A Fruits Basket fan artist’s gorgeous artwork honors the wholesome love story of Tohru and Kyo Sohma.
A Twitter user called GloomyChuu created the art, featuring a wide-eyed, blushing Tohru embraced by Kyo. Both characters are depicted in their high school uniforms, hearkening viewers familiar with the series to the early years of the couple’s romance. The artist framed the image with a border of brightly colored flowers and greenery.
Tohru and Kyo’s Romance in Fruits Basket
The touching romance between Kyo and Tohru begins when the young high-schooler moves into the home of Yuki and Shigure Sohma after losing her mother. Shortly afterward, Kyo also moves in, and the pair gradually begin to grow closer, despite Kyo’s single-minded determination to defeat Yuki and claim his rightful place as a true zodiac member. While rejection and sorrow color Kyo’s past, Tohru’s unconditional acceptance of him softens his heart and causes him to fall in love with her. At the end of the series, the two get married and have a son named Hajime.
Hakusensha’s serialized Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket manga in the semi-monthly magazine Hana to Yume from July 1998 to November 2006. The manga revolves around the Sohma family, who for generations have been tormented by a curse that causes its members to transform into Zodiac animals when hugged by the opposite sex. Although those affected by the curse suffer in various ways, Tohru’s unfailing kindness captures their hearts and helps each of them start to move forward. The manga’s sequel, Fruits Basket Another, launched on the manga site HanaLaLa Online in September 2015 and continued serialization until August 2017. Manga Park’s website picked up the series in August 2017, serializing it until its conclusion in April 2020.
Fruits Basket’s Anime Adaptations
Fruits Basket’s popularity led to multiple anime adaptations. Studio DEEN (Hetalia, Fate/stay night) produced a 26-episode anime series that aired from July 2001 to December 2001. Akitaro Daichi (Kamisama Kiss) directed the series, while Rika Nakase oversaw Series Composition. In 2019, 8PAN and TMS Entertainment collaborated to produce a Fruits Basket reboot, which, unlike the 2001 anime, covered the manga’s story in its entirety. This series lasted three seasons, premiering on Apr. 6, 2019, and concluding on June 29, 2021. Yoshihide Ibata directed the anime, while Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro) worked on Series Composition.
The original 2001 Fruits Basket anime and the 2019 reboot are both available on Crunchyroll.
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