This year in the Chinese calendar marks a new year of the Rat, something Fruits Basket’s Yuki Sohma would perhaps feel quietly happy about. The myth in Chinese astrology goes that being in the year of your own zodiac animal could bring bad luck for the whole of that year. But old Sohma is a laid back kind of soul and not one to kow-tow to superstition, and so we can see him thinking of 2020 as his year. Of course, in a way, he’s absolutely right. The remake of the Fruits Basket anime returns this spring for its second season, and as ever it’s proved to be a celebration of the intercultural power of zodiac fortune telling, while cautioning not to take such things too seriously. Tohru Honda finds a beloved family in the Sohmas, a family which represents the animals of the zodiac, while being cursed to transform into their furry (or sometimes scaly) soul emblem whenever they are embraced by the opposite sex. As romantic as it might be for Tohru to meet the ostracised zodiac cat in Kyo Sohma, it is his nature to arch his back and hiss at strangers who come too close. And [...]
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