Fruits Basket: The Final (Fruits Basket: The Final Season)

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Synonyms: Fruits Basket 3rd Season, Fruits Basket (2019) 3rd Season, Furuba

Japanese: フルーツバスケット The Final

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 6, 2021 to Jun 29, 2021

Premiered: Spring 2021

Broadcast: Tuesdays at 01:30 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, Nihon Ad Systems, Hakusensha, Avex Pictures, TMS Music, 8PAN

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Manga

Genres: Drama, Romance, Supernatural

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 9.00¹ (scored by 209,872 users)

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Ranked: #14²

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Popularity: #490

Members: 428,188

Favorites: 18,834

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Hundreds of years ago, the Chinese Zodiac spirits and their god swore to stay together eternally. United by this promise, the possessed members of the Souma family shall always return to each other under any circumstances. Yet, when these bonds shackle them from freedom, it becomes an undesirable burden—a curse. As head of the clan, Akito is convinced that he shares a special connection with the other Soumas. While he desperately clings to this fantasy, the rest of the family remains isolated and suppressed by the fear of punishment.

Tooru Honda, who has grown attached to the Soumas, is determined to break the chains that bind them. Her companionship with the family and her friends encourages her to move forward with lifting the curse. However, due to confounding revelations, she struggles to find the tenacity to continue her endeavors. With time slowly withering away, Tooru contends with an uncertain future in hopes of reaching the tranquility that may lie beyond all this commotion.

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Adaptation:	Fruits Basket
Prequel:	Fruits Basket 2nd Season
Summary:	Fruits Basket: Prelude

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Souma, Kyou

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Uchida, Yuuma
Japanese

Honda, Tooru

Main

Iwami, Manaka
Japanese

Souma, Yuki

Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
Japanese

Souma, Hatsuharu

Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto
Japanese

Souma, Momiji

Supporting

Han, Megumi
Japanese

Souma, Shigure

Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Souma, Ayame

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Souma, Hatori

Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki
Japanese

Hanajima, Saki

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Satou, Satomi
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Souma, Isuzu

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Toyosaki, Aki
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Cook, Justin

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Takemura, Ippei

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Herek, Samantha

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Ibata, Yoshihide

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Opening Theme

"Pleasure" by WARPs UP (eps 1-12)

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"Haru Urara (春うらら)" by GENIC (eps 1-11,13)

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Jun 28, 2021

Marinate1016

Recommended

Fruit’s Basket is not only one of the best stories ever told in the medium, it also could serve as the catalyst needed for a revival of the shoujo genre.

When I was a kid, shojo dominated. Cardcaptor Sakura, Sailor Moon, etc., were cultural phenomena. This really fuelled my passion for the genre/demographic tremendously. While other people my age preferred the action packed episodes of YYH and DBZ, I enjoyed the slower and more down to earth Kodomo no Omocha. In many ways, Furuba is a blast from the past, a relic of a bygone era of storytelling. The core themes and issues addressed in Furuba ... are so applicable to daily life, it almost hurts. Love, grief, letting go of the past and becoming your own person, etc. The overarching narrative spanning 60+ episodes of breaking familial bonds and moving on from trauma was so beautifully done that here at the end of that journey, I’m left in tears. For me, the mark of a true masterpiece is something that teaches me valuable life lessons. I lost my father to cancer at 15. I turned to animanga and light novels and have found many important things since then. The one thing that I still struggle with is letting go of the past. This remake arrived at the perfect time for me, and I could not be happier with the story-telling, character depth and educational aspects of this series.

It wouldn’t be a Furuba review if we didn’t talk about love. Love is at the core of Furuba’s story. Familial, platanoic and romantic. Over 3 amazing seasons, we are introduced to a variety of characters who are in one way or another dealing with some complications of love. Whether it’s an ex, parent who can’t remember their kid, abusive parents, etc. The story does an amazing job of building nuanced and realistic relationships between characters. This applies to both the romantic sort and non romantic sort. Obviously, there are some exaggerations and anime-y logic going on with some of the relationship building, but for the most part, the relationships in Furuba feel organic and realistic. The romantic ships are built up over the course of over 60 episodes and are done in such a way where you can’t have been oblivious to them forming, but they’re also not too in your face, at least until the second half of this season. In this season, it felt like everything was turned up to the max. The tension, stakes and action were amazing in Furuba Final. I would say that if you found S1 and S2 good, you’ll be blown away by the jump in quality we got this time around. Fruits Basket has always felt a little soapy, but this season felt like a straight up Mexican Telenovela. And I loved every minute of it.

There’s so many rich and well written characters in Furuba, it’s almost cheating. There’s legitimately 15-20 characters that could have “stans” They all receive their own mini arcs and grow over the course of the series, and we see the fruits(pun intended) of that development in the final season. You know you’ve done something right as an author when people have side characters as their favourite characters. Looking back on where everyone started in episode 1 back in 2019, and where they’ve ended up here in the final season is truly beautiful. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on how we, as an audience, have grown along with this cast we love so much.

Fruits Basket as a series, and by extension Fruits Basket Final, can be enjoyed by both hardcore shojo romance fans, as well as casual anime watchers. It has everything you’d look for in a conclusion to a series. A gripping climax, satisfying development and resolution for all parties, and ships sailing. Fruits Basket Final is essential viewing for any romance fan and will stand the test of time as one of the best stories the medium has ever produced.

