After her father's early death, Akito became the head of the Sohma family. Upon seeing one another, Yuki began crying, and Akito thereafter hugged him, mentioning that they finally could meet. Akito reveals that she was extremely happy to meet Yuki, the Rat, since she could show off to Ren and prove that her bonds with the Zodiacs were real.
Yuki mentions that he often saw Akito cry and her being comforted by Shigure. When Akito sensed this due to their "bond", she went into a hysterical panic, since Kureno's curse breaking was a sign of her bonds with the Zodiacs falling apart, which she thought defined her entire existence. She proceeded to beg and cry for Kureno to always stay by her side and never leave her.
Kureno, who immensely pitied Akito and couldn't bear the thought of making her sad, agreed to stay by her side and pretend to be a part of the Zodiac. From there on, Kureno has been by Akito's side at all times and never left the Sohma estate. Yuki was verbally, emotionally, and especially psychologically mistreated by Akito; he was locked up in a windowless, dark room for days on end while Akito convinced him that no one would accept him for who he is, that he was absolutely worthless and that no one would ever come to save him.
After this, Yuki asked Akito if he truly was so strange that he had to keep the Curse a secret, to which Akito replied that he did have to, since it was strange for a little boy to transform into a rat. She also told him that any normal person would be repulsed if they knew. For the following years, Akito kept Kureno by her side at all times, even starting a sexual relationship with him. Shigure became incredibly jealous by this and proceeded to have sex with Ren as a form of revenge.
This made Akito even more infuriated, and she thus banished Shigure from the Sohma estate as a punishment. Throughout the years, Akito has been desperate to prove Ren wrong, and that her bonds with the Zodiacs were indeed real.
For example, she beat Kisa Sohma bloody after Hiro Sohma confessed his feelings towards Kisa to Akito, leaving Kisa to recover in the hospital for two weeks. To make matters worse, Akito berated Kana for Hatori's injuries and guilt-tripped her into believing that wanting to marry Hatori was a mistake she should have never made since she is incapable of lifting the family curse. After Hatori was forced to erase Kana's memories of their time together as a couple, Akito suggested for him to abstain from interacting with her ever again.
Yuki was eventually able to leave the main house and began living with Shigure. Ren commented that the Zodiacs were abandoning Akito, just as she always predicted they would. Akito denied this and claimed they would all come back to her because of the inseparable bond she shared with the Zodiacs. Akito and Ren then made a bet in which Akito was to allow the Zodiacs to form bonds with "outsiders" to test whether they would return to Akito's side.
If they did not return, Akito would have to bow before Ren and then leave the Sohma family. A few months later, Akito somehow found out that Isuzu Sohma and Hatsuharu Sohma were dating one another. She confronted Rin and threatened her to answer which one had seduced the other, and Rin put the blame on herself. After Kyo returned from the mountains after being away for four months without any notice, Akito severely reprimanded him. However, Kyo swore that he would beat Yuki, and as a response, Akito made a bet with him; if he could beat Yuki before graduating high school, she would stop calling him a monster and he could become a full-fledged member of the Zodiac.
Akito agrees to let Tohru stay at Shigure's house. After making the bet with Kyo, Shigure approached Akito about allowing Tohru to stay in his home.
Akito, confident that she would win against Ren, consented to this. Since Akito believed that the world was a cruel, bleak place in which unconditional love did not exist outside of the Zodiac bonds, she also believed that Tohru would eventually end up rejecting the cursed Sohmas, causing them to return brokenhearted to her side. When Tohru leaves the Sohmas' main house after her first visit to there, Akito is seen gloomily staring out of a window at Tohru.
Tohru spotted her and got frightened by the gloomy hated aura from Akito. Akito had intended to 'check' on Tohru to see how she was doing. However, due to sheer coincidence, Tohru spots Akito and, without knowing a thing, approaches Akito.
Upon introducing herself properly, Akito pretends to be pleased about Tohru, praising her on being cute and kind. Yuki comes to rescue Tohru, only to find himself being intimidated by Akito's menacing words about her horrific treatment to Yuki in the past.
Tohru, however, manages to break off the contact between the two by pushing Akito aside. Akito was seen leaving the school, entering a car to be ferried back. In the car sat Shigure, where Akito speaks ill of Tohru, contradicting her "praises" earlier on. Akito was manipulated into joining the Sohmas having a vacation at the summer house by Shigure. She brings along Kureno. She arrives at the summer house, uninvited and a bombshell to the Sohmas that were present.
