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Campanella

I’ve been a Kenshi Yonezu fan for years now- a happy memory of mine is singing Lemon at a Japanese Club karaoke contest and winning a plushie! So it’s only natural that I was interested in his new song, Campanella, and it turned out to be worth analyzing. This post will involve interesting pieces like nonstandard kanji, flower language, and a 1934 fantasy book! I’ll start with my full translation, then add my notes and interpretation of the song after.

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okay i’ll be real i don’t understand people calling kyo a “bad boy” when he is one of the most straight-laced, high-strung characters in fruits basket. like bad boy is not his vibe at all. he studies and is good at school, loves his dad, loves his gf, cries about stepping on a flower, cats love him, he’s scared of drugs and alcohol, scared of a bear that shigure made up, scared of women, scared of being a pervert, he’s a super virgin, he doesn’t dress cool at ALL. he’s just a fuckign nerd. if i saw him in real life i’d shove him in a locker

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Meanwhile, yuki machi clowns be like

FERTILIZER

Words that make Kyoru clowns wild

Roof

Cinderella

Cliff

Hermit crab

Beads

Disillusioned

and finally

SOUP

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This sequence tho

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“After this episode the ribbon is never worn again…… I think~ #Furuba”

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Fruits Basket 2020: *finally animates Kyo’s face softening and smiling at Tohru while he thinks about spending what time he has left with her*

We, Collectively:

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THATS RIGHT GIRL. BE DEFINANT. WHOOP AKITO’S A$$!

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Nothing makes me happier than the collective realization the new watchers will have when it's revealed that everything, everything, Rin did was to protect Hatsuharu from Akito. Breaking up with him, trying to use herself to get information from Shigure, etc.

It's not even close to one sided love with them. All of Hatsuharu's "she just doesn't know how much I love her", "short of committing a crime" is NOTHING compared to what Rin feels, when shes finally honest about it.

And then, you find out that everything shes done for Tohru was also to protect Tohru. Because she doesnt want to involve any more kind people, and Rin sees herself as too far gone, so if she breaks the curse herself, it won't hurt anyone else.

Rin is my favorite character.

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Yuki watching his friends make out in the woods

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fruits basket season 2 ending 2 

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When I tell you I felt like I got smacked...I forgot about this before watching the episode so I was NOT ready!! Fuuuu...

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The cat leaving was a nice subtle way to show us that kyo was waiting near by. The cat sensed him and wanted to find him.

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Let’s Talk About Momiji - MANGA SPOILERS!

I have a ton of lesson planning that I still need to do, but I decided to take a bit of a break to talk about Momiji for a sec. I was just re-reading Chapters 64 and 65. When it comes to the Beach Arc, we always see a lot of talk about Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru and how this really is a turning point in all of their stories. We see that it is in this arc that Kyo and Yuki have some big revelations concerning their thoughts and feelings on their situation and Tohru. But…Momiji experiences this too. It’s just done in an incredibly subtle way.

When you first read through Furuba, the twist of Momiji being the other Sohma who romantically likes Tohru seems to come out of left field. Because, just like Tohru, and the other Sohmas, you don’t really view Momiji as a fellow teen. Not until he has his growth spurt and then it really sinks in that he is a teenager going through complicated feelings involving love of all kinds too.

Once you know the direction of Momiji’s story, once you have that image of an older Momiji in your head, and once you can see Momiji as the teen he actually is - you can see the threads of his love for Tohru far easier. But they are still very soft and subtle, still slightly hidden. I think, narratively, Momiji truly enters the “teen character” category after the Beach Arc. It is during this arc that we see him make that transition. It is also likely during this arc that Momiji really, consciously realizes that he likes Tohru romantically.

Before Akito arrives and crashes their vacation, we still see Momiji being lumped in with “the kids.” He is crashed out on the floor sleeping together with Hiro and Kisa, the others do make a “and Momiji, for some reason” kinda comment, but he is still kept in that group. He, along with Hiro and Kisa, have to be informed by the others (the adults and teens) that Akito has arrived. He was out of the loop (only very briefly) but then had to be brought into it again. This shows that, while we’ve seen Momiji be shown as being more emotional mature than Hiro and even some of the older characters, he was still being kept at the Kids Table, so to speak.

We’ve also always seen Momiji as caring about and adoring Tohru, but his feelings and emotions on the way to Akito and how he expresses his desire to see and be with Tohru afterwards are different…There is a softer look in his eyes, and he talks about wanting to be selfish along with Kyo. I feel, if you look at this image:

You can see in his expression that he is feeling romantic feelings for Tohru and is aware of this by now. And the confrontation with Akito is when Momiji fully moves from the “Kids Table” to the “Adults Table.” He not only stood up for Tohru and did what Kyo had wanted to do, but he is also now shown to be separated from Hiro and Kisa.

He still has a good, enjoyable time with Tohru. He is still excitable, but there is a maturity in his eyes now. A different type of maturity from when he talked about his mother with Tohru. You can see it in the way he looks at her in the above image. Something has shifted and changed. Now he has a shared moment with Tohru. It was a heartbreaking moment, but it was still a moment that bonded them and it was still a moment that was (essentially) between them (them vs. Akito, really). He isn’t sleeping on the floor with “the kids” anymore and being kept a bit out of the loop. He now is the one keeping one of “the kids” out of the loop.

And though, the night before he still slept next to Kisa, we see now - at the very end of this arc - he asks to sit with Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo. He is sitting at the Adult’s Table now (though, really, teens). And specifically with Kyo and Yuki, who both have their own revelations concerning Tohru and their feelings about her in this arc.

It isn’t given a huge spotlight, but Momiji gains a lot of character development in this arc too, and it is during this arc that we really see him transition from a kid who likes Tohru to a young man experiencing his first love. 

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the realization that always knocks the air directly out of my chest is that kyo has always known who tohru is. i think about how much time he spent living under the same roof and falling in love with her knowing that he watched the most traumatic event of her life and thinking he doesn’t deserve her love, platonic or romantic or otherwise. i’m shattered about it all over again. 

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if someone gave me a hermit crab i would simply accept their marriage proposal on the spot. rip to tohru but i'm different.

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Update: she is not a happy camper.

When my 2001 anime-only friend says, “I’m so excited to see where season 2 goes! I feel like we’ve gotten past all the dark pasts so there’s going to be lots of fluff and wholesomeness! And it sounds so fun, with Momiji mentioning summer, and fireworks, and festivals!”