Fruit basket

 About:

The title of the series is taken from a children's game, Fruits Basket (フルーツバスケット, furūtsu basuketto), in which the participants sit in a circle, and the leader of the game names each person after a type of fruit; when the name of a child's fruit is called, that child gets up and has to find a new seat. When the protagonist, Tohru Honda, first plays this game in kindergarten, she is not given a fruit, and is instead assigned "onigiri" by her classmates, who do not want her to play. However, Tohru, thinking that onigiri are delicious, does not realise that her classmates are intentionally leaving her out of the game; once the game is finished, and all of the children but Tohru have been called, Tohru realizes that onigiri are not a type of fruit at all, and she realizes that she does not belong.

Tohru comes to associate this game with the Sohma family, and that she does not fit in among them any more than an onigiri does in a basket of fruit. In volume 1 of the manga, after Yuki and Kyo bring Tohru home from her grandfather's house, she begins to feel like she belongs with the Sohma family; after this, she imagines herself as a child hearing "onigiri" called in the game, symbolizing that she has finally found her place.

Story:Orphan Tohru Honda moves in with a classmate and his cursed family.

When high school student Tohru Honda's mother dies in a car accident, Tohru decides to live with her grandfather. Renovations on the house and an unsupportive, unkind family member cause her to move out of her grandfather's house temporarily. Tohru declines the offer to stay with one of her two close friends as she does not want to impose on them. Since she has nowhere else to go, Tohru begins living in a tent and supporting herself.

However, after discovering a nearby home inhabited by her popular classmate Yuki Sohma and his cousin Shigure, and following a landslide that destroys her tent, Tohru moves into the Sohma house; on her first day living there, she meets Kyo, Yuki and Shigure's orange haired cousin, who crashes through the ceiling and challenges Yuki to a fight.

Tohru tries to stop him, and - accidentally falling into him - causes him to transform into a cat in front of her, discovering the Sohma family curse; that twelve members of the family, excluding Kyo, are possessed by the spirits of the Chinese zodiac (十二支, Jūnishi), and turn into their zodiac animal when they are weak, under stress, embarrassed, or when hugged by someone of the opposite gender.

When Tohru discovers the Sohma family secret, she promises not to tell anyone, and is allowed to keep living with them. Although the Sohma curse stretches far deeper and darker than Tohru initially thinks, her presence and her acceptance of them soon becomes a large, positive influence on those possessed by the zodiac. She sets out to break the curse and, on the way, meets and discovers the Sohma's vengeful zodiac spirits, including their leader, Akito, who occupies the position of "God" in the Chinese legend, and who both keeps the family together and chains them to their spirits.

Fruits Basket: Every Soma Zodiac Character & Their Animal Transformation

Mysterious and influential, the Soma family boast their own sprawling compound in which many of the members live, operating like a traditional Japanese noble house. Unlike a traditional Japanese noble house, 13 members of the Soma family inherit the spirits of the zodiac animals. These transformations occur either during illness or immediately upon embracing a member of the opposite sex, and remain a strict secret from the public.

Yuki (Rat)

 

Kyo (Cat)

Shigure (Dog)

Hatsuharu (Ox)

Momiji (Rabbit)

Hatori (Dragon)

Kagura (Boar)

Ayame (Snake)

Isuzu (Horse)

Hiro (Sheep)

Ritsu (Monkey)

Kisa (Tiger)

Kureno (Ex-Rooster)

One of the most well-known aspects of Fruits Basket is how it can make the fans cry. There are a plethora of tragic scenes surrounding the life of the Sohmas and Tohru, but on the other hand, there are numerous scenes that are so sweet that they bring happy tears to a viewer's eyes.

There are currently three seasons of Fruits Basket that have been made. Each season has about 25 episodes except for the third season, which will have no more than 13 episodes.