Sakura-Gari
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| The Hunt for Cherry Blossoms | |
| 樱狩 (Sakura Gari) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Psychological, Yaoi, Romance, Historical, Tragedy, Mystery |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yuu Watase |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | Rinka |
| Demographic | Shojo |
| Original run | 2007 – 2008 |
| Volumes | 3 |
Sakura Gari (樱狩) is a manga series illustrated by Yuu Watase, set during the 1920s in Japan. It was Yuu Watase's first boys' love work.[1][2]
Plot
The story takes place in Tokyo in 1920, and tells the meeting between Masataka Tagami, a poor student who wishes to enter the imperial university of Tokyo, and Souma Saiki, a tormented aristocrat with a sulfurous reputation who accepts to take him at his service and house him while Masataka prepares for the entrance exam.
Characters
- Masataka Tagami (田神 正崇, Tagami Masataka)
- Honest and a prodigy, Tagami Masataka is a 17-year-old student that aimed for a great high school, Toudai, and went off to Tokyo. He attended prep school as a rounin and became a pupil of the Saiki family. His hobbies are reading and singing. He lives with his kind-hearted adoptive parents who cares for him as their own after his mother abandoned him as a child. Later he confessed to Souma that he is a child born of rape.
- Souma Saiki (斎木 蒼磨)
- Souma Saiki is the son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family. He has English blood in him from his mother, and he has a pretty face that’s not typically Japanese. His hobbies are reading, piano, and billiards. He is also bisexual and engaged to be married.
- Sakurako "Youya" Saiki (斎木 櫻子)
- A beautiful girl with white hair and red eyes. Half sister of Saiki Souma. Sakurako is actually a man using his mother's name as his own and posing as a woman.
- Fusai Katsuragi (寺島 伸人)
- Doctor of the Saiki Household and Souma's lover.
- Katou
- He is the real father of Sakurako who is working as a servant.
- Asayo Katsuragi
- Abused wife of Fusai
- Nogawa "Takafumi" Matsushita
- Masataka's biological elder brother who died in the fire
- Terashima Nobuhito
- Katsuragi Tomohiko
- Asayo Katou
- Ohatsu
- Yoshino Hiroshi
- Morisaki Kanako
- A rich girl whom Souma was engaged
- Kitamura (北村)
- Mikawa (三河)
- Tagami Mitsugu (田神 貢)
- Masataka's 'younger brother' in the Tagami household who cares him as his own brother
- Shimonuma (下沼)
- Ishizuka (石塚)
- Konno (紺野)
- Narahara
- Hayakawa
- Masumura
- Nogawa Kazuo
- Nogawa Yasunari
- Motegi
- Suzuki
- Kawamo
References
External links
- Sakura Gari
- Sakura Gari (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia