Written by Yuu Watase Demographic Shojo Original run 2007 – 2008 | Published by Shogakukan Magazine Rinka | |
Genre Psychological, Yaoi, Romance, Historical, Tragedy, Mystery |
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.
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.
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 young man using his mother's name as his own and posing as a woman, having been shattered by his mother's death. 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 police custody.References
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