Kakeru Manabe

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Fruits Basket character
Kakeru Manabe
Gender	Male
Age	16-17
Height	Unknown
Blood Type	Unknown
Sign	Unknown
Occupation	2rd Year and Vice President at Kaibara High School

Kakeru Manabe (真鍋 翔 Manabe Kakeru) is a fictional character and the vice president of Kaibara High School in the manga entitled Fruits Basket. Manabe is a very outgoing and humorous boy. He only appears in the Fruits Basket manga.

[edit] Role in the story

Making his first appearance in Chapter 49 of the manga (Volume 9), Manabe appears at first as a rather lazy, yet outgoing and joyful young man, and has not changed since. Acting as Vice President of Kaibara High School, Kakeru is "second-in-command of the School's Defense Force" and more than passionately works to be one of what he thinks is a Super Sentai type of job, often stating that he's "Black" (as in the black Goranger) while Yuki is "Red" (the leader). Manabe can also be described as a younger version of Ayame Sohma (whom Manabe, upon meeting, immediately hugged and said no other person would be fit to be the Defence Force's commander), Yuki's older brother, and often is seen having striking similarities in personality.

Though he might appear constantly happy and joyous on the outside, Manabe actually at times looks down on himself, and can often get serious if he sees the need to.

Manabe is always fascinated by the Sohma family's beauty, as he is occassionally seen asking different Sohma family members their secret to their handsomeness.

[edit] Relationships

Manabe is the half-brother of Machi Kuragi, the quiet and pensive treasurer. He is very protective of her and can often be seen ordering her around, though rather out of love than sibling superiority. They share the same father, but have different mothers. According to Kakeru, he is the illegimiate son of their father, but because he was older than Machi and the only son, their mothers got into a heated dispute as to who was to be their father's heir. Machi's mother was particularly hard on Machi, forcing her to be as perfect as possible, so that as the legitimate child of her father, she would become the family's heir over Kakeru. The matter was settled when Machi's younger brother was born and Machi was brushed aside. As a result, Kakeru feels he needs to take care of his younger sister given that he feels she has been treated unfairly and she has become unloved.

Due to his vice presidential status he is also very acquainted to Yuki Sohma, the student council president. Together the two, although their differences are quite obvious and their personalities at times clash with one another, have developed a rather bondful relationship and the two are now finally seen smiling together in some parts of the manga, rather than Manabe just teasing Yuki, or falling asleep while Yuki is talking.

Manabe's girlfriend, Komaki, is also connected to Tohru Honda. Komaki's father had been the unwitting driver who struck Kyoko Honda, Tohru's mother. While Kyoko managed to live long enough to be admitted to a hospital, Komaki's father died upon impact. Believing that he was protecting Komaki, Manabe told Tohru that it was selfish of her to think she was the only one affected by the car crash and that Komaki suffered as well. Komaki, when she discovered what Manabe had done, became angry at his insensitivity to Tohru's feelings. Manabe, thereafter, promised to better understand other people's feelings before acting rather than going by what he assumed.

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Tohru and Friends
Tohru Honda | Kyoko Honda | Arisa Uotani | Saki Hanajima
The Sohmas
Akito Sohma | Yuki Sohma | Kyo Sohma | Shigure Sohma | Kisa Sohma | Hiro Sohma | Hatori Sohma | Ayame Sohma | Kazuma Sohma | Ritsu Sohma | Isuzu Sohma | Kureno Sohma | Momiji Sohma | Hatsuharu Sohma| Kagura Sohma | Ren Sohma | Akira Sohma | Momo Sohma | Satsuki Sohma
Others
Mayuko Shiraki | Mine Kuramae | Kakeru Manabe | Machi Kuragi | Kimi Toudou | Naohito Sakuragi | Mitchan