I have a love/hate relationship with Peach Girl. A lot of the conflict in the series could've easily been resolved with communicating and characters not running away whenever there's a misunderstanding. I ate that drama up when I watched Peach Girl growing up.
I have a love to hate relationship with Peach girl 😂 I used to enjoy it because I was also bullied for my dark tan... but her choosing the guy who threatened to unalive himself over the mentally, emotionally and overall stable guy who SHE herself knows she loves is so disappointing and disgusting.
Lmao same! There were so many moments I nearly rage quit but I wanted to know what would happen 😅 Seriously though, I’ve seen this stupid anime 5X and own it. It’s kind of a guilty pleasure 🤦🏽♀️
This, I identified with Momo so much as a teen but rereading the manga a few days ago, I grew so irritated with how she kept constantly bouncing between Kairi and Toji. After a while it made her looks shallow as hell. Also, forgiving Sae after Sae put her life in danger countless times made me rage.
As a brown skin black girl I understand I have relatives that are dark skin and they went through a lot even from their own relatives making fun of them because they had dark skin I sympathize with y’all
I do wish that momo just made some friends. It feels like the ONLY people in her life were her toxic love triangle and her nemesis. She needed friends fr, especially after everyone realized sai was being manipulative n stuff. Sai and momo were both friendless losers feeding off of each other and its soooo messy. I wanted to like momo so much as a kid bc she looked like me (i felt that way about any tan character tbh) but she i just had to stop feeling bad for her after a while
I read Peach Girl as a preteen and I never forgot how insane Sae was. Her comeuppance wasn't even worth it, because she already did so much damage. I never forgot that speech about the lamb and the lion, though, and I think it made me much more aware of manipulation tactics that people can use, and how people will jump on the chance to confirm their biases about people.
I read the entire manga including PG next and oh my god it was painful. Actually ones of my faves because I love messy drama, but it was so FRUSTRATING. And side note, the manga art is sooo pretty, much better looking than the anime
I think I confused you so I'm sorry! I meant that both the authors got offered sequels and went in for the cash grabs lol but Vampire Knight is written by Matsuri Hino. Sorry again for confusing you.
It stressed me out like NaNa did but Momo is still my girl. I couldn’t have been one of her friends because Sae would’ve been strangled the first time she tried it.
The "love chart" thing is actually called "Aiai gasa", it's like "Lover's umbrella". It's considered romantic to walk under the umbrella with another person
I skipped this anime in favor of Ouran High School Host Club when I was in high school because I wasn't allowed to sit in front of the PC for too long back then. I guess I got lucky because what the fuck is this show? Thank you for recaping all of these otherwise I wouldn't know what I actually missed.
As a 27 year old, I look back on this as a learning experience LOL I watched it several times in the 5th grade and took all the drama and learned what not to do when I enter high school 😆
45:23 I'm not really sure why the anime cut it out, but in the manga Toji and Momo definitely don't sleep together. They do get close to doing it but Momo asks Toji to stop, saying she doesn't want to until she clearly breaks things off with Kairi.
@@pintsizedpicasso3402 And I'm just saying in the anime, Momo and Toji definitely don't sleep together. It doesn't matter if they didn't use that conversation in the manga.
@@valvihk3649tell the creator that then, not the person saying the same exact thing Why are you making a redundant comment? Is English not your first language?
@@FirstLast-lw5wh "But in the manga, Toji and Momo definitely don't sleep together" It's not just in the manga, they also 'definitely' do not sleep together in the anime. Then you proceed to explain what happened in the manga, while my comment specifically talking about the anime. Phrase your paragraphs better to make your point across.
As someone who enjoys that good messy drama, love triangle things (do not look at my history of anime/manga/manhwa, it is a lot), especially when I was younger.. Sometimes I remember Peach Girl and the series. And I can't help myself but wonder.. "..What the fuck is going on." I love it still to this day. But.. What the HELL was going on when making that story at the same time. I sometimes wondered if the author was okay but it felt a bit personal at times like. DAMN.
There was another story a few years ago to mark the anniversary of its release. Sae was still causing Momo and Kairi issues as adults in their late 20s!
