Kyo and Yuki return in a new set of illustrations from Fruits Basket -Prelude-.
As reported by Mantan Web, the new compilation movie premiered in select theaters in Japan on Feb. 18. During its first weekend of limited release, the film pulled in over 55 million yen (about $480,000 USD) with over 32,000 tickets sold. To celebrate the movie's success, two new illustrations of the series' two male leads, Kyo and Yuki Sohma, will be handed out to Japanese theater-goers who see the movie from now on.
Fruits Basket -Prelude- is mostly a retelling of the events of the 2019 anime series, though it does feature two new stories: a prequel section that details how Katsuya and Kyoko Honda, the parents of protagonist Tohru, first met and fell in love, and a new epilogue chapter, that provides a look into how Tohru and Kyo are doing following the conclusion of the main story. The film was also released on Blu-ray and DVD on the same day that it premiered in Japanese theaters, but theatergoers who saw the film during its opening weekend were also given a special bonus booklet that contained a new 16-page manga chapter written and drawn by the series' original creator, Natsuki Takaya.
Fruits Basket tells the story of Tohru Honda, a recently orphaned but nonetheless cheerful young girl who finds herself living in a tent in the forest after a series of unfortunate events. Tohru eventually moves in with Yuki Sohma, the most popular boy from her school, who lives with his cousins Shigure, a laid-back author, and Kyo, a temperamental martial artist. Tohru then becomes one of the few people outside of the family to learn about the Sohma's bizarre secret: when they are embraced by a member of a different gender or are physically weakened, they transform into one of the animals from the Chinese Zodiac folktale.
The movie features content from the 2019 anime series, which was produced by TMS (Lupin the Third) and was the second animated adaptation of Takaya's beloved and highly influential shojo manga. Fruits Basket was first adapted into an anime in 2001 by Studio DEEN (Konosuba). While well-received at the time of its original release, the original anime featured substantial changes from the source material, to the point where Takaya stated that she was personally disappointed by that version of the story. The rebooted series presented a much more faithful adaptation of the original manga. Both anime series are now available for streaming on Crunchyroll, Funimation and Hulu, while the original manga is available in English from Yen Press. An international release for the movie has yet to be announced.
Source: Mantan Web
