Details

Main Title: Toradora!
Genres : comedy, romance, slice of life
Aired: 2 October 2008
Rating : Teenage
Official Title: Tiger x Dragon
Official Title: とらドラ！
Official Title: 토라도라!
Official Title: 龍虎戀人
Producers: J.C.STAFF
Total Episodes: 25 Episodes
Current Episodes: 18 Episodes (On-Going)
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Plot Summary

Toradora!'s story begins with the male protagonist Takasu Ryuuji who is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryuuji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class as his best friend Kitamura Yusaku and crush Kushieda Minori. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into "the school's most dangerous animal of the highest risk level"—Aisaka Taiga—who just happens to also be in his class, and is a good friend of Minori.

Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. After meeting Ryuuji, she takes an instant dislike of him. Taiga comes from a rich family, though she moved out to live on her own due to family issues, and by coincidence is now living in an apartment next door to Ryuuji. After Ryuuji discovers that Taiga has a crush on Yusaku, and Taiga finds out about Ryuuji's affections towards Minori, Ryuuji suggests that they cooperate so they can win the object of their affections. Ryuuji says he will do anything to get closer to Minori, which Taiga exploits, making Ryuuji her personal servant, and getting him to do household chores like cooking and cleaning for her. Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much so that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryuuji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he is opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also attempt to help each other in order to improve how people view them. Unknown to them, however, people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship together and rumors begin to spread about them.

Characters





Takasu Ryuuji (高須 竜児)
Voiced by: Junji Majima
Ryuuji is a sixteen-year-old high school student in his second year, class C. Due to biological inheritance, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent and causes many misunderstandings in his life. He lives in a fatherless family with just his mother, and due to this, Ryuuji has learned to be self-sufficient. He is good at cooking and keeping everything in his house clean (nearly to the point of obsession), and also excels at sewing. He holds a crush on Kushieda Minori, a girl his age in his class. He has a pet parakeet named "Inko-chan" (inko literally means parakeet in Japanese). Ryuuji often helps Taiga with domestic chores which she is otherwise unable to perform. At school, he is known as "the only person able to stop the palmtop tiger", referring to Taiga's nickname. Ryuuji and Taiga become rumored as a couple since they spend so much time together, though this rumor stopped when Taiga viciously destroyed her classroom trying to make everyone see that it was a misunderstanding.





Aisaka Taiga (逢坂 大河)
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Taiga is a girl in Ryuuji's class. She has a well-regulated and beautiful appearance though is unable to stomach company from others. Due to her often snapping at others in brutal ways and her short stature at 143.6 cm (4' 8.5"), she is given the nickname "Palmtop Tiger" (手乗りタイガー, Te Nori Taigā). Her under-developed body and the added nickname has given her a complex which in turn serves to give her a negative attitude and facial expression. Essentially, Taiga gets upset easily and is considerably clumsy. Due to her cute looks (described as a doll by Ryuuji), she often gets confessions by boys her age, but she turns down every one of them. She comes from a rich family but due to bad family relations, she has taken to living on her own. However, since she came from a privileged household, she does not know how to do any domestic chores. When she meets Ryuuji and learns of his domestic talents, she ends up relying on Ryuuji to clean up after her. Aside from sleeping in her own house, and going to school, she spends most of her time at Ryuuji's house; so much so that she is almost considered a member of his family. As the story goes on she develops some feelings for Ryuuji, but at the beginning of the story, she is completely infatuated with his best friend Kitamura Yusaku. Due to this, Taiga and Ryuuji team up to help each other get into a relationship with the other's best friend.



Kushieda Minori (櫛枝 実乃梨)
Voiced by: Yui Horie
Minori is a girl in Ryuuji's class, and is a close friend to Taiga. She is also known by the pet name "Minorin". In contrast to the negative Taiga, Minori is always smiling and cheerful, but is also a natural airhead. She is very athletic and is the captain of the girl's softball club at school, though at the same time she holds many part time jobs. She is a glutton when it comes to food, but is also constantly combating with dieting. She has a habit of singing cheerfully off key and tends to walk with more energy than needed (such as kicking up her legs with each step).



Kitamura Yusaku (北村 祐作)
Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima
Yusaku is a male student in Ryuuji's class, and is his best friend. He is the vice-president of the student council, the class representative, and captain of the boy's softball club at school. Yusaku wears glasses, and has a diligent personality. He thinks he is poor at talking to girls, though Ryuuji observes otherwise; Yusaku likes the student council president Sumire Kano. Despite being on the student council, he is in violation of riding a motorcycle to school.





Kawashima Ami (川嶋 亜美)
Voiced by: Eri Kitamura
Ami is Yūsaku's childhood friend who transfers into his class midway through their second year of high school. She is very beautiful and even works as a model, though after she transfers school, she temporarily stops modeling. However, she still continues to go to the gym readily and maintains a slim figure. She is always kind and generous towards others, though this is merely a deception. In truth, she is arrogant and will not hesitate to use abusive language towards others. During her first meeting with Taiga, Ami showed her true colors, but the tables were turned when Taiga threw a counterattack back at her. Since then, Ami and Taiga have been enemies, though Ami still sometimes envies Taiga since she can always be honest.
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