Takaya Sensei, now in English

This blog is dedicated to collecting and translating Natsuki Takaya's (the author of Fruits Basket) tweets. Japanese is my second language, so there may be mistakes! You can find my main Fruits Basket blog here, our Fruits Basket discord community here, and my Japanese Study discord community here! Use this guide to search for tweets pretaining to specific characters and episodes! If you enjoy my translations and would like to support me, please consider checking out my Ko-Fi <3 window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-172504144-1');

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"Hello,

I am drawing "In such a small world" & it is steadily progressing.

Please look forward to it (•ᴗ•)♡♡"

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"Come to think of it... I feel like I've rambled about this before, but the child that appears in The Final is not the child of the Eldest Son (Hajime), but the child of the second son~🌸 So the man who was speaking is actually the second son~ #FruitsBasket #FruitsBasketAnother"

"There are three siblings. The second son and eldest daughters names have not been decided~ (*The oldest one is Hajime.) #FruitsBasket #FruitsBasketAnother"

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*In relation to this artwork* (spoilers for Episode 6)

"I drew long haired Kyoko for the first time in a while～(‘∀‘)　#Furuba"

"It has been a while.... I think..... (Suddenly loses confidence)”

[takayatweets]

Hi guys! 

I haven’t translated much recently because I’ve been avoiding looking at promo images on twitter before the episodes come out, but I made a discord server for anyone interested in studying Japanese! It’s just a small server for sharing study tips and what-not, but feel free to join ^^

I’m also going to post a screenshot of a line from each Fruits Basket episode when it airs, explaining the Japanese used and a word-by-word translation.

(Also, if you have any tweets that you want translated just drop me a link - I don’t mind doing anything that doesn’t have spoilers for the next ep!)

[takayatweets]

It is really the final 〜( ˘ω˘ )🌸 But the original has been finished for 15 years already, so it's a slightly strange feeling (lol)

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hello!!!! i LOVE your tumblr, i'm so grateful! i was wondering if you have a similar account on twitter?

Hellooo, thank you so much!! I only post on Tumblr just to make sure that my translations don’t take any traction away from the original tweets.

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(in reference to the art on the first tweet)

“Tohru / Don’t repost #Furuba #Fruits Basket”

“Because of the way that I drew it, it does look a little cold, doesn’t it (lol)”

(in reference to the art on the third tweet)

“(Kyo) is warring between wanting to be respectful and being unable to calm himself”

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“I got asked ‘How long is Rins’ hair in Furubana?’, and the answer is that I have not decided~. I don’t have plans for her to appear, either~ #Furuba #Furubana #Fruits Basket”

“She may be there irregularly but fundamentally, she won’t appear with the new generation in Furubana~”

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I love this blog. The search box is pretty great too. Awesome guide.

Thank you!! :)

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"We are getting Kureno-San crying from every angle.... RT"

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“Ah, about the photograph trapped in the pages of a book on the reverse-side of the cover art for Furubana Volume 3. From the beginning Hajime has been a daddy's-boy, and at some point in time he got a hold of this photograph from when he was a newborn. He always keeps it with him since it is one of his treasured possessions. Something like that. #Furuba #Furubana #FruitsBasket”

“He’s a grandpa’s-boy too”

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“Hajime’s mother and Mutsuki’s mother get along just fine. Their relationship will continue to change as time goes on. #Furubana”

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Congratulations on your job and for the one year anniversary of this blog!! Thank you for helping us understand sensei, and looking forward to many more fun tweets (in English!!).

Thank you so much, you’re too kind!  I’m always looking forward to hearing new Fruits Basket info from Sensei too, especially if it is something easy to translate ^^;

[takayatweets]

Takayatweets has been officially running for a whole year!

This blog started as way to test to my skills as a translator, but it has grown into a hobby that gives me no end of enjoyment. Thank you to everyone for the kind messages, donations, or for simply enjoying the blog (even when I’m not doing a great job at it) <3

A few weeks ago I got a job in Japan, and I used being an ‘unofficial online translator’ (lol) to boost my chances in the interview. So thank you for that little edge over the competition, and here’s to another year of happy, sad, strange and wonderful tweets from Takaya Sensei!

- Abbie

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“Regardless of what Yuki may say about Kyo, he still carries the feelings from his childhood (that doesn’t mean he has a particular interest in being friends, though), so I’m super happy that we get to see the characters as children in Furubana #Furuba #Furubana”

“I realized after the original serialization was published that I wanted to draw the result of all the growth after so much time as passed, so I think that it’s great that I was able to draw such things in Furubana.”

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*About this weeks ‘Thank you for watching’ art

“Their facial expressions are unintelligible due to the image quality”

“You can’t tell what Yuki’s expression is or what type of flower he is holding, can you (lol)”

“The flower has nothing to do with Tohru-kun. It’s a flower going from Yuki to Kyo.

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“Ricchan really loves Aaya, right? It’s good that they became somewhat of a set, isn’t it RT”

“A set...? Or.... how else am I supposed to put it (lol)?”