Toradora!

Toradora!
First light novel volume cover, featuring Taiga Aisaka
とらドラ!
Genre	Romantic comedy[1] Slice of life[2]
Light novel
Written by	Yuyuko Takemiya
Illustrated by	Yasu
Published by	ASCII Media Works
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Imprint	Dengeki Bunko
Demographic	Male
Original run	March 10, 2006 – March 10, 2009
Volumes	10 (List of volumes)
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 (List of volumes)
Manga
Written by	Yuyuko Takemiya
Illustrated by	Zekkyō
Published by	ASCII Media Works
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Magazine	Dengeki Comic Gao! (former) Dengeki Daioh
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 27, 2007 – present
Volumes	11 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Tatsuyuki Nagai
Produced by	Takahiro Nakayama Takaaki Yuasa Shinichi Ikeda Muneyuki Kanbe Yuji Matsukura
Written by	Mari Okada
Music by	Yukari Hashimoto
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	AUS: Hanabee NA: NIS America SEA: Mighty Media UK: MVM Films
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo)
English network	PH: TV5
Original run	October 2, 2008 – March 26, 2009
Episodes	25 (List of episodes)
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	AUS: Hanabee NA: NIS America UK: MVM Films
Released	December 21, 2011
Runtime	27 minutes
Anime and manga portal

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]