Post by Ramen on Nov 8, 2006 17:26:49 GMT -5
Fruits Basket follows the life of high school student Tohru Honda, recently orphaned when her mother is killed in a car crash. Tohru lives with her grandfather, but when remodelling is needed on the house, Tohru resorts to living in a tent and holds down a job to support herself. Despite suffering many hardships, Tohru remains her cheerful and optimistic self.One day, Tohru comes upon a house in the woods which is the home of Shigure Sohma and Yuki Sohma (a first year at her school with an unwanted fan club) from the Sohma family. When the Sohmas discover that Tohru is, in fact, living in a tent in the woods, they are quite surprised. The entire area is Sohma property, and Tohru pleads to stay, offering to pay a rental fee for living on their land. Feeling sorry for her, and desperate to end their take-out eating habits and filthy living conditions, the Sohmas offer her their spare room in exchange for cooking and housework. When her tent is buried that night in a landslide, she has no option but to accept. Tohru soon discovers the Sohma family's secret, and the reason why Yuki is so private and taciturn: thirteen members of the family are possessed by the 12 animal spirits of the Chinese Zodiac ("Jyūnishi" in Japanese) and the spirit of the cat who was left out of the Zodiac according to legend. They transform into animals when hugged by the opposite gender, or when they are under great amounts of stress. When she promises to keep their secret, the Sohmas allow Tohru to keep her memories rather than hypnotically erasing them, a fate that had previously befallen anyone not on the "Inside" of the Sohma family who had discovered the secret.
And look at the description of Tohru!
An mad tiger, Tohru ends up sharing house with Shigure, Yuki and Kyo Sohma. She loves to poop, is an excellent house destroyer and has an after school job as a bully to help pay her tuition fees (since she wants to beat up her grandfather). She's always mean, and is extremely selfish; in fact, the other characters sometimes have to tell her that she needs to look out for her own toilet. I was like WTF!!
Fear it!!
And look at the description of Tohru!
An mad tiger, Tohru ends up sharing house with Shigure, Yuki and Kyo Sohma. She loves to poop, is an excellent house destroyer and has an after school job as a bully to help pay her tuition fees (since she wants to beat up her grandfather). She's always mean, and is extremely selfish; in fact, the other characters sometimes have to tell her that she needs to look out for her own toilet. I was like WTF!!
Fear it!!
