50 Fun Facts About Toradora!

In Toradora!, which nickname do classmates give the tiny but ferocious Taiga Aisaka?

Palmtop Tiger sticks because Taiga stands under five feet tall yet snaps at nearly everyone. Ryuji soon earns his own reputation as the only person able to stop her.

Which feature of gentle Ryuji Takasu makes strangers in Toradora! mistake him for a delinquent?

His eyes do the damage: Ryuji inherited a fierce glare from the father he never met, so classmates flinch even though he is kind and responsible.

In episode one of Toradora!, what does Taiga Aisaka mistakenly slip into Ryuji Takasu's bag?

A love letter meant for Yusaku Kitamura lands in the wrong bag, and the envelope turns out to be empty. Taiga still storms Ryuji's home that night to silence him.

Transfer student Ami Kawashima arrives in Toradora! already famous for which glamorous job?

Fashion model Ami charms the whole class with a sweet act, but her childhood friend Yusaku knows she is spoiled and manipulative underneath.

The "dora" in the title Toradora! comes from the Japanese rendering of which English word?

Dragon becomes doragon in Japanese, and Ryuji's name is written with the character for the same beast. The first half of the title nods to Taiga in the same way.

The morning after their first clash in Toradora!, where does Ryuji Takasu find Taiga Aisaka lives?

Next door is Taiga's apartment building, where she lives alone. She ends up at the Takasu home so often that Ryuji's mother treats her as family.

In the final scene of Toradora!, how does Taiga Aisaka react when Ryuji Takasu says he loves her?

She headbutts him, blushing, because he picked such an anticlimactic moment to say it. Her earlier text message had teased that he never told her so.

Which surprising talent does the fierce-looking Ryuji Takasu show throughout Toradora!?

Housework is second nature to Ryuji, who keeps the Takasu home spotless and soon makes Taiga's meals too. She grew up wealthy and cannot manage a single chore.

Fans call the Japanese voice of Taiga Aisaka in Toradora! the Queen of which anime character type?

Tsundere means prickly outside and soft underneath, and she has voiced so many such heroines, including Shana and Louise, that the title stuck.

Inko-chan, the sickly-looking pet of the Takasu household in Toradora!, is what kind of animal?

A parakeet, Inko-chan is named with the Japanese word for her own species. The running gag is that she can say tricky words but stumbles over that simple name.

Minori Kushieda, the redhead juggling several jobs in Toradora!, captains which school club?

Softball is Minori's sport, and Yusaku leads the boys' team, which is why the pair get called away to practice together early in the story.

Heartbroken Yusaku Kitamura quits the student council in Toradora! and dyes his hair which color?

Blonde hair is his outburst after the council president he secretly loves announces she is leaving Japan. Yasuko's attempt to dye it back to black scares him home.

On graduation day in the Toradora! finale, where does Ryuji Takasu find Taiga Aisaka hiding?

A classroom locker hides her until Ryuji spots her hair in the window from outside and rushes upstairs. She had been gone a year, sorting out her family life.

Horror fan Minori Kushieda of Toradora! compares falling in love to seeing which beings?

Ghosts are her image for love, something she hopes to be able to see one day. She confides this to Ryuji during the summer trip to Ami's beach house.

Which contest do Taiga Aisaka and Ami Kawashima hold in Toradora! with Ryuji's summer at stake?

A swimming race over fifty meters decides it, even though Taiga cannot swim. She turns back mid-race to save a knocked-out Ryuji, so Ami wins.

Which Japanese actress voices Taiga Aisaka of Toradora! and Alphonse Elric of Fullmetal Alchemist?

Rie Kugimiya won Best Actress at the third Seiyu Awards partly for the role. Taiga herself was named champion of a big online character popularity contest the same year.

Which studio, also behind Shakugan no Shana and A Certain Magical Index, made the Toradora! anime?

J.C.Staff, founded in 1986 by a Tatsunoko veteran, made all 25 episodes and later a bonus episode for the Blu-ray box set.

Early in Toradora!, which homemade gift for Yusaku Kitamura does Taiga Aisaka throw out of a window?

Cookies sail out of the window when Taiga slips on the stairs, and Ryuji breaks her fall. After she retrieves the bag, he happily eats them himself.

Yasuko Takasu, Ryuji's childlike mother in Toradora!, works nights at what kind of business?

A hostess bar pays the bills for the two-person Takasu household. Yasuko is proud that her son reached high school, something she never finished herself.

In Toradora!, which attraction does Koji Haruta draw by lot for his class at the cultural festival?

A wrestling show in pro style was not what the boys wanted: they had stacked the vote for a cosplay cafe. Haruta wrote a skit to suit it, and the act was a success.

On Christmas Eve in Toradora!, what does Ryuji Takasu wear to cheer up Taiga Aisaka alone at home?

A bear costume turns Ryuji into Taiga's surprise visitor after she leaves the school party early. She sends him back to wait for Minori, then cries once he has gone.

Which ornament of Taiga Aisaka's tops the Toradora! school Christmas tree until a ball smashes it?

A glass star, Taiga's treasure, shatters when a stray ball crashes through the gym window. A remorseful Minori insists on gluing it back together, and Ryuji helps her.

The Toradora! class trip moves to a ski lodge after fire destroys a resort booked in which place?

Okinawa was the plan until the seaside resort burned to the ground, so the class swaps beaches for snow. The trip is Ryuji's last chance with Minori before classes are reshuffled.

Taiga Aisaka is caught in a blizzard on the Toradora! ski trip while searching for which lost item?

A hairpin that Minori dropped on a slope sends Taiga out alone. Ryuji finds her hurt at the bottom of a hill and carries her back, hearing a secret meant for someone else.

The student council president in Toradora! leaves early to study abroad, hoping to become what?

