Art contests are predatory by nature. The prize rarely comes _close_ to the actual payment an artist would be given for the amount of work done, and they essentially get ownership of everything sent in to them. As exciting it must feel to be published like that, the whole thing is a way of getting loads of free IP from everyone for a one-time lowball payment to the "winners." Even if they got paid properly for the full manga volumes, like you said, the "opportunity" robs them of any control or payment if the company capitalizes on their creation.
peach fuzz has lived in the back of my mind for years, I bought the first volume at a garage sale in the early 2010s and it has stuck with me ever since LOL 😭
Also yeah, tokyopop definitely sounds like one of 'those' companies from the 2000s, poorly managed with not much respect for their creative contributors
i know right i had the old first edition flipped versions of peach girl by miwa ueda then i bought change of heart sequel in the "100% authentic manga" format with sae's story, i'm still waiting for Kodansha USA to republish the series in physical copy because i loved reading it in middle school, with fruits basket of course, though i also have the yen press omnibus editions
Im shocked i've never heard of the term Hamburger anime/manga before. It's literally perfect for describing shows like Avatar, Teen Titans and My Adventures with Superman! I'm new to peachfuzz, i def need to check it out, especially for being a shojo western manga at that. Just imagine if it got a cartoon adaption, or even a proper anime adaption by japanese studios
so my elementary teacher Amanda Keller taught one of the creators and that creator named the main character after her. Fun fact. She gave me the first volume when I was in the 5th grade. Such a pivotal moment for me.
Oh my god, Peachfuzz was my intro to manga as a kid! Apparently our local newspaper decided to start putting it in with the sunday cartoons (though the paper called it Tokyopop rather than Peachfuzz), and I was immediately obsessed with it!
Oh, the LA Times did that! I think there was a section that said what series it was though? It ran "Undertown" and I think one called "Van Hunter Van" as well.
This appeared at the top of my feed this morning and was a super blast from the past because Lindsay was one of my best friends when we were teenagers. We went to the same anime club and we'd hang out at her house talking about JRPGs, showing each other our "archives" of sketchbooks and comics, swapping our fansub collections and such.
Also this comic is actually a very unforuantly accurate dipection of "throw-away" pet culture and why you should not get pets for your kids unless you understand that YOU the adult, are the actual caretaker. RESEARCH your pets. TEACH your children how to handle animals. PREPARE PROPERLY before taking them in your home! DON'T GET ALL YOUR ADVICE FROM PET STORE CLERKS THEY ARE SO LUCKY THAT DUDE ACTUALLY KNEW HIS STUFF.
I realized while watching this that I recognized the creators' names even though I never read Peach Fuzz as a kid- apparently they made the "How to Draw Furries" book my grandparents got for my twin & i as kids. It's cool to see this earlier artstyle in the manga, since I've always been really impressed by the art in that drawing book!
I love your amusing summarization of the tale and the background information at the end! We stan our delulu ferret. I'll greatly miss the experimental Tokyo Pop era.
@@voiceofthelegion578 bizenghast is generally a monster of the week story with the disturbed emo-goth girl putting dead people to rest. It evolves to have some sort of conspiracy story. Great designs, good imagination, kind of wonky amateur art that i nevertheless loved. The story i thought wasnt very strong, and the chapters were bit too short, but there was clearly a ton of passion and love put into it. I dont know what replay is
I remember seeing ads for this manga back when I was reading Fruits Basket. I never read it myself, but I’m interested in seeing the history behind it.
I never read Peach Fuzz, but I had Lindsay & Jared's books - How to Draw Furries! I always liked their art styles, and I had heard of these....this series looks so cute!
So did I! It was the first manga I read, though I was half convinced it was a fever dream I concocted in my mind until seeing this video because I've 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 seen Peach Fuzz mentioned anywhere else. 🫣
YESSS I used to borrow this book from my school library all the time!!! It’s sad how barely anyone remembers it 😢 since it touched on things like bullying, social class, fitting in
I remember this series! I never read it in ernest, I think I thought it looked kind of babyish but I was also a teenager and not really interested in slice-of-life type stories at that point. Now that I'm older I can definitely see that there's a lot of charm in this, so thank you for spotlighting it! It's unfortunate that the creators were unable to finish it how they wanted, but it looks like it was a fun ride regardless
Awesome work on this video essay! I always wondered what this series was about but never could find copies. Tokyopop definitely was not pro-artist and I'm only aware of one artist right now who was able to re-obtain the rights to their own characters (Sonny Strait). I really hope Lindsay is able to look back at their experiences fondly!
THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME CLOSURE ON A MANGA I READ AS A KID. I got the first one at my schools book club and never saw any sequels and was disappointed, decades later I randomly thought of the book and found your vid
I love the art style and I like seeing diversity in anime (like different body types and skin colors and hair textures). I'm sick of seeing the giant pink or purple pigtails on anime girls. Also, there's a British anime movie I like called "Rainbow Magic; Return to rainspell island" and it's based off those fairy books, but animated in an anime style
Seeing Peache Fuzz on my feed was not on my bingo card but I’m happy it was! I remember reading the 2nd and 3rd book in middle school but never the 1st
I actually remember Peach Fuzz! It ran in my newspaper for awhile... Which is a bit odd since it was a Californian publication and ferrets are illegal here. This strips introduced me to Ferrets and their *chaos*. I've been intrigued ever since.
Ah I remember reading peach fuzz, I only read the first volume but it brings back nostalgic memories, I was pretty invested with Tokyo pop’s OEL manga line but was disappointed with how they mistreated their artists and writers as well as some series getting the axe. It was heartbreaking.
HOLY CRAP I FRICKIN REMEMBER THIS!!! WHOAAAA!!! Got hit with some serious nostalgia, I always what happened to that series... Thank you for talking about it!
I remember reading he Rising Stars manga collections and really enjoying them back in the day. They always were exciting as a sort of “wow, anyone can make a manga” dream sort of way, and it was so fun to see the wide variety of stories. I know I read the initial entry of Peach Fuzz in the Rising Stars series, though I am hazy as to whether I read the follow up manga. Thank you for sharing, this was a lot of fun!
no way. i cannot believe this video just got recc'd to me. i only owned the first volume as a kid but i read it SOOOO MUCH. i havent thought about this manga in so long. it also reminded me of another NA manga series, Dramacon that i was obsessed with. thank you soooooo much for this video
Wow, this is something I had completely forgotten about since I only got to read volume 1. As soon as I saw the ferret the name came back to me. Had no idea it had more volumes honestly.
OH MY GOODDDD. I’m so happy someone else read it! I thought I was having a fever dream since no one else knew! It was my first manga and I remember being obsessed with it. I used to run to the library and always requested for the next volume to be held for me for next time I came back.
I remember Peach Fuzz from the first time my mom took me and my sister to a library near her new apartment. I’d never seen an art style like that before (besides my mom’s one volume of Fruits Basket), and only ever got to read the first volume. Every once in a while, I still think about it, but it never really occupied my thoughts long enough to seek it out again. I’m glad this video popped up on my recommended!
I swear you just surgically entered my brain and pulled out this memory out of NOWHERE. How did I ever forget about peach fuzz!!! This was why I had a whole phase as a kiddo where I really wanted a ferret 😂
It's wild to see those contest volumes filled with 2000s webcomic-looking characters...the era of tracing/mimicking the style without learning the basics. Good times. I never would have guessed how young the girl who made Peach Fuzz was, though! I'd love to see her art nowadays if she was this impressive back then.
I loved this series! I own every volume and I a became internet friends with the artist once I got into comicking. I'm glad you are bringing more attention to it!
Hi, I'm a relatively new viewer of your channel but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your videos. There's something so nice and comforting about them, and it helps take my mind off the stressful things while I listen to you talk about all things cutesy. Thank you :))
Oh man you have NO idea how hyped I got when I saw this video in my feed!!! I remember learning about Peach Fuzz from the Sunday paper my parents would get!! I always loved reading the comics, so imagine my surprise when I saw this more story driven/manga like comic in the paper about a girl and her ferret! I fell in love so quick and hard I would literally cut the pages out each sunday and keep them! I would even keep up with when the comics dropped! I bought all three of mine from Boarders, if you remember that old thing XD It's so cool to see someone who remembers these comics as fondly as I do!
OMG I saw this video and my jaw dropped. I have so many niche manga from when I was younger that I thought literally nobody knew of, thanks so much for being my childhood back !
Thank you for making a video about Peach Fuzz! I had two pet ferrets when I was a kid and I loved manga/anime so my best friend got me it for my bday. I still have all 3 volumes. Don't think I will ever get rid of them because I'd never find them again
AHHH I loved this series as a kid and kinda got obsessed after stumbling across it at our library. Also made me weirdly attached to the Tokyopop mascot, i remember making a whole character themed around it?? Really made me want to have a ferret too.
I remember this story being also released in Germany! Thanks for remembering us of it! I've always wanted to read it back then but didn't have enough money to buy all series I wanted to read back then. So thanks you also for the summary. (I just checked and there is no chance to get a hand on it these days easily. :'( ) The story sounds so well writen - and especially fit for younger kids to read. ♥
I used to own Peach Fuzz, and enjoyed them... As well maybe learning a few life lessons from said short lived series. I even recommend a friend of mine to it because they LOVE ferrets but can't own one due to state laws. I followed Linsey and Jared's DA's long ago, and though it's now Peach Fuzz related, I got a postcard from Linsey of her polar bear web comic short! Thank you for creating a nostalgic train ride of a video! ❤
OMG I was just thinking about this series the other day but couldn't remember the name. I read it sitting on the floor in the school library multiple times. You're doing a great service spreading the word of it! Great and fun video! #teamedwin
The coincidence, I recently mentioned about this manga to my friend and suddenly your video pops up, haha. I actually own the first volume, it came out here in germany too. Not sure about the other two volumes, as I sadly never saw them in store (really, I wanted more..). This manga sure awoken in my my love for ferrets haha. Mine also came with the peach smell cover. Tho I did not knew a single person who else heard or cared about this manga at all, it made me sad. It really made me happy to see your video and getting a sumamry for the other two volumes, thank you very much! ♥ Also OMG, Edwin REALLY is such a cutie! I love this lil guy
Wow, I remember Peach Fuzz! Our city library was closing and they were selling off books dirt cheap. I had only learned about manga recently so I was really excited to see Peach Fuzz in the mix. I only ever read the first volume tho
The way i RAN to this video from the thumbnail alone-- I was a strange child who got Sunday morning papers for their comics and obsessively collected until a fire so Im SO glad this series is remembered at all---- ok now i gotta watch but I got so excited i HAD to babble
Wow I never thought I’d see someone make a video about Peach Fuzz 😭 I loved that series as a little kid (even though I wasn’t even born when it came out) I remember when I was like 8ish, I won some competition at my library and they let me take a book home as a prize, and I chose the second vol. of Peach Fuzz. I still have it almost a decade later!
Hi Mani, I remember buying this 1st volume in the 3rd grade too and reading all the time as a kid, I could never find the other two volumes growing up which sucks because I was getting into this series so much as a kid.
The first volume of this series were one of the first mangas/exposures to anime and anime like styles I ever had as a kid, and I constantly reread the first volume over and over again. I ended up losing it along with a Donald Duck Super Spy book when I stopped living with my mom and dad, and since they have since broken up and moved away from the house that the books were at, I'll never see those OG copies again. But I am going back and trying to get all the books I wanted/owned as a kid, I'm hoping to get my hands on Peach Fuzz once again. This was a great way to go down memory lane for this series.
This was actually my first manga! My school only had the first volume in the library so I only ever read that, but it's insane to see about it in a video... god like 14 years after I first read it?
Holy moley! I used to read this in the newspaper, i loved this story ....i saw the volume back in the day too but it qas so fun following it chronologically and weekly too. What a throwback! I also loved the series "Princess Ai" ....tokyopop what a time back then
A part of me kind of wishes one day the creators might get the ability to make a sequel or a spiritual successor because given they didn't get the ability to to make a 4th volume sounds like they had more stories to tell that would have been interesting to see if given the chance
im glad that doremi toy vid showed up on my recommended and made me subscribe. your vids are great! i forgot peach fuzz existed. i never read it myself but i remember seeing it around when it came out. interesting to hear more about it.
Omg I saw the thumbnail and immediately went "OMG PEACH FUZZ!!" My dad saw it and thought it was cute so he let me get it, I bought the rest and absolutely loved reading them in elementary school.
Rising Stars of Manga has a massive amount of nostalgia for me, my weeb phase and thinking I was going to be a "manga-ka" lol Would love to see videos on what happened to the other winners, like Bizenghast. Devil's Candy really went on to have great success too (independently as a web comic) but the story is way different.
