Fruits Basket, Vol. 3

The third installment of Sensei Takaya’s delightful manga series that gives the reader a window into the life of the cursed Sohma family and how Tohru Honda, a sweet and naive young orphan they’ve taken in and with whom they’ve shared their secret that some in their family are possessed by the vengeful animal spirits of the Chinese zodiac, features the rebellious cat-posessed Kyo Sohma on the cover. Kyo is probably one of my favorite characters, he is certainly one of the funniest, and this book introduces another of my favorites: Hatsuharu, the bull.

The book begins with a school race, which the highly-competitive Kyo sees as an opportunity to beat his ultimate rival and cousin, Yuki Sohma, the rat. The pictures had Maggie and I show more laughing out loud in public places, trying to keep ourselves under control but often not able, class=”hiddenSpellError” pre=”">Kyo with his cat ears, fangs, eyes and tail with electric energy swirling around him as he focuses on thoroughly trouncing “That damn rat Yuki” in the race was hilarious. It’s during the race that Haru shows up and challenges Kyo to a fight, during which Black Haru comes out and makes sexual innuendos about what he’s going to do with Tohru.

Valentine’s Day happens in this book, as well, which brings Kagura back… much to Kyo’s displeasure. Hatori, the Sohma family doctor, is introduced and Momiji makes another appearance and invites Tohru, Yuki and Kyo to the Sohma family spa for White Day. Momiji, the rabbit, is another one of those funny, slightly naughty, characters who likes to look pretty. The trouble is, though, the dress-wearing, fingernail-polished, blonde is a BOY. Also, the interactions between Kyo and Momiji is reminiscent of the baby brother tag-a-long and annoyed older brother. Kyo often noogies, pinches and restrains the over-zealous Momiji, who cries and whines loudly to any who’ll listen that he’s being abused by Kyo.

The final page of the book still makes me laugh, and I’ll often repeat it back to Mags, who will break out in groaning laughter and rolling her eyes. Shigure shows Haru the little cosplay maid outfit he’s bought for Tohru as his White Day gift saying, “I can’t wait for her to call me Master wearing this.” To which Haru replies, “Just Make sure you don’t get arrested, okay?”

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Volume 3 aka HEY MOMIJI MY LOVE MY SUNSHINE MY EVERLASTING JOY IN LIFE. Also Hatsuharu...who is 15. I must keep reminding myself of that because when he goes "Black" its kind of sexy (I blame most of this on the anime, the English Voice Actor had a hot voice).

Welcome to what happens when Yuki over extends himself, Kyo doesn't QUITE understand his feels and Shigure is...:sigh:

Oh! And though we don't know WHO she is quite yet, we also meet Ritsu's mother, who runs the Sohma Inn.

So we (formally) meet Haru, who seems to have a crush on or just a lot of naughty feelings for, Yuki ("Black" Haru is more then a little suggestive about what they can do...but he makes pretty much the same offer to Tohru soo...). His normal personality is laid show more back, mellow and kind of spacey. His "Black" personality, which comes out whenever he's really upset (he had anger control issues as a kid and it more or less fractured his personality...), is aggressive, lewd and combative. His target? Kyo. To protect Yuki? Or something? Anyhow he's not as skilled as Kyo.

Not that it matters. Yuki collapses, Haru breaks off the fight and they all rush to Shigure's.

Meanwhile Hanajima, my hero for life, is kicking everyone's ass at cards instead of running. That my friends is how you do gym class.

Momiji shows up again to treat Tohru to a spa day at the Sohma Inn (which everyone gets invited to). Giving Tohru a shock of her life to find out he's only a year younger then her. I'm pretty sure its not a GOOD shock either. He tries to take a bath with her, sleep (literally) with her and in general is so gosh darn cute its hard for me to think he has nefarious reasons. Tohru is so MOTHERING and well. We find out why Momiju would be attracted to that kind of attention next book.

Plus some itty bitty tidbits about Yuki's ongoing issues from childhood, Kyo's ongoing issues with his feels and Shigure avoids his editor (that poor lady), is perceptive about Kyo (poor Kyo) and doggedly determined to be swarmy. show less

This is the cutest, fluffiest piece of cracktasticness ever. I sometimes catch myself wonder why I'm reading this, and the only answer I have is that this is the really good kind of crack.

Manga number 3, and the story is only getting better and better! It's impossible not to love the characters, and this makes for a really enjoyable piece of light reading. There's not much character development in this one, but the introduction of Momiji and Hatsuharu makes for a good bit of comedy, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one. Bring on number 4!

Beautiful, sweet and touching.

I totally love this series it is the coolest

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