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Crazy, Dangerous Love – The ‘Romantic’ World of Yandere

Crazy, Dangerous Love – The ‘Romantic’ World of Yandere

Imagine a person who is so in love with you that they can manipulate, bruise, and even kill people… for you. But they weren’t psychopaths since the start – it’s their love for you that makes them controlling, obsessive, and batshit crazy. If this happens in real life, that person will have cuffs slapped on their wrist the moment they act dangerous. But when it happens in books? Well, that’s called Yandere romance. This romance is one of the many Dere types, a Japanese concept that describes different character archetypes of people acting around their love interest. As readers have…
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