Fruits Basket/Characters

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The following characters are from the Manga and Anime series Fruits Basket.

Main Characters

Tohru Honda

Tohru

Voiced by: Hiroko Konishi (JP, drama CD), Yui Horie (JP, series), Laura Bailey (EN)

The heroine of the story, Tohru ends up in the Sohma household after her mother dies and she sets up tent on their property. She forges friendships with Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure, and eventually comes to befriend the rest of the Sohmas as well.

  • Adorkable
  • All of the Other Reindeer: When she was younger.
  • Badass Pacifist: This non-Action Girl teenager manages to calm down Kyo when he reverts to his true form and then she also speaks gently to Akito even when she's screaming and swinging a knife around.
    • To add to the first point, Kyo's true from is not only hideous and reeking of dead human flesh but also super strong and super agile. Kyo, in blind fear of being rejected by her slashes her arm which noticeably hurts her a lot. Not to mention she does puke at some point due to the dead human flesh stink.
    • And to add to the second: Akito is the God of the Zodiac. A terrifying mix of Manipulative Bitch, Broken Bird and Yandere, who is in a state of complete terror and anger since the Jyuunishi are being released of the curse one by one, which she sees as them abandoning her... and it's her biggest fear coming true. So after stabbing Kureno, Akito is at the lowest point of her life, screaming and swinging the knife she used on him. And yet Tohru manages to not run away, and even offer her kindness... which would eventually kick-start Akito's Heel Face Turn.
  • Blue Eyes: Anime only.
  • Book Dumb
  • Break the Cutie: Akito tries this on her. It fails, and Akito didn't take it well.
  • Care Bear Stare: Hiro thinks she can do this because she can love and tolerate the shit out of anyone.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She can be this on occasion but on the most part she's level headed.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Averted, actually. She has a living grandfather and other relatives, but lived in a tent because she didn't want to burden them. Considering how badly her aunt and cousins treat her when she has to move back with the grandpa, she can't be blamed.
  • Cooldown Hug: With Kyo's monster form.
  • Crash Into Hello: Kyo falls through the roof, shouts at Yuki, and then Tohru trips and falls on him.
  • Curtains Match the Window: In the manga.
  • Dojikko
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Invoked; Tohru is warned by Kagura not to claim she loves Kyo because she pities him.
  • Easily Forgiven: Tohru does not hold grudges against anyone.
  • Face Fault: Truly, out of ALL the characters, she makes the MOST face faults out of ANYONE. Makes sense though, being the normal person among a family of people who can transform into talking animals.
  • First Kiss: Gets a bit complicated.
  • Golden Moment
  • Grow Old with Me: With Kyo.
  • Heroes Want Redheads: Kyo.
  • Heroic BSOD: After Kureno tells her that he has no desire to see Arisa again as well as the truth about Akito, Tohru stays in the same spot for hours, until Hanajima comes to save her.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Has low self esteem hidden under her eternal smile.
  • The Heroine: The protagonist who is saving the Sohmas from themselves.
  • Magic Skirt
  • The Messiah: She loves everyone, even Akito, who is disliked by nearly the entire Sohma family.
  • Never Got to Say Goodbye: To her mom, before she died.
  • Not So Different: In the manga's climax, parallels are drawn between how Tohru's devotion to her dead mother ties her down emotionally and the Sohma clan's curse. Specifically their 'bonds' to Akito, who does all of her evil and bitchy deals to not be abandoned by them.
  • Plucky Girl: Eternally optimistic but never delusional. As for the bravery, see her entry on Badass Pacifist.
  • The Pollyanna: In the anime, where nothing at all gets her down, unlike in the manga.
  • Romance Genre Heroines: Of The Nurturer variety.
  • Sorry I Fell on Your Fist
  • Stepford Smiler: In the manga.
  • Talking to the Dead: Keeps a picture of her mom in her wallet.
  • Team Mom: Taking care of the Sohmas (the ones in Shigure's house at least) is technically payment for living there, but it goes deeper than that.
  • Tender Tears
  • Tomboyish Name: Her father gave it to her to emphasize her femininity—like adding salt to something sweet to enhance the flavor.
  • We Really Do Care
  • What Would X Do?: She always quotes Kyoko.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: A more child-like, clumsier version. All the politeness and domestic talent, and so much inner iron she overwhelms everyone she nicely confronts. Also good at cooking Japanese style dishes. In fact, she once had an Imagine Spot about being a Japanese princess.

