*Picture was courtesy of Sankaku Complex*
Yes, I’ve just achieved utmost satisfaction brought about by Toradora’s ending. I’ve no complains. Pretty much, it ended how I imagined it would end, and I’m glad about it.
So yeah, I’ve no more series to blog on this season. I can’t promise a season review, or a next season preview with all the cramming I have to handle; and it’s about time for summer here in my country.
Anyhow, here’s a quick review of what happened:
After confessing to each other on episode 24, in a rather awkward time, the two decided to elope and planned on getting married once Ryuuji turns 18, which is legal in Japan I think. They lodged at Yasuko’s parent’s place. Ryuuji planned on confronting Yasuko by having Taiga call by her cellphone and say something bad happened to Ryuuji, to make her go her parent’s house, which worked of course. If you recall, Yasuko ran from her parent after having been impregnated by Ryuuji’s father. Yasuko then meets her parents, after years since she ran away, and I swear she looked like a complete kid being scolded by her father.
Yasuko reveals that after having been impregnated, her father asked to have the child aborted, so she ran away. There was also a sweet kissing scene, which I won’t spoil for you guys who haven’t watched the last episode yet in this post. But here’s a picture.
After the whole trouble, the three want back home. But Taiga decided to go away from Ryuuji to solve her family problems. Months passed since Taiga went away, until graduation came.
Long story short, Taiga and Ryuuji, meet up at their classroom on graduation day. Apparently, Taiga has already left for another school. Ryuuji finds Taiga in the classroom locker in her attempt to surprise him (Episode 1 comes to mind). He finally says her loves her, making her fluster and hit him because of embarrassment.
Inko finally said her name too, but the bird didn’t die. I don’t care anymore.
Whoo~. That was satisfying. definitely a breath of fresh air. And hey, because of this ending, my Toradora! fanfic now makes perfect sense, which I had uploaded early this March. It’s about the married life of the two, so you guys could check it out.
With all the trouble and hassle, I could relax a bit ,watching this.
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kira97 on 
March 30th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
The ending is all nice, but it was hardly enjoyable due to blunt trauma caused by the way Taiga left and the amount of time she was gone (if I’m not mistaken, its about a year in the anime, 2 months in the manga).
Hell, even that black school sefuku of hers looks so… alien.. That scene was as angst-ridden as it was heartwarming.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Liked the ending but wats with the black uniform and theres no cliff hanger to tell if it is truly over or not come on you got to give us more to go on
May 31st, 2009 at 3:18 am
@Summoner: We should hope for an OVA then. Yes, an OVA would be good.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
The way Taiga left was bad, the time she was away was the worst.
Taiga’s intentions were to not run away and face her family,but by doing so she runs away from everyone else who loved and cared for her.
She probably did this because ryuji said he wanted to get everyone’s aproval on their marriage and share the hapiness with everyone.
Yet,this just seems completely ignorant.
It seems like there is completely no connection between taiga and ryuji, or in fact, anyone else during the time she was away. This made me VERY sad.
Yes, an OVA explaining more about the ending or their marriage would be to my hearts contempt.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
it should have ended with them graduating together and getting married, taiga shouldn’t have run away, I was so sad about that :(
I loved episode 24, but I think episode 25 ruined the ending, an ova should be made where
they show us more about taiga returning and their marriage.
also, I want to see kitamura meeting his love interest in america and being happy with her,
that plot about her leaving and the fight with taiga where kitamura finds out about her
feelings, was very sad, I was like “NO,DON’T GO,OR AT LEAST LET HIM GO WITH YOU!”.
I know that in the ending we know “kitamura is studying in america”, but that’s not enough,
for the same reason it’s not enough to see how they resolved the main story, specially
after how emotional and promising was episode 24, I expected at least,
“they will be back and they will get married with everybody approving and being happy
about them and there will be a big party and everybody will be there”.
maybe if we start a petition they’ll make an ova with a less rushed ending :)
July 13th, 2009 at 10:08 am
there are quite a few things i’d like to say…
1. i CRIED SO F***ING HARD AS THE FINAL ENDING CREDITS ROLLED. tears of happiness ^^
2. kinda pissed off by the final episode.. i think it’s a lot better if it had ended in ep. 24… then it’s “to be continued” to the OVA… that’d be much more satisfiying
3. had to agree with rakuen about most of the things.. but it REALLY could use a better ending
4. loved seeing taiga’s face when ryuuji said “i love you” in 25… hontou ni KAWAIIII
August 21st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Kind of hated it, I kind preferred his relation platonic with taigo and that they would end up with the ones they liked in the start. Was really hoping and begging it wouldn’t be stereotypical with them ending up together.
