Toradora! | |
![]() First light novel volume cover, featuring Taiga Aisaka | |
とらドラ! | |
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Genre | |
Light novel | |
Written by | Yuyuko Takemiya |
Illustrated by | Yasu |
Published by | ASCII Media Works |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Dengeki Bunko |
Demographic | Male |
Original run | March 10, 2006 – March 10, 2009 |
Volumes | 10 |
Light novel | |
Toradora Spin-off! | |
Written by | Yuyuko Takemiya |
Illustrated by | Yasu |
Published by | ASCII Media Works |
Imprint | Dengeki Bunko |
Magazine | Dengeki Bunko Magazine |
Demographic | Male |
Original run | May 10, 2007 – April 10, 2010 |
Volumes | 3 |
Manga | |
Written by | Yuyuko Takemiya |
Illustrated by | Zekkyō |
Published by | ASCII Media Works |
English publisher | |
Magazine |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | July 27, 2007 – present |
Volumes | 11 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tatsuyuki Nagai |
Produced by |
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Written by | Mari Okada |
Music by | Yukari Hashimoto |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
English network | |
Original run | October 2, 2008 – March 26, 2009 |
Episodes | 25 |
Video game | |
Developer | Guyzware |
Publisher | Namco Bandai Games |
Genre | Visual novel |
Platform | PlayStation Portable |
Released | April 30, 2009 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Tatsuyuki Nagai |
Written by | Mari Okada |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by |
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Released | December 21, 2011 |
Runtime | 27 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]
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