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The cover of the first Japanese volume of the Fruits Basket manga, featuring Tohru Honda. This is a complete list of chapters for the manga series Fruits Basket. Written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket is one of the best selling shōjo manga of all time, with 30 million copies in print worldwide. [1]
Tohru Honda (本田 透, Honda Tōru) is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya. She is the main protagonist, noted for her cheerful optimism, altruistic nature, and great sympathy for others. [1] [2] Takaya created her with an unusual perspective on the world, to balance her empathy. [3]
[102] [103] Despite a slow manga market, Fruits Basket remained the second highest overall selling manga series among the Bookscan companies in 2007. [104] The final volume of the English adaptation was a New York Times manga bestseller from 28 June through 25 July, moving from second to first in the list in the week of 19–25 July.
According to an author's note, in contrast with her Gothic Lolita appearance, [44] she likes shōjo manga and novels and bought a copy of Shigure Soma's Heartthrob. [45] Tohru calls her Hana, and her manga symbol is a small flower, the meaning of the first kanji of her family name.
In 2001, Takaya received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga for Fruits Basket. [4] As revealed in a sidebar of Fruits Basket, Takaya broke her drawing arm after Fruits Basket volume six was published. She had to go into surgery, and as a result, had put Fruits Basket on a brief hiatus. Takaya made a full recovery, but complained that her ...
The most well-known reference in youth culture to Fruits Basket is the manga and anime series of the same name, where it is used as a metaphor for ability to integrate with a social group. In that series, the protagonist Tohru Honda describes that whenever she played the game in school, she was assigned the name "onigiri" (rice ball). Although ...
The 2019 anime series Fruits Basket is the second anime based on the manga series of the same name by Natsuki Takaya, this time adapting all 23 volumes of the story.The new anime adaptation was announced in November 2018, [1] featuring a new cast and staff, as per Takaya 's request, with TMS Entertainment handling the 63 episodes-long productions from April 2019 to June 2021, divided into ...
A new anime focusing on Tohru's late parents was announced at the end of the 2019 anime's finale episode. In October 2021, it was revealed to be part of a compilation film, with the main cast and staff of the 2019 anime returning. Fruits Basket: Prelude premiered in Japan on February 18, and has grossed $1.12 million at the Japanese box office.