List of Toradora! episodes

Cover art of the first DVD compilation released by King Records, featuring main characters Ryūji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka

Toradora! is an anime television series adapted from the light novel series of the same title written by Yuyuko Takemiya and illustrated by Yasu.^[1] The series was directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and produced by J.C.Staff, Masayoshi Tanaka serving as the character designer and Mari Okada serving as the primary scriptwriter.^[2] Toradora! follows the adventures of Ryūji Takasu, a high school student whose eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent,^[3][4] and how his life changes after he meets a diminutive girl in his class named Taiga Aisaka who is known for her negative attitude towards nearly everyone but her close friends.^[5]

Toradora! was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2, 2008 to March 26, 2009.^[6][7][8] It began airing at later dates than TV Tokyo on AT-X, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting.^[9] King Records released the series in eight Region 2 DVD compilations between January 21, 2009, and August 26, 2009.^[10][11] The first DVD contained four episodes while the other seven DVDs contained three episodes each.^[10][12] Limited editions of all eight compilations, each containing a bonus CD, were also released.^[12] The second DVD contained an extra short, Toradora SOS!.^[13] A Blu-ray Disc collection containing an original video animation episode was released on December 21, 2011.^[14]

The series makes use of four pieces of theme music: two opening and two ending themes. The opening theme for the first 17 episodes is titled "Pre-Parade" (プレパレード Pureparēdo) performed by Rie Kugimiya, Eri Kitamura, and Yui Horie.^[15] The first ending theme is "Vanilla Salt" (バニラソルト Banira Soruto), also performed by Horie.^[16] The opening for the rest of the series is "Silky Heart" performed once again by Yui Horie,^[17] and the second ending is "Orange" (オレンジ Orenji) performed by Rie Kugimiya, Eri Kitamura, and Horie.^[17][18] The original score for Toradora! was composed and arranged by Yukari Hashimoto. The soundtrack album was released on January 7, 2009.^[19][20]

