High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The chapters of the manga series Fruits Basket were written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. The first chapter premiered in the January 1999 issue of Hana to Yume, where it was serialized monthly until its conclusion in the November 2006 issue. 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 and are cursed to turn into their animal forms if they are embraced by anyone of the opposite sex. 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 tank bon volumes by Hakusensha starting on January 19, 1999; the last volume was released on March 19, 2007.