Peach Girl

This Review is about "BITTERNESS" I'm Just being honest to myself and what I really felt while watching the series.

Yesterday I've just finished watching Peach girl and it gives me a creeps through out all the end.
I was annoyed, disappointed and frustrated about the outcome of the story especially the ending because how evil can a person be.

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"This is the kind of tips that I've gathered while watching all 25 episodes of peach girl"

-A happy couple being crushed by an evil demonic unhuman monster bestfriend and A happy couple being crushed by an evil demonic unhuman monster bestfriend.

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Peach Girl is not just your typical anime about a girl and a boy falling inlove and becoming a couple but it's all about being crushed by your evil demonic unhuman monster bestfriend.


Even though the couple survives a lot of obstacle and challenges in their lives
there's always a high chance that their happiness is short because there's always a way that this evil demonic unhuman monster bestfriend will get in the way.



If you want to torture yourself like i do then watch this never ending love story of this amazing couple that you thought
that they will live happily ever after but only to see them hurting all over again then watch and enjoy this anime that is allergic to happiness that wants the villain to succeed even until the end.

At first it has great potential to be a great but that potential was flash right a way in the toilet.


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PS: To tell you the truth I really enjoyed watching it 'cause the story center in the main characters and it was focus only in romance and I know I'm being harsh but i had high hopes for this anime
'cause the anime gives me the hype and the energy that i want in a certain romance anime but I know I'm being way too critical but the satisfaction that I need that I didn't get, that's why I'm so disappointed and frustrated.

the only thing that got me starting this show was Funimation channel. it seemed really interesting at first, although the story line is cliche. but i decided to give it a try. already from the first episode, i could tell that Momo was going to be a pain to watch. she was so obsessive with toji from the get go. but it wasn't until later on that you could really see her obsessiveness. she threatens to jump out windows, get's angry when she sees her boyfriend talking to someone else other than her, and she waits 5 minutes for her boyfriend. any later than that, ... she assumes the relationships over. pretty obvious she's desperate for a boyfriend....she just get's plain annoying. her decisions were plain, and her love life over exaaggerated.

everything about this story is unrealistic. i had heard many peopple say "this show is amazing! i can relate to it so much!" .......ok? u cannot relate to this story what-so-ever. it makes no sense. many plot twists seemed like they were just made in an attempt to keep the story going. like when Kairi decides to go on a whole trip walking the whole summer. yeah right, like his parents would let him do that in the first place, but basically the creators only made him leave so that they could try to make the drama greater by bringing in toji again. momo's feelings are always unclear. and she's such a sap and goes with the flow too much. if she cries and someone comforts her once, she immediately thinks "this person was there when i was feeling down. i love him".....SHE CANNOT CHOOSE!!!! if i were kairi or toji, i would dump her. i just don't see what they find so captivating and attractive about her. she cannot hold a decent relationship even if her life depended on it.

basically, the characters could've been so much more. Momo is out of the question. she is no doubt the most annoying person in this whole show. Toji is just some freak stalker who can do nothing but stalk Momo, hoping to be her comfort when kairi makes her cry. that could be depicted as sweet, but later on it just get's creepy. he'll begin popping out of no where seemingly having no plans that day, and you'll wonder what he does with his life. Sae is...annoying, yet smart. she gets annoying because all she wants is to ruin someone else's life, but then again, she is clever. she uses her resources wisely in order to get what she wants. and she has backbone. but still... she is pretty annoying. the only thing that kept me going through this show was Kairi. he seemed aloof, loveable, and a sweet sensitive guy. his methods to cheer up momo were cute. but then after a while, he too began getting on my nerves.

i'm not gonna say much about the art. the art was good. it was different than others. but it had it's awkward moments. they didn't seem to focus too much on the quality of the opening. in many occassions, Toji looked like either a bird or a fish. and the sound wasn't good either. at first the theme songs seemed okay and fit the story quite nicely, but then they just got annoying again. like everything else in the story. the ending wasn't too good, and the opening seemed okay at first. but as you can guess, you get tired of hearing "baby low tension" it just loses it's catchiness.

so as you can see, this show was a fail of slice of life. the creators tried to make it entertaining and easy to relate to, but it just didnt happen. i found myself groaning in disgust at most of the episodes, and the only reasons i actually finished this show was because
1. there was nothing to watch
2. something in me still believed that this show could get better
3. i didnt want to leave it unfinished.
characters were bad, soundtrack bad, storyline bad, and...yeah that's basically it.

How to describe Peach Girl....


In a word; forgettable.

