Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family (both close and distant) hold a curse; if they are hugged by the opposite gender, they transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Everyday is an adventure for sweet Tohru, as she gets to know everyone in the large family better (especially Yuki and Kyo), in both common and bizarre situations. But, the Sohma Family curse is certainly no laughing matter... it also holds horrible cruelty and heartbreak.
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Pain. Everyone's in pain. Pain to the heart, pain to the bone, pain to the soul. In pain, in the dark, and in a downpour. Kyo's run away in abject humiliation, Tohru can never go back to Shigure's house, and no one can help either one of them.
Tohru is summoned to the House of Sohma where she receives a warning and learns a sad love story.
All this time, for as long as Tohru's known him, Kyo has been harboring a secret from her, a secret tightly maintained by others in the Sohma family as well, a dark secret Kyo'd do anything not to reveal. Master Kazuma, true head of the family and a beloved father figure to Kyo, returns after a long absence. He sees a significant change in the lad and soberly decides upon a course of action that'll cause much pain.
Motoko Minagawa, President of the Prince Yuki Fan Club, will graduate in spring, a full year ahead of her beloved Yuki, and the club wants to know who she'll name as her successor to the presidency. That's disturbing for her, but for right now the club's focused on knowing what girl or girls are slated for next year's student council (since Yuki will be president). To see that list, the club enlists the aid of Rika Aida to pick the lock of the student council office, which brings about an awkward confrontation when they find Yuki inside the room instead of the list, forcing Motoko to start confronting her own emotions.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
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