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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This episode, covering Chapters 78 & 79, it's the black-faced Rin's time of despair. I'd swear this girl's got some bad feelings of vibes... Her questions to lift the Soma curse from cunning 2nd right-hand man Shigure (after Hatori) to save Hatsuharu, it's not even a thought to defy Akito in the very first place if her end goal is the boy of her life, and eventually for her absolute freedom. Until then, she's always suck into the constant vortex of bad dreams, ranging from her childhood to her present life. Rin's past with Haru, the boy that lit her life in the constant of darkness. And the hatred that still lingers badly in the hospital with Kazuma, and Haru standing up for her against her parents, it all becomes full circle as he spent his time with her growing up together in recuperation and emotional therapy thereafter amidst her constant withdrawals. The moment of Haru's confession to Rin despite the heavy rain-down warning of Akito though, it was enough to break her heart and desire him the most each and everytime, and his "Wanna kiss?" moment might just have single-handedly gave her hope to live on and pursue the cursed relationship. A warped love that turned into a relationship that was ultimately foiled by the God herself, Akito's hatred for women is lethal (if that wasn't obvious with Tohru's conflict at the end of Season 1), and the fear uprising from just her grip alone, to make her feel useless once again. I'd swear this woman has no limits of being the antagonist that everyone hates in the manga, and that's the sign of a GOOD antagonist. "I want to free you...from all your bondage." The escape plan of both Rin and Hatsuharu in the pursuit of happiness, only when nothing is left, then they both can rest in peace. What a solemn episode, just purely having goosebumps throughout 25 minutes of pure terror. |
KANLen09Aug 3, 2020 3:03 PM
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| What an amazing episode. Honestly got goosebumps throughout the episode. Episode focused around Rin and her traumatizing past and how that still hold up and haunts her to this day. Every episode this season really just hits hard. Can’t wait for next week! |
| One of the darkest but also emotional episodes I've seen this season so far. Rin's complicated personality and being at the wrath of Akito made it so impactful at the end. But also, Haru's personality and relationship with her character made this episode very important. Their past together is perhaps one of the most emotional ones I've seen this from this franchise. Rin's VA also played her character really well imo. |
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| Well that was something |
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| An episode focusing on Rin, her past and her relationship with Haru. I really feel sorry for Rin. This episode made me hate Akito. Was Akito intending to kill Rin? So Rin was looking for a way to get rid of the "curse" all this time for the sake of Haru. |
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| One of the darkest moments in Fruits Basket finally animated. Rin is still haunted by the past of her family. Akito's hate for women seems to finally clearly been stated and also that long black hair. When the god of the zodiac says they don't need you to the person of a zodiac member that really is gonna hurt them. Also noticed the person who must not be named had a small cameo in Rin's flashback. |
TellatezAug 3, 2020 11:52 AM
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Rytakahashi09 said: Do police and law even exist in this anime? In Fruits Basket, Akito is the powerful being in the universe. Nothing or no one can go against his woman hating azz. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| Really really emotional episode showing Rin's harsh and traumatizing past, how her and Haru's sweet relationship started. Rin's arc is one of my favourite arcs from the manga. Can't wait for the next episode. Again great episode. |
| I was kind of waiting to learn more about the mysterious Rin, and this did not disappoint. This was one of my favorite episodes in the series, even if parts were difficult to watch. Also, looks like Rin and Haru were doing a bit more than just kissing. Actually sort of refreshing to see an anime that doesn't pretend people, even *gasp* teenagers, never ever have sex. |
| *Mourning the disappointment of The Promised Neverland season 2.* |
| Back into heavy stuff with this episode. Chapters 78 and 79 were adapted to cover Isuzu's backstory. Not much was changed in this episode beyond some scene additions or shortening some dialogue for the most part. Here were changes I noticed in this episode: -The opening of Chapter 78 originally started with a narration from Isuzu reflecting on her relationship with Haru as she observes Kisa and Hiro walking together. -While Hiro’s scolding his mother being irresponsible, there is a removed part of the scene where Hiro’s mother comments that she is in control of herself and Hiro says this is a lie. -Throughout the episode, there are clips of a doll shown at points meant to symbolize the brokenness of Isuzu’s family relationship. These are shown during parts of her flashbacks reflecting on living with her parents and during her love confession to Haru. -Some of the doctor’s dialogue exchange with Kazuma at the hospital was removed for the anime. -While at the hospital, Isuzu had an IV drip inserted in her left arm in the manga. -Some of Isuzu’s inner monologue at Kagura’s house was removed from the anime. The part removed had Isuzu feeling disgusted at seeing the sight of a normal family dynamic with Kagura’s family when thinking of the abusive relationship she had with her parents. -Isuzu recalling her encounters with Haru got shortened a bit for the anime. -Isuzu’s thoughts on wanting to love Haru and feeling uneasy with where things would go with their relationship following their confession got removed from the anime. -Some of Isuzu’s thoughts while being confronted by Akito were removed from the anime. |
