7.3/10405 votes#1 - Tiger and Dragon
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2008
On the first day of school, Ryūji discovers that he and Taiga, the meanest girl in class, share a secret: each loves the other's best friend.
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Writer: Mari Okada
7.8/10355 votes#2 - Taiga and Ryuji
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/2008
Taiga's efforts to get closer to Yūsaku fail: A scheme in basketball ends with Taiga knocked out, and she drops a plate of cookies out a window.
Director: Kenichi Kasai
Writer: Mari Okada
7.4/10322 votes#3 - Your Song
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2008
Ryūji and Taiga spend a day helping Minori at one of her many part-time jobs, and Ryūji gets to know her better when they're locked in a storehouse.
Director: Eiichi Kuboyama
Writer: Mari Okada
7.7/10310 votes#4 - That Look You Had
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2008
Taiga has a photo album full of blurry pictures of Kitamura. Ryūji offers to snap some pictures of him instead.
Director: Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer: Mari Okada
7.9/10312 votes#5 - Kawashima Ami
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2008
Yūsaku's childhood friend Ami, a model, transfers to the school and immediately becomes popular with everyone but Taiga, who sees the truth about her.
Director: Katsuya Asano
Writer: Tatsuto Higuchi
8.0/10313 votes#6 - True Self
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2008
Followed by a stalker, Ami hides out with Taiga and decides that she must discard her fake personality from now on.
Director: Shigeru Yamazaki
Writer: Mari Okada
7.7/10302 votes#7 - Pool's Open
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2008
When the school's pool opens for the summer, the gang shops for new swimsuits, and Ryūji helps Taiga with an embarrassing problem.
Director: Sayo Aoi
Writer: Junko Okazaki
8.1/10315 votes#8 - Who Is This For?
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2008
Ryūji tries to help Taiga win a swimming race against Ami, but when Ryūji nearly drowns, the truth about Taiga's feelings comes out.
Director: Tohru Ishida
Writer: Mari Okada, Junko Okazaki
8.1/10305 votes#9 - When You Go To The Sea
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2008
During a trip to Ami's beach villa, Taiga has a nightmare about being married to Ryūji and schemes to bring him and Minori together.
Director: Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer: Tatsuto Higuchi
7.9/10303 votes#10 - Fireworks
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2008
The gang plots an elaborate stunt to scare Minori with a trip to a nearby cave where Yūsaku has planted scary traps, but Yūsaku and Minori disappear.
Director: Kenichi Kasai
Writer: Tatsuto Higuchi
7.8/10295 votes#11 - Ohashi High School Culture Festival 1
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2008
As preparations get under way for the school's cultural festival, Ryūji urges Taiga to consider reconciling with her estranged father.
Director: Toshikazu Hashimoto
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
7.7/10288 votes#12 - Ohashi High School Culture Festival 2
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/2008
Taiga's reconciliation with her father divides her friends, but she ends up disappointed when her father doesn't attend her school play.
Director: Daisuke Takashima
Writer: Mari Okada
8.2/10318 votes#13 - Ohashi High School Culture Festival 3
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/2008
Taiga wins a beauty contest despite a crushing disappointment about her father; a race is held to determine who will dance with Taiga.
Director: Masahito Otani
Writer: Mari Okada
7.8/10289 votes#14 - Palm-top Tiger of Happiness
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/2009
A rumor starts that touching Taiga leads to good luck; Yūsaku gets some interesting news from the student council president.
Director: Toshiaki Miki
Writer: Mari Okada
7.6/10284 votes#15 - Distant Star
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/2009
Yūsaku has a meltdown in class, dyes his hair blond and refuses to run for student council, causing everyone to wonder what's wrong with him.
Director: Tohru Ishida
Writer: Tatsuto Higuchi
8.5/10329 votes#16 - One Step Forward
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/2009
Yūsaku reveals his love for Sumire, a student council president who is leaving to study abroad, so his friends urge him to run for her council seat.
Director: Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer: Tatsuto Higuchi
7.6/10289 votes#17 - Mercury is Retrograde at Christmas
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/2009
With Christmas approaching, the student council plans a party while Taiga decides to curry favor with Santa by playing Cupid for Ryūji and Minori.
Director: Youhei Suzuki
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
7.8/10289 votes#18 - Underneath the Fir Tree
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/2009
The entire class pitches in to assemble an artificial Christmas tree with a glass star, but a stray fly ball destroys the decorations.
Director: Daisuke Takashima
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.8/10399 votes#19 - Christmas Eve Party
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/2009
The love triangle of Ryūji, Minori and Taiga reaches a crisis point when true feelings are realized during the school's Christmas Eve party.
Director: Kenichi Kasai
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
7.8/10280 votes#20 - Stay Like This Forever
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/2009
The class trip to Okinawa is canceled, leading to a last-minute change of plans to a ski trip, where Ryūji resolves to tell Minori how he feels.
Director: Noriaki Saito
Writer: Tatsuto Higuchi
8.8/10375 votes#21 - Can't Help Myself
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/2009
During the ski trip, Ryūji confesses his feelings for Minori, but not to her. When Taiga disappears, everyone frantically searches for her.
Director: Sayo Aoi
Writer: Masahiro Yokotani
8.1/10286 votes#22 - When You're Around
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/2009
Knowing that Taiga believes she was rescued by Yūsaku during the ski trip, Ryūji asks Yūsaku to pretend that she's correct.
Director: Tohru Ishida
Writer: Mari Okada
8.5/10324 votes#23 - Path to Take
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/2009
When Yasuko collapses from anemia due to overwork, Ryūji and Taiga take over her job of selling chocolate and use Ami's celebrity to improve sales.
Director: Youhei Suzuki
Writer: Mari Okada
8.7/10367 votes#24 - Confession
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/2009
The truth about Taiga and Ryūji's feelings for each other finally comes out, and they make a plan to run off together and get married.
Director: Katsushi Sakurabi
Writer: Mari Okada
8.7/10452 votes#25 - Toradora!
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/2009
When Yasuko reconciles with her parents, the truth about Ryūji's father is revealed, inspiring him to have a traditional wedding with Taiga.
Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai
Writer: Mari Okada
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Tiger and Dragon" is the best rated episode of "Toradora!" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 405 votes. Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai and written by Mari Okada, it aired on 10/2/2008. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Taiga and Ryuji".