Fruits Basket: Prelude

I kinda skipped through the 30 min of tohru and kyo recap. To be honest I was kinda ready to give this movie a 3 or 5 star review, because I thought it would just be like a successful grooming or something but it wasn't, I thought a couple things tohrus dad said was weird but when the scene came where kyoko told tohrus dad she was pregnant and started crying about how she would be a good mother and then how tohrus dad comforted her and reassured her that they would raise the baby together, I balled and I balled for the rest of the movie, like legit I didn't stop crying. It was one thing after another and the ending was wholesome! So yah, this movie will make you sob if you have a weak soul like mine, other than that I thought this was a great movie!

Being in town, I decided to take a glance at what was playing at the local cinema. Discovering that an Anime which I had not heard of before was soon starting,I decided to pick up a fruit basket. View on the film: Filling the basket with ripe, tasty hand-drawn animation, with an expressive warmth in the facial animation of Honda and Kyoko, the makers sadly sour the taste, by slapping 30 minutes from the Anime on the opening of the film, which gives off the whiff of the studio cutting corners. Slicing open a tense family Drama from Tohrus mum, the screenplay by Taku Kishimoto tries to play off large age gaps in the romances as comedic, but ends up making Katsuya looking like an extremely creepy groomer, as the fruit in the basket becomes rotten.

I went to see this a couple days ago, and I loved it. It took me on an emotional roller coaster ride that I don't regret. The story felt real and alive, with the insights by Kyoto and Katsuya, and their blooming relationship. Kyoko's words dig into me like a knife, but it felt real and true. This movie is emotional, but worth the time and emotions spent to watch it.