| Sakura Diaries | |
 Cover of the first manga volume | |
| 桜通信 (Sakura Tsuushin) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | U-Jin |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Sunday |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | 1995 – 2000 |
| Volumes | 20 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Kunitoshi Okajima |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Kenji Terada |
| Music by | Mitsuo Hagita |
| Studio | Shaft |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | May 21, 1997 – October 22, 1997 |
| Runtime | 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 12 |
Sakura Diaries (Japanese: 桜通信, Hepburn: Sakura Tsūshin) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by U-Jin. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1995 to 2000, with its chapters collected in twenty tankōbon volumes. It follows the adventures of a boy who, unable to get into a prestigious university, pretends to be a student there in order to impress a girl, while ending up having to go to cram school and living together with his cousin, who is in unrequited love with him.[3] It was adapted into a 12-episode original video animation (OVA) series.
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