Fruits Basket

First episode: July 5, 2001

Final episode: December 27, 2001

 there is really nothing i cloud say about this anime with the name  Fruits Basket nothing I could say that I really think if i told you this was the first of many anime shows that help and made who I am to day just amazing  Beautifulness it bring with the story   but in short with out  going in to a rant  Fruits Basket is one of throes anime you have to see your self  to understand complete what i am trying  to say .. today I be taking a look at Fruits Basket

The Story 

At first glance Furuba is just another Shoujo Anime  with nothing different to it; the average, beautiful, kind girl getting all the pretty boys. Okay so it really is that, however there's a special touch to the way the series develops itself and how you watch each character grow and interact with each other as the story progresses. 

The story starts with Tohru Honda, your as average-as-you-can-get anime girl who has lost her mother in an accident and was living alone in a tent in the Sohma's property. Of course she wasn't aware of that until they told her, to her surpirse they take her in in exchange for her doing all the housework (it was her who suggested not staying in the house 'for free'). It's when she's there that she discovers the family's biggest secret... The family has been cursed by the vengeful spirits of the Chinese Zodiac animals and when they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex they transform into the animal they were cursed by. When Tohru comes in their life they all learn to open up their heart more and realize that not all the people in the worlds are bad; this girl affects each one of them in a unique way.

It's a beautiful Anime with heart-touching subjects, there is much you can learn from it and definitely worth buying if the chance should present. There is just about everything in this series:bishonen, angst, drama,comedy, romance,  and a light-hearted, kind of story showing us the way.

                                        Characters


The characters will I am not sure how much i can say really  with out giving any thinking away . in this series are probably some of the best made and most memorable of all anime. They are very deep and more than meets the eye. I paricularly loved Shigure with all his exasperation and pervy comments (which he said purely for reaction and a smack on the head). Tohru the main Character is a very sweet and kind heart Girl who seem to to bring a smile to every one"s face. Next you have Kyo when we first met him he does seem to be a bit bitter  to a lot of people but really who can blame him . but as we seen him around Tohru  we can start to see him start to sofin up a lot and see is really sweet and kind heart . and last we have Yuki  the sweet and shy Yuki , there nothing really much to say about him when we first see Yuki  he lot more to him self but after he with Tohru we see him start to come out of his shall more and more and really try to enjoy life more.
The secondary cast was surprisingly good, I can't say that any of the supporting characters had any notable flaws. The villain of the series remains mysterious and intimidating and to this day I have no idea what to make of him (I am at this mont reading the manga and wounding why they could not have put of the story in the anime  and every gave us more  about  the Characters cuz the anime just really dose not ever go as deep as the Manga does for back story and so on ).

    On the Technically side 

The character designs are beautiful and would characterize everyone in the series a bishonen and bishojo. The colors of the hairs and eyes of the Sohma Family match with the animal they were cursed by and it gives each one of them a unique touch. 
Tohru's design is supposed to be as average as possible since she represents a normal japanese girl. 
There's is also a 'big abuse' of Super-Deformed characters (Ex. Chibi form) but it just serves to highlight the emotion they are expressing and make the show even more funny.

The music is simply beautiful, although the 26-episode long series only has one opening(For Fruits Basket) and one ending (Chiisana Inori) (both performed by Ritsuko Okazaki) it serves it's purpose leaving you with a serene calm sensation! 
The soundtrack used as background music is delicate and simple 
However if you haven't watched the series and just purchase the soundtrack for the sheer pleasure of it you will be disappointed since it is nothing special by itself, you must see the anime first so you can relate each short song to a scene. 
As far as Voice acting go's  they all seemed to fairly fit their character perfectly. Tohru's voice was down  Yuki Horie who also voiced for Love Hina's Narusegawa Naru. Her sweet, sharp voice goes in tune with Tohru's personality perfectly. the onley thinking i could say about the Japanese vergen is a i know a few people kind do not like the fact that Yuki is voices by a girl Aya Hisakawa and in the eng dub go's Laura Bailey Did a amazing Job as Tohru and Jerry Jewell and Eric Vale both did a job will down as Kyo and Yuki.

                                            Over all
Over all I Find Fruits Basket to be a very enjoy Show over all .You won't find a boring episode in this series. Each one develops and focuses's on a character's situation. Although the series was cut short abruptly and much ends were left untied (the manga is still running) seeing by itself will leave you satisfied (if not with a small crave for the continuity of it). 

As mentioned before there's much you can learn from this anime since it deals with how we must see our own  self's

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Vampire Knight

If you think that shojo series are all flowery, romantic (comedies) and cheerful, you're quite wrong, and Vampire Knight will prove that more than anything else. Keywords for VK are drama, emotional struggles and tragic pasts. Throw in a dash of vampire, and there you have Vampire Knight in all its glory. be for i get in to any thinking i should say this frist Vampier Kinght one of thoes shows i beileve your going to love or just Hate it so much  to death .

 The Story

Vampire Knight Original run April 7 of 2008 to June 3 of 2008 with 13 EP be-hide it  with fallowing beside is  seasons two Vampire Knight  Guilty Original run October 6  of 2008  to December 29 of 2008 with 13 ep be-hide it base off of the  Manga by Matsuuri hino Original  run November 24 of 2004 to May of24 of 2013 with  19 volumes behind it .

  Vampire Knight revolves between Yuki, Zero and Kaname. Yuki and Zero are Cross-Academy's prefects (guardians). It's their duty to prevent the contact between the Day and the Night-class, even through it's very hard for them because all the girls from the Day-class have a big crush on the guys from the Night-class, that's not very rare because everyone in the Night-class looks gorgeous. Why are prefects needed? To prevent the Day-class of finding out the secret from the Night-class, in reality, all of them are vampires. The ''leader'' of the Night-class is Kaname Kuran, the one who saved Yuki's life when she was little. Of course he's a vampire too and the most powerful of all, a pureblood. Yuki and Zero both live with the chairmain of Cross-Academy, Cross Kaien. Yuki doesn't have any memories from when she was a kid, her memories begin on the day that Kaname saved her from a vampire. Kaname asked the chairman to look after her, and he did. The same goes of Zero, a couple of years later he comes to live with Yuki and the chairmain to, after his parents where killed by a vampire.

What is so loveable about all this? Both the anime and the manga have a mysterious feeling to it, that you know that something is going on but you don't know what. You'll also notice and the story gets ''darker'' each time, and that the characters change. It takes a while until you really understand everything because they tell you the story bit by bit, you may also expect some big changes, I warn you. I wish that I could tell you more, but I don't want to spoil it for you guys. I really recommend you guys both the manga and the anime.

                                                                    The Characters
Yuki - I think that you all know her type of character, but Yuki is not the typical ''shoujo'' heroine. No, she's different. You can see that she tries her best to help Zero and get a place in his heart, she really cares alot for others, which might also be her weakness. To save Zero from turning into a Level E, she let him drink her blood. Yuki was attacked as a little girl by a vampire who was fallen to a Level E, and than was saved by Kaname. She has no memories of her parents or who she really is. Because Kaname saved her, she has a great affection for him, and she trusts the vampires in the Night-Class.

Zero - He might look like a cold-hearted guy in the beginning, but he really isn't. Zero's family where killed by a vampire, that's why he really hates vampires, all of them. Anyway, in the beginning of the series you'll see him in pain a couple of times, I think alot of you got the picture back then. Yes, when he was attacked he was biten by a vampire, a pureblood. Since he didn't die he will slowly turn into a vampire himself. Since his huge hate for vampires, she fights against the progress with all his might. Zero always has a gun with him, he can use it to kill vampires. He also has a younger twin-brother named Ichiru, but he was not as healthy as Zero (no, he didn't die).

Kaname - A pureblood vampire who's respected by everyone in the Night-Class, no, better said, he's the leader. When he gives an order, it's final. Other vampires fear him and he's loved by alot of girls from the Day-Class. Even through he doesn't really care about them, he does care alot for Yuki, which you'll notice right away. You'll understand later why a vampire with so much power as Kaname cares so much for a normal girl like Yuki.

