Fruits Basket

Fruits Basket (also known as Furuba) is a shojo (girls) manga about a 16 year old girl named Tohru Honda who recently loses her mother and winds up living with the Sohma family. She soons finds out that the Sohma family is cursed with the vengeful spirits of the Chinease Zodiac and turn into animals when weak or hugged by the opposite sex. The story and characters are very original, which makes Fruits Basket a very popular manga.