Oh my gosh, I remember reading Peach Fuzz! ♥ I only read the first volume (I got it at the scholastic fair, lol!) As a kid, I never noticed all the day-to-day issues like proper pet handling, pets getting sick and needing medical help, the constant bullying, and the hardships of a single parent. I wish they could have continued so we could see more of the "day in the life" of all the characters. It's also very upsetting they didn't reach out to Lindsay or Jared about the audio drama. I would have been livid if that happened to me. 😭 Anyway, I'm a new subscriber and love your content! ♥
Oh my gosh I remember getting this book at my school book fair! I seriously considered getting a ferret for a pet 😂🩵 Please do a review for DNAngel 😄🙏🏾
OMG this manga was in the library back in my middle school, I remembered the art style but never the name and the thumbnail brought all the memories back 😂💖
Omg, I remember reading this in elementary school! My school had a very, very small section dedicated to manga/comics and it was located behind the librarian’s desk (it was so small it only took up two shelves). I remember reading books like Undertown, Amulet, +Anima, Pokémon Black and White, and (of course) Peachfuzz. My older cousins also let me borrow some of their manga (some of which they let me keep). I remember reading Kitchen Princess, Time Guardian, Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode, Tail of the Moon, Shugo Chara, Dramacon, and Skip Beat.
I was recently thinking that many regular shoujo dramas are not very appealing for the general audience because they are mostly regular dramas, which we already have in other formats Shoujo tends to be at its best when we have visual representations of the drama, like people who transform when confronted with certain emotional states like Fruits Basket, or misunderstandings with an actual in-universe reason like Ranma 1/2 Using the ferrets' delusions to showcase the relationship between the pet and the owner is a genius move, thats the kind of thing that give shoujo a much broader appeal, using a visual representation in a visual media No idea this existed, thanks for sharing it
This series went there, it walked so Fresh Precure's Tarte could run. RIP Taiki Matsuno.
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Omg.. so true :( ❤️❤️
Art contests are predatory by nature. The prize rarely comes _close_ to the actual payment an artist would be given for the amount of work done, and they essentially get ownership of everything sent in to them. As exciting it must feel to be published like that, the whole thing is a way of getting loads of free IP from everyone for a one-time lowball payment to the "winners."
Even if they got paid properly for the full manga volumes, like you said, the "opportunity" robs them of any control or payment if the company capitalizes on their creation.
peach fuzz has lived in the back of my mind for years, I bought the first volume at a garage sale in the early 2010s and it has stuck with me ever since LOL 😭
@EmilyLovesCookies we got ours from our school library and they had the first 2 volumes and we ate that shit up
Also yeah, tokyopop definitely sounds like one of 'those' companies from the 2000s, poorly managed with not much respect for their creative contributors
@@lewa3910 oh yeah it definitely was.
@lewa3910 my understanding is the habit they had of ripping off there us creative talent is what caught up to them.
i know right i had the old first edition flipped versions of peach girl by miwa ueda then i bought change of heart sequel in the "100% authentic manga" format with sae's story, i'm still waiting for Kodansha USA to republish the series in physical copy because i loved reading it in middle school, with fruits basket of course, though i also have the yen press omnibus editions
Im shocked i've never heard of the term Hamburger anime/manga before. It's literally perfect for describing shows like Avatar, Teen Titans and My Adventures with Superman!
I'm new to peachfuzz, i def need to check it out, especially for being a shojo western manga at that. Just imagine if it got a cartoon adaption, or even a proper anime adaption by japanese studios
When it came out, I was at the age where I expected everything to get an English TV adaptation, so I definitely wanted that lmao 🥹
Funnily enough peach fuzz is this year’s pantone color
The universe sending signs omg…
@doreimani Hey 👋 Girl 👧 Greetings 🙏 from Raleigh, North Carolina 🙏 😀 New Subscriber here!
Foreshadowing 😂
so my elementary teacher Amanda Keller taught one of the creators and that creator named the main character after her. Fun fact. She gave me the first volume when I was in the 5th grade. Such a pivotal moment for me.
Oh my god, Peachfuzz was my intro to manga as a kid! Apparently our local newspaper decided to start putting it in with the sunday cartoons (though the paper called it Tokyopop rather than Peachfuzz), and I was immediately obsessed with it!
No way! Yours too??
@@local_cryptid Yep! I don't think it continued past volume one, but it was still very fun!
Oh, the LA Times did that! I think there was a section that said what series it was though? It ran "Undertown" and I think one called "Van Hunter Van" as well.
@@SaltySweetRen Tokyopop was the manga distributor I believe!
i remember back in either 4th or 3rd grade and just finding it in a book container. 💀
This appeared at the top of my feed this morning and was a super blast from the past because Lindsay was one of my best friends when we were teenagers. We went to the same anime club and we'd hang out at her house talking about JRPGs, showing each other our "archives" of sketchbooks and comics, swapping our fansub collections and such.
