| Here you can say what annoyed you in Fruits Basket, whether that's the characters, the plot of the lack of ending. Personally, I find the scene when Honda was doing God-knows-what behind that tree in the last two episodes to be very illogical. And I still don't know what the hell she was doing there. That was the scene that annoyed me the most. |
| kuskette_wolphie, leaving aside that scene above (which absolutely makes no sense at all), I didn't like Fruits Basket due to the fact that it was very different from my expectations. I expected something silly but funny, and I got something made up almost entirely of narrations (oh, c'mon, cutting the events with a narration is not something bad itself, but doing this about 5-6 times in an ep and many times even from all the characters perspective sure is). Then, the characters were all stereotypical and had nothing special. There's the usual nice, clueless girl (Honda), the quiet type guy (Yuki), the easily irritated guy (Kyo) and the pervert (Shigure). Nothing particularly interesting here. The plot barely advanced throughout the show, the only character that seemed to have a slight development being Kyo (he managed to overcome his fear of leeks). Then there was the illogical aspect. Why on Earth was Tohru living in a tent??? I mean, hello, Japan, you're leaving your orphans starving out there. I thought I wouldn't meet a similar situation since H2O. And that's only one of the aspects that makes no sense. And one final thing...I absolutely hated Yuki. I don't dislike the idea of traps or reverse traps; but there's one thing when at some point in the show a passing by character says something like: 'There's a handsome young person waiting out there, but I have no idea if it's a boy or a girl; isn't it exciting?'. And Yuki's personality was too damn annoying; it was as if he was there only to fill a gap, he barely did anything. Now, I'm not saying that Fruits Basket is that bad; I've met worse shows. But it just doesn't appeal to me. Still, since I heard from a lot of people that the manga is much better, I plan to read it. Maybe I'll change my opinion a bit (in which case I'll probably view the anime in an even worse way). |
| I'll make my reply short and simple, the reason I hated Fruits basket was... it was just plain boring I made it to chapter 5 and found no enjoyment so I quit it! end of story!! ^^ |
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| like i've said on the mainpage of this community, i don't hate FB, but i can't see, what other people see in it. i started reading the manga since somewhere in the internet somebody was recommending it as something similar to Gakuen Alice which i liked pretty much at that time (some half year ago i think; manga way better than anime). so i kept reading FB in the hope that one day it has to get better and more intresting. after half of it read i couldn't say that. i also couldn't say what actually had happened since the beginning. so now i remember that there was a gooood girl, who was living in the tent on somebody's land, they took her kindly in (they being three young men, one of them super-ugly and boring Yuki and the other the cat-boy who i liked better since he seemed most human in all others of the bunch). The guys belong to a family, where each member represents a animal in zodiac and they turn to the animal if someone of oposite sex touches them and the cat is the outsider. all this was known in the beginning already, but after 70 or so chapters i still didn't know anything else and nohting really had happened, besides the zodiac being introduced. what i really disliked was the introduction of the other characters. it seemed like first half of the manga was constructed to bring up as many people as possible. i could never remember who they were (names etc, don't have a problem with that usually) and why are they at all there. it was something like in rpg, you make a character and then think him/her a family and friends and background stories for each person... but you really don't introduce all these background chars to your fellow rpg-players at least not at the same time.. only when the story needs it. FB didn't need actually all those Souma-people there seemed a intrigue going on in the Souma family, but i didn't feel at all that it was developed somehow or that the story was developed somehow.. and logic tells me, that if you are already in the middle of the story and there's still nothing besides nice-looking manga-people (the art was beautiful, but again besides the three mains i really couldn't tell who was who since they looked so similar) who are all very flat and more like empty paper dolls, then something is not right. finally i dropped it thinking there must be something wrong with me if i can't understand it or see what's so good about it and where's the similarity to GA (besides the main-girl being all cute and happy, but Mikan has for her age (10-11) a lot more personality compared to this Tohru-chick). |
tenori-tanSep 22, 2008 5:34 AM
