Fruits Basket - 2x21 REACTION!! 😢
Added 2025-06-19 20:10:47 +0000 UTCTHIS WAS TRULY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND IMPACTFUL EPISODES OF ANIME WE'VE EVER WATCHED 💔🥺
Yuki’s journey to find himself and build a life filled with happiness and hope (after growing up with nothing but loneliness, rejection, and trauma) is one of the most powerful, heartfelt, and beautifully told narratives in this show. We are in love with this series… and with all of YOU. Thank you for your thoughtful comments, vulnerability, and the safe space you continue to help create 🫂💜
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I love your comments and thoughtful words as always, but I want to disagree with you about one thing. You said that Tohru saved Yuki, but Yuki saved himself. He was the one that somehow gathered the strength to go outside and run, looking for a reason to live. He could have found anything, he was looking for anything, desperately clinging to hope, it just happened to be Tohru and Kyoko. I imagine that if it wasn't Tohru, it could have been a stray cat, or a turtle trying to cross a road and he would have found meaning in it because he was looking for it so hard. Tohru definitely reinforced his efforts, clinging to him just as desperately, but I like to think he saved himself.
AmbiguousCake
2025-08-30 07:39:47 +0000 UTCHi J&J! I've been over at your BTS patreon for a long time now, but just recently I discovered you're doing these Fruits Basket reactions and I had to hop on over ASAP!! Back when I was around 13, this was the first manga I ever finished, and it's continued to be my favorite anime/manga ever since. I can't even tell you how happy I was when we finally got a full anime adaptation. So needless to say, I'm really happy that you guys are doing this! I've really been enjoying catching up with all your episodes so far :) Late to this episode but I just had to comment because, while I do genuinely love so many of the arcs on this show, Yuki's is special to me. It has pulled at my heart in such a deep way each time I've revisited this story. There's just something about the way he's the one who seems like he has it all on paper, but is actually dealing with so much inside. Also how he's served as so many people's punching bag for anger and blame and he's just taken that all on without really thinking ill of others - I guess it makes me protective of him as a character, if that makes sense. It broke my heart to see his first interaction with Kyo and how he admitted he just wanted to be friends (not that I blame any of the other Soma kids really - they're all making their way in a problematic system) I think it was also the first time I ever encountered such a deep exploration of a character who has gone through this kind of loneliness and isolation - the kind that isn't obvious on the surface but is quiet, insidious - and how that's impacted how we see him in present day. I mean to not even know a parent's or friend's love at all for his whole childhood 💔 Though my experience wasn't quite the same I could still recognize something in Yuki - this feeling of being lonely and shy and having to learn to open up to others. I also really love Yuki and Tohru having this mother-son dynamic. Instead of another tired love triangle, I love how we get to see each of the boys have their own very specific bonds with Tohru (which are well fleshed out and make a lot of sense). I love seeing Yuki gain more confidence and open up more sides of his personality to different people because Tohru has provided him that love and safety that he needs. It's amazing to see how much people can grow when you pour in genuine care! And I think it's great that over the course of the show we get to see how Yuki is really trying to push forward, step outside his comfort zone, overcome the darkness, while also being really honest about what still scares him or still holds him back. Thank you for your great discussions on Yuki and all these beloved characters :) Looking forward to catching the rest of the show with you!
Cara
2025-07-01 15:57:23 +0000 UTCI found you guys last night and became a patreon for the fruits basket reactions. I havent caught up to this episode yet, but this episode is too important for me not to comment under. Yuki is my favourite character because I heavily relate to his childhood trauma, to how he reacted to the trauma, to how he acts because of the trauma, and his growth. I won't go into it but I found this show when I was still at rock bottom. It didn't do wonderous things like heal me, but it made me feel seen. Yuki had no support system, no one was there for him and at that time there really was not one that cared about him. The first time I watched younger Yuki break down, I broke down too. I was a sobbing mess. My entire body was hurting from how much emotion was pouring out of me. I was so angry Yuki had to experience and feel those emotions. Such a young boy, it hurt me that I wasn't able to comfort him. I was watching a child me. And I felt so helpless, like I was once again trapped watching my child self experience those dark thoughts and memories and not able to do anything about it . At that point of my life, I really had no way to help younger me and her dark thoughts, I wasnt in the right mindset yet. Lots have happened since then, and I am a whole different person now. I'm finally in that healing stage. Child and teenage me would be shocked I'm fighting to be alive because i'm loving the idea of living. I didn't give up, and I also am not just floating through anymore. Yuki is an inspiration to me. I didn't realise it but i've been taking kakeru's advice, just laugh it off. There's a lot of things in life I can't control and I can't lose myself to those things. I can only laugh it off and keep walking forward.
hai_rene
2025-06-26 12:08:55 +0000 UTC
