Once Tohru has met the Dog, the Rat and the Cat, we’re as eager as she is to meet all the others. The irresistible hook in Fruits Basket (as in the manga) is the viewer’s desire – like Tohru – to find out who the twelve Zodiac Soma family members are in person. Yuki, the cool and distant ‘prince’ of the school, finds that he can relax in her presence – whereas his self-sworn enemy, fiery-tempered Kyo, begins to calm down… just a little. Tohru’s restful presence in the household begins to make a difference. Whenever someone of the opposite sex hugs them, they transform into their Zodiac beast – and when they transform back, they are naked. But the Soma family harbours a secret – or is it a curse? It’s not long before the kind-hearted (yet somewhat ditsy) Tohru accidentally discovers that Shigure, Yuki and the red-haired, fierce-tempered Kyo are possessed by the spirits of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac: the Dog, Rat and Cat respectively. Tohru joins Shigure’s bachelor household, receiving board and lodging in return for doing the cooking and housekeeping. Drawn to a mysterious nearby house, she makes the acquaintance of its owner, easy-going novelist Shigure Soma – and his younger cousin Yuki Soma who just happens to be in the same class at high school. Undeterred by being cast adrift by her dead father’s family, she’s currently living in a tent and working after school to pay her tuition fees.
Once, god invited all the animals of the Zodiac to a banquet – but the Rat, resenting the Cat’s presence, mischievously told the Cat the wrong day – and so the Cat missed out and has been excluded from the Twelve ever since.
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