Fruits Basket Reveals Rins Backstory and Its Traumatizing

Fruits Basket Reveals Rin’s Backstory – and It’s Traumatizing

If last week’s episode of Fruits Basket was the lightest in a while, “Wanna Kiss?” is the darkest the series has ever been up to this point.

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Fruits Basket Reveals Rins Backstory and Its Traumatizing

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Fruits Basket Season 2, Episode 18, “Wanna Kiss?” now streaming on Crunchyroll.

If last week’s episode of Fruits Basket was the lightest in a while, “Wanna Kiss?” is the darkest the series has ever been up to this point. This episode explains a lot about Rin, who up until now was one of the show’s most enigmatic characters. This is the first episode to specifically take Rin’s perspective rather than viewing her through the lens of other characters.

The cold open of the episode starts in more typical form, focusing on Hiro’s view of Rin. Hiro has by far the happiest family situation of the cursed Sohmas, with a loving mother and new baby sibling on the way, while it’s obvious Rin is in the opposite boat. Rin makes Hiro feel guilty about his own happiness, and it soon becomes clear Hiro is already feeling guilt about being present when something terrible happened to Rin.

Fruits Basket Reveals Rins Backstory and Its Traumatizing

From there, the episode switches to Rin’s perspective and enters a series of flashbacks, going filling in the full conversation between Rin and Shigure from Season 2, Episode 6. The purpose of Rin’s visit appeared sexually motivated in the edited conversation, but the full version shows she was only using sexual offers as a bargaining chip in her bigger gameplan: to find out all she could about ending the Sohma curse. Shigure rejected her offers but didn’t offer her any other sort of help, acting as if he didn’t care and flat-out calling himself “the worst.”

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The non-linear episode then goes even further back in time. Rin’s backstory is presented in an abstract theatrical fashion that recalls Revolutionary Girl Utena, mixed with the creepy doll imagery of Asuka’s flashbacks in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Once upon a time, Rin’s parents pretended to be happy around their cursed daughter. Too happy. When young Rin questioned them if they ever felt anything else, they completely snapped.

Fruits Basket Reveals Rins Backstory and Its Traumatizing

As one would expect from all the emphasis on their relationship, Haru was the light in Rin’s life for all this time, having rescued her from her abusive home and helped her move in with Kaguya’s family. Yet Rin was so used to punishment that she couldn’t accept happiness; happy families would always seem fake to her, and her relationship with Haru would be cause for punishment. For those wondering why Rin was introduced hospitalized and breaking up with Haru, now you know: Akito would not allow their relationship, and she took the fall for her boyfriend.

Every new detail revealed about Akito makes the “god” of the zodiac even more loathsome. When Rin admits to being in a relationship with Haru and takes the blame by claiming she seduced him, Akito’s response is not just of anger and megalomania, but of deep misogyny, combining Rin’s percieved “failings” with those of all women.

Then we finally see that horrifying event which traumatized Hiro to witness: Akito pushes Rin out the window, and she falls on a rock nearly bleeding to death. It’s the most horrifying scene yet in Fruits Basket, and contextualizes everything else she’s done in the series since this flashback occured. The most distant of the Sohmas is now all too painfully sympathetic.

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New episodes of Fruits Basket Season 2 premiere Mondays at 1:30 PM EDT on Crunchyroll. Dubs of these episodes are released three weeks later on FUNimation.

Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/fruits-basket-season-2-episode-18-rin-backstory/

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