Don’t worry, she won’t bite. But a hard jab in the solar plexus can’t be ruled out entirely . . .

From Wolf Hurricane, our very best wishes to all in the new year.

I went into Toradora not expecting much; a typical slice-of-life school piece with a balanced load of drama and comedy with all the typical things that happen in school slice-of-lifes like sports days, culture festivals, school trips and plenty of love triangle misunderstandings focusing around a “delinquent” protagonist. In other words, I was expecting Toradora to be kind of like School Rumble.

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Episode 10:
Yusaku overhears Ryuji and Taiga’s plan to scare Minori and agrees to help them. Yusaku leads the group into a local cave rigged with ’scary’ traps. While briefly separated from the group, Ami does a psuedo confession to Ryuji and says that she would be best suited to him as an equal compared to Taiga and Minori.

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Ryuji and Taiga both have a horrific dream wherein they are married with um, puppy kids. Taiga then loses a wager with Ryuji and takes the support role to help Ryuji hook up with Minori on the summer trip. Well aware that Minori doesn’t like scary things, Taiga devises a plan to scare her and have Ryuji come to her rescue.

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Following up from the previous episode, Minori chooses a swimming competition between Taiga and Ami and the two rivals place their wagers. If Taiga wins she will share her incriminating video of Ami with everyone in the class. If Ami wins then she gets to take Ryuji to her summer villa.

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Shocked and surprised to see Ryuji and Ami together, Taiga tries to dismiss the matter but it still seems to weigh on her mind through the evening. Though she seems to realize that Ryuji is not at fault, he is still at the receiving end of her scathing, tsuntsun attitude.

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Ami has integrated herself into the classroom but continues to put on her fake personality around everyone, even in the face of some bizarre harassment courtesy of Minori and Taiga. Ami later asks to stay at Ryuji’s house to hide from a stalker but ends up staying with Taiga for the night instead.

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Ryuji and Taiga dine at the family restaurant and unexpectedly introduced to the famous model, Ami Kawashima, by their common friend Yusaku. Ami puts on the pretense of being a nice girl while voraciously flirting with Ryuji in an attempt to make Taiga jealous.

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During the daily routine of going to Taiga’s apartment for the morning chores, Ryuji notices a peculiar box sticking out of the closet. He inspects it and finds an album full of poorly shot photos of Yusaku. Realizing that Taiga wants some photos of Yusaku, Ryuji volunteers to take some candid pictures for her.

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Ryuji and Taiga go eat dinner at a family restaurant, and to Ryuji’s surprise they are waited on by Minori, who is more than willing to reveal that she works several other part time jobs as well. Ryuji later asks Taiga why Minori needs so much extra money, but Taiga tells him there’s no particular reason.

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