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The following tropes can be applied to the characters of the [[Manga]] and [[Anime]] series ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.
The following characters are from the [[Manga]] and [[Anime]] series ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.


== Main Characters ==
== Main Characters ==
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=== Tohru Honda ===
=== Tohru Honda ===


[[File:14000_8343.jpg|frame|Tohru]]
[[File:14000 8343.jpg|frame|Tohru]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Hiroko Konishi]] (JP, drama CD), [[Yui Horie]] (JP, series), [[Laura Bailey]] (EN)}}
{{quote|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.
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.
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* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Adorkable]]
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* [[Badass Pacifist]]: This non-[[Action Girl]] teenager manages to {{spoiler|calm down Kyo when he reverts to his true form}} and then she also {{spoiler|speaks gently to Akito ''even when she's screaming and swinging a knife around''}}.
* [[Badass Pacifist]]: This non-[[Action Girl]] teenager manages to {{spoiler|calm down Kyo when he reverts to his true form}} and then she also {{spoiler|speaks gently to Akito ''even when she's screaming and swinging a knife around''}}.
** To add to the first point, {{spoiler|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'' [[Vomit Discretion Shot|puke]] at some point due to the dead human flesh stink}}.
** To add to the first point, {{spoiler|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'' [[Vomit Discretion Shot|puke]] at some point due to the dead human flesh stink}}.
** And to add to the second: {{spoiler|Akito is the God of the Zodiac. A terrifying mix of [[Manipulative Bitch]], [[Broken Bird]] and [[Yandere]], who is in [[Villainous Breakdown|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 kickstart Akito's [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
** And to add to the second: {{spoiler|Akito is the God of the Zodiac. A terrifying mix of [[Manipulative Bitch]], [[Broken Bird]] and [[Yandere]], who is in [[Villainous Breakdown|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]]}}.
* [[Book Dumb]]
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Anime only.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Anime only.
** [[Brown Eyes]]: Manga
** [[Brown Eyes]]: Manga
* [[Book Dumb]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Akito tries this on her. {{spoiler|It fails, and Akito [[Villainous Breakdown|didn't take it well]]}}.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Akito tries this on her. {{spoiler|It fails, and Akito [[Villainous Breakdown|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.
* [[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.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: She can be this on occasion but on the most part she's level headed.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Kyo falls through the roof, shouts at Yuki, and then Tohru trips and falls on him.
* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]: [[Orphan's Ordeal|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.
* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]: [[Orphan's Ordeal|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]]: {{spoiler|With Kyo's monster form.}}
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: {{spoiler|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.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: In the manga.
* [[Dojikko]]
* [[Dojikko]]
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* [[First Kiss]]: Gets a bit complicated.
* [[First Kiss]]: Gets a bit complicated.
* [[Golden Moment]]
* [[Golden Moment]]
* {{spoiler|[[Grow Old With Me]]: With Kyo.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Grow Old with Me]]: With Kyo.}}
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Kyo.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Kyo.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|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 BSOD]]: {{spoiler|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.}}
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* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: To her mom, before she died.
* [[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. {{spoiler|Specifically their 'bonds' to Akito, who does all of her evil and bitchy deals to not be abandoned by them.}}
* [[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. {{spoiler|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]].
* [[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.
* [[The Pollyanna]]: In the anime, where nothing at all gets her down, unlike in the manga.
* [[Romance Genre Heroines]]: Of The Nurturer variety.
* [[Romance Genre Heroines]]: Of The Nurturer variety.
* [[Sorry I Fell On Your Fist]]
* [[Sorry I Fell on Your Fist]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: In the manga.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: In the manga.
* [[Talking to The Dead]]: Keeps a picture of her mom in her wallet.
* [[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.
* [[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]]
* [[Tender Tears]]
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Her father gave it to her to emphasize her femininity -- like adding salt to something sweet to enhance the flavor.
* [[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]]
* [[We Really Do Care]]
* [[What Would X Do]]: She always quotes Kyoko.
* [[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.
* [[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 Sohma (The Rat) ===


[[File:47921_7676.jpg|frame|Yuki]]
[[File:47921 7676.jpg|frame|Yuki]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Aya Hisakawa]] (JP), [[Eric Vale]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Aya Hisakawa]] (JP), [[Eric Vale]] (EN)}}


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* [[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.
* [[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.
** 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. [[Character Development|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.]]
* [[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. [[Character Development|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.
* [[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]]
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Bishonen]]: Enough to be mistaken for a girl. Multiple times.
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: {{spoiler|In the end, with his underclassman Machi}}. Not as sudden as other examples in that got quite a lot of foreshadowing.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Enough that he gets his own [[Unwanted Harem]].
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Enough that he gets his own [[Unwanted Harem]].
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: {{spoiler|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]]
* [[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.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Parodied with Kakeru telling his girlfriend Komaki that Yuki had to dress up as a boy for certain reasons.
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* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Might as well be sleep on his feet in the morning.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Instant Fanclub]]: The Yuki Fan Club.
* [[Insulted Awake]]: Kyo's voice alone is enough.
* [[Insulted Awake]]: Kyo's voice alone is enough.
** Kakeru calling him a "spoiled little rich girl" woke him up, too.
** Kakeru calling him a "spoiled little rich girl" woke him up, too.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Lethal Chef]]
* [[Lethal Chef]]
* {{spoiler|[[Loving a Shadow]]: His feelings for Tohru were later said to be him looking for the mother he never had.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Loving a Shadow]]: His feelings for Tohru were later said to be him looking for the mother he never had.}}
* [[Not a Morning Person]]
* [[Not a Morning Person]]
* [[Prince Charming]]: His fan club gives him the nickname "Prince Yuki."
* [[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]].
* [[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]]
* [[Purple Eyes]]
* [[Student Council President]]: Later in the manga.
* [[Student Council President]]: Later in the manga.
* [[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.
* [[The Unfavourite]]
* [[Tongue-Tied]]
* [[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 Sohma (The Cat) ===


[[File:59122_9818.jpg|frame|Kyo]]
[[File:59122 9818.jpg|frame|Kyo]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Tomokazu Seki]] (JP), [[Jerry Jewell]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tomokazu Seki]] (JP), [[Jerry Jewell]] (EN)}}


