Saturday, December 17, 2011

Toradora

Hi people, i am back again.. Yes, i am now on holiday.. Finally freee for the time being. This also means that i have more time doing reviews, yeah so you can expect more review coming up for the next 2 weeks !! :D However, today i am still not gonna post anything about AFA 2011. Rest assure, i will try to do it by this YEAR. Instead, i am going to introduce another anime that i have always wanted to talk about. That anime is none other than toradora!!! :DD You people might have already heard about. It is quite an old anime i guess. However the graphics are still good. It is about everyday school life, romance and of course comedy. Yes, something that you can quite see everyday. It has a total of 25 episodes with one season. My rating for this anime is 8/10 .



The story starts with a second year highschool student, Takasu Ryuji who is always trying to look ''good'' in school but always fails to give the right expression. His fiery ''eyes'' make him look like a delinquent making it hard for people to approach him. However deep down, he is actually a very gentle person in nature. After greeted by his overhung mother in the morning, He goes to school on his first day and glad to know that he is in the same class with his best friend, Kitamura Yusaku and Kushieda Minori who he has a crush on.

However, he also unexpectedly knocks into Aisaka taiga who is also known as the ''palm top tiger'' for her fierce character and also happens to be in the same class as Ryuji and a good friend of minori. She has a very bad attitude towards other people and is willing to give them a piece of her mind without hesitation. However, deep down she has a very weak heart that nobody knows. She has a very bad impression of Ryuji and take a instant dislike to him. Coincidentally, she just lived in the apartment next to him. Accidentally, she also finds out that he has a crush on minori and also Ryuji also finds out about Taiga affection towards Yusaku. Ryuji then suggest that they work together to win the hearts of their affections. They then begin to hang out more and more together and at the same time, their relationships also started to get closer and closer....



I should say this anime is 3/4 epic and 1/4 serious. Which means that you can expect lots of funny scenes. The story does have a good plot but i think that it is not solid enough. What i mean is that you know what the characters are doing, but in midway, the story just seems to go off from track and you cannot tell where is the story going. One thing i do not like is that towards the end, everything just started to get kind of draggy. This is because that the whole story starts to get more tense, emotional and less epic. So it can get kind of boring at the end. So at the end when the story get kind of at the climax, it then just suddenly blew you off. Which can get kind of disappointing as they focus too little on the ending. So the ending is actually not satisfying enough.

Despite saying all this, it does actually has its good points. From the beginning to the near end, it has really tons of interesting and epic scenes which really can sent you laughing. So the whole story as a whole is quite entertaining. Also at some part of the story, it actually has some unexpected twist that can really make you say ''WOW'' . The best thing is that the story is not the typical romance type where one guy is flooded with tons of girls which will make the watcher to start cursing at the main character. Rest assure the guy in this story is only surrounded by one or two girls. Also for any lolicons and shana fans out there, this is just the anime for you. As the female lead in the story is very much similar to shana.



Now for the song parts, all i can say is ''AWESOME". It actually has some of my favourite songs in it. Some of the songs may seems boring at first, but when you listened to it for some time, you will definitely fall for the songs :DD

1. Pre-Parade by Rie Kugimiya (Opening 1)

2. Vanilla Salt by Yui Horie (Ending 1)

3. Silky heart by Yui Horie (Opening 2)

4. Orange by Rie Kugimiya (Ending 2)

5. Holy night by Rie Kugimiya (Character song)

My personal favourites are silky heart and vanilla salt. Silky heart has a very cheerful tune but it actually has sad lyrics. Vanilla salt is a cute song which is very catchy. Although i am not a fan of cute songs, vanilla salt has been an exception for me. Overall, the anime is definitely worth to watch,not too long and not too short. It also has a lot of awesome songs which would make you wanna hear it again and again :DD

Ciao su~~~

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