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Tooru Honda
本田透, Tohru Honda
Tooru Souma, Tohru Souma
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Birthday:May 6
Age:16-18
Gender:Female
A kind hearted orphaned high school student who at the start of the story begins living in a tent. She is then found by Shigurehttps://anilist.co/character/206 and Yukihttps://anilist.co/character/208 who offer to take her in in exchange for housekeeping. She loves to cook and describes herself as an excellent housekeeper. She also has an afterschool job as a janitor to pay her tuition fees to avoid being a burden on her grandfather. She is depicted as polite optimistic extremely kind and selfless several other characters including Kyohttps://anilist.co/character/209 Rinhttps://anilist.co/character/3892 and Hanajimahttps://anilist.co/character/376 tell her she needs to look out for her own interests and not shoulder everyone elses burdens
Tohru habitually speaks formally but not always correctly a habit she picked up from her father Katsuyahttps://anilist.co/character/9230 after he died when she was three as a way of replacing him in her mothers eyes. Tohrus mother Kyokohttps://anilist.co/character/9754 raised her alone until she died in a car accident shortly after Tohru entered high school a few months before the start of the story. Tohru repeatedly calls Kyoko the most important person in her life and treasures her photograph
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