How cool!! Thanks for sharing! Her manga had a special place in my heart as a kid ❤️
That's so neat
Also this comic is actually a very unforuantly accurate dipection of "throw-away" pet culture and why you should not get pets for your kids unless you understand that YOU the adult, are the actual caretaker. RESEARCH your pets. TEACH your children how to handle animals. PREPARE PROPERLY before taking them in your home! DON'T GET ALL YOUR ADVICE FROM PET STORE CLERKS THEY ARE SO LUCKY THAT DUDE ACTUALLY KNEW HIS STUFF.
Ferrets are great pets but the nicknames of carpet shark and chaos slinkys should tell you everything you need to know
lol i used to call mine Stinky Petes, or noodle bears
I realized while watching this that I recognized the creators' names even though I never read Peach Fuzz as a kid- apparently they made the "How to Draw Furries" book my grandparents got for my twin & i as kids.
It's cool to see this earlier artstyle in the manga, since I've always been really impressed by the art in that drawing book!
Peach fuzz was my first Manga that I randomly came across at a school book fair
Ditto! Got volume 1 at the scholastic book fair in middle school
Such a great video! Thanks for letting me be a part of it. 💖✨
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I REMEMBER THAT! My middle school had a small and very odd manga section and had the first volume of that series!
I love your amusing summarization of the tale and the background information at the end! We stan our delulu ferret. I'll greatly miss the experimental Tokyo Pop era.
No one talks about Re:play and Bizenghast either. Those mangas were bangers.
Bizenghast is SO hard to find 😭❤️ it was one of my favorites
@@blackharu159 Bizenghast is actually such a good horror manga like OMG.
i loved dramacon by svetlana chmakova too i even have nightschool and the awkward series
I've never heard of either. What are they about?
@@voiceofthelegion578 bizenghast is generally a monster of the week story with the disturbed emo-goth girl putting dead people to rest. It evolves to have some sort of conspiracy story. Great designs, good imagination, kind of wonky amateur art that i nevertheless loved. The story i thought wasnt very strong, and the chapters were bit too short, but there was clearly a ton of passion and love put into it.
I dont know what replay is
SCREAMING, AINT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT IT AND ITS GREAT 😭😭💕💕💕 I LOVED PEACH FUZZ!! I still have my manga in my bookshelf!! ❤️
I remember seeing ads for this manga back when I was reading Fruits Basket. I never read it myself, but I’m interested in seeing the history behind it.
I never read Peach Fuzz, but I had Lindsay & Jared's books - How to Draw Furries! I always liked their art styles, and I had heard of these....this series looks so cute!
«Sometimes… delusion saves lives!»
Omg you are so real for this quote I love it
Oh my gosh! Core memory unlocked- I read these at my local library as a kid!
So did I! It was the first manga I read, though I was half convinced it was a fever dream I concocted in my mind until seeing this video because I've 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 seen Peach Fuzz mentioned anywhere else. 🫣
I remember borrowing the first volume from the library! I never was able to find the other books
I slammed the watch button so hard when I saw the thumbnail holy-
YESSS I used to borrow this book from my school library all the time!!! It’s sad how barely anyone remembers it 😢 since it touched on things like bullying, social class, fitting in
I remember this series! I never read it in ernest, I think I thought it looked kind of babyish but I was also a teenager and not really interested in slice-of-life type stories at that point. Now that I'm older I can definitely see that there's a lot of charm in this, so thank you for spotlighting it! It's unfortunate that the creators were unable to finish it how they wanted, but it looks like it was a fun ride regardless
Awesome work on this video essay! I always wondered what this series was about but never could find copies. Tokyopop definitely was not pro-artist and I'm only aware of one artist right now who was able to re-obtain the rights to their own characters (Sonny Strait). I really hope Lindsay is able to look back at their experiences fondly!
THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME CLOSURE ON A MANGA I READ AS A KID. I got the first one at my schools book club and never saw any sequels and was disappointed, decades later I randomly thought of the book and found your vid
I love the art style and I like seeing diversity in anime (like different body types and skin colors and hair textures). I'm sick of seeing the giant pink or purple pigtails on anime girls. Also, there's a British anime movie I like called "Rainbow Magic; Return to rainspell island" and it's based off those fairy books, but animated in an anime style
@@jocelynecupcake There are anime/manga with what you want it's just not mainstream.
