Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink
Plot. 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. Release. "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. 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. Reception. "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."