TV series
Toradora!
Overview
Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, second year high school student Ryuuji forms an unlikely friendship with classmate Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.
Details
- First air date
- 2008-10-02
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 25 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Network
- TV Tokyo, TV Osaka
- Production
- J.C.STAFF
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Rie Kugimiya as Taiga Aisaka (voice)
- Junji Majima as Ryuuji Takasu (voice)
- Yui Horie as Minori Kushieda (voice)
- Eri Kitamura as Ami Kawashima (voice)
- Hirofumi Nojima as Yuusaku Kitamura (voice)
- Momoko Ishikawa as Nanako Kashii (voice)
- Ai Nonaka as Maya Kihara (voice)
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Koji Haruta (voice)
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Hisamitsu Noto (voice)
- Saori Goto as Inko (voice)
- Sayaka Ohara as Yasuko Takasu (voice)
- Rie Tanaka as Yuri Koigakubo (voice)
Creators and crew
- Yuji Matsukura - Producer
- Takaaki Yuasa - Producer
- Shin'ichi Ikeda - Producer
- Muneyuki Kanbe - Producer
- Takahiro Yamanaka - Producer
- Tatsuyuki Nagai - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Tiger and Dragon
On the first day of school, Ryūji discovers that he and Taiga, the meanest girl in class, share a secret: each loves the other's best friend.
Episode 2: Taiga and Ryuji
Taiga's efforts to get closer to Yūsaku fail: A scheme in basketball ends with Taiga knocked out, and she drops a plate of cookies out a window.
Episode 3: Your Song
Ryūji and Taiga spend a day helping Minori at one of her many part-time jobs, and Ryūji gets to know her better when they're locked in a storehouse.
Episode 4: That Look You Had
Taiga has a photo album full of blurry pictures of Kitamura. Ryūji offers to snap some pictures of him instead.
Episode 5: Kawashima Ami
Yūsaku's childhood friend Ami, a model, transfers to the school and immediately becomes popular with everyone but Taiga, who sees the truth about her.
Episode 6: True Self
Followed by a stalker, Ami hides out with Taiga and decides that she must discard her fake personality from now on.
Episode 7: Pool's Open
When the school's pool opens for the summer, the gang shops for new swimsuits, and Ryūji helps Taiga with an embarrassing problem.
Episode 8: Who Is This For?
Ryūji tries to help Taiga win a swimming race against Ami, but when Ryūji nearly drowns, the truth about Taiga's feelings comes out.
Episode 9: When You Go To The Sea
During a trip to Ami's beach villa, Taiga has a nightmare about being married to Ryūji and schemes to bring him and Minori together.
Episode 10: Fireworks
The gang plots an elaborate stunt to scare Minori with a trip to a nearby cave where Yūsaku has planted scary traps, but Yūsaku and Minori disappear.
Episode 11: Ohashi High School Culture Festival 1
As preparations get under way for the school's cultural festival, Ryūji urges Taiga to consider reconciling with her estranged father.
Episode 12: Ohashi High School Culture Festival 2
Taiga's reconciliation with her father divides her friends, but she ends up disappointed when her father doesn't attend her school play.
Episode 13: Ohashi High School Culture Festival 3
Taiga wins a beauty contest despite a crushing disappointment about her father; a race is held to determine who will dance with Taiga.
Episode 14: Palm-top Tiger of Happiness
A rumor starts that touching Taiga leads to good luck; Yūsaku gets some interesting news from the student council president.
Episode 15: Distant Star
Yūsaku has a meltdown in class, dyes his hair blond and refuses to run for student council, causing everyone to wonder what's wrong with him.
Episode 16: One Step Forward
Yūsaku reveals his love for Sumire, a student council president who is leaving to study abroad, so his friends urge him to run for her council seat.
Episode 17: Mercury is Retrograde at Christmas
With Christmas approaching, the student council plans a party while Taiga decides to curry favor with Santa by playing Cupid for Ryūji and Minori.
Episode 18: Underneath the Fir Tree
The entire class pitches in to assemble an artificial Christmas tree with a glass star, but a stray fly ball destroys the decorations.
Episode 19: Christmas Eve Party
The love triangle of Ryūji, Minori and Taiga reaches a crisis point when true feelings are realized during the school's Christmas Eve party.
Episode 20: Stay Like This Forever
The class trip to Okinawa is canceled, leading to a last-minute change of plans to a ski trip, where Ryūji resolves to tell Minori how he feels.
Episode 21: Can't Help Myself
During the ski trip, Ryūji confesses his feelings for Minori, but not to her. When Taiga disappears, everyone frantically searches for her.
Episode 22: When You're Around
Knowing that Taiga believes she was rescued by Yūsaku during the ski trip, Ryūji asks Yūsaku to pretend that she's correct.
Episode 23: Path to Take
When Yasuko collapses from anemia due to overwork, Ryūji and Taiga take over her job of selling chocolate and use Ami's celebrity to improve sales.
Episode 24: Confession
The truth about Taiga and Ryūji's feelings for each other finally comes out, and they make a plan to run off together and get married.
Episode 25: Toradora!
When Yasuko reconciles with her parents, the truth about Ryūji's father is revealed, inspiring him to have a traditional wedding with Taiga.
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