Irasshaimase to "Fruits Basket Tohru"
Which is your chinese Zodiac sign?

Descripton of "Fruits Basket":
Tohru Honda is a first year high school student. As her father died because of an illness and her mother in a car accident, Tohru was left alone. Her paternal grandfather took care of her but later they have to move to her aunt and the house had to be renovated. She decided not to burden him and began to live in a tent in the forest. Tohru only wants to finish high school to make her mother's last wish become true. It turns out the land Tohru is staying on belongs to the Sohma family.When the Sohma's discover her tent they invite her to come live with them, and Tohru agrees as long as she is able to repay their kindness with her housekeeping skills.But she doesn't know the secret of the Sohma family. They hold a curse. If they are hugged by the opposite gender, they transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac.Everyday is an adventure for Tohru as she gets to know everyone in the large family better , in common and bizarre situations.

Character description:


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Sixteen-year-old Tohru Honda's life seems to get stranger and stranger. After a string of tragic and bizarre circumstances, Tohru found herself working as a housekeeper for the Sohma family. Tohru has a generous and optimistic nature, sympathetic heart, and friendly manners. Her calm, caring compassion is obvious as she kindly puts everyone else's needs above her own. Tohru is a very kind girl who is always looking on the bright side of everything. Despite the attitude anyone else shows her, she always shows kindness.She is usually very deep in thought, and due to this fact, she is very clumsy. Her dream is to fulfill her mother's dream of finishing high school.She struggles to keep the Sohma curse a secret, and to please the other family members.


Yuki Sohma

Yuki is a mysterious, smart, and athletic bishounen (beautiful boy) that almost everyone likes. Yuki Sohma is the most popular guy at Kaibara Highschool. He even has his own fan club, which is rumored to consists of over half the girls at school. Yuki is very polite and kind towards other, but he claims to act like that so people could like him.Yuki may seem confident and fearless, but he has a scarred past that hides in the crevices of his fears. After meeting Tohru Honda, Yuki looked at himself differently, and slowly the deep scars of his past began to heal. He's part of the cursed Sohma family, and whenever he embraces a person of the opposite gender, he turns into a rat. Yuki also has an older brother, Ayame Sohma. Until Tohru came along, the two brothers weren't very close. Now, they are slowly beginning to understand each other. He cares greatly for Tohru. She is like a mother to him.


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Kyo is the cat or outcast of the zodiac. Whenever he embraces a person of the opposite gender, he transforms into a cat. He doesn't belong to the Chinese Zodiac exactly. In the legend, the rat (Yuki Sohma) tricked the cat into thinking the banquet for the animals was a different day. In result, Kyo has never been treated like a true member of the Sohmas. It also means he cannot attend the Zodiac Banquet, just like in the story. Kyo is really sensitive, so it is easy to get him pissed off. Whenever he loses his temper, he says mean things without thinking about what he's saying. Kyo is also really competitive with Yuki. He will get in a fight or argument, but Yuki always beats him or has a comeback. Akito promised he would accept him as a true member of the Sohmas if Kyo beats Yuki once.


Shigure Sohma Chocolate_Ai

Shigure is the older cousin of Yuki and Kyo. Despite the lecherous way he acts, he can actually be kind and sometimes selfless. He is the one who invited Tohru to live in his house. Shigure is just an all around good and funny guy... that transforms into a dog when hugged by the opposite gender.
He is a novelist, and one of his favorite hobbies is putting his editor through near-torment with his jokes and pranks, which often focus on hiding in some way when a deadline rolls around.


Momoji Sohma

Momiji is a very energetic boy. He immediately likes Tohru, and wants to be her friend. He is the younger cousin of Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure. Momiji is cursed with the spirit of the rabbit.He is always crying because Kyo picks on him.Although Momiji acts kind, he has a terrible secret about his mother. Because he is born cursed by the rabbit, his mother hated him and her mind had to be erased. Momiji then watches her and his little sister, Momo, from afar but his father forbid him to let them see him. He vows that he'll always keep all of his memories no matter how bad or good, because he knows that someday, he'll be able to overlook the pain and be able to remember.


