Momiji's Father

Little of his look is detailed. He keeps short, faintly spiked hair, dark brown in the 2019 anime and black in the 2001 version, and turns up throughout in sharp, formal black business suits.

Momiji paints him as a man terrified of losing the contentment he has pieced back together, willing to take drastic steps to guard it. Chief among them is keeping his son apart from the boy's own mother and sister, out of fear that any closeness might stir the wife's buried memories. He once vowed to love Momiji twice over to make up for the mother's rejection, yet in practice that love mostly takes the shape of restriction, to the point where Momiji is expected to apologize should he cross paths with them by chance.

He met his German wife during their college years, and the marriage held happily until Momiji's birth. When the newborn turned into a rabbit in his mother's arms, she sank into trauma and despair, and the father ultimately concluded, with Momiji's reluctant agreement, that erasing her memories of the boy was the only way to save her. He then began a fresh life with his wife and their daughter Momo, while Momiji was set apart to live within the estate.

Though he provides for his son generously and never acts out of malice, he shields his rebuilt world by limiting contact, once quietly urging Momiji to give up violin lessons because Momo's growing curiosity threatened to unravel everything. He still loves Momiji and hopes the boy will follow in his footsteps, and in Fruits Basket Another, with Momiji having inherited the company, father and son appear to have grown closer.