Writer/Artist: Io Sakisaka
Lettering: Inori Fukuda Trant
Translator: Max Greenway
Publisher: VIZ Media (Print/Digital)
Publication Date: November 14, 2023
Rating: Teen
Genre: Manga (JP), Romance, School Life
REVIEW RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 stars (Recommend)
The bud of bittersweet first love takes bloom! The mangaka that created Ao Haru Ride, Love Me, Love Me Not, and Strobe Edge, now brings us Sakura, Saku. Io Sakisaka returns with a narrative of kindness and younger love.
Sakura, Saku begins off when Saku Fujigaya, the candy feminine lead, falls in poor health on a practice. She’s about to exit the practice when she falls unconscious and drops her purse because the practice leaves. When she wakes up, she finds out a stranger has ridden the practice again to allow them to return her purse. She wished to thank them, however the stranger solely left a notice with the title Ryosuke Sakura and a cellphone quantity.
The purse that Ryosuke introduced again was a present from her grandmother and was irreplaceable. She wished to thank him for going out of his manner, however by the point she gathered the braveness to name him, the quantity was disconnected.
Months cross, and Saku finds out that her classmate Haruki Sakura is the brother of Ryosuke Sakura. When she learns this, she asks him to offer her brother her thanks letter, however he instantly refuses. She makes it her mission to alter her thoughts when she realizes it’s uncomfortable for Saku to maintain asking Haruki to offer his brother the thanks letter. Saku plans on discovering a approach to give Ryosuke her letter, however Haruki finally modifications his thoughts and decides to assist her.
Shojo manga tropes in Sakura, Saku
This quantity had a number of tropes you’ll usually see in a shojo manga, equivalent to a sluggish burn or a stranger serving to the feminine lead on a practice. I get pleasure from slower-burn romances since you get to see the little moments that lead up to some ending up collectively. That stated, readers who prefer to see quick progress with the primary couple, won’t get pleasure from this collection.
Despite utilizing tropes which are seen typically, I discovered this quantity to be candy and refreshing. Thanks to the shojo forces that be, Saku and Haruki are pushed into spending time collectively all through the quantity. As they spend extra time collectively, they’re strengthening their friendship, and Saku begins to query what her new emotions imply.
If you’ve learn different works from Sakisaka-sensei and have loved her artwork, you’ll like her work in this quantity as properly. The characters are drawn with large eyes, and Saku is drawn with brief hair harking back to different leads Sakisaka has created. This quantity has shojo bubbles, sparkles, and blush in abundance. I get pleasure from these parts of shojo artwork as a result of they add to the general emotions of romance in the story.
VERDICT: Overall, I like to recommend Sakura, Saku. It does a great job of exhibiting these angsty and awkward emotions that include younger love and the way to cope with these emotions when issues don’t go the best way you imagined. If you need extra mature romances, this manga won’t be for you because it’s a younger love/highschool love story. However, it’s a candy story that’s price a learn.
Will you be including this to your to-be-read listing? Leave a remark under! VIZ Media’s Shojo Beat Imprint launched Volume 1 in print on November 14, 2023, and retails for $9.99.
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