Chara-ani are releasing some adorable Toradora trading figures which will be available in August. There will be 7 figures to trade and collect and there are 12 figures in each carton. Hobby Link Japan are accepting pre-orders at 7376 yen if you pre-order before May 27th, otherwise HLJ’s standard price will be 7764.
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Toradora! started out as a light-hearted slice-of-life anime with good comedic moments and turned into a darker dramatic slice-of-life anime with good comedic moments. That is to say, even though the tone in the series turned much more serious sometime after episode 17, it did its best to retain the original comedic feel. The show [...]
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Karmaburn: Everyone else’s favorite, Toradora!, only managed to take the fifth spot, despite leading most of the season. As astute readers surely realize, this sudden drop is largely due to the dramatic turn towards the end of the season. Most people who really like Toradora! seem to really like the relationship drama aspects of the final [...]
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Done with the first 13 episodes of Toradora. I would definitely say that for the genre it is classified under it is a solid show. I hope it keeps up until the end.
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This is a series of posts on winter 2009 shows I finished. Hit up the first one about Clannad ~After Story~ and Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th, or the second one about Maria+Holic, Minami-ke Okaeri and Skip Beat!. This post will cover my last three. To Aru Majutsu no Index Toradora! White Album
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Let's start off with the good. This episode was absolutely cute....
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This final episode really surprised me. I pretty much guessed that things would turn out as they did in the end, but it didn’t think that Taiga would basically disappear for almost a whole year it seems. At first there seemed to be absolutely no reason for it. I was stunned and just didn’t’ [...]
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So. Toradora!’s over, and by this point in time nearly everyone will have settled down into some kind of vague camp regarding the ending (which pulled no punches, as per the norm for Toradora!), which means I can perfectly well ignore the “is the ending good or not?” debate and simply say that the ending [...]
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The Essentials Name: Toradora Genre: Comedy, Romance Episodes: 25 Aired: October 1, 2008 - March 25, 2009 Based On: Toradora light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai Produced By: Genco, J.C. Staff US Distribution By: Not Licensed Cast Character Japanese Cast English Cast (N/A) Taiga Aisaka: Rie Kugimiya Ryuji Takasu: Junji Majima Minori Kushieda: Yui Horie Ami Kawashima: Eri Kitamura Yusaku Kitamura: Hirofumi Nojima Yasuko Takasu: Sayaka Ohara Review Toradora is centered around two high school students who happen [...]
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I cannot tolerate the overly cheerful and energetic characters voiced by Yui Horie. Sadly these seem to be the only kinds of roles I really see her play. She needs to do more voices like Naru, and Eri though. I just cannot take the high pitched voice, cheerfulness, and outgoing personality of these roles. Or [...]
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Why is it that three quarters of bloggers summarizing Toradora think it necessary to engage into tedious retelling? Even SDS does it, and the advocacy suffers a great as a result. Tell us what you think about the show, we can read synopsys at Wikipedia ourselves. I found some morsels of good info by reading carefuly, [...]
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Sometimes I  get filled with a certain sense of dread in preparation for a new show based on the information available at the time. “This seems oddly familiar…” is the prevailing feeling. Fortunately, sometims this is just a false alarm and I end up with something far greater than my expecations. Such is the case [...]
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While I thought of something more interesting to say, I’d thought I’d share some thoughts on what I’ve been watching. Really I’m sad Fall and Winter seasons are over. Now I’ve got to find more new stuff to watch. It’s depressing. Anyways… Toradora!: Okay everyone else is on this bandwagon, so I ought to hook my leg [...]
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There’s no doubt that Toradora’s been a great ride through most of it’s run, suprising at almost every turn by defying expectiations and turning to be a good harem/romance/comedy series despite what someone could think at a first glance. Much like the characters themselves, the show had a depth that could only have been seen [...]
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I was browsing Amazon randomly [*], and ran across what looks like a Toradora VN, to be released on April 30 2009 for PSP. Tempting. But what if I buy it, and there’s no Ami path? /wrists [*] Actually, I caught an ad at sidebar of Akibaos (NSFW ads). But this seemed like such a small [...]
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Have you ever denied your love? Tried to smother those overwhelming, bittersweet emotions because it seems ‘the right thing to do’? All my love life I’ve been doing that. For some inexplicable reasons, I kept meeting the right girl at the ‘wrong time’ or simply getting involved with ‘off-limits’ girls. (No not my sister [...]
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Alright, so after three or four weeks of not updating, the finale finally came out. I guess that’s a good indication that I should probably catch up with my episode reviews. I’ll review 23 and 24 together before watching the finale. You can expect the finale post to come up sometime tomorrow. So I really liked [...]
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After finishing Asu no Yoichi, I am forced to admit that it is indeed a far superior anime than Toradora. It accomplished in twelve episodes what Toradora was unable to do in twenty-five and one crappy SOS parody. I know what you are thinking. If Asu no Yoichi! was so awesomotastic, why wasn’t I blogging about [...]
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THAT WAS THE WORST ENDING EVER. Now that we’ve come all this way through the emotional ups and downs of the most popular show of the Fall/Winter season, I can finally finish off my thoughts on what was one of the best romcom anime I had ever seen. I say “was” because not only was the [...]
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