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* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Goes barefoot at nearly every possible moment, even during a footrace!
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Goes barefoot at nearly every possible moment, even during a footrace!
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: He fears people getting close to him, since he has difficulty to know if they genuinely love him or just pity him for his curse.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: He fears people getting close to him, since he has difficulty to know if they genuinely love him or just pity him for his curse.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]]: {{spoiler|Near the end of the manga, Tohru falls off a cliff. While she's lying on the ground unconscious, Kyo kisses her. To be fair, Tohru regained consciousness for a bit when she noticed Kyo was crying. She said some comforting words to him, then lost consciousness again, and ''then'' he kissed her. He also wasn't exactly sure whether she was fully conscious or not, as he even confirms that she wasn't after their second kiss when she acts completely shocked that it's their second and not their first.}}
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]: {{spoiler|Near the end of the manga, Tohru falls off a cliff. While she's lying on the ground unconscious, Kyo kisses her. To be fair, Tohru regained consciousness for a bit when she noticed Kyo was crying. She said some comforting words to him, then lost consciousness again, and ''then'' he kissed her. He also wasn't exactly sure whether she was fully conscious or not, as he even confirms that she wasn't after their second kiss when she acts completely shocked that it's their second and not their first.}}
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Usually shouting, or breaking something.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Usually shouting, or breaking something.
* [[First Kiss]]
* [[First-Name Basis]]: At the start of the manga, he called Tohru "you." After [[The Climax]] of volume six, he switches to "Tohru."
* [[First-Name Basis]]: At the start of the manga, he called Tohru "you." After [[The Climax]] of volume six, he switches to "Tohru."
* [[First Kiss]]
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: The first evidence of his attraction to Tohru.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: The first evidence of his attraction to Tohru.
* {{spoiler|[[Grow Old With Me]]: With Tohru.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Grow Old with Me]]: With Tohru.}}
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: It's ''incredibly'' easy to set him off, even without the above [[Berserk Button]].
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: It's ''incredibly'' easy to set him off, even without the above [[Berserk Button]].
* [[Hellish Pupils]]
* [[Hellish Pupils]]
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* [[Instant Bandages]]
* [[Instant Bandages]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Aside from the 'cat if hugged' thing, he has a second one. Those beads? They {{spoiler|keep him from transforming into a monstrous, car-sized, stinking monstrosity}}.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: Aside from the 'cat if hugged' thing, he has a second one. Those beads? They {{spoiler|keep him from transforming into a monstrous, car-sized, stinking monstrosity}}.
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: He IS a jerk, but a nice jerk (especially later on).
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He IS a jerk, but a nice jerk (especially later on).
* [[Longing Look]]: Towards Tohru
* [[Longing Look]]: Towards Tohru
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: His mom tended to keep him sheltered and away from other people. Implied later on to be his father's decree.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: His mom tended to keep him sheltered and away from other people. Implied later on to be his father's decree.
* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: He constantly fights Yuki and loses.
* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: He constantly fights Yuki and loses.
* [[Not Good With People]]: Because of his ''tremendous'' issues.
* [[Not Good with People]]: Because of his ''tremendous'' issues.
* [[Picky Eater]]: He hates leeks. A lot. Still made Tohru some leek soup when she was sick.
* [[Picky Eater]]: He hates leeks. A lot. Still made Tohru some leek soup when she was sick.
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: To a naked Kagura, after she transforms back.
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: To a naked Kagura, after she transforms back.
* [[Power Limiter]]: The beads. The also serve to block [[Power Incontinence]].
* [[Power Limiter]]: The beads. The also serve to block [[Power Incontinence]].
* [[Sitting On the Roof]]: Shigure lampshades it. "Sulking on the roof is how he shows he cares." He also has a touching moment at that spot with Tohru where he talks about his adoptive father.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: With his cousin Kagura. Also with Tohru {{spoiler|until the end}}.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: With his cousin Kagura. Also with Tohru {{spoiler|until the end}}.
* [[Sitting on the Roof]]: Shigure lampshades it. "Sulking on the roof is how he shows he cares." He also has a touching moment at that spot with Tohru where he talks about his adoptive father.
* [[Sprouting Ears]]: Especially in the anime.
* [[Sprouting Ears]]: Especially in the anime.
* [[Through His Stomach]]: Cooks for Tohru when she's ill -- despite teasing.
* [[Through His Stomach]]: Cooks for Tohru when she's ill—despite teasing.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Male version
* [[Tsundere]]: Male version
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=== Akito Sohma {{spoiler|"God"}} ===
=== Akito Sohma {{spoiler|"God"}} ===


[[File:59164_2162.jpg|frame|Akito]]
[[File:59164 2162.jpg|frame|Akito]]


{{quote| Voiced by: Wakaba Murasaki (JP), Chad Cline (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: Wakaba Murasaki (JP), Chad Cline (EN)}}


