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Tohru Honda (本田 透, Honda Tōru^?) Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese), Laura Bailey (voice actress) (English)

An orphaned high school student, Tohru ends up living in the same house with Shigure, Yuki and Kyo Sohma. She loves to cook, is an excellent housekeeper, and has an after school job as a custodian to help pay her tuition fees (since she doesn’t want to bother her grandfather or her “house mates”). She is always polite, and is extremely kind, loving, and naive; in fact, the other characters sometimes have to tell her that she needs to look out for her own interests. She wishes to understand the curse as part of her caring personality. She wishes to help anyone she can.

Kyo Sohma (草摩 夾, Sōma Kyō^?) Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Jerry Jewell (English)

Kyo is the cat, an animal not in the zodiac, but which legend says would have been if it had not been tricked by the rat into missing the induction feast and wishes to get back at the cat ever since. Kyo hates Yuki (the rat) and is determined to defeat him before high school ends. After the alleged suicide of his mother, and abandonment of his father, Kyo has hated Yuki for everything wrong with his life. He made a bet with Akito: if he defeats Yuki before he finishes high school, he’ll officially be accepted along with the other Jyuunishi by the Sohmas. If he does not, however, Kyo would be forced to live in a small room, the neko/cat room, within the Sohma estate for the rest of his life, which means being locked up in a cage made specially for the cat Jyuunishi. Despite many months of strict training, Kyo has never managed to even land a decent blow on Yuki. Instead, he continually gets beat up by Yuki, often started by himself. Kyo runs away even from the people that want to help him, because he is ashamed of his true form, which he turns into when his rosary bead bracelet made from the bones of a miko (the red ones are blood stained) is removed. When Tohru sees his true form, however, she still accepts him and begs him to stay with her, which forms a bond of sorts between the two. He wants to be appreciated and be special like Yuki. Orange is his natural hair color; a fact proven by Haru. Tohru’s favorite zodiac animal, as a child, was the cat. Tohru even told her mother that she had an idea: “I know! I’ll stop being a dog and I’ll be a cat!” Referring to her being born in the year of the dog.

Yuki Sohma (草摩 由希, Sōma Yuki^?) Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Eric Vale (English)

Yuki is the rat of the zodiac. Known as “Prince Charming” or “Prince Yuki” at school, Yuki is very attractive and refined, and has his own fan club at school, but has a hard time being social. He wishes that he could be with people as friends, rather than admired and worshiped from afar, no thanks to his infamous PYFC (Prince Yuki Fan Club). Yuki has suffered a traumatic childhood at the hands of Akito, the head of the Sohma clan, who locked him up and tortured him. Because of this, Yuki has a somewhat low sense of worth and is claustrophobic. With Tohru’s help, however, Yuki is gradually able to loosen up. He is jealous of Kyo because he thinks Kyo can have a normal life, which is something Yuki has always wanted. He is often considered “absolutely the most adorable little mouse in the world” when he is crying in the manga. Because of Tohru always giving advice and being able to be herself around others he often also looks up to her as a mother figure.

Fruits Basket follows the life of the student Tohru Honda, who was recently orphaned when her mother, Kyoko Honda, died in a car accident. After that, Tohru lived with her grandfather, but when remodeling is needed on the house, Tohru resorts to living in a tent and holds down a job to support herself. Despite suffering many hardships, Tohru remains her optimistic self.

One day, Tohru comes upon a house in the forest that she is temporarily living in which is the home of Shigure Sohma and fellow classmate Yuki Sohma, of the Sohma family. When the Sohmas discover that Tohru is living in a tent, they are quite surprised by her inner strength. The entire area is Sohma property, and Tohru pleads to live upon the property in her quaint tent (affectionately dubbed “her castle”). Feeling sorry for her, and desperate to end their days of filthy living conditions, the Sohmas offer her their spare room in exchange for cooking and housework. When her tent is buried that night in a landslide, burying her mother’s picture and school clothes, she has no option but to accept. Soon after she moves in, Kyo Sohma comes to challenge Yuki.

