Advantages: An easy to watch, compelling and uplifting series Disadvantages: A lack of action and adventure means it's not for everyone
Fruits Basket Vol. 1
Intro
Fruits Basket is a comedy/drama/romance anime show (Japanese cartoon) aimed at teenage girls. The series is 26 episodes long, split over 3 DVDs. Volume 1, "A Great Transformation", contains episodes 1-8. The DVD features the show in the original Japanese with subtitles, or dubbed in English. Fruits Basket is based upon a manga series (Japanese comic books), also translated into English. The manga series is ongoing (currently ... ...plot.
Synopsis
Fruits Basket follows the life of optimistic heroine Tohru Honda, a high school girl who lost her only living parent, her mother Kyoko, to a car accident a year before the start of the anime.
It is revealed that Tohru has been living with her paternal Grandfather since the accident, until it was decided that the house required renovations. Though her Grandfather asked her if she would be able to stay with friends whilst the renovations ...
ElapsedSpiral 02.09.2006 (03.09.2006)
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Advantages: Entertaining, humorous, sometimes moving Disadvantages: They only made one series
...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 to come home. ~ Invincible Friendship ~
Tohru tells Hana and Uo about living ... ...check that its suitable for her. Having two more girls in the house for one night shouldn't be a problem, right? But things get extremely hard when it comes to keeping them from discovering the secret. ~~~ Special Features ~~~
There isn't a great deal in the way of special features. There are character profiles and a behind the scenes featurette. There is also the option to watch the opening credit song without the text that is usually on it. ~~~ ...
87degrees 05.01.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Fruits Basket - Vol. 1 - A Great Transformation And (Animated) (Dubbed) (Subtitled) (DVD)
Advantages: Fantastic characters, great and original story line. Disadvantages: That the anime only covers so little of the manga story.
...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 Basket started off as ... ...long (not all published in English yet) and unfortunately the anime doesn't quite live up to its fantastic manga counterpart. The art isn't quite as nice, but my main gripe is that the anime stops short. There could easily be a second series (which I doubt there will be), as the manga continues on long after the end of the anime. So if you want to know what happens to Tohru, you have to switch to the manga.
All in all, very enjoyable and very good ...
Mayoki 15.03.2008
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Advantages: Very funny, nice art style, good value for money. Disadvantages: Main character is a bit one-dimensional
Tohru Honda lives in a tent. Her mother passed away several months previously, so she went to live with her Grandfather. But then the house needed some renovations, her Grandfather went to live with relatives and asked her if she had any friends she could stay with, she said yes but she did not want to ask them. So she decided to live in a tent. One day, walking to school, she comes across a house. And here she meets Shigure Shoma, and his cousin ... ...Shigure are walking home from a restaurant, when they come across Tohru and her tent. She is ill with a fever, so they take her home, her tent is destroyed by a landslide during the night, but Yuki returns to it and digs out her possessions. They invite Tohru to live with them as their housekeeper, neither of them can cook and their house is a mess. As Yuki shows Tohru her new room, then ceiling caves in and a young man with orange hair fall through ...
MentalSarcasm 12.06.2007
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