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Whenever Haru is embraced by a person of the opposite gender, he turns into a cow. Haru has developed a split personality. The good side of him is "White Haru", the calmer, kinder, lazier, and less arrogant side. The bad side is "Black Haru", who is arrogant, rude, and rather violent. Even the smallest problem can trigger his black personality.This all started when he was little. He held a grudge against Yuki. People in his family always made fun of him about how the cow was stupid and let the rat used him in the legend. This made him mad, so mad that he developed a black personality. He soon had forgiven Yuki after he got to know him. Haru actually loves Isuzu "Rin" Sohma. Though to protect him, she breaks up with him. She is trying to protect him from Akito.Akito already put Rin into the hospital because of her love to Haru so she is worried that Akito would put Haru there too.


Isuzu "Rin" Sohma Ayamesan

Isuzu Sohma is the horse in the Chinese zodiac.She is often called Rin because that is an alternate reading of 鈴, the second kanji of her given name. She is stubborn and independent, to the point she cannot stand being dependent on someone else. These are traits associated with those born in her zodiac year. She is also sharp-tongued but concerned about others. It took her time to admitt her love to Hatsuharu Sohma.When she was younger, Haru often visited her. He felt he had to protect and help her. They used to date but as Akito found out about it, Rin claimed full responsibility to protect Hatsuharu, and to punish her Akito pushed Rin out a window. While recouperating in the hospital, Rin broke up with Hatsuharu to protect him but without explaining why. Her parents always devoted her. She now lives with Kagura and her mother.


Hatori Sohma

Hatori is the dragon of the Chinese zodiac and, like his father before him, the private doctor to the Sohma family. He is responsible for erasing memories (using a form of hypnosis that is handed down in his line of the family) of those outsiders who discover the secret of the Sohma family (except Tohru who Akito allowed to keep her memories). He takes his duties to the Sohma family and as a doctor seriously, and warns Tohru about the dangers of getting too involved with the family. When his curse activates, Hatori transforms into a 8 cm long seahorse (in Japanese tatsuno-otoshigo, literally "baby dragon") rather than an actual dragon, which he is self-conscious about.In the past he was engaged to Kana Sohma, his assistant.The relationship ended when Hatori asked Akito for permission to marry Kana and in response, Akito attacked Hatori, leaving him almost blind in his left eye. Kana blamed herself for the incident and felt so guilty about it that Hatori was forced to erase her memory of their relationship to ease her suffering.


Ayame Sohma

Ayame is the snake of the Chinese zodiac, and Yuki's older brother. Ayame is depicted as vivacious, flamboyant, self-confident, and self-centered. He loves annoying Yuki and Kyo.He runs a shop, named after himself, that sells custom-made "romantic costumes" with the help of Mine Kuramae, his seamstress and girlfriend. He is best friends with Shigure and Hatori, who are the same age. Ayame fears the "nothingness" of not being acknowledged. When Ayame was young, he completely ignored Yuki. He realized it to late and now he tries to gain Yuki's love. Thanks to Tohru,they now are slowly beginning to understand each other.


Kisa Sohma Ninigi

Kisa Sohma is possessed by the tiger.She is depicted as a cute but very shy and withdrawn girl.When she started middle school, her classmates harassed and ostracized her due to her naturally tawny hair and golden eyes, an effect of her curse. Because she felt ashamed of being bullied, she did not tell her worried mother what was happening and stopped speaking. As she realized that this distresses her mother even further, she ran away and was found by Hatsuharu. That's when she first met Tohru.Tohru who understood Kisa's distress because she was once bullied herself, helped Kisa to come out of her shell, and Kisa became very attached to her, calling her "onee-chan" ("big sister").She sometimes gets mad at Hiro because of his treatment of Tohru.


