Yui is a beautiful girl with long black hair, dark brown eyes and a conservative outlook on life. We could easily say she is the second most beautiful girl in school compared to Lala, the heroine. Yui makes conservative look sexy. She is the head of the disciplinary committee and views almost anything that violates her almost Victorian views as “shameless.”  
 
To say this tsundere character is wound a little tight is an understatement. When it comes to the protagonist, Rito, she often says exactly the opposite of what she wants to say, insulting him or calling him shameless or a pervert. Over the course of the series she copes with her conflicting feelings for Rito as she denies her feelings for him. She is always keeping him at arm’s length even as she fantasies about a life with him as his wife.

Chidori is a high school student. She’s tall and slender with black-blue hair and brown eyes. She is looked up to by the girls in school as an idol. The boys, on the other hand, aren’t that interested in her because of her mouth.  She is considered unladylike because she speaks her mind. She is also a very physical girl, not afraid to use her physical talent and strength to defend herself or others. She does have a short fuse. Her greatest problem is that she has some innate ability called “Whispered” that is sought after by multiple military and terrorist organizations, so she has to be protected by Mithril -- a private military organization. The man in charge of this detail is Sargent Sousuke, a veteran soldier who goes undercover as a classmate at her school at to protect her without letting her know. 
 
Chidori is on our tsundere characters list because of her sometimes-violent nature towards Sousuke. Most of the time it is Sousuke’s fault for being overprotective. He tends to toss her to the ground and pull a gun on almost anyone when he feels threatened. Chidori, in response, smacks, kicks, whacks, or otherwise beats her protector for his overreactions. Right off the bat, she thinks of him as a creepy military otaku who also seems to also be her own personal stalker. In typical tsundere fashion, she gradually warms up to her protector, especially as she begins to understand what he is doing and what kind of threat she is under.

Maki is the daughter of a wealthy family of doctors. She is also a talented classical musician, and though it took a lot of coxing she became a teen idol with a lot of hard work and the help of her friends. She attends Otonokizaka High School and has red hair and stunning violet eyes. She lives for music and is a talented song writer for the school idol group Muse.
 
Maki is the one of the most subtle tsundere characters on this list. She is never violent, which is a typical tsundere character trait, but does have trouble expressing her true feelings to her friends. We are left to surmise that because of the nature of her parents’ work she is often left alone in her mansion with music as her companion. She is often viewed as a loner in the beginning of the story, but in retrospect we think she is merely immersed in music.  We do see her get along with the other girls better as the show goes on. She has an adorable innocence that conflicts with her often serious nature; after all, she holds on to her belief in Santa Claus. She is just damn adorable.  She can be stubborn and closed-minded, but all she has to do is bat those violet eyes in your direction and give a little pout and you’ll be putty in her hands.

On occasion, Stella looks down on others as common, which is exactly how everyone seems since she is royalty. Stella is the second imperial princess of the Vermillion Kingdom and an apprentice knight. Like everyone on our list, she’s beautiful. She has crimson hair, pale skin, large breasts and a voluptuous figure. She is also very powerful.  She has the ability to summon flames and light, for both attack and defense, and by her own admission has 30 times the power of a normal blazer, one who performs magic. She also has abnormal strength and is capable of inhuman physical feats.
 
Stella’s personality and introduction was classic for tsundere characters. Her future romantic interest walks in on her while she is changing. We know that it wasn’t Ikki’s fault, he was given the same room assignment as the princess, and “accidents happen.” We see her tsundere come out whenever someone (usually a girl) gets too close to Ikki, and it’s usually Ikki who’s punished for it. Stella’s temper also flares up when she is referred to as a prodigy or genius. She has only contempt for those who see her that way, feeling that those people are looking past who she really is. She is also representative of the dere part of the tsundere coin, being extremely sweet and affectionate to Ikki. She even extends the kindness to her friends on occasion.

Ayase is one of the main members of the rebel group Funeral Parlor in their struggle against the occupation of Japan by the GHQ, a global organization of nations.  She spends her days as a high school student rolling between classes in her wheel chair and her off time piloting her Endlave, a large humanoid mecha, in support of Funeral Parlor’s actions. She feels free when she pilots her Endlave as it gives her the mobility she doesn’t have in her normal life. She is also beautiful, with brown eyes and brown hair that she often keeps in a ponytail.
 
Ayase fits the tsundere mold first by being a strong-willed person and never just fading into the background.  The second reason she on this list is that she has emotional scars. We may not know why she is in a wheelchair but we know she hates being pitied for her disability. She is likely to bite your head off if she even senses you feel sorry for her. The third reason she is a tsundere is her opinion of our hero, Shu. She is one of Shu’s most vocal critics in the beginning of the series. She eventually warms up to Shu, even suggesting that she may be in love with him. We think that is what clinches her tsundereness, her slow change from hostility to love for the protagonist of the story. She's a fantastic tsundere character!

We all knew that the bunny eared blonde Chitoge was going to be on this list of tsundere characters. She is one of the best examples of tsundere in anime. She is the main protagonist of the Nisekoi series and has a rather complicated love life. She currently plays the role of Raku Ichijo’s girlfriend and he plays the role of her boyfriend all arranged by their families who are rivals in the criminal underworld. The two of them are forced to keep up this false love as a way to keep the peace between the rival underworld gangs.  
 
Chitoge’s tsundere traits are spot-on as she has a rather aggressive personality. We first meet her as she accidently kicks Raku in the face and finds a way to blame him. He loses a precious locket in the encounter, giving her dere side a chance to come out. She works with him for hours looking for it in the tall grass around the school. She has some emotional scars but is in far better emotional condition than some of our heroines.  She has a distant mother, who works too much, and had an isolated childhood because other families didn’t want their kids to play with the mob bosses daughter. All in all she is just awkward, with people skills similar to those you find in a kid who’s home schooled up until high school. She’s simply a dork underneath the bluster and dorks can be hot.

