Sakura Gari

Sakura Gari (櫻狩り) is a manga series illustrated by Yuu Watase, set during the 1920s in Japan. It was Yuu Watase's first boys' love work.^[1][2]

Plot

The story takes place in Tokyo in 1920, and tells the meeting between Masataka Tagami, a poor student who wishes to enter the imperial university of Tokyo, and Souma Saiki, a tormented aristocrat with a sulfurous reputation who accepts to take him at his service and house him while Masataka prepares for the entrance exam.

Characters

• Masataka Tagami (田神 正崇, Tagami Masataka)

Honest and a prodigy, Tagami Masataka is a 17-year-old student that aimed for a great high school, Toudai, and went off to Tokyo. He attended prep school as a rounin and became a pupil of the Saiki family, who sponsor his education in exchange for his butler work. His hobbies are reading and singing. He lives with his kind-hearted adoptive parents, the owners of a small library, who care for him as their own after his mother abandoned him in their care as a child. Later he confesses to Souma that he is a child born of rape and that's why his traumatized, unloving mother abandoned him.

• Souma Saiki (斎木 蒼磨)

Souma Saiki is the son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family. He has English blood in him from his mother, a woman named Abigail, and he has a pretty face that’s not typically Japanese. His hobbies are reading, piano, and billiards. He is also bisexual and, despite the possibility of being engaged to marry a girl named Kanako, he takes lovers of both genders among the servants. He has a troubled past involving the death of his English mother in childbirth, neglect from his English grandmother, and abuse from many people in Japan after he was brought into the Saiki clan.

• Sakurako "Youya" Saiki (斎木 櫻子)

A beautiful girl with white hair and red eyes. Half sister of Saiki Souma and daughter of Lord Saiki and his legal wife, who was locked away for years in the household's warehouse after her misbehavior was too much to handle. Sakurako is actually a young man named Youya using his mother Sakurako's name as his own and posing as a woman, having been mentally and emotionally shattered by his mother's death (which he blames Souma for). He both loves and hates Souma due to their shared past, and tortures all of Souma's lovers among the servants out of jealousy.

• Fusai Katsuragi (寺島 伸人)

Doctor of the Saiki Household and Souma's long-time lover. Also worked as a butler when young, and he and Souma share a secret related to the death of someone who abused Souma as a child.

• Katou

The head butler of the Saiki Household, and Sakurako's personal caretaker.

• Asayo Katsuragi

Abused wife of Fusai

• Nogawa "Takafumi" Matsushita

Masataka's biological elder brother, the only member of his biological family who is still in contact with him. He died in police custody.

• Terashima Nobuhito

One of Souma's lovers, a young butler in the mansion. He is a talented artist and, while he gets along well with Masataka, he also is jealous of him since he realizes that Souma likes him too.

• Katsuragi Tomohiko
• Asayo Katou
• Ohatsu

The head cook of the Saiki Household, who is very kind to Masataka. She knows many things about the family.

• Yoshino Hiroshi

A man who also worked as a butler for the Saikis, implied to have been Souma's lover in the past.

• Morisaki Kanako

A rich girl whom Souma may be engaged to.

• Kitamura (北村)
• Mikawa (三河)
• Tagami Mitsugu (田神 貢)

Masataka's 'younger brother' in the Tagami household, who cares for him as his own brother. He has a very weak health and believes himself to be a burden on Masataka, whose approval he desperately craves for.

• Shimonuma (下沼)
• Ishizuka (石塚)
• Konno (紺野)
• Narahara
• Hayakawa
• Masumura
• Nogawa Kazuo
• Nogawa Yasunari
• Motegi
• Suzuki
• Kawamo

References

External links

• Sakura Gari
• Sakura Gari (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia