Fruits Basket - The Final

Fruits Basket - The Final is like an intense, ferocious thunderstorm, and after the storm, all that remains is a clear blue sky and beautifully clean air. The first two-thirds of this season are a decent slice of life drama in which everything that has been building up in the previous season gets expounded on, a lot of the issues find resolution, tying up almost all the loose ends. The last third of the season rewards the audience and the characters, leaving them with a promise of hope and good things to come. All together, I think this is a wonderful anime series that can show you a lot about how much one person can break another, and also the opposite, how much one person can help to heal another. There are so many examples of lousy parenting, the problems associated with that, and consequences that some carry, so that it makes you think twice about maybe how to properly treat children and people who are a little different. This anime series is easy to grasp, and the mostly likeable characters are quite intelligible. Anime often likes to show how things could be better handled and what really matters in life. So, I was enthralled by every minute of this (particular) series and left satisfied, moved, and full of lasting impressions. There is a lot we carry inside us, people are not only black and white, everyone has a good and bad side, their angels and also demons; and the people we like and who like us back always leave us deeply affected. It was a deep and intense anime series, however, it was also often beautifully relaxed and had a good pace, just like a rollercoaster ride, or life itself, with this last part being like a steep descent down to a peaceful finishing line. For an emotionally sensitive person, I think Fruits Basket - The Final will be an enjoyable and powerful experience. A reflective person is probably going to be able to find a lot of clever parallels, and appreciate what the anime series is trying to convey and the way it does that. This finale and the whole anime series was, in a word, awesome, and the only complaint I have with Fruits Basket - The Final is that I did not like the opening at all this time, however, that is not such a big deal. 9.3/10. (29.06.2021)