Dere Type Quiz: Tsundere, Yandere, Kuudere or Dandere?
A dere type quiz with eight questions about how you act around someone you like. Find out if you're a tsundere, yandere, kuudere or dandere, and what each one means.
Quiz questions
1. Your crush sits down next to you. What happens?
2. Someone compliments you. Your reaction?
3. Your crush is laughing with someone else. You feel...
4. How do you show you care?
5. A friend teases you about who you like. You...
6. What are you like in a big group?
7. How long does it take you to open up to someone?
8. Pick the line that sounds most like you.
All possible results
Your result
Tsundere
Prickly outside, soft the moment nobody is looking.
- Proud
- Easily flustered
- Secretly very caring
You have feelings and you would rather eat gravel than admit them. So they come out sideways: a sarcastic comment, an eye roll, and then a favor you pretend was no trouble. People who know you well have learned to translate. "Whatever, I had a spare one" means you bought it specially.
The act protects you from being embarrassed, and it works, but it also keeps people guessing. The ones worth keeping will be delighted the first time you just say the nice thing out loud.
Your result
Yandere
Loves completely. Maybe a bit too completely.
- Devoted
- Intense
- Jealous
When you care about someone, you care with your whole heart and you don't see the point of doing it by halves. You remember every detail about them and you'd drop anything to be there. In anime this type is taken to scary extremes. In real life it mostly means you fall hard and you're fiercely loyal.
The part to keep an eye on is jealousy. The people you love need room for other friends and a life of their own. Trusting them with that makes them want to come back.
Your result
Kuudere
Cool, composed, and warmer than anyone suspects.
- Calm
- Reserved
- Reliable
You don't show much on the surface. You're level-headed in a crisis, you say what's needed and no more, and people sometimes read that as not caring. They've got it wrong. You care a great deal, you just show it by doing something useful and skipping the speech.
A few people get to see the warm version of you, and they treasure it. It wouldn't hurt to let a little of it out more often. A smile from you goes a very long way.
Your result
Dandere
Shy at first, a chatterbox once you're in.
- Quiet
- Gentle
- Loyal
You're not cold, you're shy. In a crowd you stay at the edge and hope nobody asks you a question. But with the right person, somebody patient who makes you feel safe, you turn into a different creature and talk for an hour about the thing you love.
You notice the small kindnesses others miss and you give them back quietly. You don't have to become loud to be liked. The right people are already curious about what you're thinking.
What does “dere” mean?
The word comes from the Japanese “deredere”, which means lovestruck or sweet on someone. Anime and manga fans add a prefix to describe how a character behaves around the person they like. A tsundere is harsh first and sweet later. A yandere is sweet first and obsessive later. A kuudere is cool and composed. A dandere is silent and shy until they feel safe.
They started as labels for fictional characters, but people recognize themselves in them straight away, which is why the dere type quiz has been passed around fan communities for years.
The four main dere types
- Tsundere: from “tsuntsun”, to turn away in a huff. Acts annoyed to hide affection.
- Yandere: from “yanderu”, to be sick. Devoted to an unhealthy degree in fiction.
- Kuudere: from the Japanese pronunciation of “cool”. Calm outside, warm inside.
- Dandere: from “danmari”, silence. Quiet and shy, talkative with the right person.
There are plenty of others, such as deredere, himedere and kamidere. This quiz sticks to the main four because they’re the ones most people mean when they ask “what dere are you?”.
How the quiz works out your type
You answer eight questions about how you act around someone you like. Each answer adds a point to one type and the type with the most points is your result. Be honest about what you actually do, not what you wish you did. Almost everyone thinks they’re a kuudere. A lot of them are tsundere.
A note on the yandere result
In stories, yandere characters do alarming things for love. If you get that result here it means you love intensely and get jealous easily, nothing more. It’s a quiz about anime character types, and it isn’t a judgment on your mental health. If jealousy is making you or someone else unhappy, talking to a person you trust will help more than any quiz.
