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2nd Season Officially Announced for Fruits Basket Anime

Fruits Basket Season 2 was confirmed to be in production immediately following the airing of Fruits Basket 2019 Episode 25.

Unlike the one produced by Studio Deen in 2001, this new adaptation promised to be more faithful to the original manga series and is even being overseen by Natsuki Takaya (creator of the manga) herself. The first season has been one of the bigger hits of the year, but reached the end of its initial 25 episode order with the latest premiere.

The anime premiered in Japan on April 5, and the show’s “Season 1” has a total of 25 episodes. Funimation and Crunchyroll are streaming the anime as it airs. Funimation has also licensed the home video rights.

Fruits Basket was originally created by Natsuki Takaya for Hakusensha’s Han to Yume magazine in 1998. The series follows a sweet, young, orphaned girl named Tohru Honda who ends up living with a few members of the mysterious Sohma clan when shenanigans ensue. Things get out of control when Tohru learns the family has been cursed to transform into zodiac animals whenever they are hugged by someone of the opposite sex. Sworn to secrecy, Tohru decides to help break the cyclical curse, and the girl falls in love with a special someone along the way. Fruits Basket even returned with three new manga chapters from original creator Natsuki Takaya as well.

Crunchyroll describes the anime’s story:

“Tohru Honda thought her life was headed for misfortune when a family tragedy left her living in a tent. When her small home is discovered by the mysterious Soma clan, she suddenly finds herself living with Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure Soma. But she quickly learns their family has a bizarre secret of their own: when hugged by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Zodiac!”

The new anime has an entirely new Japanese cast and staff, as per Takaya’s request. The anime will cover the entire manga’s story.

In addition, the total number of episodes for the entire Fruits Basket reboot may have been inadvertently leaked by English dub voice actor Eric Vale. Besides hinting at Fruits Basket: 2nd Season, it seems like the anime will finish off the Furuba manga’s story with Fruits Basket Season 3.

During a May 2019 interview that Vale gave during Anime Central 2019, the voice of Yuki Soma spoke about a variety of topics. The American voice actor has voiced characters such as Trunks in Dragon Ball Z, Sanji in One Piece, Kymblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, America and Canada in Hetalia, and Nishiki in Tokyo Ghoul.

Vale was heard saying that the anime will be: “telling the story from beginning to end, 63 episodes in total.

When the news went viral about a month later Vale retracted what he said about Fruit Basket 2019’s number of episodes in a Twitter post made on June 11, 2019.

The first season will be released on Blu-Ray/DVD as six volumes. Since the first several volumes have four episodes each, Volume 5 should include 5 episodes and end with Fruits Basket Episode 25.

Yoshihide Ibata (Pikaia!!, FLCL Progressive) directed the first season at TMS Entertainment. Taku Kishimoto (Silver Spoon, Haikyu!!, 91 Days, Hanebad!) was in charge of series composition. Masaru Shindō (Macross Delta, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) drew the character designs. Takaya herself served as executive supervisor.

Ai Ohtsuka performed the show’s new opening theme song “Chime,” and INTERSECTION performed the new ending theme song “One Step Closer.” Beverly performed the first opening theme song “Again,” and Vickeblanka performed the first ending theme song “Lucky Ending.”

The first season received 25 episodes, or two cours. A “cour” is a three-month TV broadcasting unit based on the physical seasons and anime seasons usually have between 10 to 13 episodes per cour.

Since the first season is 25 episodes, Fruits Basket Season 2 could be 25 or 26 episodes. That would leave 12 or 13 episodes for a single-cour Fruits Basket Season 3. Anime fans will just have to wait and see how the reboot is handled by the new animation studio.

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