I love Furuba, but as much as I love it I have to agree that it is just a little overrated and personally I don't feel that's the best shoujo manga out there.

i thought it was a really good shoujo manga but at times it could get confusing and it would be easy to get lost, of course this could just be due to a wierd translation i was reading (sometimes the wording was a little wierd and didnt fit...) other than that i thought it was good except that the climax seemed....anti-climactic however i did like the ending...

so yah overall a really good shoujo manga but noooot the best out there

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I think it's a really sweet manga but not like the BEST shoujo manga ever out there
And last chapter was soo0o cute though

I quite agree with what Aristocrat and Nyokichan had to say on it.



I agree, it creates an impression of feminine perfection and with Furuba being such a bestseller, people are going to be brainwashed into thinking this is the kind of ideal woman to have or be. Maybe it's just the Asian view of femininity, and that's why the mangaka created such a character. After all I grow up in an Asian country and I can see all around me guys who are just so in love with girls like Tohru (do I really need to describe the traits?).



Now, that made me laugh. A very apt description of shoujo manga.



For me, I separate my shoujo manga into two sections: light-hearted reading that is just plain fluff, the second would be heavier reading where it actually has a lot more feeling in it and is very... real in a sense (don't know if you get what I mean).

I won't speak for the rest, but for me it's supposed to be a manga on how the heroine finds a way to overcome such difficulties in life and the whole clan problems in the Sohma family. In a way you could say it's supposedto be realistic, because the issues dealt with are real.



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there a better anime and manga and there are worse manga and anime out there compared to furuba...its very dynamic and it pushes boundries not too far but far enough that you get the geist of whats going on... plus you got to think what age group this is made for...they want everyone to understand whats going on...so the basics is really all that is required for the young reader to get really attacted...

but there are more serious mangas out there...like me personally i love kino's journey and mars and immortal rain and red river...those will have to be my favorite...but i do like other ones as well like furuba, ranma 1/2, tsubasa..but like i said they arent may fav...

maybe another reason why people get so attached to furuba is b/c there are so many conflicts going around in that series alone that someone has to get attached...

ida know i know this is long...but i always think...so yeah...two cents...maybe even 3!

best manga berserk no doubt
30+ volume still best
there are a lot of mangas as good as fruit basket.
tokyo crazy paradise,death note, basara, nodame,Gakuen Alice,Fairy Tail, kare kano, hana kimi, angel densetsu, vampire knight, hana yori dango maybe m.a.r.s etc....
fruits basket a bit overrated

I didn't understand the ending. I loved the start and middle and it was all exciting then i stopped for a while but then got back into it and read from a few chapters from where i thought i was, lol, and i got the the ending and i was soooo lost But since it's fairly long (to me, lol) it did good, just ending could have been better.

since the anime was pretty short (for my taste) i desided to watch that first. and even though i really liked it felt that there were many things missing (bc it was so short i assumed) and i was right!!! so since i enjoyed it so much, now i'm reading the manga, i hope i get to see a more romantic story this time
AT LEAST ONE FREAKING KISS!! please!

anyway i do think is good enough to give it a chance....

Pao

I'm reading Fruits Basket ALL OVER again. on volume 13 haha, anyway. The manga at first doesn't attract me, or I could say it was very boring. The more it come the better it gets =].

I hate it when people are like "OMMGG this [insert animanga] is soooo good!! have you watch/read the latest episode/chapter!" I'm like -ahem- erm.. i know it before you ^^;;;; Same thing with Fruits Basket, i know it since 2003.... -_- when they know about it like last year.

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I'm not one to love and adore all kinds of shoujo manga, least of all the type that Fruits Basket is, but I was surprised at what a good series it is. There are some very emotional parts in the story, and some unusual plot twists and events that do make it one of the better shoujo series out there. I felt that while some of the characters were one-dimensional, they were still fairly realistic, and had realistic problems (excluding the unrealistic Zodiac bit). For me, it was easy to relate to Tohru's happy personality; her optimism (and struggle to maintain it) was consistent throughout the story. On that note, all the characters were consistent and didn't change without serious events or time. The depth of the issues and the characterization, I felt, made this an example of what every shoujo manga with a similar plot (school life) should strive to be like, instead of just another series.

Well, I really do like the manga. It was never really boring to me, but I do dislike people who go, "OMG Fruits Basket is the best manga ever," when they've never read anything else.

Fruits Basket is Great Don't Get Me Wrong And The art Is Cute But I Like Other Mangas Better
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Shinshi Doumei Cross
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In My Opinion Of Course

1 if your friends dont read manga online they wouldnt know that much about manga as you. i bet some might even think it just some perverted japanese crap(a girl once said to "how can you read such perverted crap" but irony of it was that i was reading mars at that time).
2 compared to other manga it has a light feeling that doesnt make people angry like when i was reading hot gimmick i broke a coffee mug ,that i used to hold pencils, cause i was angry at about every charecter in the whole series

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Fruits Basket IS pretty good. But as the saying goes, everybody is different. I guess the art is what attracts people. Fans of the author. And maybe the plot and storyline. The author puts strong words and phrases into the story and it's pretty touching and cute sometimes. I wouldn't say FB is ALL THAT though. I've read better ones. It can't be the worse manga ever. In fact, I wouldn't put it in the bad manga section at all. It's..in the middle? I like Shinshi Doumei Cross too! it rocks.

My cousin first introduced me to this manga and this also so happens to be the first manga I've ever read. She kept mentioning the manga, so I got curious and read the first volume. I thought it was really good. I was just hooked on it. Is it just me or does the art change after a while.
I've also seen the anime. The anime is good and it follows the manga most of the time.