Tohru soon discovers the Sohma family’s secret, and the reason why Yuki is so private and secretive at school: thirteen members of the family are possessed by the 12 animal spirits of the Chinese Zodiac (“Jyūnishi” in Japanese) and the spirit of the cat who was left out of the Zodiac according to legend. They transform into animals when hugged by the opposite gender, when they are under a great amount of stress, or weak in any way (such as being sick). When she promises to keep their secret, the Sohmas allow Tohru to keep her memories rather than hypnotically erasing them, a fate that had previously befallen anyone not on the “Inside” of the Sohma family who had discovered the secret.

The story follows the lives of Tohru and the Sohma family, as they deal with each other and a society where neither quite fits in, as well as the feared Akito Sohma, head of the Sohma family. Soon, after living with the Sohma family she began to like, then love all of the Sohmas.

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Kei Kusanagi (草薙 桂, Kusanagi Kei^?)

Kei is an 18 year old who retains a 15 year old body after a three year long “standstill”, which is a coma-like state that occurs during a time of extreme emotional distress. Standstills are derived from an unknown – possibly psychological – disease that Kei and his friend Ichigo Morino have. He tends to be a very frail, shy boy, not often wanting to assert himself when need be.

After observing the landing of a UFO while on the bank of the nearby lake and subsequently observing the alien on the lake shore, odd things begin happening to Kei in connection with this alien. The next day, Kei is surprised to find, like everyone else, that one of their teachers quit and a quick replacement was found which just happened to turn out to be the alien – Mizuho Kazami. After a few more encounters with each other, Kei is taken to her spaceship where the whole situation goes from bad to worse. Upon striking Marie, a tiny computer helper of Mizuho’s, it effectively is unable to perform as well as it seemed to work, which often puts the characters in strange situations if they can’t rely on the help of Marie.

Eventually, after Kei and Mizuho are found in a locked storage room by Kei’s uncle and the principal of the school, his uncle impulsively tells the principal that Kei and Mizuho are in fact married. Later, Kei and Mizuho do actually get married, though only the paperwork is done while there was no official ceremony. This whole situation is, of course, kept secret from Kei’s friends as Ichigo Morino constantly tries to pair Kei up with a friend of hers, Koishi, and all the while Kei and Mizuho’s relationship and attraction for each other only grows.

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Dave Wittenberg (English)

Mizuho Kazami (風見 みずほ, Kazami Mizuho^?)

A 23 (as alien physiology is only hinted at, and growth rates may be different for the un-named alien species she is partly derived from) year old half alien, half human, Planet Inspector from the Galactic Federation, sent to Earth to observe and study humans. Mizuho came to Earth to monitor the planet though inadvertently was seen by Kei as she was just landing on Earth. Although she did not trust him at first, she started to become attracted to Kei after they exchanged secrets about their past. In a conversation with Maho, Kei learns that she is the youngest member of the GF Observers ever to gain a license. Also from Maho we learn that Mizuho apparently has never had a romantic relationship, which is verified when she admits as much to Kei.

One of the main conflicts in the story involves Mizuho and how she tends to have great jealousy and misjudgment. She even went to such great lengths as to spy on Kei while he was hanging out with a friend from school, Koishi Herikawa, in a set up date, and when Mizuho’s mother held Kei hostage in a hotel.

She loves to eat pochy, a Japanese snack food that consists of a biscuit stick covered with chocolate. She eats Pochy because it reminds her of her dead father; an empty box of Pochy was all Mizuho had to remind her of her father. She, her mother and sister are also seen eating it in several episodes. Pochy is a fictional version of an actual snack known as pocky.

Her catch phrase is “Saiyu sen jiko yo!” (“This is a priority one!”).

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Bridget Hoffman (English)

Koishi Herikawa (縁川 小石, Herikawa Ko’ishi^?)

