Books, Taylor Swift, and other hyperfixations
For round 10, I picked Kyo Sohma from Fruits Basket and Mark Cohen from RENT Background Kyo Sohma can turn into a cat. That's kind of his thing. If involuntarily turning into an adorable animal isn't embarrassing enough, he's an outcast in his own family, forced to spend the remainder of his life in a locked… Continue reading R.I.P. It or Ship It: Round 10
This isn't the first time I've posted about Fruits Basket. I finished the series this weekend, so expect a few more Mondays featuring upsetting manga moments. Megumi is all right as far as characters go. He's Saki Hanajima's precocious younger brother who could pass for her identical twin and hangs out with her friends so often… Continue reading MAKE-YOU-CRY MONDAY: Megumi Hanajima
Minor Fruits Basket spoilers today. If you don't want to know who the horse of the zodiac is, read no further. I have a pattern: whenever I read Fruits Basket, I cry. The series' halfway point is usually where I get emotional. People think Fruits Basket is just a dumb shojo manga (I could name names...you know who you are),… Continue reading MAKE-YOU-CRY MONDAY: Rin Sohma and Tohru Honda
I'm fairly certain my parents wanted to burn my Fruits Basket collection after they found me sobbing over it multiple times last summer. Fruits Basket is a massively popular shoujo manga that was later adapted into a successful but unsatisfactory anime that left out many of the manga's darker plotlines and themes. Here's what you need… Continue reading MAKE-YOU-CRY MONDAY: Fruits Basket
Narrative Paradise 