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Anime Stats
Days: 337.2
Mean Score:
4.88
- Watching20
- Completed1,008
- On-Hold21
- Dropped0
- Plan to Watch44
- Total Entries1,093
- Rewatched116
- Episodes22,006
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Days: 418.4
Mean Score:
5.37
- Total Entries649
- Reread11
- Chapters53,081
- Volumes5,191
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All Comments (229) Comments
Whether getting rid of the recap or not wouldn't matter if everything else was done beautifully, I guess. Not really sure if that was the sole problem though.
It's been some time but I enjoyed the rewatch of Fruits Basket which partly attributed to the overall score increase for the entire series. I would say I got on board with the series' storytelling and really liked the narrative message behind it all this time. My previous gripe with the Fruits Basket as a whole was all on Tohru, tbh. It's not that Tohru is a badly written character, it was that I didn't buy into it back then. And I made it up my mind that she was a "bad" character purely from that standpoint. As I've expressed in my embarrassment of preliminary review of the second season from years ago and my notes to some extent, I just disliked what she was. And yeah, looking back on it, I was wrong. I was wrong for not looking beyond the surface of her character.
My feelings finally changed when the final season aired and it wasn't long after that I subconsciously knew that I had changed my mind about Tohru and that a rewatch was needed. So going into it this year, I knew I would enjoy it more. I guess the irony is that the very thing that I disliked about the series became the very thing that I loved. Besides Tohru, Yuki and Kisa Sohma were standouts for me. For Yuki, it was his character growth and for Kisa, part of it was her cuteness.
You're right. The age gap played into my problems with the Prelude movie and by extension, the whole series. But that's only part of it. For me, a movie is a movie. This means I expected a fully dedicated three-act structure narrative that comprehensively tells a story, its conflicts, its themes, etc. The prelude movie didn't do that. It started with a recap that took a good half hour--almost--which is understandable (kinda) but I thought it wasn't necessary. Those recap scenes from season 3 had no reason to be in the movie. By the end of it, I felt that the major content was either rushed or too short to be adapted into a movie and I didn't feel that it had the big impact that it should've had. Not everything was fleshed out, whether that's due to its storytelling or directing.
Well, that's only my perspective on a movie though.
But I guess to move on to another topic, is it a good idea for me to start reading Monogatari Series: Off Season Light Novel even though I never touched the previous releases before other than the anime series?
(Just kinda got a bit curious considering the recent anime announcements).