Too many Sakuras!

[rocklobster]

Ever notice how many girls named Sakura there are in anime? There's quite a lot. Here's some titles I know that have a girl named Sakura in them:

• Cardcaptors (duh)
• Naruto
• Betterman
• Please Save My Earth
• Blue Seed and Blue Seed Beyond
• Sakura Wars (duh again)--haven't seen it, but I read a manga preview once

did I leave any out?

[Splitter 2.0]

Ever notice how many girls named Sakura there are in anime? There's quite a lot. Here's some titles I know that have a girl named Sakura in them:

• Cardcaptors (duh)
• Naruto
• Betterman
• Please Save My Earth
• Blue Seed and Blue Seed Beyond
• Sakura Wars (duh again)--haven't seen it, but I read a manga preview once

did I leave any out?

Fate/Stay Night - Sakura Matou
Da Capo - Sakura Yoshino


That's all I got.

[Radical Dreamer]

• Cardcaptors (duh)
• Naruto
• Betterman
• Please Save My Earth
• Blue Seed and Blue Seed Beyond
• Sakura Wars (duh again)--haven't seen it, but I read a manga preview once

Tsubasa Chronicles, too; though I suppose that might include CCS's Sakura by default.

[Mangafanatic]

But you could put the shoe on the other foot, "THERE ARE TOO MANY EMILY'S."

[KhakiBlueSocks]

The japanese love their cherry blossoms!

[KBMaster]

Well, when you think of sakura, you think of cherry blossoms, which are very pretty. So of course authors want to use this name to perhaps fit the image of their character.

[TheMelodyMaker]

I looked up "sakura", and it has two other meanings:

2. Decoy or fake buyer
3. Hired applauder

Feel free to read into that however you like.

[mitsuki lover]

That might be true or not.
As far as it goes I know of only one Kagome(Inuyasha)and two Kaedes(Inuyasha,
Betterman).There are probably also dozens of Yukis but the only one I can think of is my beloved Yuki Saiko from Silent Mobius,and need we count how many Mitsuki's(and variant spellings)there are?I mean there are two just in Dual!

[KhakiBlueSocks]

There's a Tsubaki Sakura in "His and Her Circumstances". She matches the "Sakura" legacy--cute yet tomboyish. She also has one of my favorite lines in the series:

"I understand. From now on, you're Yukinon."

"I'm what?"

"You're our friend now, and a member of our group. Okay, Yukinon?"

[Nate]

I'm with Osaka here. I could just as easily say, "There are too many Jennifers in TV shows!" or "There are too many Johns!" Sakura is apparently a popular name in Japan; Jennifer is a popular name here. And even if you say okay, there are seven or eight characters listed here named Sakura, well, there's like what, over a thousand anime series? That's not even 1%.

So...yeah.

[mitsuki lover]

Wouldn't Sherry on Zatchbell be another Sakura in Japanese or is the fact that her name is spelled with an S instead of a C make a difference?

Actually I was thinking this over yesterday before going off and besides all those Sakuras there are at least:

3 Roys:
Robert 'Roy' Device from Silent Mobius
Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist
Roy Fokker from Robotech

2 Kaedes:
Inuyasha
Betterman

2 Namis:
Nami Yamigumo from Silent Mobius
Nami from One Piece

2 Megumis:
Megumi Shitow from RahXephon
Megumi from Rurouni Kenshin

of course there are probably more of each but these are the only ones I can think off off the bat.
btw:There are also several Alice/Arisus as well such as:
Alice from Serial Experiments Lain(Lain's friend)
Alice from Please Save My Earth!
Alice from Alice 19th...etc...

[rocklobster]

I don't know if the Roy in Robotech counts. Remember, those are Americanized names.

[Doubleshadow]

Ever notice how many girls named Sakura there are in anime? There's quite a lot. Here's some titles I know that have a girl named Sakura in them:

• Cardcaptors (duh)
• Naruto
• Betterman
• Please Save My Earth
• Blue Seed and Blue Seed Beyond
• Sakura Wars (duh again)--haven't seen it, but I read a manga preview once

did I leave any out?

I have thought about this, too! I mean, dang, can't they get more creative than that? I have never heard the names of my Japanese good friends in anime (Jun and Fumika, in case someone knows of any characters with those names). But Sakura is everywhere! There is a Sakura in the W Juliet manga as well.

[mitsuki lover]

Interesting enough the Japanese seiyuu who did Sakura in Cardcaptor Sakura was herself named Sakura!

[rocklobster]

Actually part of the reason might be is that names are limited by law in real life. According to something I read in Anime Insider.

[MorwenLaicoriel]

....The Japanese put a limit on names by law? o.o

[mitsuki lover]

Or it could be just that Sakura's such a darn popular girl's name over there.

[MyrrhLynn]

Well when I visited Japan (short trip) I don't remember meeting any Sakura's. I guess it's a popular name to use in movies/anime/manga but not real life? It could be kind of like our version of "John Smith" where practically no one has that name (unless they had cruel parents) but it's used a lot.

[Denimcat]

Add [spoiler] Arima and Yukino's eventual daughter from Kare Kano to the list. That really annoyed me. [/spoiler]

[Animus Seed]

I have thought about this, too! I mean, dang, can't they get more creative than that? I have never heard the names of my Japanese good friends in anime (Jun and Fumika, in case someone knows of any characters with those names). But Sakura is everywhere! There is a Sakura in the W Juliet manga as well.

Jun---Shaman King

Jun---Tekken (video games count?)


Fumika---I'm sure I heard this name in some anime (or was it Fumiko?) but I can't remember which.

[Doubleshadow]

Jun---Shaman King

Jun---Tekken (video games count?)


Fumika---I'm sure I heard this name in some anime (or was it Fumiko?) but I can't remember which.

The Jun I knew was a guy.

[mitsuki lover]

Interesting the only other time I have come across Kagome outside of Inuyasha was in Silent Mobius.The episode where Nami goes home is entitled:'Kagome,Kagome'because it's the title of the children's song that is featured in the episode.Though I can't think of any other character by the name.