Fruits Basket (TV Series)

A Plum on the Back (2001)

Laura Bailey: Tohru Honda

Quotes 

• Tohru Honda : [to herself]  So Yuki wants to be like Kyo and Kyo wishes he could be more like Yuki. So why is it that even though they both secretly admire each other it just pushes them farther apart?

• [Kyo sulks, feeling sorry for himself] 

  Tohru Honda : Maybe the reason you don't see it is that it's stuck to your back. What I mean is, a person's admiral qualities - they're just like, say, a pickled plum on a rice ball. In other words the person's the rice ball and the plum's stuck to their back. So, all over the world you can have rice balls made with all sorts of wonderful ingredients, all different flavors and shapes and colors, but since they'd be stuck in the middle of everyone's back, someone could have a plum and not even know it. They'd look at themselves and think "I'm so plain, nothing but white rice," even though it isn't true because, turn them around and, sure enough, there it is. There's the plum. So if someone is jealous of somebody else, well, then, it's probably because it's easier to see the plum on someone else's back than it is on your own. Yup. I can see it. I can see it very clearly, Kyo. You don't know it but you have a great big plum on your back.