Yuki Sohma (The Rat)

Yuki

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP), Eric Vale (EN)

  • Abusive Parents: Like most of the Sohmas, his mother was mostly emotionally abusive (though not above smacking him around a little when she was upset with him). She's notable for the fact that after Yuki confronted her and told her that he wouldn't let her control him anymore, later chapters showed that she might be trying to turn over a new leaf. When she told him, "Try not to push yourself too hard," Yuki noted that it was an oddly motherly thing for her to say.
    • In the manga, it was "don't use it wastefully", in regards to a cell phone he needs her permission to get.
  • All Take and No Give: Has shades of this but it is never intentional on his part. He seeks Tohru's friendship, listening ear, and understanding quite often and has benefited from Hatsuharu's and Ayame's affection for him whenever he's in a tight spot he is unable to get himself out of. When this trait is pointed out to him he resolves to change himself into a person who can give back to the people who care for him.
  • Always Someone Better: Kyo has trained in martial arts longer than he has and is more dedicated but he can't reach Yuki's level no matter what.
  • Bad Dreams
  • Berserk Button: Reminders of his older brother's quirks, Kyo at his worst, being mistaken for a woman, or the mere thought of crossdressing sets him of. Being unpleasant to Tohru is a great way to piss him off, too.
  • Bishonen: Enough to be mistaken for a girl. Multiple times.
  • Chick Magnet: Enough that he gets his own Unwanted Harem.
  • Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: In the end, with his underclassman Machi. Not as sudden as other examples in that got quite a lot of foreshadowing.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Parodied with Kakeru telling his girlfriend Komaki that Yuki had to dress up as a boy for certain reasons.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Boys and girls swoon over him.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: His fan club.
    • He's one himself towards Kyo and a little towards Manabe due to both of them being able to be natural and liked by their peers without having to try hard like he does.
    • Surprisingly averted as Kyo and Tohru's relationship develops. Yuki does nothing to break them apart and even tries to help push things along.
  • Harmful to Minors: Flashbacks are shown of Akito whipping him.
  • Heavy Sleeper: Might as well be sleep on his feet in the morning.
  • Ill Boy: When he was younger he had pretty severe asthma and other unspecified health problems, but this improves as he gets older.
  • Informed Flaw: Supposedly weak and prone to illness, but he can easily beat down Kyo—who's been training in martial arts all his life—any time he wants.
  • Instant Fanclub: The Yuki Fan Club.
  • Insulted Awake: Kyo's voice alone is enough.
    • Kakeru calling him a "spoiled little rich girl" woke him up, too.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Lethal Chef
  • Loving a Shadow: His feelings for Tohru were later said to be him looking for the mother he never had.
  • Not a Morning Person
  • Prince Charming: His fan club gives him the nickname "Prince Yuki."
  • Princely Young Man: Subverted, because he looks perfect, but due to his past Yuki is so terrified of rejection that he also is an enormous Stepford Smiler.
  • Purple Eyes
  • Student Council President: Later in the manga.
  • Tongue-Tied
  • The Unfavourite
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Kakeru have a bit of this. Once when Yuki was depressed, Kakeru cheered him up... by throwing a soccer ball in his face.
    • He and Kakeru had an insult match that involved them choking each other and then walking off all happy and friendly a couple of panels later.

Kyo Sohma (The Cat)

Kyo

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (JP), Jerry Jewell (EN)


Akito Sohma "God"

Akito

Voiced by: Wakaba Murasaki (JP), Chad Cline (EN)

The God of the Zodiac. Akito is arguably the Big Bad of the series.

