Banana In Your Fruit Basket - Bo Carter

Advantages: Entertaining, humorous, sometimes moving
Disadvantages: They only made one series

...that if they could understand each other better they might become friends, but it doesn't look like that will happen any time soon. ~ Here Comes Kagura ~ Having heard that Kyo is back, Kagura comes to Shigure's house to look for him. Jealous of the friendship that's formed between Kyo and Tohru, she is determined to prove that she'll be the best wife Kyo could ever want. He efforts to prove this, however, lead to disaster since she isn't too skilled at housework. ~ A Rice Ball in a Fruits Basket ~ The remodelling finished on her grandfather's house, Tohru is able to go back to live with him. She leaves the Sohma's to go back to her grandfather, who now has other relatives living with him. But she doesn't get on with those others, and the Sohmas find themselves missing her. It isn't long before Yuki and Kyo go after her and ask her... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic characters, great and original story line.
Disadvantages: That the anime only covers so little of the manga story.

...rare occasions where I preferred the English dub to the Japanese with English subtitles. Main reasons being that I disliked the Japanese cast for Yuki Sohma, and that the English cast did the series justice and didn't sound wooden at all. Music: The background music (BGM) fit the series well, and is for the most part light and pleasant. Nothing special, though, even the opening and ending theme are non spectacular. So though it fits well, Fruits Basket isn't a series I would buy the soundtrack for. Value for money: Amazing. Seriously, this disc has the first 6 half-hour episodes. It is a 26-part anime series, and fits on 4 discs total (you can also buy a special boxed set of the 4) whereas most 26-part series' can drag them out for 7 or even 8 if they're clever (a la Escaflowne). From manga to anime: As with most anime series Fruits... Read review

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Advantages: Stunning artwork, expressions perfect as usual, many characters' plotlines developed, no filler chapters.
Disadvantages: Deviation from main plot line, lack of background detail, little of Tohru the heroin,

... Fruits Basket: 16 - A cut above the rest? Plot Yet another stunning volume in the Fruits Basket series, volume 16 opens in the familiar Sohma household, before plunging straight into Kyoko's past. [Kyoko being Tohru's mother.] Here we meet the long awaited Katsuya! And he's just as pretty as all the fan-girls out there wanted him to be. Well worth the four chapters it occupies, we follow a tragic tale recounting the events prior to Tohru's birth. Kyoko and Katsuya's love story is full of romance, angst and still manages to bring a smile to your face at times. However at its most heartwrenching it rivals Hatori's past, revealed back in volume 2. It even managed to have me in tears [which takes a lot, although I will always have a soft spot for Fruits Basket]. Following this, its back to the present, where we catch... Read review

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