Alternative TitlesEnglish: Fruits Basket Synonyms: Furuba Japanese: フルーツバスケット
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 23
Chapters: 136
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 1999 to Nov 2006
StatisticsScore: 8.571 (scored by 27702 users)
Ranked: #942
Popularity: #8
Members: 43,131
Favorites: 6,992 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisTohru Honda is a high school freshman who is having a serious bout of misfortune. Not only was she recently orphaned with the tragedy of her mother's death, but she also has no where to live and is currently residing in a tent! However, when her luck to seems to be at its worse, she meets the Sohma family - and is invited to stay with them in exchange for taking care of the household chores.
But it isn't long before Tohru discovers the Sohmas have deep a secret. The family is cursed by the spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and some of the children born into the Sohma family are possessed by these spirits. When possessed, they cannot be "huggled" by the opposite sex, or they transform into their respective Zodiac animal!
However, this doesn't phase Tohru, who promises to keep their secret. She continues living with them, and her grave humbleness and thankfulness never wanes. As a result, they come to be very important people in her life, and the Sohmas begin to realize how very lucky they are to have her. |
Related MangaOther: Fruits Basket 4koma
Adaptation: Fruits Basket
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Suzuhana
30 of 40 people found this review helpful
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136 of 136 chapters read
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10 |
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10 |
I find that there are people who absolutely love (this seems to be the majority) Furuba or people who can't stand it.
I believe that it's hard not to like Furuba. At first I thought it was just going to be funny, because the first 7 or so volumes are full of hilarious scenes (mainly because whenever the Juunishi are hugged by the opposite sex, they change!). But once you get to volume 6 everything seems to start to gravitate in a different direction.
The story line, when it's revealed, is a little cliche in my opinion. Hence the rate of a 9. Don't get me wrong, its a beautiful story and one I find myself learning from over and over again no matter how many times I read it. It's about growing up and becoming who you're meant to be and finding the reason why you were born. It's almost hard to believe sometimes, the pain the characters have to go through in Furuba. But I'm so engrossed in each pain that it's not something that can be put down easily.
The characters are the winning point in Furuba. In reality they'd be a bunch of loners, depressing and sad. And just about every one of them is believable. Their personalities range from overtly happy (meaning there hiding the pain) to stubborn as a horse (go figure) and just down right conceited (he knows who he is). Even 'God' too. The growth of each of them is stunning and gorgeous and reading them grow is like watching the sun rise on a rainy day. I've laughed obnoxiously, cried until my chest hurt and felt the red hot burn of hatred while reading this manga. My favorite character is Kyo because he's absolutely adorable and I think I would also try to solve everything with anger myself. And the one character that I hated and grew to love was Yuki because he, in my opinion, is the one who grows the most. The one problem I have though is our main character. I love and I hate Tohru Honda. It's hard to place into words, what Tohru is. Because she becomes everything at once. A mother, a sister, a friend, a confident, a hero and the reason for someone else's life. But she's also the saddest girl I have ever seen. Bottled up with the most horrifying feelings. Even in the beginning it's obvious. Losing your mother would tear anyone's heart it two. I love her and what she does for everyone in the story. Because if I were to meet her myself, I think I would react much as all the Zodiac do. I would treat her as if she were the sun itself. But where, but in a manga, do you find someone so selfless.
The enjoyment I had and continue to have for this manga is absolute. I own every single volume and I'll pick up one all the time and just read it. There's a lesson in every chapter and words, that even though I don't think anyone in the real world has the heart to say, that make me want to become a better person. Someone who would give and give and give and ask for nothing in return. It makes me want to smile. To be the reason that someone else could smile. It makes me want to to the rock that someone can stand on. It's hard to read this manga and not feel ashamed for something you've done. It makes me ashamed to feel that I don't do as Tohru does. Which is why I believe that everyone should read this manga. Because it's heartwarming, sad, and where life continues to grow.
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MoMo-Da-Gr8
41 of 57 people found this review helpful
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136 of 136 chapters read
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10 |
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10 |
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10 |
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Story - 10/10
Tohru Honda is a high school freshman who is having a serious bout of misfortune. Not only was she recently orphaned with the tragedy of her mother's death, but she also has no where to live and is currently residing in a tent! However, when her luck to seems to be at its worse, she meets the Sohma family - and is invited to stay with them in exchange for taking care of the household chores.
But it isn't long before Tohru discovers the Sohmas have deep a secret. The family is cursed by the spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, and some of the children born into the Sohma family are possessed by these spirits. When possessed, they cannot be "huggled" by the opposite sex, or they transform into their respective Zodiac animal!
However, this doesn't phase Tohru, who promises to keep their secret. She continues living with them, and her grave humbleness and thankfulness never wanes. As a result, they come to be very important people in her life, and the Sohmas begin to realize how very lucky they are to have her.
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Furuba was the first manga I ever read, the first anime I ever watched. I finished it about a year and a half ago, but since I got the final volume the other day, and have reread the series a few times over now, I should be able to give it a worthy review.
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The story is like nothing Ive ever read before. Yes, Ive read lots of stories with people transforming into animals, or with the Zodiac as a genre. But Furuba was different. The more you get into the story, the deeper the meaning. Its tragic, yet cute, suspenseful and heart-wrenching. It kept me wanting more, kept me rereading each book over and over. The plot thickens, and doesn't have breaks like other stories do, like Naruto, Bleach, or anything like that. This is a story where once the plot thickens, it will not thin out until the very end. Its a mystery where you HAVE to read the whole thing to understand it. Skipping chapters and/or volumes will have you lost and confused, just like some characters in this story. Its a roller coaster ride of love, romance, hurt and tragedy. Its a shoujo manga that boys and girls alike can enjoy!
