#cinderella-ish

[glitchy-bex]

I always found it hilarious that all of these happened AFTER the episode where Kyo made the tearful realization that he loved Tohru + held her hand, all that jazz.

Like, he was fully aware 🤣

[frubafanarchive]

Cinderella-ish Cosplay at Dokomi Cosplay Ball (2014)

Posted by Chayantou on DeviantArt (Kyo) as a cosplay by CosBase.de team including: PrincipessaPitcures (Tohru), yoshi-in-black (Saki), Chigo-strawberry (Arisa), & [email protected] (Yuki) [1] [2]

[cinderella-ish]

I have such a love hate relationship with my blog name/ao3 handle. On the one hand, It’s Cinderella-ish! is the best, funniest episode of Fruits Basket. I love it so much! (I may or may not have an essay or several coming on why it’s so good!) And the related manga chapters are pure gold, too.

On the other hand, it definitely gives the vibe of “quirky, clumsy Disney princess” which is not what I want in my fannish name.

I’ve thought about changing it. I picked it in kind of a hurry. But I also don’t want to get in the habit of changing my fannish name, because I don’t even know what I’d change it to, and I don’t want to open that up as an option because I would totally end up changing my name every few weeks. 😅

And the episode really is that good…

So, idk, poll I guess?

What’s the first thing my blog name makes you think of?

Disney

Fruits Basket

Other (pls share in tags or replies!)

No response/see results

Voting ended onMay 24, 2025

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1C, MATCH 9 OUT OF 16!

Who is the best Cinderella?

Touya Kinomoto as Cinderella (Cardcaptor Sakura)

Saki Hanajima as "Cinderella-ish" (Fruits Basket)

Voting ended onNov 21, 2023

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Touya:

His performance as Cinderella in his school play is played for laughs, but the thing I really appreciate is that the comedy comes from how ill-fitting his personality is for the character, not his gender. The episode was funny, sure, but it was also surprisingly progressive for a children's anime from the 90's (then again, so was the rest of the show haha). Also he's the only Cinderella who gets sent to the ball by a talking can of mackerel.

Saki:

Psychic goth girl who was cast as Cinderella in a school play. The play was so poorly cast overall that the entire script had to be rewritten, thus “Cinderella-ish” was born. Hanajima played a Cinderella dressed in all black, and when confronted by the fairy godmother, she simply wished for meat.

idk if this is what you meant by 'acting' as Cinderella but in-universe she got cast as Cinderella in the school play, and the characters ended up re-writing the entire play to work around her because she was too Goth and disinterested to play a classic Cinderella character.

She plays the best version of Cinderella. All she cared about was going to the ball for the barbecue. The episode she's in is a really good one as well.

Overall Saki is not a Cinderella character, but you did say we could submit them if they were Cinderella in an in-universe play, and that she was! In Season 2 Episode 23 "It's Cinderella-ish", her class puts on a production of Cinderella and she ends up getting cast as the titular role, which a lot of other characters think is crazy because she's this straight-faced, emotionally-repressed, exclusively-wears-black kinda girl. Also her best friend Tohru (the anime's protagonist) gets cast as an evil stepsister, and she's one of the sweetest people ever and has so much trouble being mean to Saki even fakely and vice versa. Of course, Saki has no problems being rude to the Prince Charming character in the play, played by Kyo, a guy who's sweet deep down (but only to Tohru and his adoptive father) but is other wise a hot head who's always getting into fights. So between Saki as Cinderella having a genuine love for her stepsister and a general animosity with the prince, in addition to the fact that when she goes to the ball, all she wants to do is eat, not mingle, she makes for a very interesting Cinderella.

so this shoujo series has a storyline where the class puts on a Cinderella play but instead of the heroine playing Cinderella, shenanigans happen that lead to the heroine's goth best friend, Saki Hanajima, aka Hana-chan, aka Demon Queen, playing the lead role. Hana-chan's Cinderella dresses in all black against the wishes of the play's director, does not give 2 shits about the prince, and is just a general menace to society. I know she's probably not gonna win but I just wanted to share her with all of you bc I love her and the Cinderella-ish arc is to this day some of the funniest shit I've seen in a manga

their high school class decided to randomize who played which characters in their production of Cinderella & the creepy goth girl got cast as Cinderella & her painfully kind-hearted bestie got cast as the evil stepsister (among other mismatched roles) so they rewrote the play into "Sorta Cinderella" & Cinderella became a deadpan, lazy girl who only wants the best for her darling step-sister & who only went to the ball for the food.  in the end, instead of marrying the prince she takes his money & opens a restaurant with her sister & I love that for them <3

[chiarrara]

it's about the someday will you admit the truth, or will you keep decieving yourself forever? will you stay as you are, locked in your palace, alone and isolated until the day you die? so what if i do? it's not like it hurts anyone else but me. what does it matter if i choose to-- no please! i don't want that. I... I... *gasp* I'm so sorry for interrupting! please forget i said anything, I-- I don't know what i'm talking about. Ignore me and just continue on with the story. she doesn't... want... that.... you know?

[animeaster]

Don't be lame let her burn down the palace.

[chiefmartinbrody]

Gonna tell my kids this is Bad Cinderella.

[earlgreyandanime]

I kinda have this post-curse headcanon that every new years, all the former zodiac members and their families get together and every single year, without fail, Momiji brings out the Cinderella-ish tape and gets everyone to watch it.