Megadere

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Chiyo Yumehara from "Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan"

### Personality

Affectionate, loving, adoring, happy, sweet, loyal, flirtatious, romantic, caring, kind, lovestruck

***"Megadere (Western)"*** is a term for a character who is very affectionate and loving towards their love interest. They will become noticeably happy whenever they are around their love interest and may even start blushing uncontrollably from how much they love them. They have a strong adoration for their love interest and will not be afraid to give them large displays of affection and tell them how much they love them.

In Japan, this dere type is known with a completely different meaning.

## Meaning of the Name

*Megadere (Western)* is a combination of the English word "mega", meaning "very large", and "deredere" (デレデレ), meaning "lovey-dovey". It is used to refer to someone who has a very large lovey-dovey side, which is often shown in the form of strong adoration.

### Origin

It is not quite clear where the definition for this variation originates from, but it is a misunderstanding of the Japanese *megadere*. The Japanese *megadere* originates from the 2003 light novel series *Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!* (*JP*Japanese: 護くんに女神の祝福を!

Romaji: Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku o!

Translation: Blessing of the Goddess to Mamoru-kun!) to describe the character Ayako Takasu. Ayako was known as the "Goddess (Megami) of Death" and was feared by her other classmates. She was said to never smile and was very harsh towards other students until one day she fell in love with a new transfer named Mamoru Yoshimura. Whenever Ayako was around Mamoru she became very timid and loving, but when she was around anyone else she acted extremely harsh towards them. This Japanese version acts almost as an inverted *tsundere*, someone who is extremely "tsun" to everyone else but is "dere" for their love interest.

This Western version of "megadere" likely originated from the false perception that the Japanese version of *megadere* was a combination of the word English word "mega", meaning "very large", as opposed to the correct etymology of "Megami", meaning "goddess". This likely led people to start using it for characters that had "very large" displays of love towards their love interest, completely leaving out the harsher aspects of the Japanese *megadere*.

## Personality

Western *megadere* are characters who are very affectionate and loving towards their love interest. Whenever they are around their love interest they will become noticeably happy and may even start blushing from how much they love them. They have a strong adoration for their love interest and will not be afraid to give them their affection and tell them how much they love them.

They will do their best to get the attention of their love interest and get them to spend more time with them. They will do all kinds of different things to show their affection towards their love interest, such as giving them presents or verbally telling them that they love them. If they are currently in a relationship then they will even perform more intimate acts such as hugging on them and physically loving them.

They will not be able to hide their affection for their love interest because just by seeing or thinking about them they will start to show their lovey-dovey side in an exaggerated way. In some cases during these moments, they may be visually depicted as having heart eyes or being surrounded by dreamy pink backgrounds to get the idea across. Because of this, their crush on someone will be very obvious to anyone who sees them.

They usually see their love interest as absolute perfection and that being in a relationship with them would be a dream come true.

## Differences From Other Archetypes

The Western *megadere* is similar *deredere* in that both types of characters are very loving, however, Western *megadere* characters are more affectionate and have larger displays of affection. *Deredere* characters will also often be happy with everyone, while Western *megadere* are only affectionate towards their love interest.

## Similar Japanese Archetypes

* ***Deredere***: A term for a character who does not hide their feelings towards their love interest from beginning to end. Most *megadere* probably also fall under this.

## Characters with this personality

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

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

## **References**

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Onidere ♥
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S Dere ♥
Shindere ♥
Teredere ♥
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Uzadere ♥
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Tsundora ♥
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