Tsunshun

"Tsunshun" or "Tsunheko" is a term for a tsundere character who acts standoffish and disinterested in their love interest and then becomes sad because they couldn't be honest with their feelings.
== Etymology ==
=== Meaning of the Term ===
Tsunshun (ツンしゅん or ツンシュン) is a combination of "tsundere" (ツンデレ), meaning "a character who acts distant, standoffish, and stuck-up towards their love interest in order to conceal their feelings of being lovestruck", and "shun" (しゅん or シュン), an onomatopoeia for "becoming sad".
=== Origin ===
The term "tsunshun" comes from the Japanese light novel author Ryogo Narita (author of series like Durarara!!) to describe the character Hime Yarizakura from the 2006 manga series Yozakura Quartet . Hime was a 16-year-old girl who was forced to become mayor at the age of 9 after the previous mayor her grandmother passed away. Due to the strong sense of pressure from this responsibility, Hime often found herself overwhelmed by her own failures and decisions she made to the point of bursting into tears.
=== Alternate Name ===
Although the term "tsunshun" was coined first, the author of Yozakura Quartet himself Suzuhito Yasuda (who also worked on Durarara!! with Ryogo Narita) described this archetype as being called "tsunheko" (ツンヘコ) instead. This term comes from the word "hekomu" (ヘコむ), meaning "sad, disappointed, or feeling bad".
Hime Yarizakura is often referred to in official media as "Mayor Tsunheko".
== History ==
=== Popularity of Ririchiyo Shirakiin ===
While the term tsunheko is synonymous with the origin character Hime Yarizakura, the alternate name tsunshun has instead become synonymous with the character Ririchiyo Shirakiin from the 2009 manga series Inu×Boku SS . Although the term was never used in the actual series itself, several pieces of official media from the series used the term to refer to Ririchiyo, such as the Prism Connect trading card game or several collector's figures which coined her the "Heroine of Tsunshun".
Ririchiyo was so popular as the face of tsunshun that she even spawned several doujinshi fan manga based on her, including So What? It's a Marriage Between Princess Tsunshun and the Bitter & Sweet Prince released in 2010 and Tsunshun × Natural Black released in 2012.
=== Other Series ===
The term was also later used in the 2017 video game Haruoto Alice*Gram Snow Drop which came with a bonus drama CD called Ichiyo's Sweet-Sweet Tsunshun Lover's Situation about the character Ichiyo Kuonji.
== Personality ==
Like a tsundere, tsunshun will act stuck-up and reject or act uninterested in something, but whereas a tsundere would go "I'm doing it, but it's not like I like you or anything!" and try to accept what the other person has to say while trying to keep their "I'm not interested" mask, a tsunshun will not try to find a way to make things work. Instead, they will say "no" and then get sad because they couldn't say "yes".
Example: "No, I'm not going to the festival" words out of their mouth = "Why didn't I say yes and go to the festival!? Why!?" words inside their mind a few minutes later.
It doesn't need to be a straight "no"; it can be any tsun or standoffish expression. A tsunshun will reject others and act like they are above them, but then get upset with themselves for being rude and not being sincere.
== Similar Japanese Archetypes ==
* Shundere: A term for a character who get sad when their love interest doesn't pay attention to them but is deredere when they do. Could be considered an inverse of tsunshun.
* Tsundere: A term for a character who can't be honest with their feelings of love towards their love interest so they act distant, standoffish, and stuck-up to conceal them.
== Character with this Personality ==
See Tsunshun/Japanese Characters to see characters from Japanese media.
See Tsunshun/Non-Japanese Characters to see characters from non-Japanese media.
== Gallery ==
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Hime Yarizakura from Yozakura Quartet 2.jpg|Hime Yarizakura from Yozakura Quartet
Hime Yarizakura from Yozakura Quartet 3.gif|Hime Yarizakura from Yozakura Quartet
Ririchiyo.gif|Ririchiyo Shirakiin from Inu×Boku SS
Ririchiyo Shirakiin from Inu x Boku SS.gif|Ririchiyo Shirakiin from Inu×Boku SS
Aika Natsukawa from Dreaming Boy is a Realist.jpg|Aika Natsukawa from Yumemiru Danshi wa Genjitsushugisha
Kyou Sohma Turn.gif|Kyou Sohma from Fruits Basket
== References ==
Category:Distant
Category:Melancholic
Category:Shy