Tohru has always come across as really genuine and sweet, but in episode 6 she cranked up the saintly, saccharine act so high that she came across as fake.
Fruits Basket
Samuel Barnes
James Green
It's annoying at times. I hope she'll fuck some shit up later, even if involuntarily.
Jeremiah Bennett
You are watching a show for little girls. This is what a self-insert for little girls looks like.
Carson Allen
Tohru is just extremely mentally/emotionally damaged, it's an act in that she forces herself to act like a saint due to how worthless she feels.
It's not well done, but it's mean to come off as annoying.
Ethan Gonzalez
What the fuck!
MOOT!
Carson Cooper
>it's mean to come off as annoying.
Is it? Everyone around her acts so fascinated by her holier-than-thou attitude. Not saying they should be irritated, Tohru is such a nice girl. I'm just waiting for the moment when she does something wrong or morally questionable.
Also, as I understand it, don't almost all characters have psychological traumas they silently deal with?
Most shoujo heroines are clumsy and have no outstanding qualityes to make the self-inserting easier. Tohru kinds of breaks the stereotype, and in addition she looks beautiful (might be the long hair, I don't know. I find her above average).
Elijah Garcia
I'm here for the boys anyway.
Ethan Gutierrez
Breaks my ass. You haven't read shoujo manga in your life. 'Clumsy', 'air-headed' and 'eats too much' are not real character traits.
She's just another Mary Sue who is given superficial 'traits' to make it look like as if she wasn't a perfect character (even though she is).
Next you'll be telling me that Onii-sama from Mahouka wasn't a Gary Stu.
Juan Carter
I want to FUCK uo-chan and hana-chan
Bentley Moore
I get what you mean. She is almost kind of too perfect, at times. Then again, girls really seem to like characters like this. And it does make her a good foil to all of the ridiculously flawed people around her.
Colton Harris
Then what are character traits to you?
Blake Ortiz
It's a coping mechanism. She's had a tough life, and that has its impacts. This get explored later on.
Josiah Richardson
I take issue with whoever thinks yuki was unable to see tohru in a romantic light.
Adrian Sanchez
>I'm here for the boys anyway.
this
Evan Miller
>don't almost all characters have psychological traumas they silently deal with?
I don't remember the exact article but there was a very bizarre writeup about manga culture in Time magazine back in 2006-2007ish that called Fruits Basket a "psychological thriller"
Brayden Collins
Oh wow I guess if I get traumatically raped or get a crippling bullet wound I too can become a shojo protagonist
Eli Bailey
Tohru a cute.
Owen Morris
Of course
Benjamin Cruz
She's an idiot. She's literally too dumb to know any better.
Cooper Perry
Because she is faking it. She's literally putting on an act so people don't hate or ignore because her mother forgot about her after her father died. It's all a ploy. This is touched upon but not until way later.
Thomas Ortiz
Man how fucked up is the world if we find genuinely kind people as annoying
Blake Ward
>her mother forgot about her after her father died
What?
Eli Green
This series came out at the time when humanity still had faith.
The series isn't the thing that change but we are, I mean more degenerate
Luis Thomas
Her mom had Tohru when she was like 16, Tohru's dad was a decent guy but Kyoko was emotionally dependent on him for basically everything. Once he died, she collapsed and forgot to take care of Tohru due to being constantly depressed and unmotivated.
There's a lot more to mention but that's the gist of it.
Ian Morales
Tohru comes across as perfect and saintly because the Sohmas are literally inbreed retards, but she's not really a saint but a normal girl with issues, and instead of being a pathetic depressed cunt all of the time she tries to move on the best she can.
Caleb Morgan
Sorry, user. That's not how I mean to come across. Being kind is good, but I also believe in being honest with your feelings, and "teehee I'm a 16 year old orphan but I'm not unhappy about that at all it would be a sin to feel any kind of bitterness over that" feels pretty bullshitty to me
Eli Howard
>teehee I'm a 16 year old orphan but I'm not unhappy about that at all it would be a sin to feel any kind of bitterness over that
>I'm not unhappy about that at all it would be a sin to feel any kind of bitterness over that
Literally missed the point, do you watch your anime at 2x speed?
Ryder Thompson
But Thoru flashbacks are all about how caring her mother was. Does she have fake memories implanted?
Brayden Harris
tohru is a poor, unfortunate heroine!
Gabriel Green
She was very young and lost basically the only person who gave her any emotional support at all. People can change, user. Kyoko moved on, became a hard-working and responsible mom.
Zachary Allen
Your mom's a poor, unfortunate heroine
Logan Howard
What is this thing, Yea Forums?
John Sullivan
Its like medieval social media