Review of Fruits Basket

This is my first review. Sorry if it is not helpful. Fruits basket was one of the first Animes I ever watched and to be honest it is still my favorite. The story is centered around Tohru, a high school girl whose mother recently died in a car accident. We come across her while she is living in a tent due to certain circumstances. While on her way to school, she stumbles upon the house of her classmate Yuki Sohma. When Yuki finds out that she is living in a tent, he and his cousin Shigure invite her to live with them. After she moves in, anotherrelative Kyo moves in as well. But the Sohma's are not all they appear to be, when Tohru accidently hugs them, they turn into animals from the Zodiac. Throughout the story she meets more members of the Zodiac and gets to know and love them all. Lots of other things happen, good things, bad things, but I dont want to spoil anything.

The characters in this anime are all very complex, they all have their own back story and turmoils. It makes them all rather relatable. During the course of this anime you get to know them all very well. Another thing I liked was that not one of the characters were alike, every one had different personality traits, different looks, and differerent tastes. It made the whole anime more diverse and allowed for even more character developement.

Yet another Awesome point of this anime was the fact that there was never a clearly defined romance between the characters, it left things up to interpretation which was nice, because I know the thing that makes me angry with harem and reverse harem anime is when the lead doesn't end up with the person I think they should be with. So it's refreshing when an anime can have a high level of romance without making people angry.

Basically the Anime if full of laughs and heartache. It makes you happy but it also makes you cry at times. Overall its very origional and the best anime I have seen so far. If you haven't watched it, then I suggest you do. Hope this was helpful