  • Abusive Parents: Well, Ren anyway. But her abuse is much more than enough.
  • All That Glitters: Akito was told that a small black box contained her father's soul. It didn't.
  • Attention Whore: A very creepy and self-destructive version.
  • Ax Crazy
  • Beautiful All Along: When dressed up in a female kimono, she's very beautiful. Lampshaded by Ritsu's comment when he gets to see dolled-up!Akito and is shocked by how gorgeous she looks.
  • Berserk Button: If you're a Sohma, do NOT tell Akito you're leaving the family in ANY way.
  • Bifauxnen: So much so that the revelation that Akito is not in fact male qualified as a Shocking Swerve.
  • Big Bad: As close to one as this series has.
  • Bokukko: Aside of being a Bifauxnen, she uses "boku" to refer to herself. She keeps doing so after her Heel Face Turn.
  • Break the Cutie: Attempts this on Kisa and Tohru. Has this inflicted on her as a little girl, via Ren.
  • Break the Haughty: Oh, so much.
  • Broken Bird: Manifested less as hyper-competency or great worldliness, but rather through wild mood swings, from crying at the fear of abandonment, to physically abusing family members, including blinding Hatori in one eye, pushing Rin out a window, repeatedly thrashing Kisa, and stabbing Kureno (one of her lovers). All of which springs from a really bad childhood with a loving Disappeared Dad who died when she was a little girl, a very cruel and arguably crazy Evil Matriarch of a mother, and being forcefully raised as a boy to avoid being seen as a threat by said mother, who poisoned her with hatred and insecurity.
  • Chronic Villainy
  • Crashing Dreams: Akito has a flashback dream where she asks Shigure if he loves her. After Shigure responds, gives her a flower and kisses her, he says her name, at which point so does Kureno, causing Akito to wake up in the car.
  • Creepy Child: As a kid, she's seen painting her room black and claiming she hates everyone, after she snaps as a product of Ren's psychological abuse.
  • Does Not Like Men: Inverted; Akito hates women. Despite being one in the manga. Or, more than hating women as a whole, Akito hates those who try taking the Sohmas away (even if they're Sohmas themselves), due to Ren's abuse.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Tells that to Tohru in the middle of a Villainous Breakdown in the manga.
  • Dropped a Bridget On Him: Everyone not in the know (except Uotani) reacts like this to The Reveal about Akito's gender. And then, of course, there was the fanbase's reaction...
  • Easily Forgiven: The Sohma come to forgive, while Rin doesn't, and hates herself for it. This is due to the fact that they were so over her by that point (especially with the power of Tohru's healing personality), that they didn't even hold a grudge against her (except Rin).
  • Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
  • Evil Plan: Originally it was to possess the Zodiac, then it became drive Torhu away and then possess the Zodiac.
  • Eye Scream: Performed on Hatori.
  • Fauxshadow: She does a Heel Face Turn about 30 chapters later.
  • Flower Motifs: Associated with red camellias, which are a symbol of love in the language of flowers. This is also the kind of flower Shigure gave her when she was little and he confessed his love.
  • Freak-Out: Happens quite often.
  • Freudian Excuse: ...Except it really isn't an excuse. More like a "List of Grievances".
  • Heel Face Turn
  • Heel Realization
  • Hikikomori: She was homeschooled during her high school years, due to her frail health.
  • Ill Girl: More in the anime than the manga.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Let Me At Him
  • Limited Wardrobe: Almost always seen in a male kimono, though in the manga she also wears suits once in a while.
  • MacGuffin: See the All That Glitters entry.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Can keep the Sohma under a tight leash with mood swings and abuse.
  • Mind Rape: Akito is both a perpetrator and a victim. Thank you, Ren.
  • Physical God: Akito is the "God" of the Zodiac.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Ayame, Kagura, and Ritsu are spared from the wrath Akito unreleased among others.
    • Fan theorized that since the role Akito has could includes being superstitious since in Japanese culture considered a white snake good luck. Since Ayame have some form of albinism and is curse with the spirit of the snake, he’s generally spared by default.
    • Ritsu dresses like a girl and has a lot of issues. It’s likely due to this is why Akito doesn’t bother with him. In addition, he doesn’t like at the main house, therefore Akito leaves him alone since he already have problems.
    • Kagura is specially spared from Akito, who has been known not to show mercy to the other female members of the Sohma clan. Fans suspected there one thing Kagura has that Rin and Kisa doesn’t… a violent personality that her defense system. Akito can be violent but Kagura… Akito wants nothing to do with her.
  • Psychotic Smirk
  • Raised as the Opposite Gender
  • The Reveal: Her real gender
  • Slasher Smile
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond
  • Tsundere: She was in her way to become one, until Ren's abuse finally got to her head and she became a Yandere. Yuki recalls her yelling at him once, then stopping herself and gently picking up a bowl.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Do NOT make Akito mad.
  • Villainous Breakdown: An absolutely epic one.
  • Villainous Crossdresser: Not by choice.
  • What Have I Become?
  • Why Couldn't You Be Different?: From either Akito towards others, or from Ren towards Akito.
  • Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: A good part of Akito's Manipulative Bastard strategy
  • Yandere: Hoo boooooy...

