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.

After dismissing a call girl he found strange the night before, he meets and falls in love with a red-headed woman named Mieko Yotsuba on the day of the entrance exam.

However, romantic rival Tatsuhiko Mashu suspects something is up, and after sleeping with Urara's friend Komi Natsuki, learns that Touma is not a university student.

Touma's arm heals in time for the real exams, and his test scores qualify him for S Shuu University, but he misses the school's deadline to enroll because of his attention to Akimoto's hospital bills.

Frustrated with his bad luck, he smashes the windows of his middle school, but the police arrest Urara, whose student ID was found at the scene of the crime.

He encounters Kotomi Hayashibara, a twin-tailed high school student who idolizes Urara; she sleeps with Touma in order to frame him for infidelity.

He eventually returns to Urara, who challenges him to ascend and descend the temple stairs a hundred times before agreeing to take him back.

A dating sim video game for the Sega Saturn called Sakura Tsuushin: ReMaking Memories was released in 1998 by Media Group.