Sakura Sakura (Morishige)

Description

Fifteen years ago, natality decreased greatly in Japan and the few who were born during that time are called the "Old Generation" or "Oldgens."
Hanasaka Haru, a 15-year-old Oldgen, has never met any classmates before. Now, he goes to school for the first time and meets Himeshiro Sakurako. But Sakurako is not quite the ideal classmate he imagined, and his dream school life isn't turning out the way he wanted it to...

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

SakuraSakura

サクラサクラ（もりしげ）

Groups Scanlating

Kirei Cake

Seinagi

Latest Release(s)

v.4 c.20 by Kirei Cake 9 years ago

v.4 c.19 by Kirei Cake 9 years ago

v.4 c.18 by Kirei Cake 9 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

8 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

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Forum

1 topics, 1 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8 / 10.0 (135 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.69 / 10.0

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Last Updated

June 12th, 2024 12:25am PDT - 11 months ago

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Genre

Comedy Ecchi Harem Mature Romance School Life Sci-fi Shounen
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Author(s)

Morishige

Artist(s)

MORISHIGE

Year

2012

Original Publisher

Akita Shoten

Serialized In (magazine)

Bessatsu Shounen Champion (Akita Shoten)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #738

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Monthly Pos #1819 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3369 (No change)

6 Month Pos #5260

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Year Pos #6852

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List Stats

On 1372 reading lists

On 514 wish lists

On 47 completed lists

On 39 unfinished lists

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Sakura Sakura Ends

10 years ago

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Dont let this one confuse you!

by hurafloyd
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This manga is brilliant, it may seem bland or simple at the beginning, or it could make you think "Oh, another one of this type" BUT, even if it gives you those kinds of feelings it still is an awesome story and you wont be disappointed with how it is developed (I've read as far as chapter 13).

By the way, beware of the commenters below me, they kinda have spoilers that can ruin your enjoyment of the story, the surprise given is worth the secret, dont ruin your experience so read them at your own peril.

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Deeper than it seems at first

by Kevadu
12 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

Holy crap this is a good manga. Why didn't I read it until now...

The theme of declining birth rates leading to government intervention in coupling is nothing new in manga, of course. Usually this leads to some optimistic, sugary romantic comedy fluff. Not so, here. Sure there still are romantic comedy aspects, but under the surface is something much more sinister. This is a world in which birth rates declined so dramatically the few children that were born (the "last gen") are treated like some exotic endangered species. The protagonists here have been placed into this Showa era-inspired but obviously artificial environment and mostly left to their own devices, but there's also some real Orwellian monitoring going on. And as we see in chapters 7-8, there are real consequences to stepping too far out of line here. In fact, some of the content is sufficiently dark I'm surprised this was published in a shounen magazine.

The main protagonist is kind of interesting. At first he appears a tad dim-witted, but later on it's revealed that he's more aware of what's really going on than he lets on at first. It's just that he understands that resisting the adults is mostly futile so he goes along with things and saves his strength for when it really matters. This actually makes him more effective than the fiery Sakurako, who is always lashing out but accomplishes little.

There's also a bit of a mystery aspect to this story. Many things are teased at, but the reader is giving no clear answers.

Why was there such a drastic reduction in fertility in the first place?
What are the New Gen? They're not normal humans.
Why is there so much interest in Hanasaku Haru specifically? What happened in his past.

A lot of mangas hit you over the head with their settings but not so here. Things are only revealed gradually and a lot of it is show not tell. The reader actually has to put the pieces together himself. It's a fascinating world with some solid characters that really draws you in.

And then there are the occasional ecchi romantic comedy moments as well, but they actually kind of make sense here when you realize what the whole point of this facility is...

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A refreshing title

by jasperv
12 years ago

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this one although use the same clichés as other shounen titles (and some seinen ones) is a tong in cheek (from what i got from first chapters) jab at the genre
the way the whole harem & school was a setup (reality TV?) for the benefit of old people nostalgic about a revolted era (the invisible old peeping generation symbolize the readers of the genre)
and the personality of the protagonists is a another spin on the genre
the male lead is not indecisive nor a lech he cooks and talk/act like the old people
he have grown with
the female lead is mystery but she looks like she is planning a revolt against the old generation tyranny (my take on this)

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