History Characters / Toradora

Ryuuji is a seventeen-year-old high school student in his second year, class C. Due to biological inheritance, his face make him look like an intimidating delinquent and causes many misunderstandings in his life. He lives in a fatherless family with just his mother, and due to this, Ryuuji has learned to be self-sufficient. He is good at cooking and keeping everything in his house clean, and also excels at sewing. He holds a crush on Minori Kushieda, a girl his age in his class. He has a pet parakeet named "Inko-chan" (inko literally means parakeet in Japanese). Ryuuji often helps Taiga with domestic chores which she is otherwise unable to perform. At school, he is known as "the only person able to stop the palmtop tiger", referring to Taiga's nickname.

* JunjiMajima

* RealMenWearPink: Cooks, sews, cleans, etc.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Yuusaku.

Taiga is a girl in Ryuuji's class. She has a well-regulated and beautiful appearance though is unable to stomach company from others. Due to her often snapping at others in brutal ways and her short stature at 143.6 cm (4' 8.5"), she is given the nickname "Palmtop Tiger." Her under-developed body and the added nickname have given her a complex which in turn serves to give her a negative attitude and facial expression. Essentially, Taiga gets upset easily and is considerably clumsy. Due to her cute looks, she often gets confessions by boys her age, but she turns down every one of them. She comes from a rich family but due to bad family relations, she has taken to living on her own. However, since she came from a privileged household, she does not know how to do any domestic chores. When she meets Ryuuji and learns of his domestic talents, she begins to depend on Ryuuji for them. Aside from sleeping in her own house and going to school, she spends most of her time at Ryuuji's house; so much so that she is almost considered a member of his family, and many classmates think they are dating.

* [[spoiler: LoveEpiphany]]: Upon Christmas Eve, she realizes [[spoiler: that she is in love with Ryuji and that she actually has been for quite some time.]]

* {{Pettanko}}: And HOW. Even the smallest size of school swimsuit fits her loosely.
* RieKugimiya: [[PigeonholedVoiceActor As always...]]

* ShoutOut: She pretty much quotes [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]] and [[ZeroNoTsukaima Louise]] by shouting [[CatchPhrase "Urusai!"]] or referring to Ryuuji as a dog...

* HirofumiNojima

* YesMan: To Sumire, when he's still the Student Council Vice President. [[spoiler: Justified that he's also in love with her]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Possibly subverted, since while he does have dark bluish-green hair, he later [[spoiler: bleaches it, turning it blonde. People react to this, but that's probably because he is the student council president.]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Her oddness does not keep her from performing admirably at her jobs or being an excellent softball player

* ThePollyanna: She never gets sad, nor cries [[spoiler: except when Taiga and Ryuji got together]]

* {{Yandere}}: At least in the fandom's eye. A lot of fanartists ''want'' her to be one, though there's no canon evidence from the series itself that she is.

* YuiHorie

* BitchInSheepsClothing: An excellent example, though she matures with time.

* EriKitamura
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Her main objective, arguably

* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]

* SayakaOhara

* RieTanaka

* YukoKaida

* [[spoiler: LoveAtFirstPunch]]: Subverted.[[spoiler: Taiga]] did punch him in the face upon meeting him for the first time, but it took more than this for him to [[spoiler: fall for her]].

* NeatFreak: And Holy Shit HOW!

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: With Yusaku

* SonOfAWhore: Subverted

* PigeonholedVoiceActor

* MagicSkirt: She sits between the campus' two vending machines in a manner that would normally [[PantyShot shows her panties]]

* MsFanservice: She usually fills the role aside from [[HotMom Ryuji's mom]]

Ryuuji is a seventeen-year-old high school student in his second year, class C. Due to biological inheritance, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent and causes many misunderstandings in his life. He lives in a fatherless family with just his mother, and due to this, Ryuuji has learned to be self-sufficient. He is good at cooking and keeping everything in his house clean, and also excels at sewing. He holds a crush on Minori Kushieda, a girl his age in his class. He has a pet parakeet named "Inko-chan" (inko literally means parakeet in Japanese). Ryuuji often helps Taiga with domestic chores which she is otherwise unable to perform. At school, he is known as "the only person able to stop the palmtop tiger", referring to Taiga's nickname.

* FeedMe: Her hilarious antics are known to admirably steal the scene.

* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]]: Once he's all dressed up and groomed at the Christmas Party, everyone notices how good he looks in a suit.

* BaseBreaker: There are as many people who see her as a JerkSue, TheScrappy or TheWesley as much as there are people who like her.

* ChaoticNeutral -> ChaoticGood

* JerkassWoobie

* LawfulGood

* DieForOurShip: Biggest target of it.

* MemeticMutation: Ami is a bro.

* LawfulGood

* LawfulNeutral

'''Sumire Kanou'''

* Flanderization: In the anime, her status as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure got toned way down and her status as a ButtMonkey and ChristmasCake way up.

* DemotedToExtra; Got noticeably less prominent in the last act of the series.

