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Fruits Basket: Discussion about Shigure

Here is my interpretation:

I think that they did all love Akito--but not in the same way. They definitely did not all feel a romantic love. Kureno gave her a sort of pity-love, like the way that Kagura loves Kyo. Hatori seems to love her as a child or someone to take care of (I'm thinking of how he held her in vol. 17 after the fight with Ren).

Shigure, however, loves her romantically from the beginning. If you recall, at one point he says that he's "the most cursed of all"--because he loves her truly. His love is not forced (or if it was, it was only in the beginning), unlike with Kureno (who is forcing himself to stay with her despite not wanting to--you could see why that would make Shigure angry) and the others. Even if Shigure were not cursed, he would still love her--and that's why he says he is perhaps the most cursed. He's bound even beyond the curse.

I don't know that I would say he loves her just because of the dream, though. If you argue that the dream was just a plot-hole to make him love her, then the curse could be considered a plot-hole as well, which I don' t like, since it's part of the premise of the series.

I think what Shigure is actually talking about when he talks about the dream is a feeling of yearning--which I think is a feeling common among dreams. You have this sad, beautiful, poignant dream--one that fills something you didn't know you were missing--and then you wake up and it's gone. Shigure and the others all felt that way, but Shigure was the only one who kept feeling that way. The others realized that they were cursed and their feelings were forced, and their feelings became conflicted. Shigure had the opposite reaction; he wanted to keep that feeling, to deepen his bond with Akito, but she flitted away.

Shigure as a whole is a fascinating character to me, and I've been trying to puzzle him out for a while now.

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Remember in volume 19 he said to Tohru how he wished he could of dreamed about someone like her instead?

I would also really like to know what he means by that. My only guess so far is that he realizes that his personality is wrong and twisted in ways, and maybe if he had yearned for Tohru, he wouldn't be the way he is now... but I'm not really satisfied by that answer.

Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one trying to puzzle him out.

I don't know if I missed something, I just finished reading this series and I wanted to know how it is possible for Shigure and Akito to have physical relations in that one chapter with each other when Shigure was still cursed?? It doesn't make sense to me. I kept expecting them to reveal that Shigure had already been cured, but it never came. So then it becomes an inconsistency that he is able to sleep with Akito in the first place... wouldn't he have turned into a dog? Or is Akito able to touch them? But then it doesn't explain how Shigure was able to sleep with Ren either... did I miss something? Thanks in advance for anyone who answers, it's really bugging me.

Thank you for answering! I do believe there is inconsistency regarding this issue... wasn't Hatori's girlfriend Kana a Sohma as well? But they could not touch? I was under the impression that only those cursed could touch each other. Also, Yuki turned into a mouse after playing with some of the "outside" Sohma children right?

Thank you for answering! I do believe there is inconsistency regarding this issue... wasn't Hatori's girlfriend Kana a Sohma as well? But they could not touch? I was under the impression that only those cursed could touch each other. Also, Yuki turned into a mouse after playing with some of the "outside" Sohma children right?