Fruits Basket

Description

From Yen Press:
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own. When touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.

Note: Won the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the shoujo manga category and the "Best Manga" award at the 2007 American Anime Awards.

Type

Manga

Fruits Basket Another (Sequel)

Associated Names

Fruba

Furuba

Furuutsu Basuketto

Giỏ Trái Cây

Meyve Sepeti

Корзинка фруктов

سلة الفواكة

フルバ

フルーツバスケット

水果篮子

후르츠 바스켓

Groups Scanlating

Apt 6

Crescent Joy

Eden

Endless Youth and Co.

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Latest Release(s)

c.Neko Fanbook by Endless Youth and Co. 18 years ago

v.23 c.132-136 by Endless Youth and Co. 18 years ago

v.23 c.136 (end) by Apt 6 18 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

23 Volumes (Complete)
12 Aizouban Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (2001/S1) / Vol 6, Chap 36 (S2) / Vol 17, Chap 98 (S3)

Ends at Vol 7, Chap 38 (2001) / Vol 6, Chap 35 (S1) / Vol 17, Chap 97 (S2 + Prelude Movie) / Vol 23, Chap 136 (S3) S3 Skips Chap 110, 112-113, 133

User Reviews

Fruits Basket by BooXx

Fruits Basket by Anonymous

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User Rating

Average: 8.6 / 10.0 (2731 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.58 / 10.0

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Last Updated

May 19th, 2025 7:00pm PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Romance School Life Shoujo Supernatural
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Hakusensha (1999; 2012; 2015)

Serialized In (magazine)

Hana to Yume (Hakusensha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Chuang Yi (Defunct / 23 Vols - Complete)

TokyoPop (Expired / 23 Vols - Complete | 6 Ultimate Edition Vols - Incomplete)

Yen Press (12 Collector's Edition Vols - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

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Monthly Pos #564

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3 Month Pos #705

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6 Month Pos #690

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Year Pos #457

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Forum Posts Click to view the forum

Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers Arc Manga Launches '2nd Season'

5 years ago

"Fruits Basket" Get New Anime Adaptation

7 years ago

Natsuki Takaya Launches Fruits Basket another Sequel Web Manga

10 years ago

Yuki or Kyo?

10 years ago

*Spoilers* What the HELL, Kyo?

12 years ago

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Are you kidding me?

by mizukichi00
7 years ago

Rating: N/A

It's Fruits Basket. Why are you even wondering if you should read it? Just read it!

If you're a manga fan, this is one of the like, top-twenty you absolutely need to read, because that's how much of an impact Fruits Basket has had.

A lot of people are very confused at the super high ratings, and I have a very brief and honest explanation: because it's deceptively simple. The worth isn't in the premise or even the character themselves, although I like both. The meaning is behind the dialogue: the moments Tohru is able to reach into other characters' hearts to see what it is they're truly afraid of and in turn is able to cleanse and purify those anxieties. And this is the gem of the manga: Tohru's airy nature that everyone writes off as silly paired with her ability to truly view and understand the very core of someone's being. Natsuki Takaya has so many layers of depth to her interactions, and there is so much meaning a reader can distill from the things that are said.

No matter what sort of a life you're living, I all but guarantee you'll be able to take something away from this one.

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So...amazing!!!

by CurlyJoe
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

It starts off as a cute, funny read...but don't be fooled. It will send you sobbing buckets half way though. It has humor in patches after the sob fest begins. Don't let the fact that you might hate dramatic mangas deter you from reading this, as I usually hate whiny mangas. Tohru may not be the brightest heroine, but her sweet nature is really needed for this manga. I loved the characters (and in the Anime, Ayame tops all), and the plot is long, but does not drag.
This is my all time favourite! It's cute, romantic, magical, and has you heartbroken and loving it all at the same time. This is a beautiful work that had me crying and giggling. My highest reccomendation. This even tops Kuragehime, which is my #2. This is the one that started it all for me, only last year at 15. As soon as I read this manga, it started me reading more. It was my second, but it was the one that had me hooked. Read it, love it, and then dream about this one for days! It certainly stuck with me 😀

... Last updated 13 years ago

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Well, it was alright.

by enaikelt
14 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

I've heard tons of rave reviews about this manga, but to be completely honest, I've never been able to finish it. Even my guy friends tell me how good it is, and I just don't get it. So I finally sat down and said "Alright! I will get through it this time!" and finally did.

There are lots of good things about this manga. The characters grow, change, figure out their flaws, try to fix them, and are generally likeable. The plot is more or less interesting and the interaction is great. The romance is also there (in great heaping dollops.)

What bothered me to no end, though, were a lot of really basic things that I can't help but feel should have been gotten right somehow.

