Characters:
Stereotypes are mostly found there.
The protagonist, Ryuuji, is this nice and shy guy, people avoid him because of his scary physics. He is secretly in love with a girl in his class, Minori, but never confessed. It is also, unfortunately, as often in the stories of this kind, soft. A little less than average I would say, even if it leaves to walk on by Taiga, he is not stupid and it is quite endearing and funny with his side of housewife model.
Taiga is the tsundere. Small, aggressive, she is also in love but does not know how to confess. It may annoy some people, but behind his violent side, a strong will is hidden. She has evolved over the anime and she got really endearing to the end.
Taiga's best friend, Minori, is Ryuuji’s Secret love. She is the embodiment of good humour. You know the one who is always smiling even she is not in good condition. Her interventions are pretty funny in general and she is touching and not whingeing.
Well, I must talk about Kitamura, but to be honest, that's the one I like the least. Ryuuji's best friend, Taiga has a crush on him. He is always nice guy, hard worker, with glasses. I will not tarry longer because he gets on my nerves, it's a real kid.
Finally, Taiga’s childhood friend, Ami, top model, the nice and adorable with her"friends" but she is actually rather cold and calculating. She is probably the most mature of the five. She helps her friends while pretending not to care. She is important in the development of relations between the characters.
We also have a gaggle of pretty funny supporting characters (but not very developed) special mentions to the teacher and the parrot. You will understand by watching.
Graphics:
This is not the strong point of the anime. The scenery is simple and redundant, bright colours (it does not bother me at all for this kind of anime but others might not like it). The chara-design, you would think they had a budget for the main characters: half for Taiga, which is cute and the other half is divided roughly equally between Ryuuji, Minori and Ami, which are rather common but fun to watch.
In short, overall it is rather clean and fluid but not amazing.
Story:
There is really no scenario in this anime, we only follows the evolution of the characters. The beginning laid the foundation and their relationships, Taiga and Ryuuji who find themselves accomplices despite themselves. The first part is a pure comedy because we follow their wacky attempts to approach their crushes. We are witnessing really funny moments, some more sad. Then there is the part with Kitamura which is, in my opinion, the worst of the anime. I really do not understand why Taiga loves him ... Then, the Christmas part when Taiga starts to change, and she gets really interesting, you start to appreciate her more. Everyone tries to cope with his feelings in his way, and the end is still surprising on some points.
Music:
Music is a strong point. The Openings are great, the endings correspond very well to the changing feelings, OSTs perfectly accompanying the various scenes sad, happy ... Nothing else to say, I love it.
Overall, Toradora is a good slice of life anime that seems full of already-seen but the director was able to dose the ingredients to perfection: we find the right balance between comedy and romance, with passable graphics and very good soundtrack to address the whole.