The {{spoiler|God}} of the Zodiac. Akito is arguably the [[Big Bad]] of the series.
The {{spoiler|God}} of the Zodiac. Akito is arguably the [[Big Bad]] of the series.
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* [[Attention Whore]]: A very creepy and self-destructive version.
* [[Attention Whore]]: A very creepy and self-destructive version.
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* {{spoiler|[[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.}}
* {{spoiler|[[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.
* [[Berserk Button]]: If you're a Sohma, do NOT tell Akito you're leaving the family in ANY way.
* {{spoiler|[[Bifauxnen]]: So much so that the revelation that Akito is not in fact male qualified as a [[Shocking Swerve]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Bokukko]]: Aside of being a Bifauxnen, she uses "boku" to refer to herself. She keeps doing so after her [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[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. {{spoiler|Has this inflicted on her as a little girl, via Ren.}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Attempts this on Kisa and Tohru. {{spoiler|Has this inflicted on her as a little girl, via Ren.}}
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Oh, so much.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Oh, so much.
* {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird]]}}: Manifested less as hypercompetency or great worldliness, but rather through {{spoiler|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}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird]]}}: Manifested less as hyper-competency or great worldliness, but rather through {{spoiler|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]]
* [[Chronic Villainy]]
* [[Crashing Dreams]]: Akito has a flashback dream where {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Crashing Dreams]]: Akito has a flashback dream where {{spoiler|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.}}
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* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Inverted; Akito hates women. {{spoiler|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), {{spoiler|due to Ren's abuse}}.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Inverted; Akito hates women. {{spoiler|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), {{spoiler|due to Ren's abuse}}.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Tells that to {{spoiler|Tohru}} in the middle of a [[Villainous Breakdown]] in the manga.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Tells that to {{spoiler|Tohru}} in the middle of a [[Villainous Breakdown]] in the manga.
* {{spoiler|[[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 [[Fan Dumb|the fanbase's]] [[Internet Backdraft|reaction]]...}}
* {{spoiler|[[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 [[Fan Dumb|the fanbase's]] [[Internet Backdraft|reaction]]...}}
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: {{spoiler|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).}}
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: {{spoiler|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]]
* [[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.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Performed on Hatori.
* [[Evil Plan]]: Originally it was to possess the Zodiac, then it became drive Torhu away and ''then'' possess the Zodiac.
* [[Fauxshadow]]: {{spoiler|She does a [[Heel Face Turn]] about 30 chapters later}}.
* [[Fauxshadow]]: {{spoiler|She does a [[Heel Face Turn]] about 30 chapters later}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Freudian Excuse]]: ...Except it really isn't an ''excuse''. More like a "[[Trauma Conga Line|List of Grievances]]".}}
* [[Flower Motifs]]: Associated with red camellias, which are a symbol of love in the language of flowers. {{spoiler|This is also the kind of flower Shigure gave her when she was little and he confessed his love.}}
* [[Flower Motifs]]: Associated with red camellias, which are a symbol of love in the language of flowers. {{spoiler|This is also the kind of flower Shigure gave her when she was little and he confessed his love.}}
* [[Freak-Out]]: Happens quite often.
* [[Freak-Out]]: Happens quite often.
* {{spoiler|[[Freudian Excuse]]: ...Except it really isn't an ''excuse''. More like a "[[Trauma Conga Line|List of Grievances]]".}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}
* [[Heel Realization]]
* [[Heel Realization]]
* [[Hikikomori]]: {{spoiler|She was homeschooled during her high school years, due to her frail health.}}
* [[Hikikomori]]: {{spoiler|She was homeschooled during her high school years, due to her frail health.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Ill Girl]]: More in the anime than the manga.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Ill Girl]]: More in the anime than the manga.}}
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Let Me At Him]]
* [[Let Me At Him]]
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* [[Mind Rape]]: Akito is both a perpetrator ''and'' a victim. {{spoiler|[[Sarcasm Mode|Thank you, Ren]].}}
* [[Mind Rape]]: Akito is both a perpetrator ''and'' a victim. {{spoiler|[[Sarcasm Mode|Thank you, Ren]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[Physical God]]: Akito is the "God" of the Zodiac.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Physical God]]: Akito is the "God" of the Zodiac.}}
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Ayame, Kagura, and Ritsu are spared from the wrath Akito unreleased among others.
* [[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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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]]
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]
* {{spoiler|[[Raised As the Opposite Gender]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Raised as the Opposite Gender]]}}
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Her real gender}}
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond]]
* [[Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond]]
* {{spoiler|[[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.}}
* {{spoiler|[[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.}}
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Her real gender}}
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Do NOT make Akito mad.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Do NOT make Akito mad.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: An absolutely ''epic'' one.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: An absolutely ''epic'' one.
* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Crossdresser]]}}: Not by choice.
* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Crossdresser]]}}: Not by choice.
* {{spoiler|[[What Have I Become?]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[What Have I Become?]]}}
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: From either Akito towards others, or from Ren towards Akito.
* [[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
* [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]]: A good part of Akito's [[Manipulative Bastard]] strategy
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=== Shigure Sohma (The Dog) ===
=== Shigure Sohma (The Dog) ===


[[File:31132_2860.jpg|frame|Shigure]]
[[File:31132 2860.jpg|frame|Shigure]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)}}


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* [[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.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Of all things, when he sings about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4VWFSNszo high school girls.]
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Of all things, when he sings about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4VWFSNszo 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.
* {{spoiler|[[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 [[Jerkass Facade|being deliberately distant with her]].}}
* {{spoiler|[[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 [[Jerkass Facade|being deliberately distant with her]].}}
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]
* [[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 [[Refuge in Audacity|(sings a little song about it, too)]]. [[Averted Trope|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.
* [[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 [[Refuge in Audacity|(sings a little song about it, too)]]. [[Averted Trope|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 [[It Amused Me|just to be a dick]].
* [[Harem Nanny]]: Takes care of Yuki, followed by Tohru and Kyo.
* [[Harem Nanny]]: Takes care of Yuki, followed by Tohru and Kyo.
* {{spoiler|[[I Banged Your Mom]]}}: To Akito. Akito was ''not amused''.
* {{spoiler|[[I Banged Your Mom]]}}: To Akito. Akito was ''not amused''.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[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 ''[[Character Development|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, [[Comedic Sociopathy|he just likes pushing other people's buttons]].
* [[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 ''[[Character Development|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, [[Comedic Sociopathy|he just likes pushing other people's buttons]].
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: Arguably, his manipulations and mind screws (''especially'' in regards to Akito, [[Mind Game Ship|the girl he loves and yet still manipulates]]) never got him in real trouble.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: Arguably, his manipulations and mind screws (''especially'' in regards to Akito, [[Mind Game Ship|the girl he loves and yet still manipulates]]) never got him in real trouble.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: In the manga, especially towards Rin and Akito. {{spoiler|To his credit, he didn't take Rin's [[Please, I Will Do Anything!|offer]], but he still manipulated Akito like hell.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: In the manga, especially towards Rin and Akito. {{spoiler|To his credit, he didn't take Rin's [[Please, I Will Do Anything!|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 [[Chivalrous Pervert|own]] [[The Chessmaster|personal gain]] is another matter.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Shigure dotes on Tohru quite a bit, although whether or not it's for his [[Chivalrous Pervert|own]] [[The Chessmaster|personal gain]] is another matter.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Sorta, as Yuki's caretaker. Also present, to some extent, in his relationship with Tohru.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Sorta, as Yuki's caretaker. Also present, to some extent, in his relationship with Tohru.
* [[Romance Genre Heroes]]: Of The Charmer variety.
* [[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 {{spoiler|Mayuko}} and Hatori dating.
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: He was a real jerk about it, but it's his actions that ultimately lead to {{spoiler|Mayuko}} and Hatori dating.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]
* [[Temporary Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Temporary Love Interest]]: {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[The Gadfly]]: Sometimes a means to an end, other times [[It Amused Me|just to be a dick]].
* [[Unflappable Guardian]]: One that uses [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] to his advantage.
* [[Unflappable Guardian]]: One that uses [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] to his advantage.
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]
* [[Urban Legend Love Life]]
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=== Kagura Sohma (The Boar) ===
=== Kagura Sohma (The Boar) ===


