Title: 櫻の一番 (Sakura's Best) Vol. 1
Artist/Author: 影崎由那 (Yuna Kagezaki)
Book Size/Pages: A-5, 171pp., w/furigana
Volume: 1/5
Original Serialization: Monthly Comic Dragon 2/01-6/01
First Printing: 9/1/01
Rating: 4/4

This series the author's first published series with her second one being one of my favorites, "Karin." Her artwork in Karin seems a little more refined than this first volume, but the style is the same.

Storywise, I didn't have too high of expectations as most artists's first work is usually average at best. However, I was pleasantly surprised with this book. It has a trained teenage swordswoman (using wooden swords), Asami Hinomori, who comes to Tokyo to attend a girl's school. She also has a brother, Ikuro, who works as a detective in the city. She finds out that there's a serial killer targeting young girls in the area and decides to take actions herself when classmate gets killed. That story arc finishes in this volume, which has me a little afraid because I have a feeling that things can only go downhill from here. Have to wait and see.

1. 朝見、上京 (Asami, Going to Tokyo)
2. 帝都の切り裂きジャック（前編） (This City's Jack the Ripper, First Part)
3. 帝都の切り裂きジャック（中編） (This City's Jack the Ripper, Middle Part)
4. 帝都の切り裂きジャック（後編） (This City's Jack the Ripper, Last Part)
5. 月下の少年 (The Boy Under the Moon)

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