Fruits Basket: A Masterwork of Love - PART 1 

True, she says the Kyoko flashback should've been enough motivator but that's more like a demotivator. Sure, the flashback gives him the sense of responsibility to ask but not the courage to do it in fact, it takes away the courage but Momiji's confrontation provides the sense of responsibility as well as the courage to act up on it. Not to mention she says Momiji's curse breaker could be Momo but no way. In Hiro's case, he wants to be free to be a better brother to Hinata but in Momiji's case seeing Momo doesn't make him want to get free now, it makes him want to have been born free in the past. Momo ties Momiji to his past and reinforces a sense of loneliness and melancholy in him. In a sense it discourages him. Knowing that he'll never be with Tohru makes him lonely too, but it also makes him face the fact that he's happy so long as she is, which in turn makes him realize he's happy if his family is happy. He was starting to think about his own happiness with his family but Tohru, his beacon of light, made him realize he can still be happy for them if not with them and eventually move on from them to find another family and love. It's very beautiful and it's what made Momiji my 3rd favourite in the whole show. To be honest, I kind of sensed Momiji's crush in season 2 but since I watched the 2001 version so I thought I could just skip season 1 and hence I felt like I was being delusional as nothing had been hinted there but I've now watched season 1 and the crush is CLEAR AS DAY in the very first introduction. I really regret not watching season 1 before but I have now and boy was there so much foreshadowing to everything here and there, it's crazy.

just finished the series and i agree i see akitos backstory as more of a cautionary tale about the cycles of abuse and neglect rather than a character that needs to be redeemed. i came to understand how she ended up the way she was but she wasnt redeemed in my eyes. i think her not attending the going away get together for tohru and kyo was a great example of this. yes shes changing and trying to make amends in the way she can but that doesnt mean she needs to be around the rest of them or expect to be treated the way the rest of the sohmas treat each other. at the end of the day akito can never take back the horrific abuse and torture she subjected the rest of the sohmas to and the sohmas like rin who cant forgive her are valid but theres nothing else that can be done about what happened so just like you said shes going to have to live with that guilt regarding what she did to the sohmas for the rest of her life even as she tries to be better. honestly i think most of the sohmas forgiving akito yet moving on with their lives and not trying to keep her in close contact is probably one of the best possible outcomes for everyones mental health.

@@oceana311 the sequel manga series to fruits basket goes a bit into the consequences of Akitos actions, and the extreme ostracization she faces from the family at large. Its actually largely about her son, and even he faces abuse & whispers from the entire family talking about what a horrible human his mother was. Even as the family head, Akito isn't able to attend any major family functions... so yea, the consequences of what she does stays with her the rest of her life, and sadly even impacts her sons life.

Akito knows that she did awful things to the Sohmas, that's why she cut ties with them after the curse broke. She doesn't want to be forgiven by any of them.

Yeah, as a fan of momiji this made me sad while watching season 2 and 3 🥺 in the manga his physical and emotional growth is better placed, while in the anime happened all at once. When I saw the opening for the final I thought they'd make it gradual at least during the season, but it was a little disappointing :( (still love it tho)

i can understand your point of view and i think one of the most beautiful things about the end of fruits basket is that even the sohma members have conflicting feelings about akito. for example rin struggles with feeling bad for or forgiving akito for what she did and you can argue that rin hates her which is valid after everything she was put through by akito. but then there are other sohma members who have also been heavily abused by akito yet managed to forgive her and understand her like kureno. i like how fruba shows there are many different responses to abuse and theres no singular way you need to respond. rin even tells haru that she feels like shes a bad person for not being able to somewhat reconcile with akito like the rest of them can and he assures her shes not. as someone who also had issues with abuse in their childhood as well i was never able to fully forgive some of those people in my life so i see myself more in rin but fruba helped me understand the people like tohru or kureno who are more forgiving. so i think i hate akito in some ways but her backstory helped me understand her and why she became who she is. i feel pity for her as a child and recognize the tragedies in her life that set her up to become exactly who she became but i cant bring myself to have too much sympathy for her after seeing how she tormented the other sohmas more specifically kyo and rin but that doesnt mean i want her to suffer for the rest of her life. so even though i cant forgive akito and shes not someone i feel bad for in the way i feel bad for kyo or yuki for example i think this is the best ending we couldve had. but i think thats one of the most necessary lessons of the show, that theres no one correct way to respond to abuse or your abusers whether you forgive like kureno or tohru or not like rin your feelings are valid.

Yes, I am aware xD My laptop was being a major b*tch when I was trying to update this, so the video got kind of botched in some places, which forced me to trim it. I hope you saw Part 2! That half came out a lot better. Haha.