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You brought up some interesting points. Just for context—and a small spoiler—we really don’t see them again until the very end, and she’s 18 by that point. There’s no kiss, no hug, and honestly, they’re probably the most low-key pair in the whole series. It’s definitely one of those things that’s more implied than shown, so how people interpret it is totally up to them. Personally, I don’t feel strongly enough about the couple to debate it much further. Love them or hate them, they barely get any screen time together. And just in case—sorry if that spoiled anything for anyone!
Jay18
2025-04-21 18:32:29 +0000 UTCOkay so this is the last time I will comment about this. I'm not posting this to debate and I'm also not trying to change anybody's mind. How you feel is how you feel and that's okay. I feel like sometimes my comments get misunderstood, I'm only sharing my personal opinions. I just kind of wanted to clear up my feelings because I don't like hearing that people who dislike the Uo+Kureno ship only see things as black and white and don't see anything beyond the surface of their ages. Anyways, I understand that not every situation is clear cut and I understand that in this case, Kureno's situation isn't the same as the average person. At this point in time, we don't know anything at all about him, but given what we know about how Akito has treated the zodiacs, we can already assume that Kureno has his own story. Although in general, in like 99% of situations I would be against age gaps (when one person is on the younger end, not in situations where both parties are grown adults) in fiction and in real-life, there may be very very rare exceptions where due to their personal circumstances, I could theoretically see it and go, you know what, yeah it makes sense why it would work. But I /personally/, again personally, don't really feel like this is one of them. The mangaka/author of Fruits Basket has said she enjoys age gap relationships (which in my opinion is a red flag in a person but thats another thing), and this particular pairing feels more like an insertation of relationship preferences rather than strong writing. I honestly don't really feel that strongly about this particular pairing either. I don't hate it, I just don't like it and find it unnecessary. At the end of the day, Uo and Kureno are fictional characters. They're literally just some drawings. So when watching Fruits Basket and I see them, I just go "oh. well that's unfortunate storytelling" and then I put it in the back of my head and I move on and continue enjoying the story since the parts I like are more than the parts I dislike. However, my problem with it is more so that you have to remember that shojo is written with a certain demographic in mind. Fruits Basket is an incredibly popular and mainstream manga/anime both in Japan and worldwide. The readers of the magazine where Fruba was originally published are mostly female, a majority of who are minors. While not everyone reading/watching Fruba is a young girl (I would assume the majority of us here are not), I think about the impressionable young girls who may see this and think it's okay and put themselves in vulnerable situations. "If it worked out for them, then it can work out for me!" is such a dangerous mindset for kids to have. Once again, if you like the pairing. That's your own thing and I'm not going to tell you that you are wrong about how you feel. But I also don't think that people who dislike the pairing dislike the pairing because they are close minded.
riddle
2025-04-21 12:57:01 +0000 UTCim sorry, i have to disagree. atp uo is 17 i believe and kureno is 26. you can say that uo is much more mature than her peers, has gone through things none of them have, and therefore is capable of taking care of herself and others. that rlly does not change the fact that she is still, in fact, 17. and what would a 26 year old man want to do with a 17 year old high schooler? there is no double standard in a situation like this since she is still a young girl and he is an older man. she can pursue him and beg him to be w her, but it's not her fault if he decides to get into a relationship w her. it's up to HIM, the grown man, to understand right from wrong and NOT reciprocate those feelings not to pry into your own situation, but even if you say you guys had a great relationship or that you guys remained good friends, it's still extremely odd for a 33 year old man who's in the workforce and has over a decade more of life experience over you, to be attracted to a fresh out of high school 18 year old. now that you're older, would you want to date an 18 year old boy? assuming he believes himself to be more mentally mature than his peers, you would sincerely pursue a relationship with him? bc even when you say you were mature at that age, im sure you were no where near the maturity level that you are now that you are much older w all the experience you have. im not sure how old you are, but 18 year old you wouldn't compare to 25 year old you which wouldn't compare to 33 year old you. i hope this is making sense and not coming off as too rambly and all over the place now, w/o getting into spoilers, the situation w kureno is a bit different as we all know. however, if you know abt the other couples, there's a few w some crazy age gaps as well. do you excuse those too? it may be a cultural and generational difference, but it doesn't take away the fact that these are all odd. the author clearly had a thing for these age gaps and saw nothing wrong w it. no matter what you say, with an age gap comes a power dynamic. there's also usually not much to talk abt w one another when you guys are in such different phases in life. what does a college girl have to discuss w someone who pays a mortgage? i can truly go on and on abt this topic. young kids fall prey to this all the time, ive seen it happen to my friends and watched them suffer from it. i hope you don't brush these issues off w the young ppl in your lives and look out for them instead. bc while it may have worked out for you, it certainly does not for most of the ppl in those situations
juniebjones
2025-04-19 22:10:32 +0000 UTCSince there is such controversy about the age gap between Uotani and Kureno, I’ll over share my personal experiences for a perspective that some people may not have. I grew up in an extremely bad family dynamic causing me to be more mature, adult like due to the circumstances I was in and having spent most of my time alone. Most of my friends and people I dated ended up being several years older than me as my peers couldn’t relate to me and my experiences. In my first and only year of college, “I” pursued a relationship with the college computer administrator (he wasn’t a teacher). I was 18, he was 33. We dated for a year but remained good friends until he finally married in his late 50’s. We ended our friendship out of respect for his new wife’s feelings. The least age gap happened to be with my ex husband (4 + years) and it was a total disaster. It’s all about perspective, personal experience and how you handle any situation whether you’re male or female, younger or older as long as you’re the age of consent and no one is being pressured into a situation they’re not comfortable with. Keeping an open mind, you can learn from having experiences with others outside of your age group be they older or younger. Kureno doesn’t know that Uotani is perfectly capable of kicking his ass as she does regularly to Kyo. By the way, why doesn’t anyone have a problem with her taking shots at him for no reason. Seems to be a bit of a double standard here. It’s Uotani that pursued Kureno by running after him and if she found him gently touching her face offensive, he would have found himself flat out on the ground as Kyo sometimes does for doing absolutely nothing. I have more of a problem with some of the so called family dynamics here.
Cheryl Lambert
2025-04-19 20:21:44 +0000 UTC
