Fruits Basket collection

Under Shigure Sohma's roof, one clumsy hug is enough to turn a high schooler into a rat or a cat! Thirteen members of the Sohma family carry the curse of the Chinese zodiac, and it's into this house that Tohru Honda arrives, a big-hearted orphan who had been living in a tent before being taken in. Yuki the school prince, Kyo the eternally raw-nerved, Momiji the mischievous rabbit and the two-faced Hatsuharu form a tribe that Tohru's sunny presence gradually cracks open, until it shakes Akito's chilling authority. Behind the gags and the animal transformations, the manga by Natsuki Takaya, born in 1998 in the pages of Hana to Yume magazine, unfolds a chronicle of family wounds where the onigiri never called in the fruits basket game becomes the finest metaphor for exclusion. Twenty-three volumes later, the work lives on well beyond the panels, from volumes to line up on your shelf to POP figures of the Sohma house residents!