Episode list

No.	Title	Animation director[21]	Screenwriter[21]	Original air date[7][8]
1	"Tiger and Dragon" "Tora to Ryū" (虎と竜)	Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	October 2, 2008
Ryūji Takasu is discontent about how his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent. He wants to get closer to a girl he likes, Minori Kushieda, but has not been able to tell her his feelings. On the first day of his second year of high school, he bumps into a diminutive girl, Taiga Aisaka, known for snapping at others and her outward brutality. By coincidence, Taiga and Minori are in Ryūji's class this year. Later Taiga accidentally puts a love letter in Ryūji's bag, thinking it was Yūsaku Kitamura's bag; Taiga then comes to Ryūji's house that night to kill him for knowing that she likes Yūsaku. Taiga discovers that Ryūji likes Minori, who is Taiga's good friend. To calm Taiga down, Ryūji tells her that he will do anything to help her with Yūsaku. Ryūji finds out the next morning that Taiga lives in an apartment building next door to his house. When he comes over, he cleans the kitchen and serves her food.
2	"Ryūji and Taiga" "Ryūji to Taiga" (竜児と大河)	Chieko Miyagawa Tomoyuki Shimotani	Mari Okada	October 9, 2008
Ryūji figures out that before Taiga will help him get closer to Minori, he has to first help her get closer to Yūsaku. During basketball shooting practice, Taiga and Ryūji plan to knock out Yūsaku's partner with a basketball so that Taiga can be Yūsaku's partner. However, Taiga ends up being knocked out instead. She makes some cookies and plans to give them to Yūsaku; unfortunately, she falls off the stairs, throwing them out of the window in the process. Ryūji breaks her fall. He eats her cookies and says they are great, encouraging her to try making cookies again. Since Ryūji and Taiga are often together, a misunderstanding begins among their classmates that Ryūji and Taiga are going out. This causes Taiga to rage and wreak havoc in the classroom. Taiga sets the record straight the next day, and confesses her love to Yūsaku; however, he wants to continue being friends.
3	"Your Song" "Kimi no Uta" (君の歌)	Hiroyuki Furukawa Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	October 16, 2008
On the way to school, Taiga complains about Ryūji being nitpicky about the laundry. They walk past a baseball field and observe Minori playing. After Ryūji's rice cooker breaks, Taiga takes him to a nearby family restaurant where Minori is working part-time. Minori tells him that she has several part-time jobs, but he later wonders if there is a reason why Minori needs money. The next day, Ryūji and Taiga run into Minori at another of her part-time jobs, and the two help out for the day, despite Taiga wanting to back down from the start. The boss is being unfair towards Taiga by ordering her to carry and deliver beer cases despite her height. To counter her inability to ride a bicycle during a delivery, Taiga pushes the bike along the road. Ryūji and Minori get locked inside the storehouse, and Ryūji starts to learn more about why Minori is often so cheerful.
4	"That Moment's Expression" "Ano Toki no Kao" (あのときの顔)	Hiroshi Tomioka Tomoyuki Shimotani	Mari Okada	October 23, 2008
After viewing some blurred images Taiga took of Yūsaku Kitamura, Ryūji offers to take pictures of him for Taiga. During school, Taiga speaks out to the student council president, but is stopped by Yūsaku, causing her to become both happy and depressed. Yūsaku and Minori suggest Ryūji and Taiga to eat with them during lunch. Taiga becomes tense in the presence of Yūsaku and inadvertently tells them that Ryūji made her bentō. Ryūji covers this up by saying that he is making bentō for money. Ryūji manages to take several photos of Yūsaku, but he later finds out about them. Yūsaku shows his own photos of Taiga to Ryūji. He tells Ryūji that he confessed to Taiga a year ago that he liked her, but she quickly turned him down, only to end up liking him. Taiga later recounts this to Ryūji but becomes angry about the embarrassing things she is telling him.
5	"Ami Kawashima" "Kawashima Ami" (かわしまあみ)	Mai Ōtsuka Masayoshi Tanaka	Tatsuto Higuchi	October 30, 2008
At the restaurant where Minori works, Yūsaku arrives with the model Ami Kawashima, who is also his childhood friend. When Yūsaku and Ryūji excuse themselves, Yūsaku shows Ryūji that Ami is really a conceited and manipulative person, different from her being a self-proclaimed "air head". Taiga soon comes to dislike Ami, and even slaps her in the restaurant. Ami transfers into Ryūji and Taiga's class, quickly becoming popular with her classmates and the staff. At school she maintains her air head personality. She flirts with Ryūji and seems to only reveal her true nature to Taiga. Ami tries to make Taiga think Yūsaku hates her now because of how she acted, but Ryūji assures her that is not the case.
6	"True Self" "Honto no Jibun" (ほんとの自分)	Ryūji Tsuzuki Shin'ichi Shigematsu Tomoyuki Shimotani Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	November 6, 2008
