Fruits Basket!

Tohru Honda.

Fruits Basket is about a young teenage girl named Tohru Honda who just recently lost her mother in a car accident. Tohru was left to live on her own in a tent. One day as she was walking to school she came across a cute house that she never noticed before. On the porch she sees little figurines of the twelve Chinese Zodiacs. A man named Shigure Sohma steps out and begins talking to her about the Chinese zodiac. Next thing she knows the most popular boy in school, Yuki Sohma, steps out of the front door. Yuki insists on walking to school together. Later that night Tohru was at home in her tent, as she crawls out she sees Yuki and Shigure standing right outside of her tent. They later convince Tohru it isn’t safe for a young girl to be living on her own in the woods. They make a deal if Tohru cooks and cleans she can live with them.

Yuki Sohma.

There is a lot more to the Sohma family than Tohru knows. Later Tohru discovers that the family has a curse set upon them. Thirteen people out of the family are cursed with one of the Chinese Zodiac animals and when huged by someone of the opposite sex they are transformed. Yes, there are only Twelve animals of the Chinese Zodiac, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar but the thirteenth member is the cat who has always been shun from the rest of the animals. Just as the Chinese Zodiac story goes the cat is also shun from the Sohma family.

Tohru is now living with Yuki Sohma, possessed by the rat, Shigure Sohma, possessed by the dog, and Kyo Sohma, possessed by the cat. Everyday Tohru learns more about the Sohma family and plans of understanding everything about them. It’s a dangerous thing to allow an outsider to know of the secret, but the family believes Tohru is different. The head of the family, Akito Sohma, is against Tohru and wants her gone.

Kyo Sohma.

To find out what becomes of Tohru and the Sohma’s I highly recommend watching this show. It does not come on any specific television station, but it's online to watch. There are only 26 episodes of Fruits Basket they never completed the cartoon but the manga has the whole story. Fruits basket was written by Natsuki Takaya and the series was directed by Akitaro Daichi.