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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:25 pm
This thread will soon have all you need to know about ToraDora!
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:29 pm
♡ P.L.O.T
Toradora!'s story begins with the male protagonist Ryūji Takasu 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, Ryūji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class with his best friend Yūsaku Kitamura and a girl he has a crush on, Minori Kushieda. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into "the school's most dangerous animal of the highest risk level"—Taiga Aisaka—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 Ryūji, she takes an instant dislike of him. Taiga comes from a rich family, but she has moved out to live on her own due to family issues. She is coincidentally living in an apartment next to Ryūji's. When Ryūji discovers that Taiga has a crush on Yūsaku, and Taiga finds out about Ryūji's affections towards Minori, Ryūji suggests that they cooperate to win the objects of their affections. Taiga exploits the fact that Ryūji will do anything to get closer to Minori. She makes him her personal servant, getting him to do all her household chores (cooking and cleaning). Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryūji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he has opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also try to help each other improve the way people view them. However people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship and rumors begin to spread about them behind their backs.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:34 pm
♡ C.H.A.R.A.C.T.E.R.S  ♡ R.Y.U.J.I
Ryūji 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, Ryūji 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 Minori Kushieda, a girl his age in his class as he appears to have a weakness for the airhead type. He has a pet parakeet named "Inko-chan". Ryūji 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. Ryūji 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. On the evening of Christmas eve, Ryūji makes his final attempt to persuade Minori attend the Christmas party, but has his invitation rejected once more. Eventually, Minori meets with Ryūji after the party but Minori rejects him again probably knowing that he was going to confess to her.  ♡ T.A.I.G.A
Taiga is a girl in Ryūji'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". 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, 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 Ryūji and learns of his domestic talents, she ends up relying on Ryūji to clean up after her. Aside from sleeping in her own house, and going to school, she spends most of her time at Ryūji's house; so much so that she is almost considered a member of his family. At the beginning of the story, she is infatuated with his best friend Yūsaku Kitamura to the point that she drools at her picture collection of him and gets nervous every time he appears. Due to this, Taiga and Ryūji team up to help each other get into a relationship with each other's best friend. On the night of Christmas Eve, Taiga realized how important Ryūji was to her and that she actually loved him. Since this hindered Ryūji's plans to get together with Minori, she decides to stop coming to his house, but still plans to get the two together.  ♡ M.I.N.O.R.I
Minori is a girl in Ryūji'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, calling herself a Diet Warrior. 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). She seems to get a thrill out of being scared: she pretends to be terrified of supernatural things in hopes that others will take advantage of this statement and try to frighten her. Despite her air-headed tendencies, she is very perceptive to other people's characters, and is one of the few people to see Ryūji for the gentle person he is, and is also not fooled by Ami's act of innocence. When Ryūji comments that she is a kind person, she denies it and tells him that she is very arrogant and dishonest in nature. Throughout the series, Minori notices Taiga's love for Ryūji and she is able to confirm that assumption when she witnesses Taiga from afar hysterically crying and calling out Ryūji's name. When she later on meets up with Ryūji, she rejects him by using the "UFO and ghosts" analogy similar to the conversation they had in Ami's villa. Despite this, she still seems to hold some feelings for him.  ♡ K.I.T.A.M.U.R.A
Yūsaku is a male student in Ryūji'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. Yūsaku wears glasses, and has a diligent personality. He thinks he is poor at talking to girls, though Ryūji observes otherwise; Yūsaku likes the student council president Sumire Kanō. Despite being on the student council, he is in violation of riding a motorcycle to school. A running gag is that he will appear out of nowhere behind Taiga and Ryūji when they are discussing a "plan of attack" to get their crushes. Like Minori, he has an unusual personality—but oftentimes it is an expression of his friendship and appreciation.  ♡ A.M.I