Ami takes refuge in Taiga's apartment in order to avoid a stalker but is forced to impersonate people in strange situations. Yūsaku asks Taiga and Ryūji to be better friends with Ami since they know what type of person she really is. Taiga volunteers herself and Ryūji to take part in the student council's monthly neighborhood cleaning rally, and Minori and Ami come along too. After Taiga and Minori leave together, Ami and Ryūji hide from the stalker. When the stalker tries to take photos of Taiga, she gets angry and chases him down. Empowered by Taiga's actions, Ami decides to discard her fake personality. She chases down the stalker and destroys his camera. The stalker runs away in fear.
7	"Pool Opening" "Pūru Biraki" (プールびらき)	Satoshi Yamaguchi Masayoshi Tanaka	Junko Okazaki	November 13, 2008
Because the school's pool has finally opened for the summer, Minori, Ami, and Taiga buy swimsuits with Ryūji. Ami and Minori easily pick out swimsuits while Taiga has trouble due to her small chest. Later, Ryūji realizes Taiga's problem and decides to add padding to make her breasts look bigger and fill out her swimsuit. At the pool, people are throwing others into the pool, and Ami throws Taiga into the pool. It turns out Taiga cannot swim; when Ryūji goes to save her, she tells him one of the pads came out. Ryūji manages to work everything out and Taiga is saved. Back at the classroom, Ami and Taiga argue until Minori shows up, telling them to settle things with a sports contest.
8	"For Whose Sake?" "Dare no Tame" (だれのため)	Iku Ozawa Shigeru Uchihara Tomoyuki Shimotani	Junko Okazaki	November 20, 2008
Taiga and Ami are to compete in a 50-meter swimming race: if Ami wins, Ryūji will go to her villa over summer break, leaving Taiga alone. Ryūji helps Taiga practice. After Ryūji insists that she wants to win for Yūsaku and that he would go to Ami's villa alone if she wanted, Taiga is furious and refuses to compete. Taiga shows up last minute for the competition. When Taiga's leg cramps during the race, Ryūji jumps into the pool to stop her from continuing. However, Taiga declares that she wants to win for him, so Ryūji lets her go. When Taiga is pushing for the lead, a few boys are pushed into the pool and Ryūji is knocked out. Realizing that Ryūji is in danger, Taiga turns around and goes to save him, losing the match. Afterwards, Ryūji regains consciousness to see a shaken and angry Taiga who screams that Ryūji is hers. As a result of Taiga losing the bet, Ami gets to take Ryūji to her villa, but Taiga, Minori and Yūsaku insist on going too.
9	"Let's Go to the Ocean, You Say" "Umi ni Ikō to Kimi wa" (海にいこうと君は)	Ryōichi Ōki Masayoshi Tanaka	Tatsuto Higuchi	November 27, 2008
After Ryūji and Taiga have a nightmare about being married to a begging Ryūji, Taiga decides to create a plan to prevent it from coming true, by holding a badminton contest against Ryūji to see who will "support the other side." Ryūji wins and Taiga agrees to help him with a plan to get Minori closer to him by scaring her. They, along with Minori, Yūsaku, and Ami, finally arrive at Ami's villa and while Ryūji cleans the house, the others go to the beach and play. After dinner, Ryūji and Minori talk about love and ghosts outside while having ice cream. The two go back inside and Taiga orders Ryūji to make her a midnight snack since she is still hungry. The two of them go back to their rooms, and Ryūji finds strands of hair and a sticky substance on his bed, while one of Taiga's dresses is covered with the same substance as Ryūji's. Banging sounds emerge from the door and the balcony as the two grip each other in fear.
10	"Fireworks" "Hanabi" (花火)	Yūji Miyashita Kōichi Motomura Shimotani Tomoyuki	Tatsuto Higuchi	December 4, 2008
Ryūji and Taiga stay up all night, still unsure of what had occurred the night before, and discuss how to scare Minori. Yūsaku overhears them and wants to help, believing that Minori loves being terrified, and enlists Ami in helping too. They decide to pull a massive scare by taking a walk through a hidden cave filled with traps designed to scare Minori. However, Ami backs out after Ryūji refuses to tell her why he wants to do this. However, she eventually decides to help, and leads the group into the cave, where Yūsaku has planted many pathetic scary traps. Ami splits with the group by going to another pathway, and Ryūji follows her. While alone, Ami tells Ryūji that she is better suited for him. The situation quickly gets out of hand as Yūsaku and Minori disappear, and the mysterious hair and seaweed from last night appears again. It is later revealed that Yūsaku and Minori were playing a trick on them, which included last night's scare. The two claim to have known what Ryūji and Taiga were up to, but Minori appreciates it for being so thrilling.
11	"Ōhashi High School Cultural Festival - Part I" "Ōhashi Kōkō Bunkasai - Zenpen" (大橋高校文化祭·前編)	Minoru Kawano Kazuyuki Igai Mayuko Katō Masayoshi Tanaka	Masahiro Yokotani	December 11, 2008
