Japanese culture
What does Dandere mean?
A character quiet from shyness, who opens to few people and drops the long sentence when fear eases.
Definition
A dandere is the character who speaks little, sticks to one interlocutor, and drops the long sentence when fear eases. The arc lives on that first long sentence. The West stacks the deres into crush typology; in this cut what counts is inhibition that yields.
A kuudere is composed cold (クール). A dandere falls silent from shyness, another silence. The suffix mould came from tsundere.
Origin
Dandere is Japanese ダンデレ. It joins danmari / damaru (to fall silent, 黙り) and dere, on the tsundere mould. That mould came from tsundere (Ayashii World, 29 August 2002; 2ch in December). The Dere Types Wiki points to the earliest Western attestation in April 2008 and, in Japanese, October 2008 on Nico. There is no mid-2000s 2ch date for this cut.
History
From English fandom wikis (2008) the Japanese cut showed up on Nico the same year. Mixi, Pixiv and -dere lists spread the type beside kuudere and yandere. In the West the name became a crush filter and a character tag.
How it emerged
Shy silence needed a branch that cool did not cover. Tsundere had already taught the suffix; what was missing was the nickname for mutism that melts, and 2008 is when the cut shows up in writing.
Usage examples
She only drops the long sentence in the last episode.
The trope lives on the first long sentence.
Translations
- pt dandere / ダンデレ
- en dandere / quiet-dere
- es dandere / ダンデレ
Synonyms
- ダンデレ
- danmari
- kuudere
- tsundere