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“1957 manga about three girls in a table tennis club navigating rivalry and romance at an all-girl school.”
Sakura Namiki
さくら並木
6.63
15,994 rank · 1,652 readers · 7 favorites
School
Drama
Girls Love
Sports
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Synopsis
1957 manga about three girls in a table tennis club navigating rivalry and romance at an all-girl school.
Takahashi Makoto's The Rows of Cherry Trees is quite old—it's from 1957. It centers around three members of the table tennis club at an all-girl school. The story begins with the school tournament, where Yukiko faces off against first her rival, then her crush. (Source: lililicious)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 0.47
Agreement
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σ 0.47 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Jul 2011 → Jun 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “‘Sakura Namiki’ is a manga with beautiful vintage art in a proto-shoujo art style with a cherry blossom (sakura) motif. The introductory colour pages are framed like a storybook with beautiful...”
- 7 ““The Rows of Cherry Trees'' is a sweet and delicate story of passion between female classmates that “balance[s] deliciously between Ukiyo-e prints and modern manga, with both narrated stills and...”
- 8 “The Rows of Cherry Trees is best described as "delicate". It's a small volume, one filled with an emotional yet elegant love story. In the ping-pong team of one all-girls' school, sweet Yukiko...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 4 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 32m approx
- Published Jan 1957 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M7946 catalog