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by Natsuki Takaya

Book Overview

This is a highly anticipated, fun-filled fan book from the world's number one shojo manga series. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Comic
• ISBN: 4592188888
• ISBN13: 9784592188889
• Release Date: April 1996
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best Fan Book

If you are a huge fan of Fruits Basket and Kyo you should get this book. It has all the secrets revealed, games, mini posters, cute 4 panel comics, and stickers!!! If you are a fan this book is so worth the $10.

SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This book is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The stickers are so cute and the quiz and games are so funny! Also this is really helpful in case you don't have one of the books in the series or don't understand something in the books. SO GET IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!

The fan book...

I myself actually loved this book. For a Furuba fan, its a major part of the collection. And I'm going to disagree with the earlier statement of volume 18 being spoiled. I hadn't read 18 before I bought this, and found it didn't really spoil anything for me. In short, its a major piece for a Furuba fan.

A Decent Read.

This Book was more of a recap of books 1-18. I hadn't read 18 when i read this, so it kind of spoiled all of the secrets. Make sure to read all the books before reading this. The print was a little small and hard to make out. There were only 8 pages of actual manga in it.

Eye candy!

I have to disagree a bit with the previous reviewer's claim that this book doesn't contain much new information. The character bios mostly are just recaps of material that's been gradually presented within the story, but it's nice to see it collected in compact form-- and they actually show the kanji (or in some cases, kana) for all the major characters' names, which TokyoPop has *not* previously shown in the regular manga. Similarly, the events timeline is a tidy summation which fanfic writers might find useful; the "fashion concept" notes are fun factoids; and the emotional-relationship diagrams have some delightful touches such as Manabe and Kimi being mutually labelled as "toxic friends" to each other. And I'm astonished that the previous review didn't mention the color artwork! Most of this book is printed in the usual black-and-white format on undistinguished paper, but the first ~10 pages have gorgeous glossy full-color prints of some of the large chapter-intro panels which were flattened down into greyscale in the regular manga volumes. There's also a two-page spread in which Takaya outlines how she creates these sort of images, from initial pencil sketch on paper up through various paint layers in Photoshop. (And an initial page of little full-color stickers (meh), mostly the faces of all the Sohma critters and some of the humans, and a few more color pages of various Furuba merchandise that were available in Japan, and which seem to be shown for the purpose of taunting US fans with their unavailability unless they get lucky on eBay.) What I do have to nitpick is the overall presentation of the book. In many places, the text is almost unreadably tiny because panels have been shrunk down or because there're just long paragraphs squeezed into there; afaik Shounen Jump's US fanbook reprints have larger pages than the original Japanese editions, and this book would've benefited if TokyoPop had followed suit. Some sections could've done with a bit more explanation-- I still can't figure out what "moe-moe" means in the specific context of page 148-- and the long stretches of frivolous quizlets and reader-survey results from Japan can get a bit tedious. There are one or two editing slips where a paragraph seems to've been mistakenly duplicated into a different section, replacing whatever else should've been there instead. There are also some notable translation/continuity discrepancies where the dialogue in the reprinted panel doesn't match the dialogue in the corresponding manga volume. (Two words: pronoun trouble.) So yeah, there isn't all that much new stuff in here-- but I enjoyed enough of the info to offset my assortment of minor gripes. I would've been more than happy to buy this for the name kanji/kana and the color reprints alone, which is probably all the benefit I would've gotten from paying lots more for an import of the original Japanese fanbook.