "I'll kill senpai if I feel like it."