So, finished Fruits Basket. All in all, it was excruciatingly adorable and I teared up in several places (although my heart is somewhat stony, so I never actually cried).

Let's do the usual round-up of the good, the bad, and the in-between.

( Spoilers for the whole series under the cut. )

So in all the animu fuss in my last entry, I forgot to talk about Fruits Basket. I'm up to the middle of volume 15. ( Snipped. )

It's strange, but the more I read Fruits Basket, the more I like Tohru. I didn't expect it, because she's such a straightforward yamato nadeshiko in so many ways--gentle, cute, domestic, non-threatening. I like to see female characters break from their assigned roles, and she in no way breaks from her role.

But there's such a sincerity to her. Her ( Read more... )

Because I want to at least get something on my list done before I go to sleep for the night.

On Milk: I liked it. ( Er, spoilers? Ish? )