April 24, 2014
Toradora! is Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Yasu.
This anime is about a group of teenagers' high school emotional life. And I have to say, this anime is really good, it brings me a lot of feelings. Comparing with many other anime, Toradora! is more real, it more closes to our high school life. Sometimes I think the real high school life should be like what happened in Toradora!.
People's wants in the whole life are very many, but perhaps friendship, love and family are the three things that most people want to get and protect. I have watched Clannad & Clannad After Story , Clannad & Clannad After Story are called "The Life" because they taught us what are friendship, love and family. Toradora! is another anime which can teach us that, this anime show those things through main characters' daily life, these daily things may make you happy, make you sad, sometimes they also make you think about ourselves, the characters are more vivid as well.
This anime also taught me that the forever memories are not always happy, they may sad and bitter. However, these memories are not parts of others, they belong to us, they are unique and they are also parts of our own youth.
Memories will not disappear, but the life is still long and long.
Synopsis
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, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent, so he feels 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 with his best friend Yūsaku Kitamura and a girl he has a crush on, 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, and is a good friend of Minori.
Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people. After meeting Ryūji, she takes an instant dislike to him. Taiga comes from a rich family, but she has moved out to live on her own due to family issues. She is coincidentally living in an apartment next to Ryūji's. When Ryūji discovers that Taiga has a crush on Yūsaku, and Taiga finds out about Ryūji's affections towards Minori, Ryūji suggests that they cooperate to win the objects of their affections. Taiga exploits the fact that Ryūji will do anything to get closer to Minori. She makes him her personal servant, getting him to do all her household chores (cooking and cleaning). Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Since Ryūji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he has opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. The two also try to help each other improve the way people view them. However people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship and rumors begin to spread about them behind their backs. Ryūji and Taiga start getting along more as things progress with the relationships between the characters and eventually confess their true feelings of love towards each other.
Toradora: Orange
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