@@DarkSeraph yeah true. I also like things that are more kidlike so it's hard. I don't like violence or a lot of hyper sexualized female characters
I LOVED THIS SERIES AS A KID!!! i still think about it to this dayyy!! fun fact where i live u cant have ferrets and this series made me rlly want one
Seeing Peache Fuzz on my feed was not on my bingo card but I’m happy it was! I remember reading the 2nd and 3rd book in middle school but never the 1st
Wild that this just popped up in my feed. I ate this UP at my local library when I was a kid. My first foray into anything anime adjacent!
THANKYOU SO MUCH I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH
I actually remember Peach Fuzz! It ran in my newspaper for awhile... Which is a bit odd since it was a Californian publication and ferrets are illegal here. This strips introduced me to Ferrets and their *chaos*. I've been intrigued ever since.
Ah I remember reading peach fuzz, I only read the first volume but it brings back nostalgic memories, I was pretty invested with Tokyo pop’s OEL manga line but was disappointed with how they mistreated their artists and writers as well as some series getting the axe. It was heartbreaking.
HOLY CRAP I FRICKIN REMEMBER THIS!!! WHOAAAA!!! Got hit with some serious nostalgia, I always what happened to that series... Thank you for talking about it!
An American manga this has to be interesting
The fact that this video is what lead me to your channel. The way this manga lives rent free in my head.
I remember reading he Rising Stars manga collections and really enjoying them back in the day. They always were exciting as a sort of “wow, anyone can make a manga” dream sort of way, and it was so fun to see the wide variety of stories. I know I read the initial entry of Peach Fuzz in the Rising Stars series, though I am hazy as to whether I read the follow up manga. Thank you for sharing, this was a lot of fun!
no way. i cannot believe this video just got recc'd to me. i only owned the first volume as a kid but i read it SOOOO MUCH. i havent thought about this manga in so long. it also reminded me of another NA manga series, Dramacon that i was obsessed with. thank you soooooo much for this video
Omg you just opened up a dusty corner of my brain!!! I remember this manga as a little kid!
Wow, this is something I had completely forgotten about since I only got to read volume 1. As soon as I saw the ferret the name came back to me. Had no idea it had more volumes honestly.
I still have the clipping from when it first aired in my Sunday paper!
I later got the first book and read the rest at the library
Thats so crazy, I still have the "Rrising stars of manga" book with this comic in it.
OH MY GOODDDD. I’m so happy someone else read it! I thought I was having a fever dream since no one else knew! It was my first manga and I remember being obsessed with it. I used to run to the library and always requested for the next volume to be held for me for next time I came back.
I remember Peach Fuzz from the first time my mom took me and my sister to a library near her new apartment. I’d never seen an art style like that before (besides my mom’s one volume of Fruits Basket), and only ever got to read the first volume. Every once in a while, I still think about it, but it never really occupied my thoughts long enough to seek it out again. I’m glad this video popped up on my recommended!
OH MY GODODODOO THIS WAS THE SECOND MANGA I EVER READ AS A CHILD this was like a major flashback
Your videos are made with love. Saw your Full Moon video, and im slowly working through your videography. Please dont ever stop.
Please never stop making videos I love you 😭💕
I swear you just surgically entered my brain and pulled out this memory out of NOWHERE. How did I ever forget about peach fuzz!!! This was why I had a whole phase as a kiddo where I really wanted a ferret 😂
I'd love a deep dive into the competition itself, it's so interesting!
I seen this manga growing up but never read it. This was awesome! Loved the whole video you made for this. Edwin is so cute! ❤
i bought vol 1 at my scholastic book fair. i still have it on my shelf. i never found the other 2 volumes. so thank you for this
It's wild to see those contest volumes filled with 2000s webcomic-looking characters...the era of tracing/mimicking the style without learning the basics. Good times.
I never would have guessed how young the girl who made Peach Fuzz was, though! I'd love to see her art nowadays if she was this impressive back then.
I loved this series! I own every volume and I a became internet friends with the artist once I got into comicking. I'm glad you are bringing more attention to it!
Hi, I'm a relatively new viewer of your channel but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your videos. There's something so nice and comforting about them, and it helps take my mind off the stressful things while I listen to you talk about all things cutesy. Thank you :))
Girl, this takes me BACK! I remember Peach Fuzz and the Tokyopop contest. I even considered in entering myself. Such a wild era!