A) The dialogue is horribly disjointed. I don't know if this is a scanlation thing or a style thing, but it's all over the place. Towards the end, I could barely tell who was saying what, and the mangaka's love of word bubbles with stuff like "this--" "happiness--" "and my--" "feelings--" "toward--" "that person's--" "anger at them--" is really hard to make any sense out of (especially because she usually doesn't indicate who's saying it, which makes it even worse.) That really took away from my enjoyment of the story.

B) It gets really hard to tell the characters apart. Fruits Basket has a horde of characters and a terrible case of Only Six Faces. To make things worse, several of them have similar hairstyles, or they cut/change their hair and clothing halfway through the manga, which really throws you off. There's "growing up", and then there's "becoming unrecognizable", and it mostly does the latter. (Kagura, for instance, starts out as a frilly, toy-carrying whirlwind, and toward the end chapters she shows up in a shirt and pants with her hair tied back. Gyah!)

C) Holy moly the angst. It's everywhere. The angst is everywhere. The whole Sohma family is comprised of people with angst. Combine that with disjointed dialogue, and I'm surprised it turned out as gripping as it did. This mangaka sure knows how to tug at heartstrings.

(Also, speaking of the whole Sohma family, all the intra-Sohma romances did end up feeling slightly incestual. But I guess when your family is the size of a small village, that sort of thing can't be helped.)

Overall, it's a good manga. It takes a bit to plough through the middle part (there were 50 chapters or so that just dragged), but it starts well and does get good, so if you're into enormous love stories where everyone lives happily ever after you might want to give this a shot. At it's core, though, surprisingly, Fruits Basket is neither about zodiac animals, romance, or hot men living in a house. It's about parenthood, more or less. It's all about parenthood.

... Last updated 14 years ago

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An ok read

by SunRises
14 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Compared to tons of shoujo manga out there, Fruits Basket is probably much better. I don't hate any character. They're all likable in some ways or the other. The story has some meaningful lessons.

However, this mangaka really made a huge deal out of small things. Most of the problems in FB can be solved with just a straight-forward conversation but for some odd reasons, the characters have to be cowards and avoid speaking to each other at all costs. And they all wait for Tohru to come and get it straight for them. I mean, seriously? The entire cast combines of weak-minded people. I can understand if some individuals are like that but here, ALMOST ALL OF THE CHARACTERS. I know they suffer from the curse but aside from that, their problems are really minimal. In reality, there're people who have more serious problems than that and they never get submissive to fate. And I'm not just talking about those 12 children and Akito here. They think too much but never do anything. They're just living to be hurt.

I like Tohru. I really do. She's not annoying like other shoujo girls. She's genuine and caring and probably the strongest person out of the entire cast. But how I wish the mangaka could at least let me see something selfish in her. The only thing that is supposedly selfish about her is that she feels like she begins to forget about her mother as she's living happily. And that's not even selfish. It's only natural. She doesn't forget about her mother, she's just guilty of being happy without her mother. Again, that's not even close to a flaw.

All in all, I'd recommend this series to those who want to look for something different from other ridiculous, absurd shoujo manga. But personally, I think this manga is ridiculous and stupid in its own way. Especially how the characters think and act. I gave this a 7.

... Last updated 14 years ago

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I recommend

by fruitsmis
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

my friend got me hooked on this series, telling me that I acted like the female version of this character named momiji. She taught me how to read manga and even lent me her volumes, until I got impatient and couldn't wait for the next releases (2 - months later....). Anyways. LOVE this manga! maybe I'm biased, since it was the very first manga I ever read, I guess that could be it. Either way, I loved it. There are the few characters I liked in the beginning, but nearing the end I wanted to strangle. Kagura was the only one I hated from the very beginning to the end - mainly because I love, love, did I say LOVE Kyo!!!! =D I have always loved the zodiac and I began to quickly LOVE manga and so I found fruits basket as a good balance between both. =D for me, the best of both worlds

I love how the story progresses, growing from this little light easy to read story to a more in depth one that pulled at various emotions, mainly because I couldn't stop laughing and thus I'd cry and then get angry with myself for crying at such a stupid moment. <-- joking. =P
I found the characters intrigue (well all but Kagura) and I loved getting to know them.
Overall, I LOVE, LOVE LOVE THIS MANGA! and I highly recommend to any first timer manga reads. Good story to start with, easy to read and it builds in intensity, which I find is a must in ALL stories! =D

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The master peace

by MissMoon
17 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

How can I describe the best manga ever righted in the world?!
Is my favourite manga without doubt, because is a love story that makes you feel that you want that too...
They really loved untill the end, I just didn't like she allways crying -.-' but I was happy to see that everyone had a happy end, and that the "God" had peace too ^_^

