Peach Girl

With her gorgeous, tan skin and long, bleached hair, former high school swim team member Momo Adachi seems like the kind of girl who could get any guy she wants. In reality, however, she is only in love with Kazuya "Toji" Toujigamori, a baseball player whom she fell for in junior high and who reportedly only likes pale-skinned girls. Despite her attempts to change her appearance, many of her jealous classmates have begun spreading rumors about her promiscuous and "easy to get with" personality. Momo's friend Sae Kashiwagi is always there to comfort her, but is secretly the source of the rumors about Momo as part of her own scheme to steal Toji. Further complicating things is Kairi Okayasu, a popular male student at Momo's high school who has publicly declared his love for her and is determined to date her.

Hoping to find love in a nearly impossible predicament, Momo must navigate complicated love triangles, back-stabbing friends, and her insecurities about her appearance to discover who she really is.

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Okayasu, Kairi Main

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

Adachi, Momo Main

Chiba, Saeko Japanese

Kashiwagi, Sae Main

Nasu, Megumi Japanese

Toujigamori, Kazuya Main

Kiuchi, Hidenobu Japanese

Aki, Misao Supporting

Kingetsu, Mami Japanese

Okayasu, Ryo Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

Oji, Goro Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Nori Supporting

Morika Supporting

Yamada, Miho Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Aoki, Shunji Producer

Ishiodori, Hiroshi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Yoshida, Tomohiro Sound Director

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Mar 19, 2023

ylight67

Recommended

This series is a Spanish soap opera hit by a Japanizing beam. In highschool.

I'm the type of person who prefers their romantic story to be more linear, where I'm aware of the conclusion (roughly ofc), so I'm watching for the journey that leads to it. That being said, as much as I hate to admit it, this series intrigued me so much I ended up binge watching it. Is it worth it? Well, up until the last episode, I was ready to say yes and rate this one a strong-ish 9.

This story revolves around a love triangle, more or less constant back-and-forths of feelings between ... 2 guys. While I'm not a fan of this, the story was reasonable, it was consistent, it showed me so many different emotions and relationships, from the superficial ones to the most in-depth ones. The early parts felt miserable, but all in all it was fun. But I feel like it was dragged on for too long, the back-and-forths were twisted too much until literally everyone felt as annihilated as possible. Like when a visual novel adaptation chooses the worst possible route in the game. I know these people are just a bunch of codes and pixels and such a story certainly satisfies the needs of those viewers who love their drama as big as humanly possible, but the writer should have some consideration to their feelings. The excitement gets killed when you just try hard to max out the number of the twists you can possibly add. It was saved by the last few episodes, a certain kind of scenario and situation everyone was waiting for had finally come, the epilogue phase has begun, the viewer is finally pleased, the story is concluded! ....... or so you thought, but no, they had to add one final twist! Considering the very ending planned to all this, it makes sense, I liked the idea, normally I'd call it romantic and smile about it in tears, but this ending is not suitable for such an overly dragged and twisted story. I just lost all the interest and immersion I had.

If you decided to read my review and made it this far, I have to say, that despite my utter dissatisfaction, I can recommend you to watch this anime once. If it weren't for the last part, it'd be easily something I can rewatch multiple times, but even like this, it is worth to watch it once.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 26, 2023

canigetauhh

Mixed Feelings

I haven't thought much about this anime much in the few years since I've seen it, but Sae is forever burned into my memory as the embodiment of narcissism and nazar. She is a full-on hater. Sometimes when I wonder if I have trust issues, I think of Sae. Momo had active ops praying for her downfall. Her naivete toward Sae's true nature led to recurring pain. This show helps me feel at peace with losing "friends" who are jealous of your success, imitate you, pretend to care so much about you, all while seeking to crush you. If this review seems overdramatic, that's because ... the level of betrayal in this show is at the level of Griffith...nay even Judas. Sae is a A++ depiction of a narc-abuser friend.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 30, 2019

isahbellah

Not Recommended

I first found out about Peach girl through its manga, when it was licensed in my country in the very beginning of the 2000s. Years later, I found out there was an anime adaptation, but I postponed watching it because I wanted to reread the manga and experience it alongside the anime.

That was a MISTAKE. Comparing both of them at the same(ish) time only made the anime’s flaws WORSE.

The original manga has its problems (which I’ll discuss when I write my manga review), but the anime’s far surpasses those!

Almost nothing about the anime is worth:

– not the animation;
Which is ugly, broken, lazy, not at all ... like Miwa Ueda’s cute art style. Many animations from the early/mid 2000’s were kind of like that, but this just looks waaaay worse than what you’d usually see. The result of this animation looks like a bunch of college kids who just learned how to animate took a dive into their very first official job.

I don’t know any other anime made by Studio Comet – I think I’ve never watched anything by this studio – but I sure hope that they have improved. Otherwise, I won’t be watching any more of their stuff.

– not the music;
Boring and forgettable, neither the opening nor the ending were entertaining enough. I just skipped to the episode all the time.

– not the adaptation changes;
Yes, there ARE adaptation changes. Tons of it!!! They try to tame the story a lot, but how do you tame a story that was originally intended to be a bit risqué? Sex is a big part of this story (there are no sex scenes per say, but it's still important for the development of some characters/some relationships/the story itself), if you try to censor that because there might be kids watching, it will feel like a botched up version of the original work.

I felt that those changes were pointless and all they did was make me dislike this anime adaptation more and more.

Now, I may be sounding way too harsh so I will say two of the things that I actually liked about it:

– The VAs;
Everyone did a great job to portray these characters. Even though I read the manga in portuguese (and later in english), I could definitely match the anime’s voice actors with the voices I had given them myself. Sae sounded very sae-ish, Kairi was super kairi-ish, Momo sounded very fine and Toji was… well, Toji. I’m not a big fan of Toji lol

– The fact that this is a COMPLETE adaptation:
This caught me completely off guard, seeing as most anime adapted from a source (be it manga, light novel, visual novel, etc) have no “proper” ending or they make their own ending. In Peach Girl’s case, while the adaptation was poorly made, it was indeed a complete adaptation. With many changes, but the ending (and most of the important parts) were still the same!!

Even so, I still think watching this anime was a huge waste of time. If you want to experience Peach Girl, I strongly recommend for you to only read the manga.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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