The story is completely over-the-top melodrama, filled with plot-twists that even soap-writers would find unrealistic. girl(momo) has history with guy A(touji), girl's friend(sae) is out to sabotage her life at every bend, girl meets guy B(kairi), guy B chases girl...who is in love with guy A...while girl's "friend" continues to try and sabotage her life. Cliche angsty love-triangle ensues, rinse and repeat.

There is literally nothing in this story that you either haven't seen done (better) before, beyond the wacky twists that are hardly believable in the realm of reality.

The art style, while somewhat unique, ... comes off at times as tacky and borderline visual novel-esque.


The soundtrack was limited and overused

The characters were (mostly) annoying and hard to connect with.


I have a soft spot in me for romantic animes, I really do. Prior to Peach Girl, I watched Bokura Ga Ita and was completely caught up by its story/characters/music/art/etc.

I've seen Peach Girl compared to Bokura Ga Ita(and Nana?) and for the life of me I can not understand why. Beyond love + drama + young adults....there is just no comparison between them.


I give it a 4 overall....it made me laugh a bit, but for the most part...with every episode, I was just wishing it was over.

I like drama as much as the next person, but I would never suggest watching this.
Drama isn't bad b/c there's always a reason behind people's behavior, and I watched the entire anime trying to figure out what was going on. I never did.

All I got was one girl (Momo) is obsessed one guy, loses him, get's stuck on another guy, runs back to the first guy when she gets a chance, then changes her mind and goes back to the second guys.

Besides establishing that the characters were cliche' (the over-sacrificing good boy, the loud boy who never does anything right, the mean girl, and ... the confused main character bubble head) there was absolutely no character development.

If your watching this because you like a-good-love-triangle-that's-really-more-of-a-love-scribble, or b/c you like dramatic relationships, or because you simply want to enjoy a good anime, don't watch this. But if you are looking for a waste of 6 hours of your life, this is your anime.

I did not like this anime. Characters play 'The Love' as a game. Love can not be changed in 1-2 actions. It cannot be changed by saying two words. I hate from this anime because main girl changes her love from other to other. I not agree with that.
Lovely Complex better than this. Try to watch LC instead of this.
One human can really only fall in love one time and one person.

One of the most toxic shows a teenager can watch. I had read the Manga and the spin-off manga in junior high; I remember I enjoyed it at the time. When I started my anime Adventure, now as an adult, I added this to the list. I honestly couldn't remember a thing about it. It's bad.

Every character is a horrible person. It wants you to think that there is only one bad person in the main cast, that being Momo. As you watch each character make a decision, it is always the wrong decision. People might chalk this up ... to them being teenagers, but this is beyond the normal scope of how high schoolers behave. People lie, keep unnecessary secrets, constantly talk bad about one another, sexually harass each other, make manipulative plans behind friends backs... it's terrible. Not just as a character study but as far as writing goes, it's all poorly planned out &written.
I dropped it on episode 4 when the main character (who you're supposed to be rooting for btw) threatens to kill herself by jumping out of the window, because her boyfriend won't listen to her. While two other characters plot to literally molest someone in the hospital.What a horrible things to do to somebody. The drama is too much these people have been together for less than a week and they're literally willing to die.
It's unfortunate because this series could have been a really good look into what it is like to look different, stand out too much, and to not feel pretty. Would have been interesting to see a dark-skinned main character represented for teen girls who lacked confidence. it could also have been a really good guide for children and teens being bullied and how to get out of it. And if they wanted to represent the relationship is toxic I wish they could have gone the route of showing how to get out of it properly and maturely.
Not much to say other than it was a disappointment. Would not recommend to anyone would definitely tell teens and kids to avoid it in just because I worried it would send wrong messages.

If you have a high tolerance for frustration and annoyance, then you can maybe handle this anime. If not, I wouldn't suggest this one.

Story: 4/10
There was nothing special about this show except the fact that the female lead, Momo, is tanned which actually didn’t influence or affect the main story. Additionally, she has a so-called “friend-enemy” or “frenemy” who is exerting so much effort to ruining Momo’s romantic and social life for a petty reason. For a rom-com, drama (which, BTW I really do enjoy), the story was quite shallow and dull. All you’ll see in 25 episodes is Momo repeatedly and indecisively shifting from ... one love interest to another in her love-triangle.

Art: 6/10
The art wasn’t bad nor spectacular. The only art feature that distracted me throughout the series was the lips though. I wasn’t used to the upper lip being evident that it somewhat sidetracked me from the general appearance. Aside from the lips, everything else was acceptable. I enjoyed the flat, 2D art effect they gave Sae when she’s depressed or out of her normal self.

Sound: 4/10
The sound didn’t enthrall me. After watching the whole anime, not one soundtrack stuck to my head despite it's repetitiveness. But in terms of voice actors, they really complement the characters appearance and emotions.

