15 Best Tsundere Female Anime Characters of All Time

Taiga Aisaka is one of the most well-known female tsundere in history. In the anime Toradora, she is the major female heroine. She is Takasu Ryuuji's love interest, and she is known for her strong personality and tiny stature. She is prone to snapping at others and is quickly irritated by those around her, including Ryuuji in the anime's early episodes.

As a result of her qualities, she has earned the moniker "Palm Top Tiger." While she is often agitated, she is also awkward and clumsy. Taiga is also prone to bullying and rejecting people in who she has no interest. Everything changes, however, when she interacts with her first love, Kitamura Yuusaku.

Misaki Ayuzawa, another well-known female tsundere, is the main female protagonist of the anime Kaichou-wa Maid-sama! She is the president of the student council, and her charisma allows her to take over the once all-boys school. Unfortunately, she comes in second place in academics to the appealing Usui Takumi.

Usui discovers Mizaki's hidden secret through an unfortunate turn of events. Misaki works part-time as a maid at a café that Usui frequently goes to while she acts as the harsh and forceful student council by day. As a result, Usui's crazy attempts to keep her distracted disrupt Misaki's tranquil days!

Chitoge Kirisaki is a female tsundere from the popular anime Nisekoi. She was a part of the long-running love triangle that split the anime community. Chitoge Kirisaki falls head over heels for her pretend boyfriend, Raku Ichijou, while facing one of the best girls ever, Onodera Kosaki.

Chitoge is the daughter of the Bee Hive Gang's commander, and she falls in love with Raku, the son of the Yakuza chief whose clan is their archenemy. Chito and Raku decide to step up in order to put an end to a rivalry between their two families, even if they don't get along in the first half of the anime.

Oshino Shinobu is a female tsundere who has lived more than 500 years and is an enigmatic and gorgeous vampire girl from the Monogatari Series. Prior to encountering a pure-bred vampire who converted her into a vampire, she was a human child princess known as Rola.

She has a tsundere personality when it comes to Koyomi Araragi and Meme Oshino. She is a conceited vampire that has developed a superior attitude toward those she thinks to be her followers. Aside from that, she doesn't refer to anyone is by their name. Towards Koyomi, she becomes upset whenever a large group of girls surrounds him.

Kurisu Makise, the brilliant scientist from the infamous anime Steins;Gate, appears! She graduates from university at the age of 17 and gets a job at the Brain Science Institute and the Future Gadget Lab, where she works with mad scientist Rintaro Okabe.

Kurisu is a very rational and mature person who exudes a calm and collected demeanor. It's very typical of a cool heroine after all. Aside from that, Kurisu is a shy girl who is incredibly sarcastic and realistic, to the point of not believing in time travel. On rare occasions, Kurisu becomes enraged with Okabe when he gives her a nickname or says something strange about him. Okabe frequently fools her, much to her chagrin.

Sawachika Eri is a main character in the anime School Rumble, but she was originally portrayed as a supporting character. Eri eventually plays a significant role in the series due to her chemistry with the delinquent Kenji Harima.

Eri has a lot of admirers at school because of her physical stature. Her classmates regard her as a graceful and attractive student who remains calm and collected in any situation. In the eyes of her friends, however, she is a proud and prideful tsundere with many insecurities and squabbles. When Harima is around, this side of her comes out a lot.

Mikoto Misaka is Academy City's third-ranked level 5 Esper and a very powerful Railgun Electro Master. She is the main character in the anime Toaru Kagaku no Railgun and one of the main characters in the prequel Toaru Majutsu no Index. She is one of the strongest espers, earning her the nicknames "Biri-Biri" and "Bug Zapper" from Kamijou Touma.

While some people perceive Misaka as a young and proper lady, she is actually an impatient and short-tempered young lady with tomboyish tendencies and insecurities. She is also arrogant, as evidenced by Touma's repudiation of her abilities in the series.

As a result, she frequently requests that Touma settle the score once and for all so that she can move on from her first encounter with him. Having said that, Misaka has a rough attitude toward Touma due to her insecurities. However, as they argue more and more, these feelings grow into something bigger.

Rin Tohsaka, one of the three main heroines of the Fate/Stay Night anime series, is a female tsundere with a split temperament and a not-so-cute demeanor. Rin is widely admired in public because of her ladylike demeanor and disposition in front of others.

