The second chapter of the debut volume turns Tohru Honda's accidental embrace into the discovery that grips the whole series: the Sohma men transform into zodiac animals. As Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure wrestle with the exposed secret, Tohru's…
Chapter 3 brings Kyo into Tohru and Yuki's school, where his temper and rivalry with Yuki nearly boil over. A misfired transformation and a heartfelt reconciliation leave Tohru surer than ever of her fondness for the outcast Cat.
Chapter 4 pits the boys against Tohru's friends in a card game and sends Kyo and Yuki into another scuffle. A rainy walk home draws out Yuki's envy of Kyo and his longing for an ordinary life, just as a new Sohma arrives at the door.
Kagura Sohma storms into Shigure's home hunting for Kyo, her sobbing welcome flipping into a violent assault, while Tohru later learns her grandfather's renovations are finished.
The first volume closes as Tohru prepares to leave the Sohma house for her grandfather's home, convinced she never truly belonged. A childhood memory of a schoolyard game gives the series its name and lays bare the ache of being the one…
Opening Volume 2, the seventh chapter brings Arisa and Saki to the Sohma house to check on Tohru's living situation. Between minor clashes with Kyo and a revelation about Shigure's profession, the visit ends with the friends satisfied that…
An early entry from the second collected volume, this chapter gathers Tohru and her schoolmates alongside several members of the Sohma family. The source records the installment's cast and publication details rather than a full plot…
The ninth chapter sits third within Volume 2, placing it among the series' early installments. The available record documents its cast rather than a full synopsis, listing appearances from Tohru, Yuki, Kyo and their classmates as the…
Chapter 11 is the fifth installment of the second collected volume and the eleventh entry in the Fruits Basket manga overall. The page offers no written plot outline, so its record rests on placement in the run and a broad ensemble drawn…
This entry rounds out the second volume of Fruits Basket. The chapter is built around Hatori Sohma, whose spot on the cover marks him as its central figure, and it brings Tohru Honda and Kana Sohma into the present-day scenes while a wider…
The installment that opens the third collected volume of Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket, standing thirteenth across the overall run. Its cover pairs Kyo and Yuki Sohma, while the cast gathers the Sohma household together with Tohru Honda…
The second entry within Volume 3 of Fruits Basket and the fourteenth overall, drawn and scripted by Natsuki Takaya. Tohru Honda carries the cover, while the roster brings Hatsuharu Sohma forward beside the core household.
Third within the third volume and fifteenth across the whole of Fruits Basket, this installment carries Yuki Sohma on its cover. The cast widens to fold in Tohru's classmates and school staff beside the Sohma family.
The fourth chapter within Volume 3 and the sixteenth overall, pairing Hatori and Shigure Sohma on its cover. Its cast reaches well past the immediate household to figures such as Akito Sohma and the editor Mitsuru.
The fifth and final chapter within Volume 3 of Fruits Basket and the seventeenth counted overall, fronted by Kyo Sohma. Its broad cast draws in members of Tohru's family and her wider school circle around the Sohmas.
Standing as the eighteenth chapter of Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket, this installment rounds off the third collected volume. Momiji Sohma takes the cover, while Tohru Honda and the Sohma household anchor the pages once again.
Opening the fourth volume and the nineteenth chapter overall, this entry sends Momiji Sohma and Hatsuharu Sohma into high school for the first time. Their arrival stirs commotion, then turns tense when word spreads that Akito has come to…
In the twentieth chapter and the fourth volume's second entry, Tohru Honda comes face to face with Akito Sohma at last. The encounter reopens deep wounds for Yuki, yet Tohru's steady warmth leaves him believing kindness still exists in his…
The twenty-first chapter brings in Ayame Sohma, the zodiac's snake and Yuki's elder brother. Long estranged from Yuki, Ayame now arrives hoping to mend the rift between them, opening a new thread within the fourth volume.
Continuing Ayame Sohma's visit, the twenty-second chapter finds him lingering three days past his welcome. As he settles in, Yuki and Tohru gather fresh insight into his personality and the high school years that shaped him.
The twenty-third chapter unfolds as Tohru Honda and her friends ready themselves to mark one year since her mother's passing. Amid that grief, Tohru learns the sorrowful truth of Momiji Sohma's own family.
Closing the fourth volume, the twenty-fourth chapter follows Tohru Honda and her companions as they honor Kyoko on the first anniversary of her death. The visit stirs startling realizations for both Kyo and Yuki.
The fifth volume opens with its twenty-fifth chapter as Shigure Sohma schemes to whisk Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, and Hatori away on a Golden Week getaway. His quiet maneuvering sets the whole mismatched group's holiday in motion.
The vacation carries on in the twenty-sixth chapter, where Ayame, Hatori, and Shigure Sohma turn to the subject of Kana and Hatori's heartache. Their talk lands on a shared conviction that Hatori is bound to find happiness once more.
