The one caveat I’d have, and I’d probably mention it at the outset, is that I think the series promotes the concept that what girls want most and what they need to be happy is marriage. If someone asked me to recommend a manga series for girls with strong female characters, it would be near the top of my list. They are complex and interesting, and each of them is richly drawn. The primary female characters in Fruits Basket are uniformly awesome. I mentioned Sarah Rees Brennan’s post lamenting the lack of good female characters in fiction (and discussing why she loves them when they are there), but really, I could not complain at all about this series in that sense. There is exactly one thing that bothered me at all while reading the series (and really, “bothered” is a pretty strong word), but for whatever reason, that’s what I feel most moved to speak about right now. Really, I am very happily in love with it. (Note to Ysabet: Wow do I understand why you love who you love best now.) The series has so much charm and is filled with such wonder and sweet, sweet humanity. Oh what characters! I love every single one of them. The characters in Fruits Basket have been permanently affixed to my heart, and I am thrilled about that. So first of all, I want to be perfectly clear about one thing: I love Fruits Basket. I make this post with some trepidation, because I think there are at least a couple of people waiting anxiously to hear what I think of this series, and it seems completely wrong that the first thing I’m writing since I’ve finished it may appear a bit negative.
0 kommentar(er)
