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Hana to Yume Magazine Briefly Lists New Anime for Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket Manga (Updated)
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Update on November 15: The Twitter for the magazine issued a statement on Wednesday that reads, "Regarding media adaptation news for Fruits Basket, please wait until an official announcement on November 20." [Via Nijimen]
ANN's original article is below.
The official website for Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket manga. The magazine will officially ship on November 20. The announcement image features the text "Zenpen," which means "the entire story."
Takaya serialized the original Fruits Basket manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine from 1998-2006. re-released the manga in 12 updated omnibus volumes beginning in June 2016. Yen Press describes the story:
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!
The original manga inspired a television anime adaptation in 2001.
Takaya final volume.
The manga takes place after Tohru has graduated high school, and it features a girl named Sawa who has just entered high school.
Source: Hana to Yume's website
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