He is happy to be classmates with his best friend Yusaku Kitamura, as well as the girl he has a crush on, Minori Kushieda. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes give him the appearance of an intimidating delinquent. Ryuji Takasu is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school. Inversely, ryū ( 竜) means dragon, and is synonymous with doragon ( ドラゴン), the English word dragon transcribed into Japanese. Taiga's name is almost homophonic with taigā ( タイガー) from English tiger (the final a is more lengthened in the English loanword), which is synonymous with the native Japanese word tora ( とら). The title Toradora! is derived from the names of the two main characters Taiga Aisaka and Ryūji Takasu. A visual novel based on the series was released in April 2009 by Bandai Namco Games for the PlayStation Portable. 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 released in July 2014. A Blu-ray Disc (BD) box set containing an original video animation episode was released on December 21, 2011. A 25-episode anime adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 2008 and March 2009. Īn Internet radio show was broadcast between September 2008 and May 2009 hosted by Animate TV. 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. 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! ( Japanese: とらドラ!) is a Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Yasu.

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