yuchi fans watching every single yuchi scene since the broken chalk get cut:

 Spoiler warning. Also cuteness overload warning!!! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

Well at least Takaya-sensei admits to the pyschological war crimes she commited on so many of us when we were but mere teens looking forward to a fun, meaningless time at the beach...

We have Ayame basically narrating his own Hatori fanfiction:

While Hatori tears it apart:

Then we have Shigure mentioning Hatori’s relationship with Mayu!

There is also Ayame just being so extra and exuberant with his description of the grueling content that is to come in the story and Shigure being all “I actually feel sorry,” but really he is just sorry that he didn’t say a cool, “inspirational” type quote in the drama CD that is going to be coming out with the Season 2, Volume 1 DVD.

This new extra politely told me ‘please quit your heavy foreshadowing and shut up and let people form their own opinions about the story’

First, the Mabudachi Trio’s dumbass chaotic energy was through the roof - as you will soon see. Second, it was meta af and I loved it! Third, they were discussing a very interesting and important topic - whether there should be warnings before the later Furuba episodes due to the “hellish and grueling” content (as Ayame put it). And that is a really valid discussion. Finally, there were just so many good moments!?

I’m going to talk about why this chapter is so great, but first, you can get the English version of the comic (in digital format only) over on Comixology and the Yen Press website. Both sites have the chapter for 1.00 USD and the Yen Press site provides links to even more places where it can be purchased. :) So, about all the excellent moments in this chapter! Let’s jump right in!

Ayame starts going off and Hatori just puts on his glasses and opens up a book to start reading! I died! 

Then we have Hatori just straight up calling Shigure out.

And Ayame, in a far more obtuse way, agreeing with Hatori.

Plus, probably one of the best ideas that Ayame has ever had in the series, lbr.

And it all ends with Yuki and Machi on a date. Which is adorable! <3 And Yuki…

being absolutely S A V A G E!

I LOVE IT! And so does Ayame, lol.

If anyone is looking for the “three musketeers” comic which was dropped today… I am here to deliver.

at that point, he must have become disillusioned by the whole order of things. he never really thought of himself as “better” than kyo anyways, not in the sense that he’s the rat and kyo’s the cat; even as children, he never showed disdain for kyo in the way that kyo showed disdain for him. but the role reversal of his and kyo’s experiences, what was versus what was “supposed” to be, takes some part in the core of his resentment. 

it’s as a teenager that he calls kyo an outsider and constantly reminds him that he’s unwanted, but it’s not because he’s changed his mind, and not because he really believes it’s the truth – he sees that it isn’t. he’s known the truth of the matter since he was a child: kyo has a foster father who loves him and lets him explore the world. he’s friends with the other cursed kids, because he’s allowed to be with them and they want to be around him. kyo, the one who was supposed to have nothing, has everything that yuki was kept from obtaining. 

yuki knows that kyo’s life isn’t perfect. he’s heard the rumors about his mom, probably knows that his real dad hates him. he’s literally bound to a monster. but he’s unable to look at kyo like the other cursed members do. he can’t look at kyo and think, “well, at least my life isn’t as horrible as the cat’s. i should be thankful.” because he lived the isolation that was meant for the cat. he was locked in a room like the cat. he was shunned by his family – his parents, his brother, all of his cousins – like the cat. he experienced all of this during his early childhood through to his teens, while kyo wasn’t slated to be imprisoned until he was an adult.

It sounds like mockery. It is mockery, even though kyo didn’t know. To yuki, it’s like kyo’s saying “you think you have it tough? You think this is bad? Suck it up, this is what you get. Be grateful”. Yuki doesn’t know real hardship, kyo doesn’t see yuki’s issues as legitimate and he doesn’t want to be friends because of that–to a confused child, that’s what it must all look like. And those impressions are hard to shake even with age and insight. Yuki was never able to shake the impression that kyo was taunting him

It was pointed out on the Fruits Basket Club Facebook Group that Jerry Jewell, Kyo’s English VA, changed his Facebook profile pic to this:

In the Valentine’s Day and White Day chapters of Furuba, we get introduced to Kyo and Yuki’s love languages.

Kyo’s Love Language:

Kyo’s love language is primarily Acts of Service. He tends to show his love through actions. He does show his love through Words of Affirmation (literally any time he has reassured Tohru of something) and Quality Time (him and Tohru making pancakes together/learning from Kyo and Tohru’s granddaughter that they often take walks together/etc.) as well, but he primarily expresses his love for Tohru through physical acts like this - going with Tohru to the hot springs, despite his dislike of Yuki. Him making her soup (with leeks/chives in it) when she gets sick is another example. There are also smaller, simpler moments too, like when Kyo wards off those guys that try to hit on Tohru, because they think she is an “easy target.” Though, as I noted, Kyo does engage in Words of Affirmation, it isn’t his most preferred or comfortable way of expressing his love. He prefers the other love languages more, and I think this is largely due to his mother and his birth father. His birth father just uses his words to spout hate and blame others, while his mother spoke of her love for her son - of his cuteness and how she didn’t fear him and etc. - but her actions spoke otherwise, she committed suicide. And, of course, that is a very loaded topic. But, for Kyo, words have never really meant anything…or anything good anyway. Even with Kazuma. Kyo doesn’t really seem to genuinely believe in Kazuma and his good intentions until Kazuma literally lifts Kyo up and then proclaims that Kyo will breath from higher up/a higher place and so on. Of course, while Kyo has a lot of…stuff (for a lack of a better word)…going on with Tohru and his relationship with her at the start of the series. I also think another reason why he struggles with dealing with her and his feelings for her at the start is because Tohru’s primary love language is Words of Affirmation. We don’t really see a huge shift in Kyo and Tohru’s relationship until after Kyo’s True Form. It’s in that moment that we really see Tohru placing action (Acts of Service) and her Words of Affirmation together and aiming those words and actions specifically at Kyo. When she says that she wants to stay together with him, she says it while she is clinging on to him. Her words and her actions match up and support each other. From that moment on, I think Kyo was able to truly trust Tohru’s Words of Affirmation, he was able to understand her primary love language, so we start to see a large shift in their dynamic.  Yuki’s Love Language: