Tsundere Pizza

About

Tsundere Pizza is a product sold in Japanese Domino's restaurants named after the Tsundere trope in anime and manga. The pizza is a cheese pizza covered with jalapenos, mixing an extremely spicy topping with a mild base, representing how a tsundere feels love and hate for the object of their emotions. Once the product appeared on Japanese Domino's restaurants, it inspired jokes and art on Reddit and Twitter.

History

The Tsundere Pizza appears on Domino's Japan's menu.^[1] The pizza description reads, "You might think this jalapeno loaded pizza would be a scorcher, but the cheese coating keeps the flavor nice and mild. This pizza is 4 Happy Range."

Online Presence

The product began gaining popularity on social media on September 2nd. That day, Twitter user @akidearest^[2] tweeted a screenshot of the pizza with the caption, "It's not like I want it with extra cheese! B-Baka!", gaining over 960 retweets and 8,600 likes (shown below).

The same day, photoshops and jokes about the pizza began appearing on /r/Animemes. Redditor yourdeathinmyhands posted a photoshop that gained over 2,200 points (shown below, left). User dishwasher1910 posted art of a tsundere Domino's employee, gaining over 28,000 points (shown below, right).

On September 4th, akidearest posted a video of her trying the tsundere pizza, gaining over 180,000 views (shown below). The pizza was also covered by Soranews24.^[3]

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