Other Zodiac Members

Shigure Sohma (The Dog)

Shigure

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)

  • Bishie Sparkle: Of all things, when he sings about high school girls.
  • Bishonen: When he goes to Tohru's school, several of her classmates mention how good looking he is, and one of Mitsu's coworkers stated that she was attracted to his good looks as well.
  • The Chessmaster: It's strongly implied that Shigure knew how to break the curse and started moving things into place once he found someone who could do it. He's not too proud of this, even though he did it to save them all and win Akito's love. Said manipulations included sleeping with Ren (who he said looked like what Akito raised as a girl would look like) and being deliberately distant with her.
  • Chivalrous Pervert
  • Dirty Old Man: Flirts openly with high school aged Tohru when he first meets her, is eager to meet her friends before Kyou describes how...colorful they are, buys her a blatantly Fan Service-y Meido outfit for White Day hoping she'll clean his house in it, and goes to Tohru's high school under the pretense of retrieving her belongings when he was really going to check out the high school girls (sings a little song about it, too). Averted with Isuzu when she offers her body if he tells her how to break the curse, but in full force when played for laughs, namely when he laments that Hatori didn't tell him he was going to give her a check up.
  • The Gadfly: Sometimes a means to an end, other times just to be a dick.
  • Harem Nanny: Takes care of Yuki, followed by Tohru and Kyo.
  • I Banged Your Mom: To Akito. Akito was not amused.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At the start of the series, when Shigure and Yuki discover Tohru camping in the wilderness behind their home, Shigure reacts by pointing and laughing uproariously. He quickly becomes protective of Tohru, to the point where Hanajima and Uotani liken him to a grandfather spoiling his granddaughter. Shigure also happens to push his editor's buttons to the point where she's about a hair away from committing suicide, but he never does so out of maliciousness, he just likes pushing other people's buttons.
  • Karma Houdini: Arguably, his manipulations and mind screws (especially in regards to Akito, the girl he loves and yet still manipulates) never got him in real trouble.
  • Manipulative Bastard: In the manga, especially towards Rin and Akito. To his credit, he didn't take Rin's offer, but he still manipulated Akito like hell.
  • Papa Wolf: Shigure dotes on Tohru quite a bit, although whether or not it's for his own personal gain is another matter.
  • Parental Substitute: Sorta, as Yuki's caretaker. Also present, to some extent, in his relationship with Tohru.
  • Romance Genre Heroes: Of The Charmer variety.
  • Shipper on Deck: He was a real jerk about it, but it's his actions that ultimately lead to Mayuko and Hatori dating.
  • Smoking Is Cool
  • Temporary Love Interest: Mayu, though it was a mutual arrangement from the start -- Shigure basically said "You're lonely, I'm bored -- let's date". It was never a genuine romantic relationship and in the end Mayu broke it off because she just couldn't keep pretending it was.
  • Unflappable Guardian: One that uses Obfuscating Stupidity to his advantage.
  • Urban Legend Love Life
  • Your Cheating Heart: Turns out he once slept with Akito's mother, Ren. He claims this was only because she slept with Kureno (and because Ren looked like Akito would've looked like, had she been raised as a woman). Akito got so upset that she immediately kicked him out of the main Sohma estate for this.

Kagura Sohma (The Boar)

Kagura

Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori (JP, drama CD), Kotono Mitsuishi (JP, series), Meredith McCoy (EN)

Momiji Sohma (The Rabbit)

Momiji

Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa (JP, drama CD), Ayaka Saitou (JP, series), Kimberly Grant (EN)

Hatori Sohma (The Dragon)

Hatori

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (JP), Kent Williams (EN)