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Hiro is the sheep of the Chinese zodiac and the youngest of the cursed Sohmas. a very intelligent but verbally aggressive and smart-mouthed boy who is initially not very likeable. Hiro is in love with Kisa and doesn't like Tohru because she takes Kisa's time and admiration. His initial attitude toward Tohru eases through the time, through a combination of unwilling admiration for Tohru, and being told to let up by Kisa and Hatsuharu who he admires.Hiro is frustrated that he is just a kid and desperately wants to grow up so he can protect Kisa who was beaten by Akito after Hiro admitted he liked her.Hiro is the only member of the zodiac who is shown having a close, loving relationship with both his parents, especially his mother, Satsuki.


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Kagura Sohma is an interesting character. She is the boar of the zodiac and has extreme mood swings. Almost too extreme, like bipolar. Not only that, but like a real boar she has a one track mind. She is a girlish young woman with great strength, and impulsive behavior. When she first meets Tohru, she pretends to be Kyo's fiance. When Kagura was seven and Kyo was five and he was all alone because he carried the curse of the cat, she played with him and one day threatened him into proposing to her.After having the nature of her love questioned by Rin Sohma, Kagura eventually admits to Kyo that her love was based on pity.She claims to give up hope of winning him, but still loves and cares for him.


Ritsu Sohma

Ritsu is the monkey of the Chinese zodiac. He is a beautiful but unstable young man with very low self-confiance and a tendency to overreact. He apologizes frantically for everything, even things that are not his fault. In this, he is like his mother, the hostess of the Sohma family's onsen, whose position he is in training to take over. Ritsu dresses in women's clothing because he says he then feels less pressure from society, and is initially mistaken for a woman by Tohru Honda because of his long hair and beauty.Most Sohmas call him "Rit-chan" and, to Shigure's amusement, Tohru calls him "Rit-chan-san". Shigure likes to play with Ritsu's insecurities and gullibility, much as he does with his editor, Mitsuru. When the two meet, they realize they have this in common.


Kureno Sohma

Kureno is the former rooster of the Chinese zodiac. He is a polite and selfless young man.In his mid-teens, about ten years before the history begins, Kureno's curse was somehow broken, but in Akito's distress he promised never to leave.Kureno Sohma is the only person that Akito Sohma trusts.Akito keeps Kureno away from the rest of the family to hide that he is no longer cursed, and Kureno does most of Akito's work as the head of the family.He is in love with Arisa Uotani. As far as loyalty would go, Kureno would go to the ends of the Earth for Akito Sohma. Or he might even go to the bottom of the sea for his dearest Arisa Uotani.


Akito Sohma

Akito is the head of the Sohma family and very frail. He often runs fevers, and Hatori Sohma claims half his doctor's work is tending to Akito. Akito is short-tempered and abusive, and has physically and emotionally scarred many Sohmas, including Hatori, Rin, Kisa, and Yuki.While he is part of the Sohma family curse, he is not possessed by a spirit of the Chinese zodiac, but rather fulfills the role of the Jade Emperor, a figure from the legend about the origins of the zodiac. He describes himself as the "god" of the zodiac and the "master of their souls."Once the zodiac members are old enough, he desires to have them live within the Sohma compound for the rest of their lives in a never-ending "banquet."In the anime, Akito is male. In the manga, Kureno Sohma reveals to Tohru that Akito was born female, but was brought up as a boy.


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Saki is a psychic girl who has the ability to sense people's "auras" and send out electric "waves", and one of Tohru's closest friends. She is very perceptive, polite, with a usually deadpan manner, and is often seen eating when not in class.She likes shōjo manga and novels and bought a copy of Shigure Sohma's Summer-Colored Sigh. Tohru calls her Hana-chan, and her manga symbol is a small flower, the meaning of the first kanji (花) of her family name. Hanajima had trouble controlling her abilities when she was young, and blamed herself for the near-fatal collapse of a boy who was bullying her.She is extremely protective of Tohru, who was the first person in school who truly accepted her, which acceptance helped her gain control of her powers. She wears black fingernail polish and (when not in her school uniform) black dresses, often with a cloak or veil. These are habits Hana-chan started before she met Tohru as a way of signaling her guilt.With Arisa, she promised on Tohru's mother's grave to look after Tohru and in their near-"parental" protection, she acts as the "motherly" figure. Saki is interested in Kazuma Sohma, though his is a lot older than her.


