Edited sentence: " In addition, Takaya chose to have other characters address her as "Tohru-kun", using an honorific typically used for boys, because she thought it was "a more dignified form of address.According to Natsuki Takaya in interviews, Tohru Honda was the first character she created for the series, with Yuki and Kyo Sohma soon after.When asked how she came up with Tohru's personality and background, she said:  Takaya gave Tohru a name normally used only for men because she likes to give masculine names to female characters "to balance them out