35:20 if I’m remembering right, I think in the manga it was implied that Blondie had SAd Momo in her sleep. She finds herself in this room with him and doesn’t remember anything, but then she finds a broken package of condom in the bin…. Hence Momo was curled up in her blanket and scared.
@@simplesimply3753 yeah actually me too. Like no wonder Momo acts so desperately when Toji tries leave without explaining she needed someone to be by her side after such traumatic event.
@@Gya2foonsjIf I recall correctly, it's not just an open pack of condoms but explicitly USED condoms in the trashcan. But later it comes out that he just filled them with shampoo to trick her, and never actually assaulted her. Still, realistically, being faked out in that way would be just as traumatizing as it actually happening. It traumatized me just from reading about it. Shit stuck with me forever.
Peach girl was one of my first animes. As a brown girl i was so excited to see a brown girl in anime only to find out she was just tan. And she didnt like her skin color! it was so wierd, cuz i never had a problem with mine, so i couldnt relate. But the drama! God i was living for this stupid romance drama, you have no idea. I wanted to choke sai so many times
i think reading sae as a repressed lesbian who's got a psychosexual obsession with momo re-contextualizes a lot of her actions. i don't particularly subscribe to this headcanon (only found out about it from a tumblr mutual lol), but i think it could add some depth to her character so she doesn't come across so shallow and one dimensional in her evilness and quest to destroy momo's any chance she gets.
I remember Peach Girl in a positive light,as for me,it was the first time an anime showcased toxic girl friendships that I,myself,was going through at the time. Of course,it was a bit more dramatic,however some of the words Sae says to Momo are things my,at the time best friend,said to me. This anime and manga were very effective in that regard. I wasn`t obsessed with the romance aspect of it,but I did like the small complexities characters had.
I remember being sooo enthralled with Peach girl as a teen. I recently decided to watch as an adult and was shocked… EVERYONE in this show was so problematic 😂 like when momo threatened to jump out the hospital window omg. It’s a mess
At one point I was yelling at my TV. I was like oh hell no I gotta cut this nonsense off. The fact that she didn’t try to cause bodily harm to Sae is fascinating….
I would love to hear your take on Kamisama Kiss. I know it's a super loved manga and anime, me myself loveeeee this anime. But sometimes when rewatching I notice how problematic the protagonist relationship with the "man" is.
Sae and Ryo are possibly the most accurate depictions of psychopaths I've ever seen in any media. Look into them and that's how they really can be. Befriending them or appealing to their conscience doesn't work because they lack the emotions needed to have real friends or feel bad about doing terrible things. Yes, their behavior is terrible and gross but it's realistic in that regard and, yes, stupid manipulations by psychopaths can work like that in real life because most normal people find it difficult to imagine people can be that awful or lie that shamelessly. Maybe that's more unpleasantness than a lot of people want in a romance anime, but not stupid. Peach Girl Next, on the other hand, is an attempt to extend a story past where it needs to be told and is pretty awful. Should be avoided.
As someone who was bullied I can say bullying from an entire class is plausible. People when seeing someone bullied they either try to be invisible or they join in so they themselves don't get bullied also. For me I somehow got on the bad side of the girl who happened to be the daughter of our elementary school principal (mother) and again later the daughter of the high school principal (father). So not to end up getting terrorized I got bullied by kids even from other classes even when they didn't even know my name. I pretty much became the isolated kid st school that no one became friends with because it was a sure fired way of getting bullied by the rest of the school. That changed in high school when I started hanging out with the Goths cause they didn't give two flips about being bullied and some even fought regularly with the jocks in school but yeah mass bullying does happen but isn't well translated in shojo comics all that well
I've never heard of Peach Girl before, but I said "what the hell" out loud multiple times as you explained the story. Man, just watching this video was a wild ride, so I can only imagine how experiencing the series felt. Excellent video! You're easy to understand and it was easy to follow along with the story. I really like your voice, too; it's very quiet and calm :) Side note: my aunt married a half-Hispanic man and all their kids are pale except for the youngest, who has a permanent tan because she spent so much time outdoors growing up. I didn't know that was a thing until I kept seeing her and started thinking "Has she...has she always been that tan?" Now she looks full Hispanic.