Arisa Uotani

Arisa is a former gang member and one of Tohru's closest friends. Arisa is tough, brash, and sometimes violent she wears long skirts, sometimes carries an iron pipe, and often speaks like a man. Arisa is tall for a girl, and once claims she wishes to reach 6 feet tall.She is especially competitive with Kyo and bickers with him frequently. Her childhood was troubled: father is an alcoholic and her mother left him for another man when Arisa was young; Arisa joined an all-girl gang (called "The Ladies") in fifth grade, and idolized Kyoko Honda's reputation from her gang days. When Arisa met Kyoko's daughter Tohru in middle school, and then Kyoko herself, she was shocked by the change from gangleader into doting mother, but became friends after Kyoko helped her once. With Saki Hanajima, she swore on Kyoko's grave to look after Tohru, and in her "parental" protection of Tohru with Hana-chan, noted by Kyo and Yuki, she comes off as the brash and direct father-figure. Tohru calls her Uo-chan and her manga symbol is a fish, the meaning of the first kanji (魚) of her family name. Arisa works a couple different part-time jobs during the series; at one of them, in a convenience store, she meets Kureno Sohma and is immediately attracted to him, though she worries about their nine-year age difference.When Kureno leaves Akito, she helps him move out, telling him that she has been waiting for him all this time.


Kazuma Sohma

Kazuma is a master of martial arts who runs a dojo near the Sohma family compound, where he teaches several of the younger Sohmas, including Kyo, Kagura, Yuki, and Hatsuharu. He is usually addressed as shishou, meaning "master." His daily routine is taken care of by his assistant at the dojo, Kunimitsu Tomoda. When he was a child, during their only meeting, Kazuma was mean to his grandfather simply because his grandfather was cursed by the cat. To make amends, after Kyo's mother died, he took in and raised Kyo, the current cat, as his foster son, and has come to think of him as his own son. Kazuma thinks well of Tohru and hopes her love for Kyo is sincere, and not based on pity like his grandmother's was towards his grandfather;both to test Tohru's feelings and to show Kyo he can be accepted despite his curse, Kazuma forces Kyo to show Tohru his true form.


Megumi Hanajima

Megumi and Saki are extremely close. Megumi has always been there for Saki, and when he learned of his sister's powers, he, not wanting his sister to be the only "weird one" in the family, studied the art of curses until he finally mastered it. He and Saki both enjoy wearing black, because they feel "calm" in that color. He joined Saki in her predicament so that she would not be alone in her sufferings. Megumi's name is a small joke, for the name "Megumi" means "blessing", while Megumi himself studies how to put curses on people.Like his sister, he is also highly mature for his age. He is very intelligent.

Ren Sohma

Ren is Akito's mother. She appears only in the manga. She is an elegant but obsessive woman with long black hair similar to Rin Sohma's. Shigure claims that if Akito had been raised as a woman, she would have looked very much like Ren, and Tohru once mistook Ren's voice for Akito's.Ren and Akito are extremely antagonistic towards each other; Shigure notes that she is obsessed with her child and dead husband.Ren was originally a Sohma household maid who won Akira's heart by being the only one to notice his loneliness and treat him with kindness, instead of as just the head of the household.When she realized that her child received, as the new god of the zodiac, more attention than herself, and then turned out to be female instead of a proper male heir, she was afraid the baby would replace her in Akira's heart and demanded Akito be raised as male. Before his death, Akira told Akito, but not Ren, that Akito's place in the curse was proof that his and Ren's relationship was special.[134] To feed Akito's fear of being abandoned, Ren continually claims that Akito's bond with the zodiac is fake, rather than the true love Akito claims; to prove her wrong, Akito tried to mold Yuki into a zodiac animal devoted to him.

Akira Sohma

Akira Sohma is Akito's father. While Akira may have been overjoyed with the birth of his first and only child, Ren was not, believing that Akito was stealing her husband's affections away, and that she was no longer the most important person in Akira's life. This troubled Akira greatly, whose wish for Ren was to be happy about Akito birth, believing that their daughter's godliness was proof that Ren and Akira's relationship was special. When Akito was a young child, Akira's poor health finally caught up with him, and claimed his life. Before he died, he gave Akito an empty box (which a maid later told her contained Akito's father's soul), stating that he would never truly leave her, even if Akito couldn't physically see him. Moments after the late head's death, Ren burst into the room, distressed that his departure had been so suddenand that she couldn't be there for him. She was angry that Akito was the one who staid with him in his last moments.

