Toradora!: SOS! Kuishinbou Banbanzai

This is a much shorter review since there is not that much to unpack.

It is a nice comedy special.

The food was good, the animation was not as good as the main, and the comedy was good. I really enjoyed it!

The story is definitely unique as criticizing food is not something a lot of anime does. I enjoyed it particularly since the Toradora cast were the ones doing it.

The characters had amazing reactions. The character design was cute with the animal characteristics haha

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The music was okay. The OP is the same as Toradora! OP 1 so I liked it but then again isnt original to this series so no points added here


If you enjoyed Toradora this is a good watch!

Final Score: 6/10
Thanks!
-CyanCheetah

Toradora!: SOS! seems to be is what happens when a creator has an idea for an original shorts series but lacks the courage, budget, or both to make a new original IP, so they slap a successful IP's name onto it.

On the one hand, it's an amusing series of shorts about five friends eating/talking about Japanese cuisine that even includes a few bits of educational trivia. On the other, it simply doesn't feel related to ToraDora! in any way, shape, or form. While the characters occasionally say a line or two that reminds you of who they were in the original series, most of ... the time they feel like original characters. The only part of the episodes that really felt like ToraDora were the endcaps with Inko in them doing the same style of gag she does in the original show.

I might have enjoyed this more if I went into it expecting some characters I don't know talking about food (I'm actually a huge sucker for food anime AND short anime) but since I went into it expecting a reunion with a series I loved and not really getting that, I felt baited and switched, and it meant the series ended up leaving a bad taste in my mouth... pun intended.

Got a headache while watching this. Also my eyes and ears are bleeding for obvious reasons. There's no way someone rate this at that high.

Not unique, predictable, not funny, not enjoyable, terrible, ugly, disgusting, please don't make me write this and just pass, full of stereotypes, mockery of the series, abuse to an anime world, annoying and go outside or whatever. Worst half an hour in my life. There's no another word I can say about it.

First point for being ToraDora, second point for self-irony, third point for absurdity. I am too kind for reviewing this thing. Go rewatch ToraDora.