Fruits Basket: Prelude

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Synonyms: Kyouko to Katsuya no Monogatari, The Story of Kyoko and Katsuya

Japanese: フルーツバスケット -prelude-

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 18, 2022

Producers: TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, Funimation, Nihon Ad Systems, Hakusensha, Avex Pictures, 8PAN

Licensors: Crunchyroll

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Manga

Genres: Drama, Romance

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 1 hr. 28 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.48¹ (scored by 23,449 users)

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Ranked: #134²

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Popularity: #2121

Members: 80,794

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Despite Kyouko Honda's tragic death, her vivid memory lives on, providing guidance through times of hardship to her close ones. However, Kyouko was not always the wise and radiant person that she is fondly remembered as in the present day.

Feeling deserted by her own family and rejected by society, a young Kyouko abandons stability for a life of delinquency, jeopardizing her education and future. Fortunately, her descent into despair is interrupted by a fateful encounter with her husband-to-be Katsuya, who has recently started his teaching internship at her school.

With a composure surprisingly unaffected by Kyouko's tantrums, Katsuya quickly wins her over through his gentleness and attention toward her—sincere gestures that she has never received before. As the two grow closer together, Kyouko opens her tormented heart to him and, along with it, a door to new horizons.

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Fruits Basket: Prelude centers on the Kyouko to Katsuya no Monogatari prequel, which covers part of the manga's 16th volume not shown in the television series. The movie also features a short compilation of the three-season anime and new scenes written by the author set after the original story.

Mubichike cards with illustrations by Natsuki Takaya were made available on December 17, 2021. A Blu-ray version was commercialized exclusively at theaters screening the film, and limited edition items were distributed to the audience on a first-come, first-served basis. The gifts consisted of an original 16-page manga that established the setting for the new scenes as well as excerpts from the movie. Another Blu-ray was released on June 24, 2022, including a bonus eight-page manga booklet.

Only in the first two days after its premiere, Fruits Basket: Prelude grossed a total of 33 million yen. Moreover, supplementary theaters held additional screenings to accommodate the greater turnout of viewers.

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"Niji to Kaito (虹とカイト)" by Trio Oohashi (大橋トリオ)

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Mar 20, 2022

KanpaiGuren

Recommended

Saw this film in the cinema a few days ago. Seeing as there's no reviews yet, I would like to leave a quick review.

The first half of the film is a recap of major Tohru and Kyo moments throughout the 3 seasons of the anime. While I love these moments, I didn't feel as much emotions due to the rapid fire recap format. Overall, it was okay and I can understand why they felt the need to add it since without it the film would definitely be less than an hour long.

The second half of the film is where the real film starts. Tohru's parents' ...

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Apr 6, 2022

CQLLIST

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<WARNING: SPOILERS FROM THE MOVIE>
Ah, Fruits Basket.. the revival of the Shoujo demographics and a series filled with happiness, tragedy, and a fulfillment of one's desire, and being a fan of it since 2019, I've always looked forward to what the franchise will offer after the Final Season and this is one of them, the backstory of Kyoko and Katsuya. This backstory was initially supposed to be a part of the 2nd Season of Fruits Basket but skimming through the whole content in the manga was a whole separable medium that still gives a similar case and morality to the original so, understandably, they're doing ... this after the Final Season of Fruits Basket as it's reassuring that Kyoko and Katsuya's backstory was very vague in its description back to when I was binge-watching the 1st and 2nd season of Fruits Basket but now that there's a movie, it's going to be a whole info dump to get to know more about who these 2 people are.

As many mentioned that the 30+ minutes of the movie is the recap but it's mainly focusing on Tohru and Kyo, with an additional narration to it give off an emotional and romantic sense of their development throughout the 3 Seasons of Fruits Basket. As per usual, there's a portrayal of happiness and tragedy between them, and Kyo and Tohru went from having such tough communication but gradually helping one another, showing care to one another, understanding one another, and growing their bonds until the day it lasts, this is a must-not skip as it's really helpful to recall many things that occurred during their sequence of development.

Afterward, it moves on towards the prelude of Fruits Basket which mainly focuses on Kyoko and Katsuya. I've seen many people growing some controversy about their age gap but the way the author handles it through the use of emotional narratives and their background is less of an exaggeration to come to think about it. Kyoko came off as aggressive in the first place, she cannot make a group of friends and her parents treated her like a piece of trash. I believe there is something about the theme that applies here and there which goes the same to the Fruits Basket series regarding "Self-Love", Kyoko hates herself for her own doing because she doesn't know her place at all but in the hand of help from Katsuya, a teacher from Kyoko's school, Kyoko became more comfortable surround him as Katsuya states his own less tragic but relatable story in comparison to Kyoko's story and sympathizing her circumstances that could be influential for Kyoko's own sake but no matter what struggle will occur to Kyoko, will always be inevitable but Katsuya is there to come with the help needed. As they get to know each other, they started to have a married life and had a precious and wholesome segment all-around, this is also where Baby Tohru made her appearance and of course, Baby Tohru till now is the wholesome blob! But little do you know an unexpected event occurred to Katsuya after Baby Tohru was raised, that had changed Kyoko's own ideals of her ways of living her life but she was able to recover her own pain through seeing her surroundings and now that she comes to her realization that Baby Tohru is now someone who she must take care and have fun with, she regains her happiness.

After about 70 minutes more or less, they added an extra scene that we can consider an epilogue between Kyo and Tohru. This was truly tearjerking coming from someone *insert fangirling* about their relationship development and I feel so proud seeing my ship sailing beautifully to wrap this whole franchise up, this might be the last time we will be seeing them together.

The visuals are beautiful and elevated the medium all the way through. The imagery of the beautiful scenery: the Beaches and the Cities, they were able to make a contrasting and elegant outlook to it that captures the mood from every segment throughout the prelude, even the closeups were also shining wonderfully, heck they didn't overuse any of those sparkly or shape effects. The musical score is as per usual, the melancholic choice of the OG OST is calming while there might be coming new ones that may be unheard of, and the new inserted song, "Niji to Kaito (虹とカイト)" by Trio Oohashi (大橋トリオ) was a very warm, soft, emotional, and it's just, a perfect way to wrap up the franchise in summarization.

Overall, what a movie from every aspect that had a wonderful and meaningful touching execution to a phenomenal series, to begin with, and was helpful enough to solve all of those unanswered plotholes and to get to know more about Kyoko and Katsuya's backstory. I wrote this review when it's already the 1st anniversary since the Final Season started airing and this franchise has always come to tell me no matter what series they're coming up with all over and over again, "We have lots of happy times & sad times, and we grow fond like that"

Sayonara Fruits Basket: a classic that will never be forgotten and one that had changed my life thanks to all of these amazing cast and staff who have made Fruits Basket a faithful adaptation, and kept the franchise and fanbase alive from their beautiful production quality.

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Apr 7, 2022

sonu711

Recommended

TLDR; 10/10 movie must watch after the series!

I really loved the movie, it was great as expected. This movie's first 25 minutes contained recap which was placed at really good place, it showed how Kyou and tooru slowly got together and also helped me because I watched the final almost almost 9 months ago and didn't remember that much.
The next part was about Kyouko and katsuya's story. Kyouko's story was saddening from the beginning, I really loved her character because she was so relatable. Kyouko was introduced as a hot-blooded person but that wasn't everything, when Katsuya was introduced he saw her ...

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