Fruits Basket Season 2 Ep 11 UNCUT REACTION!
Added 2023-12-13 06:33:00 +0000 UTChttps://vimeo.com/893995048/6567272382
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I loved the discussion for this episode. They did an amazing job with Kagura in this. She has a great character development and a good "closure" to her relationship. She is wild and hyped and all crazy but she is incredibly self aware and it is awesome that she is able to reflect and be very mature about this realization. Same for Kyo. He recognizing the importance of Kagura to him when they were young, thanking her for the happy moments and being very honest about their relationship shows that he also is now very self aware and mature and that allows him to comfort her while still being very direct about their future. She will still be hyped and wild since that is not just her behavior with Kyo, is part of her personality but you do see a switch and a growth similar to other characters so far. Kagura has a good zodiac mom, a bit overprotective but nothing major. But I think the best zodiac mom is Hiro's. As Momiji mentioned in the beach episode, she is an exception to the rule - not overprotective or rejective - she is just a normal lovely mom. Your discussion about Akito's role and motives and Shigure's objectives were pretty good. Shigure is a very hard to read character but very interesting to pay attention too. Very excited to see your reaction to when they can clear some of the stuff about them.
Liuzetz
2023-12-14 14:25:58 +0000 UTCHonestly, cannot fault you guys at all for being a wreck about Shigure. His plotline is like,,, the most convoluted, subtle plotline ever and is probably one of the last characters you understand in the show LMAO. So while I want to say don’t worry about him, I also want to say overanalyze and question him fully because that’s kinda what it takes to get him and his motives by the end of the series.
SylverDrawer
2023-12-14 08:33:32 +0000 UTCGreat discussion. I think sometimes in media, anime in particular, there's a narrative gimmick that serves as a metaphor for a deeper discussion. Part of this might be because the author wanted to explore a magical setting or make a heavier topic more palatable to a wider audience, this can really be said about any narrative, there's plenty of stories that are at their core about ideas like found family, childhood trauma, love, friendship, war, death etc. but use fantastical elements. Fruits basket is shojo, the demographic being young girls, so on a meta level there's going to be story beats or themes that generally align with expectations of the genre. That being said, there's tons of discussion around Fruits Basket not really fitting into its genre, especially considering it's generally marketed as a love triangle rom com, which it clearly isn't. I think the story unfolds in a satisfying way, even if it can be a bit frustrating at times, sometimes you need to just let the story play out and accept not everything has complete context.
Alexis Joy
2023-12-13 18:38:07 +0000 UTCGreat discussion on Akito, I think the show will have all the satisfying answers for you, eventually. I appreciate that you've given him the benefit of the doubt since the beginning and not just assume he's a one dimensional villain. While the magical powers don't matter much, one thing that always stood out to me was that even Akito's words can hurt the zodiacs deeply. It gives way more context to what they have to endure when he says cruel and hurtful things to them. Lastly Shigure hasn't been telling Akito nothing's going on, he has practically flaunted to Akito that we're doing great over here and everyone is having fun without you (eg. we're all going to the beach for a while, bye), hence drawing Akito's ire and putting the kids potentially in harms way. That's why Hatori is scolding him.
KM
2023-12-13 17:11:46 +0000 UTCWithout any spoilers, I can say I think you guys will be happy with the direction the story goes. Also I really love this episode!! I'm a sucker for peeling back the layers of a gag character to realize they've actually been a complicated person the whole time. And i love Kagura because she's allowed to be a flawed female character without being treated horribly by the story
Francesca White
2023-12-13 12:22:16 +0000 UTC