[[File:31510_2188.jpg|frame|Kagura]]
[[File:31510 2188.jpg|frame|Kagura]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Yuri Shiratori]] (JP, drama CD), [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] (JP, series), Meredith McCoy (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuri Shiratori]] (JP, drama CD), [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] (JP, series), Meredith McCoy (EN)}}


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* [[Adult Child]]: [[Older Than They Look]] -- She's a 20 year old college student, and acts like a high schooler.
* [[Adult Child]]: [[Older Than They Look]]—She's a 20 year old college student, and acts like a high schooler.
* [[Childhood Marriage Promise]]: Kagura forces Kyo to promise to marry her. {{spoiler|She eventually stops holding him to it}}.
* [[Childhood Marriage Promise]]: Kagura forces Kyo to promise to marry her. {{spoiler|She eventually stops holding him to it}}.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Was described as one by [[Word of God|Takeya]].
* [[Constantly Curious]]: In the [[Backstory]], during her first meeting with Kyo.
* [[Constantly Curious]]: In the [[Backstory]], during her first meeting with Kyo.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Was described as one by [[Word of God|Takeya]].
* [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Kagura has a lot of anger issues, just ask Kyo, but her rage seems to be effective Akito, who’s known to attack Sohma members. Since Akito is often fragile yet full of rage, it’s safe to assume that the rage Kagura has is too much even for Akito.
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Kagura has a lot of anger issues, just ask Kyo, but her rage seems to be effective Akito, who’s known to attack Sohma members. Since Akito is often fragile yet full of rage, it’s safe to assume that the rage Kagura has is too much even for Akito.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dogged Nice Girl]]
* [[Dogged Nice Guy|Dogged Nice Girl]]
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: {{spoiler|After being rejected by Kyo definitely, when her mom asks her what's wrong, she says she's just realized how self-centered she was and rejects her pity.}}
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: {{spoiler|After being rejected by Kyo definitely, when her mom asks her what's wrong, she says she's just realized how self-centered she was and rejects her pity.}}
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=== Momiji Sohma (The Rabbit) ===
=== Momiji Sohma (The Rabbit) ===


[[File:31131_5065.jpg|frame|Momiji]]
[[File:31131 5065.jpg|frame|Momiji]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Miki Nagasawa]] (JP, drama CD), [[Ayaka Saitou]] (JP, series), Kimberly Grant (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Miki Nagasawa]] (JP, drama CD), [[Ayaka Saitou]] (JP, series), Kimberly Grant (EN)}}


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* [[Brown Eyes]]: Though he was shown with [[Blue Eyes]] in a cover illustration.
* [[Brown Eyes]]: Though he was shown with [[Blue Eyes]] in a cover illustration.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Half Japanese, half German.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Half Japanese, half German.
* [[Cuddle Bug]]: Loves hugging people, especially Tohru, even though it means he'll transform.
* [[Cuddle Bug]]: Loves hugging people, especially Tohru, even though it means he'll transform.
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: His mother had her memory of him erased and only knows him as a random Sohma child, and his little sister Momo doesn't know he exists, but his mother expresses concern that "his mother" will worry, and his sister asks to act as her [[Big Brother Complex|big brother]].
* [[Dramatic Irony]]: His mother had her memory of him erased and only knows him as a random Sohma child, and his little sister Momo doesn't know he exists, but his mother expresses concern that "his mother" will worry, and his sister asks to act as her [[Big Brother Complex|big brother]].
* [[Gratuitous German]]: Moreso in the manga.
* [[Gratuitous German]]: Moreso in the manga.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Nice, affectionate, helpful, a great kid.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Nice, affectionate, helpful, a great kid.
* [[He Is All Grown Up]]: Later in the manga.
* [[He's All Grown Up]]: Later in the manga.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Towards Tohru, in the manga.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Towards Tohru, in the manga.
* [[Keet]]
* [[Keet]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Looks and acts like a child, but is actually around Tohru's age.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Looks and acts like a child, but is actually around Tohru's age.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: His mother's reaction to his cursed form hurt him terribly, but he pretends it doesn't bother him.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: His mother's reaction to his cursed form hurt him terribly, but he pretends it doesn't bother him.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Sometimes dresses up in female clothes.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Sometimes dresses up in female clothes.


=== Hatori Sohma (The Dragon) ===
=== Hatori Sohma (The Dragon) ===


[[File:37358_jpg_3271.png|frame|Hatori]]
[[File:37358 jpg 3271.png|frame|Hatori]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] (JP), [[Kent Williams]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] (JP), [[Kent Williams]] (EN)}}


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* [[Berserk Button]]: A more emotionally subdued version but he's very self-conscious about his zodiac form.
* [[Berserk Button]]: A more emotionally subdued version but he's very self-conscious about his zodiac form.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: {{spoiler|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."}}
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: {{spoiler|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.
* [[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.
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* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Akito nearly blinds him in one eye after he says he wishes to marry Kana.}}
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Akito nearly blinds him in one eye after he says he wishes to marry Kana.}}
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: He's the family doctor.
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: He's the family doctor.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: Well, yes and no. {{spoiler|He actually transforms into a seahorse}}.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: Well, yes and no. {{spoiler|He actually transforms into a seahorse}}.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Toward {{spoiler|Kana}}.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Toward {{spoiler|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.
* [[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.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Compared to his best friends Shigure and Ayame.
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Over the hurt eye.
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Over the hurt eye.
* [[Secret Relationship]]: With Kana, until he tells Akito about it. Akito does not respond well.
* {{spoiler|[[Second Love]]: With Mayuko.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Second Love]]: With Mayuko.}}
* [[Secret Relationship]]: With Kana, until he tells Akito about it. Akito does not respond well.
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[The Stoic]]
** [[Not So Stoic]]: At a few key points.
** [[Not So Stoic]]: At a few key points.
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=== Hatsuharu Sohma (The Ox) ===
=== Hatsuharu Sohma (The Ox) ===


