Book: Fruits Basket, Volume 5 by Natsuki Takaya

Pages: 208 (Paperback)

My Thoughts: In this volume of Fruits Basket, Tohru and the Sohma’s go to a Sohma summer house for Golden Week.  Once they get back from vacation, they find Hatsuharu holding a small tiger- Kisa, who ran away from home.  She got teased a lot because of her orange hair, but Tohru and Yuki help her through it.  Meanwhile, Yuki’s fan club visits Hanajima in order to find her weakness- they go through all this because they resent Tohru for being so close to Yuki.

It’s another good volume and again, the artwork is amazing!  It keeps getting better.  We also learn about the year of the boar, we have the final installment of an interview with the author, and we have more fan art!  I love how she includes fan art, and it’s cool to see what the fans come up with.  And all of her side notes are really fun too.  She mostly talks about video games, and while I don’t play a lot of video games, it’s still interesting to see how she’s doing with them.

As for the actual story, I like it!  We’re always getting introduced to new members of the zodiac, but it is hard to keep all of them straight.  Yuki’s fan club is hilarious, especially the way they worship him…but at the same time, it’s a little frightening.  Ayame (Yuki’s brother) really is a character, especially when you get him together with Hatori and Shigure.  Yuki and Kyo not arguing is strange, and I can see why it would worry Tohru, who blames herself for saying something to offend them.  Everything works out, and they start arguing again, much to Tohru’s relief.  Now onto Volume 6!

Rating: 5 out of 5- it’s a good story, and it keeps getting better!