[ SECRET POST #5014 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5014 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

Would someone mind writing a transcript? I can't read the middle part at all.

[(Anonymous)]

TRANSCRIPT

Although there are definitely pairings I don't really care for and elements I wish had been explored/dealt with more in-depth, I was still pretty much cool with the way the manga resolved everything.

I was reading it at a time when I was both roughly at the same age of the teen characters and struggling with depression/a deeply dysfunctional family myself. A lot of the emotional issues that the characters were dealing with felt very relatable, and seeing that EVERYONE was somehow able to begin healing and reconciling, and find love/family that would care about them and accept them was very therapeutic for me.

I don't honestly care about the not-the-best-idea pairings/not-very-thoroughly-dealt-with elements compared to the way the manga series felt like an emotional lifeline of hope (unrealistic or not) for me. I really hope this new anime gets to finish the story. Maybe it'll even give me the more in-depth outro I'd like.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT. Thank you!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I have a strange relationship with Fruits Basket. I loved it when I was a teenager and for similar reasons (having issues with self-loathing and depression, plus loads of family trouble). I related to it a lot as I was growing up and I was fine with the ending, but that was mainly because my OTP happened. Now it just doesn't resonate with me as much. I reread the manga and, despite remembering how much I'd loved the series and how much it had meant to me, I had simply grown out of it. It felt too melodramatic and I kept seeing things that hadn't bothered me when I was younger (like how everyone ends up loving Tohru, even if they hate her at the beginning, as well as the mess with most of the pairings and some shojo tropes that haven't aged well). I'll always remember it fondly though because it was a series that was there for me when I needed it and I appreciate it for that.

[(Anonymous)]

Good news for the OP. The anime will finish in 2021. Maybe you'll even get your more indepth outro.

[(Anonymous)]

Fruits Basket is such a mixed bag for me. There are really lovable characters and beautifully poignant life lessons. But there were some things I really despised so much it sucked any enjoyment out of it for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I really loved FB when I was a teen, and I'm still very fond of it, but it's not without its flaws.
Shigure and Ayame's... Everything... Still feels a bit bait-y. Tohru's mum marrying her teacher is icky. Quite a few people should have gone to prison for child abuse.
But for the most part, I thought it ended well. People spoke to other people about their feelings, and either got together or didn't, and it was just generally a lot healthier than a whole lot of other things I was reading or watching at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Given Mine, I'm pretty sure Ayame and Mine are bisexual and polyamorous. I'm not sure you can read them as any other way...

[(Anonymous)]

It's been a while since I read the manga and the anime's been a mixed bag of really loving stuff and being reminded what doesn't hold up. Some of the humor definitely feels dated or annoying (the student council in particular I swing wildly between enjoying and finding so incredibly irritating). The gender stuff with Ritsu is still cringe and I don't expect S3 to fix that or the disappointing heterosexuality of everyone. I would root for Kureno and Uo more if Kureno wasn't a grown adult while she's a high schooler. I still think Akito gets off a little too easily considering everything. There's a lot of heart in the series and it still resonates really well, but there are definitely parts that feel tone deaf to me now more than when I first read it.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'd argue Akito doesn't get off lightly considering hers is a story of realizing she doesn't have to continue her mother's toxicity and hatred and instead she just... Lets all of that go and decides to leave it behind and live the life she wants, including leaving behind the box she was told housed her father's spirit. She already lived the bad part, and now has to learn to function as an adult woman--her idea of normal was so completely broken that what happened was... How she thought things worked.

[(Anonymous)]

Keeping in mind it’s been a long while since I’ve read it and my mind may change after watching S3, even with all Akito’s trauma I just felt like some of the things she did couldn’t be washed away so easily ( she literally almost killed Rin, for example) so a bit ‘cool motive, still murder’ for me.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a sequel to Fruits Basket, where this is addressed. Akito didn't actually get away with it, everyone except Shigure and Tohru distanced themselves from her, and her son is bullied and was almost murdered by people, who still keep a grudge against her.