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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:13:25 GMT -5
CHARACTERS ::Tohru HondaTohru – naïve, sweet and kind. A little bit clumsy and dense sometime, but always says the right thing and a lovely human being all around.
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:14:28 GMT -5
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:15:55 GMT -5
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:17:13 GMT -5
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:18:23 GMT -5
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:19:14 GMT -5
Akito Sohma .::UNKNOWN::.
{{NO IMAGE FOR AKITO ::}}
Akito – he is portrayed as the evil guy, and until the end, I am still not sure what animal of the Zodiac he is, or if he is an animal at all. He controls the Souma family, and everyone follows what he says.
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:20:24 GMT -5
Kyoko Honda
{{NO IMAGE FOR KYOKO ::}}
Kyoko – she is Tohru’s mother, and through Tohru, we learn that she is a kind and strong woman who raised a child by herself and did a wonderful job of it.
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:21:19 GMT -5
Uo and Hana
{{NO IMAGES FOR UO AND HANA ::}}
Uo and Hana – they are Tohru’s close friends and defend her from the Yuki’s fan club at school
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:21:51 GMT -5
{{ALL OF THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE AN IMAGE UP, I WILL BE GETTING ONE UP SHORTLY FOR THEM}}
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:22:37 GMT -5
REVIEW
Review: At first meeting Tohru, she is annoyingly cute and so nice that you want to grate your teeth, but as the series progressed, you realized Tohru is nice because she is honestly that way, and she is the only good thing that is happening to these Souma characters for a very long time.
The Souma family is rich and reclusive, so what goes on behind the high walls are kept hush-hush even though the hints are given that they are not very nice things at all. More Soumas keep showing up, and at first look, they are all beautiful creatures with amazing talents, but almost all of them boast a sad past that kept me crying constantly.
The wonderful thing about this series is its characters, they are vivid and real. Yuki might be handsome and a Prince in everyone’s eyes, but to Tohru, he is just a little boy still trying to get someone to love him unconditionally. He once said, “I keep being nice to people so they’ll like me. It’s like giving people candies.” It’s sad and it reveals his vulnerability, making him real. Tohru is wonderful and nice, but she is naïve and at times stupid. Yet she opens her arm and accepts everyone, no matter that they are a cross-dresser or self-destructive and dangerous. This is the girl that everyone should have as a childhood friend or at least meet once in their life. It is easy to understand why both Yuki and Kyou care so much for her, and in return, she makes their lives worthy and bright.
The series is very shoujo in nature, and has little actions. It develops slowly and introduces new character at each episode. There is a sense of peace at the beginning, and humour when you first meet a character, especially Ayame because he’s so out there, and Yuki is so embarrassed at him, but the underlying current is that Ayame is sorry for abandoning Yuki when he was young, and from that point on, Yuki has never reached out for him again. So at the end of each episode, you get to know the new character really well and identify with them some way or another.
"Fruits Basket" is not overwhelmed with love triangles, and even the central love story is not really admitted out loud at all, you just know that Yuki and Kyou care for Tohru very much, and Tohru returns both their affections. The most touching love is Hatori and the woman he was going to marry, only that she discovers his real identity. Normally the girl would be running away or accept him fully, but not here. "Fruits Basket" showed a woman wanting to accept her lover for all that he is, but she is just mentally incapable of it, and the sacrifice Hatori was willing to make just make me cry buckets. He asked Tohru, “What do you get when the snow melts?” Tohru said, “Spring.” And this shows the fundamental characters that they are. Tohru is willing to believe and Hatori has given up on hope.
Fruits Basket is essentially about relationships, about love and our willingness to accept people. Most of the characters are damaged in some ways, and they don’t expect to be whole again. Even at the end, the characters are not wholly happy, and there is no happily ever for them, but you know that they are better and getting there. Although I really want to see a second season so more questions are answered, especially about Akito. He is evil, but he is sad because of his slot in life. He was dealt a crappy card, and instead of taking it like it is, he decided to make others’ lives miserable too, and I wonder if Tohru can save him.
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:23:58 GMT -5
Quick Synopsis:
Tohru Honda is high school student who is now homeless because her mother had died a year ago, and the only place she can stay at is now undergoing construction. She is living in a tent in the woods and when walking home, she saw a house and ran into Yuki Souma, who is crowned the Prince at school because he is absurdly handsome and very nice to boot, and his older cousin Shigure there. They talked, and later, Tohru’s tent is destroyed through a landslide, and she faints due to a flu. So Yuki asks her to stay with him and his cousin, Tohru reluctantly agrees and this begins the series.
At the beginning of time, when God is deciding the calendar, he told the animals to show up for a meeting that will decide their order in the Zodiac years. Deceitful that he is, the mouse told the cat the wrong day, and then rode to the meeting on the head of the ox, and ended up being the first animal in the Zodiac, the only one got left out is the cat.
The Souma is cursed by this wrong, so for every generation, members of the Souma family will be borned to represent an animal of the Zodiac, and they will turn into that animal if hugged by the opposite sex. So imagine the fun Tohru has.
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:25:33 GMT -5
{{manga}} INTRODUCTION :: The enigmatic Sohma family shares a great secret, its members are possessed by spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and when they are hugged by members of the opposite sex, they transform into their Zodiac animal! Tohru Honda, an orphaned high school freshman, is given lodging in the Sohma household in exchange for taking care of household chores. The humble Tohru is quite grateful for the Sohma family's generosity, and the longer she stays with them, the more they realize what a blessing she is in their lives, as well. Fruits Basket, the manga, is the basis for the smash-hit runaway anime show of the same name. It is most eagerly-awaited manga series - as voted on by thousands of fans visiting the TOKYOPOP website - in many, many years.
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:28:55 GMT -5
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:32:52 GMT -5
Images from the t.v. show :: . Hatsuharu Sohma .:: OX::. {{need to get up a desc for him}} ::
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Post by Chronojack on Oct 9, 2004 10:38:52 GMT -5
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