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Ranked #33
Fruits Basket (Manga)

Fruits Basket

Alternative Titles

Furuba

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 23
Chapters: 136
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 1999 to Nov 2006
Authors: Takaya, Natsuki (Story & Art)
Serialization: Hana to Yume

Statistics

Score: 8.591 (scored by 5671 users)
Ranked: #332
Popularity: #4
Members: 8,014
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top manga page.

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Popular Tags

comedy drama romance shoujo

Synopsis

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.

Related Manga

Adaptation: Fruits Basket

Characters

 Motoko
 Naohito
 Kimi
  Mitsuru
 Saki
 Megumi
 Tohru

User Recommendations

I think some of the characters are similar, like:

Tohru-Mitsuki

Rin-Madoka

Kyo-Takuto
reportRecommended by dara-chan
Fruits Basket is more developed, but these have the same backbone storyline. Both stories follow a somewhat naive, kind hearted girl who doesn't have parents. This girl ends up living with three guys, while working as their maid. The three guys she ends up living with are the perverted/friendly type, the princely type, and the awkward/honest type. If you enjoyed the humorous interactions in one, you will definitely like the other.
reportRecommended by restivesilence

Write a review | More Reviews (4)Reviews


Overall 10
Story 10
Art 9
Character 10
Enjoyment 10
Apr 20, 2008136 of ? chapters read
This was the first series that I actually finished, and it was also the series that got me interested in the whole aspect of manga and anime ^^. I hope to one day re-read it if I can get hold of the books, since Tokyopop disabled their upload on online manga sites.

Story: The one thing I love about this series is that there's no one set genre. One moment, you can explore deeply into your conscious, the next you can be laughing your ass off at a joke Shigure makes. Though the su... read more
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Overall 10
Story 10
Art 8
Character 10
Enjoyment 10
Oct 26, 2007136 of ? chapters read
I'm writing this review after reading through the manga for the second time. Considering how popular its been around the world and in North America, I don't know that anyone really needs to be persuaded to read this, and I don't know that there are many that haven't. However, perhaps because of the profound impact this series has and continues to have on me, I felt that it did need to be reviewed.

The story is, above and beyond, a 10. The story is simple but complex, deep and y... read more
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Overall 9
Story 9
Art 8
Character 9
Enjoyment 9
Feb 24, 2008136 of ? chapters read
I love this manga. I was recomended by a friend to read this. At first, the story seems a bit cheesey and seems like another manga. But as the plot grows, the characters grow along with it and you just end up liking the characters you hated at first like Kyo. In the beginning, he seemed annoying but as you learned more about his past, you feel sympathy towards him.

The main character Tohru is lovable but because there are a lot of volumes some parts in between are a bit boring. I... read more
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Recent Forum Discussion

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