Toradora!

What is Toradora! about?

Toradora! is a TV anime series of 25 episodes animated by J.C.STAFF, adapted from a light novel. It aired from October 2, 2008 to March 26, 2009. AniList classifies it as comedy, drama, romance and slice of life.

Synopsis from AniList. The summary above it is written by FreeAnime.xyz from AniList's data.

Themes AniList users associate with it: Tsundere, Love Triangle, Primarily Teen Cast, Male Protagonist, School, Heterosexual, Unrequited Love, Female Protagonist, Slapstick, Family Life.

Main characters

Characters AniList lists in a main role, with spoiler-free notes.

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  Taiga Aisaka 逢坂大河

  Main character

  Taiga is a girl in Ryuuji's class. She has a well-regulated and beautiful appearance though is unable to stomach company from others. Due to her often snapping at others in brutal ways and her short stature, she is given the nickname "Palmtop Tiger".

  Japanese voice: Rie Kugimiya

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  Ryuuji Takasu 高須竜児

  Main character

  The series' main protagonist, Ryuuji is a seventeen-year-old high school student in his second year, class 2-C. Due to biological inheritance, his sanpaku eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent and causes many misunderstandings.

  Japanese voice: Junji Majima

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  Minori Kushieda 櫛枝実乃梨

  Main character

  Minori is a girl in Ryuuji's class, and is a close friend to Taiga. She is also known by the pet name "Minorin". In contrast to the negative Taiga, Minori is always smiling and cheerful, but is also a natural airhead, though it is suggested that her airhead ways may be a facade.

  Japanese voice: Yui Horie

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  Yuusaku Kitamura 北村祐作

  Main character

  Yuusaku is a male student in Ryuuji's class, and is his best friend. He is the vice-president of the student council, the class representative, and captain of the boy's softball club at school. Yuusaku wears glasses, and has a diligent personality.

  Japanese voice: Hirofumi Nojima

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  Ami Kawashima 川嶋亜美

  Main character

  Ami is Yuusaku's childhood friend who transfers into his class midway through their second year of high school. She is very beautiful and even works as a model, though after she transfers school, she temporarily stops modeling. However, she still continues to go to the gym readily and maintains a slim figure.

  Japanese voice: Eri Kitamura

Supporting characters

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  Yasuko Takasu 高須泰子

  Supporting character

  Yasuko is Ryuuji's thirty-three-year-old mother, though she refers to herself as eternally twenty-three. Soon after Ryuuji was born, her husband died which left her to raise her son by herself.

  Japanese voice: Sayaka Oohara

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  Yuri Koigakubo 恋ヶ窪ゆり

  Supporting character

  Yuri is the twenty-nine-year-old homeroom teacher of Ryūji's class (though she turns thirty in the fifth volume of the light novels). She likes to do things at her own pace and is timid towards Taiga's way of speaking out.

  Japanese voice: Rie Tanaka

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  Sumire Kanou 狩野すみれ

  Supporting character

  Sumire is the student council president and always manages to get the top grades in school; she is in fact a scholarship student and has horrible eyesight. She has a strong-minded personality which she depends on to be a figure those will follow. Her younger sister is Sakura and her parents own a supermarket.

  Japanese voice: Yuuko Kaida

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  Inko-chan インコちゃん

  Supporting character

  Ryuuji Takasu's parakeet. Her name is Japanese for parakeet. Though apparently healthy, she sometimes looks sickly. Despite struggling to say her simple name (a running gag throughout the series), she has a good understanding of human speech and can interact with her owners and pronounce words much more difficult than…

  Japanese voice: Saori Gotou

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  Maya Kihara 木原麻耶

  Supporting character

  Maya is a female student in Ryūji's class who often hangs out with Nanako. She is a kogal. She has a crush on Yūsaku, and she circuitously opposes the idea of Taiga and Yūsaku being a couple, although she wants Taiga and Ryūji to be together.

  Japanese voice: Ai Nonaka

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  Kouji Haruta 春田浩次

  Supporting character

  Kōji is a male student in Ryūji's class who has long hair and is on good terms with him. He is regarded as a class 'idiot' and that opinion is deepened by his poor school marks and overly energetic behavior. His childish pranks often target Taiga and he has been the victim of her violent outbursts.

  Japanese voice: Hiroyuki Yoshino

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  Hisamitsu Noto 能登久光

  Supporting character

  Hisamitsu is a male student in Ryuuji's class who wears glasses. He was also in Ryuuji's class the previous year and is on good terms with him. Noto begins to develop feelings for Maya Kihara which become more apparent following an argument they had during the class winter ski trip.

  Japanese voice: Kazuyuki Okitsu

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  Nanako Kashii 香椎奈々子

  Supporting character

  Nanako is a female student in Ryūji's class who often hangs out with Maya and Ami.

  Japanese voice: Momoko Ishikawa

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  Sakura Kanou 狩野さくら

  Supporting character

  Sakura is Sumire's younger sister who attends the same high school as Sumire though her grades are horrible. She can unconsciously flirt with people, and like her sister, she hates snakes.

  Japanese voice: Kana Asumi

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  Sena Hamada 濱田瀬奈

  Supporting character

  A 3rd Grade junior in an art university. Lives alone in an apartment. Meets with Haruta right after breaking up with her boyfriend, Ryousuke. Without knowing anything about Ryousuke, she plans of reuniting with the help of Haruta.

  Japanese voice: Saori Gotou

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  Kuroma 黒間

  Supporting character

  Gym teacher at Takasu's school.

  Japanese voice: Nobuaki Kanemitsu

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  Rikurou Aisaka 逢坂陸郎

  Supporting character

  Taiga's father, shown for the first time in chapter 12. He threatens to stop giving Taiga her living expenses if she continues to ignore his calls. He tries to re-unite with his estranged daughter after a separation with his newest (and much younger) wife, admitting it was wrong to let her go.

  Japanese voice: Tooru Furusawa