PSA Regarding Content Posted on This Blog

Recently, I discovered that multiple pieces of my writing from this blog have been taken without my permission and posted to the Fruits Basket Wiki without credit.

It’s hard to know exactly how much content has been taken, but the biggest that I know of so far are:

While I love providing the fandom with insight and knowledge that I’ve gained through my research, it is the result of countless hours of hard work on my part. Especially posts like the ones about the Sohma family or Kyo’s juzu beads, which don’t just reference the manga directly but refer to the kind of outside research that went into writing my thesis and is the kind of content that I now provide primarily through my patreon project.

This isn’t knowledge that is easy to find, or intuitive to put together in relationship to the story of Fruits Basket, and even though they may look like relatively short blog posts at the end, it involves synthesizing the insight from reading countless academic books and articles over the course of many years. It is not without reason that I now post that kind of content through a patreon.

While Fruits Basket belongs to Natsuki Takaya, and love and understanding of the series belongs to everyone, the specific analysis I provide still belongs to me.



So while part of my goal is to alleviate misconceptions about Fruits Basket, it upsets me to see my analysis copy and pasted nearly word for word with only very slight changes on a public website without anyone having approached me about doing so or giving me any credit in the process. I have been in the process of planning to start posting publicly and freely more of the content that I post on patreon, because I am all for open access to academic research, but after this incident of my work being copied without credit, it makes me feel very wary and uncomfortable to do that.

Something that worries me is that I have presented this work at conferences in the past and I want to eventually publish some of this research in academic journals and if parts of it are taken and posted across the internet without credit that could negatively affect the likelihood of that happening.

Please respect the time and effort that I put into this blog and into all my Fruits Basket related content now and in the future. Thank you.

- Mod Red (Christa)