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Sakura-Gari  
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Description
Sakura Gari is a Taishou Era romantic story, ten years in the making. It centers around the 16 year old Tagami Masataka as he is aiming to find his place in life. While attempting to start prep school as a rounin he encounters Saiki Souma, the son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family and becomes part of the Saiki household.

It seems as though this will be the story of Tagami's life, taking us through both him growing up physically and emotionally.

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
樱狩
櫻狩り
Cherry Blossom Harvest
Cherry Blossom Hunting
Sakura Gari
Sakura Hunt
Sakuragari
The Hunt for Cherry Blossoms

Groups Scanlating
Watase's Sorai

Latest Release(s)
v.3 c.9 (end) by ? (1180d ago)
v.3 c.8 by ? (1180d ago)
v.3 c.7 by Watase's Sorai (1424d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
3 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

User Reviews
N/A

Forum
2 topics, 24 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.8 / 10.0 (642 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.7 / 10.0
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Last Updated
February 2nd 2013, 6:20pm PST

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Genre
Drama  Historical  Mature  Mystery  Psychological  Shoujo  Tragedy  Yaoi 
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Categories

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Tetsu x Rika
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Saki Midare yo Shoujo
Uchinaru Koe
Kyoudai Ai

Recommendations

Author(s)
WATASE Yuu

Artist(s)
WATASE Yuu

Year
2007

Original Publisher
Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)
Rinka (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #416 increased(+45)
Monthly Pos #452 decreased(-16)
3 Month Pos #461 increased(+13)
6 Month Pos #454 increased(+19)

List Stats
On 440 reading lists
On 393 wish lists
On 1062 completed lists
On 39 unfinished lists
On 313 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Thoughts on Sakura Gari Ending 435 days, 16 hours, 36 minutes ago
Watase Ends Sakura-Gari 1017 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes ago

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 Boring.   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by catherine~
February 7th, 2011, 9:46am
I was bored from the first to the last chapter. I really do not understand why so many people liked it! I only went till the end because there are so many good comments about it... but it sucks until the last page. Srsly, I consider this one a total waste of time.
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 7/10   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by luna selene
December 14th, 2010, 2:20pm
To tell you the truth: i didn't find it THAT great at all. Probably because of all of those positive comments I had expected something much better. It wasn't bad either. Just a little bit disappointing.
Characters were rather interesting, but I somehow I couldn't get myself to like them. Moreover, ending seemed a bit... pointless? The art was really good, with correct anatomy and all, there's nothing bad I could say about it, except for the fact that it was somewhat "plain" and forgettable.
Aaaand~ I know it was yaoi manga, and I was prepared for that, but. It was a little bit too much. Really. I ended up skipping most of them.
All in all, it was a good read but I don't expect myself to remember I have ever read that. 6/10

... Last updated on December 31st, 2010, 5:24am
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 Totally unexpected   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by kage9
December 9th, 2010, 9:06pm
I've read quite a few yaoi manga myself, and I've got to admit that this wasn't one that I would normally read, might be mainly because of the style of drawing....the face looks kinda childlike (if you know what I mean).
Anyway I saw that the rank of this manga was pretty high so I gave it a go. At the end I found myself reading the whole 3 volume nonstop!!! It's really captivating and the characters and really interesting and unique in their own way.
I totally recommend this yaoi manga to those who like yaoi, it's so enthralling and you won't be disappointed =D
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 A masterpiece   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by h1kar1
November 20th, 2010, 11:40am
Just one word for this manga: masterpiece

I have never liked Watase Yuu's shoujo manga, I hate Fushigi Yuugi and I can't even bring myself to read Ayashi no Ceres...simply because I hate her whiny female characters and the cheesy romantic stories. But then I found this manga and firstly I was attracted to it because it's her first yaoi work and because the art looks a bit different from her usual shojo manga style...and I never looked back since then...
The artwork is simply gorgeous with Taisho era as the setting, the story is dark, deep, complicated with lots of twists and the main characters are loveable and realistic with their own good and bad sides. Yes, there are lots of rapes and sexual violences, but those are important parts of the story that makes it more emotional for the readers. Watase-sensei has done a marvelous job in connecting the feelings and emotions of the characters to the readers and despite the dark theme of the story, every scene in the manga is drawn very beautifully that even murder and rape scenes don't look gross.
I can't recommend this manga enough and I'm very glad that I found this, it will definitely be one of the very few best manga I've ever read.
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 First off...   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by yan93
September 26th, 2010, 1:35am
... Let me just say that I am generally not a fan of Yuu Watase's works because her characters are a tad annoying, imo. This piqued my interest, however, because it was yaoi.. written by Watase Yuu.

I'm glad I read this. The plotline was absolutely stunning. I seriously felt for Masataka and all he had to go through. All the emotions were wonderfully depicted.

Spoiler (highlight to view)
Also, the final love scene between Masataka and Souma was beautiful. Normally you're just like ooh, yaoi, but it was heartfelt. Lol....