She is one of Kei’s close friends who also pursues a romantic relationship with Kei, but towards the end of the series discovers her affection for one of her teachers, Yamada. This inappropriate relationship is only ever hinted at, but it’s more than obvious that something is going on between them when Yamada is confronted by the principal about him seeing Yamada and a girl from their school walking together. Her parents own a grocery store and she often has to go to deliver food that people ordered.

Koishi has a happy-disposition to her personality and is only ever seen crying when it comes to matters that involve Kei. One of the things Ichigo would get irritated at was that Koishi would never act on her urges and in effect she waits too long, and by the time she does tell Kei her true feelings, he’s already hopelessly in love with Mizuho.

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Michelle Ruff (English)

Ichigo Morino (森野 苺, Morino Ichigo^?)

An evidently shrewd young woman who is seemingly wise beyond her (apparent) years, and who associates with very few friends. Surprisingly, even though she resembles a diminutive 15 year old or perhaps younger, her real age is 21; her physical development was stunted due to her “standstills”, in the same way that they affect Kei. She had been in a “standstill” for 6 years. Ichigo’s loss of time and her sense of life cruelly having passed her by due to the illness (she wistfully reveals to Kei that she has a younger sister who is now married and expecting a child) tends to cause her to have a much more cynical and serious demeanor than is normal for someone of her seeming age, which is sometimes commented upon by her (much younger) friends.

In order to prevent the triggering of ’standstills’, her emotional expression is very subdued and phlegmatic. But for all her apparent depressive state, she is in fact very caring, attempting to assist both Koishi and Kei by acting as a ‘matchmaker’ for the two, because her own losses have been felt so keenly, and because she doesn’t want her friends to experience the kind of heartache she has felt by their wasting opportunities for closeness that she has been forced to endure.

She is quietly but fiercely independent, currently living alone in a rather Spartan apartment, partly on her own initiative so that her (well-to-do) family wouldn’t be burdened by her malady. She still maintains ties to her family, providing at least a semblence of normality. At one point she confesses to Kei that had they met earlier and revealed their mutual affliction to each other sooner, they might have become closer.

Her keen mind causes her to suspect the too-often ‘coincidences’ regarding their former teacher’s departure, the new one’s arrival and strange events in their neighborhood immediately after that to be connected, but her much younger and guile-less friends dismiss those connections. She also deduces that Kei and Mizuho repeatedly being found together in unusual situations to be the result of a covert relationship, but does not alert the authorities, preferring to observe the situation to verify it, proving herself to possess a formidable intellect as well as no small degree of compassion.

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Julie Anne Taylor (English)

Kaede Misumi (水澄 楓, Misumi Kaede^?)

Also one of Kei’s friends, Kaede tends to be a rather shy girl most of the time. Her physical characteristics include that she is one quarter Irish, tall (for a Japanese) and with red hair and freckles. Despite her shyness, during an accidental visit to her hotel room by a sleep-deprived Hyosuke, in which he mistakenly climbed into her bed, she awoke from a lightly inebriated slumber and claimed that he had appeared to her in a dream which now seems to have come true. She then sweetly confesses her love for him and proceeds to seduce him. The two become inseparable and are seen together throughout the series.

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese), Melissa Fahn (English)

Hyosuke Magumo (間雲 漂介, Magumo Hyōsuke^?)

A brash student with dyed blonde hair, Hyosuke aspires to attend college at Tokyo University and become a professional statesman, much like his brother. Hyousuke’s demanor is initially that of a shallow attention-seeker, but after he becomes romantically involved with Kaede, a deeper and much more sensitive and reflective side is revealed. Kaede confirms to Ichigo and Koishi that the private Hyosuke is actually a very different person; of him, she says “He’s a gentleman and he’s sweet.” Of Kei’s group of friends, he tends to be the most hyperactive of them all and often does the strangest things too. In the manga though, his attention seems to be turned to Ichigo instead.

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)

Matagu Shido (四道 跨, Shidō Matagu^?)

