Honda Tohru is a first year high school student and has been living with her grandfather since her mother passed away. When her grandfather decides to renovate the house, Tohru must find a temporary place to live. Rather than impose on her friends, Tohru instead decides that now would be a good chance to learn what it means to live alone and be self sufficient and sets up a tent on some vacant land. However, much to her surprise, the land isn't vacant afterall, but is in fact part of the Sohma clan's lands.
Yuki Sohma, a fellow classmate and the most popular (and good looking) freshman lives with his cousin Shigure near where Tohru set up her tent. When a landslide buries Tohru's tent however, Shigure and Yuki take Tohru into their home. In return, Tohru agrees to take on all the housework. However, the Sohma clan has a most unusual secret...as Tohru soon discovers when the angsty Kyo shows up blasting through the roof into her new room challenging Yuki to a duel...When one of the members of the Sohma clan (aka jounoichi) is hugged by the opposite sex they transform into one of the 12 chinese zodiac animals (whichever one they are born in), unfortunately when they turn back they're completely naked!
This is my favorite anime of all time, because not only is there comedy and romance, there's also a lesson to every episode. They really get into character relations as well and every new character has something different about them and even when things get really depressing in parts where they go back into a character's past, they always have Tohru to make everything feel brighter. |
