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Jun. 13th, 2004 12:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockSo I spent a while tonight making copies of Fruits Basket to send to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leslina, the jewel and angel who's promised to help me see Full Metal Alchemist since the internest is conspiring against me with that series.
leslina is skeptical about Fruits Basket being too shoujo for her action girl tastes, but I will change her mind. Furuba is irresistable, and I say this as an action girl anime fan. This show takes over and makes you love it.
In making the CDs, for example, I've had to test them out so I've been watching snatches of the episodes again all night. And... I'm still so friggin in love with this show!
I love my FB mood icon set frompsychodragon82. I love my Kyo icon from someone else. I love this show and I love these characters and I just love. love. love. I can't wait for more manga!
Especially the last 3 episodes. There's no pointing in watching this show if you can't see the end. It just... wow. WOW. The end takes everything good and makes it into everything fantastic.
I love how FB seems like this light, fluffy sitcom and then it tosses in these horribly tragic backstories.
I love how, for a show so cheerful, the characters have such dramatic reasons to angst.
I love how all their angst is so burried and taboo and never talked about. As opposed to many anime characters, who are made to wade in their angst. The Sohma family, in contrast, does their damnedest to not let the outside world, and by extention the audience, know just how totally frickin' angsty they really are underneath.
I love how all of this just happens to be part of the metaphor of the whole freakin thing.
I love that this show is so deliberate. It's silly and it's dramatic in terms, but in hindsight it's all so deliberate. Making you love a character for one thing and then giving you a reason to cry for that thing later. Building up these relationships so specifically and deliberately that you don't see the nuances until everything goes down in a spectacular snowball of angst.
I love that the last 3 episodes are so dramatically different in tone from the previous episodes, yet instead of that making them stand out, it only makes them seem like an extension or progression of what we've seen before:
Several times in the show Tohru has had her protective veil of naivte peeled briefly back and she's caught a glimpse of the darkness underneath. In the final episodes the audience has their protective veil of romantic comedy happiness no just peeled back, but violently thrown back, and be forced to face the dirt under the velvet rug.
How can I not love a show that plays your emotions so well?
Damn I love this show.
leslina, the jewel and angel who's promised to help me see Full Metal Alchemist since the internest is conspiring against me with that series.leslina is skeptical about Fruits Basket being too shoujo for her action girl tastes, but I will change her mind. Furuba is irresistable, and I say this as an action girl anime fan. This show takes over and makes you love it.In making the CDs, for example, I've had to test them out so I've been watching snatches of the episodes again all night. And... I'm still so friggin in love with this show!
I love my FB mood icon set from
psychodragon82. I love my Kyo icon from someone else. I love this show and I love these characters and I just love. love. love. I can't wait for more manga! Especially the last 3 episodes. There's no pointing in watching this show if you can't see the end. It just... wow. WOW. The end takes everything good and makes it into everything fantastic.
I love how FB seems like this light, fluffy sitcom and then it tosses in these horribly tragic backstories.
I love how, for a show so cheerful, the characters have such dramatic reasons to angst.
I love how all their angst is so burried and taboo and never talked about. As opposed to many anime characters, who are made to wade in their angst. The Sohma family, in contrast, does their damnedest to not let the outside world, and by extention the audience, know just how totally frickin' angsty they really are underneath.
I love how all of this just happens to be part of the metaphor of the whole freakin thing.
I love that this show is so deliberate. It's silly and it's dramatic in terms, but in hindsight it's all so deliberate. Making you love a character for one thing and then giving you a reason to cry for that thing later. Building up these relationships so specifically and deliberately that you don't see the nuances until everything goes down in a spectacular snowball of angst.
I love that the last 3 episodes are so dramatically different in tone from the previous episodes, yet instead of that making them stand out, it only makes them seem like an extension or progression of what we've seen before:
Several times in the show Tohru has had her protective veil of naivte peeled briefly back and she's caught a glimpse of the darkness underneath. In the final episodes the audience has their protective veil of romantic comedy happiness no just peeled back, but violently thrown back, and be forced to face the dirt under the velvet rug.
How can I not love a show that plays your emotions so well?
Damn I love this show.
