Yen Press Licenses Fruits Basket 

Yen Press Licenses Fruits Basket, 2 Other Manga by Natsuki Takaya

manga. The latter two titles will be published in the west in English for the first time.

series 12 updated volumes based on the collector\'s editions

recently began releasing in Japan. The first volume is slated for June 2016, with one new volume out every month.

previously released the manga in English from 2004 to 2009.

is the story of Tohru Honda, a young girl who – following the untimely deaths of her parents – finds herself living in a tent on land belonging to the Sohma family. When the family takes her in, she discovers their rather unusual “curse”: possessed by spirits of the Chinese Zodiac, they transform into their zodiac animal when embraced by someone of the opposite sex.

) is Takaya\'s most recent series. Takaya launched the series in

magazine in May 2011, but put the series on hiatus for her health in 2013.

in July 2016 with new volumes every three months.

, titular character Liselotte holds out hope of finding an important person from her past, but her quest leads her to a forest rumored to be inhabited by witches.

) in five omnibus editions. Takaya penned the series in

, has always been mesmerized by the night sky, but when she meets a boy at her eighteenth birthday party, she discovers that the stars may actually have more to do with her fate than she ever imagined.

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