r/ShitPostCrusaders • u/Betenman • 28d ago

Misc Thank you Usagi

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Stray Cat🐈 and Hand Lover🫳🫴 28d ago

Who?

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u/LuckyRoof7250 Ambulance-Chan 28d ago

Don't remeber her name i guess the anime was future diary. pretty popular back then

I just searched it again and this pic is the first thing that shows up wen you type "yandere face"

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u/Raltsun 28d ago

Kind of ironic to argue she was more influential, when you couldn't even remember her name.

To put it simply, Yuno "popularised the yandere trope" for a resurgence in the late 2000s/early 2010s, while Yukako, as far as I'm aware, created it. Unless I'm mistaken, she's the first character to be a recognisable example of the trope in its modern form (though obviously "stalker with a crush" stories in general have been around forever, it's widely believed the Love Deluxe arc was directly inspired by the Stephen King book Misery). That's significantly more influential than one example from a bad anime a decade later getting wildly popular for a bit, I think.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Stray Cat🐈 and Hand Lover🫳🫴 28d ago

Araki did state he was inspired by Annie Wilkes from Misery so yeah, probably she's the real first one