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“Childhood friends reunite: studious boy tutors street-fighting girl to enter elite high school for love.”
Sakurasaku Syndrome
サクラサク症候群〈シンドローム〉
7.19
6,771 rank · 7,796 readers · 33 favorites
Shounen
School
Drama
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Childhood friends reunite: studious boy tutors street-fighting girl to enter elite high school for love.
Childhood friends Wakatake and Kagetora meet again after not seeing each other for more than 10 years. Wakatake is a boy who takes his studies extremely serious, as he is to take over the medical clinic of his parents one day. Kagetora is an impulsive girl, who spends most of her time fighting outside on the streets, instead of the class room. Now that Kagetora decided to enter one of the most prestigious high schools of the country to pursue the love of her life, she needs Wakatake to help her to pass the entrance test... (Source: MU)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
8.0
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.41
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.41 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.00
Running avg · Dec 2013 → Aug 2018
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “The simple but sweet story of a boy and a girl. The same formula, but it will always work wonders. Sakurasaku Syndrome takes this premise and executes it in a way similar to that in Your Lie In...”
- 9 “The plot of this series is very straight forward - A guy is helping his estranged childhood friend by tutoring her to achieve a high enough score on her exams, so that she could go to the top high...”
- 6 “STORY: 6 ----------- There's nothing wrong with the story and I loved it. However, the ending came quicker than I thought. I dived in blind and as I was reading, I thought there would be 50+...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published Feb 2013 – Sep 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M23459 catalog