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Toradora!
Palmtop Tiger. Delinquent Dragon.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Rie Kugimiya
Taiga Aisaka (voice)
25 eps
Junji Majima
Ryuuji Takasu (voice)
25 eps
Yui Horie
Minori Kushieda (voice)
25 eps
Eri Kitamura
Ami Kawashima (voice)
25 eps
Hirofumi Nojima
Yuusaku Kitamura (voice)
25 eps
Sayaka Ohara
Yasuko Takasu (voice)
19 eps
Rie Tanaka
Yuri Koigakubo (voice)
16 eps
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Koji Haruta (voice)
21 eps
Ai Nonaka
Maya Kihara (voice)
22 eps
Takuya Sato
Student B (voice)
3 eps
Momoko Ishikawa
Nanako Kashii (voice)
23 eps
Yuhko Kaida
Sumire Kano (voice)
8 eps
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Hisamitsu Noto (voice)
21 eps
Shinnosuke Tachibana
Stalker (voice)
1 eps
Toru Furusawa
Rikurou Aisaka (voice)
3 eps
Daisuke Matsubara
Student A (voice)
3 eps
Ao Takahashi
Female Student B (voice)
1 eps
Chikara Ousaka
Male Student C (voice)
3 eps
Atsushi Abe
Male Student A (voice)
3 eps
Jun Miruno
Female Student A (voice)
12 eps
Tomoko Nakamura
Female Student B (voice)
1 eps
Tsuyoshi Aoki
Ryuuji's Grandfather (voice)
8 eps
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Male Student A (voice)
13 eps
Hideki Nakanishi
Male Student B (voice)
6 eps
Mami Fujita
Yuriko Mitsui (voice)
1 eps
Takashi Oohara
Male Student A (voice)
6 eps
Akiko Tanaka
Female Student A (voice)
1 eps
Saori Goto
Inko (voice)
21 eps
Nobuaki Kanemitsu
Kuroma (voice)
6 eps
Kana Asumi
Sakura Kano (voice)
3 eps
Kazutaka Ishii
Male Student B (voice)
3 eps
Yoko Hikasa
Female Student A (voice)
1 eps
Aiko Kumamoto
Female Student B (voice)
2 eps
Fuyuka Ono
Taiga's Mother (voice)
2 eps
Mina Kobayashi
Ryuuji's Grandmother (voice)
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Toradora! actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Toradora! reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, second year high school student Ryuuji forms an unlikely friendship with classmate Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E10
Fireworks
The gang plots an elaborate stunt to scare Minori with a trip to a nearby cave where Yūsaku has planted scary traps, but Yūsaku and Minori disappear.
- Directed by Kenichi Kasai
- Written by Tatsuto Higuchi
S01E22
When You're Around
Knowing that Taiga believes she was rescued by Yūsaku during the ski trip, Ryūji asks Yūsaku to pretend that she's correct.
- Directed by Tohru Ishida
- Written by Mari Okada
S01E09
When You Go To The Sea
During a trip to Ami's beach villa, Taiga has a nightmare about being married to Ryūji and schemes to bring him and Minori together.
- Directed by Katsushi Sakurabi
- Written by Tatsuto Higuchi
S01E13
Ohashi High School Culture Festival 3
Taiga wins a beauty contest despite a crushing disappointment about her father; a race is held to determine who will dance with Taiga.
- Directed by Masahito Otani
- Written by Mari Okada
S01E19
Christmas Eve Party
The love triangle of Ryūji, Minori and Taiga reaches a crisis point when true feelings are realized during the school's Christmas Eve party.
- Directed by Kenichi Kasai
- Written by Masahiro Yokotani
S01E06
True Self
Followed by a stalker, Ami hides out with Taiga and decides that she must discard her fake personality from now on.
- Directed by Shigeru Yamazaki
- Written by Mari Okada
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E06
The True Meaning of Bento
- Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai
- Written by Mari Okada
S00E05
Toradora SOS! Hurray For Foodies 4
S00E04
Toradora SOS! Hurray For Foodies 3
S00E03
Toradora! Recap
S00E02
Toradora SOS! Hurray For Foodies 2
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Takaaki YuasaProducer
- Yuji MatsukuraProducer
- Shin'ichi IkedaProducer
- Takahiro YamanakaProducer
- Muneyuki KanbeProducer
Writing
- Junko OkazakiWriter
- Masahiro YokotaniWriter
- Mari OkadaWriter
- Tatsuto HiguchiWriter
Direction
- Toshiaki MikiDirector
- Masahito OtaniDirector
- Noriaki SaitoDirector
- Sayo AoiDirector
- Youhei SuzukiDirector
- Kenichi KasaiDirector
Cinematography
- Yutaka KurosawaDirector of Photography
Music
- Yukari HashimotoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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- Amazon Prime Video with AdsStreaming
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