Fruits Basket Episode 23 Review: You Look Well…

The end of Fruits Basket is so close, I am starting to get really sad. It is hard to say good-bye to Tohru and the Sohma family and I really don’t want to wait for the second season to come around, even though I feel like they won’t let us wait too long. This episode we are back with Tohru. Somehow it feels like a storm started to form right before our eyes… Let’s take a look at the review!

Japanese Title: 元気そうだな…… (元気そうだな……)

Episode 23 – You Look Well…

Tohru doesn’t pass one of her tests, which means she has to take substitute classes and on top of that feels bad for wasting Yuki’s time, who put took out time of his day to teach her. The stress makes her sick and she ends up in bed, where the Sohma boys take care of her with all their love.
It’s raining a lot after that, which makes Kyo tired all the time. It seems to be a side-effect of the cat zodiac. Kagura visits them and takes Kyo on a shopping date. Sensitive as Kagura is, she asks Kyo if he already told Tohru about it. They have a fight, because Kyo gets really annoyed and asks Kagura why she still sticks to him like glue after she saw it. While the two of them are out, Yuki and Tohru also go out on a date to his secret base and when they return, Kyo’s master stands before their door and wants to visit Kyo.

Highlight

Tohru is so cute

We’re at episode 23 and this is nothing new, but seeing how stressed Tohru is and how cute she gets when she is sick and even more clumsy than usual was a personal highlight.

Kyo is so cute

It has begun. I mean, really begun. This is the story. This is the tea! Kyo gets tired when it rains! He didn’t tell Tohru about ‘it’ yet!! Kya~~!! I’m so excited!! Also, I am so scared and terrified!!

Tohru/Yuki

I ship it. But also, it has begun so I am really in that place, where I can’t quite decide what to ship anymore. Send help!

Kagura is soft

Kagura might be running after Kyo like a crazy boar, but at the same time you can see how she has his interest at heart. She does hunt after him to become her boyfriend, but at the same time you can see that she would be ready to support him with any other romance, if she thought the girl was deserving him, don’t you think? I feel like she is more than ready to give Kyo to Tohru, if only she wanted him as much as he wanted her… (or rather…if only he let himself want her? At least that’s the impression I have!)

Master loves Kyo

The way Master is looking at Kyo makes me so happy and at the same time a bit sad. It only takes him a second to see that Kyo is kind of happy and feeling good when he is with Tohru!

Comments

The drop

It’s about to happen, right? We can see the Master appear. Shigure is all secretive and Kagura keeps pestering Kyo about stuff the viewer doesn’t understand – if they haven’t read the manga. I read the manga and the things coming up next are something I remember clearer than much of the other stuff. But I think everybody else could also feel the build up in this episode. The tension is so thick. Let me watch the next episode already!!

Dokidoki Barometer

I have to give this one to Yuki, because I love him and he is a sweet angel. Let me have this happiness, before we all are switching over to Kyo, because I know that I will go crazy over him in the next season. It’s always like that, no?