Fruits Basket 14
Posted: January 1, 2007 Filed under: Fruits Basket 2 Comments »Oh man. Of course this volume starts off with Rin, who’s a major downer. We have to listen to Rin’s story for most of the first half of the volume, and of course it’s depressing. Of course her parents abandoned her when she got sick. Of course she’s not as mean as she makes everyone think she is. Ugh.
Also, the quiet student council member threw a bit of a fit. I really hated to see her and the vice president get a lot of time in this volume, because I don’t think this series really needs more characters for us to remember. But maybe something good will happen… I do kind of like the vice president, despite my extreme annoyance with him early on.
Ugh again for the school play. I know every high school manga over ten volumes has to include this at some point, though. It’s like the hot springs episode in every single goddamn anime.
Hats off to some romantic development. FINALLY. I guess I just needed to complain some. Granted, we don’t get a lot of it, but we finally get Tohru questioning how she acts around Kyo. Why she can’t say certain things around him and why she blushes sometimes may have nothing to do with romance here, but I sure hope it does. We also seem to be getting a lot more focus on Yuki recently (Kyo hasn’t been a major player for the past couple volumes), and he’s been acting fondly towards Tohru too. Not any more than usual, mind you, but with less Kyo, it seems like perhaps Yuki may be coming to terms with… perhaps romance. I don’t know. I vote Yuki, personally.
lol I remember that back when I was buying manga rin gets really annoying partly cos shes going out with haru (weeps) and partly as shes a bit of a slag lol. I won’t say any thing about yuki though but the vice president gets better as time goes by less annoying more friendly.
Yeah, you were right about the vice president. I wound up liking him a lot after the past couple volumes. I agree about Rin though, even after she “opened up,” she was still pretty annoying and it didn’t quite make sense to me why she did what she did.