A rather serious student who is also into astronomy, Matagu seems to be the most hopeless of the cast, a classic ‘nerd’, never even getting to the point of gaining a girlfriend by the end of the series. He is much less confident and self-assured than Hyosuke, or even Kei, leading one to conclude that he suffers from crippling shyness. His stated fondest dream is to meet with ‘an alien creature from outer space’, totally unaware of the fact that his teacher certainly qualifies as such, and that he has had several conversations with his life’s dream in a very normal setting. He even considered to confess his love to her, but his shyness put a halt to his plans.

Voiced by: Hiroaki Miura (Japanese), Tony Schnur (English)

Minoru Edajima (江田島 みのる, Edajima Minoru^?)

Kei’s uncle and doctor of the local clinic. Minoru is something of a lecherous rogue, continually making wolfish comments regarding the attractiveness of passing women, even in the hearing of his wife, who often retaliates with a measured degree of force. He is openly quite jealous of Kei’s relationship with Mizuho; he is more than a little perverted (in the Japanese sense of the word), but often covers for and helps Kei and Mizuho out (such as moving Kei’s goods into the married couple’s new quarters, purchasing a proper wedding ring for their private ceremony, and paying for an expensive hotel in Okinawa for their honeymoon).

Voiced by: Naoya Uchida (Japanese), Michael McConnohie (English)

Konoha Edajima (江田島 このは, Edajima Konoha^?)

Kei’s aunt and nurse of the local clinic. A warm, kind-hearted and quite attractive woman who puts up with her husband’s behaviour only so much before she starts to get really angry at him. It is evident that she is the more mature member of their pair, and is quite able to curb Minoru’s wayward eye and lecherous comments with a significant look or gesture. She is not above using a small degree of force to cause her husband to ‘heel’ if his behavior gets too outrageous. She seems very sexually amorous towards her husband and loves him deeply. She is very supportive of Kei and Mizuho’s relationship, backing Minoru’s initial lie to the Headmaster about the couple being married, and then providing a second-hand wedding dress for Mizuho to wear in a private ceremony with only her, Mizuho, Kei and Minoru present.

Voiced by: Rei Sakuma (Japanese), Karen Strassman (English)

Marie (まりえ, Marie^?)

A quasi-organic master control program for Mizuho’s ship. Totally self-repairing and maintenance free. Hovers around in an innertube and on occasion plays a miniature guitar. Due to Kei fearfully striking ‘him’ duing an initial escape attempt when Mizuho revealed her true identity, Marieh’s programming became scrambled, endangering both Kei and Mizuho. Communicating partly through indistinct sounds and through gestures, Marieh is essentially a portable link to the ship’s operating system. But ‘he’ is also capable of emotion, as witnessed by the romantic relationship formed between ‘himself’ and Miruru and his sorrow at their parting. The implication provided in the series ‘extras’ is that Marie and Miruru are but extensions of the ships themselves, and thus are the ships.

Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese), Sandy Fox (English)

Masami Yamada (山田 正臣, Yamada Masami^?)

A quiet and shaggy male teacher whose hobby is creating human-powered planes. At first he appears to be something of a physically-developed nerd, obsessed with his hobby. Koishi delivers him meals from her parents’ grocery store. He later becomes something of a confidant, attempting to help Koishi by providing a sympathetic ear after a breakup with Kei and her subsequent depression but does not take advantage of her vulnerable situation. At the end of the series, it is implied that their relationship gets much closer than that of teacher and student.

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Tony Oliver (English)

Maho Kazami (風見 まほ, Kazami Maho^?)

Mizuho’s little sister, who disapproves of Kei but eventually comes to accept him. Initially, she is incensed that a member of the powerful Galactic Federation’s elite Observers (which it is revealed that Mizuho has the honor of being its’ youngest member) would stoop to marry such an evident primitive. (Conveniently overlooking the fact that she is ostensibly the product of just such a union, claiming that the only time that she had ever seen Mizuho cry was when their father died; the implication of wildly different growth rates between alien and human are suggested here, as Maho is much younger appearing than Mizuho and Mizuho had stated that she could barely recall her father’s appearance.) Maho even attempts to use Miruru to hurt Kei. During the process, she learns just how deeply Kei loves Mizuho and vice versa, and she relents, and later actually shows him a degree of affection with a stolen kiss, but she still possesses a playfully devious nature and is not above blackmailing Kei to get what she wants.

Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi (Japanese), Sandy Fox (English)

Hatsuho Kazami (風見 はつほ, Kazami Hatsuho^?)

Mizuho’s mother, who is very fond of Kei, whom she claims resembles her late husband. She is a very sensual, self-assured, bold but subtly assertive woman. She is not above playfully teasing her oldest daughter and son-in-law, demanding to know intimate details regarding their relationship. In one episode, to ’spice up’ her daughter’s love-life, she half-seriously shanghai’s Kei to an adult hotel to engage in mock bondage with him, with Mizuho in hot pursuit. She then departed, having gotten the newlyweds in a situation where they had no choice but to enjoy themselves. She greatly resembles Mizuho, with the exception of having purplish hair instead of magenta, and a small beauty mark on her chin.

Voiced by: Yumi Takada (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

Shirou Kazami (風見 士郎, Kazami Shirō^?)

Mizuho’s father; No image of him has ever been seen in the series. The 2009 Mars expedition ship he was a crewmember of was presumed lost in space. However, a GF vessel rescued the crew. The implication, never verified, was that he was not allowed to return to Earth. One of the crew of the GF spacecraft that rescued the Mars expedition was Hatsuho, which is how they came to meet and be married. Unable (or unwilling) to return to Earth (possibly due to the Federation’s strict laws governing contact with non-incorporated races) he remained in Federation space and raised a family there. The assumption is that he had attained citizenship, either through marriage or through naturalization, and at that point may have been abjured from returning. Eventually, he went on to develop a planetary contact program for Earth for the Galactic Federation. He died when Mizuho was still a child. The only thing of Earth that he had left behind had been an empty box of Pochy, which Mizuho had treasured.

Miruru (みるる, Miruru^?)

Another computer intelligence hologram, dressed in female-like clothing. The implication is that both Marie and Miruru are in fact commlinks for the ships, themselves. In other words, the ships house self-aware AI’s capable of emotions, which are reflected in the actions of the two miniature beings. Seems also to be romantically involved with Marie.

Kozue Kusanagi (草薙 こずえ, Kusanagi Kozue^?)

Kei Kusanagi’s elder sister. In a flashback which is shown during a critical ’standstill’, it is revealed that Kozue was a very bright – though possibly mentally disturbed – girl who felt that human emotions were the cause of much suffering in the world, and sought to escape them by committing suicide, which Kei had had the misfortune of witnessing. The trauma of having done so and the guilt that he had felt at being unable to prevent it led to his first ’standstill’.

Maiku Kamishiro (神城 麻郁, Kamishiro Maiku^?)

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

The main protagonist of the story, Maiku tends to be very secretive and stoic. He treats the two potential relatives harshly frequently calling them idiots and bossing them around, however we find out later in the series he does this to avoid getting hurt by people he cares about. Later, he warms up to them a bit more but still maintains a tough exterior. He is a computer programmer and student in high school. At the beginning of the story, he is living alone but is soon joined by Miina Miyafuji and Karen Onodera after they each trace their copies of the photograph to the house. Maiku is soon told, while on a date with Karen, that Karen is actually his younger twin sister and that Miina is the stranger. When Miina finds out she does her best to avoid him, much to Maiku’s confusion. Later he is told by Karen that Miina has gone to the train station to runaway. Shocked, Maiku jumps on his bike to go after her, and finds her standing on the dock of a rundown station. He tells Miina that he would never want her to go and that she is always welcome to stay. Maiku then say that ‘they could talk about their relationship later’ and then kisses her. Maiku and Miina later go out as boyfriend and girlfriend living with Karen in their home.

Left-Right: Karen Onodera, Maiku Kamishiro, and Miina Miyafuji.

