I see obsession on a significant level, that is important and a step in the direction of being a yandere. However, that then begs the question, where is the murderous intent? Granted I'm pretty sure I haven't seen anyone get in her way or be perceived as in her way.Uh, are we thinking of the same Sakura?
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She couldn't be more Yandere if she tried.
I saw this same scenario with a different character in a different game. She was so obsessive and insecure she practically assaulted the MC, not literally assault, more like she walked in on him and became unusually highly proactive, within the opening scene of the game only to back down later when another girl threatened her love by simply walking in on something between them. That would get the other girl killed if the character in question was a yandere.
I see that same potential here, not the potential for a character to die because they got in the way, but the potential for Sakura to back down in the face of something threatening her love. I hesitate to call her a yandere because she has yet to show more definitive traits not shared with other character types.
A yandere is a character so crazy with love sickness (yandere literally translates to lovesick, coming from the words yanderu, meaning insane or sick in reference to the person's mental state, and deredere, meaning affectionate or loving) that they are willing to do anything, including kill, for their love interest and if that love interest rejects them, the love interest is seen as getting in the way of the yandere's love just like any other character who fell victim. A yandere is not the only character type that can be obsessive.