Sakura Diaries
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is a 12 episode OVA series based on the manga of the same name by renowned hentai
manga
artist U-Jin
about romance, love triangles, and the struggle to get into a prestigious university.
. When he goes to take the acceptance exams, he becomes attracted to a redheaded woman named Mieko Yotsuba. While Mieko makes it into Keio University, Touma does not. Instead of embarrassing himself by telling Mieko the truth, he lies and says he made it in. Now he has to attend cram school
, pretend he is actually attending Keio, deal with the affections of his cousin Urara Kasuga, and decide between Mieko and Urara whom he loves more.
Hentai
is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and computer games. The word hentai is a kanji compound of 変 and 態...
manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
artist U-Jin
U-Jin
is a Japanese manga artist specializing in lewd and pornographic manga. U-Jin has created many manga over his career and is well known for his portrayals of cute pneumatic female figures.-Works:* Angel...
about romance, love triangles, and the struggle to get into a prestigious university.
Plot
The protagonist, Touma Inaba, is a high school graduate who is trying to get into the prestigious Keio UniversityKeio University
,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...
. When he goes to take the acceptance exams, he becomes attracted to a redheaded woman named Mieko Yotsuba. While Mieko makes it into Keio University, Touma does not. Instead of embarrassing himself by telling Mieko the truth, he lies and says he made it in. Now he has to attend cram school
Cram school
Cram schools are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities...
, pretend he is actually attending Keio, deal with the affections of his cousin Urara Kasuga, and decide between Mieko and Urara whom he loves more.
Characters
- A prep school student who is struggling to get into Keio University after repeated failures. When he goes once again to take the entry exams, it's love at first sight (for him, at least) when he meets Mieko Yotsuba. When she makes it in but he does not, he decides to lie to her and says that he was accepted. He lives with his cousin, Urara Kosuga, who has feelings for him and affectionately calls him "Tonma-chan" though he is too dense and love-struck for Mieko to notice.
- She is in love with her dear "Tonma-chan" and when she finds out that he is lying to Mieko in order to impress her, only respect and love for him prevents her from revealing Touma's secret. She keeps saying that her dad is never around and is away on business when Touma keeps asking about where he is, but as he finds out later, they might be really having the apartment all to themselves.
- She is a redheaded beauty who makes it into Keio University and is the object of Touma's desire. She may not know Touma's secret, but it turns out she has secrets of her own concerning a man who is living in Europe.
- Urara's best friend, she is very energetic and often advises Urara on how to deal with her love for Touma. However her advice often just means "get him in the sackSexIn biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
". She usually gets her advice from Cosmo magazineCosmopolitan (magazine)Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...
and her mother who states that men are "nothing more than people that buy you stuff". But she does look out for Urara's well being.