Shouko Kirishima is the top student of her level and Yuuji Sakamoto’s childhood friend. She’s madly and disturbingly attracted to Yuuji and she’s not afraid of expressing her love for him. Still, Shouko’s ways of getting Yuuji’s attention can be a little too rough and fit right into the realm of yandere-esque.

Shouko is permanently all over Yuuji. For real; she can go as far as getting into his room, tying him up, drugging him and beating the crap out of him, all out of her deep love for him, of course. As a good yandere girl, Shouko is extremely possessive of her beloved Yuuji, although she doesn’t really do any harm to anyone but him (she may be freaking scary but this anime is still a comedy). She even plans to marry Yuuji, and I don’t mean just in her head, I mean that she really carries out those plans.

Let’s see, what could be even creepier than being stalked by a potentially dangerous psycho girl? That’s right, having a vicious blood-sucking demon as your stalker! Megumi Shimizu is a 15 year old vampire girl who’s got a big crush on the city-boy, Natsuno Yuuki.

Apparently, Megumi loves freaking Yuuki out by getting into his room in the middle of the night and popping out from under the bed, which would already be creepy enough even if she weren’t a disturbingly contorted demon with black eyes. Plus, if it wasn’t traumatic enough, there’s a lot of her that reminds us of Gasai Yuno, mainly her pink hair and the fact that her beloved is called Yuuki (although Shiki was released before Mirai Nikki). Unlike some other yanderes out there though, Megumi cannot succeed in her romantic advances, probably because she’s just a bit too startling.

Yuka Minase gives us a whole new level of creepiness. She’s madly in love with Kakeru and she excels at being dramatically jealous. Yuka expects Kakeru to not look at any other girl apart from her, and she’s dead serious.

Yuka is definitely not a girl to be taken lightly, especially taking into account that she can go as far as putting razors in other women’s tea just to make a point. She’s capable of getting rid of people just to be alone with Kakeru. Besides, her fondness for romantic fairy tales is quite unsettling.

Just like most yandere girls, Shirayuki Hotogi appears as the perfect girl who’s not only beautiful and smart but also can do everything well. Even to Kinji, whom Shirayuki’s obsessively in love with, she’s a real catch; well, except for the fact that she’s insanely jealous!

Shirayuki goes completely berserk every time another girl gets near her beloved Kinji. She seriously has some yandere killer instincts in her. And of course, as a good yandere, Shirayuki needs to stalk Kinji all the time, which she does mainly by texting him a lot (it could be worse, right?).

Nadeko Sengoku is the perfect example of a good girl gone mad out of love. She used to be a regular girl (okay, not so much, but this is Monogatari, everyone’s peculiar here) until she fell deeply in love with Koyomi. Nadeko confessed to be jealous of Hitagi but she didn’t try anything yandere at the time.

Of course, Nadeko remained non-obsessive only until Shinobu’s provocation caused her to have an emotional breakdown. That’s when she thought it would be a good idea to eat a charm, which turned her into a psychotic oddity. Nadeko’s love for Koyomi then became a dangerous obsession. As her true nature is revealed, Nadeko proves to be an authentic yandere goddess.

The lovely (yet annoying, nerve-racking, and even loathful) Amane Misa, or Misa Misa for her fans, is among the first and definitely among the most popular yandere girls ever. From the very beginning, she is shockingly devoted to Light after finding out he’s the real Kira. Misa is always happy to do Light’s dirty work in order to be with him, even if it means killing people.

Misa displays a very typical yandere-like bipolarity by being extremely affectionate and loving towards Light, yet awfully cold when it comes to writing names on her Death Note. Misa is overly possessive of her man and madly jealous, which ends up causing Light a snowball of difficulties. If she weren’t such a drawback to Light’s plans, she’d be infinitely easier to love.

Our beloved Anna Nishikinomiya is one of the latest additions to the yandere club. She's an absolute beauty who has very deep and dirty feelings for Tanukichi. As the good crazy yandere girl she is, Anna loves threatening Tanukichi with knives and potentially harmful objects when she gets jealous of other women.

What’s more, Anna goes further beyond the stereotypical yandere behavior. She’s not just another dangerous stalker who gets jealous extremely easily. Anna is so insanely interested in Tanukichi that she loves experimenting weird things with (and on) him. She can go as far as baking cookies with her very special “love nectar” for him. That’s definitely a whole new playfield for yandere characters.

Kaede Fuyou is a pioneer when it comes to freaking guys out with her obsessive love. She has actually become one of the most popular faces for yandere characters. I mean, who can forget Kaede´s psycho face in that scene when she was cooking?

Kaede is very likely the first yandere ever or, at the very least, one of the first to really exhibit the traits of an emotionally unstable girl turned into a dangerous psychopath out of a love fixation. Kaede just has to be among the top three of this list simply because she was yandere before it was cool. She’s the main reason why every now and then we find anime girls stalking their senpais and acting a bit cuckoo around them.

It gets pretty tough to decide who’s the craziest yandere in School Days. On the one hand, you have Sekai Saionji who can get disturbingly obsessive, manipulative and extremely volatile. On the other hand, there’s Kotonoha Katsura who, despite being shy and awkward around men, uses sex to manipulate Makoto and to make Sekai jealous.

Kotonoha can be just as much yandere as Sekai and at some points even more, especially when we consider that what Kotonoha did with Makoto in the end was even more twisted and creepy than what Sekai had done. Since we picked Sekai on the previous list of yandere girls, it felt right to put Kotonoha in the spotlight this time. Her messed up romantic ways (twisted as may be, she remains romantic until the very end) have definitely earned her that much.

What can we say? Gasai Yuno is, simply put, THE yandere queen (in more than one way actually). She constantly displays every single characteristic of this dere stereotype. In fact, Yuno has become so popular by now that she’s pretty much the embodiment and definition of yandere. From her unforgettable voice, to her beautiful hair and her psycho look, Yuno is the model for all yandere girls in anime (from Mirai Nikki onwards).

Even though yanderes were already out there in the world of anime before Mirai Nikki, Yuno definitely marked a milestone in yandere history. No other yandere girls were able to portray such an extreme obsessive love as Yuno did. She definitely set the yandere bar really high for future psychotic lovers to come, which of course doesn’t mean we are done with yanderes at all. We’re not expecting for another Yuno to come along; we enjoy all yandere girls and hope they keep coming.