Fruits Basket: Yuki’s Dark Past
Fruits Basket Season 2 has often reminisced about Yuki’s childhood in brisk flashes. There are scenes of the unrecalled and very old meeting of Yuki with Tohru, Yuki pleading for help, Akito losing her mind over the paint in a tatami room that is recapitulated throughout the series without much context. The flashbacks and the recaps are portrayed in much depth in the episode, “There was, Definitely”. Even though Yuki’s story of emotional abuse is tough to go through, it is made much more tolerable by an undisputed reason for hope. When Yuki was around 5 or 6 years of age, he used to be very unhealthy, frail and shy. This was around the time that his mother gave him up to Akito. His time as Akito’s playmate for the first few months was quite sad, depressing and low-spirited. But when once he was attacked by Akito and treated as just an object of mere merriment, his self-esteem was reduced to that of a hopeless, valueless and despised individual. It is no surprise that Akito make...