I think Ayane is a "true" Yandere in the same manner as Chika is a "true" Gyaru, they're soft versions of the trope, where Chika's a Gyaru, but... isn't a total bimbo slut. She's a nice girl. That doesn't mean she doesn't identify with the fashion and culture though. Ayane's a "soft" Yandere, where she is actually kind of crazy and possessive, but she isn't so much that she'll hurt other people (despite bringing guns and swords to school randomly). They can be the trope without being so much of a stereotype that they're a turnoff. I actually like Ayane where outside of wanting to see all the events and story.. my thoughts on Noriko and Ami are "don't stick your dick in crazy"Ami may be worse than we've already seen, by which I mean crossing her could be deadly. Noriko has her crazy right out in the open, but has admitted to being armed, so she may also be deadly to get on the bad side of. Ayane has actually been calming down over multiple updates, so I'm not even sure she was ever a true yandere, that might have just been an act and she certainly fooled me into thinking she was a true yandere for a while. The first two, though, yeah, definite true yanderes, murderous intent included.
Oh it's horribly mean. The way she treats Haruka was just awful. I wanted to kick her out of the house for that. Yeah, the relationship with Haruka might be immoral (she could be a widow though, we don't know), but all they were doing at the time was talking on the couch, for all Ami should know her uncle was comforting a friend, which if you don't sleep with her that's exactly what that relationship is, comforting a lonely friend.Ami's streak isn't so much a mean streak as it is a territorial streak. She is an extremely jealous girl and VERY territorial in her love interests, even if that love might have been born out of her mental instability. I've made this comparison before, but she is very much like a lioness defending her territory, that territory being player Sensei. She's not truly trying to be mean, she is just trying to keep other girls from getting too close to her territory. Otherwise she would not be so mean toward them. She has shown she can be quite peaceful in interacting with the other girls as long as they don't get too close to player Sensei.
Again, though, she is clearly unstable and that instability may have led to a relationship she may not have even considered normally. Instability doesn't always take a form that makes sense.
Ayane is possessive to a degree but she doesn't act mean towards other girls even when she catches Sensei with them. She's sad that he's involved with Kirin but she hasn't done anything to hurt Kirin (it might even be warranted to), she was a little cross about Sana, but it didn't have any long term impact.
Noriko.. she's a lot of talk, but considering she's already open to sharing you with Ami, and Kirin... I don't think she'd really hurt anyone.
Ami's the only one who has legitimately hurt someone with her possessiveness.
I'm not sure on the Maya feelings, she may have had some positive feelings about the original Sensei, but it seems like she's encountered many possible Senseis over all these resets, and has grown to hate most of them, but ultimately he's still important to her existence so she still cares for him out of a self preservation interest. She's so meta that I can't really think of her as a character. Yasu is to a degree the same way.Can't forget about Maya, she knows for sure and she definitely has feelings that haven't been fully explored, but that are fairly obvious. I mean, just look at her dorm events to see how hurt she gets at the prospect of losing him.
"Feelings" maybe but not true affection. I can see it with Chika, Chinami, and Rin. The rest he's totally just using them and at most cares about them not being hurt.I honestly believe that Sensei has legitimate feelings for all the girls. He's not interested in the whole monogamous marriage family settling down thing. He's fucked up to the point where he can't bring himself to act until something really bad is happening, but he doesn't like it when any of them are hurting.
He doesn't know what to do when Miku freaks out, but he tries to help.
When he finds out about Molly's crush, he tries to comfort her.
With the exception of when something else takes control of him, he tries to help Yumi feel better - about both herself, and her situation.
He talks about buying Chinami a castle.
There are other examples, and not all of them involve situations that would help him get laid. He's not good at helping. He's not interested in the same thing as the girls are, feelings wise, but no one will convince me he doesn't care.
Does this mean he's a good person? No. Does this mean he doesn't do things to them that are objectively horrible? No. People do bad things to people they care about all the time, though.
I think Io might be the next one he legitimately has affection for beyond using as a fleshlight. She's certainly got real feelings for him.