Sunday, May 6, 2012


Welcome to Toradora's blog.

Alternative title: Tiger X Dragon.
Genres: Romance,Comedy.




Synopsis:


Toradora is a shojô type of manga, with many complicated relationships between the main characters.

The story starts with Ryuuji, a really good guy that has to bear a frightening look inherited from his father. Most of people are afraid of him, except his best friend Yûsuke Kitamura.
On the first day of this new year of school, he bumps into Taiga Aisaka, a girl really clumsy and violent even though she got such a small body.
She committed a mistake that lead Ryuuji to learn about her love for Kitamura, and he will be quite force to help her with it.







The title Toradora is derived from the two main characters's names: Aisaka Taiga and Takasu Ryuuji.
Taiga's name can be transliterated into the English equivalent tiger and, in japanese, it is tora, then the second part comes from Ryuuji because ryu means dragon and a transliteration of dragon into Japanese is doragon.


Toradora! began as a series of light novels written by Yuyuko Takemiya, they were published between March 2006 and March 2009.

Then it became a manga illustrated by Zekkyo which started in September 2007 and ended in March 2008.

And finally became an anime which started in 2008 and ended in 2009, it was directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and produced by the animation studio J.C staff.

There are also two other media: 

  • A video game:   It was developed by Guyzware and published by Namco Bandai Games, it is playable on PSP: Playstation portable and was released in April 2009.


  • And finally an internet radio show to promote the animes called ToradoRadio! which aired 38 episodes between 2008 and 2009.


If you have not seen the episodes or read Toradora and you want to do it, first see them and then enjoy the blog because it may have some descriptions or information which reveal a part of the story.