Onidere

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### Personality

Arrogant, proud, greedy, prideful, self-important, sadistic, calculating, demanding, loudmouth, unforgiving, cruel, creepy, terrifying, evil, insensitive, authoritarian

***Onidere*** (*JP*Japanese: オニデレ

Romaji: Onidere) is a term for a character who treats their love interest badly around other people to maintain a reputation of being feared. They will hide their love life and relationship from everyone else at first because they fear it will make them look "weak", however, they will be really sweet and loving to their love interest when others are not looking. They may even come to express their loving side in public after some time with their love interest.

## Meaning of the Name

*Onidere* (オニデレ) is a combination of "oni" (オニ) and "deredere" (デレデレ), meaning "lovey-dovey".

In Japanese folklore, an oni is an evil supernatural creature who is said to live deep within the mountains or caves. They are portrayed as a type of demonic-like ogre, often of gigantic proportions, who possess monstrous strength and a fearful appearance. The term is a reference to the street name "Oni Head" given to the character Saya Ikushima.

### Origin

The name for the archetype comes from the 2008 romantic comedy manga series *Onidere* (*JP*Japanese: オニデレ

Romaji: Onidere) by Crystal na Yousuke. In this series, Saya Ikushima is in a secret love relationship with Tadashi Imamoto despite being known as one of the biggest delinquents of the school. She even possesses superhuman strength and two oni-like horns, which granted her the street name of "Oni Head" by others.

Due to her position and reputation, every time they are outside she treats her love interest with disgust. She hates being seen with her love interest despite loving him and she hides their relationship from everyone else to keep her gang under the impression that she is the strongest and biggest man-hater of them all. She even states that if their secret love is found out, she will kill him and then herself. However, when Saya is alone with Tadashi she acts really sweet with him and she usually asks to be punished in return for harming him earlier when trying to keep up her image. She loves him a lot despite how she treats him in front of others and only treats him badly due to a combination of her "oni" reputation and to hide her more loving side from other people.

## Characteristics

In official media, *onidere* are presented as humans who just have traits that resemble an oni.

## Personality

### Oni Side

*Onidere* are characters who think they are the strongest being who should be feared and respected.

They believe that they are like a powerful oni who should be feared. They feel that they are in a higher position compared to others but their sense of reason devolves into megalomania, or an obsession with the exercise of power and domination of others. Some *onidere* characters can act like this because they confuse cruelty with strength, but when their "oni" exterior is broken by someone who loves them they will show their "dere" side.

### Deredere Side

Due to their position, *onidere* will hide or deny their feelings of love as they think they have a reputation to uphold and that someone in their position should not love. They think it makes them look weak and will pretend to hate romance despite secretly being completely head over heels for their love interest. When in public they will be rude to their love interest and pretend like they don't know them, let alone have feelings for them, but behind the scenes when no one is looking they will show their loving side to their love interest. Some may even feel bad about having to treat them so poorly in public to maintain their reputation and try to make up for it by being extra sweet when they're alone.

*Onidere* do genuinely care for their love interest, but they feel that maintaining their feared reputation is even more important. They do not want to be seen as weak for letting someone get intimate with them. With enough time, however, they may eventually realize that being with the person they love is more important than their reputation and will start to act more loving toward them in public.

## Other Types

Characters that are normally kind but still act like they want to be feared might also count as a type of "onidere", these characters just have a more prominent "dere" side than an "oni" side. Often these types of "onidere" are seen more like *bakadere* because nobody actually takes them seriously. They usually suffer from *chuunibyou*, or delusions of grandeur, thinking they are feared when they aren't and could also be said to possess a bit of a "devil complex".

## Differences From Other Archetypes

*Onidere* characters are very similar to *kamidere* characters, but instead of thinking that they are a god and wanting to be worshipped, they think that they are like a powerful oni and should be feared. This makes them far more dangerous than *kamidere* characters.

## Similar Japanese Archetypes

* ***Chuunibyou***: A term for characters that have delusions of grandeur.
* ***Kamidere***: A term for characters who want to be treated as a god by their love interest.
* ***Monster Musume***: A term for beautiful female characters who share traits with a monster, often of which is an oni.

## Characters with this Personality

See Onidere/Anime Characters to see characters from anime media.

See Onidere/Western Characters to see characters from western media.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Onidere Vol. 1. Shogakukan (2008/04/02).
2. ↑ Onidere. Wikipedia JP (2023/08/16).
3. ↑ What is Onidere?. Pixiv Encyclopedia (2023/06/06).
4. ↑ What is Onidere. Nico Nico Pedia (2008/20/10).

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