  • Berserk Button: A more emotionally subdued version but he's very self-conscious about his zodiac form.
  • Bilingual Bonus: Hatori turns into a seahorse instead of a dragon. A Japanese word for seahorse is 竜の落し子 (tatsu no otoshigo), which literally translates to "dragon's baby."
  • Bishonen: Similar to the other members of the Zodiac and the Sohma in general. Kakaeru asks if there's something he eats to be so good looking.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Eye Scream: Akito nearly blinds him in one eye after he says he wishes to marry Kana.
  • Hospital Hottie: He's the family doctor.
  • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: Well, yes and no. He actually transforms into a seahorse.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Toward Kana.
  • Not So Above It All: Has a few of moments of not being completely mature and poised. He tricked Yuki and Kyo into taking a photo of them seemingly smiling together only to playfully give the camera to Tohru by putting on her head. He gave Shigure more injections than necessary because the latter was being annoying. He also threatened to tell Shigure's colleagues every embarrassing story he knew about him since he was four if he told Tohru the secret of his zodiac form.
  • Only Sane Man: Compared to his best friends Shigure and Ayame.
  • Peek-a-Bangs: Over the hurt eye.
  • Second Love: With Mayuko.
  • Secret Relationship: With Kana, until he tells Akito about it. Akito does not respond well.
  • The Stoic

Hatsuharu Sohma (The Ox)

Hatsuharu

Voiced by: Akio Suyama (JP), Justin Cook (EN)

Ayame Sohma (The Snake)

Ayame

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP, drama CD), Mitsuru Miyamoto (JP, series), Christopher Sabat (EN)

  • Aloof Big Brother: In the Backstory. By the time the series starts, he's gotten over it.
  • The Atoner: Feels guilty for his treatment of Yuki when they were kids, and for how he treated a girl who loved him when he was in school.
  • Big Brother Complex: Inverted; Ayame has a younger brother complex.
  • Bishonen: Considering he's Yuki's brother...
  • Camp Straight: Or possibly Camp Bi the Way.
  • Cursed with Awesome: In Japan, white snakes are considered fortuity and Akito is likely superstitious that was granted. As a result, the shape-shifting Ayame is cursed with has spared him from any attacks since it can be disaster for Akito.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: It's the long hair and his effeminate behavior.
  • Homoerotic Subtext: Played for laughs with Shigure as a long-running joke between them.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Large Ham: It's refered to as "steamrolling people with his personality."
  • No Sense of Personal Space: Justified when he's in snake form, as he's extremely susceptible to the cold and needs to rely on another person's body heat. Not that this explains him from getting into bed with Kyo (fully clothed) in the middle of the night and snuggling close, mind you.
  • Rapunzel Hair: Down to his back.
  • Shipper on Deck: Seems to support Yuki/Tohru and Kyo/Kagura judging by how he wants to embroider "I live for Kagura" on Kyo's clothing and "I live for Yuki" on Tohru's clothing.
  • What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Ayame eats his soba, with great confidence.
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy

Kisa Sohma (The Tiger)

Kisa

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (JP), Kate Bristol (EN)

Hiro Sohma (The Sheep)

Hiro

Voiced by: Yuriko Fuchizaki (JP), Aaron Dismuke (EN)

Ritsu Sohma (The Monkey)

Ritsu

Voiced by: Mina Tominaga (JP), Mike McFarland (EN)

Isuzu "Rin" Sohma (The Horse)

Rin
  • Abusive Parents: Mom and Dad pretended to love her, until she noticed their love was fake. They became horribly abusive afterwards, until Kagura and her parents found out and took Rin into their custody; she was so badly damaged, though, that she simply couldn't bond with them despite their good intentions.
  • Bad Dreams
  • Broken Bird
  • Destination Defenestration: When Akito confronts her in regards to her and Haru, Rin says she's the one who started their relationship. An enraged Akito throws her out the second floor window. She survives, but is seriously injured.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: Dresses like that sometimes.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Tohru's reaction after seeing her naked (post-transformation).
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has heavy scars on her back, thanks to her evil parents.
  • Ill Girl: Her traumatic past cause her health problems more than once. Specifically, she has stomach ulcerae.
    • She also has a few psychological problems indicated by her hallucinating that Tohru is her mother whom she is begging not to be angry with her.
  • Important Haircut/Traumatic Haircut: Courtesy of Akito, as punishment for following Akito's evil mother Ren's orders and with the added bonus of how she and Ren looked a LOT alike when Rin wore with her long hair down.
  • Involuntary Shapeshifting
  • Ms. Fanservice: By Word of God, "she's the character in charge of sexiness." Thankfully, she got a very complex personality as well.
  • Please, I Will Do Anything!: She offers herself to Shigure to get him to tell her how to break the curse. Shigure declines.
  • Screw Destiny: She actively tries to break the curse.
  • Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
  • Tsundere: Towards Tohru, after they become friends and towards Hatsuharu after she breaks up with him.

