Fruit Basket

Fruits Basket follows the life of the student Tohru Honda, who was recently orphaned when her mother, Kyoko Honda, died in a car accident. After that, Tohru lived with her grandfather, but when remodeling is needed on the house, Tohru resorts to living in a tent and holds down a job to support herself. Despite suffering many hardships, Tohru remains optimistic.

One day, Tohru comes upon a house in the forest that she is temporarily living in which is the home of Shigure Sohma and fellow classmate Yuki Sohma, of the Sohma family. When the Sohmas discover that Tohru is living in a tent, they are quite surprised by her inner strength. The entire area is Sohma property, and Tohru pleads to live upon the property in her quaint tent (affectionately dubbed "her castle"). Feeling sorry for her, and desperate to end their days of filthy living conditions, the Sohmas offer her their spare room in exchange for cooking and housework. When her tent is buried that night in a landslide, burying her mother's picture and school clothes, she has no option but to accept. Soon after she moves in, Kyo Sohma comes to challenge Yuki.

Tohru soon discovers the Sohma family's secret, and the reason why Yuki is so private and secretive at school: thirteen members of the family are possessed by the 12 animal spirits of the Chinese Zodiac ("Jyūnishi" in Japanese) and the spirit of the cat who was left out of the Zodiac according to legend. They transform into animals when hugged by the opposite gender, when they are under a great amount of stress, or weak in any way (such as being sick). When she promises to keep their secret, the Sohmas allow Tohru to keep her memories rather than hypnotically erasing them, a fate that had previously befallen anyone not on the "Inside" of the Sohma family who had discovered the secret.

The story follows the lives of Tohru and the Sohma family, as they deal with each other and a society where neither quite fits in, as well as the feared Akito Sohma, head of the Sohma family. Soon, after living with the Sohma family she began to like, then love all of the Sohmas.

Opening Theme:
For Fruits Basket

Totemo ureshikattayo
Kimiga warai kaketeta
Subete wo tokasu hohoemide
Haru wa mata tookute
Tsumetai tsuchi no naka de
Mebuku toki wo matte tanda

Tatoeba kurushii kyo datotoshitemo
Kinou no kizu wo nokoshite itemo
Shinjitai kokoro hadoite yukeruto
Umarekawaru koto wa dekinaiyo
Dakedo kawatewa yukerukara
Let's stay together forever itsumo

buku dake ni waraatte
Sono yubi de me sawatte
Nosomi bakari kahateshinaku
yasashiku shitaiyo
mooku yamando yoomi
nageki no yumi mo koete yukou

*tatoe kurushii kyo datotoshitemo
itsuka atatakana omoide ni naru
Kokorogoto subete nagedaseta nara
kokoni ikiteru imiga wakaruyo
umareochita yorokobi mo shiru
Let's stay together forever itsumo

papapapapapa papapapapa papapapapapapapa
papapapapapa papapapapa papapapapapa

*repeat

papapapapapa papapapapa papapapapapapapa
papapapapapa papapapapa papapapapapa

Ending Theme:
Chiisana Inori(1)

Tanoshii yuu ge
Saa kakomimashou
Kyou no namida wa kora
Asu no chikara ni shite

La la la
Subarashiki love & life
La la la
Ai subeki love & life

Sei ippai datta ichinichi ni
Sayonara to arigatou
Waratte oemashou
Sore wa chiisa na inori

Haru hana saki
Midori moeru koro
Donna namida mo hora
Kaze ni nagasarete ku

La la la
Subarashiki love & life
La la la
Ai subeki love & life

Serenade(2)

Hajimete no takaramono yo konna ni suki ni natte
Tsuyokute yowai kokoro toki ni wa sabishigaru kedo

Kimi ga warau to sore dake de mou ureshikute
Subete ga mukuwareru 'n da

Utsumuiteta hi wa koko kara miteta no wa
Demo ima wa sora wo miageteru

Tohou ni kureru senaka ni kotoba wo kaketai kedo
Doshaburi ni nureta kata wo sugu ni mo dakitai keredo

Itsumo itsudemo motometeite kurenakute ii
Donna hi mo kimi wo shitteru

Kokoro no kagi wo akeru no wa tsuyoi chikara janaku
Massugu ni omou kimochi

Kimi ga warau to sore dake de mou ureshikute
Subete ga mukuwareru 'n da

Utsumuiteta hi wa koko kara miteta no wa
Demo ima wa sora wo miageteru

Kyou mo ganbarou makenai tsuyosa wo motou
Ai suru hito no tame ni mo

Teru Teru Momiji

Yuhi you yamani
Teru-teru momiji
Kaeru yatokage ga
Konnichiwa

Koi no arai
Tabu no ko umani

Yuhi you yamani
Teru-teru momiji
Kaeru yatokage ga
Konnichiwa