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| “ | I will never forgive you if you do not your keep your promise to protect Tohru. | „ |
| ~ Kyoko to Kyo Sohma. |
| “ | Even if the world doesn't need me, I'll keep living for someone who does. | „ |
| ~ Kyoko's most famous quote. |
Kyoko Honda (née Katsunuma) is one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside Katsuya Honda) in the manga/anime series Fruits Basket and the main protagonist of the 2022 anime film Fruits Basket: Prelude. She is the late mother of Tohru Honda and the late wife of Katsuya Honda.
She appears only in flashbacks and photographs treasured by Tohru. She is also revealed to have been a close friend of Kyo Sohma, with her death having a major impact on him.
In Japanese version, she was voiced by Reiko Yasuhara from the original 2001 version of Fruits Basket, and later voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro from the new 2019 version of Fruits Basket.
In English version, she was voiced by Julie Mayfield from the original version of Fruits Basket, and later voiced by Lydia Mackay from the new 2019 version of Fruits Basket.
Appearance[]
She has orange like Kyo and purple eyes (2001 anime version).
Personality[]
Originally, Kyoko was a violent, temperamental, and misanthropic woman who, on the surface, cared for nothing and no one. She directed any bit of anger towards the closest person in her vicinity and didn’t care about consequences. However, despite her violent outbursts, she’s really just a lonely person who wants someone to acknowledge her. Even before she met Katsuya, this was evident when she told her parents she didn’t ask to be born.
Once Kyoko met Katsuya, she slowly became more and more responsible. She started becoming more open and nicer, even going so far as to quit the gang she’d been with her whole life, regardless of what followed. Soon after, she marries Katsuya and becomes loving and supportive, with a few jabs in between.
Although Kyoko becomes nicer, she still harbors a lot of insecurity, especially once she gets pregnant with Tohru or even the fact that Katsuya would marry her in spite of her past. With all that in mind though, she still was nice and caring to Tohru.
However, once Katsuya died, she became jaded and lost, even going so far as to drowning herself. But once she saw a child with their parent, she rushes back to Tohru and vows to be there for her no matter what. This would culminate her into becoming more responsible and caring, but also wiser.
History[]
When she was in middle school, Kyoko is the leader of an all-female Bōsōzoku gang called Red Butterfly Suicide Squad, the name coming from how a motorcycle's tail-lights supposedly look like a red butterfly at night. Katsuya and Kyoko marry after she leaves middle school and has a daughter, Tohru, and Kyoko learns how to work through difficulties together with Katsuya. She is devastated by her husband's unexpected death and nearly kills herself before remembering her three-year-old daughter needed her.
She first meet Kyo Sohma and tells him she is ignored and rejected by her parents, and falls in love with a student teacher named Katsuya Honda who stands up for her when her parents disown her after a gang fight.
Because of her experiences, Kyoko raises Tohru to believe that everyone needs to feel needed, and helps Arisa leave her own gang. Tohru calls Kyoko the most important person in her life, and repeats bits of her mother's emotional wisdom throughout the series. Kyoko dies a few months before the start of the series when she is struck by a car. Kyo is present at the accident but is unable to save her without revealing his curse, and hears her last words as "I'll never forgive you."
In chapter 135, a flashback of her final moments shows that she holds no ill will toward Kyo and is in fact trying to say "I'll never forgive you if you don't keep your promise to protect Tohru"—an act of charging Kyo to protect Tohru.
Trivia[]
- She shares first voice with Saki Hanajima.
- Her Second Japanese voice actress, Miyuki Sawashiro, Jolyne Cujoh in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Saeko Busujima in Highschool of the Dead, Wyldstyle and Unikitty in The LEGO Movie, Beelzebul in Genshin Impact, Kurapika in Hunter × Hunter (2011), Toko Fukawa in Dangaronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Gidget in The Secret Life of Pets, Mordred Pendragon in Fate/Apocrypha, Ririka Momobami in Kakegurui, Celty Sturluson in Durarara!, Female Robin in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Camilla in Fire Emblem Fates, Cammy White in Street Fighter IV, Ivy Valentine in Soul Calibur V, Ultear Milkovich and Ur Milkovich in Fairy Tail, Carl Clover in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Gammamon in Digimon Ghost Game, Aranea Highwind in Final Fantasy XV, Lilith Aensland in Darkstalkers 3, Asada Shino in Sword Art Online, Towa Akagi in Go! Princess Pretty Cure, Fujiko Mine in Lupin the Third, Yuzuki Seo in Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Andie in The Nut Job, Flame Princess in Adventure Time, Raiden Mei in Honkai Impact 3rd, Onna Kishi in Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, Bishamonten in Noragami, Shion Karanomori in Psycho-Pass, Brunnhilde in Record of Ragnarok, Milla Maxwell in Tales of Xillia, Olivia in Pokémon Master, Elizabeth in Persona 3, Velvet in Odin Sphere, Perrine H. Clostermann in Strike Witches, Decapre in Street Fighter, Nana Gray in Black★Rock Shooter THE GAME, Weiß in Arcana Heart 3, Canaan in Canaan series, China Princess in Legends of Oz: Dorothy Returns, Tobias in .Hack, Aoi Arisugawa in Jewelpet series, Kotarou Higuchi in Pita-Ten, Vexy in The Smurfs 2, Batman in The Lego Batman Movie, Quistis Trepe in World of Final Fantasy, Cereza in Bayonetta: Bloody Fate, Black Widow in Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, Elizabeth in BioShock, Broccoli in Neptunia V, and Haruka Nanami in Uta no☆Prince-sama♪.
- Her Second English Voice Actress, Lydia Mackay, also voiced Boa Hancock in One Piece, Cynthia in Dragon Ball Z, Kuroka in Highschool DXD, Eucliwood Hellscythe in Is this a Zombie?, Ultear Milkovich in Fairy Tail, Tsukiumi in Sekirei, Shion Karanomori in Psycho-Pass, and Milena Marius in Freezing.
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