Kureno Sohma (The Rooster)

Other Characters

Other Sohmas

Kazuma Sohma

Voiced by: Norihiro Inoue (JP), Dameon Clarke (EN)

Ren Sohma

  • Bigger Bad: To Akito's character, and thus for the entire series.
  • Child-Hater: She once said that she hated how the then-tiny Ayame, Hatori, Kureno and Shigure swarmed to her and cried. She didn't know it, but their tears were because they sensed she was pregnant with Akito, the future God of the Zodiac. She also notes that she has always hated Rin, and Akito remembers her as a cold mother.
  • Complete Monster: In the present day, she's jumped so far off the slippery slope that she's become this.
  • Evil Matriarch: Ooooh, boy...
  • Love Makes You Evil: Ren originally worked as a maid in the Sohma state, then she was the first person who took care of Ill Boy Akira and reached out to him. Her Face Heel Turn came when she got pregnant and became obsessed with the idea that Akira would care more for their then-unborn child than for her... and you know what came next.
  • Manipulative Bitch
  • Meddling Parents: To some degree. She doesn't believe in the bond but she doesn't do anything about it except trying to use it against Akito.
  • Smug Snake: Beautiful, evil, sly, manipulative, and not just despicable, but in the end, very incompetent. She has to manipulate her desperate niece Rin to get her late husband Akira's box (Rin then fails and is horrifyingly "punished" by Akito), is humiliated by Shigure when he tells her he only had sex with her because she looks like an older Akito, and once her plans crumble she's left as pretty much as an Empty Shell of her former self.
  • Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
  • Villainous Breakdown: And a Villainous BSOD that follows it.
  • Yandere: And holy shit, HOW. Even more than Akito!

Akira Sohma

Kana Sohma

Voiced by: Haruhi Terada (JP), Libby Smith (EN)

Satsuki Sohma

Hiro Sohma's mother, she makes relatively few appearances late in the manga. Gives birth in the manga to a non-Zodiac daughter, Hinata, making Hiro a big brother.

  • Children Raise You: Hiro acts like a concerned but exasperated parent to her most of the time. She remarks in one panel how her son always scolds her. In another panel, she responds with a "Yes, sir!" when he tells her to be more careful while she's still pregnant. (Though her lighthearted tone of voice could mean she just humors him all of the time.)
  • Dojikko: Such a klutz that Hiro is paranoid she's bound to trip down a flight of stairs. He's especially freaked out when she's pregnant.
  • Doting Parent: Aside from Kagura's mother, she's the only mother of a Zodiac child we see who neither rejected him nor became overprotective.
  • Genki Girl
  • Good Parents: Satsuki is one of the only parents of Zodiac members who openly loves her kid
  • Hot Mom
  • Obfuscating Genkiness: She's a lot more aware of Hiro's emotional sore spots than he realizes.
  • Open-Minded Parent: Unperturbed that her son turns into a sheep. Heck, when he transformed when she held him for the very first time, her reaction was, "I love sheep!"
  • Savvy Son Energetic Mom
  • Shipper on Deck: Openly anticipates gaining Kisa as a daughter-in-law, much to Hiro's horror.
  • So Proud of You

Meshou Souma

Voiced by: Junko Yamamoto (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)

Ritsu's mother, and the manager of a hot springs owned by the clan.

Tohru's Friends

Arisa Uotani

Voiced by: Yuka Imai (JP), Parisa Fakhri (EN)

Saki Hanajima

Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi (JP, drama CD), Reiko Yasuhara (JP, series), Daphne Gere (EN)

  • All of the Other Reindeer: Her Strange Girl infamy first brought her bullying at first, then almost complete isolation... until Tohru and Arisa break through her defenses.
  • Book Dumb: She's not really, but she fails her tests because the make-up ones are easier.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita
  • Expressive Hair
  • Good Parents: Her parents and grandmother are endlessly loving and supportive of her, especially when she was being bullied and ostracized. They also aren't too bothered by her powers. Heck, her little brother Megumi takes after them and is pretty protective of her sometimes.
  • Invisible to Normals: Hanajima's denpa waves.
  • Psychic Powers: She reads auras and can potentially kill with her "denpa waves". That almost happened in her backstory, where she loses it after being brutally bullied by a boy and wishing for his death... then her powers go haywire and he almost dies.
  • The Stoic: Always monotone, rarely emotional.
  • Strange Girl
  • When She Smiles

