Perhaps the snow is a present from the heavens. 'Perhaps I could add another sentence: Wouldn't that make this a white Valentine's Day?'īut Minori didn't move, as she stared at the snowflakes falling from the sky, framing the scenery with the thumbs and index fingers of both her hands and looking through the rectangular frame. To tell them, Have you noticed that it's snowing? It's really beautiful. Even though she had seen enough snow to last her a lifetime during the school trip, but it was another thing altogether when it snowed in her own town. Minori momentarily forgot about the cold as she stuck her head out. Looking down from the fourth storey, Minori saw that it had started snowing, the street looking as though it was covered by countless white feathers dancing in the wind. Minori opened the cold metal door of her home to the corridor of her apartment block, mildly surprised by the cold air that penetrated deep into her chest. For a moment, she thought that those were raindrops. 'Hello?' Her mother's excited voice sounded in the hallway.Īs Minori prepared to bring the shopping bags to the kitchen, she noticed that there were shiny beads on her mother's coat. Minori handed over the phone, and merely said 'Midori-', which was enough to tell her mother that it was her brother, who stayed in a boarding school. The unlocking of the door was heard in the hallway, as Minori's mother, had returned home, carrying a shopping bag in one hand. 'If you dare to come home, I'll kill.Ah, I think mother's back?' Hearing the shouting from the other side of the line, 'How dare you!' Minori used her frozen hand to tug even harder on the cord of her hooded t-shirt, binding it even tighter around her head.

'How would I have known that, you ugly girl!' She wasn't wearing socks as she had been sitting at the kotatsu, which is why Minori was freezing as she stood barefooted in the hallway, her breath coming out in white clouds of mist. 'It's really cold over here! You idiot! Are you looking for trouble, I had to go out into the hallway to pick up your phone!' 'She didn't pick up!' Hearing her brother's unhappy reply, Minori was extremely unhappy as well, as she spoke to the person that she couldn't see through the phone. 'Anyway, why didn't you call mother's cellphone in the first place if you really have something urgent to tell her?' 'Tell me this isn't true, Bernie!' Last time, she would have found the urgent-sounding voice on the other end of the line funny, but now. Minori tugged on the cord of her hooded t-shirt, pulling her hood tightly around her head, as the other person retorted, 'Bernie!' This was how Minori and her brother had communicated since a long time ago. The person on the other end of the line clicked his tongue unhappily. Mother isn't.Huh? Help you tell her? And how is that any of my business? Please tell her yourself.' Unknown to them, however, people they know from school start to become curious about their strange relationship together and rumors begin to spread about them.'Ah? It's you. The two also attempt to help each other in order to improve how people view them. Since Ryuji spends a lot of time with Taiga, he is opened up to her world and to a side of her that most people do not see. Taiga spends a lot of her time over at his house, so much so that she could almost be considered a member of his family. Ryuji says he will do anything to get closer to Minori, which Taiga exploits, making Ryuji her personal servant, and getting him to do household chores like cooking and cleaning for her. After Ryuji discovers that Taiga has a crush on Yusaku, and Taiga finds out about Ryuji’s affections towards Minori, Ryuji suggests that they cooperate so they can win the object of their affections. Taiga comes from a rich family, though she moved out to live on her own due to family issues, and by coincidence is now living in an apartment next door to Ryuji. After meeting Ryuji, she takes an instant dislike of him. Taiga has a negative attitude towards others and will not hesitate to snap at people.

However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into “the school’s most dangerous animal of the highest risk level” - Taiga Aisaka - who just happens to also be in his class, and is a good friend of Minori. After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryuji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class as his best friend Yusaku Kitamura and crush Minori Kushieda. Despite his gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. Toradora!’s story begins with the male protagonist Ryuji Takasu who is frustrated at trying to look his best as he enters his second year of high school.

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