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• Base Breaker: There are as many people who see Taiga as a Jerk Sue, The Scrappy or Creator's Pet as much as there are people who like her.
  • Of course, said people never got to the end and realized Taiga was a nice girl all along. She gives presents to orphans, forgives her father, grudgingly considers her estranged mother as still a part of her family, and does everything she can to set Minori up with Ryuuji.
• Broken Base: The second half of the series, which goes into Darker and Edgier territory, focusing more on relationship drama than humor, polarizes a lot of fans.
• Crowning Moment of Funny — The beginning of episode 9. "They're yours."
• Crowning Music of Awesome — The second OP marks a definite shift in the series' tone. It appropriately gets even more awesome.
  • "Startup," the OST's first track, is both heartbreakingly beautiful and incredibly inspiring.
• Die for Our Ship: Ami is the biggest target of it.
• Ear Worm: The first OP for the anime.
  • "Vanilla Salt" (first credits theme) is also insanely catchy.
• Ensemble Darkhorse — Inko-chan. A fair number of comments are made about the bird, most of which are nested quite comfortably in What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome? territory.
• Internet Backdraft — Post anything about Toradora in /a/ and watch the RAGE flow freely. Bonus points if you use a tripcode.
  • Not helped by the fact that a tripcode user named Taiga has been running amuck in /a/ as of late.
  • This picture◊ sums it up really well.
• Jerkass Woobie: Taiga, in the beginning. By the end, she's just a straight-up Woobie.
• Les Yay — Minori seems awfully close to Taiga at times.
  • There's also some Les Yay between Minori and Ami toward the end. This is Ami's character song; there's really only one person she could be singing to.
• Memetic Mutation: Ami is a bro.
• Nightmare Fuel — To some people, Inko-chan manages to be both more and less creepy in the manga version, as well. Or just disturbing in different ways. Others find him more Ugly Cute than anything.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: It's a little worrying when a romantic drama starts to develop this, but there are some who get sick and tired of Taiga and Ryuugi failing at getting together even though it was obviously the series mission statement from episode 2.
• Shipping Bed Death — Notably averted. Taiga and Ryuuji getting together didn't make the interest for their relationship wane any bit. If anything, it amplified it.