Fruits Basket 12
February 11, 2006
I took so long to read this because I kept hearing it was a really boring followup to the last volume that was very student-council oriented. If this series has a flaw, it’s thinking that people would rather hear about the student council than the Sohma family. With so many characters involved with the family, it’s actually poor to introduce a bunch more who don’t get much screen time and whose names I will never remember.
The back of the volume didn’t even talk about some of the spicier bits in the volume that made me like it. There’s a rather touching scene between Tohru and Shishou, another good scene with Rin, but the clincher was really the moment between Kyo and Kagura. Many questions still remain about the series and about the Sohma family, and it’s still getting around to answering some of them, but it finally cleared the air about the relationship between those two, and I quite liked it… though it was a bit dramatic.
Another thing that constantly bothers me about the series is how everyone keeps mentioning what a bad guy Shigure is. He’s actually one of my favorite characters, and when it shows him talking cryptically, I always assume he’s working on behalf of Tohru/Yuki/Kyo et al and against Akito. Much is said to the contrary here. Please don’t let Shigure be a bad guy.
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