Fruits Basket: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Hundreds of years ago, the Chinese Zodiac spirits and their gods swore to stay together eternally. United by this promise, the possessed members of the Souma shall always return to each other under any circumstances. Yet, when these bonds shackle them from their freedom, it becomes an undesirable burden - a curse. As head of the clan, Akito is convinced that he shares a special connection with the other Soumas. While he desperately clings to this fantasy, the rest of the family remains isolated and suppressed by the fear of punishment. 

Tooru Honda, who as grown attached to the Soumas, is determined to break the chains that bind them. The companionship with her family and her friends encourages her to move forward with lifting the curse. However, due to confounding revelations, she struggles to find the tenacity to continue with her endeavours. With time slowly withering away, Tooru contends with an uncertain furture in hopes of reaching tranquility that may lie beyond all this commotion.

There is also Fruits Basket: Prologue, a theatrical release movie that provides a prologue story and an epilogue after the TV anime.

Series details

• Title: Fruits Basket
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Comedy, Anime, Fantasy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2019-04-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2021-06-28
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Tokyo
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 24 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.1/10
• TVMaze ID: 41472
• IMDb ID: tt9304350
• TVDB ID: 357488

Cast and credited roles

• Manaka Iwami — Tohru Honda
• Nobunaga Shimazaki — Yuki Soma
• Yūma Uchida — Kyo Soma
• Yuichi Nakamura — Shigure Soma
• Atsumi Tanezaki — Arisa Uotani
• Satomi Sato — Saki Hanajima
• Megumi Han — Momiji Soma
• Miyuki Sawashiro — Kyoko Honda
• Maaya Sakamoto — Akito Soma
• Kazuyuki Okitsu — Hatori Soma
• Rie Kugimiya — Kagura Soma
• Aki Toyosaki — Isuzu Soma

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-04-05; final listed air date 2019-09-20; episode order: 25.
• Season 2: premiered 2020-04-07; final listed air date 2020-09-22.
• Season 3: premiered 2021-04-05; final listed air date 2021-06-28.

Source and licence

Adapted from Fruits Basket on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.