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Funimation Reveals Cast, Staff, Streaming for New 2019 Fruits Basket TV Anime

Funimation announced on Monday that it will stream a new television anime FunimationNow. Funimation also confirmed it has licensed the home video rights. Funimation confirmed the new anime will cover the entire manga's story.

Funimation also revealed two visuals.

The new anime will have an entirely new cast and staff. The new cast includes:

• Tada Never Falls in Love's Teresa Wagner) as Tohru Honda
• Scum's Wish's Mugi) as Yuki Sohma
• Banana Fish's Ash Lynx) as Kyo Sohma
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind's Bruno Bucciarati) as Shigure Sohma

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is drawing the character designs. Takaya herself is serving as executive supervisor.

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I never once felt negatively about the project or thought that I didn't want to do it, but still, my first thought was “What?!” (lol)
So, I made several requests right off the bat.
One of those was to do it with a completely new team.
Completely new. Every single person.
I told [the producers], if you want to open the curtain again, then please make it all new. Please rebuild the Furuba world from scratch, with new everything.
Another request was to not make the art look too much like my art.
This was partly because my Furuba art is old now, pure and simple, and also largely because I was in poor health back then (you can find more details about that in the afterword to the Collector's Edition, if you're curious), so my drawing was awfully shaky. Because of that, I wanted them to rebuild the art as well.
Other than that… Well, it was a mix. On some things I gave them detailed thoughts, and on others I gave them my blessing to do as they liked.
The production staff promptly accepted my requests and worked to meet them, and I'm truly grateful to them all. Thank you again.
They also readily gave me permission to visit the recording sessions sometimes, which makes me so happy. I don't actually do anything there; I'm just an observer. (Really, I don't do anything.)
It's a pure delight, getting to see the reels a little early like that.

Takaya serialized the original Fruits Basket manga in re-released the manga in 12 updated omnibus volumes beginning in June 2016. Yen Press describes the story:

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!

The original manga inspired a television anime adaptation in 2001.

Takaya final volume.

The manga takes place after Tohru has graduated high school, and it features a girl named Sawa who has just entered high school.

Sources: Nicholas Friedman), link 2