Shift of Perspective | Fruits Basket 2019 3x01 Reaction\Retrospective

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  • Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025

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  • @dogti2959
    @dogti2959 2 дня назад

    If it was my choice, this will be the end of season 2. It lays all the information for the season 3 dilema while ending on a bitter sweet note unlike season 1 that was mostly all sunshine and rainbow. This episode sets up that Tohru can break, that Tohru will break at some point. She might get help and comfort from her friends but just like her scarf, all the pain she's taking on herself leave scars on her psyche, and it can't be all washed away by soap. Especially since this is Tohru's part of the story, when she has to confront head first her own traumas to be able to move on. How fitting for it to also be Akito's season, when we finally discover all the layers she was hiding from everyone else.
    I just love how, despite everything, Akito is still a scared little girl hoping for her mother to make all the bad things disapear, even if she's responsible for half of it. Kids will always try to maintain a bond with their parents, because that's all they know for a long while. Tohru doing her best to look and sound like Katsuya. Isuzu enduring hell in hope of everything going back to normal. Momiji speaking german and watching over his family from afar. Akito not understanding why her mother is so mean to her all the time. And it starts to touch on all the dammage Akira's philosophy did to Akito. Because most of the time, both parents are responsible for their kid's trauma, even if they had good intentions. We've seen it already with Tohru and Kyoko and I can say with confidence that what happened back there is one of the most heartbreaking stuff I saw in Furuba. Perhaps because it hits that close to home. Sure, Kyoko was a good mother overall but she didn't handle Katsuya's death for Tohru's sake as she shouls have, and Tohru is still paying the price now, 13 years later. Same goes for Akito. Sure, Ren isn't a good mother (fram from it) and deeply wounded her daughter into her adult life. But Akira did pretty bad too, causing all the emotional trauma Akito has right now, and we'll see more of it in this season.
    I'm still sad the series don't focus enough on the parents trauma in Furuba. It's easy to dismiss Kyo's father or Yuki's mother as horrible for how they treated their kid. But we saw time and time again that raising a kid that can transform into an animal isn't funny business. Sure, they are the most important part of the family, but all they get is being isolated, treated as monsters you should hide or be ashamed of by "normal" people. The kids aren't the only to get bullied from it, their parents too. It gets worse for the cat, sure, and the rat does get money, sure. But they all suffer on their own terms. Someone like Momiji's mother will just lose it. Others like Isuzu's parents will try to put on a happy front. The lucky ones will get a mother who said "I love sheeps" and give them the lover they deserve. And, funny enough, the most love kid of the bunch is the most annoying because he didn't suffer trauma for his upbringing (but other stuff, yeah). And then there's Yuki's mom, who gave birth to 2 zodiac children. If we go by the age difference between Yuki and Ayame, just like Momiji's or Hiro's sister, they tried to wait the longest time possible to not have another cursed child. They were so traumatized by Ayame's condition and yet, fate got them the rat boy, almost to apologize or make them suffer even more. We don't really listen to their mom saying "you don't know what I've been through" or "you shouldn't have been born", but Kyo's mom said something similar in her letter before killing herself. And Momiji's mom only escape that fate by chance. Overall, the dads are the missing ones in the story, but we know Kagura's father did leave them after all that happened. Not saying they are the most sympathic of characters but they deserve to be listen, or the cycle will continue on for generations, like we've already seen.