At first I thought that Fruits Basket was interesting, and had potential to be good, but they spent so long introducing new characters and not really giving them that much of a story that it just fell flat. Maybe if I read the manga I'd have a different conclusion, but I felt like everything was left hanging, especially the ending. It was an interesting enough story, although I thought it left for little romance with them pretty much not being able to touch.
Let me get onto Tohru (I'm actually suprised I still remember her name). She was clearly inhuman. She's got the least depth I've ever seen in an anime character. She's WAY to nice. No one on planet earth is that kind and modest. After a while it was just annoying. And she was way too innocent that it annoyed me. Yeah, I understand seeing guys naked is obviously going to get a reaction, but I swear she freaked out unnecessarily every time. I think the other characters are generic too. Her friends are generic weirdos, and the guys and girls of the zodiac are pretty much neatly tucked into a box. The anime tries to make it seem as though they have depth, but no. The character building was way too scarce for me to ever believe that.
The art was nice.
Overall, I think this anime is HIGHLY overrated. Which is strange, because apparently I like overrated things. (Death Note, Lovely Complex, etc). I don't know why everyone had so much praise for an anime that was discontinued. Maybe if you read the manga then I would understand. But if you didn't, why the hell watch it? It's not complete, nothing really goes on, it spends the whole anime building up a story that is inevitably not going to get solved within the anime. Torhu (God bless her heart) is the most annoying character in life. You never even know what she's thinking throughout the anime because she's too stupid to realize that these guys like her. THAT BEING SAID, this anime was good enough to finish... a lot of the time I just drop them. So... if that says anything to you?
I think I just needed to pass the time. Oh welll.
