They're All Animals!

Reeling from watching her hosts sprout fur, Tohru listens as Shigure lays it out. Beyond himself, Yuki, and Kyo, ten more relatives host spirits of the Chinese zodiac. Stress, weakness, or a hug from the opposite sex triggers the change, and switching back leaves them entirely undressed. As Tohru absorbs all this, the two rivals squabble, and Kyo, furious that a girl was allowed inside, slams the table hard enough to send a corner into Tohru's forehead. Guilt does not stop Yuki from thrashing him in the fight that follows.

Yuki frets that Akito, the family's head, will order Tohru's memory wiped, yet Shigure judges this situation different from the childhood accident when a young Yuki changed in front of playmates. At school the fan club harasses Tohru until Hanajima scatters them. Sensing Yuki's tension, Tohru hugs him by mistake and turns him into a rat in an empty classroom, then makes a single request should her memories be erased: that he still count her as a friend. The plea leaves Yuki both moved and startled she feels no disgust.

Shigure returns with word that Akito permits Tohru to stay and keep everything she remembers, and she throws herself into cleaning and cooking to earn her place. He has also transferred Kyo into her school after four months of the boy training rather than attending class. Kyo keeps snapping at Tohru, wounding her hopes about finally meeting the cat she adored. When she accidentally changes him during another argument with Yuki, he lashes out again and begs Shigure to let him leave. Shigure's encouragement instead pushes Kyo to walk Tohru home from her job as an apology, and her relief that he does not hate her renews her fondness for the zodiac's outcast cat.

The episode's name is lifted from a remark by Tohru. Several manga details shifted for the broadcast: Kyo tumbles into the koi pond instead of the yard after losing to Yuki, Tohru's uniform stays clean rather than needing a wash, and a scene of her moping in class before her friends find her was cut, along with parts of Shigure's advice to Kyo about connecting with people. It adapts chapters 2 and 3.