I cried, not of the joy, but of sadness…
September 12th, 2009 at 3:03 am
fantastic series. What an emotional rolllercoaster. I was kind of pissed at the end I was expecting another episode.. and turned it off just after the ending music came up. i started looking around thinking wtf this cannot be the ending!!! Stumbled upon this review site.. oh.. I was impatient. The ending i had mixed emotions. An OVA would be great.. to tie up loose ends. Like any series that can suck you in as hard as this one.. you never want it to end. The good ones go by so fast.
December 13th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I am so glad I found your blog! I just finished this series yesterday and I stopped watching after the credits began rolling. so I completely missed her coming back at the end I was so incredibly downtrodden by the ending of this anime. I thought that they would never see each other again. You have no idea how touched I was at this anime and then the way it ended for me. was just too sad. thanks for pointing me to the correct ending.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
I am glad other people felt as bad about Taiga leaving as I did. Up until that I really like it. I agree with Elevdrando, it felt like blunt trauma and that her uniform was alien. This is probably a stupid question, but I guess Ami liked Ryuuji too, right? At one point she said “I hope you will give me a another chance”. I was thinking there was going to be some sort of forgotton child-hood friend thing between Ami and Ryuuji, becasue I don’t really remember there being a first chance that he gave her. I felt there were a lot of loose ends for other characters too and some of my favorite ones ended up with nothing. : (
December 29th, 2009 at 5:42 am
i did not like the ending. i did not like the fact that taiga left or tat it was extremely rushed. i think there should be a third season telling what happened to the other characters and what happened with taiga and ryuuji’s marriage thing and all. it made me sad when it ended without saying anything like that. oh well, if they came out with another season or a few ova’s explaining things that happened afterwards it’d be fine. but still, i didn’t want it to end! T_T
March 29th, 2010 at 6:32 am
For me its the saddest thing i ever watched
i really wanted them to get married, but its so sad because Kushieda and Ami both like Ryuuji too. But why did she have to run away, i just made me so sad, its like they wont get married now becuz sumthing is missing.
April 5th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
……..i hope theirs still a continuation of the series…. i love them both…
July 9th, 2010 at 1:48 am
to me i wanted to kill taiga when she left Ryuuji just sitting there wondering why she abandoned him at the last second …. but i will not lie when she came back i actually shed a few tears
July 15th, 2010 at 3:21 am
they had such a good relationship that i probably would have been content if they ended up with the people they originally liked….anyhow, it was just a huge love pentagon thing going on @_@ im happy they are together, but i wish they had more onscreen moments of them developing a stronger relationship as a couple..because even when he proposed, i felt like it was sort of a relationship where they just mutually couldn’t live without each other…nothing romantic in between ! but the kiss really made me happy….best moment ever between them ^^
July 18th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
I started watching it because Japanator.com recommended it, i rarely watch anime…
Anyway after the last episode I felt upset, and I’m glad I found this site and I can see people feel the same way I do.
Why did she leave him? and for over a year? without saying anything? just to fix her family problems? It made me sad. The series deserved a better ending…marriage, more kisses, saying “I love you” to each other without getting interrupted or nervous.
The show was an emotional rollercoaster, I cried a few times! Too bad the last 2 episodes didn’t cause anything in me.
Now I just feel upset, tempted to delete the episodes from my hard drive. This is why I don’t watch anime, they always give great shows a terrible ending. Just give us some love, make us happy! instead of making everything complicated. He finally said he loved her 10 seconds before the entire anime ended, I’m sad.
At least I got K-ON to cheer me up, those girls will never disappoint me! :P
August 5th, 2010 at 7:03 am
i was excited when ryuji kiss taiga
August 9th, 2010 at 6:21 am
The animation is gorgeous; the characters are absolutely unique and took me by surprise.