Sadlly the anime is not good enought to say that is at the same leavel as the manga, but was good to, even knowing that the anime "runned away" from the original plot -.-'

Well... but is the best manga ever edited, it maked me cry in allmost all the chapters, but more in the last ones (and I'm saying this because I'm not the type of person that cries for everything so don't get the wrong idea -.-' ).
One last thing... the last three pages were the perfect ones, I couldn't choose a best final than that ^_^

... Last updated 17 years ago

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Favorite.

by yumemiru
17 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Fruits Basket was the first anime I ever watched, and it embarasses me a little bit to think about how utterly n00b I was back then. Later, I found out there was a manga and decided to buy the series(I was obsessed with Kyo. Actually, still am.)
Imagine my surprise then, when I found out that the manga continued on with the open-ended conclusion of the anime! I started reading it wherever I could(ie. scans, manga book format) The manga was simply lovely. It had all these little scenes that came together to form a whole story.
I don't think I'm doing too good a job of showing just how wonderful this manga is, but let me just say, Fruits Basket has always been and always will be one of the most unforgettable mangas in my opinion.
It can be overly cute, and some of the personalities aren't believable, but the moments of human weakness make up for it. Those, I can believe are real.

(Watch the anime first. It's sort of like a better prequel to the manga series.^^)

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Not as good as I remember it..

by ohgu59
4 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Hmm.. I think childhood nostalgia is the only thing keeping me from disliking this. It wasn't horribly bad, but its definitely lacking a lot in the story and characters. Theres too many overlapping issues (mostly family related) with nothing really special or complex about them either. I did enjoy Yuki's story as it was the most elaborate and well developed. His trauma stemmed from abandonment, neglect, and prejudice from pretty much everyone in his life yet he was able to overcome that darkness independently with encouragement of Tohru. Other than that, it was just a lot of generic parenting issues that were breezed over. Also, the relationships in the story are very childish and developed too quickly. As a result, most of the relationships felt shallow and overdramatized. I felt especially dumbfounded with Arise and Kureno's story since they had absolutely no reason to be that infatuated with each other. Also.. the situation between Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo was resolved in such a sloppy way.

There seemed to be so much more development and background content between Yuki and Tohru than with Kyo. From the moment they first met as children to all the times she encouraged him to find his true self, and then eventually the moment when he realizes he can't live without her. She was literally the first person to genuinely appreciate his existence in a time when everyone else treated him as an object. It was strange to abruptly change directions midway and turn that into familial love after all that was said and done. Plus they should have either created a better foundation for Tohru and Kyo's relationship or spent more time on developing it like they did with Yuki. It's just too convenient to stick in a touching story about how she wanted to be the year of the cat as a child and call it a day. Maybe they were trying to end it in a heartwarming way, but something about this outcome just didn't feel satisfying enough. Ugh.. and I don't even want to get into the toxicity behind Shigure and Akito... All that build up for something so trivial. For such a unique story idea, it's a shame that it was executed so poorly.

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Psychological, heavy masterpiece

by Kurarara
9 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This one right here...The 'cliches' that you might find in other stories (Tragic past, cheerful naive female lead, there are the tsunderes and stuff), but the thing that didn't make any of his sound cliche is the way they were presented. Natsuki-sensei explored all those characters, and their personalities were very relevant to their pasts and dreams, as well as the way they were raised.
I loved how this story is about moving on, and nothing is 'magically' solved. The scars are left, but they are mostly healed, and the characters all go through development.
Each of the characters have their own issues, traumas and problems to solve and fix.
This is a truly psychological manga that deeply explores a lot of issues, and at the same time explores human feelings, and human nature. It explores flaws and positive points. It explores weaknesses and strengths. Truly a masterpiece!
This is the first time I have heavily cried in a manga.

The way the backstory of Kyoko was presented REALLY made me cry my heart out, and it really made think 'this is so unfair!'. It felt so unfair...It also made me realize that she is very flawed, and her depression was so realistically done when Katsuya died. I also cried a lot when SHE dies...

The complexity of all the characters made me dive into this manga, to the point where I had to remember that those characters aren't real. They felt so real! I couldn't possibly loathe any character, because they weren't just backround, flat characters that are pure evil, they had their own stories. I still hate some characters, but then again I understand what they have been through.

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Again and Again

by FMACodeBleachMan
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I absolutely love this manga! It is one of my favorites and I love reading it again and again! The relationships between the characters (Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki especially) is great and the story is unique. The comedy, romance, and drama make the story even better. I wish there was more to read!! At least I can watch the anime numerous times (wish the animators would finish animating the manga) and never get tired!!

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