Oh man you have NO idea how hyped I got when I saw this video in my feed!!! I remember learning about Peach Fuzz from the Sunday paper my parents would get!! I always loved reading the comics, so imagine my surprise when I saw this more story driven/manga like comic in the paper about a girl and her ferret! I fell in love so quick and hard I would literally cut the pages out each sunday and keep them!
I would even keep up with when the comics dropped! I bought all three of mine from Boarders, if you remember that old thing XD
It's so cool to see someone who remembers these comics as fondly as I do!
OMG I saw this video and my jaw dropped. I have so many niche manga from when I was younger that I thought literally nobody knew of, thanks so much for being my childhood back !
Thank you for making a video about Peach Fuzz! I had two pet ferrets when I was a kid and I loved manga/anime so my best friend got me it for my bday. I still have all 3 volumes. Don't think I will ever get rid of them because I'd never find them again
AHHH I loved this series as a kid and kinda got obsessed after stumbling across it at our library. Also made me weirdly attached to the Tokyopop mascot, i remember making a whole character themed around it?? Really made me want to have a ferret too.
I read this and honestly thought it was a fever dream since no one else talked about it.
OMG this brought back like,, a core memory!! Only ever had access to the first vol, but remember reading it over and over ❤❤
I remember this story being also released in Germany! Thanks for remembering us of it! I've always wanted to read it back then but didn't have enough money to buy all series I wanted to read back then. So thanks you also for the summary. (I just checked and there is no chance to get a hand on it these days easily. :'( ) The story sounds so well writen - and especially fit for younger kids to read. ♥
I remember hearing about Peach Fuzz and seeing it as a kid. I never actually read it though. I might think about giving it a try now!
I used to own Peach Fuzz, and enjoyed them... As well maybe learning a few life lessons from said short lived series. I even recommend a friend of mine to it because they LOVE ferrets but can't own one due to state laws. I followed Linsey and Jared's DA's long ago, and though it's now Peach Fuzz related, I got a postcard from Linsey of her polar bear web comic short!
Thank you for creating a nostalgic train ride of a video! ❤
Peach Fuzz was wild for me because I actually DID have ferrets at the time it first came out. I really need to read the last two volumes.
OMG I was just thinking about this series the other day but couldn't remember the name. I read it sitting on the floor in the school library multiple times. You're doing a great service spreading the word of it! Great and fun video! #teamedwin
The coincidence, I recently mentioned about this manga to my friend and suddenly your video pops up, haha.
I actually own the first volume, it came out here in germany too. Not sure about the other two volumes, as I sadly never saw them in store (really, I wanted more..). This manga sure awoken in my my love for ferrets haha. Mine also came with the peach smell cover.
Tho I did not knew a single person who else heard or cared about this manga at all, it made me sad. It really made me happy to see your video and getting a sumamry for the other two volumes, thank you very much! ♥
Also OMG, Edwin REALLY is such a cutie! I love this lil guy
Wow, I remember Peach Fuzz! Our city library was closing and they were selling off books dirt cheap. I had only learned about manga recently so I was really excited to see Peach Fuzz in the mix. I only ever read the first volume tho
The way i RAN to this video from the thumbnail alone-- I was a strange child who got Sunday morning papers for their comics and obsessively collected until a fire so Im SO glad this series is remembered at all---- ok now i gotta watch but I got so excited i HAD to babble
Wow I never thought I’d see someone make a video about Peach Fuzz 😭 I loved that series as a little kid (even though I wasn’t even born when it came out) I remember when I was like 8ish, I won some competition at my library and they let me take a book home as a prize, and I chose the second vol. of Peach Fuzz. I still have it almost a decade later!
I have never forgotten this manga and it was odd but still iconic?! Ty for reminding me it exists
Hi Mani, I remember buying this 1st volume in the 3rd grade too and reading all the time as a kid, I could never find the other two volumes growing up which sucks because I was getting into this series so much as a kid.
I remember this one! It's sad it and many other OEL projects are so forgotten now.
Omg I checked one of the peach fuzz books out in the library when I was younger and always had it in the back of my head, thank you for this
The first volume of this series were one of the first mangas/exposures to anime and anime like styles I ever had as a kid, and I constantly reread the first volume over and over again. I ended up losing it along with a Donald Duck Super Spy book when I stopped living with my mom and dad, and since they have since broken up and moved away from the house that the books were at, I'll never see those OG copies again. But I am going back and trying to get all the books I wanted/owned as a kid, I'm hoping to get my hands on Peach Fuzz once again. This was a great way to go down memory lane for this series.