Art - 10/10
This is my favorite thing about Furuba. The art. Natsuki Takaya's are was cute to begin with, but you can how much she evolves her art, through out the manga. As the years go by, her art slightly changed, and now, if you look at that in volume one, and the art in volume 23, you cannot even tell they are the same artist. Her most recent art is beautiful and smoother than her art from 8 years ago. I loved Kyou's design the best, he seemed to be the character she worked most on, and it showed throughout his smooth expressions and movements. I hope to see more of Takaya-Sensei's more recent arts.
Character - 10/10
This is were Furuba has become on of the most popular shoujo manga out there. Character development. Every single fricken character in this story goes through huge transformations. In personality, looks and etc. Kyou especially. From the beginning there are characters I HATED, but by the time the end came around, that character had changed so much because of traumatic and heartbreaking events, they became one of my favorite characters. I had characters I liked from the beginning, and at the end, I LOVED them. I rooted for so many pairings, got what I wanted, hated some of the pairings that were strangely created, and wanted to murder a few characters. But without those certain characters, the story would have sucked, and that's what it didn't do.
Overall -- 10/10
Fruits Basket was a perfect start to my shoujo obsession. It kicked it off and kept me going through the years. 7 years of waiting for the finale, and I got what I wanted. Each chapter was unique in a sense, and I loved the story. Like I said before, this manga is perfect for both girls and guys. There's: Fighting, blood, fear, death, suspense, transformation, tons of zodiac reference, lots and lots of romance, Tsnuderes, animals, and cute bishounen. read more
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I think some of the characters are similar, like:
Tohru-Mitsuki
Rin-Madoka
Kyo-Takuto
I found the main girl to be similar in these two. While the stories are a little different, there are certainly elements which remain the same. Both follow the story of a hopeful girl who, despite all hardships, does her best to smile and fulfil a dream. Both are later "rescued" (depending on how you interpret it) and so the stories begin.
They both have some kind of tragedy which they're trying to fight against and there's some guy around who's innocent but is still put as a bad person. :)
Both are shoujo, with a non-important magical aspect. Both have a young, sweet female as the protagonist, and both are romances, but they are also both very deep and explore many other themes such as death. I would even go as far as to say that Full Moon is more depressing than Furuba, and both are much deeper than usual shoujo. They are also of similar length.
They are similar in the fact that both have a magical element to them, but the main character has to pick between two guys.
Both of these manga are about imaginative girls who seem to be in a strange world. Then, they are joined by other people who they seem to help out with. Both Fruits Basket and Full Moon are very stylish manga about girls whom you would fall in love with and you will love the characters who provide comical relief such as Takuto - Kyo or Meroko and whatnot. They also provide comedy, some drama, and magic.
Both series are deceptively dark - are they cheerful fantastical romances? Rather, both deal with issues of suicide, illness and debilitating curses. Both say similar things and ask similar questions.
The Sohma curse in Fruits Basket and the Shinigami curse in Full Moon share similarities too, each with their own discussion. Both situations are explored and complicated by the arrival of an unassuming, lonely girl. The most powerful people in each of their stories, both Tohru and Mitsuki provide the cursed with new ways to find answers.
The most important similarity is that each of them offer deconstruction and utility of typical shoujo narratives. Crucially, neither are solely about romance, or curses: both are about important, almost familial, relationships and how best to hold them dear.
Both involve a girl with similar situations. Also, both have romance and comedy and the art are both great.
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The circumstances and characters and their relationships to each other have a similar feel to it.
Tohru and Najika are both orphans facing tremendous opposition from those in power. Both girls have an amazing power of optimism to overcome theseobstacles, and even the two main male characters are similiar: Daichi is just like Kyo, and Sora is like Yuki.
WOW. Although these two manga's have totally different settings, Fruits Basket is school life touching fantasy and Kitchen Princess is school life about cooking, the main characters practically share the same kind of spirit and both stories have the same sort of depth. Fruitsbasket has more characters, though and is a bit longer. I'm sure though that if you like one, you'll like the other- especially if you love the main character and the over all feel of the story
I was instantly struck by their similarities. I suppose Fruits Basket vaguely does have something to do with food, but it's more analogical, and anyway, that's not the point. At first glance, both are typical, fluffy, mindless, shoujo manga, but as you read, they become something much more. Fruits Basket and Kitchen Princess are both beautifully illustrated, heart-warming stories that will make you laugh, cry, and feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside, about a ridiculously cheerful, optimistic albeit clueless orphaned heroine, an oranyan and a beautiful student council president who seems way too perfect. The oranyan and the beautiful student council president don't get along that well, either. And they're related. Okay, there are way too many similarities. Is this normal? Yuki isn't the student council president until farther along in the story, but whatever. If you adored Kitchen Princess, you'll love Fruits Basket even more!
Kitchen Princess and Fruits Basket are both about orphans who are very hard working and kind. Both of these manga include love triangles and alot of the characters are similar. Both of these manga include psychological drama and some tragedy but are also very uplifting at times. But Fruits Basket is more of a fantasy and Kitchen Princess deals with more realistic matters.
The characters in both stories are very similar. Najika is like Tohru. They are both extremely moe and sweet. Sora is similar to Yuki. Both characters are popular and somewhat quiet. Daichi is like Kyo. Daichi, like Kyo, is also fairly popular and pick on the main heroine a little at first. Both Fruits Basket and Kitchen Princess are sweet and worth your time if you are as into shoujo manga as me. :)
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