Fruits Basket
by V.E. on February 3rd, 2010
filed under anime/manga, recap/review
Right, so, I just finished watching Fruits Basket (wiki). It’s not, by any means (except perhaps geological) a new series, but the previous few times I tried to watch it, I just couldn’t get past the first two or three episodes.
I saw an AMV by Good Luck Studios called “What Lies Beneath” that had Kyo as one of the characters… but it showed a part of Fruits Basket I hadn’t seen, and I was intrigued. (Side note: if anyone wants to see the AMV, just let me know. I have it on my computer.) I wanted to know if what I’d seen in the AMV was just a mash up, or if it was actually in the series.
Well, it’s in the series, but I had to wait until the final three episodes to find out. For a 26-episode series, they sure left a lot to be desired in terms of timing the mystique and drama. That is, there’s almost no serious drama until the last three episodes, in which a new character is introduced and everything suddenly falls apart at the seams. Here I am thinking that the story is between Yuki and Tohru, and then suddenly everything is turned on it’s head and the story is about Kyo’s deep dark secret. Not that I mind deep dark secrets—I quite enjoy them, actually, when they’re not mine—but switching shit around in the last three episodes when there was very little, if any, lead up to the drama?? No thanks. Reminds me of how Twilight was written. That is, poorly. ‘A’ for effort, I guess, right?
That being said, it was a decent series. I think reading the manga might help, though, because I didn’t get a good feel for some of the Juunishi. It was a difficult task to take on a 26-episode series and introduce all 12 cursed Sohma family members and advance the plot in any decent way, so I’ve gotta give ‘em credit where credit is due.
Favorite line:
“When the snow melts, what does it become?”
Tohru answers, “Spring.”
