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Review - Fruits Baskets
Fruits Baskets
Original Name:
Translated Name: Fruits Baskets
Episodes: 26 eps
Vintage: 2001
Style: Drama
Ratings (126 Members rated) List all:
Popular Average:
87.39% Excelent
Critic Average:
85.71%
Characteristics:
Cliché
Subtleness
Continuity
Seriousness
Ecchi/Fan-service
Violence
Emotion
Related studios:
Setting

Honda Tohru is an orphan girl who just lost her mother, and now has to live with her Grandfather. However, one day, his Grandfather needs to make a huge reform at his mansion and ask Tohru to spend some days at her friend?s house. Since Tohru's friends have problems receiving her, she decided to go live at the city's park at a tent. There, she eventually finds Shigure Sohma's home, one of her classmates - Yuuki - cousin, right in the middle of the park. As Shigure and Yuuki find about her life, they insist that she go live with them.

Pacing

There are a lot of comedy, romance, and specially drama at this series, and a lot of powerful emotions are ever present.

The plot is certainly interesting and unique, and because of a family curse on the Sohma family, a lot of extra dramas also start to happen. Fruits Baskets presents us with pleasant and believable characters and character development, and the viewer will eventually find out that some times the emotion really do weights more than reasoning.

Although with humor, this is a serious title, but quite a good call for all viewers


Conclusion

With a some times pleasant atmosphere, while others quite dramatic to the extent of almost being a melodrama, Fruits Baskets might have been slightly better if not focused all about Tohru: There are a lot of interesting characters to develop. Also, Tohru is too much of the 'perfect girl' at her drama and eventually makes her actions quite predictable. Even that been true, if someone like her existed, her actions would be exactly those portrayed at the title.

With several astonishing moments of drama, humor or romance, this is a nice call for every fan, and also, if you get emotional, then be ready to shed some tears.

Be warned this is one of those 'Drag-romances': where the characters love each other but never confess.
Anime Opening
Staff & Crew
Songs:
OP - For Fruits Basket (Ritsuko Okazaki)
ED - Chiisana Inori (Ritsuko Okazaki)
ED - Serenade (Ritsuko Okazaki)
Staff:
Director: Akitaro Daichi
Character Design (art): Akemi Hayashi,Natsuki Takaya
Singers OP/ED: Ritsuko Okazaki,Ritsuko Okazaki,Ritsuko Okazaki
Voice Actors (Seeyus):
Tomokazu Seki as Kyo Soma
Yui Horie as Toru Honda
Aya Hisakawa as Yuki Soma
Wakaba Murasaki as Akito Sohma
Mitsuru Miyamoto as Ayame Soma
Kazuhiko Inoue as Hatori Soma
Akio Suyama as Hatsuharu Soma
Kotono Mitsuishi as Kagura Soma
Haruhi Terada as Kana Soma
Kaori Nazuka as Kisa Soma
Ayaka Saito as Momiji Soma
Miina Tominaga as Ritsu Soma
Reiko Yasuhara as Saki Hanajima
Ryotaro Okiayu as Shigure Soma
Yuka Imai as Arisa Uotani
Yuriko Fuchizaki as Hiro Soma
Junko Yamamoto as Hostess (Ritsu's Mother)
Mitsuko Maeda as Kaori
Norihiro Inoue as Kazuma Soma
Isamu Sugaya as Kazuma's Grandfather
Haruhi Terada as Kisa's Mother
Miki Nagasawa as Kyo's Mother
Reiko Yasuhara as Kyoko Honda
Kaoru Suzuki as Mai Gotou
Yuji Ueda as Makoto Takei
Omi Minami as Megumi Hanajima
Akemi Okamura as Mii
Rumi Sakura as Minako
Harumi Asai as Minami Kinoshita
Miki Takahashi as Mine Kuramae
Yuuki Kajita as Mio Yamagishi
Toshihiko Seki as Momiji's Father
Azusa Nakao as Momiji's Mother
Kaori Shimizu as Motoko Minagawa
Kazuyo Aoki as Motoko's Mother
Miwa Matsumoto as Rika Aida
Yuuki Kajita as Rina Sonomiya
Oma Ichimura as Satomi Arimoto
Yoshiaki Matsumoto as Takeharu
Keiko Koumyouji as Tohru's Aunt
Hiroshi Masuoka as Tohru's Grandfather
Harumi Asai as Tomomi
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