Summary: Fruits Basket is centered around a girl named Honda Tohru and the mysterious Sohma family. Tohru is a nice, caring girl even though her parents are dead and she lives in a tent in the woods. All of that changes when she discovers a house where Shigure and Yuki (the schools prince!) lives. Everything seems normal with them except for one small detail… they turn into animals when hugged by the opposite gender! The same is true for 11 other members of the Sohma family. The thing is, the Sohma’s are cursed by the animals of the Chinese zodiac and the vengeful spirit of the cat! Will the curse keep Tohru from finding happiness with the person she loves?
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Facts:
Author: Takaya Natsuki
Status: Completed
Chapters: 136
Anime: Yes
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Ratings:
Raisume’s: One of the more moving shoujos I’ve had the pleasure to read. The artwork is very well done, the only problem that I can find, is that all of the girls have those disturbingly huge eyes. The plot was very interesting, but could use some work. I found the plot to be very repetitive in the way that characters are introduced. It seemed that every single character had a tragic story, some people may enjoy this, but it creates a depressing feel about the manga. I’d have to say that the comical parts were very funny and brought a smile to my face. Some parts of it though were very hard to read, given the stupidity of the character or moment.
Artwork: 9/10
Character Design: 7/10
Plot: 9/10
Comedy: 6/10
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Tsuukushi’s: Fruits Basket was definitely an emotional manga, but in a good way. I found that plot was very well done and creative. I mean who would ever think of that? I also very much liked the art work, except that sometimes I found that Takaya Natsuki drew some things out of proportion. But I have to agree with Raisume that the plot was very repetitive along the with character’s past of tragic happenings. That was probably the greatest fraction of the manga I disliked. I found the comedy well done, though sometimes ridiculous. Though over all, I do enjoy the manga, but there are definitely some let downs.
Artwork: 9/10
Character Design: 8/10
Plot: 9/10
Comedy: 7/10
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Gosuto: Not the best shoujo ever, but I liked the emotion the author put into it. The plot was pretty good as well. This manga gets a 7 out of 10 because of the emotion and feelings that it gives the reader.
