Spurned on by the enthusiastic endorsement by Jeff Lawson, I gave a quick look to Toradora.

But before we go any further: I hate when they dispose of noses.

With that out of the way, it looks like a competent series.

Unfortunately, I feel like I'm getting jaded and disinterested, looking for excuses to drop rather than continue. The noses, the relationship between the leads, parential abandonment: all seems annoying and irritating. Taiga is not even a tsundere, but a brat. Maybe I watched too much anime recently.

QUICK UPDATE: I completely forgot to mention that Evirus concluded: "[Taiga's] constant need to have Ryuuji take care of her is tiresome." You said it, bro. And it was already getting on my nerves within one episode.