The AnimaTure

~The Anima-Ture~



The first impression i had from Ryuu was that he was a playboy or a killer.

The first time he wakes inko-chan (the weird bird) he also wakes his mother just by passing her as she gropes his legs with a leglock.
He does have this weird relationship with his mother if you ask me and do not think wrongly of this.

It does show us that he hates his father and that everyone who knows his father, compares him with it.
The eyes are nicely drawn and that is what causes some weird moments.


One time a person with these eyes looks normal (mad), looks flustered (mad and a combined laugh face).

I had a laugh when they were talking about the Palmtop Tiger and he suddenly got the pun and gets smashed in the face by a little girl like it was nothing.

It was weird when he was alone with Taiga in the classroom in the first episode.

The chairs and school tables were flying around and i do know why it happened
(for those who don't know : it was Taiga running at the speed of light towards the locker to hide but due the fast speed it fell over and she rolled out)

It is quite funny how it did end up with the i promise to do anything for you- promise.

I also loved the moment he enters her apartment and all the filth was being censored and he completely lost it.

He prepares breakfast while he cleaned the room as in almost every Anime series they have breakfast with so much time in the morning.
I wonder at what time they have to be in school, i bet it ain't as early as i have to go to school every day...

I disliked Toradora at first because of the reactions that happened all the time.
'The Yankee, the rebel, the delinquent, palmtop tiger, killer-eyes' almost every single time.


I also hate the huge cliché that is hidden in this story.

All the lead characters know that the ones person loves this person and who they love in turn.

Then one person knows it and denies it or suddenly loves someone else and the story goes on.

Further on more and more people that barely get any screen time(except Ami) notice that Taiga loves Kitamura and that Ryuuji is slowly falling in love with Taiga.
In turn Ami is slowly getting to like Ryuuji altough she does not really show it.
Kushieda is like the outside insider.
No one knows anything about her besides the fact that she likes to work and sports or club activities.

It is actually about Taiga and Ryuuji becoming successfully with their deal which was that Ryuuji helped Taiga get together with Kitamura and Taiga helps Ryuugi get together with Kushieda.


However, at one point it is given a complete twist and Ryuuji found out that Taiga loves him.

She was lost due a fight that happened between Ami and Kushieda as she saw a jewel accessory flying away down the hill and went after it.

They went out to look for her and Ryuuji found Taiga buried under the snow and then heard her saying it which was a huge surprise as she thought he was Kitamura.

They did plan to hide it but unfortunately there was saint Valentinus that scooped the root and finally the last two episodes they blossomed to a real couple.
There is this one particular scene that made the perverts (don't look at me!) think 'they're totally going to do it now'.

The thing that annoys me the most is that Taiga suddenly changes her whole personality for these two episodes to the cute loli.

But at the end she returned to her old self. The brute yandere Palmtop Tiger.

I gave Toradora! a well deserved 4.5 out of 5 stars on Anime-Planet