Yuri-sensei complains about nothing happening during the school holidays compared to her students and being in her thirties she is still single. Preparations have begun for the school's cultural festival, with the student president and her brother in charge. The council helps make decisions, yet the students also formulate plans in order to help themselves with their love lives. Suggested ideas are a maid café and a cosplay café among others, but the draw results in a professional wrestling skit. Kōji Haruta creates a play that has roles for everyone. Kitamura informs the class that the student council has decided to give prizes to the class with the best performance, however the prizes mostly benefit the girls. Throughout the day, Taiga receives phone calls from her father and ignores them all. She tells Ryūji that he abandoned her. He empties her living expenses account, forcing Taiga to answer her father's calls. However she sends Ryūji in her place instead. Her father explains to Ryūji that he remarried someone a lot younger than him and it completely changed their life style to the point where someone had to leave. However, he informs Ryūji that he plans to divorce his second wife and that he wants to live with Taiga like the old days. Taiga's father waits for Taiga and Ryūji to come home, where Taiga immediately kicks her father's groin. Ryūji tries to persuade Taiga to at least talk to him and that she should be happy she has a father who wants her. Taiga admits that it was her who abandoned the family, not the other way around. When Ryūji realizes the only reason he wants to help Taiga resolve her family issues, is because his is in such a mishap, he stops himself. However at this point, Taiga agrees to talk with her father only because Ryūji persists so much, stating she won't see it the way he does.
12	"Ōhashi High School Cultural Festival - Part II" "Ōhashi Kōkō Bunkasai - Chūhen" (大橋高校文化祭·中編)	Heo Jae-seon Hiroshi Tomioka Tomoyuki Shimotani	Mari Okada	December 18, 2008
The class is busy rehearsing for the play with Haruta directing them. Taiga and her dad start to reconnect and Taiga wants to switch parts with Ami so that her father can see her good side. When Ryūji tells Minori of them reconciling, Minori gets angry and argues with Ryūji that Taiga should not have anything to do with her dad; while Ryūji feels the opposite. Taiga tries to calm things down by making the two shake hands, but Ryūji walks away angrily. During the festival, Taiga's dad does not show up, and Ryūji does not apologize to Minori. The play parodies Yuri-sensei being single using the concept of the red string of fate. Taiga is constantly waiting for her father's message, even while on stage. The play is hugely successful due to other classes doing cosplay cafés and food stalls.
13	"Ōhashi High School Cultural Festival - Part III" "Ōhashi Kōkō Bunkasai - Kōhen" (大橋高校文化祭·後篇)	Hiroyuki Kaidō Kazunori Iwakuma Shinsuke Yanagi Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	December 25, 2008
Ami addresses the school and starts the beauty contest as a dominatrix. Just as Taiga makes a dramatic appearance in the beauty contest, Ryūji receives a text from her dad saying he would not be able to live with her. Taiga wins the beauty contest, despite the sadness that her father did not show up. A race is held to determine who will dance with Taiga, and Ryūji, finally understanding Minori's warning, is determined to win it, using short cuts and stepping on top of other participants. Near the end of the race, two boys push Minori, who is the only girl participating, down and she throws a baseball at them. She also throws herself towards the last four participants and provides an opportunity for Ryūji to win. However, he goes back for her. They hold hands as they cross the finish line together, forgiving each other.
14	"The Palmtop Tiger of Happiness" "Shiawase no Tenori Taigā" (しあわせの手乗りタイガー)	Tsutomu Ōno Sayuri Sugitō Tomoyuki Shimotani	Mari Okada	January 8, 2009
A rumor starts, that anyone who touches Taiga will be granted happiness or one wish. The cultural festival pictures are for sale. While Taiga buys the picture of her and Yūsaku dancing, Minori notices Ryūji buying a picture of both of them running towards the finishing line holding hands. She decides to buy it too. Ami is complimented as being mature all day, but after bumping into Ryūji at the market she is told that she behaves more like a kid. She later tells her mother that she wants to stay. Yūsaku is told something by the student council president and goes to contemplate it, running into Taiga along the way. Taiga returns to Ryūji's house where his mother boasts that the three of them are like a family. Everyone else is left to contemplate what it is they are wishing for from the Palmtop Tiger legend.
15	"The Stars are Far" "Hoshi wa, Tōku" (星は, 遠く)	Ryōichi Ōki Masayoshi Tanaka	Tatsuto Higuchi	January 15, 2009
Yūsaku declares to the class that he does not want to be student council president and flips out in the middle of class. He shows up to school the next day with his hair dyed blonde, which gets him in trouble with the teacher. While everyone tries to figure out what is wrong with him, Ryūji walks home with Minori; they have a conversation about Ami's odd reaction towards Yūsaku's behavior. When Ryūji arrives home, he is surprised to find Yūsaku there. Yūsaku had run away from home, much to Taiga's delight. He spends the day with them full of excitement, but runs off when Ryūji's mother attempts to dye his hair back to normal. At school, Taiga is competing to be the next student council president.