Fruits Basket Final gets 10 out of 10.

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Jun 28, 2021

Drokster

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Warning: The following review contains SPOILERS, proceed at your own risk. With that out of the way, let’s get started.

“As long as you live things will keep happening. As long as you’re alive wishes will keep being made.” - Tohru Honda

My personal journey through Fruits Basket can definitely be called a weird one. When news about a remake of this beloved Shoujo series got around, a large portion of the anime community was understandably thrilled. Having zero knowledge about the series, I was definitely curious what the fuss was about and decided to venture into the world of Fruits Basket. What I found was a ...

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Jun 28, 2021

KANLen09

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After 20 years of hardcore Fruits Basket fans clamoring to see the ACTUAL ending adapted since the departure of the original 2001 series, we finally got it. And for the past 2 years (since Spring 2019) signalling the start of the complete re-adaptation of the classic Chinese Zodiac spirit story and plot, mangaka and overall series supervisor Natsuki Takaya has finally fulfilled her dream with the help of her production team at TMS and 8Pan...albeit with one serious problem that it has to negate to make the experience a great one.

To all of you who have been following and watching the readaptation of the classic ... Shoujo manga in recent memory, I will not try to play bootlick with you and state the "5 formula aspects" that everyone does, especially in sequel shows where most, of not all characters reprise their roles with the same effects and such. Only new ones are accepted that's exclusive to the aforementioned sequel, and I don't care about overstating the same things as per prior seasons before it, so it's best that I keep it short.

The ultimatum of Fruits Basket: The Final, much so of just completing the entire adaptation of the manga, is pacing the sequence of events in a way that does not feel jarring, yet feeling natural. Seeing as though the Final season (a.k.a Season 3) is only 13 episodes long, with all the various chapter adaptations done before in the prior 2 seasons, the only thing I was worried about are the chapter adaptations due to time constraints and the stuffing of the many left unadapted chapters that the first 2 seasons have set up incredibly well due to them being continuous 2-cours. By definition, a longer production schedule meant that the production team can take the adapted material slowly and padding it at a steady pace. Season 3, or The Final however, has like the final stretch of some 30-40 chapters (including the chapters that are split-adapted) to go, and that worries me a lot if we are able to be like mangaka Natsuki Takaya, to come out of Fruits Basket fully satisfied with the results. As much as they tried to cramp as much of the reminder as they can (and subsequently go anime-original with the re-arranging of manga chapters), it honestly still feels like a bit of Season 2 with tonal changes, only being more abrupt this time since time is the sole limiting factor here. Nonetheless, all the kinks are sorted out with the FruBa community getting a lot more toxic than before, I'd say that Fruits Basket is the new legend that has achieved how it is done in the modern age of adaptations, that it should've been the gold standard back then with loose adaptations and simpler artwork of the 2000s (that isn't so much nice to watch anymore, except for nostalgia reasons).

Another ultimatum is the obvious continuation to closure of the Chinese Zodiac story and plot of the Soma Family. The 4 central leads: cat Kyo, outsider Tohru, rat Yuki, and self-proclaimed "God" Akito has gone through the past 2 seasons / 50 episodes of content that anyone should be very familiar with their circumstances, and The Final has to exacerbate that in order for not just these 4 to get to where they eventually are in their journey of reconciliation and freedom. It hasn't been the easiest for the Soma Family's 12 Zodiac animals, much less Tohru still going out of her way to save the unwanted cat Kyo, to rebut against the Soma "God"-complex that is Akito, and eventually coming into terms with her past and present conditions. Yuki is pretty much the same with the student council's outcast that is Machi, as is Kyo also recognizing that all that Tohru has done for him to contain his anger and "monster" self since Season 1, to forge a path for himself together with her. The Soma god that is Akito presents the biggest change as she goes from one that is liberal with her words in complete anger, to eventually having to notice that she cannot keep them by her side forever. And the symbolism of the breaking of bonds within the Soma Family signifies the long-awaited change in her and between the cunning fox of a "headmaster" that is Shigure awaiting to show her true self to him. In essence, everyone got their closures, including the past hidden pairings like Rin and Hatsuharu.

The final nail in the straw that is TMS Entertainment and subsidary 8Pan's production, really has seen better days, and this being the final of 3 years since the start of the re-adaptation, the production values still do hold up well, there's just nothing to say about it other than praises for the modern age. Even the OST, which since Season 2, has a K-Pop and J-Pop mix to it (which is more prevalent these days), and yeah, nothing else to say than that it's standard songs that rhyme well with the core theme of Fruits Basket.

In my very honest opinion, I can see why fans who've read Fruits Basket hold this series to a very high regard, and I respect mangaka Natsuki Takaya for her efforts to create one of the most classic Shoujo series out there that fans old and new have been smearing around. With the Final signalling the TRUE end of the legendary work after 20 long years, we can finally bid goodbye to Fruits Basket and its notoriety of a massive reputation that's truly well deserved of an unorthodox formula undertaken to showcase why this series is still popular to this day, even in the future.

What a journey of 3 years, consisting of 136 chapters in 63 episodes of a classic manga's near-COMPLETE adaptation, Owari in a great conclusion.

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