“Fruits Basket is all fluff, it’s got no seriousness or substance”
The 23 volume manga contains:
Child abuse: physical, emotional, and psychological (This is, like, one of the main recurring themes in this manga. Fuck.)
Multiple characters are either outright suicidal or implied to be suicidal
Half the teenage cast suffers from severe PTSD
Someone is straight up stabbed
Someone falls off a fucking cliff
Someone is blinded
A little girl is beaten half to death
Another girl gets thrown out a window
Sex is used as a bargaining chip frighteningly often when this family argues
Most of the characters have experienced death firsthand in some way
Alcoholism
Gang violence
And more
This manga is actually some heavy shit??? (Shut up, stop talking shit, and read the goddamn series. Bye.)
and here I’m watching the show thinking ‘aw, thats kinda cute!’
