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| I'd like to know too. The comments about Akito and his mother are well taken (well, by me, anyways), and as much as I hated the characters (and wanted to reach into my screen and strangle some sense into the mother), it wasn't enough for me to dislike the series. I was too busy following Tohru×Kyo. Honestly, I would have probably also missed Yuki×Machi if I weren't already aware of it. About the elephant in the room (yes ratings, sorry), I felt it deserved my 10. I find it difficult to rate a series a 10 (or even a 9) compared to movies, as there's a lot more content to potentially dislike in a series. I'd also like to know what else people didn't like about the series. I was surprised when FB knocked my favourite high scorer (H×H) out of the top 5 last week, I didn't think it was that popular. I haven't seen FMAB so can't comment. |
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| I watched the whole show and gave the final season a 6. It’s the best season of the show, but the show is not my cup of tea. I don’t ask the people who gave it a 10 to justify their love for the show so I don’t expect to have to justify my score. Please stop making threads Furuba’s score. I was quite indifferent to it but with all these threads I’m actually starting to hate it. |
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| I don't hate the show but I hate that it is overrated. There are 2 biases at work here: 1 - Recency bias: Because this show is the latest trend, it will get more attention from beginner anime watchers and they will think it is the best thing they ever watched (guess why, because they did not watch too many things). 2 - Sampling bias: Multiple season shows are subject to this bias. People who don't like S1 will not watch S2 and S3. The probability that S2 and S3 will get lower scores will drop. That is why most anime at the top are sequels. Also, personally I think the S2 was better (especially the second part). S3 was just a conclusion. Conclusions are almost never the best part of a story and this one is not an exception. |
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| Thread cleaned. Please stay off of the topic of the anime's score distribution and whether botting is occurring, etc. |
| I love the ending because it is still the same ending in the manga. The story was straightforward so I'm not complaining since it is an anime adaptation. Great to see that Katsuya and Kyoko's story is going to be animated. One of my favorite story arcs in the manga. |
 “Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.” ― Natsume Takashi |
| I personally loved this season. However I can see why many hated it, namely Akito and her lack of accountability. While I do entirely agree her getting off scott free is very grating, I feel the other characters reactions are reasonable. I don't believe any of the characters have truly forgiven her entirely, but this entire show was about moving forward. They all wanted to shake their bonds and part of that was not letting their resentment shackle them. They have agreed to move on, but some easier than others. That said I do wish she had more of an arc of working for forgiveness, the idea of her already finding happiness without even doing anything other than 'breaking the chains' that were about to break anyway is rather grating. Especially when her relationship with Shigure is probably the least developed in the series and feels the most forced. Overall I still feel the finale was amazing and like them we can't let our bitterness for Akito ruin the rest of what was a fantastic series. |
"When everyone else is about to give up, the fighter who becomes the role model, is the true Leader."  |
| 1. As someone who read this story a long time ago in the past, I was surprised how overdramatised it was. 2. Apparently, stories about angsty teenagers are no longer interesting to me. |
| "The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful." |
| Many have said it already but Akita’s character arc is the biggest downfall of this season. She’s done too many fucked up shit to the point it’s irredeemable so I didn’t like when there’s pretty much no liability for her in the end. |
| It’s funny cause a lot of stuff people complain about with Fruba, especially the final season...those same type of issues are a lot more magnified in nearly every other Shoujo series (at least with the ones I’ve seen). I think the flaws here just stood out more because of the faster pacing from being single cour. |
