Well they are supposed to be yandere characters after all. Violence is as natural as breathing to them. Having their object of affection act so sweetly towards them isn't typical for them though. It's more likely to be screams of terror or fearful obedience instead.
TBH I personally think calling them yanderes is totally missing the point. Neither of them show the obsessiveness or crazed possessiveness that marks the classic yandere, to start with. But more importantly, it's clear that both of them are basically the archetype of the highly-trained, hair-trigger assassin type, put in a completely different context (girl-girl romance). All the stuff they do, if you remove the battles, would not be out of place in any issue of Yuri Hime or Hirari.
Violence is their language, but to me it's in a much different fashion to a typical yandere.
Yeah if yanderes are gonna be crazed obsessive/possessive in order to be yanderes they don't fit that stereotype. I think if it's a satire of anything it's a satire of the annoying use of miscommunication that plagues stories EVERYWHERE. Like using miscommunication as a plot development is not necessarily bad (looking at you Sora no Method, Lonely Wolf/Lonely Sheep), but when everything hinges on quite literally the fact the characters don't just freaking take time to talk to one another or trust them, it's annoying and shallow.
Still a better love story than Yuru Yuri...
I mean that's like saying it's a better comedy than Angel Beats. Totally missing the point of the show.
And if you ask me Yuru Yuri's romances are solidly on point, it's just that the mood of it is meant to be fun and lighthearted (barring that Akari time travel episode), so adding the drama and romance that comes with love stories would be missing the target.
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