English Dub Review: Fruits Basket “Are You Really This Stupid?”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

With the success of a, both Yuki was running at the school festival, mainly due to something unthinkable Yuki had to do. Momiji and Hatori Sohma also visit the stand. And given the zodiac curse that transforms people into the animals of their Chinese zodiac when hugged by the opposite sex, it goes about as well as you’d expect when Momiji indirectly causes chaos when just from hugging Tohru and transforms into a rabbit, though Yuki is able to distract the potential witnesses enough to get Momiji into hiding. On the school rooftop, Hatori cunningly watches from afar at Akito’s request with ominous intentions…


Our Take

Hey, a beach episode that did more than fanservice! Well, this doesn’t really count as an obligatory “beach episode” that most anime shows have often done for the sake of gratuitously putting female characters in bikini’s, but a regular episode that just so happens to have a beach scene. Tohru manages to bring some levity to the family drama, and that scene towards the very end with Akito and Hatori gives off a sense of unease given Akito’s track record of screwing with other people’s lives even when they aren’t family members.

While the first original series never explored the darker themes of the Manga about family abuse and personal trauma, this new current series is a lot about dealing with our emotions and this episode tackles that head-on with the characters who are going to the beach house. Particularly with Tohru, Yuki, Hiro, and Kisa. And it also looks like within the next episode we could be getting some potential conflict. I’m not even a fan of this series and It so far excelled in having me hooked on what could happen next!