It is mostly likely just because of how genetics work. Tanning is not going to permanently change your skin color, unless you get sun poisoning. I’m biracial with Peruvian and my cousin is much darker than me or my sister. That’s why you find people finding out they had black in their family because it will pop up generations later. (It was a common thing in the us for white passing people to lie about their race as a survival mechanism sadly) Plus although we are taught we get half and half from our parents, it’s a little bit more complex than that. Some kids get more DNA from one parent versus the other. So she may just legitimately have a higher percentage of Hispanic DNA in her.
Wow... Peach Girl is worse than I remember lmaoooo loved this recap and analysis! Thank you for enduring this rewatch for our sakes (and good luck with Vampire Knight my god you will need it)
Just to clarify, it is confined by Tokyo Pop (English translators), the manage and the anime that Mom does NOT sleep with Touji between episodes 20-21. The anime was a rollercoaster, but it doesn’t change the fact that event did it happen.
All of this would be fixed if they just texted . Like literally if Kairi just TEXTED HER AND WAS LIKE HEY IM LATE BUT IM TRYING TO COME. This all could be avoided. Ya know- I’m glad they got together, but oh my god so much drama. Kairi is better for her because Toji just never trusted her.
I remember when I was in the 6th grade, my friends were obsessed with this manga. They were so hyped about the crazy drama… Tbh I kinda feel like that’s pretty much the demographic that can completely enjoy this series without having an aneurysm.
peach girl was crazy, it was the first manga I have ever purchased too, legit I was like 10 years old as well but the illustrations stuck with me so much, they were beautiful. Ueda Miwa is a great artist.
I loved this series when I was a kid. The art is so pretty and Momo is so cool. It’s kind of weird which series got picked up for English release in the 90s. I read every manga I could get my hands on then.
True!!! bcs like does Misao not have nobody else in her life to help with her parents being sick(haven't read the manga), and like he's 27 years old and still hung up on his childhood crush(like move on bro), surely there more drama to be had in your adult life than used material.
I only read the manga growing up but Kairi’s noodle scene where he learns the lesson that what he imagines to be the best might not be the best, and the best for him was right in front of him the entire time was very formative for me. But man. This review brought so many memories backkkk. Peach Girl was such a mess but it was my mess 😂
in the manga some things are significantly different and I wanted to highlight those things for example, when sae blackmailed momo with the photos, sae made it look like momo had sex with that guy by taking a condom and putting shampoo in it, also I think momo was naked but i cant remember also this part that grinded my gears so much but kairi and momo at one point in the manga were like okay lets give sae a taste of her own medicine and almost let her get sexually assaulted the manga is so much weirder and more adult it takes the cw ass plot to like hbo euphoria levels almost
If you looked at the stories as purely entertainment, and the you could just watch it for it is. I never looked to manga to model my life on - most of the stories are silly (although reflect life slightly).
Peach girl is probably still my favourite romance anime, I adore Okayasu. I think it is because it didn't feel like a shojo, it was so messed up it felt like actual human relationships that are just tangled and messy. Okayasu and Momo and Sae seemed really tridimensional. Around the halfway mark of the anime I got really mind boggled by some reveals about Okayasu that completely shifted the plot (about how he never loved Momo and he was just coping cause of trauma) but they just made sense for a teenager and really shed another light upon his previous actions. After that halfway mark looking in retrospect, everything was different. The first half is still my favourite cause it feels more nostalgic, maybe cause I rewatched it more. I also watched it with my mom
i had to drop this series solely because of how stupid and uncharming the ml was, like i’ve had my share of the mean girls and the naive fl but he really just did it for me…
So when it comes to messy ass drama, Peach Girl was my show in high school. Life is another messy manga, but its way more brutal and its a hard 18+ from me.
@@zerotodona1495 It took me a long time to finish reading it, but I managed. I don't think I could ever reread it though, too depressing, too triggering
Man I remember loving this series cause it was like one of the only times the girl wound up with the guy I wanted her to. Dham did I forget like 99% of what happened 😂
I remember as a kid seeing the manga in the teen section at the library, though I was so scandalized by the covers I never dared read them 😅 Anyway, you have a really beautiful, calming voice ✌
Omg, I remember watching Peach Girl as a kid and loving the drama! Then I re-watched it when I was older, and then all the things i loved about it just frustrated me 🤣
Peach girl was one of my favourite animes as a pre teen girl and what originally introduced me to shoujo. I'll forever hold it dear to my heart but damn was it filled with unnecessary drama. I could never rewatch it now, otherwise I wouldn't have anymore hair left from pulling it from frustration.