Miina Miyafuji (宮藤 深衣奈, Miyafuji Miina^?)

Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Jan Irving (English)

Miina tends to have a hyperactive personality and is generally outgoing. Eventually, she develops feelings for Maiku but is afraid to act on them since she might in fact be his sister. She outwardly expresses herself as happy-go-lucky, although she is actually hiding things about her past. It is later found out that she is actually the stranger of the three, making Karen the relative. Knowing this she becomes hesitant when she is around Maiku, and even goes so far as to avoid him. In the last episode she attempts to leave by train back home, only to be followed and stopped by Maiku who says he would never want her to go and that she always welcome to stay. It is then that they share their first kiss. She then tells Maiku that she wasn’t trying to leave, but that she was told to come to the old train station by someone. Soon after all this Miina goes back to Karen and Maiku and she and Maiku begin to go out with each other.

Karen Onodera (小野寺 樺恋, Onodera Karen^?)

Voiced by: Ai Shimizu (Japanese), Lara Jill Miller (English)

Karen is usually a very shy and timid girl who is even prone to passing out when a situation gets too intense for her to handle. She frequently calls people by a title, such as calling Maiku, “Mr. Maiku”, or “Maiku-San” in the Japanese version. Like Miina, she also develops feelings for Maiku, though she doesn’t act on them for the same reasons. While looking at the picture of Maiku and the possible sibling she realizes that the picture wasn’t taken at the house, but somewhere near the house. She explores the area around the house and finds an old shack with an open diary inside. Reading it she finally realizes the truth. She gets the nerve to ask Maiku on a date, violating the Love Alliance Rules. She wears the dress that Maiku bought for her. As the date comes to an end she reveals to Maiku that she loves him and is in love with him. When she realizes that Maiku is very shocked and stunned she finishes her sentence by saying that she loves him as a sibling would, due to the fact that she is Maiku’s younger twin sister. In the last episode Karen finds out that Miina has left for the train station and quickly tells Maiku. Karen later follows after Maiku to see him and Miina kissing. She then jumps at them saying ‘Ms. Miina you can’t do it.’ As they’re all walking home together, Karen explains that she wants to be spoiled by her older brother for a little while longer and that Miina can’t have him till then. Later she accepts their relationship and even encourages their love.

Please Twins! is a story mainly revolving around three high school students: Maiku Kamishiro, Karen Onodera, and Miina Miyafuji. The three were drawn together by a photograph of their childhood home which later makes all of them seek out the house in the picture. However, the picture only has two children – a boy and a girl. Hence, only one of the girls, Karen or Miina, is related to Maiku. The only other identifying feature of the pair in the picture is that the boy and the girl have eyes of the same unusual color; a feature that furthers the ambiguity as all three of them have the same eye color.

The main concern of the male lead, Maiku, is that he is in love with both of the girls. In addition, the two girls are in love with Maiku, forming a love triangle of potential incest. The three main characters, mostly the two female leads, are in a predicament of wanting to discover their past versus the risk of losing a romantic relationship.

Please teacher is the title for the movie.Well it’s not really a movie but it’s on dvd. It’s rated M but i don’t really watch the rude bits and the story id about a 15 year old but really an 18 year old boy who has a standstill. A standstill is a problem for people who has it.A standstill is when you get frustrated or angry or sad and happy together, you faint.You won’t be breathing but you will still be alive. This boy’s name is named Kei.Kei met this lady named Mizuho Kazami.She is half alien and half human.She has this weird creature to teleport her anywhere. She teaches Kei’s class. Then Kei and Mizuho get together and they get married all because of the dad’s fault. But they have to keep this as a secret because Kei’s friend will know that he is dating with their teacher. There’s this other girl in the class that also have a standstill. Her name is Ichigo. She’s funny and quite intelligent. Later in the show, Kei meets Mizuho’s parents and her little sister, well i forgot her name, yeah she has a crush on Kei and so is Mizuho’s mother. Unfortunately, her dad died.