| I told ya'll this isn't just some cutsy anime boy meets anime girl series T_T Brb while i cry |
| Oscar and Andre deserved better |
| I feel so sorry for Rin; she was such a kind, gentle and compassionate girl and the world around her just completely broke her. However, even though it may appear that she changed after Akito pushed her out the window, she never really did; everything she's doing and the entire reason that she's shut everone out is completely for other people. She's still so selfless and beautiful and she's one of the best written characters of this anime. She and Haru's relationship is so beautiful too; they love each other unconditionally and help hold each other together. I want them to be able to be together and bring each other the happiness they deserve. Also, can we all appreciate Kazuma; that man has single-handedly supported a majority of the Sohma kids and given them the care and attention that they needed to keep sane. Anime best dad for sure! |
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| Rin's abuse was depicted in such a heartbreaking manner. Thankfully once the abuse was realized they got her out of the situation quickly, but the effects of abuse can last a lifetime. Spending every day feeling sick because of the psychological trauma must have taken such a toll on Rin. For her to end up on the receiving end of Akito's abuse is also terrible. The curse can't be broken soon enough! Also, does anyone know the name of the insert song that played during this episode? |
| Every day you can read a book or watch some anime is a good day! |
| this is gonna sound so bad but why did I start laughing when akito pushed rin out the window |
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| wow, that was quite an emotional episode form last week's one. i always wondered why rin was cold towards her foster family when they were treating her well and towards haru if haru saw nothing was going on. all the trauma she went through but she's grateful that haru made her happy ): i find it cute that rin is older than haru lmao. i like how haru is so straightforward when confessing to rin. when he stood up to her in the hospital too. hiro is so cute - i wish we get to see him more often. kisa really makes him kinder. i'm glad he reacted to rin falling down. rin looked so emotionless when she was pushed by akito - she really had enough if feeling unwanted hhh. she looks like she will be talking to tohru next ep? seeing the preview hmm.. |
| Amazing episode, I expected one only dedicated to Rin and it just happened. Her tragic backstory was just revealed : she's one of the unluckiest Zodiac members I guess... But I believe in Tohru's to bring back some light in her dark life. |
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| Wow, just wow. I didn't think anything could top S1's finale, but this easily does that and then some. This is not only the best episode of the entire series so far, but it might be the best episode of anything I've seen this year. I had chills the whole time, and I can't remember the last time I've felt that way. |
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| So basically Akito was mad at Rin because she touched a member of her harem of pretty Sohma bois. She's like those delusional KPop boy group fans who send death threats to the girls the members date lol Anyway, even though her story was very emotional and I felt very bad for Rin for not receiving love from anyone but Haru on top of serious physical abuse, it still doesn't justify her previous actions of treating every single person like trash. So I still don't like her. Edit: Also, Sohmas definitely fail at parenting. I'm kinda tired of seeing parent abuse being used again and again on every zodiac member. |
bluninjaAug 3, 2020 1:36 PM
| If you read Eleceed you're automatically my friend. |
| Rin's backstory was probably the darkest part in all of the Fruits Basket manga and seeing it in animated form delivers that gut-wrenching feeling of despair and sadness all over again. It's the whole reason why she suffers from PTSD. Since she's part of the zodiac, the parents will either be over-protective or just flat out reject them. Rin's parents was the latter and the hell she went through just makes me want to to deliver a pitch fork to her parent's faces. The main saving grace for her was Haru, who really helped her when she needed it and, inevitably, both of them fell in love with each other. However, that happiness would be short-lived when Akito found out about their relationship. We've already known how deplorable Akito can be with how he's treated Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, Momiji, Kisa and Hattori, but what he ended up doing to "punish" Rin was on a level of pure scum. Not only did he slap her and tormented her, but he went to push her off the balcony, much to the horror of Hiro, who was walking by the room. Seeing Rin fall from that height onto the ground below and more specifically, landing on the sole rock, explains how she has that big scar on her back, but it does send shivers down my spine just seeing how much blood she lost during that horrific scene. Even in the present, she's still trying to find a way to break the curse by herself, as her full discussion with Shigure from before shows that even he doesn't know the answer. It got too much for her as she collapsed and went into another panic attack when Tohru approached her. Overall, this episode was excellent. It was able to capture the heart-breaking backstory of Rin and makes sure that, from start to finish, we go through brutal scenes after scenes of her desperate struggle and it leaves us simply at a loss for words by the end of the episode. |
