Fruits Basket: What is the Sohma Curse?
After Tohru Honda finds herself moving into the seemingly normal Sohma household, all the Sohma family members around her begin unexpectedly transforming into animals. The family members affected by these transformations discreetly refer to it as the «Sohma Curse.»
The Fruits Basket storyline revolves around this curse and the characters afflicted by it. So what exactly is the Sohma curse, and how did it first start?
Fruits Basket: Every Main Character's Age, Zodiac, And Height
The twelve Japanese zodiac animals in order are the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar. In Fruits Basket, these zodiacs are reincarnated as humans in the Sohma family clan. According to the zodiac legend, a god-like man with unique powers lived alone atop a mountain, and he was very lonely.
Then, after a cat befriended him, he invited all the animals to a banquet. Only the 12 zodiac animals and the cat attended the banquet, and they promised to all gather together on every full moon. Eventually, the animals grew old and close to death, so the man created a spell-like potion for all the animals to drink, so they may be reincarnated and stay friends for eternity.
This eternal spell would continue for hundreds of years, causing certain members of the Sohma family to be possessed by one of the spirit animals of the Japanese Zodiac. The zodiac spirits are reincarnated into different members of the Sohma family clan when the previous one dies. This spell is what the afflicted Sohma family members refer to as the «Sohma Curse.»
The curse itself is actually a «bond» between the zodiac animals and their «God;» the man they befriended many moons ago. The curse binds the zodiac members to their God, who is also
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