Tooru Honda

Tooru Honda is the main protagonist from the Fruits Basket series.
==Charactah Account==
Tooru is a kind hearted orphaned high school student who, at the start of the story, begins living in a tent. She is then found by Shigure and Yuuki, who offer to take her in in exchange for housekeeping. She loves to cook and describes herself as an excellent housekeeper. She also has an after-school job as a janitor to pay her tuition fees to avoid being a burden on her grandfather. She is depicted as polite, optimistic, extremely kind, and selfless; several other characters, including Kyou, Rin and Hanajima, tell her she needs to look out for her own interests and not shoulder everyone else's burdens.
Tooru habitually speaks formally, but not always correctly, a habit she picked up from her father, Katsuya, after he died when she was three, as a way of replacing him in her mother's eyes. Tooru's mother, Kyouko, raised her alone until she died in a car accident shortly after Tooru entered high school, a few months before the start of the story. Tooru repeatedly calls Kyouko the most important person in her life and treasures her photograph; when she falls in love with Kyou she feels guilty of being "unfaithful" to her mother's memory.
==Appearance==
===Anime===
*Fruits Basket
*Fruits Basket 1st Season
*Fruits Basket 2nd Season
*Fruits Basket: Prelude
*Fruits Basket: The Final Season
===Manga===
*Fruits Basket
==Trivia==
*According to the official Fruits Basket Character Book:
**Tooru is fiercely self-reliant and pays for all of her own school expenses and clothes from her part-time salary. In connection to this, she works at Momiji’s father’s company building as a cleaner.
***Tooru’s co-workers love her enthusiasm and talent for lightening the workload.
**Tooru chooses clothes based on how sturdy and practical they are, rather than their looks, so she dresses very plainly. Natsuki Takaya mentions that Tooru is quite “unfashionable”.
***But since Tooru recently had a bit more money, her newer clothes are somewhat cuter.
***When Tooru wears particularly adorable outfits, they are usually things Shigure picked out.
***Tooru has a maid’s costume in her possession but doesn’t wear it, and keeps it safely in the dresser she uses for western clothes.
**Tooru receives presents from Shigure quite often.
**The boys that teased Tooru when she was younger presumably did it because they liked her.
**Tooru is very quick to respond when people come down with colds since her father died of complications from a cold. But when she gets sick herself, she is slower to react.
**Tooru is a very good cook, and can cook about any dish; Japanese, Western, or Chinese.
**Tooru is also very good at cleaning, as she got Shigure’s “disaster of a kitchen” under control in the blink of an eye.
*Of the outfits worn by Tooru in the 2019 version of Fruit Baskets, the outfit she wore during the ending half of episode 1 and beginning of episode 2 of the first season, and episode 18 of the second season are the rarest outfits to be worn by her, so far only shown in three episodes.
**On that topic, it is so far the only outfit where Tooru wears no footwear of any kind, she goes around barefooted when in that outfit.
*According to Natsuki Takaya’s Twitter:
**Tooru’s day-to-day clothing is based on how long a garment will last her, its robustness, and how good it looks.
**In the early part of the manga, Tooru mixed and matched her clothing a lot, and Takaya says she is glad that some readers noticed this.
**Keigo, the polite language Tooru always uses, is mentioned to be her most noticeable character trait. Takaya jokingly says that she wouldn’t recognize Tooru without her overly polite language. This, however, does not exist in English languages so it is incredibly hard to replicate or translate Tooru’s polite language, which is why some of Tooru’s character is “lost in translation”.
**After Chapter 72, (or Season 2, Episode 15), Tooru doesn’t wear the ribbon Yuuki gifted her again. This is possibly due to Tooru realizing that Yuuki has grown a lot and doesn’t need her support as much.
**Tooru sometimes makes Yuuki and Kyou’s bento, as in their lunch boxes for school.
**Takaya admits that she hasn’t really thought about Tooru's character, who are still minors within the main story, drinking habits, but the various times of seeing Manaka Iwami (the Japanese voice actress of Tooru) grinning playfully as she gulped down her alcohol, makes Takaya think that Tooru would grin in the same way as she drank.
*Despite not being able to transform, Tooru is represented by a rice ball with a “plum on the back”.
*Although she is born in the year of the Dog, Tooru wants to be born of the year of the Cat since she feels sorry for the Cat for being tricked in the Zodiac Legend.
*Tooru is a very deep sleeper, and is the type of person who could sleep anywhere and even through an earthquake. Apparently, her son, Hajime, inherited this trait of hers.
*Tooru was supposed to have a younger sibling. However, her father passed away before her parents were able to conceive.
*Kyouko’s, Tooru’s mother, “color” was red, which was inspired by her former nickname, “The Red Butterfly”. Katsuya’s, Tooru’s father, “color” was white, since he was described to be a straightforward man. A mix between the two colors results in pink, which is Tooru’s trademark color as well as her favorite one.
*When Tooru was hospitalized, the following events occurred;
**Tooru practiced smiling because she wanted to smile when she met Kyo again.
**People constantly wanted to visit Tooru at the same time, but because the patient’s rooms are small, there was always a queue. At one point, Shigure fell asleep in the waiting room because of it.
**Kakeru Manabe bought her a some CDs and visited her, both in Komaki Nakao’s and his own behalf.
**Machi Kuragi didn’t visit her, but she gifted her a bath set via Yuuki, because she really appreciates everything Tooru has done for Yuuki.
**Momiji skipped some of his classes to visit Tooru and also gifted her a bunny plushie.
**It is implied that Yuuki visited Tooru and stayed by her side more than anyone else during her hospitalization.
*Tooru can swim very fast. But she actually doesn't know how to breathe while swimming, and she is frantically swimming to somewhere she could catch a breath.
*The tent that Tooru lives in is in the shape of a half-cylinder in the manga; but in the anime, it is much smaller and in the shape of a triangular prism.
*In the official character popularity polls held by Hana to Yume magazine in Japan, Tooru was on the 2nd place three times in a row.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
*Tohru Honda at Fruits Basket Wiki
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