Series · 2019
Fruits Basket (2019 adaptation)
フルーツバスケット
After her mother’s death, Tohru Honda lives in a tent until the Sohma family takes her in. Her new household has a secret: members of the family carry an animal transformation curse. Tohru becomes involved in relationships governed by rules that reach well beyond an unusual living arrangement.
The home she accepts is on land where she had been camping without knowing who owned it. Living with Yuki and Kyo therefore begins with a very practical need for shelter. Their family’s old bonds gradually make her position more complicated than that of a grateful house guest.
Tohru’s gentle manner is visible before the family’s larger history comes into view: a closed-eye smile, yellow hair ribbons and a school uniform place her firmly in an ordinary teenage world. That everyday presence matters beside a household whose private rules make even simple closeness difficult.
2019 adaptation · all three TV seasons · Approx. 25 hours · 63 episodes
The 2019 television adaptation, all three seasons: 25 + 25 + 13 episodes. The separate 2001 adaptation and Fruits Basket -prelude- film are excluded.