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 shows her true colors, but the tables are turned when Taiga counterattacks by slapping her. Since then, Ami and Taiga have been enemies, Taiga referring her as Stupid Chihuahua, though Ami still sometimes envies Taiga since she can always be honest. Ami has a love interest in Ryūji, asking him if he would love her real self, going as far as to bet Taiga to a swim race for the chance of having Ryūji all to herself at her villa. She has recently shown a deeper affection for Ryūji when she states that Minori will not be good for him, comparing Minori to be the sun and him the moon, and if he is with her he would burn out. She states that a person more suited for him would be herself. As the series progresses, she develops a less shallow and self-absorbed attitude. She has a deep understanding of the relationship situation going on between Minori, Ryūji, Taiga, and herself.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:37 pm
♡ L.I.G.H.T N.O.V.E.L
Toradora! began as a series of light novels written by Yuyuko Takemiya and drawn by Yasu. The novels are published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko publishing label. The first novel was released on March 10, 2006, and as of October 10, 2008, nine volumes have been published. The novel series will end with the tenth volume set to be released on March 10, 2009. There are four additional chapters not collected into volumes; three of which appeared in three separate light novel anthologies released by MediaWorks in November 2006, March 2007, and November 2007, and the last chapter entitled Toratora! came with a plush tiger stuffed animal first released in April 2007.
A spin-off of the regular series under the title Toradora Spin-off! was also created. The first volume of the spin-off series was released on May 10, 2007 and compiled four chapters, three of which had been serialized in MediaWorks' now-defunct light novel magazine Dengeki hp between June 10, 2006 and February 10, 2007, and the last chapter was written especially for the volume release. A single chapter of the spin-off series, originally published in February 2006 in Dengeki hp was included in the second volume of the regular novel series. More chapters started serialization in Dengeki hp's successor Dengeki Bunko Magazine on December 10, 2007. Additional chapters of the main series started serialization in the same magazine on April 10, 2008. The second volume of Toradora Spin-off! was released on January 10, 2009.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:39 pm
♡ M.A.N.G.A
A manga adaptation started serialization in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao! on July 27, 2007, formally published by MediaWorks. The manga takes its story from the light novels that preceded it, and is illustrated by Zekkyō. The manga ended its run in Dengeki Comic Gao! on January 27, 2008, but still continued serialization in ASCII Media Works' manga magazine Dengeki Daioh from March 21, 2008. The first bound volume was released on February 27, 2008 under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Comics label; the second followed on January 27, 2009.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:49 pm
♡ A.N.I.M.EThe anime was first announced on a promotional advertisement for light novels being released under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko label for April 2008. The anime is directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and produced by the animation studio J.C.Staff. Toradora! began airing on October 2, 2008 on TV Tokyo in Japan, and is set to contain twenty-five episodes to conclude on March 26, 2009. The episodes started airing at later dates on AT-X, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setōchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting. The first volume DVD compilation, which contains the first four episodes, was released on January 21, 2009 by King Records in limited and regular editions. Seven more DVD compilations, each containing three episodes, are slated for release between February 25, 2009 and August 26, 2009 also in limited and regular editions.♡ E.P.I.S.O.D.E.SCOMING SOON!♡ S.O.N.G.S♡ Opening One - "Pre-Parade" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyWHy7C3pig
♡ Opening Two - "Silky Heart" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZPWzp2vMiU
♡ Ending One - "Vanilla Salt" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihdlbgWFBv4
♡ Ending Two - "Orange" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqQ8292HIQE
♡ Ending Three [Only Episode 19] - "Holy Night" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTR6MzveFc
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:52 pm
♡ V.I.S.U.A.L N.O.V.E.L
A visual novel developed by Guyzware and published by Namco Bandai Games based on Toradora! will be playable on the PlayStation Portable, and will be released on April 30, 2009. The player will assume the role of Ryūji Takasu, and will draw upon an original scenario. The original author Yuyuko Takemiya will participate as a supervisor on the staff, and the game will connect with the novels and anime.
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