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Wow! Let me tell you, I absolutely adored this anime! From the plot to the villains, to Kyoko killing people by kissing them and making their insides melt from extreme heat!

Some reviews here talk about "seen it all before" or "so and so had an idiot son" or something. Don't take those reviews to heart.

If you love action, suspense, horror (a little at times), psychological thrillers (it's a bit at some points), cool fights, and neat superpowered people, this manga is definitely something for you!

A shonen manga that has the style of a shoujo manga, that's how I would describe it. Bounty hunters with little ... money because bounty hunting is a tough life when other people nab up the big guys before you even get a chance to look at who's wanted.

It's easy for some people to complain about some of the characters.

One, for example, is Sven. One of the main characters, Sven wears a three piece suit (I think it's considered 3-piece) with a hat. And no, his hat isn't a trilby (what those "nice guys" and neck-beards wear), it happens to be an actual fedora. He has the appearance of a guy from the 1930's or so with his old-time gangster appearance. He preaches about protecting women and children and people who are unable to defend themselves. He lives by the code of gentlemen --chivalry. This actually isn't all that bad. I know, what comes to mind with this type of character is a frightening neck-beard roaming 4chan or something. But Sven Vollfied is certainly not one of those kinds of people.

Sven happens to be a very intelligent inventor who creates all the weapons he uses, unleashing them from his briefcase. If you want to know what's up with the eye-patch you'll have to read the manga!

Train has a typical tortured backstory (which was depicted horribly in the anime, mind you --but handled fairly well in the manga). But that doesn't stop him from being a lovable protagonist. All he wants is food, and he can eat through your credit for a place serving food.

Eve is a precious cinnamon roll, not free of sin though.

In all, I absolutely recommend everyone I know to read this manga, and I urge you to give it a shot! You won't be disappointed!

You know what they say when something turns out awful --read the source material. That is exactly the case with Fruits Basket. The anime is still beautifully done with cute designs for the characters.

However, the anime left something short. The anime is 26 episodes long, which is a fair length for a cute lil anime. Even so, the manga runs 136 chapters long. That's a lot left unsaid in the anime.

The last scene in the anime does come from the corresponding chapter in the manga, however, the editor decided to end the anime there. In an interview, he even stated that he wouldn't listen to ... the fans when they were crying for him to complete the anime. No, apparently leaving off on the spot that they did in the anime was fulfilling enough. Not quite for the more hardcore fans.

I absolutely recommend reading the manga for Fruits Basket, even if it's after you watch the anime. I enjoyed the anime a lot, it was great to see my favorite characters with voices and animated. But there's something to be said when an anime leaves empty feelings in the end if you know the source material.