[[File:i2566637_91856_5_55.jpg|frame|Hatsuharu]]
[[File:i2566637 91856 5 55.jpg|frame|Hatsuharu]]


{{quote| Voiced by: Akio Suyama (JP), [[Justin Cook]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: Akio Suyama (JP), [[Justin Cook]] (EN)}}


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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Bi the Way]]: Tells Tohru that Yuki was his first love.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Tells Tohru that Yuki was his first love.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: When he becomes Black Haru.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: When he becomes Black Haru.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Part white, part black. Prompts a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when he drags the student council president into the men's room to "prove" it's natural.
* [[Multicolored Hair]]: Part white, part black. Prompts a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when he drags the student council president into the men's room to "prove" it's natural.
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: When they were kids, Kyo had to hold his hand and led him to school. At his introduction he states he was 'lost in the dark heart of the urban jungle' for three days.
* [[No Sense of Direction]]: When they were kids, Kyo had to hold his hand and led him to school. At his introduction he states he was 'lost in the dark heart of the urban jungle' for three days.
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Black Haru.
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Black Haru.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Black Haru.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Black Haru.
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=== Ayame Sohma (The Snake) ===
=== Ayame Sohma (The Snake) ===


[[File:Ayamefuruba_2291.jpg|frame|Ayame]]
[[File:Ayamefuruba 2291.jpg|frame|Ayame]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Takehito Koyasu]] (JP, drama CD), [[Mitsuru Miyamoto]] (JP, series), [[Christopher Sabat]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Takehito Koyasu]] (JP, drama CD), [[Mitsuru Miyamoto]] (JP, series), [[Christopher Sabat]] (EN)}}


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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Big Brother Complex]]: Inverted; Ayame has a younger brother complex.
* [[Bishonen]]: Considering he's [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Yuki's]] brother...
* [[Bishonen]]: Considering he's [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Yuki's]] brother...
* [[Camp Straight]]: Or possibly Camp [[Bi the Way]].
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Played for laughs with Shigure as a long-running joke between them.
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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Ayame eats his ''soba'', with great confidence.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]



=== Kisa Sohma (The Tiger) ===
=== Kisa Sohma (The Tiger) ===


[[File:1148944168_cturesKisa_5386.jpg|frame|Kisa]]
[[File:1148944168 cturesKisa 5386.jpg|frame|Kisa]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Kaori Nazuka]] (JP), Kate Bristol (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kaori Nazuka]] (JP), Kate Bristol (EN)}}


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* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Her classmates hate her for her unusual looks.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Her classmates hate her for her unusual looks.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Courtesy of her classmates.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Courtesy of her classmates.
* [[Catgirl]]: In a way; she just transforms into an ''adorable'' tiger kitty.
* [[Catgirl]]: In a way; she just transforms into an ''adorable'' tiger kitty.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
** [[Eyes of Gold]]: Just as adorable as a human, and even sweeter.
** [[Eyes of Gold]]: Just as adorable as a human, and even sweeter.
** [[Hair of Gold]]
** [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Cute Mute]]: At the beginning.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Especially when she's already cute as a button as a human girl.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Especially when she's already cute as a button as a human girl.
* [[Cute Mute]]: At the beginning.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Morality Chain]]: When it comes to Tohru, she plays this role for Hiro.
* [[Morality Chain]]: When it comes to Tohru, she plays this role for Hiro.
* [[Onee-Sama]]: Views Tohru as this. Kisa adores her and follows her around a duckling.
* [[Onee-Sama]]: Views Tohru as this. Kisa adores her and follows her around a duckling.
* [[She Is All Grown Up]]
* [[She's All Grown Up]]
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]


=== Hiro Sohma (The Sheep) ===
=== Hiro Sohma (The Sheep) ===


[[File:hiros_1277.jpg|frame|Hiro]]
[[File:hiros 1277.jpg|frame|Hiro]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Yuriko Fuchizaki]] (JP), [[Aaron Dismuke]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuriko Fuchizaki]] (JP), [[Aaron Dismuke]] (EN)}}


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* [[Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond]]: One of the few people ''not'' immediately charmed by [[The Messiah|Tohru]], he at first actively baits her. See [[Green-Eyed Monster]].
* [[Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond]]: One of the few people ''not'' immediately charmed by [[The Messiah|Tohru]], he at first actively baits her. See [[Green-Eyed Monster]].
* [[Straight Man]]: Becomes this a few times in the Beach arc after he decides to cool his hostility towards Tohru compared to [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Tohru and occasionally Kisa.
* [[Straight Man]]: Becomes this a few times in the Beach arc after he decides to cool his hostility towards Tohru compared to [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Tohru and occasionally Kisa.
* [[Too Clever By Half]]: Very smart for his age and knows it. This usually doesn't keep his [[Mouthy Kid|mouth]] from getting him in trouble or give him the emotional maturity to handle difficult situations.
* [[Too Clever by Half]]: Very smart for his age and knows it. This usually doesn't keep his [[Mouthy Kid|mouth]] from getting him in trouble or give him the emotional maturity to handle difficult situations.
* [[Tsundere]]: With Kisa. Eventually acts this way to a degree with Tohru as well; while Hiro is never as effusively affectionate toward Tohru as most of the other cursed Sohmas, he does show genuine concern for her and her well-being.
* [[Tsundere]]: With Kisa. Eventually acts this way to a degree with Tohru as well; while Hiro is never as effusively affectionate toward Tohru as most of the other cursed Sohmas, he does show genuine concern for her and her well-being.