An astronaut is her goal, and she heads to the United States to chase it. She hides her feelings for Yusaku so that he will not give up his own future to follow her.

How is Taiga Aisaka punished in Toradora! after fighting the outgoing student council president?

A two-week suspension follows the brawl, yet classmates treat Taiga as a hero when she returns. She had attacked because the president brushed off Yusaku's public declaration.

Taiga Aisaka lives alone in Toradora! after leaving her father's home, unable to live with whom?

Her stepmother is far younger than her father Rikuro, and Taiga could not stand the arrangement. He promises a divorce and a new life together, then lets her down at the festival.

What does Ami Kawashima destroy in Toradora! to drive away the stalker who has been trailing her?

His camera is wrecked once Ami drops her sweet act, emboldened by seeing Taiga chase the man down in the rain. He runs away in fear.

In Toradora!, what had Yusaku Kitamura done a year before Taiga Aisaka declares herself to him?

He had confessed his love to her and been turned down. Taiga says her own feelings for him began to grow from that moment.

What do Ryuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka sell outside a bakery in Toradora! when his mother falls ill?

Chocolates for Valentine's Day keep the pair busy after Yasuko collapses with anemia from overwork. Taiga then makes a homemade batch to thank her friends.

After planning to elope late in Toradora!, Ryuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka take a train to whose home?

His grandparents had not seen Yasuko in over a decade, and Ryuji greets them by introducing Taiga as his bride. The visit is a ruse to reunite his mother with her parents.

Before the truth comes out in Toradora!, what does Yasuko Takasu claim happened to Ryuji's father?

He died before Ryuji was born, she says at first. In the finale she admits that he abandoned her while she was pregnant and that she chose to raise their son alone.

Taiga Aisaka struggles with a beer delivery in Toradora! because she is unable to do what?

She cannot ride a bicycle, so Taiga pushes one loaded with three cases of beer along the road. Meanwhile Ryuji and Minori get locked in the shop's storehouse together.

In the Toradora! OVA, Ryuji Takasu obsesses over outdoing Yusaku Kitamura's grandmother at what?

Bento lunches spark the rivalry when Yusaku shares a lavish box packed by his grandmother. Ryuji finally sees that his own are special because he makes them for Taiga.

Which author, who debuted with Watashitachi no Tamura-kun, wrote the Toradora! light novels?

Yuyuko Takemiya wrote ten volumes and three spin-off books before declaring the story complete in April 2010. The same illustrator drew both this series and her debut.

Which later light novel series by the creator of Toradora! follows amnesiac law student Banri Tada?

Golden Time moved the romance from high school to a Tokyo law school, and its first volume was the 2,000th light novel issued by its publishing imprint.

The three lead actresses of Toradora! sing which opening theme, used for the first sixteen episodes?

Pre-Parade is performed by the voices of Taiga, Ami and Minori together. The same trio reunites for the second ending theme.

Minori Kushieda of Toradora! has which Japanese voice actress, also Love Hina's Naru Narusegawa?

Yui Horie also sang two of the anime's four theme songs on her own and joined her castmates on the other two.

The English dub of Toradora! casts which actress, also Morgana in Persona 5, as Taiga Aisaka?

Cassandra Lee Morris joined when an English dub was finally recorded for the 2014 Blu-ray, five years after the series finished airing in Japan.

The English dub of Toradora! casts which former Power Rangers actor as Yusaku Kitamura?

Johnny Yong Bosch played Adam Park, the second Black Ranger, before becoming the English voice of Ichigo in Bleach and Lelouch in Code Geass.

Which Japanese voice actor plays Ryuji Takasu and co-hosted the Toradora! internet radio series?

Junji Majima fronted ToradoRadio! with the actress who voices Ami, streaming 38 online episodes around the anime's run with other cast members as guests.

Which director of the Toradora! anime went on to make Anohana and a Mobile Suit Gundam series?

Tatsuyuki Nagai had made his directing debut only two years earlier, on the second season of Honey and Clover. His 2015 film The Anthem of the Heart earned a Japan Academy nomination.

Which screenwriter shaped the scripts of the Toradora! anime and later directed the film Maquia?

Mari Okada was the primary scriptwriter. Bullied at school, she spent much of her youth at home writing stories, and became one of anime's most prolific writers.

The Toradora! novels appeared under which ASCII Media Works imprint, also home to Sword Art Online?

Dengeki Bunko issued all ten volumes between March 2006 and March 2009. The imprint is known for welcoming new authors through a yearly prize contest.

A Toradora! visual novel with multiple endings, played as Ryuji Takasu, came out on which console?

Sony PSP owners got the game in April 2009. It tells an original story and adds a minigame in which Taiga fends off lovesick boys.

Which Disgaea game publisher first released the Toradora! anime on DVD in the United States?

NIS America released it on two DVD sets in 2010, then returned in 2014 with a Blu-ray that added an English dub and the bonus episode.

Yusaku Kitamura's nickname in Toradora! comes from the class president of which long-running anime?

Chibi Maruko-chan has a class president named Maruo, so classmates give the equally dutiful Yusaku, their own class representative, the same name.

The Toradora Spin-off! novels follow which unhappy first-year on the student council?

Kota Tomiie begins with a wild crush on Taiga, then falls for the council president's younger sister and wins her over.

Under which collective name did the Toradora! director, writer and designer go on to create Anohana?

Super Peace Busters is also what the childhood friends in that 2011 series call their own group. The same trio reunited for the 2015 film The Anthem of the Heart.

In the Toradora! OVA, which appliance does Ryuji Takasu use in class until the teacher unplugs it?

A rice cooker is his attempt to cheat, quickly foiled when the class finds out. Taiga consoles him with onigiri she made herself, which turn out surprisingly salty.