Kagura Sohma

Kagura Sohma

Kagura Sohma, aged 18–20, is the boar of the Chinese zodiac. She is depicted as a girlish young woman with great strength, and the impulsive behavior associated with those born in her zodiac year.The latter usually takes the form of berating and beating up Kyo, who she insists is engaged to her. When Kagura was seven and Kyo was five, when he was all alone because he carried the curse of the cat, she played with him,and one day threatened him into proposing to her (using a knife in the manga, a boulder in the anime). After having the nature of her love questioned by Rin Sohma, Kagura eventually admits to Kyo that her love was based on pity,much as Kazuma fears Tohru’s is,and that she has clung to him because, compared to the cat, she has it easy.After Kyo tells her he cannot love her, she claims to give up hope of winning him,but still loves and cares for him;when Tohru admits to Rin Sohma that she loves Kyo, Kagura impulsively strikes her, saying that the one to tell that to is Kyo himself. According to an author’s note, Kagura is an “older sister type who’s always ready to help.”She attends a local college while living with her parents, who are shown taking her double-edged personality in stride, and Rin. Kagura is the only female member of the zodiac who is not shown to have been injured by Akito. Takaya derived her name from the eleventh month, kagurazuki or “month of Shinto song and dance,” which is the month of the boar, of the traditional Japanese calendar.