List of Fruits Basket characters

A two-page spread showing a teenage girl in a Japanese school uniform, behind her the heads of fourteen people shown in various profiles, with several hair colors
Tohru Honda (full figure at center right) with the members of the Soma family affected by the zodiac curse.

The characters of Fruits Basket were created by Natsuki Takaya in the manga written and illustrated by her. The manga was serialized in 136 chapters in the monthly manga magazine Hana to Yume between January 1999 and November 2006, and collected in 23 tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha.[1] The series was adapted as a drama CD distributed as a promotional item with an issue of Hana to Yume[2] and as a 26-episode anime television series produced by Studio DEEN initially broadcast on TV Tokyo between July 5 and December 27, 2001.[3] The manga is licensed in English by Chuang Yi in Singapore,[4] Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand,[5] and Tokyopop in North America.[6] The anime is licensed in English by FUNimation Entertainment, which distributes it in North America itself, in the United Kingdom through Revelation Films, and in Australia and New Zealand through Madman Entertainment.

The series tells the story of Tohru Honda, an orphan girl who, after meeting Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure Soma, learns that thirteen members of the Soma family are possessed by the animals of the Chinese zodiac and cursed to turn into their animal forms when they embrace someone of the opposite sex or their bodies come under a great deal of stress. As the series progresses, Tohru meets the rest of the zodiac and the family's mysterious head, Akito Soma, and eventually resolves to break the curse that burdens them.

The spellings used here are those given in the official Region 1 DVD and English manga releases. Names are given in Western order, with the family name last.

  1. ^ "S-book.net" フルーツバスケット 23件中21～23件 [Fruits Basket 21-23 volume of 23] (in Japanese). Hakusensha. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
  2. ^ Takaya, Natsuki (August 10, 2004). Jake Forbes (ed.). Fruits Basket, Volume 4. Alethea Nibley and Athena Nibley (translators). Los Angeles: Tokyopop. ISBN 978-1-59182-606-4.
  3. ^ フルーツバスケット [Fruits Basket] (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
  4. ^ "Available Issues for FRUITS BASKET". Chuang Yi. Archived from the original on January 19, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2008.
  5. ^ "Fruits Basket (Manga) Vol 23 (Final)". Madman Entertainment. Retrieved February 19, 2008.
  6. ^ "Fruits Basket". Tokyopop. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2008.