Seen in yet another season review: [Torako] lives up to her tsundere reputation from the start and strikes me as infuriatingly rude. It was really frustrating watching Ryūji suffer through her constant volleys of abuse without throwing anything back, and indeed, whether or not you can enjoy Toradora! much at all probably depends on your tolerance [...]
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All I can say is that this is going pretty fast... it's catching up to the latest released, fansub'd Manga. This episode was way more interesting than episode 1, so I think there's a good chance that I'll continue blogging this until the end. Besides that, I think Taiga likes Takasu but just is oblivious to it and/or doesn't want to admit it to herself. Oblivious tsundere girl. Taiga even used her "Louise" voice when she was about to try and give her cookies to Kitamaru. But eh, Kitamaru's reply in the end was kind of like a rejection, wasn't it? Or maybe Kitamaru just is extremely dense and doesn't understand "love".
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Instant Classic.  That’s about the best way I can describe Toradora.  It takes the best from various anime series and assembles it together into one series.  At least that is my impression after watching the first two episodes. Takasu reminds me of a mix of Hideki from Chobits and Sawamura from Midori Days while Aisaka reminds [...]
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[ Episode 2: Ryuuji and Taiga ] Hmm. There was a notable difference in pacing this week compared to the first episode. In the manga, the confusion of Ryuuji and Taiga as a couple, basketball, baking, and confession scenes were a bit longer but the anime shortened them a bit. The most notable differences were that [...]
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Series Information ANN Encyclopedia | AniDB | AnimeNfo Genres: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life OP: [Pre-Parade (プレパレード)] by Rie Kugimiya, Eri Kitamura, and Yui Horie ED: [Vanilla Salt (バニラソルト)] by Yui Horie テレビ東京・あにてれ とらドラ��� [ Episode 1: Tiger and Dragon ] The first episode turned out to be pretty much what I had expected it to be. Like the first few chapters [...]
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Sidenotes If anything, this episode was pretty much on Ryuuji and Taiga’s first joint attempt to win the hearts of their love interests. Ironically though, that very same cooperation backfires on them as rumors of Ryuuji and Taiga dating gets out of hand… The fact that those rumors spread like wildfire  was probably the most interesting part of [...]
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I’m a bit late, but that’s because as usual I got distracted by a new game and I’ve been working long hours. But never fear, the weekly dose of tsundere loli adventures is here, complete with chapter skipping and ugly birds making jokes about shampoo commercials. However, what I find the most disturbing [...]
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Shana’s clone o.0? I’m getting mixed responses from lots of people with obviously very conflicting opinions about the anime so far.Especially the handling of episode 2.It is claimed that the light novel was “better” in that it included more material particularly those which build on Taiga and Ryuji’s relationship or friendship at this point.I would assume that this is the “romance” aspect in this romance comedy.Yea,plenty of comedy but not enough romance? For me I do appreciate the aesthetics of romantic relationship between characters, however lets not forget that this is potentially ...
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I just watched TORADORA and as you know, the main female seiyuu for the series is Rie Kugimiya. She is famous for some anime roles, especially the tsunderes-loli ones. It does not bother me at all the fact that lately she has been doing this roles, sometimes I am afraid she has been typecasted by [...]
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The opening episode of Toradora! left me with some pretty positive impressions of the series, marking itself out as a possible favourite of mine for this season. Thankfully, the second episode managed to not only continue but also reinforce those impressions, by continuing to be a fun, likeable and almost poignant romp. After finding himself cleaning and cooking for Taiga, before he knows it
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And suddenly, a zigzagging of events turned nearly half the manga’s volume into just an episode. Well, does that mean we’re going sort of 13 episodes again? If so, then this is a good time to wrap things up into just an episode without losing the important bits. This one nearly got away with it. MUSSELS! Taiga [...]
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I haven’t seen the light novel or the manga, so I don’t share the same sentiments as everyone else about the missing scenes and how it could have been better. Now I kinda want to at least read the manga… but I don’t know, coming from someone who knows nothing about Toradora! apart [...]
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First off, I really like the opening. The song is catchy and a bit frantic, and the imagery is pretty cool. Definitely one of my favorites this season. In this episode, Ryuji and Taiga hatch a series of half-baked plots to get Taiga to hook up with Ryuji's best friend. These plots include sneaky pairing up during gym class and baking cookies, Things go terribly awry each time though,
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OP: “Pre-Parade (プレパレード)” by Rie Kugimiya, Eri Kitamura, and Yui Horie - This song has its ups and downs, but it is pretty catchy. I just can’t get myself to listen to seiyu tracks on a regular basis; especially those dealing with Kugimiya Rie…
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Ahhhh~!!! They skipped through a lot of story here! A lot of the Taiga x Ryuuji dynamic was missing as well as killing the impact of a seriously emotional scene in the story for me. Reading the lamp post scene in the manga actually made me shed a few tears for the tragedy of Taiga [...]
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The first of two J.C. Staff shows that start this season is Toradora!. This was the one I was looking forward to more because it had Rie Kugimiya playing another tsundere and also because I knew nothing about the other series. Rating: 10/12 A Color me intrigued – this show could be a genuine hit. The story appears [...]
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Another season, another light novel gets adapted into an anime. This time around, school love comedy Toradora gets the anime treatment. Though I don’t sound too enthusiastic, the first episode of Toradora was pretty enjoyable if somewhat formulaic, as is the standard for this kind of show. Odd pair of girls talking about odd pair of [...]
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(Inspired by the duel reviews at www.epicwin.org) Ray: Are you rather not be moe’d by Shana, Nagi or Louise? Are you wishing that Kugimiya Rie would do a little more? Well, I think or hope that this will be the one where she does. Mike: What stuck out for me, and was a pleasant surprise, [...]
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Hinano told me that Toradora was bad, but I decided to watch it anyway. I was expecting an episode about a tsundere, but I think my DL got messed up, because the episode I got was about a guy with a looks of a delinquent who lives next door to a girl who’s always [...]
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