Furuba vol. 12, again

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I'm rereading volume 12 of Fruits Basket, and volume 13 is waiting. It's so much better in the official translation! The dialogue...makes sense! The conversations follow a logical line of discussion and I can comprehend what the fucking point is!

It's so much nicer. I missed a lot of stuff back when I was reading scanlations. Like the whole Kagura & Kyo conversation thing-- my impression of that conversation was muddled and confused, but reading this time it was very clear and actually very moving. I also missed out on the crucial point of Kagura's confession the first time; I actually get it now. And Kyo! I love Kyo so much.

Shigure and the teacher's conversation was even funnier now that their sentences made sense. I'm so glad I swore off the scanlations for Furuba. I can wait. I can be patient and buy the official TokyoPop manga volumes. If ever there was a series I'd gladly spend money on for manga, it's Furuba. I just...gah. This is my favorite manga, no question. I enjoy Naruto but Naruto ain't got nothin' on the operatic-scale tragedy of Tohru Honda and the Sohma family. The level of character development and foreshadowing and detailed continuity just makes me swoon. (And there's the fact that I'm in fangirl love with half the Sohma boys--specifically Kyo, Shigure, and Haru.)

BTW, I'm still, in my heart, kind of a Kagura/Yuki shipper. I'd love to see them together in a few years, as comfortable adults. This is because I watched the anime first, I think.

EDIT - If anyone reading this mentions anything about FB to me beyond chapter 108, you will become as a pancake: flat and mushy and bleeding syrup, an abused piece of pan-fried pastry that no one wants to touch because you've been beaten to a whitish pulp and left wasted on the kitchen floor for three days.

I mean, seriously folks. There's few things that I love like I love the FB manga. You can spoil me for Battlestar Galactica and I'll whine a bit and feel some irritation, but that's it. You spoil me for Fruits Basket and YOU HURT MY SOUL. MY SOUL. I will gladly taken the label of paranoid and over-reacting and bitchy if it means people won't spoil me.

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