16	"One Step Forward" "Fumidasu Ippo" (踏み出す一歩)	Shigeru Uchihara Yumi Nakayama Seiya Numata Tomoyuki Shimotani	Tatsuto Higuchi	January 22, 2009
Taiga and Ryūji try to get Yūsaku to become the next student council president by telling students how Taiga will ruin everyone's high school life. Ryūji discovers that Yūsaku has feelings for Sumire, the student council president, and that she is going to be studying abroad in America soon, which explains Yūsaku's odd behavior. After encouragement from Sumire, Yūsaku becomes a candidate; Taiga drops out of the race, leaving Yūsaku to become the student council president. He confesses his love to Sumire in front of everyone, but she does not respond to his feelings. Taiga becomes outraged at this, and fights Sumire. After Ryūji and the council members stop the fight, Sumire confesses that she herself loves Yūsaku but did not want him to sacrifice everything for her. Yūsaku overhears this and states he is glad he fell in love with her. As Minori leaves, Ami asks her if she feels guilty. Two days later Sumire leaves to study abroad and Taiga is suspended for two weeks. She is told to send a letter of apology to Sumire and instead sends a letter with only the word 'idiot', in reference to Sumire confessing that she wished she was "just another idiot" like other people.
17	"Mercury Retrogrades at Christmas" "Kurisumasu ni Suisei wa Gyakkōsuru" (クリスマスに水星は逆行する)	Mai Ōtsuka Kazunori Iwakura Masayoshi Tanaka	Masahiro Yokotani	January 29, 2009
Minori becomes disoriented during a baseball game because of what Ami had said, and makes a mistake that causes her team to lose the game. Christmas is coming up, much to the joy of Taiga, whose suspension from school has just lifted. After Ryūji tells her that his relationship with Minori has not progressed, Taiga declares the need to play Cupid for him, since she wants to be good for Santa. At school the next morning, students who became fans of Taiga after her fight with Sumire, surround Taiga and Ryūji. After acknowledging her victory, Taiga and Ryūji head to their classroom to see Minori wearing a bald wig while speaking nonsense. Yūsaku arrives and lies down in front of Taiga in admiration for her actions to help his relationship with Sumire. Later, Yūsaku announces the student council will organize a Christmas Eve party to boost romantic feelings among students. Taiga and Ryūji ask Minori to go to the party with them, but she vehemently declines. Taiga, Ryūji, Yūsaku, Haruta, Noto, and Maya eat together at the restaurant where Minori works (who was off that day), and they pair Yūsaku and Taiga up at a table by themselves. It is soon after Yūsaku leaves with Taiga to get the group drinks that Ryūji begins to think how he really feels about her.
18	"Under the Fir Tree" "Momi no Ki no Shita de" (もみの木の下で)	Yumi Nakayama Yūji Miyashita Tomoyuki Shimotani	Masahiro Yokotani	February 5, 2009
Everyone is helping with the Christmas party. While Ryūji's friends keep giving Yūsaku and Taiga some alone time, Ami compares Ryūji's relationship with Taiga as akin to a father/daughter relationship, and tells him he should stop it soon. After the final exam, Ryūji helps Taiga send presents to her parents and some lonely children. Taiga recalls when she got to meet Santa, which despite possibly being a dream, gives her hope that someone is always watching over her. Everyone helps put together an artificial Christmas tree topped with a glass star that Taiga brought. Everyone is pleased with their efforts and awed by the sight of the tree lit up. However, a stray softball crashes through the gym window and knocks over the tree, smashing the star. This sends Minori into deep regret and she forces it upon herself to fix the broken star; despite her protests, Ryūji helps her out. The baseball club apologizes and Minori leaves, still declining Ryūji's offer of going to the party as she feels she would not be welcome after the accident. Despite hearing that, Ryūji promises her that he will wait for her.
19	"Christmas Eve Festival" "Seiyasai" (聖夜祭)	Hitomi Ochiai Sumie Kinoshita Hiroyuki Kaidō Toshifumi Akai Masayoshi Tanaka	Masahiro Yokotani	February 12, 2009
On the night of the party, Taiga gives Ryūji a suit to wear to the party while he still attempts to convince Minori to come. The party begins with a special Christmas song performed by Taiga and Ami. Following the song, Ami informs Ryūji that Taiga has left the party. Taiga decides to go home in order to wait for Santa Claus, stopping by Minori's house on the way to convince her to go to the party. At home, Taiga is surprised when a large bear dressed as Santa Claus appears. Taiga reveals that she knows it's Ryūji, and urges him to return to the party to wait for Minori. Hesitantly, Ryūji leaves, but Taiga soon realizes that she and Ryūji will no longer be able to be together. Crying uncontrollably, Taiga realizes that it is the outcome she does not want and chases Ryūji, but he is already gone. Unbeknownst to her, Minori is standing nearby and finds Taiga crying out for Ryūji. When Minori meets Ryūji at the school, she tells Ryūji that she no longer wishes to see UFOs and ghosts -- referencing their conversation at the beach house. Understanding that this means she has already rejected him, Ryūji collapses shortly after Minori leaves.