Peach Girl was my very first manga set. My dad would buy me a new volume every two weeks. I finally finished the collection then my grandma went through them one dau and flipped out. Then proceeded to burn them. Never watched the anime but I was having such an emotional morning and finding this really helped lift my mood.
Oh god... I remember Peach Girl. My brother would buy these books that had different manga stories contained with a few chapters and it would continue the stories with more chapters if you buy the next release (forgot what it's called). Of all of these stories I totally remember Peach Girl the most. It was something I regretted reading but with each release, I kept reading because well - Peach Girl is like trainwreck that you just can't look away from. No matter how much you try to ignore it, the disaster just builds and builds and you have to look back, wondering when the constant crashes are finally going to end. Kinda like that Futurama joke, "I'm sending in more trains!"
As a kid I looooved this show every time it was airing on Funimation i would binge it crazy till the point my brother made fun of me about it 😭 but by the time I got into my preteens i started noticing the toxicity of the characters and the overall UNNECESSARY drama. This show is the reason why I hate love triangles 🤦🏽♀️ I wished they had just talk things out rather than running away or being swayed by others opinions. Sae most of all was the vain existence of my stress just watching this series. I hated Momo forgave her every time instead of literally just giving her a pieces of her own medicine and then some.
Omg I completely shut this series out of my head but yeah it made me sooo angry to see everything momo had to go through because of all the monsters surrounding her... Ugh I needed this deep dive
Niice, I always saw the Ads for Peach Girl in Shojo Beat magazines, but never knew of the story. Thanks for making this video 😀. I will definitely watch your video on gyaru. Would love to see how the fashion changed between generations.
Thank you so much for your review on Peach Girl and its anime/manga franchise; Similar to what most were saying in the comments section that Peach Girl is a messy drama that has a lot of misunderstandings and that most of the problems could have been resolved if there was communication between the characters, I believe that peach girl had the potential to be a great show if the toxicity and misunderstandings were cut in half and if Momo didn't choose someone at the end. Momo needed a journey of self-healing, self-love, and a fresh start in life because even though she is the main character, she's been through too much heartbreak and pain. Toji and Kairi were not the best love interests for Momo because neither of them would communicate their problems to Momo, as for Sae, she's not a friend to anyone and always wants the spotlight. I felt that Sae was the main character in Peach Girl(the anime and manga) instead of Momo because when Momo has a few happy moments, all of that comes crashing down with Sae and her toxic nonsense and as you mentioned, anything that Momo has, Sae wants it as well. The good things I can say about Peach Girl are I love the fashion and art(from the manga), I love the music and soundtracks(although the only track the anime kept using was Toji's Jealousy), and I actually found the animation, a bit charming. Overall, Peach Girl(the manga and anime) is a 7 out of 10 for me, Peach Girl Next is a 5 out of 10 for me and Sae's side story is a 2 out of 10. I feel there needs to be a reboot for Peach Girl and side stories for Momo, Toji, Misao, Ryo, and Momo's three friends because even with the anime and manga series for Peach Girl, I felt that I didn't learn much about those characters. Here are some questions(everyone is welcome to answer them): Do you believe Peach Girl needs a reboot/season two in the future,? Do you think Peach Girl needs a sequel after Peach Girl Next? Do you think characters like Momo, Toji, Kairi, and others need their own side story? Your review provides valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the Peach Girl franchise. Ps: Thank you for the shoutout
I made it in 45 minutes and 17 seconds. You? You are a delight. This series? I Can't. It's like a LEGIT soap opera omg. I just can't listen to more of these SHENANIGANS, but I'm gonna put this on mute and let it play because you deserve those retention metrics for going through all this hell omg.
