Which Dere do you want?

[Yukimura]

I vote Yandere. Yandere are the characters that I feel are most likely to be treated/received as they deserve to be within stories. Tsundere, at least in my experiences, have tended to be overly proud of their status as unabashed bitches and they are accepted and coddled by cast and audience alike because of thin layers of 'past trauma' that supposedly excuse their horrible behavior. Yandere are often just as if not more traumatized but their violent tendencies are not played for laughs. Since they are usually brought to account by the cast and story for their actions I find them much more satisfying as characters in that their negative actions have negative consequences for them. It probably helps that I tend to root for relationships to be strained to the point of failure before I can be satisfied with them and yandere relationships almost inevitably fulfill that desire.

Honorable mention to Kuudere that don't warm up too much or become too lovey-dovey/mushy by the end of the story (C.C.). As a strong anti-sappiness advocate I am turned away by romance that does not involve some form of interpersonal tragedy or hardship to bring the characters down to earth before they ever proceed with any sort of romance.