MikuruSi said: EDIT: Does anyone know the title/singer of the song that played in the end while Rin was falling down? Haseru Mirai by Uta Arii. It's the same song that played at the ending of the 7th episode of this "season" of the series with Yuki and Tohru's alone time at the Sohma summer house. |
| Yea agreed, this was far, far too melodramatic for me to find it genuinely impactful. And the rich and powerful copout does has its limits, and even if it's mostly true, it's somewhat annoying to see the same basic troped used over and over. |
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| Holy moly, what an episode! Up there with Hanajima-san's backstory episode from the franchise for me: dark, depressing & heart-breaking at its finest. And to top it off, that final whole moment between her and Akito - it was on another level of spine-chills. Haru, come to the rescue ASAP! Dat whole sequence of her selflessly wishing for Haru's best while falling down was especially touching, god Akito needs punishment. Divine punishment. Is this where her injury from her shoulder blade is from though? Thank Goodness it wasn't more physically serious than that then. A genuine insight into her motive this episode, and honestly I can't wait to see more of it! |
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| Man by far the greatest episode of the season so far. What a amazing buildup to this episode. Lets hope toru chan can help her out. |
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| There's no brakes for the feels train ;_; man poor Rin, she surely had a terrible childhood. Seems like she has more things in common with Yuki than I thought, both linked to Akito and having problems with their parents... Damn That insert song was really beautiful wtf, Damn you Akito Haru is the real CHAD btw, what a man! |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| DAMNNNNNNNN what an ep that was. ok, can see why people were hyping up Rin's story but have to say, that OST was fukin amazingly done |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| Well, this season has really taught me that Akito should burn in hell, but let's just add Rin's parents to that list.. Just horrible. Tohru with that embrace on Rin! Bless this girl, honestly!! Too good for the Souma's! This is probably one of the most dark and depressing back stories so far. Rin had to carry this traumatic experience all this time and it caused her so much suffering along the way. Loved that eventho he was young, Haru stood up for her!! I also get how they got in a relationship now! They would be great couple together. Also, just to get something positive out of this episode, Rin has an amazing sense of fashion! Love it! I am just gonna repeat myself again.. AKITO SHOULD BURN IN HELL!!! Eventho Rin had found her happiness with Haru, she just had to trigger her PTSD again.. and not just that, Akito threw her out of the window... Despicable person!! |
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| This episode really showed me that it's impossible to hate any of the zodiacs and that akito is a horrible, sniveling whore who should burn in hell. Can't wait for tohru to beat her ass up. |
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| And damn, fruit basket is one of the best backstory animes i've ever seen!!! |
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| This was the best episode in the series thus far and we still got people whining about "mElOdRaMa". 😂 |
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Majo_no_Hana said: It was more that they were basically acting and putting up a mask that they were happy and weren’t angry about anything. That is why they snapped cause they were questioned about why they were so “happy.” Because it was a complete act and they were just holding onto a lot of hate and animosity towards their daughter that they just let all of it out. This is something common with narcissists because you often don’t know the true nature of narcissists until you get to know them and their masks come off.A whole lot of unconvincing melodrama. From the way it was depicted Rin's mother and father had anger issue, but they were normal until one day she questioned them? Seriously? People who have problem with anger have them from childhood, what often happens is that parents who do not know how to deal with a child's emotions and their own are unable to teach the child how to deal with them. No one develops anger issues out of the blue. |
"In the End, Only Kindness Matters" -Jewel |
| More and more this season, I hate Akito. |
| I reject your reality, and substitute my own. |
| Sweet baby jesus can this show be intense. The themes and topics it covers is a testament to the forward thinking often found in the early 2000 stuff long before Western culture latched onto such ideas and decided to go full social justice warrior like they were the first to make a statement. |
 To have you, Id give a billion lives A-Chan best girl |
| I don't know if I ever hated and can hate a character more than Akito. Someome really needs to tell her/him/it a lesson...there are bad Gods confirmed. Rin is for me the most beautiful girl in FB actually and saying her suffer like that is just so sad. She really deserves all the happiness |
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| Awful parents but I really really can't get why no one fights back against Akito. She deserves to die (pretty sure it's a girl tbh) |
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| Man. Even though a friend had to spoil it a bit. I can't help but feel freaking broken and shocked. What the freaking hell... Damn it all... |
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