Fruits Basket/Awesome

Anime

 * In the last episode of the anime, . Wow.

Manga
"Grandpa: Tohru, I apologize. Please don't think too harshly of them. They're just disagreeable folks by nature."
 * In the early part of the story, Tohru briefly moves back in with her grandfather, who is now sharing his apartment with Tohru's paternal aunt and her kids. Her aunt's family makes it clear they see Tohru as something of a burden, until the aunt reveals she hired a private detective to do some checking on Tohru and knows she was staying with the Sohmas. The aunt's reasoning was that she remembered what Kyoko was like and figured "like mother, like daughter", and tells her not to do anything so "reckless" in the future if she wants to keep living with them. Her cousins then pretty much call her a whore, and Tohru stands there, silently taking it, until her grandpa slaps the male cousin. The anime makes this better by removing the Cloudcuckoolander aspect of Tohru's grandfather.

"Yuki: Don't you ever talk that way to Honda-san, you lowlife."
 * This is followed by Yuki and Kyo coming to the apartment to take Tohru back home. Tohru's cousin figures out they're "the guys the little tramp was shacking up with". Yuki's response just leaves the aunt's family speechless: his tone and delivery makes it clear they better shut their mouths if they know what's good for them.


 * Toward the end of the story,
 * Also, when Tohru . Keep in mind that Tohru, a simple schoolgirl without any self-defense training, is doing this towards  . Wow... just WOW.
 * Just before this:
 * Momiji, who is not a tough guy (to put it mildly) interposes himself between despite knowing that
 * In chapter 20, Akito comes to introduce himself  to Tohru,  For the first time in the series, Tohru acts other than kind and sweet and is, considering her normal behavior, terribly impolite,
 * In the backstory, we have
 * Kyouko saving Uotani from the gang.
 * Kyouko saving Uotani from the gang.