The twenty-seventh chapter introduces Kisa Sohma, the tiger of the zodiac. Silenced for a time and wary toward Tohru at first, the young girl gradually lowers her guard once Tohru meets her with patience and understanding.
In the twenty-eighth chapter, both Kisa Sohma and Yuki find the strength to confront what frightens them. Facing down their respective weaknesses becomes the shared heart of the fourth entry in the fifth volume.
Chapter 29 turns the spotlight on the jealous members of Yuki's fan club, whose frustration over Tohru drives them to march on the Hanajima home. What they expect to be an easy scare instead spirals into a meeting they cannot control.
Chapter 30 closes out Volume 5 with Tohru laid low by illness. As she rests, the people who care about her, from Kyo to her school friends to the Sohma family, each look for a way to nurse her back to health.
Chapter 31 opens Volume 6 under a downpour that matches Kyo's sour mood. Kagura's arrival only worsens his temper, and her pointed questions about his hidden form set the stage for the appearance of a figure from his past.
Chapter 32 formally introduces Kazuma Sohma, the man who trained several of the zodiac. His reunion with Kyo turns painful when he refuses to shelter him again and instead confronts his student with the secret he most dreads exposing.
Chapter 33 follows the fallout of Kyo's exposed form. Humiliated that Tohru has seen the creature he becomes, he flees with no plan to return, while she wrestles with her own fear and resolves to chase after him.
Chapter 34 reaches into Kyo's past, revisiting the grief and blame that followed his mother's death and the moment Kazuma chose to raise him. The memory softens Kyo, drawing him nearer to both his guardian and to Tohru.
Chapter 35 shifts to the ripple effects of Kyo's exposed form. Yuki and Kagura each grapple privately with what they witnessed, wrestling with the feelings the moment stirred up in them.
Chapter 36 closes Volume 6 with a trip to Ayame's shop. Tohru and Yuki set out together, though Yuki has no idea just how much his flamboyant brother has in store for them.
Chapter 37 opens Volume 7 as life settles back into rhythm. Kisa visits Shigure's home proud of how far she has come, and Tohru meets Hiro Sohma, a new member of the zodiac who makes his resentment of her plain.
Chapter 38 digs beneath Hiro's arrogance. As Tohru keeps engaging the stubborn boy, he reveals that his rude, self-important front hides guilt over failing to shield Kisa when she needed him most.
Arisa Uotani keeps unpacking her troubled younger years, wrestling with how the Kyoko she idolized during her gang days fell short of the legend, while quietly sensing what the Honda household could offer her.
Encouraged by the Hondas, a young Arisa returns to the classroom to stay near Tohru, then chooses to walk away from her gang despite the brutal price that leaving demands.
The Prince Yuki Fan Club buzzes over rumors about the next student council, Motoko confronts the depth of her crush, and two strangers who recognize Yuki quietly appear near the chapter's close.
A heartbroken Hatsuharu erupts into his Black side and wrecks his homeroom, Kyo shields Tohru and says her name openly, and a jittery new Zodiac member turns up at the house.
Tohru grows close to Ritsu, a deeply anxious Sohma who dresses in women's clothing to steady his nerves, and their conversations give him a push toward believing he can do better.
Tohru assures Ritsu that a purpose will find him in time, and a spark of connection ignites when he meets Mitsuru, the frazzled editor who handles Shigure's manuscripts.
Talk of post-graduation careers and looming parent-teacher meetings leaves Tohru unusually rattled about what her own future might hold.
Yuki quietly stews over his own uncertain future, and Ayame's visit for some brotherly bonding lifts his mood in ways he never anticipated.
With summer break underway, Tohru and the Sohma boys tour a haunted house, and in a separate thread a recovering Isuzu vows to confront Shigure and shatter the curse.
As the student council takes shape, Yuki begins forging his own path and meets its unpredictable new members, Machi Kuragi and Kakeru Manabe.
A late-night stop at a convenience store leaves Arisa smitten with a stranger named Kureno, but his ties to the Sohma family and his vow to Akito keep the two apart.
The ninth volume's third installment turns entirely toward Saki Hanajima, unpacking the strange sensory gift she was born with and the cruelty it invited. It traces how her long isolation finally cracked when two classmates refused to…
Kazuma Sohma, the man who raised Kyo, hosts a lunch that quickly exposes his complete helplessness in the kitchen. What begins as a comic mishap turns into a warm moment for Kyo and Tohru, while a heavier thread emerges around the father…
Momiji arranges a seaside getaway for himself and three friends without asking anyone first, and only Tohru's homework stands in the way. As Yuki helps her finish, a buried memory about a certain hat surfaces, hinting at a bond that…
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