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Toradora – 21 – Thoughts and interpretations.
Uh oh…
This development was bound to have happened. With Taiga realizing she wants Ryuuji by her side, you know she won’t stop. But there’s a difference in this love: It’s real. It’s not the love where she’s giving the eye to him or the love which she’s trying to take countless pictures of. It was realized after 19. It really was a big, pivotal episode. For instance, I realized something: Every girl in this show who liked Ryuuji were pushing him away to another girl who liked him. And each of them were denying their love to him. But, who actually denied his love yet stayed by his side? Meaning, who loved him and was staying in the position to keep on loving him? Taiga did 1.
I also realized something else: What did Ami really mean by ’stop being daddy’? Its meaning isn’t so obvious anymore. It doesn’t mean that Takasu looks at Taiga as a father like what Omi thought or Takasu thinking he’s the father. No, far from it in my opinion. She was, to me, hinting that Ryuuji shouldn’t be with Taiga. What do people call it when a father and daughter love one another – love as in they don’t want to separate from one another and/or like girlfriend/boyfriend? People mostly call that immoral 2. What I’m saying is that Ami is calling Ryuuji’s relationship with Taiga immoral and that it shouldn’t happen. If we recall back to the episode which Ami said this (episode 18), she also said to him to like her. If you place it together, she’s saying stop liking Taiga and like her instead.
I’ve recently read and finished “The Catcher in the Rye”. One main theme in this fictional story is “Loss of Innocence”. How is innocence represented? By snow. By whiteness. These people are SURROUNDED by snow and by the time the second Opening occurred, Taiga had a weird angel-fetish of wearing WHITE and being an Angel as well. Why is there so much whiteness? Purity. What does that mean? Taiga is just a normal, pure and innocent girl. Can it mean that Ryuuji and Taiga’s love is pure? Well, you can definitely interpret it that way. The snow… the snow I can’t find much interpretations in it. When Ami was trying to mold a snowman or something, it could have represented that she wanted to mold a pure love with Ryuuji. As Minori crashed into that, is that possible anymore? I don’t think so.
When Minori lost the hairpin that belonged to Ryuuji 3, it was just a slap in the face and told me that the love between Minori and Ryuuji is never happening. EVER. To me, it meant that she just lost his love. When Taiga went to go and find it, it was like saying that Taiga was going to look for Ryuuji’s love and take it. Was she able to find it? I believe so. Was she able to catch it? I don’t think so. But Ryuuji when Ryuuji was going down the slope – he saw his hairpin again. He was able to obtain his love again – which was Taiga.
Maybe I’m thinking too much in this, maybe I’m not. All I can say is that lots of interpretations can be made of this episode and this is mine. Besides that, I’m not going to make another post on Toradora UNLESS the next few episodes wows me 4
Annotations
1. Ryuuji not wanting to leave Taiga’s side can also be a connotation of him wanting to stay by her side forever and, because of this, love her. [↩]
2. It's worse than SINcest, goddamnit. [↩]
3. The same hairpin which Ryuuji placed his heart in finding for the girl he loved. [↩]
4. With that said, I'm still going to blog my "end thoughts" of Toradora because it's just that needed [↩]
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Maybe you’re getting too deep into this and it probably didn’t have a meaning. lol
Maybe it does but, just enjoy the episode man. I wonder if Taiga even found the hair pin.
Moreover, would Takasu accept Taiga? Does he actually like Taiga?
Indeed, the hairpin incident was a slap in the face. I’m not so sure about Ryuuji/Minori love not ever happening, at least that’s not what I interpreted the scene to be. The fact that the hairpin got to Minori tells me that there’s a chance, even by a little bit. Then again, it’s hard to consider that now that Ryuuji got to hear Taiga’s confession.
So, you likely aren’t going to blog the series anymore (save for final thoughts) because you don’t like where the series is going? Or what?
@Halem: It’s all semantics, I guess. I do enjoy the episode, but things like this hypes me.
I actually think Takasu will accept Taiga. Throughout the whole episode he accepted everything about her. What’s stopping her now?
@7: I actually look at it a bit differently. Taiga actually had the hairpin in the beginning; she had the love in the beginning. She just “gave” it to Minori; she tried to give the love to Minori. As it flew away from her, that love also went with it. Soo yea… I really doubt that there will be a Minori x Ryuuji ending anymore. I wish there was, though.
@AstroNerdBoy: It’s not that I don’t like it it’s more like I don’t have time to blog 3x shows unless it’s already finished and I have a lot of time. If someone else were to join my team and finish blogging where I left out, I wouldn’t mind that either. I would love to continue blogging it, but as you might have noticed… there’s like a 7 episode gap now. I really can’t muster enough time to do that much blogging. Heck, I’m still one episode behind Kurokami and Maria+Holic. Will have to fill that in some time this coming week…
Regardless, schneizeleffort is schneizeleffort.
You are right about the three girls who like Ryuji pushing him towards someone else. All three of them are putting on facades to hide their true feelings and it took a blow to the head for Taiga to reveal her true feelings to Ryuji. Maybe similar trauma are needed for Minori and Ami to come clean (their brawl didn’t quite work, but fighting worked on Sumire lol).
As for Minori and Ryuji, Ryuji was already starting to give up on Ryuji after their little talk after dinner. Losing the hairpin just adds som more symbolism on it I suppose.
On a side note, I remember reading Catcher in the Rye for high school, and I hated that book… couldn’t identify with the protagonist at all, and made worse by the fact that I had to read it for school.