20	"Forever Like This" "Zutto, Kono Mama" (ずっと, このまま)	Kōji Yamakawa Tomoyuki Shimotani	Tatsuto Higuchi	February 19, 2009
Following Ryūji's rejection by Minori, Ryūji is bedridden with the flu. Taiga runs into Yūsaku at a shrine and makes a wish to him, the Saint of Broken Hearts. Taiga decides not to come over to Ryūji's house anymore and tells him not to give up on her. The teacher informs her students that the field trip to Okinawa is now going to be a ski trip due to their previously booked hotel burning down. Taiga points out to Ryūji that this would be his last chance to confirm Minori's feelings before classes are rearranged. Ryūji catches up with Minori, who is still a bit disheartened from Christmas, and Taiga provides an opportunity for the two to start talking again. Later, Ryūji, Minori, Yūsaku, Ami and the other students go to Taiga's apartment to discuss plans for the trip. Ryūji and Minori talk in the kitchen, where she constantly praises Ryūji for the way Taiga has become. She wishes that things would stay the way they were forever, while Ryūji knows that it would not be possible, and becomes determined to confess properly.
21	"No Matter What" "Dōshitatte" (どうしたって)	Yoshikazu Ōki Masayoshi Tanaka	Masahiro Yokotani	February 26, 2009
During the ski trip, Ryūji wonders why Taiga had not told him about meeting Yūsaku on New Year's. Hisamitsu gets into a fight with Maya concerning her attempts to be around Yūsaku. Ryūji has a brief talk with Minori about how to deal with it; Minori puts on the hairpin Ryūji got for her, saying Taiga gave it to her. When confronted by Yūsaku, Hisamitsu, and Haruta, Ryūji reveals he has a crush on Minori. Later, they investigate the girl's room in order to find out the true reason behind Minori's rejection, only to end up hiding in a closet along with Taiga, when Ami, Minori, Maya, and Nanako come in. Ami brings up the topic of Ryūji's rejection by Minori, and the two get angry at each other. The next day, Taiga and Minori accidentally run into Ami on their sled. Ami feels that they did it on purpose because of last night's argument and engages in a physical fight with Minori. Minori drops her hairpin on a nearby slope and Taiga goes to search for it by herself, but ends up falling down without the others noticing. When Taiga does not return, Yūsaku, Minori, and Ryūji search for her. Ryūji contemplates his feelings for Taiga as he realizes he left her alone again. Ryūji finds her at the bottom of a hill, bleeding and covered in snow. As Ryūji carries her back, Taiga briefly wakes up in a haze. Thinking that Ryūji is Yūsaku, she apologizes and confesses that she is unable to stop being in love with Ryūji.
22	"The Scene With You" "Kimi no Iru Keshiki" (君のいる景色)	Shigeru Uchihara Seiji Kishimoto Tomoyuki Shimotani	Mari Okada	March 5, 2009
Following the incident at the ski trip, Taiga is staying with her mother, and has not come back to school. Ryūji asks Yūsaku to pretend he was the one who saved Taiga in order to cover up her confession. Later, Hisamitsu and Haruta take Ryūji to a ramen shop where Minori has started another part time job. At home, Ryūji bemoans the fact he is not able to afford further education, but Yasuko tells him he should aim for the best. Ryūji goes home and finds Yasuko gone to work, as a result of yesterday's discussion. Noticing the hairpin he got for Minori, he puts it away in his box, realizing he would not be able to give it to her. He is surprised to find Taiga on his doorstep and locked out of her apartment, who lied about being seriously injured in order to bond with her mother. When she notices the box with Minori's hairpin in it, she reassures Ryūji that he will be with her. Taiga tells him that she had a dream about the events that occurred and the 'stupid words' she said, and he assures her that, apart from Yūsaku saving her, it was all a dream. When Taiga leaves, Ryūji quietly scolds Taiga for being clumsy.
23	"The Road That We Must Advance On" "Susumu Beki Michi" (進むべき道)	Kōichi Motomura Hiroshi Tomioka Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	March 12, 2009