Kyoko Honda

Kyoko Honda is Tohru's mother and appears only in flashbacks and photographs treasured by Tohru. When she was young, Kyoko was the leader of an all-female bosozoku gang called The Red Butterfly Suicide Squad, the name coming from how motorcycle tail-lights supposedly look like a red butterfly at night.She told Kyo Sohma she was ignored and rejected by her parents, and fell in love with a student teacher named Katsuya Honda who stood up for her when her parents disowned her after a gang fight. Katsuya and Kyoko married after she left middle school and had a daughter, Tohru, and Kyoko learned how to work through difficulties together with Katsuya. She was devasted by her husband's death and nearly killed herself before remembering her young daughter needed her. Because of her experiences, Kyoko raised Tohru to believe that everyone needs to feel needed,Kyoko died a few months before the start of the story when she was struck by a car. Kyo was present at the accident but couldn't save her without revealing his curse which would have been a disaster.

Katsuya Honda

Katsuya Honda is Tohru's father and Kyoko's husband. In the story, he appears only in flashbacks. Katsuya habitually spoke formally as a way of distancing himself from the world, a habit that, according to his father, Tohru later adopted.He met Kyoko as a student teacher at her middle school and recognized that her rebellious behavior was as much protection as his own polite manners. Despite their eight-year difference in age (he was 21, she was 13), they fell in love; he helped her set aside her gangster lifestyle and they married after she finished middle school. Three years after Tohru was born, Katsuya died of pneumonia while on a business trip.

Mayuko Shiraki
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Mayuko Shiraki is Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Saki, and Arisa's homeroom teacher. Mayuko is generally good-humored but somewhat aggressive(when Kyo attempts to leave class on Valentine's Day, she stops him at the door with a folder in his face and threatens to dye his hair black instead of orange,[140] and once breaks up a fight between Hatsuharu and Kyo by dumping a bucket of water over them). Her parents, who worry about her being unmarried, run a bookstore where she sometimes helps out. Mayuko is Kana's(Hatori's former fiance) best friend. Through her met Hatori, Shigure, and Ayame two years before the story begins. Though Mayuko was attracted to Hatori, she was glad that Kana and Hatori were happy together, and dated Shigure for a month before breaking up, partly because Shigure was distant and partly because she was only dating him to alleviate her loneliness. She was at a loss when Kana and Hatori broke up. Mayuko still has feelings for Hatori.

Kana Sohma

Kana was a very sweet girl who began working with Hatori as his assistant. They ended up spending a lot of time together, and her way of thinking astounded Hatori. One day, Hatori ended up changing into the seahorse, and Kana was scared because she didn't know if she should put him in fresh water or salt water! After Hatori changed back, Kana finally understood why Hatori wouldn't hold her, but that didn't change her love for him. They finally went to Akito to tell him they were planning on getting married. Akito was pissed and ended up injuring Hatori's eye. Akito then yelled and screamed at Kana telling her it would be her fault if Hatori couldn't see and it was her fault all of it happened. Kana then had an emotional break down and never recovered.Due to that, Akito ordered Hatori to erase Kana's memories, as a kind of gift to Kana. When Hatori did, Kana apologized for not being able to protect him. She then left his services and ended up getting married to someone else later on.

Mine Kuramae

Mine Kuramae works at Ayame Sohma's clothing store as a designer and seamstress, and lives with him in an apartment above the store. She is passionate, cheerful, and determined to do anything for Ayame; she takes care of details he neglects in his enthusiasm, such as getting permission to visit Yuki's class. She is especially enthusiastic about dressing girls up in her outfits, sparkling at the thought of doing so, and she herself is always shown wearing a frilly maid's uniform. According to Ayame, Mine is someone he "can confide in.