We know not everyone has the same opinion of the epic and at many times hard to understand Evangelion, but we all can agree the Asuka is one of the key reasons for the popularity of the franchise. Asuka is a child prodigy. She speaks English, German and Japanese.  She has red hair, twin tails and a fiery temper.  She began training at young age to pilot an Eva, a gigantic cybernetic monster, in humanities’ attempts to hold back the harbingers of the apocalypse, Angels. Asuka is proud of her role in fighting the Angels, so she wears her interface headset, the technology used to sync up with the Eva, as an accessory in her hair. 
 
Askua makes the list of tsundere characters for being one of our earliest tsunderes and introducing us to “anta baka?” (you idiot) as a catch phrase, usually directed at classmate and fellow pilot Shinji. We also get to see a more emotional side of Asuka in her relationship with her former guardian Ryoji Kaji. We see a sweet girl who is in love with an older man. Asuka tries many times to tempt him and gets politely turned down each time. Yet, she doesn’t let that deter her feelings. She, like many on this list, can find her emotional scars at the root of her tsundere behavior. We find out that her mother goes insane and believes a rag doll is her daughter, referring to Asuka as “that other girl.” She’s also the one who discovers her mother’s suicide. We feel for Asuka; we see she is hurting on the inside. She is in pain and simply searching for the love she didn’t receive as a child, so we are willing to put up with the verbal punishment just take care of her.

Eriri is one of the main heroines of Saekano. Eriri is popular, intelligent, and elegant. She is one of the idols of her school, always kind and polite to her classmates. She lives in a mansion up in the hills above town, cementing her class distinction. She is considered a girl of excellent breeding, her father is an English diplomat and her mother is Japanese.  She has blue eyes, pale skin, and blonde hair tied back in long twin tails.  She is a slender girl often seen in her blue school uniform, sailor style, layered with a blue short-sleeve sweater.
 
The description of her behavior in school doesn’t exactly say tsundere, because as she admits it’s a mask. The perfect lady she pretends to be is actually an otaku. She is also a creator in the otaku economy, not just a consumer, as she is in an 18+ doujinshi circle “egoistihic-lily” working as their main artist.  She is also foul mouthed letting the profanity fly in private, especially when talking about the “normal people” the “non-otaku” in the world. Eriri would also rather spend her time at home, in a green track suit drawing doujinshi porn that goes out into the world. She also is not so secretly in love with her childhood friend Tomoya. Eriri is also a whirlwind of conflicting emotions when it comes to him. Eriri truly plays hard to get forcing him to beg for her help in making a dating sim, though deep down we feel she supported him from the get-go. She is also willing to resort to violence at times by smacking or kicking Tomoya if he displeases her or another girl gets too close to him. She is very emotionally vulnerable; despite her current life drawing porn, she wants nothing more than to be swept off her feet by a handsome prince in the most romantic way. She is a character that embodies a lot of moe and that tsundere personality is the key to her character, especially in a show that pokes kind fun at the otaku culture by providing characters to fit all our dere needs.

Many consider Taiga to be the queen of tsundere characters. She may be small but makes up for it in attitude. She’s often referred to as the “Palm Top Tiger.” The tale of Toradora follows the growing relationship of Taiga and Ryuji, a neighbor and classmate. Toradora is a school comedy that starts off with this miss-matched pair forming an alliance in order to date each other’s friends. You can quickly jump to the conclusion that this story will evolve into wonderful romantic comedy. 
 
Taiga’s tsundere characteristics are all classic. She is prone to violent outbursts in class and outside of class, often using a wooden sword to clobber those who offend her. Taiga is an expert when it comes to burying her feelings and not dealing with them, letting emotions of regret and boil underneath the surface. She eventually does deal with those feelings, like abandonment and an inferiority complex, though it’s a long journey with no quick fixes due to “the power of friendship.”  These issues of a screwed up childhood leave her with an inability to express her emotions in ways deemed acceptable by society.  We don’t love Taiga just because she is screwed up. We love her for the way she copes with her feelings with outbursts of violent behavior, disregarding trespassing laws, or getting embarrassed when she doesn’t know how to take a complement.

You’ve got to be tough when you come from a family of battle mages, and Rin might be the toughest. She has to be tough because the Holy Grail War is a gruesome affair and she feels it’s her duty to not only participate but to win. Her primary color scheme of red and black extends all the way to her jet black twin tails, making her look like quite the badass. She is a skilled mage with the ability to store magical power in gems giving her the ability to use them like mana exploding grenades. Rin even has the ability to fire bolts of energy from her fingertips; she points her fingers like a gun and shoots -- and looks adorable doing it.  
 
Rin Tosaka is on this list because she is a queen among tsundere characters. She is perceived to be a model student and puts on aristocratic airs in order distance herself from her classmates. Rin leads a secret and dangerous life and acts standoffish as much to protect others as she does to protect herself from loss. We think it’s this characteristic that drives her tsundere personality and makes her a unique example of the archetype. In spite of her powers and attitude she is still just a girl with a crush on a boy and gets him caught up in her family’s bloody centuries-old quest to win the Holy Grail War. Rin makes number one on this list over Tiaga, who often ranks at the top of most tsundere lists, for one reason. Rin, with her long legs and blue eyes, is sexy as hell. That is why we’d put up with her abuse, because when they’re beautiful almost nothing else matters.