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Sakura Namiki

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: The Rows of Cherry Trees
Japanese: さくら並木


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 4
Status: Finished
Published: 1957
Genres: Drama Drama, Girls Love Girls Love, Sports Sports
Theme: School School
Serialization: None
Authors: Takahashi, Macoto (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 6.611 (scored by 598598 users)
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Ranked: #151002
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Popularity: #12340
Members: 1,458
Favorites: 6
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MangaTakahashi, Macoto (Story & Art)
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Synopsis

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.

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Reviews

Jul 18, 2011
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 nurse admiration for her "onee-sama" Chikage even when their relationship is threatened. Like many early girls love (and boys love) titles, this isn't a story of romance as we tend to think of it -- full of confessions and dating and sex -- but rather the tale of a passionate love, one that may never bloom into an official relationship but stays strong just the same. Unfortunately, it doesn't have much in ...
Dec 24, 2023
Mixed Feelings
“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 panels with dialogue.” (Erica Friedman, okazu.yuricon.com). Though not quite the first manga, Shoujo, Class S work, or proto-Yuri, the book in many ways acts as a transitional piece and a significant influence on all the aforementioned mediums and genres, giving a unique window into how classic Japanese art helped develop more modern Japanese media styles of today. In the context of modern manga “The Rows of Cherry Trees” comes across as quite restrained, and ...

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