confused_kitsune said: kuskette_wolphie, leaving aside that scene above (which absolutely makes no sense at all), I didn't like Fruits Basket due to the fact that it was very different from my expectations. I expected something silly but funny, and I got something made up almost entirely of narrations (oh, c'mon, cutting the events with a narration is not something bad itself, but doing this about 5-6 times in an ep and many times even from all the characters perspective sure is). Then, the characters were all stereotypical and had nothing special. There's the usual nice, clueless girl (Honda), the quiet type guy (Yuki), the easily irritated guy (Kyo) and the pervert (Shigure). Nothing particularly interesting here. The plot barely advanced throughout the show, the only character that seemed to have a slight development being Kyo (he managed to overcome his fear of leeks). Then there was the illogical aspect. Why on Earth was Tohru living in a tent??? I mean, hello, Japan, you're leaving your orphans starving out there. I thought I wouldn't meet a similar situation since H2O. And that's only one of the aspects that makes no sense. And one final thing...I absolutely hated Yuki. I don't dislike the idea of traps or reverse traps; but there's one thing when at some point in the show a passing by character says something like: 'There's a handsome young person waiting out there, but I have no idea if it's a boy or a girl; isn't it exciting?'. And Yuki's personality was too damn annoying; it was as if he was there only to fill a gap, he barely did anything. Now, I'm not saying that Fruits Basket is that bad; I've met worse shows. But it just doesn't appeal to me. Still, since I heard from a lot of people that the manga is much better, I plan to read it. Maybe I'll change my opinion a bit (in which case I'll probably view the anime in an even worse way). this was i think the fourth anime i ever watched, and the first time i watched it (since its precursors had been fabulous, like ouran and death note) i had the exact same reaction, exact same criticisms. tohru irritated the crap out of me, yuki's ambiguity was revolting (why a girl's voice?), the characters seemed cliched, why the hell is she living in a tent and still so unreasonably and psychotically cheerful, etc etc. but it sort of grew on me. i think the whole point is not to take it too seriously; instead of finding faults and hating, laugh at them. i've started the manga again, after reading other mangas and watching dozens of other (similarly cliched) animes, and i'm sort of immune to the kitschiness by now. if you try not to expect too much, it just boils down to a semi-cute romance with pretty good, albeit sterotypical, characters. in short: i used to loathe fruits basket, now i don't. from any decent critic's criteria, it sucks. but if you're just looking for cutesy cheesy been-done but still good, it's really not that bad. |
kuskette_wolphie said: Here you can say what annoyed you in Fruits Basket, whether that's the characters, the plot of the lack of ending. Personally, I find the scene when Honda was doing God-knows-what behind that tree in the last two episodes to be very illogical. And I still don't know what the hell she was doing there. That was the scene that annoyed me the most. yeah, she's puking. they don't show it because...well...it's puke. but yeah, it was kind of ambiguous. |
| I finally went through the burden of actually writing a FB review in which I explained why I disliked it. I'm pretty sure I forgot a lot of things though. xD http://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=12559 |
confused_kitsune said: I finally went through the burden of actually writing a FB review in which I explained why I disliked it. I'm pretty sure I forgot a lot of things though. xD http://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=12559 Like I've told you before (or didn't I?) The review was the perfect reflection of what I saw in Furuba. And I don't think you missed anything. Anyway, since it's a "tell us what annoyed you most in furuba" and since I didn't manage to get to the 2nd chapter of the manga (reading the 1st one took me a half an hour and I was yawning from 5 to 5 minutes), I can't actually tell much about the manga, except that the 1st chapter is similar to the beginning of the anime. But what annoyed me most in Furuba? I'll be precise and short... Everything. No plot, characters coming out of nowhere (being born in the bushes, probably) and most of the events making no sense, if not all of them. Oh and waay too common, stereotypical characters. I think the people that made Furuba (whoever they are, they wasted approx. 8 hours and 40 minutes of my and everyone's that agrees with me life) were bored and someone just said "Hey, let's make a new anime that will be so common that the people will actually like it!". And that's how a time-waster is born. Elvirna said: She's throwing up, most probably. The smell of Kyo's true form is told to be pretty awful, that's why. That, and the shock she experienced at the disgusting sight of him... No offense, but....... *sigh* how convenient |
| The only thing I hate about FB is that the heroine TOORU HONDA is too unrealistic to relate to. |
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