Characters: 3/10
I found the characters very annoying, lacking qualities an average person has. During my duration of watching the anime, the characters just kept on triggering my temper and irritability to boil. The protagonists (Momo, Kairi, Toji) appear to lack common sense and are all indecisive. Instead of doing the logical and rational solution, they just exacerbate the issue by doing what they “feel” is right but actually is the opposite, which gets on my nerves. The antagonists (Sae and Kairi’s older brother) on the other hand, are conniving, manipulative, yet very clever and sly. These antagonists make me so pissed at not only them, but also the protagonists for easily giving in to their deceits and lies. In my perspective, Kairi was the only acceptable character due to his cheerful and happy-go-lucky attribute, but eventually shifts in the latter part. The characters are basically the main reason why I got immensely frustrated with this series.

Enjoyment: 5/10
Although I was exceedingly frustrated while watching the series, it had this mysterious appeal that made me want to continue watching it, in high hopes the characters would develop better and and the story would improve. In spite of that appeal, it was still dragging, making me fast-forward the useless scenes.

Overall: 4/10
I gave this a 4/10 because it just wasn't appreciating; however, it did make me laugh in some portions of the scenes. Overall, I was disappointed in this one. If this was a movie and I had to pay for it in the cinema, I’d want my money back and wished I had watched something better.

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!!

I tried giving this anime a chance after seeing a trailer for it.

It was exactly what I expected.

It was cliche highschool drama. I found most of it very unrealistic.

Momo's friend Sae is this horrible manipulative girl. I don't even know why Momo was hanging out with her in the show. She keeps wanting the guys she can't have and trying to ruin Momo's life. When Momo sees her boyfriend with her or something she automatically thinks he's cheating on her.

I wouldn't suggest this show unless you really enjoy excessive drama and love triangles. While I do watch anime dubbed I wouldn't suggest the ... dub if youre going to watch it

I want to give a fair warning if she had not ended up choosing the guy I wanted her to I would have give a 0 if I could, but all worked out in the end.

STORY:
The story was awful, and it had a twisted concept at that. A girl in love with a guy, and a "friend" who does everything in her power to make the main characters life miserable, and along with this another boy who is also in love with the main character makes the story all the more complicated. I hated the story! She had a "friend" as I mentioned literally make ... the class mentally and physically abuse her, and yet the main character can still forgive her "friend" over and over even though her "friend" pulls the same kind of crap every time. The only reason I even give a 2 is because she ended up with the character I like the most.

ART:
I don't want to be so hard on the art because this anime aired in 2005 I believe (sorry if I have the year wrong) , but I found the art to be bad either way. I will say' even though it was bad I think it was the highlight of the anime.

SOUND:
I do not really have any idea what to say for sound because I cannot remember anything sound related in the anime besides the opening. In other words the sound didn't leave even the slightest impression.

CHARACTER:
I hated every single character!! The main character was dense, and did everything she shouldn't have done. (Near the ending wasn't as bad, but it was still hair pulling) The "Friend" who kept on making the main characters like a LIVING HELL! I have no idea who the made her out the way they did, but I really wish the made her more lovable, because I feel bad about myself for having sympathy for an incident involving the "friend", but any how i'll leave characters at that, because the two main male characters were no where near as bad.

ENJOYMENT/OVERALL:
Well I wish I hadn't started the anime to be honest...I liked the ending so I guess it wasn't as bad, but I highly recommend you stay away unless you LOVE drama, because this anime has a ocean of it, and it is extremely annoying to me, and I have watched plenty of drama anime, but this one was the worst anime not to mention drama anime I have ever watched.

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.

What. A. Piece. Of. Shit.

Pardon my French, but WHAT THE F*CK!?

I LOVE shoujo, romance, school, drama anime but this!?
THIS PIECE OF COW DUNG!?

*SPOILER*

During Ep 4, after some annoyingly, flat and irritating drama that could have been resolved by the characters if they just said f*cking hi to each other or something.
No, Toji gets mad at the Peach Girl (forgot her name, thats how lame this anime is and I just clicked pause 15 secs ago druing the middle of ep 4) for kissing the Oyka-whatever guy BEFORE they were dating while he himself kissed Peach's "best friend" (who is an evil mastermind) WHIIILE they ... were dating. AND HE GETS PISSED!?

That crap was the last straw. I lost my shit and came here to vent.
So there, if you want a hernia from all the annoying shit these characters do, then watch it and then commit suicide.
Seriously.
I would'nt watch this even if I got payed.