=== Ritsu Sohma (The Monkey) ===
=== Ritsu Sohma (The Monkey) ===


[[File:Ritsu_2317.jpg|frame|Ritsu]]
[[File:Ritsu 2317.jpg|frame|Ritsu]]


{{quote| Voiced by: [[Mina Tominaga]] (JP), [[Mike McFarland]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Mina Tominaga]] (JP), [[Mike McFarland]] (EN)}}


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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The number of chapters in which he appears, including his introduction, can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The number of chapters in which he appears, including his introduction, can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand.
** [[One-Scene Wonder|One Episode Wonder]]: In the anime.
** [[One-Scene Wonder|One Episode Wonder]]: In the anime.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Tohru is ''very'' confused when the lovely young "lady" she had met transforms into a monkey in her arms.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Tohru is ''very'' confused when the lovely young "lady" she had met transforms into a monkey in her arms.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]
* [[Fragile Flower]]: Nearly anything can set off the tears and franatic apologies.
* [[Fragile Flower]]: Nearly anything can set off the tears and franatic apologies.
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: The root of his problems.
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: The root of his problems.
* {{spoiler|[[Important Haircut]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Important Haircut]]}}
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Because he apologizes ''that'' loudly and repeteadly.
* [[Large Ham]]: Because he apologizes ''that'' loudly and repeteadly.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: One of the solutions he tried to not remain quite so insecure.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: One of the solutions he tried to not remain quite so insecure.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Word of God]] states that there were chapters written to develop a relationship between Ritsu and Mitchan, but [[Word of God|Takaya]] couldn't find a good spot to use them.


=== Isuzu "Rin" Sohma (The Horse) ===
=== Isuzu "Rin" Sohma (The Horse) ===


[[File:Renisuzu_5954.jpg|frame|Rin]]
[[File:Renisuzu 5954.jpg|frame|Rin]]


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* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Abusive Parents]]: {{spoiler|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]]
* [[Bad Dreams]]
* [[Broken Bird]]
* [[Broken Bird]]
* {{spoiler|[[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.}}
* {{spoiler|[[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!]]
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Tohru's reaction after seeing her naked (post-transformation).
* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: Dresses like that sometimes.
* [[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]]: {{spoiler|Has heavy scars on her back, thanks to her evil parents.}}
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: {{spoiler|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.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Her traumatic past cause her health problems more than once. Specifically, she has stomach ulcerae.
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* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[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.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: By [[Word of God]], "she's the character in charge of sexiness." Thankfully, she got a very complex personality as well.
* {{spoiler|[[Please, I Will Do Anything!]]: She offers herself to Shigure to get him to tell her how to break the curse. Shigure declines.}}
* {{spoiler|[[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.
* [[Screw Destiny]]: She actively tries to break the curse.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
* [[Tsundere]]: Towards Tohru, after they become friends and towards Hatsuharu after she breaks up with him.
* [[Tsundere]]: Towards Tohru, after they become friends and towards Hatsuharu after she breaks up with him.


=== Kureno Sohma (The Rooster) ===
=== Kureno Sohma (The Rooster) ===
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=== Kazuma Sohma ===
=== Kazuma Sohma ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Norihiro Inoue (JP), [[Dameon Clarke]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: Norihiro Inoue (JP), [[Dameon Clarke]] (EN)}}


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* [[The Atoner]]: As a teen, Kazuma treated the former Cat (his grandfather) quite badly. Upon meeting the new Cat, Kyo, he takes him in, having never been able to forgive himself for that.
* [[The Atoner]]: As a teen, Kazuma treated the former Cat (his grandfather) quite badly. Upon meeting the new Cat, Kyo, he takes him in, having never been able to forgive himself for that.
* [[Bishonen]]: And he's ''39''.
* [[Bishonen]]: And he's ''39''.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Though he's not ''really'' old, Kyo will gladly gush about his cool he is.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Though he's not ''really'' old, Kyo will gladly gush about his cool he is.
* [[Hot Shoujo Dad|Hot Shoujo Uncle]]
* [[Hot Shoujo Dad|Hot Shoujo Uncle]]
* [[Important Haircut]]
* [[Important Haircut]]
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's 39 during his first appearance in Volume 6. At the end of the series, he should be about 41. You wouldn't guess any of this just by looking at him. Even [[Word of God|Takaya]] [[Lampshade Hanging|admits she draws him very young looking.]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: He's 39 during his first appearance in Volume 6. At the end of the series, he should be about 41. You wouldn't guess any of this just by looking at him. Even [[Word of God|Takaya]] [[Lampshade Hanging|admits she draws him very young looking.]]
* [[Parental Substitute]]: To Rin and Kyo.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: To Rin and Kyo.
** [[Papa Wolf]]: He will ''not'' allow anyone to mistreat Kyo.
** [[Papa Wolf]]: He will ''not'' allow anyone to mistreat Kyo.


=== Ren Sohma ===
=== Ren Sohma ===


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* [[Bigger Bad]]: To Akito's character, and thus for the entire series.
* [[Child-Hater]]: She once said that she hated how {{spoiler|the then-tiny Ayame, Hatori, Kureno and Shigure}} swarmed to her and cried. {{spoiler|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.
* [[Child-Hater]]: She once said that she hated how {{spoiler|the then-tiny Ayame, Hatori, Kureno and Shigure}} swarmed to her and cried. {{spoiler|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...
* [[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]] [[Lonely Rich Kid|Akira]] and reached out to him. {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[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]] [[Lonely Rich Kid|Akira]] and reached out to him. {{spoiler|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.}}
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Beautiful, evil, sly, manipulative, and not just despicable, but in the end, very ''incompetent''. {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Smug Snake]]: Beautiful, evil, sly, manipulative, and not just despicable, but in the end, very ''incompetent''. {{spoiler|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]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: ''And'' a [[Villainous BSOD]] that follows it.
* [[Yandere]]: And holy shit, '''HOW'''. Even ''more'' than {{spoiler|Akito}}!
* [[Yandere]]: And holy shit, '''HOW'''. Even ''more'' than {{spoiler|Akito}}!


