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| Fruits Basket character |
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| Tohru Honda |
| Gender |
Female |
| Age |
16 |
| Height |
156.7 cm |
| Blood Type |
O |
| Sign |
Taurus |
| Occupation |
End of anime: 2nd year at Kaibara High School
Manga: 3rd year at Kaibara High School |
Tohru Honda (本田 透 Honda Tōru) is the protagonist in the manga and anime series entitled Fruits Basket. Her altruistic nature, benign heart, and usually cheerful bearing earn her a special place in the story. Arisa Uotani and Saki Hanajima are Tohru's best friends. Both of her parents had died before the story took place, leaving her orphaned and living on her own.
Role in the story
Background
During the beginning of the story, Tohru lives in a tent because both her parents (Kyoko Honda and Katsuya Honda) have died, and her Grandpa's house is under construction. Despite the less-than-comfortable conditions,
Tohru remains characteristically optimistic, affectionately calling her tent 'my castle'. While leaving her tent to explore
the area, she was discovered by Shigure Sohma and Yuki Sohma, whose land she had been camping on. This, the earliest major advance in the plot, leads to her entrance into the Sohma household,
where she cooks and cleans in return for shelter. Over time, Tohru's relationship with the Sohmas grows much more complex.
It's also revealed that several of Tohru's quirks (like her speech) actually originates from her imitation of her father's
character. This behaviour seems to stem from that fact that she looked much like Kyoko and almost nothing like Katsuya. Her
relatives actually wondered if she really was Katsuya's daughter, and at one point Tohru overheard them discussing this; since
then, she decided to imitate her dad's quirks as much as she could, to prove herself as a member of the Honda family. Another
one of her quirks, her tendancy to be concerned for people with diseases, comes from the situation surrounding her father's
death. He was originally diagnosed with a fever. However, he did not recover and eventually died.
Story
Tohru has helped many of the Sohmas, most notably Kisa Sohma, helping her regain her confidence and voice, and Kyo Sohma, staying by his side even when he attempted to push her away by physically harming her. Later in the manga, Tohru and Kyo
fall in love with each other, but when she confesses her feelings to him, Kyo - consumed by guilt over Kyoko's death - tells
Tohru it's a delusion and runs off.
Tohru goes to follow him, but is confronted by Akito, who has heard the whole thing, and tries to stab Tohru. Akito stops
however, when Tohru tells her how she now knows how it feels to be left behind, causing Akito to flash back to the previous
banquet, where she was all alone, even though everyone was there. Tohru wants to start anew with Akito, since the way they
met was so poorly done. After a bit more encouragement, Akito extends her hand to Tohru, just as the ground beneath Tohru
crumbles, causing Tohru to fall. Fortunately, Akito starts screaming for help, which brings Shigure and Yuki running. They
bring Tohru back to the house and call an ambulance. Kyo also comes back. He starts crying and asking her not to die. For
a moment she regains consciousness. She tells him that she's alright, but it sounds almost like she's saying goodbye. He tells
her to stop talking and that he understands. Then, he gives Tohru what's probably her first kiss.
Luckily, Tohru survived the fall, and wis released from hospital. However, on seeing Kyo (who had come to take her home)
she blushes and pelts off in the opposite direction. She was only semi-conscious when he kissed her, so she thinks she's been
rejected. Kyo, the faster runner, catches up to her and finally reciprocates her feelings. Soon after confessing they kiss
and Tohru tells him that her love for him cannot be beaten. He then pulls her into a hug, expecting to transform into his
cat form; however Kyo does not change, indicating that his curse has been lifted.
Fruits Basket
Tohru once had a symbolic experience in kindergarten. The class was playing a game called Fruits Basket, in which everyone sits in a circle. The leader of the game, who stands in the center of the circle, names each person after a fruit; when the name of a player's fruit is called, that player gets up and hurriedly changes positions with others with the same
fruit name while the person in the center attempts to claim a seat for himself. The player left standing will then take up
the center position.
When Tohru first played this game, she was assigned "onigiri" (rice ball), which was fine with her, since she thinks onigiri are delicious. However, it turns out that she was the only
person to be assigned onigiri, and as everyone but her got called and she was the only one left sitting, Tohru realized
that an onigiri isn't a fruit, and that she'd never be called. Tohru was purposely excluded from the game, merely another
of the cruel tricks classmates used to pull on her. She came to realize that there would be no room for an onigiri in a Fruits
Basket.
However, as the series progresses, Tohru, though rejected by classmates at school, finds a place in which she can belong
with the Sohma family, and brightening their days with a kind word or smile.
Gallery
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Leaving her tent at the beginning of the story |
Resolved to bring Yuki Sohma and his brother Ayame together, despite their glaring differences |
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