English is my third language so try to forgive any grammatical mistakes
Story
The premise is alright. But thats pretty much the only compliment I can give about it.
The story constantly tries its hardest to be "deep" but everything about it is just as flat as megumin's chest. The author is constantly trying to tell us "oh look x person is depressed because x y z" then proceeds to give us a cliche backstory wrapped with all the "zodiac theme" which makes it look different at first glance but upon further inspection (not much you literally need about 5 seconds to realise it) its just always the same as usual but with a different package.
Let me give an example : Alfred is from your average melodrama highschool anime, he is sad and depressed because he was bullied in highschool and that left some suicidal thoughts in him.
Let's talk as if Alfred was in the fruits basket universe: Alfred is sad and depressed because he was bullied from his peers in school because he is a zodiac member
Taddaaa! You have finished writing fruits basket.
Art and animation:
The art is nice and the details are there nothing spectacular by any means. I found it better than 80% of romance Anime's though
The animation is also fine. The facial expressions are on point and they manage to convey the feelings of the characters.
Sound:
The voice acting is one point. But it's the least you'd expect from anime.
The music however is the most forgettable thing in this. It's fitting I guess. But never in my life I will go look up on youtube trying to find a certain ost from fruits basket. Non of the op songs nor the Ed's were any good imo but that's just a matter of taste.
Characters:
For me, this is the worst part about this show.
In short, the characters are very dumb, way too dumb. Non of the characters acts like a normal human being. The characters refuse to communicate like normal people. Instead they just say dumb stuff just to prolonge the story like "now is not the time to talk about this"
Or "I don't think I'm ready" or "when the time comes you will know" but there isn't anything such as "correct time".
I could put a thousand question marks on half the characters actions. You will notice it yourself whilst watching. You will be questioning an event every 5 minutes and then ask yourself:"why is x person is acting like an animal?" then you realize you are watching fruits basket so it's only natural. I don't mind cliche's that much. But when paired with such stupid characters Its extremely hard to enjoy the story.
Fruits basket could have easily been a 2-cour 25 episode series if only the characters were actively trying to solve the issues.
I could go on and on and on about this but I'm just gonna stop here for now.
Enjoyment :
I don't mind cliche's. But not this one. This is garbage. Most of the time I found myself wanting drop this show but it's fanboys hyped this so much that I had to complete it.
Overall:
Dumb characters ruined a cliche Fiesta that otherwise would have been mediocre at best. This show never had any potential. Thankfully I didn't really expect much even with all the hype surrounding it.
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