

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. She is coincidentally living in an apartment next to Ryūji's.

Taiga comes from a rich family, but she has moved out to live on her own due to family issues. After meeting Ryūji, she takes an instant dislike to him. Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. 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. 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. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent, so he feels utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. 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. Ryūji literally means son of dragon in Japanese, and a transcription of the English word dragon into Japanese is doragon ( ドラゴン ?). Taiga sounds like tiger in English, and tigerin Japanese is tora ( とら ?). The title Toradora! is derived from the names of the two main characters Taiga Aisaka and Ryūji Takasu.
TORADORA LIGHT NOVEL ILLUSTRATIONS SERIES
A visual novel based on the series was released in April 2009 by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation Portable. NIS America licensed the anime and released it in North America in two half-season DVD collections in July and August 2010, with an English dubbed BD collection to be released in July 2014. A Blu-ray Disc (BD) box set containing an original video animationepisode was released on December 21, 2011.
TORADORA LIGHT NOVEL ILLUSTRATIONS TV
A 25-episode anime adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 2008 and March 2009. Īn Internet radio show was broadcast between September 2008 and May 2009 hosted by Animate TV. The manga ended serialization in Dengeki Comic Gao! with the March 2008 issue, but continued serialization in ASCII Media Works' manga magazine Dengeki Daioh with the May 2008 issue. A manga adaptation by Zekkyō started serialization in the September 2007 issue of the shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao!, published by MediaWorks. Three volumes of a spin-off light novel series were also created, aptly titled Toradora Spin-off!. The series includes ten novels released between Maand March 10, 2009, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint. Toradora! ( とらドラ! ?) is a Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Yasu.
