Heroine of Shoujo

Princely characters and trianglers

It was just some while ago today when I finished watching the anime adaptation of Fruits Basket. I want to say more about how I liked the Furuba anime adapation (except for the last few episodes in which they changed and added lots of scenes) because of its 90% faithfulness with Natsuki Takaya’s manga, but I’ll save that particular babbling for another post.

Well anyway, like what I always do after finishing an anime series, I assessed Furuba by comparing it to other anime titles (that is somehow similar to it). Let me just get this clear though, I’m talking about Furuba anime here because that’s what I just finished. The manga will forever be the best, and I will be forever faithful with that. So anyway again, with Furuba, realization dawned upon me:

OMG DO I LIKE PRINCELY CHARACTERS??

So okay, not really realization because it’s still a question that needs an answer but we will be answering that later. LATER.

I know you might be asking why I’m so fussed about such a simple thing for liking princely characters but really… I don’t actually know if that’s bad or good… But I’m so squeeing when I think about SUCH characters. They ARE cute, aren’t they? Prince-like, as they are called. *SQUEEEEEEEEEEE*

What the hell am I talking about princes anyway and how is that connected to Furuba? Well then, here’s an answer: YUKI SOHMA.

Ah, the prince.

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!~ ♥

Yuki Sohma is just so cute right? Ha, I know he looks like a girl but I really really (2x) like him! (But I’m not out of my mind that I would join the Yuki Sohma Fan Club ) I so like boys who look like girls, like Ruka Nogi of Gakuen Alice and Tadase Hotori of Shugo Chara. Yuki, Ruka, Tadase… *and so goes for another kyaa~ ♥ *

And thus, the answer. I DO like princely characters. Rough translation would be, “I like boy characters who look like girls.” Hehe But I can’t help it, that’s my preference. Each of us has different preferences, right? So that means I’m not insane for liking such characters

(So maybe Ruka isn’t much like Yuki and Tadase in ‘prince-ness’, first off because he is best friends with Natsume and he was acting like some snob at the beginning of the story, but I’m still considering him because he ‘looks like a girl’.)

With what I just said on how I like Yuki, Ruka, and Tadase, you might probably be thinking that I ship Yuki-Tohru, Ruka-Mikan, and Tadase-Amu. My answer? NO, I don’t. That’s where the ‘triangler’ part goes.

You see, though I like those ‘princes’, I don’t ship them with the main heroine. I don’t know why but it’s just that I like them more than the actual boy whom I ship with the heroine. So it means “I like them but I don’t like pairing them with the heroine, obviously because the other guy is better FOR the heroine.”

(I hope my explanation isn’t confusing o_O)

It doesn’t mean that I don’t like Kyo, Natsume, and Ikuto, though. I actually really like them, I mean, why would I pair them with the main heroine if I hate them? Again, it’s just that I like the prince-y character more.

So with the triangler Kyo-Tohru-Yuki (that was at the middle part of the manga because we all know that it’s Machi-Yuki – yes, I ship that — in the end), I go for Kyo-Tohru but I love Yuki more than Kyo (that doesn’t mean I don’t love Kyo!!). In Natsume-Mikan-Ruka, I ABSOLUTELY ship Natsume-Mikan but Ruka is the best guy for me. And, yes, that’s right, I pair Ikuto-Amu in Ikuto-Amu-Tadase (I was too stupid before to actually root for Tadamu. UNBELIEVABLE.), though I’ll always be a Tadase fan

(Agghh… I’m just tangling the explanation even more o_O)

So I think that settles it? Confusing post, I know . But I hope I was able to clearly state that I love the princely characters in Fruits Basket, Gakuen Alice (I see Ruka as prince ), and Shugo Chara, while shipping the main heroine with the ‘better’ (not for me, but for the heroine) guy ^_^

** I could say PRINCESSES instead of ‘Princes’ **

Aren’t the cute? ^_^ ohohohoho~

And an omake: it’s them wearing girl’s uniforms… *Kira Kira* Now that’s why you call ‘princessly princes’

That’s all for this post dedicated to Princely characters. It will be 2012 in three days, and I’ll do my best to post more before the first day of 2012 ^_^ (the Furuba anime review included!)

xoxo,
AlyssaMihara