Toradora: Yasuko Takasu

Yasuko is the mother of Ryuuji.  She can be a bit air-headed and childish, relying on her son to do the cooking and cleaning.  Although the second part is because she works nights at a hostess bar as well as other jobs.  She took a quick liking to Taiga, treating her as a member of the family and getting depressed on days she didn't show up.  Yasuko originally told Ryuuji that his father had died when in reality he left her after she became pregnant.  Her pregnancy also caused her to drop out of high school; and have a falling out with her parents who wanted her to get an abortion and not throw her life away.  This led her to be extra determined to provide a good life for her son all the way to wanting to pay for his college education without any help.  While normally very insightful, she never noticed that seeing his mother overworked and exhausted all the time and not allowing him to help, was leading him down the path of not going to college just to stop her suffering.