Fruits Basket

Ahah now here is a show i like!
With it's over-the-top characters and the attachment you gain to the protagonist Tohru Honda, this is clearly a top-notch anime.
When Torhu's mother is killed in a road accident, she decides to not be hassle to her paternal grandfather (her father is already dead from an illness years ago) and simply puts up a tent and lives in a forest. Four months later (she is quite ditzy) she comes accross a house when she walks a slightly different way to school. Turns out a boy from her class, Yuki, lives there with his older cousin, Shigure, so they walk to school together, and he is quite surprised to hear that she lives nearby. Later that night she finishes work as a hotel cleaner and makes her way back to her tent. Yuki and Shigure are out on a walk and discussing that no-one lives nearby because they own all the land within a 10 mile radius when they stumble accross her tent and decide to invite her to their house. But when she arrives Shigure states that a landslide has occured over her tent. Sure enough, her home is destroyed and she has no choice but to accept their offer to live in their spare room. But what Tohru doesn't know is that whenever any people from Yuki's family is hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they turn into an animal of the zodiac. Yuki into the rat, Shigure into the dog and another cousin of theirs who turns up later into the cat, who is cursed. Tohru sets about trying to lift these curses whilst also getting throuh school life as normal. A 9 out of 10 for this one!
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