Thursday, April 9, 2015

Fruits Basket Volume 8 by Natsuki Takaya

Title: Fruits Basket, Volume 8 
Author: Natsuki Takaya 
Type: Manga 
Genre: Shoujo 
Series: Yes, Vol. 8 of 23 
Pages: 202 
Copyright: 2005 
Publisher: TOKYOPOP Inc. 
Rating: 4 out of 5

Summary: from Good Reads
Summer is on its way, so of course Tohru and friends are excited about the upcoming vacation and field trip. But what's that sound? It's Hatsuharu going beserk in the classroom... again! Black Haru is full of more rage than usual, so what will happen when Yuki intervenes? Meanwhile, Ritsu of the Sohma's hot spring resort shows up...but what's with her appearance?

Feelings:
This volume felt like it was a mix of lots of different things. There seemed to be three different things that happen in this volume. Haru has a fit and goes black and breaks a lot of stuff. This leads to back story as to why this happens. We get to see a bit more of the Sohma family through him.

Ritsu another member of the Sohma family comes to meet Tohru but Ritsu isn't exactly what he seems at first. Tuhru thinks he is a woman because of how he is dressed and ends up hugging him to keep him from breaking things in the kitchen.

Last we have the characters Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo thinking about the parent teacher meetings and future goals. They are all struggling with what they want to put down as their goals and with who to have come as a guardian for them.

I thought this volume was interesting in that we get to see a little more of the struggle of the characters as they think about the future. What does the future hold is a question many younger people ask themselves and I thought that the questions raised in here were similar.

I'm still enjoying the series and would recommend it as an entry in to shoujo manga.

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