Year: 2001

Episodes: 26

Dubbed

Cat.: Shoujo, Comedy, Drama, Reverse Harem

Summary:

Tohru Honda is a compassionate girl who is down on her luck. Her mother having recently died, she has been forced to camp out in the woods for shelter. However, things start to turn around once she is invited to live with class hunk Yuki Sohma and his family... but all is not as it seems! Yuki's family is burdened with a dark curse which causes them to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac once hugged by a member of the opposite sex... and Honda may be the only one who can help them.

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Fruits Basket is a shojo romance with low fantasy elements.

For a shojo it is entertaining if you like the character interactions and the story is very simple. I  didn’t like how the curse was used as nothing but a monolith plot devise with no possible salvation on sight.

I have seen a lot of people say that the manga is better, but you have to take in a note that the manga was not finished while the anime was made and released. I have not read the manga, so I wouldn't know.

It was something to watch and it does have its funny parts.

I give this a 2.5 out of 5.