I'm So Sorry!

Returning home, Tohru meets Ritsu Sohma, the Monkey of the zodiac and the child of the hot springs hostess her mother once hoped she would befriend. Ritsu's crippling nervousness and self-doubt drive the episode, which pairs his struggle with the running battle between Shigure and his desperate editor Mitsuru.

Finding Ritsu wracked with apology and panic, Tohru gently suggests building a little confidence to steady his reactions when things go wrong. When Yuki and Kyo come home, Tohru accidentally embraces Ritsu, who transforms into a monkey, and he notes that wearing a kimono helps keep him calm. Meanwhile Mitsuru chases the manuscript she needs, only for it to be spoiled when a drink is spilled across it.

Tohru shares her own reason for living as a way to reach Ritsu, whose habit of causing trouble for others torments him just as much inside. Shigure eventually produces the finished manuscript, and the lesson Tohru offers lands with Mitsuru as well, leaving her resolved to keep going.

The title is drawn from one of Ritsu's lines, and the episode marks his first appearance in the anime. It adapts the closing pages of chapter 43, chapter 44, and parts of chapter 45, with a great deal added, reshaped, or removed, most notably an expanded role for Mitsuru, who in the source barely appears until the end of chapter 45. The adaptation greatly enlarges the two characters' relationship, in keeping with the author's stated regret about not developing them more. The installment was skipped on Australia's ABC Me for its heavy suicide themes, and Ritsu's rooftop attempt was staged and motivated differently from the manga.