I really wanted to write something about Peach Girl, because I struggled to finish it (after all, it was an ordeal)

*contain some spoiler*

First, I was really interested by the challenge of Peach Girl : show (in any maneer) how Momo is discriminated because of her skin colour. But, how to say I was REALLY disappointed ?! Okay, she's anxious about her skin; but I had imagined a much more global picture of this discrimination rather than the "OH!! I hope Touji loves me, even though I have tanned skin!!". I also noticed that the romance between Touji and Momo start really early, so I was... ... surprised and happy ? But, finally, it's hard to like this shipping because of Sae who really wants them to break.
By the way, Sae is a f*cking bitch and I was really tired of this anime, during the MxT relationship (always frustrated and so on...). I wanted to stop watching but MomoxOkayasu's matching was good. I liked the middle of this anime, even if, in this show, the characters always come at the wrong time at the wrong place and never speak between them... I wanted to kill myself lol; "Oh god he's hugging someone else he doesn't love me anymore I'll stop to talk to him rn" LOL

So, if you like romance and kisses and so on, DON'T. WATCH. THIS.
It's frustrating, and you'll surely hate it because you'll want to kill everyone in Peach Girl :)

I did not like this anime. I will say it had the potential to be one of my favorites. What killed it for me was basically the creators views on dark skinned people and the main character Momo. As I watched, I had so many questions and wondered what audience this anime was targeting.

Why was the fact that she was tanned bad? Why is it because she was tanned or darker skinned she was considered a slut? Why was her skin color and obsessive use of sunscreen to keep from becoming darker even apart of the storyline. Why was Kairi wearing a confederate flag shirt. ... These are questions I asked myself as I watched this anime. It made me extremely uncomfortable. And made it hard to look past to enjoy this show.


Outside of being offended at the clearly racist storyline. What I didnt like was the character Momo and how she changed men throughout the story. How she was so quick to judge and get upset with her love interest without hearing their side. How she allowed that demon bestfriend back in her life knowing what she was capable. Thats just stupid. I dont care how nice she seemed to be or if she seemed to have turned over a new leaf. Once youve seen what someone is capable of you need to distance yourself from them. I have so much I want to say but I will wait until I have finished the show.

I generally dislike shoujo so the only reason I watched this anime is because a friend of mine is practically obsessed with it. Let's just say this review is a bit biased so if you like the whole drama and love triangle/square/octagon/whatever thing stop reading here. Also, let me be clear that i only watched Peach Girl up to the seventh episode, so it may improve from there, but I highly doubt it.

The plot itself is rather unoriginal and trite: popular girl vs. unpopular girl with the popular girl, Sae, trying to steal the unpopular girl, Momo's boyfriend. Of course he ... is completely oblivious. Momo turns the school against Sae and resolves her issues with Togi, her boyfriend, in the sixth episode. In my opinion they could have ended the series right there.

The art and sound were okay. Nothing special, nothing atrocious.

The character development was awful. In the first place, I hate them all for being so goddamn stupid, but all you learn about any of the four main characters is that Sae is manipulative, Momo just wants to be loved, and Kyrie is a nice, supportive guy. You learn nothing about Togi and what next to nonexistent characterisation there was was all completely direct.

To sum it up I did not hate it, but I alternated between frustration and boredom. The only saving moment was when Sae got owned.

I usually don't write reviews but oh god this made me write one just to warn others:-
(This might contain a little bit of spoilers )

"Peach Girl is about an average high school girl, Momo Adachi, who everyone thinks is a beach bunny/slut because of her tanned skin" ,completely ignore this line she is a slut .I mean like wtf love is not like changing a cellphone just throw the old buy a new one ,new one gave up pick up the old one again.Even if i could forget that lmao like really a person called your friend f**ks you up and you keep trusting ... him again and again just to get f**ked again nobody is dumb enough for that and this problem is with many characters not 1 . story was going good but after 6-7 episodes you can pretty much guess how it's gonna end if u have been watching anime in the past and went completely horrific till the end .Art was nothing exceptional but hey since it wasn't made recently can't complain much.Characters were simply unrealistic and their actions made no sense.

Bottom line you might wanna skip this one unless you prefer over the top mindless drama.

Sae was unbareble to watch... just a terrible character and the stroy was too dramatic.
this anime is giving so many toxic messages that i've lost count: being tanned means you deserve to be groped by a random old man on the street (yes, sae really said this to her "best friend"), guys can sexually harrass you and you are the one who will be seen as a bad person, if you wake up in a strager's bed after you fainted and you think that that person did somethink terrible to you it's also your fault. this last thing really made want to erase this anime ... from my brain.
it was just a terrible thing to watch and i really can not understand the positive reviews.