Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossoms Pink
Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossoms Pink is an anthology of Yuri one-shots by Morinaga Milk. The stories all focus on the students of Sakurakai Girls High School and their various romantic entanglements.
Tropes used in Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossoms Pink include:
- Bifauxnen: Mizuki
- Bound and Gagged: Minus the gagged part: In a bit of method acting during a rehearsal for the school play, Tachiba ties Narumi to a chair and kisses her.
- Cute Ghost Girl: Natsuka
- Downer Ending: The fourth (but not because of that) story, "This Love From I Can't Remember When".
- Erotic Dream: Nana starts having them about Hitomi, due to sexual frustration.
- First Kiss: Narumi mentions that she fantasized a lot about hers, but always imagined losing it to a handsome boy, or even a prince. Oops.
- Forceful Kiss: Michiru to Nosaka, followed by an Armor-Piercing Slap.
- Girls Love
- I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Why Chiharu keeps her feelings towards Eri a secret.
- Ill Girl: Natsuka, before she died.
- Important Haircut: Michiru gets one, after being rejected by Nosaka.
- Indirect Kiss: Eri and Chiharu, via a juice-box straw. Chiharu even mentally lampshades it.
- Intimate Healing: When Chisato pricks her finger, Mizuki helps her out by sucking on it.
- Les Yay
- Love Hurts
- Luminescent Blush
- Official Couple: Nana and Hitomi
- One-Gender School
- Romantic Two-Girl Friendship
- School Nurse: Komatsu
- School Play: Narumi and Tachiba star in one, playing a captive princess and the prince who rescues her.
- Schoolgirl Lesbians
- Sempai-Kohai: Tachiba and Narumi
- Skinship Grope: Tachiba does it to Narumi and declares her chest to be "tiny and cute."
- Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Tachiba is tall, dark-haired, rather stoic, and gets described by her friends as "intellectual and cool."
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Nana and Hitomi, towards each other.