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Title: Fruits Basket (Book 1) by Natsuki Takaya ISBN: 1-59182-603-9 Publisher: Tokyopop Pub. Date: February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly amazing. Needent I say more. :P
Comment: Fruits Basket (or Furuba as it's known to many fans) is a truly amazing manga.
From the title of it, you would expect it to be very hentai-ish, but it's not. In my opinion it has to be the cleanest manga that one can possibly stand. (IE it's not so clean and happy go lucky as Hamtaro *shudders* Hamataro is evil, pure evil). Well I got off track. This review has spoilers abound so beware if you haven't read the manga (or seen the anime).
Fruits Basket is about a girl name Tohru Honda a girl with a heart of gold and truly a wonderful person, whoes father died when she was very young. She is now 16, her mother had just died in a car wreck, and she went to live with her grandpa on her fathers side. (Because her mother and she were not exactly on speaking terms with her mothers side of the family). Her grandfather has to get his house remoldeld for some distant relatives on his side of the family so Tohru has to move out for a while. He told her to find some friends to stay with.
Not wanting to be a burden to any of her friends Tohru decides to rough it, and she finds a tent and campsout for about a week, on the Sohma familys property (not knowing of course). One day while walking to school she comes across the Sohma family household. She looks around in it for a while and comes across some stones with the Chinese Zodiac on it. Than she run's into Shigura (who is the year of the dog) and Yuki (her high-schools "Prince" He is the year of the rat) Later on in the story we are introduced to Kyou (the year of the cat, who is not in the zodiac because he was betrayed by rat). And this is where the trouble starts.
The Sohma family is cursed and therefore whenever they are touced or huged by a member of the opiset sex of someone NOT in there family, they turn into the animal that they are the year of. Tohru finds out this secret, and therefore she might have to have her memories erased from her. What will become of our poor Tohru? Find out when you read the manga! And belive me, you will. It is a must read.
Now I odviously left out a lot of details from this manga, but I didn't want to give away the whole storyline, that would be quite dumb wouldn't it?
Also this manga is printed in the original left to right reading format, therfore preserving the original artwork and sound-effects. It makes it even more enjoyable. All in all this manga is a must read. It's kinda of a comedy/romance, kind of. And it's shojo, so it's more or less going to be apealing to the femail gender a little bit more. That's not to say that a guy wouldn't like it. It has quite a bit of action in it (not like Trigun action) more martial arts action. But it is a must read. And I really hope my review helped. Do you believe it was written by a 16 year old? The reveiw I mean.
Rating: 5
Summary: FINALLY OUT!
Comment: Fruits Basket manga is really good. For months people have been bugging the shirokiya store when their new shipment is going to be coming in. Finally fruits basket fans can reasure that it's finally in english.
Fruits Basket is a game kind of like duck duck goose. Anyway it's about a very sweet yet naieve girl with a heart of gold name Tohru Honda. Her mother died in a car crash and moved in with her grandpa on her father's side. Though she didn't want to burden her grandpa, since the house is being rebuilt she decided to live in a tent, in the woods. Unknowingly the land she was staying on belonged to the Sohma clan.
From then she learns of one of her most popular classmate's has a secret that nobody but some of the members of the sohma clan knows. 13 of the members of the sohma family turn into the spirits of the 12 zodiac animals including the cat. Since she learns of this secret she is offered to stay at the house in exchange for house keeping, cooking etc.
If you've seen the anime you'll love the manga. From what a friend told me the anime is only about halfway though the manga series. Which is good, since in the manga we may see what happens after ep 26...or was it 25...oh well... And if it's completely similar to the anime you'll see the Prince Yuki Fanclub. Most of the female student body are in love with Yuki Sohma and have a huge grudge against Tohru because she's friends with him and not them.....hahaha...Anyway, they are literally obsessed with him. They made, Chibi Yuki keychain ornaments, hair clips, bobble heads, dolls, etc.
This manga is excellent if you like girls manga like card captor sakura or comedy manga like tenchi muyo, and love hina.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better than GREAT
Comment: This book was confusing at first, but once i got of hang of reading japanese books, I was hooked. I read it 6 times and it still wasn't boring. My sister and fight over it all the time. It is a hilarious combo with a litte spice of sadness, but not to much sadness.Just my kind of book. If you love these kind of, it is worth buying. I can't wait to get the second book, third, fourth, fifth, and the whole series. I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!
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Title: Alice 19th, Vol. 3: Chained by Yû Watase ISBN: 1591162300 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 11 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Alice 19th, Vol. 2 : Inner Heart by Yu Watase ISBN: 1591162297 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 09 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Lotis Master (Alice 19th, Vol. 1) by Yu Watase ISBN: 1591162157 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 22 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Fruits Basket, Vol. 3 by Natsuki Takaya, Yuya Aoki ISBN: 1591826055 Publisher: Tokyopop Pub. Date: June, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Rurouni Kenshin, Vol. 3 by Nobuhiro Watsuki ISBN: 1591162505 Publisher: Viz Communications Pub. Date: 14 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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