A must watch movie after watching the anime series. The actual movies starts at around 25 minutes until then it is a recap of the series. A really beautiful movie explaining the relationship between Katsuya Honda and Kyoko Honda.
7 Reviews
I was skeptical in the beginning 🤔
badwolf-8932518 October 2022
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I kinda skipped through the 30 min of tohru and kyo recap. To be honest I was kinda ready to give this movie a 3 or 5 star review, because I thought it would just be like a successful grooming or something but it wasn't, I thought a couple things tohrus dad said was weird but when the scene came where kyoko told tohrus dad she was pregnant and started crying about how she would be a good mother and then how tohrus dad comforted her and reassured her that they would raise the baby together, I balled and I balled for the rest of the movie, like legit I didn't stop crying. It was one thing after another and the ending was wholesome! So yah, this movie will make you sob if you have a weak soul like mine, other than that I thought this was a great movie!
Fans of Fruits Basket will definitely cherish this
pranayjalvi1 June 2022
The prequel movie about the Honda couple was emotional, romantic and leaves a lasting impression along with the flashback scenes of Tohru and Kyoko.
The story of Katsuya and Ryoko was heartfelt, and quite romantic. The animation was solid and on par with the prior season's quality.
Fruits Basket - Prelude - did get me to tear up twice. It hit all the emotional notes as the original, and Kyoko's story in retrospect to nearly all other characters is truly one where you can't help but root for her. It also made me reflect on my own ways of expressing grief, and when a film can get you to do that I think that's something special.
Overall, the film is an excellent way to preserve the story of Kyoko and Katsuya. For long term fans of Fruits Basket, this is just a cherry on the cake.
My Rating : 10/10.
The story of Katsuya and Ryoko was heartfelt, and quite romantic. The animation was solid and on par with the prior season's quality.
Fruits Basket - Prelude - did get me to tear up twice. It hit all the emotional notes as the original, and Kyoko's story in retrospect to nearly all other characters is truly one where you can't help but root for her. It also made me reflect on my own ways of expressing grief, and when a film can get you to do that I think that's something special.
Overall, the film is an excellent way to preserve the story of Kyoko and Katsuya. For long term fans of Fruits Basket, this is just a cherry on the cake.
My Rating : 10/10.
Beautiful & Real Story
miraculousfairytail-9909827 June 2022
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I went to see this a couple days ago, and I loved it. It took me on an emotional roller coaster ride that I don't regret. The story felt real and alive, with the insights by Kyoto and Katsuya, and their blooming relationship. Kyoko's words dig into me like a knife, but it felt real and true. This movie is emotional, but worth the time and emotions spent to watch it.
Hardly a movie
taylorbrinee30 June 2022
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If you were thinking of bringing a friend to this movie that was not previously familiar with Fruits Basket, you better cancel your plans.
This is a glorified OVA with a boring, confusing, 30 minute recap of Kyo and Tohrus relationship just tacked on at the beginning to fluff out the run time. This section of the film was so jarring that many patrons in the theatre even laughed out loud at the serious moments. It was so awkward and out of place. They didn't even have the decency to explain the rules of the animals curse. A waste of money truly.
Even disregarding the irrelevant recap, the "film" itself was very underwhelming. Tohrus mother, Kyoko, is the protagonist. In itself her story could have been very interesting, but the way it was written was frankly boring. Rather than writing a plot where characters actually act and do things, we get repetitive voice over that tells us the character's every thought and feeling. She does not do anything, things just happen to her until she dies a violent death.
I can't even properly address the fact that this movie glorifies and romanticizes grooming. Yes its Fruits Basket cannon, but that doesn't make it any less weird.
This is a glorified OVA with a boring, confusing, 30 minute recap of Kyo and Tohrus relationship just tacked on at the beginning to fluff out the run time. This section of the film was so jarring that many patrons in the theatre even laughed out loud at the serious moments. It was so awkward and out of place. They didn't even have the decency to explain the rules of the animals curse. A waste of money truly.
Even disregarding the irrelevant recap, the "film" itself was very underwhelming. Tohrus mother, Kyoko, is the protagonist. In itself her story could have been very interesting, but the way it was written was frankly boring. Rather than writing a plot where characters actually act and do things, we get repetitive voice over that tells us the character's every thought and feeling. She does not do anything, things just happen to her until she dies a violent death.
I can't even properly address the fact that this movie glorifies and romanticizes grooming. Yes its Fruits Basket cannon, but that doesn't make it any less weird.
'Fruits Basket: Prelude' is Katsuya's success story as a groomer. And it's not okay.
anonymousorly26 June 2022
Fans love this series, the characters, the stories and conflict, the life lessons and histories, the interactions between such different personalities - it's magic. I wasn't expecting magic from this film (why would I, it's not the main storyline), but I also wasn't expecting...to be so disgusted.
'Fruits Basket: Prelude' tells the story of how a grown man in a position of power at an educational institution takes advantage of a troubled teenage girl.
Now, this series isn't perfect: 27-year-old Shigure's "🎶high school girls, high school girls🎶" (actually, 75% of his character is true cringe) and 27-year-old Ayame essentially abducting underaged Tohru for a lunch date, to name two age-inappropriate behaviors. However, the series doesn't come close to the predatory severity presented in 'Prelude.' What's even more dangerous, is the lack of repercussion to Katsuya for his actions: Yuki and Kyo express their disgust constantly to Shigure, whereas Katsuya gets disapproval from his family about Kyoko because she's a reformed rebel, not because of her age.
'Fruits Basket: Prelude' is Katsuya's success story as a groomer. And it's not okay.
'Fruits Basket: Prelude' tells the story of how a grown man in a position of power at an educational institution takes advantage of a troubled teenage girl.
Now, this series isn't perfect: 27-year-old Shigure's "🎶high school girls, high school girls🎶" (actually, 75% of his character is true cringe) and 27-year-old Ayame essentially abducting underaged Tohru for a lunch date, to name two age-inappropriate behaviors. However, the series doesn't come close to the predatory severity presented in 'Prelude.' What's even more dangerous, is the lack of repercussion to Katsuya for his actions: Yuki and Kyo express their disgust constantly to Shigure, whereas Katsuya gets disapproval from his family about Kyoko because she's a reformed rebel, not because of her age.
'Fruits Basket: Prelude' is Katsuya's success story as a groomer. And it's not okay.
Peeling the fruit.
morrison-dylan-fan18 August 2022
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Being in town, I decided to take a glance at what was playing at the local cinema. Discovering that an Anime which I had not heard of before was soon starting,I decided to pick up a fruit basket.
View on the film:
Filling the basket with ripe, tasty hand-drawn animation, with an expressive warmth in the facial animation of Honda and Kyoko, the makers sadly sour the taste, by slapping 30 minutes from the Anime on the opening of the film, which gives off the whiff of the studio cutting corners.
Slicing open a tense family Drama from Tohrus mum, the screenplay by Taku Kishimoto tries to play off large age gaps in the romances as comedic, but ends up making Katsuya looking like an extremely creepy groomer, as the fruit in the basket becomes rotten.
View on the film:
Filling the basket with ripe, tasty hand-drawn animation, with an expressive warmth in the facial animation of Honda and Kyoko, the makers sadly sour the taste, by slapping 30 minutes from the Anime on the opening of the film, which gives off the whiff of the studio cutting corners.
Slicing open a tense family Drama from Tohrus mum, the screenplay by Taku Kishimoto tries to play off large age gaps in the romances as comedic, but ends up making Katsuya looking like an extremely creepy groomer, as the fruit in the basket becomes rotten.
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