On July 23, 2001, Saban announced that he and News Corporation would sell Fox Family Worldwide Inc for $5.3 billion to The Walt Disney Company. and on October 24, 2001, the sale was completed and the network was renamed ABC Family. Saban profited about $1.6 billion from this sale.
Naturally, the term of yandere is of Japanese origin, so it's not surprising that there are a lot of them in anime and manga. You're so silly, dear~, I may have to correct that with a little punishment... 1  Ai no Kusabi has Guy. 2  Riki's Unlucky Childhood Friend.
The term is a portmanteau of the words yanderu (çãã§ã), meaning (mentally or emotionally) ill, and deredere (ã§ãã§ã), meaning to show genuinely strong romantic affection. Yandere characters are mentally unstable, incredibly deranged and use extreme violence or brutality as an outlet for their emotions.