Review of Fruits Basket

We have gathered today to mourn the passing of Fruits Basket. Many of you will cry in despair cause you'll have to search and find another equally disgusting anime to soothe your burdened heart or you'll cheer it's journey to oblivion and crack open a champagne.. I take it you've gathered in which camp i'm in, but if your brain has flatlined and you cannot comprehend ratings then here are the headlines. And let's start with the story which is part what it says in the synopsis and part emotional manipulation to cover up for the fact that it's devoid of any actual substance and soul...Andhere comes the most ridiculous story i have come across in some time..But then again my brain-despite the abuse-still works just fine.

Honda Tohru is our main vict...What's wrong with me lately, i meant character..Who after her mother's death has been living in a tent cause she didn't want to be a burden to anyone...Now as to why she didn't off herself that's still a mystery and i do believe that the only solution at times like these is to hang yourself.. BUT one day, her hot as fuck classmate Souma Yuki comes to learn about her living in the dark slams and invites her to live at his house along with his weird cousins Shigure and Kyou...Now i'm not a teenager, let alone a girl, cause i have 2 things hanging and causing me terrifying pain when they hit each other, but i would assume that if a semi-stranger invited me to live in his house with other 2 men then i'd really have something to think about..It's a terrible world we live in you know.

But our resident idiot accepted the hottie's offer and she soon found out that the Souma family is anything but ordinary. In fact she learned that certain members of the family are transexuals and no that's not it,wait a minute.. WINDOWS ARE NOW LOADING.........

Ok what i'm about to write is even more preposterous than the trans thingy i was imagining..They turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac when hugged by someone of the opposite sex...And as if that wasn't enough our lab rat decided that she's Dr. Phil and that she would fix them with heavenly love.

Now...I've been in situations where one could say i was in love or something like that cause as i've said time and time again i'm dead inside and incapable of human emotions..And i can safely say that the last chick to perform psychoanalysis to me is now a permanent member of the deep sea club and rightly so. I mean who wants to be fixed anyways? I like ol' broken me cause my faults-which are many i admit-are what makes me ME...So fuck off little bitch i like my emotions like my Jack Daniel's...Bottled.

Back to the anime itself the whole 26 eps marathon is the exact same formula:“Tohru meets a new member of the Souma family–wonders if he/she is a member of the Zodiac–inevitably causes said person to transform–learns about the person’s troubled past–says some profound shit-rinse and repeat until your skin dies and falls off.

26 eps that are formulaic and in those 26 eps not all of the family members are introduced and as for the relationships... Well they don't work at all and those that do work to some extent they don't cover much distance in the run of 26 eps.. And in these 26 eps there's not enough time to run through every member of the cast extensively so what we are dealing in the very least are 26 eps that feel and indeed are filler eps so in these 26 eps there's not even a hint of plot advancement...So in case your brainwaves are still a perfect dead line that means that these 26 eps are nothing but an endless intro to the manga which i've been told is way more interesting in terms of storytelling.

That doesn't mean that FB is a total waste of time..Maybe it's 90% waste of time cause in this 10% that's left there are some genuinely good moments of laughter and moments where you can certainly feel that shit is about to get real.

As for the animation..Well as was the trend back in the day the animation is a mix of weird shaped faces, huge eyes and a background taken from the drawings of people with no hands and feet...Or perception of animation..Well as long as it has heartfelt scenes in it animation is deemed an afterthought.

Now i feel i should talk about the relative success this anime had and how it's considered a classic?! And i think it comes down to the fact that people will get suckered in the melodrama aspect of it and wil go blind to everything else that matters and the fact that they're having trouble separating the anime from the manga. On that last front and from what i've been told so far about the manga it sounded interesting and if they didn't make a hass of it in the way they did and followed the manga to the end then i have the feeling i too, would be singing praises..Granted the anime covers 6 or so chapters of the manga but then again who the hell told them not to wait and cover it in its' entirety?

The conclusion is that they wanted to cash in on the emotionally unstable reactions people have when anything has fluff and caramelized tears in it hits the screens and that it's a very very long advert for the manga..26 eps worth of advert..