Well sure, obviously everything that was used and shown in the anime was as intended by the creator. I’m not discrediting the originality of Toradora, however I just don’t like the ending because it could have been so much better in my opinion. Like… Minorin… ahaha ^^; nono I mean… *cough*

It might have been realistic, something about realizing one’s own recklessness, mistakes of youth, etc. I totally agree, it’s good, but in the end, I believe that such a moral lesson should have been used earlier and a lot more efficiently, like in some context of suspense for example (which the transition from ep 24 to 25 clearly lacked because nothing was at stake anymore, unless you cared about what happened to Yacchan). Neither was this episode a tear-jerker like ep 16. All in all, I found it an uneventful and boring ending. But as I said in my earlier comment, I’m not that dissatisfied of the series as a whole – I would also give it a 9 out of 9. Or perhaps just a 8.9. Or 8.8.

(At least 5 people were wondering wtf I was doing here, writing up tl;dr stuff on a colorful website… “oh, you’re that anime/manga freak!” they go after I explain it to them. Argh, blogging at a LAN can be tiring.)
(Besides, WTF I’m not posting from the UK D:!)

Khm.
So, I think for the first time I’ve to disagree with you. I think the ending was the best it could be. Of course there was the parents part and the running away, but after reflecting on my past two years when I reinvented myself and tried to act more mature, actually I found everything pretty realistic. Of course ToraDora is still the clichéd romcom like it was in the beginning and always, but from the beginning to the end it was written so good, that it almost looked realistic. It wasn’t, but it was at least. <- That sentence just don’t make any sense. Whatever.

So, what is ToraDora in my opinion? A Good show, from the start to the end. It’s like a general romcom, however it’s like it was written by a Troper. Or somebody who knows about Tropes. He used some of it, and he knew that he was using clichés. Everything was planned. It was written this way because he wanted this. ToraDora was meant to be different, yet not different at all. I give it a 9 out of 9. (Why not 10? Because that’s only reserved for Aria alone.)

Wow. I haven’t wrote so much like this since I’ve watched the last episodes of Aria for the first time.

@RyanA: I definitely agree with you, and I suppose I almost had written exactly the same commentary down, but nowadays it’s all about exaggerating opinions or being boring! :D

@Sarah: I agree, it’s missing a few things. However they didn’t forget Inko (unlike me lol)! That old retarded bird said his name indeed! Epic. Probably one of the highlights of this episode!

@TJ: I hate happy endings that don’t suit my preferences. Just like every retard who whined about True Tears and Noe losing to Hiromi. (I was overjoyed! Though I’d have preferred Aiko nevertheless…).

@Kurogane: I exaggerated widely indeed (some blogs apparently don’t need to troll and vituperate to be interesting and popular) but I didn’t mean to scathe Toradora as a whole, as I pointed out in this post. However, the point is, and I still maintain my position: the last two episodes were decent, but disappointingly rubbish.
Too bad you disagree, I’ll be the only curmudgeon here now. :(

I know they filled in the list of things to do but I feel as if it’s misssing something, or they forgot something.

Inko said his name. :3

I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels the last episodes of Toradora were lacking.

Minorin’s a b**** for not apologising. Obviously, Ryuuji had a higher understanding of Taiga at that stage.

Minami-Ke is good :P