I rewatch this anime as an adult for the first time as an adult during the pandemic and the way it raised my blood pressure. This Sae is definitely one of the top anime villian of all time. The fact that by episode three we already got momo threatening to unalive herself smfh
i found out abt peach girl in live action and honestly, the live action was very direct to the point but still same happenings but different settings which I really like and in anime, o h boy i have to stay up just to finish it bc my stress can't handle it LMAOO I QUICKLY SWITCH TO MANGA ONE BC I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!! so the peach next is actually good tho (i rlly like the drawing styles ngl) but the fact kairi switches his priorities to misao and then goes back at again to momo just rlly made me *explodes* but overall, i love peach girl at the end.
I like what you said about Momo’s good qualities. I’m light tan but very clearly not passing. I think this is part of why I like Momo too. I had an experience kinda similar to Momo when I was 5. But instead of it being about a boy, I was literally rejected from playing with a friend by her parents because of my skin color. It obviously made me aware that I wasn’t like the other kids… I feel I have some of the same qualities as Momo but I’m not nearly as forgiving. But just because I don’t like you, doesn’t mean I’ll be mean to you, exclude you, or not defend you from bullies. Also, I don’t like Toji either 😒 but I do like Misao. She’s flawed as we all are but she’s smart and kind.
I don’t know who is worse in Peach Girl. Sae for ruining Momo’s reputation or Toji for putting Sae in a porno without her consent. I feel like these two deserve each other because they’re both toxic.
this was such a wild ride 😂 I never watched Peach girl as a kid/teen mostly because in my mind this was more for grownups, the whole vibe this series gave for me was mature and wild teen vibes; as a 12 year old I favored other shoujo animes like Ouran High school, kimi ni todoke, etc. I remember seeing pictures of PG on forums and thinking “maybe later”. Thank god I never watched it but I can just imagine how stressed little me would’ve been lmao 😅 This whole story and characters are INSANEEEEE. I gasped multiple times and laughed out loud at some of the shit these characters did 😂 The drama is just like the mexican telenovela my aunts see.
Wow this video reminded me so much about how I related to Momo in middle school because of the bullying. Like, I even nicknamed my bully "Sae" in my head 🙃 anyway, great analysis, and I totally get that Peach girl drained you 😂 I still prefer the manga to the anime though, because the animation quality of the naughties was BAD.
I own a bunch of Vampire Knight too and I really couldn't keep going. That series exhausting me to after awhile. The premise was really good but god did it just get so messed up, and not in a good, literarily impressive way either; more in a “wtf is happen right now?” way.
I love and hate this anime/manga. Like I love drama, but there was so many things happening that I was so frustrated watching this… Like there wasn’t a single smart character in that series…
Goodness, this woke up a few memories. I was too young for this funimation show, I did not know what was going on with the “filming” episode. Seeing that AND Sae’s pregnancy reveal to her boyfriend BEFORE ever seeing the first episode? Definitely shaped how I saw Sae. Still understood her emotional distress, even if I didn’t get the context for a long time. I wonder if seeing Degrassi around that age affected me a lot… Another thing we can learn from Peach Girl? Young people need a mentor they can rely on, they can turn to. Ideally a parent or teacher. Momo and Sae’s parents were not really part of the story, and it made the drama a lot closer to a soap opera than it needed to. Another option? Show a healthy or UNhealthy relationship at Momo’s workplace! Somewhere she can think about her life’s drama without Sae around to pull wool over her eyes.
your way of talking is nice, almost like soft spoken 😻 and your mike is good damn I don't even know peach girl, I don't read mangas but I'll listen for the sake of your voice 😄
This is my first time coming across a vid essay like channel..that focuses on animes! loved your vid :) and hope your channel goes far. glad the yt algorithm blessed me w/ you on my feed
My best friend got me to watch Peach Girl and I knew I was in for a ride when Momo threatened to jump from that window in episode 3. The drama really does feel like it would've been great to eat up if you were reading the manga but as an anime the world is just so lonely and hostile for Momo. As far as the ending goes I think it should've been like Toradora where instead of getting together she decides to focus on her personal issues (take that with a grain of salt though Toradora is its own can of worms).
Sae is definitely not a martyr. She purely has a victim complex through and through. She doesn’t make sacrifices for others at her own expense ever she only wants the sympathy and attention that comes from being a victim.
