Citations:tsundere

Noun: "(Japanese media) a fictional character..."

 * 2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books (2008), ISBN 9780345506283, unknown page:
 * I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.
 * 2010, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company (2010), ISBN 9780786458189, page 70:
 * The selected girl is normally the one who looks after him, the childhood mate, or else the tsundere—i.e., the character type that is initially distinguished by a tough and emotionless demeanor but progressively turns out to be sensitive and innerly troubled.
 * 2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company (2012), ISBN 9781476600840, page 157:
 * Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).
 * 2012, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Vol. 2 , Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221818, unnumbered page:
 * That their son was labeled a tsundere and then propositioned by Commodore Perry?
 * 2013, Oliver Neale, Electronic Sue, Lulu.com (2013), ISBN 9781291538359, page 101:
 * Was that it - she couldn't stand the thought that he was genuinely happy because to her, true happiness was impossible? If only she wasn't tsundere.
 * 2014, Andrew James Pritchard, Mark of the Crow, Lulu Press (2014), ISBN 9781312553231, unnumbered page:
 * when [sic] she stepped back into the bedroom Kumar was still asleep, looking as peaceful and angelic as he did a moment ago, so in a bit of a tsundere mood she gave him a kick to wake him.
 * 2015, Rennel De Castro & Tayler Rice, Taren I: The Awakening, ISBN 9781312834156, unnumbered page:
 * "Harsh," I reply with a sigh, "Well, we'll be here for quite a while so just keep trying! Who knows, she might be a tsundere, like Tara."
 * 2015, Jessica McCall, "Hysterical Shakespeare: Celebrations of merry sexuality", in The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays (eds. Evelyn Gajowski & Phyllis Rackin), Routledge (2015), ISBN 9781317698357, page 147:
 * Shrew, while currently popular and textually familiar to modern tsundere fiction – stories where characters are originally cold and hostile to one another before gradually growing close – ends on one of the most hotly debated speeches in Shakespeare.
 * 2015, Deborah Shamoon, "The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime", Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (eds. Lilian Chee & Edna Lim), Routledge (2015), ISBN 9781134629534, page 100:
 * Each girl is color-coded (as in Sailor Moon), and their personality types also reflect moe characteristics, with Madoka as naïve and innocent, and Homura and Kyoko as variations on the tsundere type.
 * "Harsh," I reply with a sigh, "Well, we'll be here for quite a while so just keep trying! Who knows, she might be a tsundere, like Tara."
 * 2015, Jessica McCall, "Hysterical Shakespeare: Celebrations of merry sexuality", in The Merry Wives of Windsor: New Critical Essays (eds. Evelyn Gajowski & Phyllis Rackin), Routledge (2015), ISBN 9781317698357, page 147:
 * Shrew, while currently popular and textually familiar to modern tsundere fiction – stories where characters are originally cold and hostile to one another before gradually growing close – ends on one of the most hotly debated speeches in Shakespeare.
 * 2015, Deborah Shamoon, "The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime", Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (eds. Lilian Chee & Edna Lim), Routledge (2015), ISBN 9781134629534, page 100:
 * Each girl is color-coded (as in Sailor Moon), and their personality types also reflect moe characteristics, with Madoka as naïve and innocent, and Homura and Kyoko as variations on the tsundere type.