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*BASHES IN THE DOOR* HEY MOTHERFUCKERS GUESS WHAT

It's been a hot minute since this finished, and now I've reread the manga for comparison I'm a bit more clear on my final thoughts for the series. All in all, it's a fantastic adaptation; having author Takaya Natsuki on board as an executive really helped keep it in line, and apart from a few wonk scenes the production was consistently good-looking. I laughed and cried about as many times as I did watching this adaptation as I did reading the manga, so that's a good benchmark! A few more deets below: Positives - Styling One of Ms Takaya's provisos for permission to make this adaptation was "don't make it look like my art too closely, the manga is 20 years old and it makes me cringe"; they followed that perfectly in my opinion, keeping the character designs an 'echo' of her style rather than matching it, but still mirroring all the important and iconic manga panels that people know and love in structure. - Comedy Fruits Basket is full of Feels, yes, but it also has great comedy interludes, which were well handled here. Especially fond of the fact they kept the "outline" chibis from the manga, and really went all-out on things like Ayame's comedy. - Casting This was another proviso of Takaya's, a whole new voice cast, and it went extremely well for me. Pretty much everyone knocked it out of the park, but my faves were the Main Three (Tohru's Iwami Manaka, Yuki's Shimazaki Nobunaga, Kyo's Uchida Yuuma), Sakurai Takahiro as Ayame, Han Megumi as Momiji, Sawashiro Miyuki as Kyoko, and the fucking inspired casting of the "big bads" of the Sohma clan, Orikasa Ai as Ren and Sakamoto Maaya as Akito. Negatives Honestly, there were only two negatives for me: - Minor scene alterations Nothing major was changed, but just here or there were a couple of things; like leaving a comedic tweak out of a more serious scene, which changed the tone of it a bit. - Skipped content/Single Cour "The Final" This is the big one for me. There were a few scenes and parts that were left out, presumably for brevity's sake since The Final was only 13 episodes, and while I'm not devastated, it did give me a little disappointment. Some of these are manga spoilers; the non spoiler version is that some scenes with the Student Council were scrapped and we don't see Kyoko and Katsuya's past. The full version is manga spoilers, thoughts below: SHORT VERSION: This was so good, and I feel blessed™️ to have been able to watch it :')

Episode 3

Episode 2

I'm so happy tbh I never thought I'd see this adaptation and the first ep alone seems amazing, I'm looking forward to continuing this

My body is ready. I don't know that my heart is but MY BODY IS READY ZODIAC-GOD TAKE THE WHEEL

-places sticky fingers all over Anelle to try and absorb FruBa energy to keep my soul alive for the next 8 days-

The TV airing begins in 8 days, but there's limited theatre releases that happened/are happening yesterday/today; dub yesterday and sub today, I think. My envy knows NO BOUNDS

Premise: Staff and cast on ANN Now that we've reached the date that some lucky people get to see the first two episodes in a theatrical release, it's time for a Fruits Basket topic! Mainly pertaining to the new 2019 anime, but feel free to talk about the original anime or the manga too. Just make sure to use labelled spoiler hides for anyone who's coming in new to the franchise! I'm absolutely stoked for this reboot. I never thought I'd see it, and that Furuba would be one series the nostalgia renaissance would pass by, but THIS APRIL WE ARE BLESSED WHO'S READY TO CRY BITCH TEARS