Fruits Basket: A Social Psychology Analyses

If you analysed each and every character in Fruits Basket carefully, they're all analogies of one social problem, mental illness and prevalent adolescent dilemmas.

Tohru Honda is representative of a pupil ostracized for coming from a hard family condition. A poor orphan in a sea of ignorant peers trying to survive each day's loneliness. A representative of children who come from 'troubled' homes.

Sohma Kyo - another ostracized pupil whose sole fault is being born a cursed zodiac. He can be an analogy for children being born with some form of developmental disability aka Special Needs Child analogy.

Sohma Yuki - a possible analogy for autism spectrum. He appears to not make friends easily.

Sohma Ayame - this is definitely histrionic and narcissism.

Shigure Sohma - Hyperactivity. Really, the man is like a bouncing ball that never settles.

Sohma Momiji - child abandonment/neglect. Both his parents practically dumped him when the mother suffered nervous breakdown after giving birth to Momiji.

Akito Sohma - severe depression, bordering on schizophrenia.

Sohma Hatori - he is representative of all human beings who carried a emotional baggage one way or another. We are all shrouded by mistakes we will regret for a lifetime, or a secret so terrible you'd take it to the grave and also social withdrawal caused by traumatic events. Hatori never actually speaks unless spoken to.