After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac! (Source: Yen Press) Note: Volume 9 includes the bonus chapter "Rain Shelter of Terror".
Japanese study overview
Fruits Basket is a Japanese manga of 409,756 characters, with 13,654 unique words and 1,893 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 13,654 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×918
- 事thing×841
- 言うto say×768
- 思うto think×723
- 俺I×684
- 由希Yū×678
- 君Mr×657
- 君you×623
- 夾Kyō×523
- 透Kuria×483
- 自分myself×395
- 会うto meet×346
- 慊人Akito×343
- 本田Honta×277
- 十二支12 signs of the Chinese zodiac×231
- 紫呉Shigure×212
- 紅野Akaya×135
- 倖せhappiness×99
- 物の怪evil spirit×49
- 透すto let pass×37