* StepfordSmiler -- There's a lot of issues hidden behind her genki-ness.

Yasuko is Ryuuji's thirty-three-year-old mother, though she refers to herself as eternally twenty-three; [[MostCommonSuperpower she has large, F-cup-sized breasts]]. Soon after Ryuuji was born, her husband died which left her to raise her son by herself [[spoiler:(Though in reality, he ran off with another woman)]]. She works at a hostess bar named Bishamonten Kuni where she goes by the name "Mirano" and single-handily supports her two-member family financially. However, she has a childish personality and since she works so hard, she entrusts the household chores to Ryuuji. She instantly takes a liking to Taiga and already regards her as a member of her family.

* DemotedToExtra; Got noticeably less prominent in the second season.

'''Ryuuji Takasu'''

* CharacterTics hair twirling

* FirstKiss ([[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming with Taiga in the end]]]])

* TheMatchmaker (at first, he was trying to hook up Taiga and Kitamura)
* NeatFreak (And Holy Shit HOW!)
* RealMenWearPink (Cooks, sews, cleans, etc.)
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan (With Yusaku)
* SonOfAWhore (Subverted)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome (he takes cleaning very, ''very'' [[SeriousBusiness seriously]])

'''Taiga Aisaka'''

* BaseBreaker (there are as many people who see her as a JerkSue, TheScrappy or TheWesley as much as there are people who like her.)
* BerserkButton (any reference to her small stature or her nickname!)

* GroinAttack (against her {{Jerkass}} father)

* {{Moe}} (The winner of the 2009 Saimoe Tournament.)

* {{Pettanko}} (And HOW. Even the smallest size of school swimsuit fits her loosely.)

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship (with Minori)
* ShoutOut (She pretty much quotes [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]] and [[ZeroNoTsukaima Louise]] by shouting [[CatchPhrase "Urusai!"]] or referring to Ryuuji as a dog...)

* {{Tsundere}} (Voiced by RieKugimiya too!)

* WaifFu (see the short, cute doll-like girl [[spoiler:beating the crap out of the much taller class representative]]!)

'''Yuusaku Kitamura'''

* NoNudityTaboo (a rather mild version, but one episode had him nonchalantly walk into a room in full view of the three main girls with nothing covering him except a hand towel held in front of his naughty bits)

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan (Him and Ryuji)
* ShirtlessScene Four of them.
* StudentCouncilPresident (Halfway to the series)
* StupidSexyFlanders (He even has a physique like Flanders!)

* TallDarkAndHandsome (How Taiga described him in one of the next episode previews)

'''Minori Kushieda'''

* BunnyEarsLawyer (her oddness does not keep her from performing admirably at her jobs or being an excellent softball player)

* FeedMe (her hilarious antics are known to admirably steal the scene)
* FieryRedHead (Well, close enough)

* [[spoiler:IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy (To ''both'' Ryuuji and Taiga]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship (with Taiga)

'''Ami Kawashima'''

* BitchInSheepsClothing (an excellent example, though she matures with time)

* CharacterDevelopment (possibly the best example in the show)
* DieForOurShip (Biggest target of it.)

* IJustWantToBeSpecial (her main objective, arguably)

* {{Kawaiiko}} (tries to pass herself off as this)
* LesYay (Some with [[spoiler: Minori]], of all people. This is not helped by her ImageSong ''Yes!'', which [[http://red-savant.livejournal.com/3070.html could really only be to her]].

** LovableLibby (with some time)
* MagicSkirt (sits between the campus' two vending machines in a manner that would normally [[PantyShot shows her panties]])

* MemeticMutation (Ami is a bro.)
* MsFanservice (She usually fills the role aside from [[HotMom Ryuji's mom]])
* PetTheDog (One of these moments was cheering up a depressed Yuri.)

'''Yasuko Takasu'''

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother (She was about 16 or 17 when she had Ryuuji)

* BottleFairy

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold (Not really a hooker per se, but she acts to the trope pretty well)
* HotMom (So So Much)
* LadyDrunk ([[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with her job.)

* NotAMorningPerson (Again, [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to her job)

* SingleMomStripper (again, not exactly a stripper, but close enough)

'''Yuri Koigakubo'''

* SternTeacher (sometimes)

'''Sumire Kanou'''

* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking ([[spoiler: Just watch her fight with Taiga!]])

* StudentCouncilPresident (Yusaku's predecessor)

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* PetTheDog

Yuri is the twenty-nine-year-old homeroom teacher of Ryuuji's class.She likes to do things at her own pace and is timid towards Taiga's way of speaking out. Since her twenties are almost over, Yuri is in a hurry to get married soon and she even tries to dress well so as to be able to get into a relationship quicker. After she becomes thirty without getting married, she develops a twisted and depressed personality, which does not help that when Taiga talks about her, she emphases her single status.

* {{Pettanko}} (And HOW!)

* ChaoticGood

* {{Meganekko}} (A male version)

* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* TallDarkAndSnarky