The Tower - Fruits Basket [Akito and Tohru]

*CONTAINS MAJOR AKITO SPOILER FOR VOLUME 17*
This video features Akito and Tohru from Fruits Basket, and is put to the song "The Tower" by Vienna Teng. The ideas behind this mmv have been in my head for almost 2 years XD it just took me forever to actually make it. This song is more obviously Tohru-based, but instead I used the video to highlight some of the similarities and parallels between the two characters and the changing relationship between the two of them. This video contains spoilers for up to chapter 130 of the manga (volume 22), and contains the chapter 97 Akito spoiler. Comments are appreciated, thank you!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fruits
• basket
• furuba
• mmv
• manga
• tohru
• akito

[tohru1kyou1yuki]

Amazing!! You can rarely find a video that states the simerlarities and differences between Akito and Tohru, and a good one at that! What chapter are the pictures in 3:23 onwards from?

[Akisame]

Thank you! =D

The images are from chapter 130, and the final image is from chapter 131.

[Hayden5075]

i kno people always look at akito as creul and unfeeling but if you look into her personality and her past more u would relize its not her fault.

p.s. awesome video

[emixpearl]

An amazing MV. The editing, the song, and the clips used couldn't be more perfect. It nearly brought a tear to my eye from the emotions shown through in the video.

I hate how people tend to overlook the parallels in Tohru and Akito - To me, they are so incredibly similiar. So seeing a rare and beautiful video like this really makes me happy.

Rating 5/5 and fav'ed! <3

[Pop77o7]

You know what I love about Akito? If ever you attend a cosplay convention... it doesn't matter what gender you are!

I still see Akito as a man... Never read the manga. No idea how psychologically confusing it is to find an anime character sexy when you're a heterosexual woman eying a character that is biologically a man in ONE version of Fruits Basket, then female in all the rest. lol

[CloudWatcherX]

@KaleidoRaffa ok thanks :) i will check that out.

[KaleidoRaffa]

@CloudWatcherX You should finish the manga it's awesome! The anime ended in book 9 chapter 49 and you can read it on mangafox.com I think and you can search on google for it. Akito is a girl who was raised as a boy,actually shes the most lonely in the sohmas and a very sad person. You meet the hole zodiac and you get to know about Tohru's sad past they never told in the anime and the manga is waay longer and Yukis love for another girl. I can recommend it for u :D

[CloudWatcherX]

wow wonderful! i love it :) i only read about half of the manga because my library didn't have the rest but i did watch the anime all the way through. ok Akito is a girl!!?!?!?!?!?!? *makes crazy shocked expression* O.O well Akito is a guy in the anime but thats odd that that would change from the manga to the anime. also does the manga go into further detail as to what happens to the Sohmas in the manga? can i read it online somewhere? if so where?

[Kerosecstacy]

Simply put: Stunning.

[Kerosecstacy]

@webkinztylover Hehehehe, yup. The anime never got to that particular revelation, more's the pity.

You should read the manga, it's really a god damn beautiful story.

[webkinztylover]

@webkinztylover she s just a jelous thatshes living with her love lol

[thewitchofthemidwest]

@webkinztylover Haha yes she is <3

[gkshfutsiotjhsiofhhj]

@zeldafreak219 OneManga closed down a couple months ago :(

[webkinztylover]

Is akito a girl???