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Toradora!

Toradora!
First light novel volume cover, featuring Taiga Aisaka
とらドラ!
Genre
Light novel
Written byYuyuko Takemiya
Illustrated byYasu
Published byASCII Media Works
English publisher
ImprintDengeki Bunko
DemographicMale
Original runMarch 10, 2006 – March 10, 2009
Volumes10
Light novel
Toradora Spin-off!
Written byYuyuko Takemiya
Illustrated byYasu
Published byASCII Media Works
ImprintDengeki Bunko
MagazineDengeki Bunko Magazine
DemographicMale
Original runMay 10, 2007 – April 10, 2010
Volumes3
Manga
Written byYuyuko Takemiya
Illustrated byZekkyō
Published byASCII Media Works
English publisher
Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 27, 2007 – present
Volumes11
Anime television series
Directed byTatsuyuki Nagai
Produced by
  • Takahiro Nakayama
  • Takaaki Yuasa
  • Shinichi Ikeda
  • Muneyuki Kanbe
  • Yuji Matsukura
Written byMari Okada
Music byYukari Hashimoto
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
English network
Original run October 2, 2008 – March 26, 2009
Episodes25
Video game
DeveloperGuyzware
PublisherNamco Bandai Games
GenreVisual novel
PlatformPlayStation Portable
ReleasedApril 30, 2009
Original video animation
Directed byTatsuyuki Nagai
Written byMari Okada
StudioJ.C.Staff
Licensed by
ReleasedDecember 21, 2011
Runtime27 minutes

Toradora! (Japanese: とらドラ!) is a Japanese light novel series by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Yasu. The series includes 10 novels released between March 10, 2006, and March 10, 2009, published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint.[3] Three volumes of a spin-off light novel series were also created, aptly titled Toradora Spin-off!. A manga adaptation by Zekkyō started serialization in the September 2007 issue of the shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Comic Gao!, published by MediaWorks. 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.[4]

The title Toradora! is derived from the names of the two main characters Taiga Aisaka and Ryūji Takasu. 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). Inversely, ryū (竜) means dragon, and is synonymous with doragon (ドラゴン), the English word dragon transcribed into Japanese.[5]

An Internet radio show was broadcast between September 2008 and May 2009 hosted by Animate TV. A 25-episode anime adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 2008 and March 2009.[6] A Blu-ray box set containing an original video animation (OVA) episode was released on December 21, 2011. 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 visual novel based on the series was released in April 2009 by Bandai Namco Games for the PlayStation Portable.[7]

  1. ^ Kimlinger, Carl (June 13, 2010). "Toradora! DVD 1 Eps. 1-7 Preview - Review". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "Toradora!". Seven Seas Entertainment. Archived from the original on July 30, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  3. ^ "Toradora! media franchise website" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Archived from the original on January 1, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference daioh-May08 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Yuyuko Takemiya (March 2011). Toradora Vol. 1. Artwork: Zekkyou. National Geographic Books. Translation Notes. ISBN 978-1-934876-94-7.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference onair was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference dengeki1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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