GastonRabbit
MOD
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
(General of TV Troops)
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
May 8th 2023 at 7:01:29 AM
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Per TRS
, this was disambiguated and the original definition was sent to the Trope Idea Salvage Yard.
SeptimusHeap
MOD
(Edited uphill both ways)
Mar 20th 2021 at 10:57:10 AM
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Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Ambiguous Name, started by WaxingName on Aug 13th 2013 at 8:17:33 PM
GlitteringFlowers
Since: Dec, 2015
May 31st 2016 at 8:31:09 AM
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- This trope is the main difference between Fruits Basket's adaptations. In the original manga, Tohru is eventually revealed to have severely low self-esteem and an unhealthy inability to move on from her mother's death. In the anime, she's a straight up Purity Sue who never goes through Character Development and has barely any influence on the main plot. In both versions, she obsessively sidelines her own needs and problems- ostensibly because she wants to take care of her friends, but really because she can't face her trauma. (In the manga's finale, she confronts Akito, and forgives her, realizing that Akito's cruelty is as false as Tohru's happiness.)
It's best to put the Furuba one here since it seems to be more about bashing Anime!Tohru than pointing out how Tohru fits.
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