Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink | |
くちびるためいきさくらいろ (Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo) | |
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Genre | Romance, Yuri |
Manga | |
Written by | Milk Morinaga |
Published by | Sun Magazine Ichijinsha Futabasha |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Yuri Shimai Comic Yuri Hime Comic High! |
Demographic | Seinen, Shōjo |
Original run | June 28, 2003 – February 2012 |
Volumes | 1 (Ichijinsha) 2 (Futabasha) |
Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink (くちびるためいきさくらいろ, Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo) is a Japanese yuri manga anthology collection of one-shots by Milk Morinaga. The chapters are unrelated except for taking place at two affiliated all-girl schools, though characters reappear in several of the stories.
The story revolves around the lives of various girls attending Sakurakai Girls High School and the ups and downs of their love lives. While each chapter is a stand-alone story, characters from other chapters do appear throughout.
Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo is a collection of one-shot manga chapters written and illustrated by Milk Morinaga. The first five chapters were originally serialized in Sun Magazine's now-defunct yuri manga magazine Yuri Shimai between June 28, 2003 and November 17, 2004. When Yuri Shimai was discontinued, the last two chapters were serialized in the magazine's successor Comic Yuri Hime between July 18 and October 18, 2005, published by Ichijinsha. These seven chapters were later collected into a single tankōbon volume released on January 18, 2006 by Ichijinsha. Morinaga restarted the series in the October 2011 issue of Futabasha's Comic High! magazine and it ran until the February 2012 issue.[1] Futabasha republished the entire series in two volumes on April 12, 2012. The series is licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment and was published in a single omnibus volume in June 2013.[2]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | |
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1 | January 18, 2006[3] | 978-4-758-07001-0 | — | — | |
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1 | April 12, 2012[4] | 978-4-575-84058-2 | June 4, 2013 | 978-1-937867-31-7 | |
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2 | April 12, 2012[5] | 978-4-575-84059-9 | June 4, 2013 | 978-1-937867-31-7 | |
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Kuchibiru Tameiki Sakurairo was featured as Anime News Network's Import of the Month in October 2007 where it was praised for being "heart-meltingly cute—and not in the brainless moe-moe way, but because the feelings expressed are so honest." However it was noted that "it may be an emotionally moving work, but that doesn't stop it from often plunging into cheesy melodrama territory."[6] Erica Friedman of Okazu said that the stories were "well-executed," and praised the inclusion of the "lovely" color pages that had originally appeared in magazines within the tankobon edition.[7]