Line #11 Manga/SakuraNoIchiban


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3	Asami Hinomori has recently gotten permission from her grandfather (due to her mother's insistence) to take a train to Tokyo to attend a boarding school called "Sakura Hill School for Girls". She's excited, of course, since she gets to see her elder brother, Ikurou, who's a detective. But Tokyo turns out to not be as safe as it seems with grisly murders and serial killers running rampant. Asami finds herself running into these mysteries, has the will to solve them, and is determined to find the culprits of these cases.
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5	''Sakura no Ichiban!'' (櫻の一番!, "Sakura's Best!") is a mystery shonen manga set in the Taisho era by Creator/YunaKagesaki, who's also known for later creating ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' and ''Manga/HekikaiNoAion''. The manga was serialized in ''Dragon Age'' from 2001 to 2003, and compiled into five volumes.
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8	!!This manga displays examples of the following tropes:
9	* AccidentalPervert: In chapter 4, when Asami jumps over the gate, she accidentally gets the skirt of her kimono over the head of an unsuspecting guard. After she lands and they stand in awkward silence, she then proceeds to repeatedly whack him until he is unconscious with her wooden katana so that he won't remember the incident.
10	* AngerBornOfWorry: In chapter 4, Asami comes back into the room her and Misao share (via the window) after spending the previous night looking for Jack the Ripper. To her surprise, she finds Misao standing by the window waiting for her. The latter then hits her on the head with her fist and calls her an idiot for making her worry all night and for chasing Jack the Ripper alone even though he murdered a classmate of theirs previously.
11	* AsleepInClass: Asami falls asleep during a lesson in chapter five because she was Jack the Ripper all night in the previous chapter.
12	* BedmateReveal: In chapter eight, Asami awakes to find Tsukiko sleeping next to her on her futon.
13	* BoundAndGagged: Asami and Misao find themselves at a warehouse with their hands tied behind their back after they got kidnapped.Asami somehow frees herself after freaking out however.
14	* {{Catchphrase}}: Asami exclaims "I'll do my best!" whenever she's ready to do something.
15	* CuteBruiser: Adorable GenkiGirl Asami is more than capable of easily taken down grown men twice her size with the sword skills her grandfather passed down to her
16	* DeadMansChest: In chapter one, the killers stuff wooden crates full of the corpses of dead women they've killed. Misao discovers this when the box Asami was standing on broke and her feet got tangled with one of the dead women's long hair. In her attempt to free her feet, Asami manages to flip the corpse on top of her.
17	* DeadpanSnarker: Misao is very snarky and is tired of the world and the crazy things (as well as Asami's antics) happening around her so she never misses a beat with her dry wit and sarcasm.
18	* DopeSlap: Misao often slaps Asami across the face or slams Asami's skull with her fist whenever the latter does something reckless or stupid.
19	* DrivenToSuicide: During Asami's second standoff with Jack the Ripper, the latter impales himself on his sword to atone for his past murders.
20	* FreudianExcuse: Jack the Ripper's reason for killing women and his general hatred of them comes from his [[AbusiveParents mother mistreating and belittling him]]. One day, he decides he finally had enough and murders her.
21	* ImAHumanitarian: The reason the killers in chapter one kidnap and murder young women was that appearently where they are from a girl's liver is thought to cause one's lifespan to increase.
22	* LonelyRichKid: Before meeting Asami and Misao, Tsukiko was not allowed to go outside and was very sheltered and lonely. The "friends" she had then only wanted her wealth.
23	* MadnessMantra: Tsukiko breaks down crying and starts to chant "There's no point for me to live..." repeatedly before revealing to Misao how she was put under a curse and why she was put into a insanity ward.
24	* TheOjou: Tsukiko Okakura is from a wealthy noble family, has a group of girls that follow her every step, and is a member of the school's Sakura Blossom Club, a club where girls from rich families go to have [[TeaIsClassy tea parties]]. She also possesses a HimeCut.
25	* OneGenderSchool: Sakura Hill is a boarding school for girls.
26	* OffWithHisHead: In the beginning chapter 2, Jack the Ripper kills one of his victims by slicing her head off with his sword.
27	* SpitTake: In chapter 11, Misao spits out her drink when Keiji says that Asami might be his first love.
28	* SplitPersonalityMakeOver: One feature that distinguishes Keiji from Tsukiko besides gender is that Keiji's hair is messier. He also lacks Tsukiko's signature hair ties and sidetails.
29	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Whenever Tsukiko's hair is disheveled, her bangs go in her face, and when she is wearing a white kimono, people tend to get scared and mistake her for a ghost.
30	* TeaIsClassy: Invoked by the Sakura Blossom Club, which is where rich young ladies spend time having tea parties.
31	* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: In chapter 7, the third year girls of the Sakura Blossom Club have their tea poisoned by the other members of the club so that they can become closer to Tsukiko and her wealth. Sanae is framed for the incident due to being from a poor family and generally disliked by most of the girls in the club.
32	* TearsOfFear: A would-be victim of "The Jack The Ripper" in the second chapter sheds tears of fright while he is pursuing her and before he almost kills her, Asami jumps to her rescue.
33	* {{Tsundere}}: Misao is heavy with the tsun as she is hot tempered, almost always in a bad mood and often puts her hands on Asami when the other girl annoys her or does something reckless. However, there are several instances where it's shown that she cares a lot for Asami even though she vehemently denies it.
34	* TsurimeEyes: The snarky and bookish, Misao has these eyes which contrasts with the cheery and clumsy Asami's TaremeEyes.
35	* WingdingEyes: Asami has swirls in her eyes in the first chapter when she gets knocked out by the guys kidnapping her and Misao.
36	* WreckedWeapon: In chapter 2, Asami's wooden sword breaks while she was fighting Jack the Ripper. However, she manages to lunge at him and leave a mark with the broken sword before he decides to escape after a guard spots them.

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