Fruits Basket

Here's another manga that I suggest you should read. That is if you're fond of fictional stories which includes "humans turning into an animal from the zodiac when hugged by a member of the opposite sex"... interesting right? :D




FRUITS BASKET by: Natsuki Takaya

Plot: When high school student Tohru Honda's mother died in a car accident, Tohru begins living in a tent and supporting herself. That is, until she finds a home in the least likely of places, inhabited by her classmate Yuki Sohma and his cousins Shigure and Kyo. The Sohmas however live with a curse. Thirteen members of the family are possessed by spirits of the Chinese zodiac and turn into their zodiac animal when hugged by the opposite gender. When Tohru finds out, she promises not to tell and is allowed to keep living with them. The Sohma's curse however, is deeper and darker than Tohru realised, but her presence soon becomes a positive influence on those possessed by the zodiac. She sets out to break the curse, and ends up changing the Sohma clan forever.



Here are the characters:




from left to right:
1st row- Ayame Sohma(snake and older brother of Yuki Sohma), Shigure Sohma(dog, a novelist and always labeled as a pervert (: ), Hatori(dragon... but instead of turning into a dragon, he turns into a seahorse.. he is also the family doctor), kureno (rooster and the first to be freed from the curse)

2nd row- Hiro Sohma(ram, he has a crush on Kisa), Momiji(rabbit, he's the yello2-haired boy ,.. he is always mistaken as a girl), Kisa Sohma (tiger,.. she is a very shy girl), Haru (ox.. people always find him unusual because he has white hair.. he has a relationship with Rin), Rin (horse,.. she is sickly and she doesn't usually attend school), Kagura (boar.. in the picture she's the one below Rin.. she likes Kyo Sohma)

3rd and last row- Ritsu(monkey.. this 'she' is actually a 'he'.. he llikes cross dressing because it makes him feel comfortable), Yuki Sohma (rat.. the child prodigy.. often called "prince" by his classmates. He is smart, handsome etc. almost perfect), Tohru Honda( the main character.. she is always optimistic.. ), Kyo Sohma(cat.. the outcast just like the cat in the story of the Zodiac... he has anger management issues and he considers Yuki as his rival..)


This manga is filled with fun,myteries and of course, romance.. Tohru cares for all the Sohmas.. most especially the cousins Kyo and Yuki... Who will she end up with? the rat who is perfect or the cat who bears the greatest curse of all? Find out by reading Fruits Basket...

Vampire Knight

Plot:Yuki Cross' earliest memory is of being all alone on a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by an evil "Level E" vampire and saved by a powerful but kind vampire named Kaname Kuran. Ten years later, Yuki, along with her childhood friend, Zero Kiryu are school guardians at the prestigious Cross Academy where her adopted father is the headmaster. The school is hosting an experimental program that is trying to prove that humans and vampires can live together peacefully, in a quest for coexistance.

This is my favorite manga.. title: Vampire Knight... obviously it includes vampires as the title suggests...
Vampire Knight is a shojo manga written by Matsuri Hino. What's a shojo manga? Well, it is where the main character is female.. they call it shounen manga if the lead is male. Anyway, back to the topic: why is Vampire Knight my favorite manga? What's so interesting about it? (if you want to read a summary about the manga you can search it in Wikipedia)



The first thing that attracted me to this manga are the characters:


This is Zero Kiryuu. I like him the most. He has quite a complicated past. He is from a clan of Vampire Hunters but when he was young his family was attacked by a pureblood vampire( a vampire who doesn't have even just a tiny bit of human blood mixed in her own) and he ends up bitten by her. Luckily he was able to survive. The bad news is he becomes a vampire himself. What's worse is he will gradually turn into a Level E vampire(the lowest class of vampire; one who has lost its sense of humanity)if he is not able to drink the blood of the one who bit him. (spoiler: well, he was able to drink the blood of the pureblood vampire who bit him through unexpected means... so he doesn't turn to a Level E..what a relief..XD) Zero hates vampires very much, which means he hates himself too. *sigh* :(



Kaname Kuran. He's the pureblood vampire who saved Yuki from a Level E vampire. Here's another spoiler: he is actually the brother of Yuki... which means Yuki is a pureblood vampire herself. And also, this explains why he treats Yuki differently from everybody else. If you read the manga, you'll see how protective he is of Yuki.




Yuki Cross/ Yuki Kuran... she's the main female character. She loves both Zero and Kaname but in some ways she is being made to choose one over the other.. i still don't know whom she will choose in the end(since the manga isn't finished yet) but I hope that it will be a happy ending for all of them.

Manga Addict... who? Me!!

This picture showing a variety of mangas isn't mine actually... I just wanted to show how much "in love" with manga(particularly Japanese mangas) I am....

A manga is like a Japanese form of comics and print cartons. What's amazing about it is that not only Japanese people read them but also different people of different ages around the world.. that includes me of course..

I mostly like mangas with vampires in them.. why?... I don't know. I get attracted with vampires because of their beautiful faces. But what intrigues me the most is their complicated life or past stories or how they came to be. The more complicated their life is, the more I get interested with the story.

I'll share some of my favorite mangas in my following blogs..XD