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Fruits Basket is a masterpiece of the romance drama genre. At first Fruits Basket seemed like a fun reverse harem anime with a ditsy dense girl and her hot handsome boyfriends, but after watching a little I realized Fruits Basket has so much more to offer. At times it felt like I was the character rather than watching the character. The way this anime was able to make me feel what the characters felt and relate to them so much is amazing. This anime put me to tears every episode and it'll have a lasting impact I'll never forget.
(This review is about all three ... seasons, and there's a small spoiler section so the rest of the review is spoiler free.)

Fruits Basket has it all,
Romance, drama, slice of life, hot husbandos and cute waifus, emotional rollercoasters, cute ships, intense and mysterious story-line, deep character growth, heart agonizing moments, complex portrayals of many common feelings and emotions, and a beautiful story.


- Story (10) :

Fruits Basket's story can be seemingly simple yet perplexed at the same time. Tohru and the Soumas striving to break the curse, understand and accept their feelings and grow, all while facing and overcoming their pasts in order to work towards a beautiful future.
Fruits Basket entangles itself in mystery while exploring many complex feelings we all have as we grow. The anime focuses on the characters and their relationships as they change, grow, and even break apart. This anime will make you feel what the characters are feeling. It brings you to tears and rips at your heart with sadness, depression, guilt, and hopelessness. Then it proceeds to warm your body with happiness, love, kindness, care, and the compassion it portrays. It's true emotional rollercoaster on par with that of many others like Violet Evergarden or Clannad Afterstory.

- *MINOR SPOILERS* - (Analysis of each Season. Skip to the next section below if you don't want to know what each season focuses on.)

Season 1 of Fruits Basket primarily introduces us to the world, the Souma Family, and let's us learn fragments of our characters. It does well to introduce us to everything while giving minimal information about the deep backgrounds of the characters. Overall it was enjoyable, and it really set the stage for the following seasons.

Season 2 takes this a step forward by diving deeper into the characters, and it gets a lot more darker. The real issue with this season is that it can feel like the pacing is incredibly slow and the story really goes nowhere. I even dropped the second season at episode 6 to watch something else, but I decided to give it a second chance, and it was more than worth it. The slow build up definitely payed off. The second half of the season more than redeems the first half for the lack of plot progression. Things really get deep after the first part of the second season, and we begin to learn about Akito and the relationships he and the Soumas have with one another. Some of them face their pasts, others breakdown because of it, and others struggle to change and overcome it. The second season provided us with much needed information about our characters and it really shows us their struggles. This was far more emotionally moving than the first season. I was really able to understand and even relate to many of the characters here, and ending of the Second season left me speechless.

Season 3 or the Final Season of Fruits Basket now stands on the solid built foundations of the previous seasons and takes a giant leap towards the sky. After the way they ended the 2nd season I was dying to watch the next season, and this season goes beyond all expectations I had. Each episode tugs at my heart and throws my emotions all over the place, then it leaves me hurting as I desperately wait for the next episode. Each episode just gets so much more better. It's truly remarkable how much of an impact this anime can have on you. This season wraps up the story of Fruits Basket spectacularly. This is the climax we have all been waiting for. Fruits Basket has truly become a masterpiece ~


- Art (9) :

Fruits Basket's art is well above the standard of your average anime. With a cute easy on the eyes style, it's everything you want in slice of life romance drama anime. The most notable aspect of Fruits Basket's art is the way it beautifully portrays heart moving emotion in all of it's scenes. Even without a ground-breaking revolutionary art style, Fruits Basket manages to provide us with extravagant impactful scenes.

- Sound (10) :

Fruits Basket's sound is one of the aspects of the anime which makes it outstanding. The sounds and music intensify the emotion within the scenes and helps to create truly amazing moments in the anime.
The openings, endings, and sound tracks within all seasons were spectacular, and lovely to listen to. I also absolutely love the final season's opening "Pleasure"!

- Character (10) :

The whole premise of this anime is character development. Fruits basket provides you with a large diverse set of characters, many of which all of us can relate to and truly understand.
Fruits Basket manages to realistically develop its characters extremely well, providing them with fascinating backstories, while giving them all significant purpose in the whole grand scheme of the anime. Each of our characters faced many things in the past which haunts them, and breaks them to the ground, so seeing how they struggle and overcome these is amazing. It's simply beautiful, the amount of depth these characters have. The characters go through so much, just watching it made me feel like I was on an emotional rollercoaster.

- Enjoyment :

Fruits Basket provides you with everything you'll ever want from the romance drama genre. The storytelling is spectacular, the art is great, the sound is beautiful, and the characters are phenomenal. This is one of those animes that'll have a large lasting impact on you, as well as teach you many lessons about life. The cruelty of fate can be overcome through hard work, and eventually we'll all be able to live closer to our ideal lives.

I love this anime so much and I'm very glad to have watched it. Fruits Basket will be one of those animes which I'll never forget how deeply it impacted me. I really wish there were more drama romances like this with emotionally moving, tear jerking and heart mellowing moments, filled with extreme character growth.

It's an undoubtable fact that the Isekai genre has grown exponentially within the last decade and Seijo no Maryoku presents the immense potential held within a new type of Isekai which has yet to be explored thoroughly. A light hearted cute wholesome story of the everyday life of a girl who's been summoned to another world, and the beginning of her adorable romance story. This is exactly the type of new refreshing Isekai many of us have been eagerly waiting for!

Our story follows the adventures of Sei Takanashi, and her everyday life as she strives to improve her alchemy and explores the the depths of ... her saintly capabilities. After a faithful encounter with the person who'll soon become her most beloved, he helps her truly begin to love this new world she was brought to, and with his support she is able to move forward and become the beacon of hope she was summoned to be. Could this be the power of love?

The story is very simplistic and enjoyable, the art is average like any other Isekai series, the sound helps create a sense of calmness and relaxation while watching this lighthearted series, and the character's relationships are adorable.

Overall this is a very enjoyable series if you want to just take a step back and relax on a nice calm Sunday evening with a cup of tea~