It's a great read.

... Last updated on September 26th, 2010, 1:38am
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 Stop complaining   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by koala1976
September 2nd, 2010, 7:51pm
I don't know what you expect. this is a story about that things: a dark family full of secrets and Mistery surronded by abuse and crime....If you don't like it go watch Heidi ....Nobdy says that aproes what happened like we don't aprobe what happened in the film "Sleepers" but it doesn't mean we couldn't like the story. Like a person fan of dramatic and tragic stories I'm a bit tired of people complaining all the time about crude scenes....It's like the manga "Rainbow" a lot of things happen to the protagonist but if they had lived a happy life with lovely families whay would be the point in reading the dtory. I'd like to know what you expected of a yaoi tragedy.
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 if you like blood diamonds, you're going to love blood rape diamonds   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by lilliful
August 30th, 2010, 12:23pm
Seriously folks, just like blood is the currency for diamonds in some parts of Africa, blood is the currency for absolutely everything in this manga -- especially love and salvation. I know I'm in the massive minority and that this review will be inflammatory to some, so I'm just going to throw out some hard statistics upfront:

7 deaths
2 completed suicides
1 attempted suicide (not the same person as either of the completed suicides)
4 completed murders
4 attempted murders (mainly against the star couple)
1 conspiracy to commit murder
893469 counts of rapings and beatings

Now, not that I'm any stranger to the yaoiland mantra of "it's not rape, it's just sex the uke didn't know he wanted," but usually that's in much smuttier, lulzier manga than this one. This one seemed to try to be at least vaguely serious. Anyway let me start out by saying that this reminds me of a bad exploitation film alla Showgirls or Striptease. The end-of-manga interview has the mangaka saying "I think all the characters were saved in their own way" -- ironically, the purification method of choice for everyone seems to be rape and death. Yes, my friends, this manga went along the lines of rape death rape rape death rapity rape death death. I even love how at the end the uke was all
Spoiler (highlight to view)
OH BTW I'M ALSO A RAPECHILD.
And every single bad thing that happens in this manga, ladies and gentleman, can be traced back to a man who couldn't keep his pants zipped.

Also, really, the seme a.k.a. Mr. Rapemagnet that nobody can help but rape upon first sight of him was a glorified Gary Stu of the "boo hoo hoo I've suffered every imaginable trauma known to man" variety. And as for the relationship between the uke and the seme, all of it is serious emorape. There is no sexyrape. It's not sexyrape when the scent of the seme makes the uke vomit. So be prepared for this to just be mainly angstrape. There is literally ONE consensual sex scene between them in the entire manga.

Anyway, I know you are all now tired of seeing every sentence I write contain the word rape. So I'm going to switch to beatings. It's almost comical going through the manga watching these characters pick up so many scars from near-death beatings and near-death assassination attempts and near-death rapings (sometimes these things get combined for efficiency's sake). By the end, in addition to having their own unique but generous assortment of scars, the main characters even have identical giant wounds THAT'S SO SWEET I KNOW RIGHT. No seriously ladies and gentleman, by the end I could have sworn their bodies more resembled hardened samurai warrior yaoimen than their bishy intellectual selves. Did I mention not a single one of EITHER of their numerous scars were obtained from them fighting something? They just tended to get beaten or attacked, step in the way of attacks, or attack themselves.

Anyway, I think you guys get the point by now, so for those who can't be bothered to read my long review, I'm just going to sum it up for you:
1. RAPE.
2. BEATINGS.
3. confused
4. SALVATION!
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 Beautiful.   
Rating: N/A
by Crazyee.
August 27th, 2010, 11:19am
The first yaoi manga ive read, i had never read yaoi mangas before. but i took a chance on this one when i told one of my friend that i was tired of seeing weak female characters, since they make me wanna bang their head to the wall. so she suggested to me this one. i was a bit skeptic about it, since it was my first yaoi read.

but i loved it, it was simply superb for me. very dark, full of secrets, obsession.. and so on.. well written characters, well atleast from my point of view. smile
i dont know whether the ending was left open or just an ending with many interpretations. and i am not a person for open ending if it is.

but in all, i recommend it, if you're into this type of genre.
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 something new   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by XxKumagoroXx
June 28th, 2010, 6:30pm
I don't know why Yuu Watase doesn't write more yaoi but she should. Out of her cliche shojos, this manga truly captured the character's development well. It's a complex story full of betrayal and family secrets which linger back like ghosts of the past. I loved this manga and enjoyed reading it. Hopefully Watase decides to write another yaoi soon~
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 You must read it!   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by ramama
May 29th, 2010, 11:31pm
Love this so much!! smilesmile
I love how Watase-sensei didn't use stockholm syndrome plot, Masataka is cute but he has strong characteristic too, I admire this uke wink
Angst plot + beautiful artworks from sensei, a must read for yaoi-lover!!
I really hope sensei will make another yaoi manga
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