What else I could possibly say without giving away too much of the story, I'm not certain. We meet our two main characters, who are meant to balance and complement one another's appearances and personalities like opposite sides of a coin, and see how their paths end up crossing and what results. But Toradora! reads in a manner that is at once fun and light-hearted, yet also very emotional and genuinely heartfelt. Typically, that sort of manga and anime hasn't been my thing in the past and I wasn't expecting it to necessarily grip me here either. I'm sure it doesn't take much to figure out this falls in that category of media from Japan that sits somewhere solidly between teen school rom-com and slice-of-life angst, with its own sort of set dressing. Heck, I wasn't even expecting to watch the anime, but two chapters into this, and I knew I was going to have to watch it alongside reading this (and hopefully, the rest of the novels in this series) to get some better sense of footing. I'm sure it doesn't take much to figure out this falls in that category of media from Japan that sits somewhere solidly between teen school rom-com and slice-o Let's get something straight: I was not expecting to fall so deeply in love with this light novel at all. It was after school in one single Friday, the location was a typical fast food store.Īt this moment, no one had noticed that these six members of a certain student council were, under the gazes of everyone there, discussing the plans for organizing a certain routine event.Let's get something straight: I was not expecting to fall so deeply in love with this light novel at all. "AH-! Stop smearing my glasses with your oily fingers!"
"No! I"m not giving those over, dipping chips into ketchup all the time is doing these chips a huge injustice! Here, senpai! Catch!" "I"m only 18, of course I"m a kid! Gimme those!"
And just how old are you? Dipping all those chips in the ketchup. "But president, you"ve eaten all the fried nuggets, too. "You must use all resources that are available to you, even if it means ruthlessly exploiting your own parents! Hey! How dare you sit there and have all the chips by yourself!?" This year"s school festival will be exceedingly spectacular, no, we"ll see to it that it"ll be exceedingly spectacular! Now that I"ve said it, I"ll let everyone see what I"m made of! All of you are on this ship now!" "That speech of yours a while ago sure was rousing: "The student council is made to inherit such a lifeless heritage every year! Rather than letting it rot by itself, we should conceive greatness!" - It was something like this right? Even the third-years were moved to tears, everyone was applauding." After all, this is the last I"ll be organizing a major school event." Even if it"s only for one day, we"ll do everything we can to hype it up and make it as exciting as possible. "That can"t be helped, can it? If that"s what the school"s decided, then we"ll just have to figure out something. Even though we"re a public school, this is ridiculous." I"ve heard that the atmosphere in the school festival wasn"t really great every year, it"s probably something to do with the festival being held for only one day. "But no other school holds their school festival for one day only. If everything goes as planned, then it"ll be worth not holding the festival for two days."
This is a legitimate deal made with the staff, and it actually works in our favour! Since we would have double the usual budget, as well as getting rid of all sorts of silly restrictions. "This isn"t exactly a decision they forced through unilaterally. So the school has forcefully decided to hold the school festival for only one day again this year? Not even the president can do anything."