List of Fruits Basket chapters
This is a complete list of chapters for the manga series "Fruits Basket". Written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, "Fruits Basket" is one of the best selling manga of all time, with 30 million copies in print worldwide. The first chapter premiered in July 1998 in "Hana to Yume" magazine, where it was serialized until its conclusion in November 2006. The series focuses on Tohru Honda, an orphan girl who, after meeting Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure Sohma, learns that thirteen members of the Sohma family are possessed by the animals of the Chinese zodiac legend  and are cursed to turn into their animal forms if they are embraced by anyone of the opposite sex or their bodies come under a great deal of stress. As the series progresses, Tohru meets the rest of the zodiac as well as the family's mysterious head, Akito Sohma, and eventually resolves to break the curse that burdens them. The 136 untitled chapters were collected and published in 23 volumes by Hakusensha starting on January 19, 1999; the last volume was released on March 19, 2007. Hakusensha reprinted the series in twelve (collector's edition) volumes under the "Hana  to Yume Comics Special" imprint from September 4, 2015 to July 20, 2016. The collector's edition features new cover artwork by Natsuki Takaya, as well as color pages from the manga's original magazine serialization. Hakusensha also published the first three chapters of the series in a dual Japanese-English edition in November 2003. A full-color version of the manga was released in digital-only format in Japan in March 2019. "Fruits Basket" was originally licensed for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop and in Singapore by Chuang Yi. The Singapore  edition was licensed for import to Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. All 23 volumes were released in both North America and Singapore. In October 2007, Tokyopop released a box set containing the first four volumes. It later began re-releasing the earlier volumes in omnibus "Ultimate Edition"s that combined two sequential volumes in a single larger hardbound volume with new cover art. Six "Ultimate Edition"s were released, covering the first twelve volumes of the series. In 2011, Tokyopop closed its North American publishing division, and its licensed titles reverted to their original owners. Chuang Yi ceased operations a  few years later. In 2015, Yen Press licensed the series for an updated English-language release, published in twelve omnibus editions in North America and the United Kingdom. The manga series is also licensed for regional language releases by Delcourt in France, Norma Editorial in Spain, Dynit in Italy, Carlsen Comics in Denmark, Germany and Sweden, Glénat in Benelux, and by Sangatsu Manga in Finland. In Latin America, Editorial Vid licensed the series for Spanish release in Mexico, and Editora JBC licensed it for release in Portuguese in Brazil. In Singapore, Chuang Yi also published a Simplified Chinese edition. A  sequel manga series titled began serialization on Hakusensha's free "HanaLaLa Online" website in September 2015; it moved to Hakusensha's "" website and app in August 2017. The series focuses on the introverted Sawa Mitoma as she starts high school and encounters the next generation of the Sohma family. The individual chapters were compiled in three volumes from August 19, 2016 to March 20, 2019. Yen Press licensed the series for an English-language release in North America and the United Kingdom. Natsuki Takaya also published three short chapters focusing on Shigure, Hatori, and Ayame under the title in "Hana  to Yume" magazine from the April 20, 2019 issue to the July 5, 2019 issue. Yen Press licensed the chapters for a digital-only English-language release under the title "Fruits Basket: The Three Musketeers Arc".