It's Cinderella-ish

is the twenty-third episode of the second season of the Fruits Basket 2019 Anime.

Summary
Tohru’s class puts on an unconventional retelling of Cinderella at the school culture festival.

Trivia

 * The episode title is taken from one of Momiji Sohma’s lines.

Anime and Manga Differences

 * Some bits of the opening scene with Hiro and Kisa got shuffled around involving their reaction to the entrance way to the culture festival and Hiro warning Kisa about attracting unwanted attention. Due to this, the setting of the scene was changed in the anime to be outside the school instead of inside it.
 * Hiro's nervous reaction to seeing Megumi coming by was depicted in stick figure form in the manga.
 * Tohru as the evil stepsister choosing to have tea with Saki as Cinderella during the play was added for the anime.
 * The narrator's line telling the audience to be careful taking photos when Yuki appears as the fairy godmother was added for the anime.
 * The narrator's line regarding Cinderella Saki looking glum about going to the ball was removed from the anime.
 * Prince Kyo and his friend Arisa's argument over Kyo's refusal to participate in the ball was extended a bit for the anime, adding on the line with Hiro's dumbfounded reaction to the changes to the play.
 * Cinderella Saki returning to eating the ball food after rejecting Prince Kyo was depicted in stick figure form in the manga.
 * Arisa's bit where she attempts to prod Prince Kyo to asking Cinderella Saki to dance again was shortened for the anime, which included a lost part where the audience told Kyo to hang in there.
 * Prince Kyo and Cinderella Saki originally had a part of their exchange that was depicted in stick figure form in the manga.
 * In the manga, Kyo was not undressed from part of his costume when he started hearing Kazuma and Saki's conversation. Plus, the bit where Kyo recalled he heard about Saki's crush on Kazuma was removed from the anime.
 * There is a removed part of Kyo and Kazuma's conversation where Kazuma lamented he didn't see the full play due to an issue that came up at his dojo.
 * Tohru recalling Arisa and Kureno's problems regarding their potential romance was removed from the anime.
 * As Hiro was telling Haru that his kindness may have strained his relationship with Isuzu, flashbacks of Isuzu were shown during his exchange in the manga. Plus as Hiro left in frustration from Tohru and the other Sohmas after his exchange with Haru, Momiji commenting Hiro was the one to bring it up was removed from the anime.
 * Some differences to note with Machi being confronted by a trio of female classmates:
 * The anime added in more spoken dialogue from the girls as Yuki and Kakeru observed the confrontation.
 * During Yuki and Kakeru's conversation, part of the scene where Yuki and Kakeru comment on why the two are debating about intervention was removed from the anime.
 * Part of the exchange with the girls got removed where one of them angrily commented that they worked to clean up the mess left in the student council room before it got messy again upon learning Machi was behind it.

Episodio 48 (2019) À peu près Cendrillon ! エピソード48（2019）