Oh my gosh I remember cutting the -angels from the newspaper and try to get the free copies from newspaper stands to get the newest editions
This was my first manga, it makes me happy to see other people reminiscing on it, no one knows what I'm talking about when I bring it up 😭
This was actually my first manga! My school only had the first volume in the library so I only ever read that, but it's insane to see about it in a video... god like 14 years after I first read it?
Holy moley! I used to read this in the newspaper, i loved this story ....i saw the volume back in the day too but it qas so fun following it chronologically and weekly too. What a throwback! I also loved the series "Princess Ai" ....tokyopop what a time back then
this just unlocked a core memoryyy. i remember getting this at a scholastic book fair 😭
This was in the comic page of the news paper! I loved reading it and looked forward to the Saturday paper 😂
Checked it out from my Library where I used to work. I still go there for a lot of things.
A part of me kind of wishes one day the creators might get the ability to make a sequel or a spiritual successor because given they didn't get the ability to to make a 4th volume sounds like they had more stories to tell that would have been interesting to see if given the chance
im glad that doremi toy vid showed up on my recommended and made me subscribe. your vids are great! i forgot peach fuzz existed. i never read it myself but i remember seeing it around when it came out. interesting to hear more about it.
Omg I saw the thumbnail and immediately went "OMG PEACH FUZZ!!" My dad saw it and thought it was cute so he let me get it, I bought the rest and absolutely loved reading them in elementary school.
finally someone talked about this... omg i vaguely remember getting this from the middle school library
Rising Stars of Manga has a massive amount of nostalgia for me, my weeb phase and thinking I was going to be a "manga-ka" lol
Would love to see videos on what happened to the other winners, like Bizenghast. Devil's Candy really went on to have great success too (independently as a web comic) but the story is way different.
PEACH FUZZ! Never have I clicked so fast on a video.
I still have a few clippings in my old Pucca binder from elementary! 😭
Oh my gosh, I remember reading Peach Fuzz! ♥ I only read the first volume (I got it at the scholastic fair, lol!) As a kid, I never noticed all the day-to-day issues like proper pet handling, pets getting sick and needing medical help, the constant bullying, and the hardships of a single parent. I wish they could have continued so we could see more of the "day in the life" of all the characters. It's also very upsetting they didn't reach out to Lindsay or Jared about the audio drama. I would have been livid if that happened to me. 😭
Anyway, I'm a new subscriber and love your content! ♥
I loved this series growing up! I was so happy too see someone else knows it.
FINALLY someone talks about "rising stars of manga"! Peach fuzz was my second favorite, behind Sea Princess Azuri :D
Oh my gosh I remember getting this book at my school book fair! I seriously considered getting a ferret for a pet 😂🩵
Please do a review for DNAngel 😄🙏🏾
OMG this manga was in the library back in my middle school, I remembered the art style but never the name and the thumbnail brought all the memories back 😂💖
Lindsay Cibos does how to draw to books that are really good. I used have her how to draw furries book it really good for beginners I think.
hazel did an really good tokyopop video to.
For almost two decades I remember reading a snippet in the newspaper and I finally found out the name of what I read.
Holy shit, I remember reading this in the library as a kid! That thumbnail activated lost memories
Omg, I remember reading this in elementary school! My school had a very, very small section dedicated to manga/comics and it was located behind the librarian’s desk (it was so small it only took up two shelves). I remember reading books like Undertown, Amulet, +Anima, Pokémon Black and White, and (of course) Peachfuzz. My older cousins also let me borrow some of their manga (some of which they let me keep). I remember reading Kitchen Princess, Time Guardian, Tokyo Mew Mew A La Mode, Tail of the Moon, Shugo Chara, Dramacon, and Skip Beat.
I was recently thinking that many regular shoujo dramas are not very appealing for the general audience because they are mostly regular dramas, which we already have in other formats
Shoujo tends to be at its best when we have visual representations of the drama, like people who transform when confronted with certain emotional states like Fruits Basket, or misunderstandings with an actual in-universe reason like Ranma 1/2
Using the ferrets' delusions to showcase the relationship between the pet and the owner is a genius move, thats the kind of thing that give shoujo a much broader appeal, using a visual representation in a visual media
No idea this existed, thanks for sharing it