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eli_shmeli said: Rejuvenation said: I didn't give this a 1-star but I did hate the final season. A lot of it comes down to Akito not being held accountable or even bothering to apologize for her actions either. definitely makes sense. personally I felt she wasn't meant to be redeemed, and I think the part with Rin shows that not everyone has forgiven her, even if they can't really "defeat her" or something like you could in an action show I agree event tho the protagonist actually redeems a lot of people, not actually redeems I dont know how to explain it... I think that something tohru tried to show to Akito is that she understood her and making her apologize wouldn't change a thing, they should go on and try the best to be better people (that's the way she acted with everyone in the show) while Akito wanted someone to "punish" her, she didn't wanted to tohru just redeem her, she wanted the consequences so she could "pay off". This is something that she talks to momiji (calling kazuma and her idiots). I think it is actually a good thing (in the anime and character development) to akito dont just apologize, and she actually talked about it with shigure. In fact she is still learning, she can't just change suddenly as she until that point thought that she could do anything she wanted since she was born. The anime is about understanding themselves and changing, is about to stop just blaming other people and about understanding that every action there has a reason, etc. (But if I was tohru i would have just killed Akito in the second season to be honest ;-;) All this apologize, redemption and development is something to be deeply analysed in fruits basket, because as you said, is not something about having two different sides, defeating or having one to apologize after defeated, about blaming the "wrong" side. Also about the couples, I think it's because some of them don't have something too different to talk about (like kisa and hiro for example). But when it comes to kazuma and uotani I agree there should have a better development. (I just think sometimes not everyone needs to end up in a relationship to be happy, like some romance series shows, at least they dont just throw a random person to be a couple with momiji) (PS: I am sorry if I wrote something wrong, it was confusing or if I misunderstood something in this message, this is my opinion and I could be wrong anyway. And also English is not my first language, I am still learning) |
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| Didn't hate it but thought it was weaker than the first two seasons for a few reasons. Still gave a 7 to all seasons, could have been a 8 for S2 I guess. A few points: - A lot of things around Akito annoy me, as many people here I see. I hate her so much and it's really unsatisfying to see basically everyone forgive her, while she goes on to live a happy life after ruining the lifes of so many people. - Shigure loving Akito since the day she's born is creepy AF and it's sad nobody in the story seems to confront him about it. - Yuki and Machi felt a bit rushed. Sure, there was that nice Episode 3, which was building up to something, but then Machi barely appeared till Episode... 12. So, that came a bit out of nowhere. - The biggest mystery in S1 is what this Zodiac curse is. And sure, we learn more about how the curse started, but there is no explanation on why the curse is ending. For the last ones, Akito seems to be doing it voluntarily, but what about the first ones? Is it just the curse becoming weaker after so much time? - Some weird pacing, like that absurd growth spurt already mentioned in this thread. Nothing too bad, but that was handled better in the first two seasons I feel. I've read some parts of the manga were skipped and condensed, but outside of things I've mentioned, it didn't disturb me. |
Toadounet said: - Yuki and Machi felt a bit rushed. Sure, there was that nice Episode 3, which was building up to something, but then Machi barely appeared till Episode... 12. So, that came a bit out of nowhere. I can't agree with that. Machi-Yuki got plenty of development during S2. You could already tell they'll end up together. Toadounet said: - The biggest mystery in S1 is what this Zodiac curse is. And sure, we learn more about how the curse started, but there is no explanation on why the curse is ending. For the last ones, Akito seems to be doing it voluntarily, but what about the first ones? Is it just the curse becoming weaker after so much time? Shigure himself explained that the curse is ending soon. Just like that. Well, Kureno's curse was long gone even before S3. Anyway, I give it 8/10. Quite interesing shoujo but that score drama actually made me hate this show a tiny bit. I mean, it's obviously not that good. The adaptation is rushed, and the story is kinda absurd at some points. The fact that FB got >9 is actually cringe. Even if I like this show. |
| It happens with every show. It happened on a way bigger scale during AoT FS (5th season), where even the fanboys were throwing 1s because of CGI. And there were other butthurt people too. But somehow people get upset when 'their show' is affected. |
Anime was it's best 20000 years ago, when cavemen drew art with real depth. Modern anime is all garbage. I miss great old days of anime. |
| Lol toxic fans go touch some grass. You'll destroy the reputation of MAL because of toxicity. |
“Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.” ― Natsume Takashi |
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