Book: Fruits Basket, Volume 7 by Natsuki Takaya

Pages: 192 (Paperback)

My Thoughts: Here’s another review of the Fruits Basket series!  We’re now on Volume 7, where we get introduced to another member of the Chinese Zodiac!  We meet Hiro, who confronts Tohru, and he steals her mother’s photo.  Tohru gets it back with the help of Kyo and Momiji, and Kisa makes Hiro apologize.  Hiro distanced himself from Kisa because he told Akito that he liked Kisa.  Akito beats Kisa, and Hiro feels bad.  He tells Tohru that he wants to grow up faster so he can protect Kisa. 

We also learn how Tohru and Arisa meet for the first time and how they became friends.  Yuki’s fan club also make an appearance when they try to find out who will be on the student council with Yuki.

This is another great installment of Fruits Basket.  I don’t particularly care for Hiro, because he is pretty rude, but at least he knows he needs to mature.  Yuki’s fan club is always hilarious, but the president of the fan club is particularly interesting.  She seems to be in love with Yuki, even though she barely talks to him, and doesn’t want to pick her replacement.  I don’t know what to make of this, other than she, and the rest of the fan club, are particularly obsessed with Yuki.  And not only that, but they are pretty starstruck, and remind me of rabid fangirls that you’d see of some celebrity.

The artwork is great, the fanart at the end is cool, and in the sidenotes, we learn that Takaya had surgery on one of her hands, and chronicled her hospital stay.  They definitely add to the coolness that is Fruits Basket.

Rating: 5 out of 5.  It keeps getting better!