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* [[Bishonen]]: He had an "unearthly beauty", according to people.
* [[Bishonen]]: He had an "unearthly beauty", according to people.
* {{spoiler|[[Hot Dad]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hot Dad]]}}
* [[Ill Boy]]
* [[Ill Boy]]
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: As {{spoiler|head of the Sohma family}}, people can seldom approach him.
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: As {{spoiler|head of the Sohma family}}, people can seldom approach him.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]
* {{spoiler|[[Your Days Are Numbered]]: The heads of the family ''rarely'' live past 30.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Your Days Are Numbered]]: The heads of the family ''rarely'' live past 30.}}


=== Kana Sohma ===
=== Kana Sohma ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Haruhi Terada]] (JP), Libby Smith (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Haruhi Terada]] (JP), Libby Smith (EN)}}


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* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie]]}}
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Was Hatori's assistant.
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Was Hatori's assistant.
* {{spoiler|[[Mind Rape]]: Via Akito. She's left in such a ''huge'' [[Heroic BSOD]] that Hatori erases her memories of their romance so she can get better. She's now [[Happily Married]] to someone else, and only remembers Hatori as her never-confessed first love.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mind Rape]]: Via Akito. She's left in such a ''huge'' [[Heroic BSOD]] that Hatori erases her memories of their romance so she can get better. She's now [[Happily Married]] to someone else, and only remembers Hatori as her never-confessed first love.}}
* [[Naive Everygirl]]
* [[Naive Everygirl]]


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* [[Good Parents]]: Satsuki is one of the only parents of Zodiac members who openly loves her kid
* [[Good Parents]]: Satsuki is one of the only parents of Zodiac members who openly loves her kid
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Obfuscating Genkiness]]: She's a lot more aware of Hiro's emotional sore spots than he realizes.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Obfuscating Genkiness]]: She's a lot more aware of Hiro's emotional sore spots than he realizes.
* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Unperturbed that [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|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!"
* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Unperturbed that [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|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 Guy, Energetic Girl|Savvy Son Energetic Mom]]
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl|Savvy Son Energetic Mom]]
* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Openly anticipates gaining Kisa as a daughter-in-law, much to [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Hiro's horror]].
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Openly anticipates gaining Kisa as a daughter-in-law, much to [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Hiro's horror]].
* [[So Proud of You]]
* [[So Proud of You]]


=== Meshou Souma ===
=== Meshou Souma ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Junko Yamamoto (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: Junko Yamamoto (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)}}


Ritsu's mother, and the manager of a hot springs owned by the clan.
Ritsu's mother, and the manager of a hot springs owned by the clan.
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** [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Mother Like Son]]: Ritsu didn't get his [[Fragile Flower]] side from thin air.
** [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Mother Like Son]]: Ritsu didn't get his [[Fragile Flower]] side from thin air.
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Sympathetic example, because...
* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Sympathetic example, because...
* [[Parents As People]]: For all of her faults, she adores Ritsu.
* [[Parents as People]]: For all of her faults, she adores Ritsu.
* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]: Not a ghost, and certainly not a young girl, but has the looks and she ''has'' been mistaken as a ghost.
* [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl]]: Not a ghost, and certainly not a young girl, but has the looks and she ''has'' been mistaken as a ghost.


== Tohru's Friends ==
== Tohru's Friends ==
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=== Arisa Uotani ===
=== Arisa Uotani ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Yuka Imai]] (JP), Parisa Fakhri (EN) }}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuka Imai]] (JP), Parisa Fakhri (EN) }}


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* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Until befriending Kyoko and Tohru she was grumpy ''and'' violent.
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Until befriending Kyoko and Tohru she was grumpy ''and'' violent.
* [[The Ladette]]
* [[The Ladette]]
* {{spoiler|[[May-December Romance]]: Is paired with Kureno Sohma, who is nine years her senior, at the end of the series.}}
* {{spoiler|[[May–December Romance]]: Is paired with Kureno Sohma, who is nine years her senior, at the end of the series.}}
* [[New Job Episode]]: Does various part time jobs.
* [[New Job Episode]]: Does various part time jobs.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: When she was very young, her mother left her and her father to marry another man.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: When she was very young, her mother left her and her father to marry another man.
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]
* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]
* {{spoiler|[[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: She and Kureno fell in love with each other over the course of two meetings. However, due to Kureno's obligation to Akito he decided to never see her again even after learning that she wanted to. They are reunited at the end of the series.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: She and Kureno fell in love with each other over the course of two meetings. However, due to Kureno's obligation to Akito he decided to never see her again even after learning that she wanted to. They are reunited at the end of the series.}}
* [[Volleying Insults]]: With Kyo.
* [[Volleying Insults]]: With Kyo.


=== Saki Hanajima ===
=== Saki Hanajima ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Yuko Minaguchi]] (JP, drama CD), Reiko Yasuhara (JP, series), Daphne Gere (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuko Minaguchi]] (JP, drama CD), Reiko Yasuhara (JP, series), Daphne Gere (EN)}}


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* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Book Dumb]]: She's not really, but she fails her tests because the make-up ones are easier.
* [[Expressive Hair]]
* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Hanajima's denpa waves.
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=== Megumi Hanajima ===
=== Megumi Hanajima ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Omi Minami]] (JP), Hollie Townson (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Omi Minami]] (JP), Hollie Townson (EN)}}


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== Tohru's Parents ==
== Tohru's Parents ==
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* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Tohru quotes Kyoko's words quite a few times in the manga; also Kyoko helping {{spoiler|Kyo and Arisa}} in the [[Flash Back|flashbacks]].
* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]: Tohru quotes Kyoko's words quite a few times in the manga; also Kyoko helping {{spoiler|Kyo and Arisa}} in the [[Flash Back|flashbacks]].
* [[Posthumous Character]]
* [[Posthumous Character]]


=== Kyoko Honda, née Katsunuma ===
=== Kyoko Honda, née Katsunuma ===
{{quote| Voiced by: Reiko Yasuhara (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: Reiko Yasuhara (JP), Julie Mayfield (EN)}}


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* [[Adult Fear]]: A flashback reveals a pregnant Kyoko terrified that her relationship with Tohru would go the way of hers with her own mother.
* [[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.
** 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.
* [[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 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 Parent|Doting Mother]]. However, after she slowly warmed up to her and when she {{spoiler|helped Arisa quit her gang}}, she admired her again.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Arisa was ''not'' happy to discover that the "Red Butterfly" she'd admired had turned into a [[Doting Parent|Doting Mother]]. However, after she slowly warmed up to her and when she {{spoiler|helped Arisa quit her gang}}, she admired her again.
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* [[Grumpy Bear]]: For a while.
* [[Grumpy Bear]]: For a while.
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Open-Minded Parent]]
* {{spoiler|[[I Have No Son|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.}}
* [[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.
* [[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.
** {{spoiler|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]].}}
** {{spoiler|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.
* [[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.
* [[Team Mom]]: Where Tohru got it from.
* {{spoiler|[[I Have No Son|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 [[Mama Bear|beats the tar out of a group of]] delinquents to save Arisa. In {{spoiler|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]].
* [[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 [[Mama Bear|beats the tar out of a group of]] delinquents to save Arisa. In {{spoiler|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 ===
=== Katsuya Honda ===
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* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Bishonen]]
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[Happily Married]]
* [[Hot Dad]]
* [[Hot for Student]]: Katsuya was Kyoko's student teacher and counselor before they got married. {{spoiler|He was actually going to her house to ask her parents if he could marry her... and quite in time, since he did it right when the Katsunumas were kicking Kyoko out of the house. He gives them a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech and takes Kyoko in.}}
* [[Hot for Student]]: Katsuya was Kyoko's student teacher and counselor before they got married. {{spoiler|He was actually going to her house to ask her parents if he could marry her... and quite in time, since he did it right when the Katsunumas were kicking Kyoko out of the house. He gives them a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech and takes Kyoko in.}}
* [[Hot Teacher]]
* [[Hot Teacher]]
* [[Hot Dad]]
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Katsuya died of a badly-treated flu.
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Katsuya died of a badly-treated flu.


