Comments | oyceter: Takaya Natsuki - Fruits Basket, vol. 01 (Eng. trans.) (reread)

oyceter

Takaya Natsuki - Fruits Basket, vol. 01 (Eng. trans.) (reread)

Apr 12, 2007 14:54

Finally, I start a week late in the Great Manga Reread Project: Fruits Basket edition!

Spoilers for this volume under the cut; spoilers for later volumes further hidden using spoiler code. Please use spoiler code for later volumes in the comments! Also, I've only read up to around ch. 126 (aka, I am where Akito is female, Momiji and Hiro have had ( Read more... )

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snarp April 12 2007, 22:57:03 UTC

The Sohma family seems to be typed as upper class or at least upper-middle-class, particularly with the designation of Yuki as prince of the school.[my questionable senior research project follows ( ... )

oyceter April 13 2007, 22:07:31 UTC

Oh! Cool! I didn't really think about that with regard to "stereotypically" Western or Chinese-looking clothes. Saionji in Utena is associated with more "traditional" Japanese things like kendo, and he's pretty emotionally intense (and insanely jealous...).

(also, you got to write a senior research project on clothing choices in anime and manga?!?! SO COOL!)

snarp April 14 2007, 02:23:12 UTC

Saionji works, too! I hadn't thought of him. And Anthy fits pretty well as the opposing Westernized character, because she's so closely associated with the roses (Western symbol) and so apparently shallow and asexual at first... it totally works! (My theoretical model gains 15 EXP ( ... )

oyceter April 16 2007, 02:37:52 UTC

Yes to the blondness thing! I was just thinking that, especially how the non-fantasy-world manga/anime tries to rationalize the blonde characters by saying they're half-something/half-Japanese, despite the fact that I have never met a half-Asian with blonde hair.

Gender ambiguity in manga! EEEE!

rilina April 13 2007, 01:40:41 UTC

I particularly love how there's a tiny panel of wee!Tohru smiling and jumping up to the cry of "Onigiri!" in the distance when Yuki and Kyo bring her home from her relatives' place; it's such a small note, but it's so great thematically (she fits! she found her place in the fruit basket!) and it's OMG SO CUTE WEE!TOHRU too!

I love this part too.

I hadn't noticed the difference between the suffixes that Tohru uses when she speaks and the ones that she uses when she thinks. That's cool! Thanks for pointing that out!

rilina April 13 2007, 01:41:16 UTC

Also, I didn't write anything about Uotani.

oyceter April 13 2007, 22:08:52 UTC

I didn't notice the suffixes either, until it got to the part when Kyo yells at her for calling him "Kyo-san." Then I had to flip back and try and track everything, because I am insane like that.

Huh. Now I'm really curious as to where that long skirt comment was. Maybe it was actually talking about Amane from Her Majesty's Dog, who has long skirts because she doesn't care about fashion enough to roll it up.

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oyceter April 13 2007, 22:09:58 UTC

I suspect I will not be quite so obsessive for latter volumes, given the time!

Oh, I didn't notice the part about the grave. I like that it does show her experience and that her experience is as someone who isn't traditionally thought of as a nurturing mom type (heee).

Just wanted to say anonymous August 3 2008, 05:10:34 UTC

Tahnks for posting

Re: Just wanted to say oyceter August 5 2008, 16:22:41 UTC

Thanks for reading!

thank you anonymous September 23 2008, 16:02:44 UTC

Amazing text!, bro