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[timepiececlock]

I gave into a spoiler tease at fandom_wank and got the most interesting about-face spoiler for Fruits Basket ever.

Seriously. This changes how I see everything in the show/manga. I have to go back and reread everything now and take in this new revelation.

I've avoided most spoilers up to this point, and to be honest I don't think this spoiler is connected to any others so I'm still mostly clean. But, damn. What a spoiler. I'm going to shriek about it in a comment below.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

HA HA HA HA IT'S AKITO ISN'T IT HA HA HA HA and actually? It changes very, very little of the series for me. Why (except for some sexist reason) should I think about Akito or the rest of the series any differently? He's always been a Bitch Queen From Hell. Now he just matches the gender.


(I'm going to keep referring to Akito as "he", because I would to be polite to any other transgender person. And again--changes very, very little of anything for me.)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I know... it doesn't really change anything plot-wise. But it kinda changes a lot fandom-wise. And some of my characterization assumptions about Shigure, Hatori, and Ayame might be slightly altered now.

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

Hey, it occurs to me that maybe the reason this doesn't bug us all that much (my "secret" shame is a completely different issue entirely) is that we see so many girls who are virtually indistinguishable from boys except for breasts on a daily basis anyway. Akito's just another ASC student!

(P.S. Rashaka--my secret shame, which is really no longer secret, is that I never really bought into the whole Akito=bishie thing, but when that spoiler came out, I was suddenly all, "Dude...Akito's kinda hot.")

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I never really bought into it either. I always thought "he kinda looks like Yuki"-- where Yuki is the bishie, and Akito is just the comparison.