19 Facts About Tohru Honda

Tohru Honda is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the manga and anime series Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya.

Tohru Honda is noted for her cheerful optimism, altruistic nature, and great sympathy for others.

Laura Bailey, the English voice actor for Tohru Honda, said in an interview that the aspect of Tohru Honda's character she most related to was her optimism, while the most difficult was her formality.

Tohru Honda is depicted as polite, optimistic, extremely kind, and selfless.

Tohru Honda describes herself as an excellent artist who loves cooking and cleaning.

Tohru Honda picked up this habit from her dead father, Katsuya, after he died when she was three, as a way of replacing him in her mother's eyes and from her father's family's statements that she was probably the daughter of a man her mother had an affair with.

Tohru Honda tends to be especially concerned for people with minor illnesses.

Tohru Honda was raised by her mother, Kyoko, until Kyoko died in a car accident shortly after Tohru entered high school, a few months before the series starts.

Tohru Honda is distressed whenever she feels she is being "unfaithful" to her mother, for example, when she gets failing marks on end-of-term exams, thus endangering her promise to graduate high school, or when she falls in love with Kyo.

Tohru Honda eventually realizes that her vow is an attempt to cling to the past, and that Kyoko would have wanted her to move on and fall in love with someone else.

Gradually Tohru Honda meets the other cursed members of the Sohma family, and through her kindness and sympathy is able to help Hatori, Ayame, Kisa, Hiro, and Ritsu.

Tohru Honda becomes particularly close to Kyo after his foster-father Kazuma Sohma forces him to reveal the monstrous "true form" of his curse; although initially repulsed, Tohru Honda stays with him even after he violently tries to push her away.

Tohru Honda eventually receives encouragement and hints from Shigure, who is using Tohru to weaken the curse for his own reasons.

Unable in his guilt to accept Tohru Honda's feelings, he says her love is an illusion and runs away.

However, before Akito can accept, Tohru Honda falls down a nearby cliff when the ground collapses in the rain.

The accident makes Kyo realize how much he values Tohru Honda, and allows Akito to finally break away from the roles she has held for most of her life.

Meanwhile, Yuki, who has realized that what he wants from Tohru Honda is an unconditional "motherly" love, not the love of a woman, convinces Kyo to reconcile with Tohru Honda when she is discharged from the hospital.

Tohru Honda has been cited by reviewers as key to the appeal of the series, especially the manga version.

Tohru Honda is seen as resembling her mother as she grows up.