My feelings towards the characters constantly kept changing. Sometimes they were very appealing. I loved to see how they have some inner thoughts and struggle to reach the answer they are looking for. All 3 MC's have a deep past, but none of them really feel like sharing the pain with anyone. And this is where comes the annoying/irritating part. The heroine Yuki crosses the line, she goes too much into Zero's private life. Of course, that's rather normal for a protagonist, but that's what disappoints me the most - making a very typical heroine who always goes after the person who has some problems and ends up in some kind of trouble and getting saved by either Zero or the Pure-blooded Vampire Kaname. However, ignoring this go after-get into trouble-be saved part, the characters are very different from each other and that's what makes the story better. The ending gave me a hope that 2nd season will answer many questions about the characters and show more development of them. I thinking my biggest thinking i would say i do not really like about Vampier Knight is  that fact is Yuki can be come a cry baby at times every after time to time they do try and have her make up for this act  by trying to let her do some thinking brave to show every one that she can make on her own .  next it have to be with Kaname and Zero  every i how much i do like there two and there cat and dog fights i do find my slef  at time wanting to smack there in there pretty faces and tell there both to grow up  and if there both do love Yuki as much as they as they do than why can"t they work it out were there get along for her sake . and last but lest i wish there would have give us more about the other cartes background and past  we kind did with season 2 with Aido but that was about it i just want to know about each and every one about them .

Well, the animation. I must say that it's alot better than I expected. Still, I know that alot of manga-fans might be dissapointed. The manga might have better art, but I think that the anime is really well made. They put alot of effort in this, and with succes. If the manga didn't excist, the anime would probably get higher ratings. Well, my opinion is that that the Vampire Knight anime is a good adaptation to the manga, I really think so. so in all i think the art is fair your nothing  going get some great but your not going to get some somethinking that your going to want take your eyes out and put them  in a glass jar.  

The sound, or better said, the music. The songs that the picked for both the opening and ending where really the right choice for this anime. Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi is the opening-song, sung by ON/OFF, and I really love it. It really matches the anime and gives you the Vampire Knight-feeling. I really like it. Then, for the ending-song, Still Doll sung by Wakeshima Kanon, was the biggest plus-point for me. I just loved it the first time that I heard it! How come? It's mysterious and matches Vampire Knight perfectly. When you listen to it, I'm sure that you'll also get the feeling that there's something that you don't know yet. For the soundeffects in this anime, I have nothing to complain. When you needed one, you got one, just how it is in real life. The good sound in Vampire Knight made it realistic.

 last but not lest the voice acting in Jap and Eng Dub  were both  pretty fair in my opine  I know a few people who did't care for Yuki Voice in the Eng Dub because she come off to needy  in her voice  but if you can past that I see nothing wrong really with the English dub . really I  like said actor doing  any kind of roles 
 being In the Jap and the Eng dub are going to try and do there best with what they are give in  . like so I have watch  vampire knight in Jap , Eng Dub and also in German Dub as will. and I have to say I like and enjoy the German voices  actor Christoph Banken   and the way he took on the role  of  Akatsuki Kain . saying there was nothing wrong with how Troy Baker and Suwabe Junichi  I love both these actors dearly. and how they paly Akatsuki was fine and all . but for me Banken  became Akatsuki for  me he made him come alive as the strong and silent but still caring to his friends and family.

                                                                            Overall 
 I know what you're thinking. But you guys must remember, that I'd also like to see this from another point of view.  but in all in is a fair anime in all and I think the only down fall I think that Vampier Kinght has  it does not have a comeplity story  for that you would have to read the Manga to see what happen next aref waching both seasons fan were and are hopeing for a 3th seasons but as years go on it look lest likely to happen . but in all ,  I really think that the people who made Vampire Knight did an awesome job! so If you like a mysterious story, vampires and some scary moments, watch Vampire Knight. I'll probably recommend this to who every would like  to give a try  but still if you like it alright but if not that ok 

Conclusion: Vampire Knight is an awesome anime/manga with very enjoyable characters and a story! It might be one of the ''must-see's''. Judge for yourself.
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 out of them i hope you find some thinking you like in till next time guys take care .^w^