Fruits Basket

yeah so what was it about naruto that hooked you

um i like that every single character has a whole story like an entire story an entire background like i like every single character even the bad ones i'm like oh they have a story so i can't hate them anymore but yeah i'm i'm huge on stories i'm huge on animes where every single character has a story um so i think that's that's what got me and i was like i wonder if there's more stuff like this and then it was bleach and then it was fruits basket and then it was just so so much and yeah yeah certified

yeah no no um so what are you so what are some of your favorite anime in general

I'm gonna sound like everybody else.

Find our house.

i'm like mom this is like thousands of years ago she's like still find our house oh oh my god so yeah i i understand that

yeah oh my god so i had a question and it completely left my brain i love adhd love it um so with fruits basket have you watched the remake

absolutely

no i don't know the romance one so

okay it is fruits basket that was a

high contender for me yeah

because i just think it'd

says muti in english too okay but obviously he speaks

japanese and if he speaks it with any sort of german inflection i'm not catching that shit yeah but no

in the dub like the dub for fruits basket is a very funny he's like yeah that's my little sister Wait, doesn't that

just take away, because I'm talking about, like, that one scene where he's literally, like, bearing his soul out, and he's, like, watching them under, and, like, the it's a secret thing is, like, really sad.

I have been writing those down.

Fruits Basket.

Yeah.

Jotted down.

You can do it in other ways as well.

i know you guys i just finished re-watching for the umpteenth time fruits basket one of my favorite animes it has two versions it's on crunchyroll there's english dub that i think is pretty good but i grew up on the english dub when i was younger and they originally put out fruits basket in like the mid early 2000s and then they revamped it and around the pandemic time like 2019 2020 21 That's when they redid it with the same voice actors from my childhood.

And it was amazing.

And I'm only bringing this up because there is some Keo energy to Mickey.

For my Fruits Basket people, you know.

Also, there have been so many good Keo and Toru TikTok edits lately with that Honey Bee song from Olivia Rodrigo.

And I like keep tearing up.

Like, I don't want to be on my phone crying about this, but it's so beautiful.

So what are some of your favorite anime in general?

Oh, loaded question I honestly feel like there's I have thought I've been asked this question many times and I think that it sort of goes in era in terms of my life like I think when I was younger I really liked Yu Yu Hakusho I really liked Inuyasha a big one for me was the original Full Metal Alchemist that was one that I like definitely should not have been watching that was the one that really planted the seed for voice acting for my life when I was like 11, 12 years old so that means a lot to me but I mean Fruits Basket is a big one for me as well I love Free Rin right now too so I mean Jujutsu Kaisen I think is phenomenal I know like crazy opinions Jujutsu Kaisen is very good Whoa.

Hot take.

Slow down.

I was devastated.

That's what it was related to me when my father passed away or when my mother passed away in Fruits Basket.

Like someone said that the other day in one of our comments, Fruits Basket helped them grieve their mother.

And this was a healing experience.

So these are the moments that really we wanted to create.

So they made a soapbox joke and how like comfort gals and we be in the house or she be in the house.

Something like, it was the funniest thing ever.

And if y'all want to hear it, go check out the Fruits Basket episode.

He's been voicing Master Roshi since the 90s.

He was on shows like, I said, Attack on Titan, One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Yu Yu Hakusho, Fruits Basket, and so many others.

He was diagnosed with cancer last year and passed away last week.

That's someone that will be hard to replace in the anime world.

Does anyone else remember that 2000s classic anime with the girl who lived in a tent, sexy people who turned into various animals of the Chinese Zodiac, and an orange-haired guy who needed some serious therapy and anger management? Well, if you guessed Fruits Basket, then you are correct.

Today, join us in discussing an anime that's near and dear to my heart as we dive into the topics of trauma that smiles back, AKA self-neglect disguised as selflessness, people-pleasing as fear of abandonment, and the breaking point when kindness cracks, on this episode of the Mel and Amuse podcast.

[gentle music] Welcome, everyone, to the Mel and Amuse podcast, where anime, pop culture, and mental health collide.

No, we're not.

We're not?

Fruits Basket.

Fruits Basket.

[beep] [tape rewinding] So yes, talking about innocence.