Sakura Gari

The Hunt for Cherry Blossoms
樱狩
(Sakura Gari)
Genre Psychological, Yaoi, Romance, Historical, Tragedy, Mystery
Manga
Written by Yuu Watase
Published by Shogakukan
Demographic Shojo
Magazine Rinka
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

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 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.
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.
Doctor of the Saiki Household and Souma's lover.
He is the real father of Sakurako who is working as a servant.
Abused wife of Fusai
Masataka's biological elder brother who died in the fire
A rich girl whom Souma was engaged
Masataka's 'younger brother' in the Tagami household who cares him as his own brother

References

  1. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-01-25/watase-ends-sakura-gari-restarts-fushigi-yugi/genbu
  2. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-03-17/fushigi-yuugi/genbu-kaiden-return-pushed-to-spring-2010
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