As Valentine's Day approaches, Ryūji and Taiga get called in concerning their future ambitions form, though Taiga seems uninterested. Ryūji encounters Ami refusing to model the school uniform and talks with her. Ami tells him that she originally planned to stay at school temporarily, but she stayed to help Taiga. Ryūji gets a call from Taiga saying Yasuko had collapsed due to anemia from overworking. Ryūji blames himself, but they both decide to fill in for Yasuko's part-time job of selling chocolate and use Ami's celebrity status to boost their sales. Taiga decides to make everyone some chocolate as thanks for the things they have done for her. However, when Minori notices that Taiga believed Yūsaku rescued her from the ski trip instead of Ryūji, she becomes angry. She confronts Taiga, with Ami and Kitamura blocking the exits, trying to get her to show her true feelings. Taiga says she only wanted Minori to be happy, but Minori says that happiness is something only she can decide for herself. Taiga runs off and Minori decides to go after her, asking Ryūji if he will go after her too.
24	"Confession" "Kokuhaku" (告白)	Yumi Nakayama Hitomi Ochiai Tomoyuki Shimotani	Mari Okada	March 19, 2009
Ryūji decides to help Minori go after Taiga. While running to catch up, Minori shouts that she has always liked Ryūji but held back because of her friendship with Taiga; she also says that Taiga has to obtain her own happiness as well. Afterwards, Minori confirms Ryūji’s love for Taiga. Later at work, Taiga finds Ryūji waiting for her and agrees to talk to him after the shift. However after work, Ryūji and Taiga's mothers confront their children, and the two flee. They stop at a bridge to talk about their situations and Taiga, after telling Ryūji that he has to live on, accidentally pushes him into the river. Ryūji yells to Taiga his plan of running away and marrying her. Yūsaku calls up and asks them to go to Ami's house. Minori, Ami, and Yūsaku do not agree with their plans, but decide to support them. At home, Ryūji finds that his mother has run away, leaving a note and his grandfather's watch. The next morning, Ryūji and Taiga get on a train, but after Taiga talks about being a three-person family with Yasuko, Ryūji decides that they will not run away. He takes Taiga to his grandparents' house, as Yasuko told him inside her note, and introduces himself as their grandson and Taiga as his bride.
25	"Toradora!" "Toradora!" (とらドラ!)	Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	March 26, 2009
After hearing a voicemail from Taiga saying that Ryūji's life is in danger, Yasuko arrives at Ryūji's grandparent's house, where Ryūji is healthy and waiting. Yasuko makes up with her parents and tells Ryūji that his father ran off while she was still pregnant, and she gave birth to him. Ryūji decides that he and Taiga should not run away, and instead get married with everyone's approval. They have a rehearsed wedding at night in their room where they share their first kisses. They all go home, but Taiga, after listening to her mother’s exasperated voicemails, decides to return home to fix her own life and make her worthy of Ryūji's love. Ryūji finds a note in Taiga's apartment and realizes that Taiga has left without saying a word. Minori is not happy that Ryūji lets her leave, but he has come to terms with everything, choosing to trust Taiga. Ryūji receives a message from Taiga, noting that he never said that he loved her. Taiga also sends everyone a mail with a picture of the night sky and a single star, and Minori feels that this is supposed to encourage them to do their best despite feeling small and insignificant. Everyone gets together to send a group picture to Taiga. A year later, the class graduates, and rumors among the underclassmen spread about the Ryūji's girlfriend, the Palmtop Tiger. As he looks back on the school, Ryūji sees a familiar head of hair through one of the windows and rushes to the classroom. He enters and nobody is present, but he calmly finds Taiga hiding in the locker where she hid shortly after they first met. Still remembering her message, Ryūji tells Taiga that he loves her. Blushing, Taiga instinctively headbutts Ryūji, angry that he said it so anticlimactically.
OVA	"The True Meaning of Bento" "Bentō no Gokui" (弁当の極意)	Masayoshi Tanaka	Mari Okada	December 21, 2011
Yūsaku brings an extravagant bento box made by his grandmother Miyo and shares it with the class, which makes Ryūji feel inferior about his own bento making skills. Ryūji obsesses over besting Miyo by overthinking his and Taiga's bentos, but constantly is deflated when Yūsaku's continues to win. He ends up ruining Taiga's lunch out of frustration, so she goes to Minori's family diner to eat by herself after class. She contemplates about boxed lunches and spends the night cooking. The next day, Ryūji cheats by trying to use a rice cooker during class, but he is quickly foiled when everybody finds out. He is upset that his "perfect lunch" is ruined, but Taiga hands him a container full of onigiri that she had made herself. Surprised, Ryūji accepts her offer, but the two are shocked to find that the rice balls are too salty. That night, Ryūji saves the onigiri and makes them edible again. Meanwhile, he realizes that Miyo's lunches were special because she cared about Yūsaku, and his reason for making his own is Taiga. To Taiga's confusion, he decides to eat the salty onigiri as it is. Some time later, after graduation, the class goes for a picnic; Taiga is embarrassed that she had made Ryūji a lunch, exacerbated when their classmates force her to feed him.

