Now THIS is interesting...

[neocloud9]

Via ANN's discussion boards:

Question: If Fruits Baskets continues to do well, improving with each subsequent release, then someone please explain to me WHY they never finished the damned anime?!

Answer (from industry insider Justin Sevakis): It's long enough ago now that I can say this: The reason there will never be any more Fruits Basket anime

Comments

[xploded_tb]

D: No wonder there's no more Furuba...

[starrose17]

I'd always wondered that, and this explains all!

[12gatsunohime]

Wooooow. Well, I guess that explains it. But yeah, I would've paid money to see that. o-o

[bodyline]

Oh good, I much preferred the anime to the manga and if they tried to revive the anime to follow the direction the manga went it would have been a disastah (and boring as fuck).

[neocloud9]

Same here. And I for one loved the anime's comedy, it had pitch-perfect timing! I can't imagine anyone not liking it, to be quite honest...

[bodyline]

Pretty much. The anime was cute and funny and didn't drag it out too long and didn't pair everyone off. The manga went on waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long and tried to make it a bit darker and was just really boring.

[baka_tenshi]

Same here. The manga made it more creepy and depressing than what it really was. It was hard to take it seriously at times.

Which is probably why I didn't read the manga for too long.

[neocloud9]

It sounded really good, actually! You should listen to the ANNcast, when you get the chance...

[neocloud9]

Bam.