Fruits Basket - Tv Series

There is use of mild bad language ('crap', 'bastard').

Two male students briefly fight; punches are exchanged and a boy is grabbed by the throat.

There is mild bad language (for example, 'piss', frickin', 'crap', 'jerk', 'hell', 'damn').

There are infrequent images of female characters in tight, revealing clothing, including a brief close-up image of a girl's bikini-clad behind.

In one scene, a woman repeatedly slaps a young man across the face; however, there is no injury detail.

There is mild bad language ('bastard', 'screw').

There are brief verbal suicide references.

A man grabs a teenage girl, demanding to hold her while he sleeps because two young men have "refused his embrace"; however the man is not taken seriously and the threat is brief. 

There is mild bad language ('pissed'), as well as milder terms such as 'damn', 'wienerhead', 'butt', 'freaking', fricking', 'screw', 'hell' and 'jerk'.

There are a couple of moderate verbal sex references to a teacher being a 'fantasy figure' and getting 'down and dirty'.

There are comic, undetailed verbal references to 'erotica' and 'naughty videos'.

There are scenes of mild emotional upset, when a woman’s friends attempt to help her recover from past trauma.

There are brief and undetailed verbal references to a woman's suicide, and to her son also planning to take his own life.

Through a succession of extended flashback sequences, a boy reflects on his childhood, during which he experienced verbal and occasionally physical abuse from other children and adults. He is slapped and shoved, and is told he repeatedly that he is worthless, which makes him upset.

Bad language includes ‘piss’, ‘ass’, ‘crap’, ‘hell’ and ‘damn’.

A girl makes a comment about a boy being a virgin. An overprotective boy briefly imagines men gawping at his female friend.

There is mild bad language ('bastard').

There is moderate violence when two characters fight, with one grabbing the other by the throat.

There are visual and verbal references to the emotional abuse a teenage girl faced growing up and the long lasting effect it has had on her. References are made towards unrealistic standards placed on the girl by her mother and disparaging remarks about her personality. This culminates in a false, undetailed accusation made towards the girl about harming her younger brother. The character receives emotional support from her friend and the issue is resolved in a positive and reassuring manner.

There are sex references throughout including a scene in which a teenage boy picks up a girl's bra and is called a 'perv'.

A character slaps someone during an argument.

There is use of mild bad language ('bastard', 'piss') and milder terms ('jerk').

A woman stabs a man's back, and twists the knife.

There are strong bloody images which include a blood-soaked floating dead person within a fantasy sequence. There is also focus on blood in a man's hands; and later blood in the aftermath of violence when a man is stabbed.

There is strong violence when a woman stabs another woman repeatedly in the arm, causing bloody injury.

There are mild upsetting scenes in which a fantastical cat dies. There are references to other mythical creatures dying.

There is mild comic violence including characters punching one another.

There is mild injury detail of a scar on a person's back.