Title: Toradora! (TigerxDragon!)
Japanese Title: ã¨ã‚‰ãƒ‰ãƒ©ï¼
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Premier: 1st October 2008
Original Creator: Yuyuko Takemiya
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Animation Studio: J.C. Staff
Production: GENCO
Official Site(s):
1.) http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/toradora/
2.) http://www.jcstaff.co.jp/sho-sai/toradora-...adora-index.htm
3.) http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/toradora/
CONFIRMATION: - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-...-to-be-animated
The premise of the male protagonist is extremely similar to the male protagonist of Midori no Hibi. I'm really looking forward to this series....hopefully....it will be a Fall 2008 anime.
Story: -
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. Despite his gentle personality, he has a natural outer-appearance which makes him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. 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 as his best friend Yūsuke Kitamura and crush Minori Kushieda. 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.
Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. After meeting Ryūji, she takes an instant dislike for him. After a series of misunderstandings between Ryūji and Taiga, Ryūji is taken in by Taiga as her personal servant. Taiga comes from a rich family, though she moved out to live on her own due to family issues. Soon after Taiga learns of Ryūji's talent at domestic chores, she moves into the house next to his and gets him to do her housekeeping. Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much so that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryūji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he is opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also attempt to help each other in order to improve how people view them. Unknown to them, however, people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship together and rumors begin to spread about them.
(~Thanks to Juhachi~)