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Is it okay for me to have my own life now, father, now that I'm not "special" anymore?
~ Akito's redemption

Akito Sohma (in Japanese: 草摩 慊人, Sōma Akito) is the main antagonist of the manga/anime series Fruits Basket and one of the overarching protagonists of its sequel series Fruits Basket Another. Akito is the head of the Sohma family, as well as the "God" of the Zodiac menbers, and is shrouded in mystery. She is feared and respected by many members of the Sohma clan, due to her manipulative and abusive nature.

She is the daughter of Ren Sohma and Akira Sohma and on-and-off love interest of Shigure Sohma, eventually becoming his wife. In the sequel, she is the the mother of Shiki Sohma.

She was voiced by Maaya Sakamoto (who also voiced Kiyomi Takada and Crona Gorgon) in Japanese and by Colleen Clinkenbeard in the English dub.

Her Evil Ranking[]

Her Villainous Deeds[]

  • She constantly abuses her family physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
    • She heavily abuses Yuki, Kyo, Hatori, Kisa, and Rin.
    • She kept Yuki in a dark, borderless room and tormented him for years after her mind snapped.
    • She constantly shames Kyo for being a "monster" and guilts him for his mother's suicide.
    • She destroyed the relationship between Hatori and Kana, which resulted blinding Hatori's left eye and forced him to wipe out Kana's memory.
    • She made a bet with Kyo that if he couldn't defeat Yuki, she would lock up in the Cat's Room until his death.
  • She made a plan to manipulate Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo in order to not erase her memory after finding out the latter knows the family’s secret, but to use her for her own advance.
  • When she came across Yuki, she reminded of much psychological trauma, she put him through during childhood.
  • She feigns politeness of liking Tohru, only hiding her true nature and finding her ugly and stupid.
  • She is very misogynistic and brutally dislikes girls/women as a result of hating Kisa, Rin, Tohru, etc.
  • She tends to manipulate and gaslights situations that are not her to blame of breaking up relationships.
  • She assaulted Kisa, since Hiro admitted that he had feelings for her.
  • She pushed Rin off the Sohma estate building, when Hatsuharu revealed his feelings for the latter and then lied about the situation when he didn't know.
  • She punched Momiji when he kept blocking her from seeing Tohru.
  • When Yuki decided to move on with his life, she snaps and attacks him with a flower vase and forces the latter an apology.
  • She fought and choked her mother. Later, she tried to kill her with a knife.
  • When she caught Rin attempting to steal her box of her late father's spirit, she locked her up in the Cat's Room, cutting most of her hair, and threatened her to blind Hatsuharu; if she continues to attempt to break the family curse.
  • When Kureno tried to comfort Akito, she stabbed him in the back and gaslights him for not leaving her, but wanted the latter to stay.
  • Despite out of fear, she slashed Tohru's arm twice and slaps her a few times.

Why She Doesn't Stand Out?[]

  • Her acts of abuse and attempted murders are personal enough in order for her to pass the general baseline, but she ultimately fails the heinous standards to her mother Ren Sohma who also committed extremely personal villainy to a higher degree on Akito herself.
  • Akito acts the part of a villain to the younger Sohma family members for her immensely cruel and manipulative treatment of them. Akito's apparently evil actions are motivated by a fear of abandonment and a huge Inferiority Superiority Complex caused by being deprived of a normal childhood because of her status as the Zodiac "God", her mother being a spiteful and unstable woman who hates her for getting more attention from the family than her, and the Sohma retainers enabling her abusive behavior. After she realizes her abuse of the Zodiacs only drove them away from her and Tohru offers her friendship, she chooses to become a better person.
  • She is heavily tragic and portrayed sympathetically based on her mother wanted to plan an abortion, once she found out Akito is female and attempts to prevent her to getting closer to her father. Before she was fallen, she was a sweet, innocent girl. Due to her father spoiling her, Akito grew up believing that she was born to be loved by everyone. This influence is what made her obsessed with the Zodiacs and prevented them from abandoning her. Once her father died from a disease, her mother was the reason of her villainy and made her into a psychotic abusive tormentor she was.
  • Despite the abuse she caused the Sohmas, she is really protective towards them. This was seen, when her mother tries to seduce and manipulate Hatori into danger, cares for her late father, and even gained feelings for Kureno and Shigure.
  • Once Tohru decided to become friends with Akito, she accepts and redeemed herself; she even apologized to all the Zodiacs for all the pain she caused. The Zodiac curse was finally lifted. She's settled down and married with Shigure and is a protective mother to her son, Shiki.
    • She is even fully aware that her actions towards the people she hurt were unforgivable and even acknowledged that her excuses cannot justify them. Because of that, she is willing to atone for all of her actions.

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