I tend to watch a lot of Romcoms Animes. I've always enjoyed some of the slice of life aspects and certain themes. At this moment in time, without a doubt, Toradora is one of my favorite Animes! I got hooked and binged watch the whole season in the summer of 2019 and have re-watched it multiple times.
The story has a great plot and interesting premise which involves one of the main characters, a high school kid named Ryuuji Takasu. And another main character who is a short, hot-headed girl named Aisaka Taiga, who is also a high school student. Aisaka Taiga, who has a big crush on Ryuuji's best friend, Yuusaka Kitamura. While Ryuuji has a crush on Aisaka friend Minori Kushieda. The two plan and try to help each other out and achieve their goals. But as the story continues they're more characters who are introduced and play apart of the story. Throughout Toradora's story the plot slowly turns into a emotional, light-hearted, romantic, comedy, drama, driven Anime!
A majority of the characters are not perfect and have to deal with stress, drama, and be thrown into overwhelming situations throughout the season. Despite that the characters in the story can be two dimensional at times. But they have a lot more depth to them later when the story really sinks in. The characters are all pretty likable with their weird quirks and funny moments, especially Aisaka Taiga. She went through the most change and was by far my favorite character in Toradora!
The soundtrack is fantastic my personal favorite song is "Lost My Pieces", this song sounds so beautiful!
I loved the comedy in Toradora I guess it resonated with me and had me laughing pretty hard at times. Toradora was very emotional and I wanted more when it ended. The art-style is so colorful still looks great a decade later. Granted not everybody is going to like Toradora because it has a tsundere and lackluster writing. Whatever that is totally fine but you can't change my mind I love Toradora! Even know I Love Toradora it is not perfect and has some flaws but what can you expect for anime that released in 2008.
Overall Toradora is a 10/10 in my books. And I heavily recommend to at least try to watch it!