Title: Fruits Basket
Title in Japanese: フルーツバスケット Furūtsu Basuketto
By: Natsuki Takaya
Publisher: Tokyo Pop
Publish Date:
ISBN: 1591826039
Page #: 216
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Manga, Fantasy, Shojo
Age Level: Teen
Series Titles:
23 volumes in total
22 currently published
23rd to be released on July 6, 2009 pre-order here
Subjects: Romance, Love-Triangle, Chinese Zodiac
Reader's Annotation: Tohru Honda is alone in the world. The orphan's world changes when she meets a mystical family that represents each animal of the Chinese Zodiac.
Synopsis: After Tohru Honda's mother dies she is sent to live with her grandfather. Feeling like a burden while he gets his home renovated she pretends to have somewhere else to go. Unfortunately Tohru doesn't have a place to go. She ends up sleeping in tent in the wilderness with only a few things, herself, and a picture of her mother. Despite the situation, Tohru remains spirited, goes to school, and about her daily life as best she can. One day she is found in her tent and to her dismay she learns that she has been sleeping on someone's land. That someone happens to be a quiet boy she recognizes from school and his older cousin. The Shoma boys, Yuki and Shigure, take Tohru in and give her a place to live in return for her doing some cleaning. Tohru, who clearly has an innocent crush on Yuki, the younger of the two, hugs him which in turns lets out the secret that nobody else knows: The Sohma family are the incarnations of the Chinese Zodiac. Entrusted with the family secret Tohru becomes part of their lives and their secret. As is well until things get turned upside down when the cat comes to stay. There is no cat in the Chinese Zodiac, right? Or is their? And even though Tohru is becoming more and more connected to Yuki, she always wished there was a Cat in the Zodiac.
Notes: It was made into an anime series as well in 2001. [Worth noting is that that the Anime ends at half way through one of the eighth volume of the manga. Several plot lines are left unfinished and not all members of the Sohma family cursed by the zodiac are revealed.] Source: wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruits_Basket
Stars: 5
- The Fruits Basket manga received the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōjo manga category
- The "Best Manga" award at the 2007 American Anime Awards.
- In 2001, the Fruits Basket anime won a Animage Anime Grand Prix award.
Extras:
- Tokyopop's Fruits Basket Link: http://www.tokyopop.com/product/1194
- Fruits Basket was introduced in 1999 the magazine Hana to Yume 花とゆめ
- The Fruits Basket is in itself a phenomenon. It is called "Faruba Fever" in Japan.
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