On a friends request, I'm covering the anime Fruits Basket. As soft as it is for an anime, I really have little complaints with this title, in fact I rather enjoyed it.
The anime deals with Tohru Honda. Losing her mother early before the anime's events, she is seen laying in a tent, getting ready to go to her high school. However, she is unaware until later that she set up in the territory of the Sohma Family. Initially, it was just two members seen: Yuki and Shigure Sohma. The comedy kicks off, and the secret of the Sohmas are discovered, shortly after the first appearance of the brash Kyo. Learning that the Sohma Family are cursed, she is told that extreme stress or coming in contact with a non-cursed member of the opposite sex triggers their transformation: each member becoming an animal of the Chinese Zodiac. With this she learns that Yuki is the rat, Shigure is the dog, and Kyo is the cat. Other members show up throughout the series, each bearing a different animal form, up until the meeting of Akito, as well as the revealing of Kyo's true curse.
The anime lasts for 26 episodes, and is licensed by Funimation, the show being featured on their channel. There are slight contrasts between the manga and anime, dealing with plot changes, elements added in the anime, and unseen characters that were in the manga. Laura Bailey (who did roles for Ash of Pokemon and all 7 Nanas from the previously covered Seven of Seven, to name a few) voices Torhu, while Kyo is voiced by Jerry Jewell (who also did roles like Akito Hayama from Kodocha, and Rin Tsuchimi of Shuffle!)
Fruits Basket may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I found it mostly amusing, yet grasping later in the anime, and it has the top of my list as one of the favorites so far, therefore gaining a grade of 8.3 of 10.
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