Fruits Basket 16
May 13, 2007
I was kind of surprised at this volume… I thought we’d get to hear about Akito, but instead we get insight into Tohru’s parents relationship through a flashback of Kyo’s. How bizarre.
Tohru’s mom was certainly much more self-destructive than I would have thought. It’s actually kind of hard to believe… the Tohru and her mom are absolute polar opposites, and Tohru got almost no personality traits from her mom, who seemed to be rather outgoing and joking even as a refined adult. The death of Tohru’s father was sad, as Takaya said, even though you know it’s coming. Her dad’s kind of an eccentric character too. It’s a shame he didn’t get to stick around longer.
I want there to be romance in this series SO BAD at this point. Don’t just talk about it Kyo, DO IT. Hm, that could be construed as a spoiler, but it’s not like we didn’t know that Yuki and Kyo were going to develop, or had all along, feelings for Tohru. They’re beginning to talk about it a bit more, but they still haven’t acted on them yet.
We get some main house action at the end, with a savage beating administered to Yuki from Akito. Yuki seems ambivalent though. The important thing about that scene was that earlier, Aaya was in it, and really, that’s all I care about.
I still feel like this series needs to totally blow me away like it should, though. I think it’s just that I’m not invested enough in the ten thousand characters that we’re supposed to care about. Oh well. There are better things to do with my time than ponder why I don’t like Fruits Basket.
July 28, 2007 at 5:55 am
Hahaha…Just wait until the 17th volume. It will make you absolutely speechless.
Especially because you fscking love Akito. >_>
July 30, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Unfortunately, I got spoiled about thirty seconds after that stuff appeared in the Japanese magazine run by people who had it posted all over their blogs. I didn’t even read the series at the time, and I still knew the big secret. I am looking forward to reading it in context though, and I thought it would appear around volume 15 or something, so I’ve been waiting.
October 20, 2007 at 3:37 am
So far so good. I’ll continue reading Fruits Basket.=D