So going back to onemanga.com, i tried to see if the manga version of the dreaded (on this blog, anyways) Fruits Basket is any better than the exercrable anime.
Technically, it is. However, the manga version of FB is . . . tolerable. Barely tolerable. There are a lot more details in the story, the Sohma family characters are more fleshed out, and the manga, being the original story, wasn't dumbed down in any way unlike the anime. The artwork's pretty good, too. However, this is being really generous on my part. Tohru is still too much of a dork to be likable, and I still just can't take the story seriously. I just can't take the idea of avoiding sexual relations because of the "if I get hugged by a girl, I turn into an animal!" concept seriously.
So, you could RTFM for FB, but I wouldn't reccomend it. You just might get your brain bloken. My drain wasn't bamaged from the manga version of FB, considering that I have survived trying to watch the anime version, but, yeah. It's overrated. WAY overrated. If anyone reccomends FB to you in any form, take everything they say about Japanese pop culture with suspicion.
You know what? FUCK Fruits Basket. I'm going back to the manga I own instead. Who needs FB when you've got FMA, TRC, XXXHolic, the early volumes of Bleach, Eva, and Chrono Crusade? Exactly.
