If I were to give Fruits Basket a tagline, it might be ‘dessert before dinner’. Because the more acquainted you get with the series, you more you begin to realise that all the cake and ice-cream of young romance and new-found friendship is just sweetening you up for a full dish of seriously savoury drama. By the time you’re full up on sugar, you’re not sure how much room you have left for the main course. But then, there’s always a bit of space for something yummy that’s made with love. This second part opens with Tohru and friends commemorating the anniversary of her mother’s death. As is to be expected with Tohru, far from it being a maudlin affair she partakes in a shrine-side picnic with the Sohmas, Uotani and Hanajima. The contrast in imagery here ends up being a rather accurate foreshadowing of the stories and character arcs to come. Moments of absolute joy in this arc are always closely presided over by a bittersweet fog of loss and regret. The odd fluff episode comes and goes without much consequence, but sometimes what appears to be fluff at the outset becomes a thrilling and even heartbreaking account of [...]
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