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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)
What people say
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 “This manga delivers a simple, sweet story with a winning formula and an exceptionally beautiful art style, particularly regarding the character faces. However, the background art falls short of the...”
- 9 “The characterizations are near-perfect, and the art is impressively detailed, creating a unique, mature tone that successfully avoids the typical tropes found in most shounen romances. There are no...”
- 6 “I absolutely love the amazing art, the compelling characters, and the story, which features a solid romance. However, the abrupt ending at chapter 19, forced by the collapse of the original...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
Read Order & Related
A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Sakurasaku Syndrome begins and ends here.
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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