Fruits Basket 15 - Momiji
‘It’s the anniversary of Mother’s passing, so we’re going to go pay respects on her grave.’ she says with a smile.
Fruits Basket has a special meaning for me. Especially this episode, it can give me so much hope, and that only in such a short time. I don’t really know how that can be, but that’s one of the reasons why I’m a total Fruits Basket freak. This episode started with Torhu, asking if it was okay for her to go out on the first of May. Shigure said it was okay but he asked too where she was going. Appereantly, her mother died then a year ago and she was planning with Uotani and Hanajima to go to the grave of her mother. The Soumas are shocked by that fact, and Yuki suggested that he would come too. Kyou remained silent. Uotani and Hanajima were glad that Yuki was also coming, and smiled and they said that Kyoko would have loved Kyou, and just would have teased him and hugged him until he went mad. That would have been a bad idea, for several reasons.^^
Anyway, on the first of May, Kyou also yelled to Yuki that he would come too. Why he yelled this to Yuki and not to Tohru is a mystery for me. But well, it gave a nice fight and bickering once again. Yuki, Kyou and Tohru went to the gravesite, and waited for Uotani and Hanajima. They have some nice outfits. I must say too, Tohru looks good in black, she really does.^^ When they reached the grave, it was all clean and nice. The grandfather of the father of Tohru must have done that. Yuki asks what happened to the father of Tohru. Tohru answered that her father died of the complications of a cold, and that she doesn’t really remember much of it, she was just a small girl back then. In the manga, we have also another explination. Remember Yuki in episode ten when he caught a cold? Tohru was so worried about him, that must have been the reason. Kyou is meanwhile avoiding Hanajima, we see that in one shot in the anime, the manga has more of it. He asks of her powers and so on, and he is really down at that moment. Why, I don’t know yet, the manga has yet to be read. Oooh, nice line. I’m just with Volume 8.
That moment, Yuki realised how weird it was for someone that lost both of her parents and was still able to smile like this. He remembered one year ago that Tohru was called out of the class and that he wondered vaguely by himself what might had happened. It’s so weird for that girl to smile like that still, and it’s even weirder for him and her to smile together in one house. But well, they go all picknicking in front of the grave of Kyoko. The best way to pay your respect, though it’s a little uncommon.^^
They leave and we have an interesting scene with Hanajima and Uotani. They say that Tohru has hang in there, and they wonder too why on earth Torhu can be so happy. Hanajima just can’t understand it, because if she loses someone that is important to her, say Tohru, it would be so hard on her that she rather wished that they have never met. But Tohru, she must have scolded herself a thousand of times for getting discouraged, and also Kyou and Yuki have an influence to her behaviour. Uotani smiles and says that one day, one of the two will fall in love with her and say that they really like her. Hanajima get’s a bit evil because she won’t allow Torhu to get married, because it made her so sad. And she said, that Yuki and Kyou have something with them. Their heart is filled with hatred, that lingers on in them. As long that hate remains, there is no room for love. She wants to tell them about it, but those two seem dim when it comes to such things. Torhu is just the same.
This is one part of the episode, the other half focussed on Momiji and Tohru. And that part was just incredible, I just can’t say different then I loved it. And I will love it because it can give me hope and can stop me of discouraging. But anyway, Tohru is working, and Momiji comes by and helps her. Tohru is suprised and asks what he is doing her. The building belongs to the father of Momiji. We know Tohru is slow, but it’s always kind of funny.^^ Momiji tells about his parents, and shows some pictures. His father is Japanese, his mother is abroad. I know from the manga that she is German. She does look like a German woman, that’s true. And then, Momiji tells that his mother doesn’t know him.
One second later, the mother arrives. It’s a bit too coincidence, but this is nicely done, otherwise I can get annoyed or I can’t stop laughing *coughWolf’sRaincough* The mother talks to Momiji like he is a kid in the neigbourhood. She is a bit worried and said that his mother might worry where he might be. And that’s the moment that Tohru understands the words of Momiji. His mother doesn’t know him. She leaves, and Momiji is bit annoyed because she saw him. And explained.
His mother had her memory erased. She couldn’t handle it, she couldn’t go through with it all. It can be frustrating if you love someone, and you have a child of him, and everytime you want to show your love to your child and hug it, it transforms in an animal. That must have been terribly frustrating. The mothers that have childs who are possesed can either be overprotected, or they reject them with their whole body. It was just too sad to see, even the father of Momoji couldn’t handle it anymore, and it was just so sad. His mother had a breakdown, and as soon the memories of Momiji were erased, she got better. But now is the question, has he really helped his mother? And we get the incredibly livelesson. Even if Momiji has sad memories, even if all he does is running away, even if the memories are so painful that he just wants to forget about them, he keeps on living with the memories. If he doesn’t run away from them, he can keep believing that one day, that he will overcome those memories. That he can make peace with those memories. That he even can transcend them. And that’s why he didn’t want his mother to forget him. But that would have been selfish of him.
Tohru agrees with him and just hugs him. It was so nice to see that I couldn’t resist to take a picture of this too. I loved this episode.
