

United States residents can catch the subbed and dubbed version on Crunchyroll. The anime was initially released in North America by NIS America as a sub-only version to help lower their production costs.
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It was later given an ongoing 2007 manga series illustrated by Zekkyou (both the manga and light novels are licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment) and a 25-episode anime adaptation by JC Staff which ran from 2008 to 2009 (plus an OVA episode created in 2011 for the Japanese Blu-ray release of the series) and the visual novel Toradora! Portable for PlayStation Portable based in the anime made in 2009 by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Toradora! (とらドラ!) is a 2006-2009 light novel series written by Yuyuko Takemiya and illustrated by Yasu, spanning 10 volumes.

This leads to Taiga breaking into his house that night to retrieve the letter and/or kill him, only to discover that she forgot to put the letter in the envelope and has inadvertently outed her crush on Kitamura to Ryuuji.Īfter much ado and a few sword-blows, Ryuuji and Taiga strike a tenuous deal: to use their positions as The Best Friends to help each other bag their respective crushes. the "Palmtop Tiger"), the infamous pint-sized terror of the school with a fuse even shorter than her stature.Īfter an unfortunate first encounter that ends with Taiga KO-ing him, Ryuuji finds out at the end of the school day that Taiga has put a love letter to Kitamura (whom she has a crush on but is too bashful to approach) in his bag by accident. His class also includes Minori's best friend: Taiga Aisaka (a.k.a. People who bump into him on the streets offer him their wallets, and when he grins, everyone in the vicinity retreats to eight feet away.Īs the new school year starts, Ryuuji finds himself in the same class as his friend Yuusaku Kitamura, and his crush Minori Kushieda (whom he is too bashful to approach). Unfortunately, he inherited the evil-looking eyes and facial structure of his Yakuza father, which makes people think he's a delinquent, or at least someone you don't want to mess with. Ryūji literally means son of dragon in Japanese, and a transcription of the English word dragon into Japanese is doragon (ドラゴン?).Ryuuji Takasu is a really misunderstood high-schooler with a somewhat romantic nature and a low tolerance for uncleanliness. Taiga sounds like tiger in English, and tiger in Japanese is tora (とら?). A visual novel based on the series was released in April 2009 by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation Portable.The title Toradora! is derived from the names of the two main characters Taiga Aisaka and Ryūji Takasu. 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 animation episode was released on December 21, 2011.
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A 25-episode anime adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 2008 and March 2009. 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.An Internet radio show was broadcast between September 2008 and May 2009 hosted by Animate TV. 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.