She instantly summons all the cursed Sohmas except Kyo to visit her, telling them that she "loves you all" and "misses you". She lets them go before the night ended. The next day, she met Yuki when he was taking a walk. She was seen talking to Yuki about something that shocked him and made him "run away". She later attempts to meet Tohru but she ended up 'giving up' as she felt 'sick and hot' and unable to comprehend Tohru playing with the "monster" Kyo.
She had a conversation with Kureno, even commenting that Kureno was "inferior" to her. Akito takes advantage of her influence as God of the Zodiac and using Kyo's guilt and self-loath against himself manages to subdue him. Next, she summons Haru, purposely insulting him with the phrase "big, dumb ox" and saying she doesn't want Tohru to meet Kureno. Following Haru's summon came Kyo's. There it was revealed on Akito's true intention on Kyo and how she forced Kyo to understand his feelings for Tohru.
It was also revealed that Kyo would be confined for the rest of his life if he does not beat Yuki in a fight, a bet met between Akito and him. Before being sent home because of Ren, she forcefully meets Tohru, successful the second time, where she tells Tohru to leave the cursed Sohmas alone, staying out of the curse, and revealing that she is the "master of all their souls" or God-like and scratches Tohru's face.
She later is believed to have traveled home, as she had met Tohru to see her before leaving. It is eventually revealed that Akito had always been lonely and afraid of change. The reason that she clung so desperately to the Zodiac bonds was that she feared that, without them, she would be all alone, and her existence meaningless, just as her mother had always claimed. This revelation occurred after both Momiji's and Hiro's curses broke, and also followed Momiji confronting Akito on such a fact.
With the bonds falling apart, Akito—after having wrongfully stabbed Kureno in the back when he tried to calm her down—ran away from the Sohma estate, wondering if everything really was all her fault, and why her world was collapsing so suddenly. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The curse at the center of the anime series Fruits Basket goes beyond the obvious magic that turns members of the Sohma into animals if they hug other people.
As the main villain of the series, Akito does some horrible things, including but not limited to verbally berating most of the Zodiac members, isolating them from their friends and family, beating a small girl, throwing another girl out a window, locking that same girl up in a shack with limited food and water without telling anyone where she is, stabbing someone, and even blinding a man.
And in the final season, it emerges that Akito is just as much a victim of the curse as the rest of her family, albeit in a different manner. Because the God of the Zodiac is traditionally male, Akito was forced to assume the identity of a man for her entire life. She was repeatedly told that people only stuck around her because they were forced to. Her mother, jealous of the close bond Akito shared with her father, was verbally abusive to her.
Throughout the show, as Tohru bonds with the Zodiac members and they imagine a world free of their curse, everything Akito knows begins to unravel. After meeting Tohru — who is completely and infallibly kind to her, in spite of everything — Akito realizes some people do unconditionally care about others, without the obligations of a centuries-old curse.
Despite the trauma she carries on her shoulders, her terrible behavior towards the rest of the Sohmas is still inexcusable, and for many, utterly unforgivable. Akito caused bodily harm to at least half of the Zodiac members and psychologically tortured them into staying under her tyranny. Thankfully, she realized the error of her ways and changed for the better, but misguided or not, she still chose to bring pain to the people that she claimed to love the most.
The oldest Sohma maid is a villain who often gets overlooked for her minimal role in the main story, but she played a vital part in shaping Akito into the trainwreck of destruction she grew up to be. Not only did she raise Akito to believe that her abusive behavior was justified, but she also created further tension between Akito and her mother Ren by pitting them against each other, making them rivals over Akito's father's love.
When Akito finally decides to change and follow a better path, the maid rejects her friendliness and straight-up informs her that she preferred the old Akito. She's definitely the only one. Given her treatment of Akito and her obsessive love for Akira Sohma that set a terrible chain of hatred and psychological abuse in motion, Ren is the ultimate villain of Fruits Basket. Her jealousy over her own daughter led to Akito's internalized misogyny and profound loneliness, and she only exacerbated Akito's troubled relationship with Shigure by having an affair with him.
Ren starts evil and ends evil. She's one of the few important characters who doesn't change one way or the other, continuing to stew in her hatred and obsession with Akito's father well after the others have moved on to better things.
Gabriela Delgado is a writer based in Lima, Peru. She's a fan of all things film and television, ranging from the latest superhero entries to the classic reality tv of the early s. By Gabriela Delgado Published Jun 09, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics Lists Fruits Basket.
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