Tohru, Yuki, and Kyou have started their second year at school along with the new students, Momoji and Hatsuhara! A creepy surprise encounter with the infamous Akito leaves Tohru and Yuki shaken and Yuki's painful past with Akito is further revealed to the reader. The Sohma members worry about how this reappearance of Akito in Yuki's life will mean, though their main concern lies in how Akito will deal with Tohru. A few days following the incident, Ayame, the Snake zodiac Sohma member, (and Yuki's older brother!) shows up with the vow to rekindle the brothers' lost friendship. Easier said than done as Yuki's stubbornly disapproving of his wacky older brother high school past and unorthodox costume shop. Hatori interrupts Ayame's story-telling time - involving his experiences in High School - to bring him back to the Sohma Main House. Momiji reveals to Tohru his tear-jerking past of his mother who was unable to handle the Sohma 'curse.' Traumatized upon finding a baby rabbit in her arms instead of a boy after the birth, she has her memory erased to keep from losing her mind. Now, the only time they ever see each other is as strangers in Momo's father's company building. It's the anniversary of Tohru's mother's death so the group (Yuki, Tohru, Kyou, Hanajima and Arisa) goes to visit her grave. After a bit of the usual grieving traditions, Yuki and Kyou are shocked when the girls pull out the lunch and have a picnic right at the grave! The day ends in peace as Yuki and Kyou feel moved with this girl whose optimism knows no end.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
wonderful!!!,
By Karusichan "Karusichan" (Lansing, MI. USA.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fruits Basket, Vol. 4 (Paperback)
Kyo protects Tohru at school with a move that is decidedly affectionate. It is the first day and Haru and Momitchi are now attending along with the other Sohma's. Haru immediately gets harassed because of the color of his hair and has to prove that it is the natural hair color. Then a bomb is dropped, Akito is there, and he has already encountered Tohru. When Yuki finds them the fear that he displays concerns Tohru, who later plans a badminton game with everyone to cheer him up. Another member of the zodiac is introduced, this time it's Yuki's older brother Ayami. Ayami is quite charming and handsome, and whisks Tohru off to dinner to talk about the distance between him and Yuki. Later Momitchi tells Tohru of his sad past with his mother and younger sister, apparently his mom had to have her memories erased because she had rejected him. This fact saddens Tohru, who had such a great relationship with her mother before she died. Tohru and everyone go to her mother's grave to commemorate the one year anniversary of her death. The happiness between Tohru and her friends on this sad day surprise Kyo and Yuki. Kyo begins to realize that a warm feeling to Tohru is gathering in his heart. Again...I am hopelessly addicted. I'm going to stop telling people to read this anymore. If you have read all of my other reviews of the manga so far, you already know how much I love it. Go read it for yourself. It's wonderful.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Akito! Ayame! Aagghh!!,
By Aliat Vosari (South Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fruits Basket, Vol. 4 (Paperback)
In this volume, we meet two of the most fascinating (IMHO) characters in Fruits Basket- Akito, the head of the Sohma family, and Ayame, Yuki's extraordinary older brother.
The parts with Akito are wonderful and appropriately creepy- they set up his twisted, spoiled personality very well. He puts on a quite a show to act as polite and charming as possible towards Tohru- then does some subtle mental torture on Yuki- until you're left wondering- what's this guy's problem? Ayame- flamboyant, amazing Ayame- is a character that grated on my nerves at first. (Much the same way he grates on Yuki) But he's a wonderful character- no one talks or acts quite like him. He's best friends with Hatori and Shigure- and together, they form the Mabudachi trio- my favorite characters in the manga...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Still pretty good; Akito and Ayame introduced,
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This review is from: Fruits Basket, Vol. 4 (Paperback)
It's volume four, and already we have an eleven-character cast introduced in the front of the book. Tohru, Kyo and Yuki are entering their second year of high school, and Haru and Momiji are entering their first. But Momiji shows up in the wrong uniform, and the student body president is a zealous keeper of the school rules. He declares the Sohmas to be major offenders, partly because Kyo and Haru have outlandish natural hair colors (orange and white), but the issue is resolved when Haru's "black" personality makes an appearance.
Yuki and Kyo are all worn out from keeping their younger cousins in line, when Akito, the crazy leader of the Sohma family shows up at school. Akito acts gracious, but seeing him smiling and grinning at Tohru is terrifying, especially knowing that he's incredibly violent. When he threatens Yuki with solitary confinement unless he comes to visit him, Tohru pushes Akito away from Yuki, and it's possibly the bravest thing she's done so far in the series, considering how frightened she is of Akito. Tohru senses that Akito hates her, but isn't sure why, since they haven't met before. There's only one new Sohma in the volume; Ayame, Yuki's older brother. We learn that Ayame, Hatori, and Shigure went through all their school years together as a sort of three-musketeers group. Ayame wants to improve his relationship with his brother, but Yuki despises him and when he stays over for a few days, the resentment worsens. Ayame's a very over-the-top character who likes to draw attention to himself, and he makes Shigure look like a model of propriety by comparison. We also learn more about happy little Momiji's past, and find that he's really more like Tohru than anyone else in the cast--joyful despite a lot of sad past events. Kyo gets more of a spotlight than Yuki in this volume. Kyo has trouble saying no to Tohru and she can convince him to do things he doesn't want, but this isn't bad, because he's a curmudgeon who doesn't do much of anything willingly. Kyo also defends Tohru in one important scene--some guys are talking badly about her and he just sort of imposingly arranges himself beside her, and the rude guys vanish. But though Kyo's appreciation of Tohru is clear, the narration makes a point of saying that none of the main characters are even close to falling in love, which makes sense, given their young ages and past traumas. The only downside I can see to this volume is that, at this point, almost every character has commented on Tohru's indomitable positive thinking and her encouraging effect on Kyo and Yuki. The repetition is noticeable. Most tragic Sohma family member: Yuki. He was chronically ill as a child, bullied by Akito, and also seems to have spent a lot of time locked in a dark room.
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