Tohru Honda is endlessly kind, a little scatterbrained, and almost supernaturally optimistic. Her gentle, nonjudgmental warmth has a way of disarming even the prickliest people around her, which is a big part of why the Sohma household starts to open up once she moves in. That sunny exterior isn’t naivety, however, since she may just be carrying her own quiet grief and hardship.

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