And Now For Something Completely Different-Style Deus Ex Machina that is so in-your-face, deliberate, fanservicey, foreshadowed-feeling-whether-you-can-tell-it-is-or-not, and twisted back on itself that it turns into a koan-like OF COURSE.
Surprise, your best friend is secretly a demon who is secretly a sword with a soul who is secretly Satan who is secretly in love with you before you were dead and all of him got pseudo-amnesia? OF COURSE HE IS. Surprise, hugging people turns them into animals? OF COURSE IT DOES. [Fruits Basket spoilers up to where rachelmanija has read] Surprise, Akito is a woman?[/spoiler] OF COURSE HE IS. [Fruits Basket spoilers significantly PAST where rachelmanija has read] Surprise, the cliffhanger from the late chaper ends with the cliff from the first chaper breaking?[/spoiler] OF COURSE IT DOES. Surprise, "the writer grew frustrated and called a duck into the story"? OF COURSE THE WRITER DID.
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Date: 2007-05-01 06:20 pm (UTC)Surprise, your best friend is secretly a demon who is secretly a sword with a soul who is secretly Satan who is secretly in love with you before you were dead and all of him got pseudo-amnesia? OF COURSE HE IS.
Surprise, hugging people turns them into animals? OF COURSE IT DOES.
[Fruits Basket spoilers up to where
[Fruits Basket spoilers significantly PAST where
Surprise, "the writer grew frustrated and called a duck into the story"? OF COURSE THE WRITER DID.