Fruits Basket, the concept of a family in which the members turn into an animal of the chinese zodiac when they hug a member of the opposite sex. There isn’t really a story holding this together. Just the main person living her live alongside the family, and meeting different family members. Still this works out pretty well.
The power of Fruits Basket lies in the fact that it’s excellent in creating and developing characters. Each one of the huge cast has something unique and even an extremely well developed story of his/her own. This goes along with the incredible writing talents of the writers, which give birth to some of the most impressive speeches seen in anime.
This show also has a healthy dose of comedy stuffed in it. It works pretty well, mostly in the first thirteen episodes. At the second half the jokes become a bit more forced and repetitive, unfortunately.
One thing that turned me off a bit is that in the second half, some characters are introduced just for the heck of it and to fill up some episodes. It just felt like they had nothing to do with the main characters. I would’ve liked to have seen a bit more of the other ones.
Why you should watch this: if you like heavy drama with lots of very interesting characters, then you should watch this.
I never really was interested in this anime. I don’t know why I own the first DVD or the first 5 volumes of the manga. Maybe I’ll give them to someone or sell them at a yard sale.
Fruits Basket anime is good but unfinished, that’s might be why the random characters at the end seems meaningless because they haven’t got to the part where they’ll be fleshed out later. Read the manga, they are definitely worth it. One of my favorite next to Kare Kano.