Toradora SOS!

Toradora SOS! - Connoisseurs Banzai are DVD exclusive mini-episodes featured on even numbered volume releases of the anime. In these shorts, the cast, represented as chibis, try out various foods, often competing two against one another. Each of these ends with Today's Inko.

#	Title	Release date
01		February 25, 2009
When Ami complains about having to eat tarako spaghetti, Ryuji decides to take her to try some delicious tarako, competing with Minori's spaghetti bolognese.
02		April 22, 2009
Ryuji and Minori have another food duel, this time involving purin.
03		June 24, 2009
When Yuri feels down after a failed attempt at getting a date, the gang takes her to the restaurant when Ryuji and Minori have a battle over curry. However, Minori's choice of curry is too hot for the girls to handle.
04		August 26, 2009
Taiga, Ryuji and Minori follow Ami around the convenience store, where she buys copious amounts of corned beef.

Volume DVDs

King Records released eight Region 2 DVD compilations, the first DVD containing four episodes and the other seven DVDs containing three episodes each, between January 21 and August 26, 2009.^[10][11] Volumes 2, 4, 6 and 8 feature an additional short entitled Toradora! SOS, in which chibi versions of the cast try out various foods. Limited editions of all eight compilations, each of which contains a bonus CD, were also released.^[12]

DVD releases
Volume	Released	Discs	Episodes
1	January 21, 2009[10]	1 each	4
2	February 25, 2009[22]		3 each
3	March 25, 2009[23]
4	April 22, 2009[24]
5	May 27, 2009[25]
6	June 24, 2009[26]
7	July 23, 2009[27]
8	August 26, 2009[11]

References

1. "Award-winning Toradora! Light Novels to be Animated". Anime News Network. 2008-04-02. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
2. "Toradora! staff and cast information". StarChild. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
3. Student runs towards his friend and bumps into Takasu. They both see his eyes and are shaken. Student #1: Takasu!/ Student #2: What the hell are you doing?!/ Takasu: What? Wh-/ Student #1: I didn't mean to!/ Both students: Please accept this and spare us! (handing over their wallets)
4. Noto: Anyways, Takasu only looks scary. He's not actually a delinquent.
5. Takasu: Whoa, she's so small, just like a doll. But somehow... Somehow there's this hateful... As if you'd get eaten if you miss one step...
6. "Toradora Anime TV Ad Posted as Blog Parts Applet". Anime News Network. 2008-09-29. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
7. 第1話　虎と竜 - 第13話　大橋高校文化祭【後編】 [Episode 1: Tiger and Dragon - Episode 13: Ōhashi High School Cultural Festival - Part III] (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
8. 第14話　しあわせの手乗りタイガー - 第25話　とらドラ! [Episode 14: The Palmtop Tiger of Happiness - Episode 25: Toradora!] (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
9. "On air information". StarChild. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
10. "Tora Dora! Scene1 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
11. "Tora Dora! Scene8 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
12. "Tora Dora! Scene1 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene2 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene3 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene4 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene5 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene6 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene7 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
    "Tora Dora! Scene8 (Limited Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
13. "Tora Dora! Scene2 (Regular Edition)" (in Japanese). Neowing. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
14. "Toradora BD Box to Include All-New Episode". Anime News Network. September 11, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
15. Tatsuyuki Nagai (2008-10-09). "Ryūji and Taiga (竜児と大河)". Toradora!. Episode 2. 1:59 minutes in. TV Tokyo.
16. Tatsuyuki Nagai (2008-10-02). "Tiger and Dragon (虎と竜)". Toradora!. Episode 1. 22:43 minutes in. TV Tokyo.
17. Tatsuyuki Nagai (2009-02-05). "Under the Fir Tree (もみの木の下で)". Toradora!. Episode 18. 2:58 minutes in. TV Tokyo.
18. "Theme music single releases at the anime's official website" (in Japanese). StarChild. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
19. "Original soundtrack release at the anime's official website" (in Japanese). StarChild. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
20. "Tora Dora! Soundtrack". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
21. "Story" (in Japanese). StarChild. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
22. "Tora Dora! Scene2 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
23. "Tora Dora! Scene3 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
24. "Tora Dora! Scene4 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
25. "Tora Dora! Scene5 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
26. "Tora Dora! Scene6 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
27. "Tora Dora! Scene7 (Regular Edition)". CD Japan. Retrieved 2009-10-05.

External links

• Anime official website (Japanese)
• Toradora! at TV Tokyo (Japanese)