Rin, on the other side, has a loud, shrewd, and stingy personality when it comes to the people she truly cares about. Aside from that, she is frequently misunderstood because of her sarcasm, as well as her dismissive and hostile personality.

Rin is not only the fifth holy grail war's master of Archer, but she is also the current head of the Tohsaka bloodline and the biological sister of Sakura Matou, the true master of Rider.

With a heavy burden on her shoulders, Emilia is the heir to the throne of the Dragon Kingdom of Lugnica in the Royal Selection in the anime Re:Zero. She is a half-elf who has long silver hair and purple-blue eyes.

Emilia uses antiquated phrases like "dunderhead" to make words like "really" become "reallyyyy," which reflects her infantile and laid-back personality. Subaru teases her a lot because of these attributes.

She is a subverted tsundere who tries her hardest to be distant and compassionate despite her strong desire to help others and, in the process, deny her kindness, particularly to Subaru.

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Shinomiya Kaguya is a well-known female tsundere in the anime Kaguya sama: Love is War. Shinomiya's tsundere tendencies surface anytime she comes into contact with the president, Shirogane Miyuki, despite her external stature as a prim and proper lady of the prestigious Shinomiya family and her role as the vice president of the Student Council.

Kaguya goes to great measures and strategizes merely to achieve her goal of having Shirogane profess his affections for her. However, it is true that some plans are never perfect, as her plans begin to deteriorate anytime Shirogane does something unexpected or gets carried away.

Nakiri Erina, from the anime Food Wars, is another prim and respectable lady. She is a member of the prestigious Nakiri clan and the revered wielder of "The God's Tongue."

She not only stands out from the rest because of her background, but she also has a reputation in the Elite Ten Council and the possibility to join the 92nd Totsuki Generation. Part of her privilege as a Nakiri is her privileged life and prominent standing. As a result, Erina's snobbish personality was influenced.

Erina's composure fades once Yukihira Souma is present, despite her distinguished background. Erina can't take how flamboyant and bold Souma is at first glance, as he is the polar opposite of her nature. Nonetheless, when Yukihira tries to impress Erina with his God-tier and unique method of cooking, her tsundere tendencies get in the way.

Asuka Langley is thought to be one of the first tsundere. She has a lot of tsundere characteristics that many fans are familiar with, especially when it comes to Shinji, who was her kissing mate if we remember rightly. To keep herself sane, Asuka masks her weakness with her outbursts and grouchy demeanor in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

She is the typical tsundere in the eyes of fans. Asuka is obviously a tsundere by blood, with lines like "Anta Baka?! (What are you, stupid?). Asuka Langley Sohryu is the 14-year-old pilot of the Evangelion Unit-02 and the Evangelion project's second kid. Despite being a German native with a quarter Japanese lineage, Asuka speaks Japanese exceptionally well.

Hiragi Kagami is a tsundere in a group of friends from the anime Lucky Star. She is typically perceived as a meek and melancholy girl, despite her egocentric personality. Unlike her sister Tsukasa, Kagami is not great at doing household errands, in spite of her bravado.

Konata holds a special place in Hiragi's heart. Despite their constant bantering and ridiculing, Hiragi genuinely cares about Konata, as shown in the series. She goes to great lengths to help Konata, including traveling to other places merely to fulfill Konata's impulsiveness.

Akane Tendo is a female tsundere from Ranma 1/2, one of the most iconic anime of all time. Akane is Soun Tendo's eldest daughter and the successor of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts. In a sudden twist of fate, Akane is betrothed to the son of Genma Saotome, her father's best friend.

While Akane is usually frustrated and impatient with her fiancé, who can transform into a girl, she begins to fall in love with Ranma as they live together and witness some of the oddest incidents in the dojo.

Louise de la Valliere, better known as Louise the zero, is the main female heroine of the anime Zero No Tsukaima, also known as The Familiar of Zero. Her defining qualities are her zero success rate in spell casting and zero affinity for elements.

Regardless of her shortcomings, Louise always acts in accordance with her noble upbringing. In terms of personality, she is a female tsundere who is always concerned with how others perceive her. She is a typical tsundere, impatient and impulsive on the outside but shy and thoughtful on the inside, especially when it comes to Saito.

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