Megumi Hanajima

Voiced by: Omi Minami (JP), Hollie Townson (EN)

  • Creepy Child: Genre Savvy enough to deliberately exploit it.
  • I Know Your True Name: According to him.
  • Likes Older Women: He's pretty subtle about it but he mentions once how "interesting" it is for him to be the only boy amongst three women (Saki, Tohru, and Arisa). Then there was his forward comment about visiting Arisa at work to see her in a miniskirt...
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: Upon hearing the plan of the Prince Yuki Fan Club girls, he gives them a speech about how they're being selfish by forcing their one-sided affections on Yuki and that he would come to hate them for driving away the people he allows into his life. His words even reach Saki, who had been suffering from her own mild jealousy of Tohru's friendships with the Sohmas.

Tohru's Parents

Kyoko Honda, née Katsunuma

Voiced by: Reiko Yasuhara (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)

  • Adult Fear: A flashback reveals a pregnant Kyoko terrified that her relationship with Tohru would go the way of hers with her own mother.
    • Also, when little Tohru got lost, Kyouko went ballistic on the police because it was very hard to find her.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: Inverted—Katsuya makes fun of Kyoko because she doesn't have eyebrows.
  • Broken Bird: Until Katsuya offers her a helping hand.
  • Broken Pedestal: Arisa was not happy to discover that the "Red Butterfly" she'd admired had turned into a Doting Mother. However, after she slowly warmed up to her and when she helped Arisa quit her gang, she admired her again.
  • Delinquents: In her teenage years.
  • Former Teen Rebel
  • Grumpy Bear: For a while.
  • Hot Mom
  • Open-Minded Parent
  • Parental Neglect: Kyoko's Freudian Excuse when she was young, since the Katsunumas emotionally ignored her and were only worried about her giving them a bad rep.
    • When Katsuya died, Kyoko had an emotional breakdown and started neglecting Tohru for a while. Thankfully, she snapped out of it before any lasting harm could be done, but she regards it as My Greatest Failure.
  • The Red Baron: Was known as "The Red Butterfly" during her delinquent days, since the image of the red taillight on her bicycle was said to resemble a flitting butterfly as she rode it.
  • Team Mom: Where Tohru got it from.
  • We Have No Daughter: What her father pretty much says to her face when Kazuma asks them if he has their permission to marry her. Kazuya then takes Kyoko in, and they're soon married.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: After marrying Katsuya, she is happy to be a loving mother and Housewife and finally experience living in a happy family... and then, in Uotani's backstory, we see that she beats the tar out of a group of delinquents to save Arisa. In Yuki's flashback to when little Tohru went missing, we also see her threaten to "rain death upon [the police's] miserable souls" if they don't find her baby. That's the kind of inner iron that seperates the docile Housewife pushover Extreme Doormat from Yamato Nadeshiko.

Katsuya Honda

The Student Council

Machi Kuragi

  • Birds of a Feather: With Yuki, due to their Abusive Parents and being pushed towards perfection.
  • I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: To Yuki.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: All Machi wanted to do was make sure her baby brother stayed warm while he slept. Her parents came in and assumed she was trying to smother him with a blanket.
  • Parental Neglect: Both Machi and Kakeru were forced by their parents into a bitter inheritance rivalry, the result being that she became quiet, removed from society, and despised anything she considered "perfect." Her mother then openly tells a friend that Machi is "dull" and that she prefers her new baby boy. Oh, and Machi is forced to live by herself, because her parents think she'll try to murder her little brother. Even though she was putting a blanket on him while he slept.
  • Shrinking Violet
  • Sibling Yin-Yang" With Kakeru, even though they are only half siblings.
  • The Unfavourite
  • Yuki Kaida: In the CD dramas.

Kakeru Manabe

Kimi Todou

Naohito Sakuragi

Prince Yuki's Fanclub (Minami Kinoshita, Mio Yamagichi, Mai Gotou and Rika Aida, with Motoko Minagawa as Alpha Bitch)

Motoko Minagawa

Voiced by: Kaori Shimizu (JP), Jamie Marchi (EN)

Other characters

Komaki Nakao

Mine Kuramae (Ayame's assistant)

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Mayuko "Mayu-chan-sensei" Shiraki

Mitsuru aka Mit-chan

Other character tropes

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