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Title | Volume 1
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Author | Natsuki Takaya
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Publisher | Yen Press - 2018
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First Printing | Hakusensha, Inc - 2016
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Title | Volume 2
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Author | Natsuki Takaya
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Publisher | Yen Press - 2018
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First Printing | Hakusensha, Inc - 2017
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Title | Volume 3
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Author | Natsuki Takaya
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Publisher | Yen Press - 2019
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First Printing | Hakusensha, Inc - 2019
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Category | Manga
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Sawa Mitoma, Mutsuki, Hajime, and many others
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Main Elements | Shapeshifters, gods
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 Volume 1
Sawa Mitoma, a nervous, skittish girl who prefers minimal human interaction, has just started high school, and it's already not going well...
...until she meets the "it" boys - the "prince-like" Mutsuki and the sharp-tongued Hajime. But little does she know, they're Sohmas?! It's Fruits Basket...again!
Volume 2
School's no longer an endless pit of anxiety and solitary lunches for Sawa thanks to the Sohmas. She's joined the student council and made new friends who don't abandon her no matter how painfully awkward or useless she is-they don't even get angry when she screws up or starts blabbering gibberish! Though social interactions are still daunting, people don't seem to be as scary anymore-at least, until another Sohma appears?!
Volume 3
Sawa Mitoma has officially lived every high school girl's dream by breathing in limited-edition Sohma cottage air and landing a date with a Sohma heartthrob. That is, until she's thrust face-to-face with a disturbing truth...
...that threatens to revert her back to her past self. The last thing she wants is for the Sohmas to get involved, but it turns out there's more to the truth than she remembers...Don't miss the grand finale of Fruits Basket Another!
If I thought it was hard to keep track of all the characters in the original Fruits Basket series, at least I had a dozen or so books to really get to know them. But with only three books here, and about a six month gap from when I read the first two and the third, I'm unable to keep track of who is who. For what it's worth, without the supernatural aspect, it's just a book of a whole bunch of less messed up characters from somewhat more messed up families. It was kind of fun seeing the next generation but you can't really become attached to any of them when the are thrown at you from all directions and no time to learn about any one of them in depth.
If you are huge fan of the original series, it was nice to see the original characters living more or less normal lives. And of course one is always curious as to who hooked up with who and who ended up having kids and how many. But you know, I started reading the original series because it was cute and funny (you hug someone from the opposite sex and they turn into an animal) but instead it turned into a tale of torture, abuse, depression and self-deprecation. This one is no different, with an abusive mother chasing her daughter's friends away and then turning on her daughter and blaming her for not having any friends.
But it still has it's uplifting moments, and the Sohma family, while still full of quirky characters, are happy and accepting of each other and happy to pull this unhappy girl under their wing. On the whole, I'm not sure this added much to the original storyline but I can see how a fan of the series would be happy to get a peek at what happened to the original characters, even if you only get to learn about them through their kids. Kind of a hope that while things can be really bad now, they can turn out well in the end, maybe not perfect, but well enough.
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