Mitsuru

Mitsuru is Shigure Sohma's editor. Shigure playfully calls her Mit-chan. A stressed-out young woman, she is usually shown nagging Shigure to finish manuscripts on time, in response to which Shigure either evades her or falsely claims he is not finished. His tormenting pushes her to threaten suicide more than once.

Kakeru Manabe

Kakeru Manabe is vice president of the student council during Yuki Sohma's presidency. He appears only in the manga. He is depicted as alternately lazy and charismatically energetic, strongly reminding Yuki of his older brother, Ayame. Yuki also compares Kakeru's ability to make friends to Kyo's. Kakeru sometimes claims the student council is a super-sentai–style "School Defense Force", and once tries to get the rest of the student council to pick their team colors. He is Machi Kuragi's older half-brother by their mutual father's mistress, and protective of her because she is still affected by their mothers' fight, now ended, to have their own child named heir. He has a girlfriend named Komaki Nakao, whose father drove the car that hit and killed Kyoko Honda, also killing himself. Kakeru believed that Tohru thought that she was the only one affected by the accident and confronted Tohru on Komaki's behalf, saying that she was annoying. However, Komaki was angry at him because he had disrespected Tohru's feelings. He realized that his feelings and Komaki's were not the same and vowed to understand other people better, and later apologizes to Tohru for his hurtful behavior.


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Komaki is Kakeru's girlfriend and named "Meat☆Angel" by him,because of her love for meat. She lost her father in the same car accident as Tohru her mother. She knows Tohru's pain and she is very similar to her(except that Tohru isn't crazy of meat ^-^). She was once angry with Kakeru because he was rude towards Tohru but she still loves him. They are a cute couple ^-^

Machi Kuragi

Machi Kuragi is treasurer of the student council during Yuki Sohma's presidency. She appears only in the manga. She is Kakeru Manabe's younger half-sister by their mutual father's wife. Machi is a quiet, nearly emotionless young woman with occasional destructive behavior, such as wrecking the student council room. She has difficulty expressing herself, which sometimes results in Kakeru making decisions for her. During their childhoods, their mothers competed to have their own child named heir, a struggle that ended when first Kakeru withdrew himself from the running, then Machi's mother bore a son. Machi lives apart from her family because her mother believes she resents, and is a danger to, her younger brother for supplanting her, an accusation she did not contest even though it is wrong. Unlike most girls at school, she does not see Yuki as a prince, but as just another boy.Her different attitude and troubled behavior catches Yuki's eye, and he makes multiple attempts at befriending her. Machi develops feelings for Yuki. Machi likes the fictional anime Mogeta, and treasures two character figurines that Yuki gives her.

Kimi Todou

Kimi Toudou is one of the two student council secretaries during Yuki Sohma's presidency. She appears only in the manga. Kimi is an outgoing and fun-loving young woman. She is also manipulative and a mischief-maker: when Yuki first meets her, she manipulates him into sharing chocolates his fan club had just given to him. She often gives things naughty interpretations, and uses sex appeal to get her way(for example, she flirts with a teacher to get him give the student council a new whiteboard.) According to Kakeru Manabe, Kimi likes to seduce boys who already have girlfriends. Kimi sometimes speaks in third person, as in "Kimi wants this," which is a childish way of speaking in Japanese, and calls Yuki by the cutesy nickname Yun-Yun. She is good friends with Kakeru and is disliked by most of the girls in the school, especially Yuki's fan club.

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Naohito Sakuragi is the second of the two student council secretaries during Yuki Sohma's presidency. He appears only in the manga. When he meets Yuki, he claims he is Yuki's "rival" because he has a secret crush on Motoko Minagawa, president of the Yuki's fan club. Naohito is a no-nonsense and short-tempered young man who is frequently angered by Kakeru Manabe and Kimi Toudou's antics. He works hard at his student council duties and absolutely refuses to call the council the "School Defense Force," as Kakeru wants. Kakeru and Kimi sometimes call him Chibi-suke (chibi meaning small, and -suke being a common masculine name-ending), which irritates him because he is sensitive about his short stature.