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Fruits Basket, Vol. 12

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After the dramatic events of the last volume, the pace slows down as the highschoolers prepare for parent teacher conferences.

As this volume begins, Yuki's term as Student Council President begins while Tohru - having now seen firsthand what Akito is capable of and determined to free her friends from the Zodiac curse - secretly turns to Kyo's Shishou for advice. But the real meat of the volume involves Yuki and Kyo, who each find out secrets about someone close to them.

Although he has never loved Kagura, she is still important to Kyo, having been his only real childhood friend. In this volume they finally hash out their relationship in a surprisingly serious and emotionally draining conversation in which Kagura reveals with startling bluntness the reason why she's forced herself on Kyo for so long.

Yuki, meanwhile, visits Rin in an attempt to play matchmaker and repay Haru for always having his back. Their conversation takes a wild turn, however, when Rin changes the subject - and Yuki learns the truth about a critical moment in his life when she reveals that it was Haru - and not Shigure as he'd always been lead to believe - who saved him from his miserable existence in Sohma House.

Another fine volume with some great character development.

That book is so amesome!! I can't put it down. When I bought it, I started read it about an hour. Believe it or not?

Let me tell you...I don't mean to spoil the story... Yuki, Kyo, Shigure and Tohru went back to the house from vacation. (Oh man, Kyo and Yuki gotta TALLER! Whoa!) Kyo wanted to be with Tohru until the end of his life. Tohru made a call to Kazuma which Kyo's father..err foster father!? She wanted to talk with him about how to break the curse. Tohru thought she was really selfish, but she really wanted to break a curse. Kagura realized why she pushed herself to Kyo and it called force love. But she does love him. She told Kyo everything and Kyo didn't say 'I am sorry;, just say thank you. Kyo was only the one friend to Kagura. Kyo never "like" Kagura. Kagura remembered when she saw Kyo's true form, she just ran away. In volume 6, Kagura watched Tohru ran after Kyo when he was true form. That made Kagura realized how she was stupid because of running from Kyo. Anyway, Kyo was just now single and wanted to be with Tohru and love her a lot. Of course, Tohru didn't know...YeT!? Hmm at school, the parent-teacher conferences, Tohru's grandfather couldn't go there because he had thrown his back. (I think.) So instead of, Shigure would go to her grandfather's place for parent-teacher conferences. Shigure wanted to see how Tohru's teacher's face when she sees Shigure. Between them, it was so funny. Um in the end page, Saki liked Kazuma when she saw him walked with Kyo to parent-teacher conference. Kyo shouted that he don't want to her be his mom. Hahaha! ^^ I hope you don't mind that I told you too much...ehh...

If you don't read this Fruits basket, go read the volume one. If you don't read this volume, go buy it!!! IT IS SOO MUCH!!! YiKes!!! =D

it's amazing that furuba has managed to stay so funny for so long, as I have read the entire series and I must say-- it's all down hill from here. I don't mean the quality of the manga goes down--the story line gets sadder and sadder, but some of it remains gutbustingly funny. In this volume, Tohru-kun, Kyo-kun, and Yuki-kun prepare to go back to school and for their parent teacher confrences. Tohru visits her grandpa in the hospital (he threw out his back)and he brings up painful part of her past. Tohru also pays a visit to Shisou-san (whom Hana-chan may have a crush on)and learns the more about the Sohma family's eternaly patronizing curse. kagura and kyo have a heart to heart about why kagura has forced herself on Kyo all these years, and Yuki starts his term as the new class president--could he have found a new love interest? it's true that the mystery surrounding the Sohmas is yet to be uncovered, but when Akito reveals a shocking secret in a later volume, a clue to their existence begins to unravel. Furuba is not--as I once suspected--'fluffy'-- it's hardcore, heartbreaking, and hilairious, and it succeeds on very level. One of the greatest manga series ever.

Well, let me just begin by saying that i am totally in love with fruits basket!!! (especially kyo...and kureno, i suppose)This is by far, my favorite book in the series. This volume is filled with drama, especially when yuki meets up with rin, and realizes something about her that he never knew. and what happens when haru shows up? Also, kagura takes kyo on a date, and has an emotional confession about the reason why she always loved him. It truly brought tears to my eyes. and of course, it's hilarious when shigure goes to tohru's parent-teacher conference in place of her grandfather. (her teacher is mayuko, shigure's ex-girlfriend) well, you're just going to have to find out the rest for yourself. GET THIS BOOK!!!!!!

there's two manga i turn to, when i need cheering up Azumanga Daioh and Fruits Basket. Fruits is funny and sweet. And I'm so enjoying the further development of the characters past the anime series. consider me a lifetime fan!

Well.....in this volume things are looking up for Tohru and Kyo, and has Yuki found another love?! Are they in the student council?.......Of course not (heh heh) Has Hana found her one true soul-mate? Will she become Kyo's mother?? *gasp* that part was soooo hilarious KYA HA HA HA HA!!! Will Kyo and Kagura finally be over?!?! You have to get this book, it is sooo good hopefully Tohru can break the curse soon....I give it two thumbs up!! And 1000000000000 stars (if I could heh heh) so whatr' you waiting for buy, buy, buy!

p.s. I also recomend Carcaptor Sakura and Cardcaptor Sakura Master of the Clow, Mars, Immortal Rain, and of course FRUITS BASKET!! *clap clap clap* K then, buy, buy, buy!!

Since I had enjoyed the previous eleven volumes of the Fruits Basket manga, I continued on with volume twelve to see how the story progresses.

In this volume, a new school term begins. The final members of the student council have been assembled, and this brings about the introduction of two new characters: Naohito (who declares himself as Yuki's rival) and Kimi (who is known for stealing men's hearts). With the parent-teacher conferences coming up, Tohru goes to see her grandfather; while she's there, he brings up a part of Tohru's past that she's tried to forget. Also in this volume, there is some more character development for Yuki, and Tohru secretly goes to see Kyo's teacher for advice on how to help break the Sohma's curse.

This is another volume that focuses more on character development than on progressing the overall plot, but the character development that's included help the reader to better understand these characters and to help progress the characters a little further. If you've read and enjoyed the previous Fruits Basket volumes, I think you won't be disappointed with volume twelve.

I wrote this review after checking out a copy of this manga volume through the King County Library System.

I own this series in Japanese, and it is a wonderful read! It has all the important elements of a good shoujo manga: it is romantic, twisted, with a shoujo (in the traditional meaning of the word) involved in finding a new family and love triangles galore. It is just a very fun read, no matter the language!

Wow... This one made me cry just like volume 11 (I reviewed there too).

Well, Kyo, Tohru, Yuki, Haru, Momiji, etc just came back from their summer vacation and... *snicker* the boys (but mostly Kyo* got a heck of a lot taller. Tohru goes to Master Kazuma's house (*snicker* he can't make tea... *snicker*) to ask him about the curse and he hesitantly tells her much about it. She also visits her grandfather, who threw out his back. One more think, Kyo's getting a whole lot nicer. He's realizing (FINALLY) that his last wish, the only "Outlook" he has, is spending as much time as he can with Tohru. (*Quiver* And Hana... likes Kazuma.... *shudder*)Rin also appears while Tohru's leaving the dojo. It's really sweet but no "poofing" in this manga, if nobody noticed.

It's cute, sad, sweet, humourous, and "AWWWWWWW" -ness.

(miss) Shishou Master Kyo Sohma

I was at first skeptical when I bought the first volume of this manga at Chapters. I had read a bit while I was there, and found I was really narrow minded about what kind of manga I wanted to read. In the end I decided to buy it anyway, and on the car ride home, I came to love the whole thing page by page!

As soon as I finished the volume, it had me feeling a bit sad and excited for what was to come. I begged my parents to buy me the second volume, and once I got it, I loved it! Now I have up to 7 volumes and am saving up my money for the 8th volume. This is one of the best manga ever, it has almost everything: Romance, Comedy and there is always a bit of mystery and drama mixed in. If you've never read manga before, you have no idea what you're missing if you haven't read this.