Fruits Basket spent the last three years tearing us apart with its overarching drama and then skillfully put our hearts back together again in the closing episodes. The reboot was, in all honesty, a master class in getting the audience invested in these characters and the world they inhabited.
At first, we thought we were done with the series following the conclusion of the final television season, but how wrong we were. Soon afterward, a brand new theatrical release was announced which will include a digest of the television series, a special prequel telling the story of Tohru’s parents, and finally an original epilogue chapter which fills us in on the lives of Tohru and Kyo after the events of the television series.
In order to get us even more excited than we already are (if that’s even possible), a brand new promotional video hit the internet on Wednesday, December 15th. In the video, they show us Tohru’s parents hooking up while Kyoko is still in high school.
The movie will hit theaters in Japan on February 18th. Unfortunately, we’re still waiting for someone to announce the international premiere date.
Starting as a manga back in 1998, this new movie is the culmination of a long and hard road for the author Natsuki Takaya. While the original Fruits Basket manga ran for eight years in Hana to Yume magazine, it also received a two-cour anime adaptation by Studio DEEN in 2001 which, while very cute and sweet, was not what anyone was looking for from this series as it did very little to tell the larger story looming in the background. This would be rectified in 2019 when a brand new anime adaptation from studio TMS Entertainment, which promised to be much more faithful to the original story, began its run.
Now, almost 25 years later, the story is finally coming to its grand conclusion, and this pleases me greatly. I’d love the chance to see this new production in a theater stateside if anyone wants to announce an international premiere date anytime now.
Source: Crunchyroll News