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* [[Kenichi Suzumura]]: In the CD dramas.
* [[Kenichi Suzumura]]: In the CD dramas.
* [[One Side of the Story]]: Parodied.
* [[One Side of the Story]]: Parodied.
* [[Ted Baxter]]
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Machi.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Machi.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]
* [[Wacky Guy]]
* [[Wacky Guy]]


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* [[Attention Whore]]: For men, at least.
* [[Attention Whore]]: For men, at least.
* [[Gold Digger]]: A rare good-hearted version, as she doesn't use the gifts she gets for her own benefit but for the council's.
* [[Kawaiiko]]
* [[Kawaiiko]]
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: Cute, vain, spoiled, popular with the boys, and [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|intentionally antagonizes the Prince Yuki Fanclub]] but is otherwise pretty harmless to everyone else.
* [[Gold Digger]]: A rare good-hearted version, as she doesn't use the gifts she gets for her own benefit but for the council's.
* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: Cute, vain, spoiled, popular with the boys, and [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|intentionally antagonizes the Prince Yuki Fanclub]] but is otherwise pretty harmless to everyone else.
* [[Third Person Person]]
* [[Third Person Person]]
* [[Yukari Tamura]]: In the CD dramas.
* [[Yukari Tamura]]: In the CD dramas.
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== Prince Yuki's Fanclub (Minami Kinoshita, Mio Yamagichi, Mai Gotou and Rika Aida, with Motoko Minagawa as [[Alpha Bitch]]) ==
== Prince Yuki's Fanclub (Minami Kinoshita, Mio Yamagichi, Mai Gotou and Rika Aida, with Motoko Minagawa as [[Alpha Bitch]]) ==
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* [[Girl Posse]]
* [[Girl Posse]]
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Their attitude towards whoever they perceive as a threat to Yuki: Tohru and later Kimi, specifically.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Their attitude towards whoever they perceive as a threat to Yuki: Tohru and later Kimi, specifically.
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=== Motoko Minagawa ===
=== Motoko Minagawa ===
{{quote| Voiced by: [[Kaori Shimizu]] (JP), [[Jamie Marchi]] (EN)}}
{{quote|Voiced by: [[Kaori Shimizu]] (JP), [[Jamie Marchi]] (EN)}}


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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: The leader of the group who hates the kindhearted Tohru and plans to be rid of her.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: The leader of the group who hates the kindhearted Tohru and plans to be rid of her.
* [[Hypocrite]]: She makes a passionate, jealousy-fueled outburst telling Tohru (who was not even present) to stay away from Yuki. She leaves to clear her head and [[Heel Realization|realizes that the selfish fangirls she despises who want Yuki all to themselves have negative qualities that she sees in herself]].
* [[Hypocrite]]: She makes a passionate, jealousy-fueled outburst telling Tohru (who was not even present) to stay away from Yuki. She leaves to clear her head and [[Heel Realization|realizes that the selfish fangirls she despises who want Yuki all to themselves have negative qualities that she sees in herself]].
* {{spoiler|[[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]}}
* [[Large Ham]]: And is passionate about it.
* [[Large Ham]]: And is passionate about it.
* [[Tongue-Tied]]: Simply '''cannot''' tell Yuki how much she likes him.
* [[Tongue-Tied]]: Simply '''cannot''' tell Yuki how much she likes him.
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* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]
* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Meganekko]]
* [[Meido]]/[[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]
* [[Meido]]/[[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]
* {{spoiler|[[Tender Tears]]: When the newly-released Ayame is finally able to hug her in the manga.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Tender Tears]]: When the newly-released Ayame is finally able to hug her in the manga.}}


=== Mayuko "Mayu-chan-sensei" Shiraki ===
=== Mayuko "Mayu-chan-sensei" Shiraki ===
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* [[Cool Big Sis]]
* [[Cool Big Sis]]
* [[He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him]]" {{spoiler|For Hatori's sake.}}
* [[He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him]]" {{spoiler|For Hatori's sake.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Second Love]]" For Hatori. In fact, Mayu even felt bad for "taking Kana's place" in his heart at first.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Second Love]]" For Hatori. In fact, Mayu even felt bad for "taking Kana's place" in his heart at first.}}
* [[Stern Teacher]]
* [[Stern Teacher]]
* [[Temporary Love Interest]]: To Shigure, but they broke it off after a month.
* [[Temporary Love Interest]]: To Shigure, but they broke it off after a month.
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* [[The Chew Toy]]: Comes with the territory of being [[Brilliant but Lazy|Shigure's]] editor.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Comes with the territory of being [[Brilliant but Lazy|Shigure's]] editor.
* [[Fragile Flower]]
* [[Fragile Flower]]
* [[Suicide As Comedy]]: When Tohru meets her, she's on the verge of killing herself with a box cutter because Shigure has run off without meeting his deadlines again. Later, we see her writing a suicide note to her parents for the exact same reason. Shigure thinks it's funny.
* [[Suicide as Comedy]]: When Tohru meets her, she's on the verge of killing herself with a box cutter because Shigure has run off without meeting his deadlines again. Later, we see her writing a suicide note to her parents for the exact same reason. Shigure thinks it's funny.


== Other character tropes ==
== Other character tropes ==

Latest revision as of 23:14, 17 August 2021


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