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Different from the Manga
All right! Fruits Basket anime! About high school girl, Tohru Honda, who is orphaned when her mother dies in car accident. She ends up living in a tent in the woods. Then, into the picture, enters the Sohmas! Turns out that Tohru was living in the Sohmas' woods and she ends up being the housekeeper for them. Yuki Sohma, who is in Tohru's class, is the younger cousin of Shigure Sohma, whose house Tohru is now staying in. Before she moved in, Yuki and Shigure had warned Tohru to not hug anyone in the house, and for one reason: in the Sohma family, there are 13 cursed juunishi (ones of the chinese zodiac). When hugged by people of the opposite sex, they change into there cursed animal forms. Considering there were only males in the house Tohru was staying in, where there were only males. <
> Oops! I forgot one important detail in this series. There are only 12 animals in the chinese zodiac, but there are 13 cursed Sohmas. There is a story that goes along with this and it goes like this: <
> Long ago, God invited all the animals to a special banquet. All the animals except for the cat heard of the invitation, so the rat decided to play a joke on the cat. The rat had told the cat that the banquet that God was holding was to be the day after the day it really was. So, on the day that the banquet was held, all the animals arrived, except for the cat, who was fast asleep because he was told that the banquet was the day after. According to Takaya-sensei, this is the story of the 12 animals of the chinese zodiac, and why the cat is not on the zodiac. The animals were: snake, horse, sheep/ram, monkey, rooster, dog, boar, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, and dragon. In <
>Fruits Basket, the cat is Kyo Sohma. <
>*A QUICK COMPARISON OF THE ANIME AND THE MANGA OF FRUITS BASKET* <
>There are currently 26 episodes of Fruits Basket (I believe that people are trying to convince the company producing FB to make more episodes, but that is just what I have heard). The manga is over 17 volumes long (I have read up to chapter 102 so far, and there is still more, it is at about volume 18)sorry, forgot to mention that I read from scanalations, those volumes aren't released in the US yet:D). The anime does not show the horse or the rooster, nor does it reveal Akito's true identity. A few differences in the characters' personalities, but not many details were changed. The anime covers about the first 6 volumes of the manga, and the part revealing Ritsu (volume 8). <
> I have more to say about this anime, but I shall tell no more. THIS ISN'T THE LAST TIME YOU HEAR FROM ME!! *he-he* ^_^ <
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An anime that'll leave you warm and fuzzy inside
Tohru Honda is a cute, bubbly orphaned high school sophomore who lost her mother in May, and is secretly living in a tent in the woods. She pays for her own tuition via her janitorial job. She's got it rough, but she feels blessed to have two friends, tough talking blonde Arisa Uotani and the goth-like Saki Hanajima, with a soft but low menacing voice who threatens to zap anyone bullying Tohru with harmful vibes. But as she says, "one of my virtues is that no matter the times, I will not be discouraged." <
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>Meet the Sohmas. Tohru does and discovers to her amazement that they are a family cursed with the spirits of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac. Whenever their bodies weaken or they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they turn into their totem animal. Shigure turns into a dog, Yuki into a rat, and Kyo into a cat. She then becomes greater friends with Yuki, the handsome and androgynous popular "prince" of Tohru's high school. In exchange for keeping their secret, Tohru gets free rent and cooks and cleans for them. The Sohmas become like a new family to her, as she finds somewhere she belongs, bringing to mind the game Fruits Basket, where each child was given the name of a fruit, and when their name was called, they'd join in the center. Tohru was given the name "onigiri" or riceball, as a cruel joke, and hence she was excluded. <
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>According to legend, the zodiac animals were invited to a banquet by god, but the mischievous rat told the cat the banquet was the day after. The cat missed the banquet and was thus excluded from the zodiac. Thus the cat and rat are at odds against each other, and a large piece of the story involves the short-tempered and embittered Kyo threatening to physically beat Yuki, to become a formal member of the zodiac, but alas, Yuki amazingly kicks Kyo's a** repeatedly, as well as bickering. As an injoke, Saki and Arisa says the pair's arguing reminds them of that cartoon, "something and Jerry." <
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>Kyo, though, feels he isn't cut out for socializing, but Shigure tells him that "unless you interact with people, hurting them and being hurt by them as you learn about them as well as yourself, you'll never be the kind of person who can be concerned about others." But Tohru, who wept as a child upon hearing the cat's fate, is someone who loves the cat and despite Kyo's temper, some of it aimed at her, realizes that Kyo is someone "who is a little more awkward than others, but a good person deep down, a gentle person who knows when he feels sorry." <
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>Both Yuki and Kyo are socially awkward with people, and popular. Whereas Yuki feels inferior because of his shyness, Kyo doesn't react well to people he doesn't know, but once they get to know him, he tends to attract people like a magnet. Yuki says that he's nice because he wants to be liked by others, but that makes him hypocritical. <
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>But Tohru recalls her mother saying how people weren't born with kindness, and that it's easier to doubt than to believe and better to do the latter. "Kindness is something that develops just as our bodies do, and the heart that grows inside is our conscience. ...Tohru, become a girl who believes in others. That will surely lend strength to someone." And she does, to both Yuki and Kyo. <
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>Voicing Tohru has given Yui Horie her most lovable role ever. Other veterans include Tomokazu Seki (Kyo), who's done work for Chobits (as Shimbo) and more recently, as cosplay costume designer Tanaka in Genshiken. Pop singer Aya Hisakawa (Yuki) also voiced PE teacher Kurosawa in Azumanga Daioh and Sailor Mercury in Sailor Moon. <
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>I was soooooooo enchanted, mainly because of Tohru, who is that rare of people, a romantic, a cooperator, "someone who understands other people's feelings," and someone who wants to be friends with everyone and charms everyone she meets with her personality. When at first it looks as if her memory might be erased to keep the Sohmas' secret, she fully understands and cheerily asks Yuki, who feels stunned and guilty, "When my memory is erased, please be my friend again, okay?" The revelation of her mother's death kind of stirred something in me, as my own mother also died in May. Small wonder she is my second favourite anime character, after Aoi Sakuraba (Ai Yori Aoshi), and FB my third favourite anime series.