I have a love/hate relationship with Peach Girl. A lot of the conflict in the series could've easily been resolved with communicating and characters not running away whenever there's a misunderstanding. I ate that drama up when I watched Peach Girl growing up.
I have a love to hate relationship with Peach girl 😂
I used to enjoy it because I was also bullied for my dark tan... but her choosing the guy who threatened to unalive himself over the mentally, emotionally and overall stable guy who SHE herself knows she loves is so disappointing and disgusting.
Same but I was a horrible communicator as a teen 😂😂😂 so I was yelling at myself while watching
Lmao same! There were so many moments I nearly rage quit but I wanted to know what would happen 😅
Seriously though, I’ve seen this stupid anime 5X and own it. It’s kind of a guilty pleasure 🤦🏽♀️
This, I identified with Momo so much as a teen but rereading the manga a few days ago, I grew so irritated with how she kept constantly bouncing between Kairi and Toji. After a while it made her looks shallow as hell. Also, forgiving Sae after Sae put her life in danger countless times made me rage.
I had to stop watching it at one point because it was too much drama, but later I eventually watched it again lol
Bro, if only Sae put as much effort in her academics as she did in being a menace to society...
DAMM💀
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Right? I mean, all that energy, wasted...
@@natasapap7936 And that's why some people end up working at McDonald's 😭
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@@natasapap7936 Well, yeah...
It was CRAZY how a group of boys held Momo down. That’s assault!!!
NO FR
As a darker skinned black girl, I dealt with extreme colorism and could relate to Momo so much
As a brown skin black girl I understand I have relatives that are dark skin and they went through a lot even from their own relatives making fun of them because they had dark skin I sympathize with y’all
Same...
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@@yeyosilver7067 no one asked you to sympathise or empathise but you all up in the comment section h8in and waiting for some low hanging fruit
I do wish that momo just made some friends. It feels like the ONLY people in her life were her toxic love triangle and her nemesis. She needed friends fr, especially after everyone realized sai was being manipulative n stuff. Sai and momo were both friendless losers feeding off of each other and its soooo messy. I wanted to like momo so much as a kid bc she looked like me (i felt that way about any tan character tbh) but she i just had to stop feeling bad for her after a while
Very Co dependent 🤌🏼
She had fickle friends that liked her when they noticed other ppl like her (mainly guys)
I read Peach Girl as a preteen and I never forgot how insane Sae was. Her comeuppance wasn't even worth it, because she already did so much damage. I never forgot that speech about the lamb and the lion, though, and I think it made me much more aware of manipulation tactics that people can use, and how people will jump on the chance to confirm their biases about people.
It's so true too. People jump into conclusions when they see the so it seems lamb and lion scenario.
I read the entire manga including PG next and oh my god it was painful. Actually ones of my faves because I love messy drama, but it was so FRUSTRATING. And side note, the manga art is sooo pretty, much better looking than the anime
I did NOT realize Peach Girl and Vampire Knight had *the same author, the heeeeell?!?!* But it explains SO MUCH.
I think I confused you so I'm sorry! I meant that both the authors got offered sequels and went in for the cash grabs lol but Vampire Knight is written by Matsuri Hino. Sorry again for confusing you.
They arent LOL
It stressed me out like NaNa did but Momo is still my girl. I couldn’t have been one of her friends because Sae would’ve been strangled the first time she tried it.
The "love chart" thing is actually called "Aiai gasa", it's like "Lover's umbrella". It's considered romantic to walk under the umbrella with another person
I skipped this anime in favor of Ouran High School Host Club when I was in high school because I wasn't allowed to sit in front of the PC for too long back then. I guess I got lucky because what the fuck is this show? Thank you for recaping all of these otherwise I wouldn't know what I actually missed.
As a 27 year old, I look back on this as a learning experience LOL I watched it several times in the 5th grade and took all the drama and learned what not to do when I enter high school 😆
This sounds like the most infuriating story I've ever heard of. Like it feels like just rage bait
45:23 I'm not really sure why the anime cut it out, but in the manga Toji and Momo definitely don't sleep together. They do get close to doing it but Momo asks Toji to stop, saying she doesn't want to until she clearly breaks things off with Kairi.
In the anime, Momo doesn't sleep with Toji.
@@valvihk3649 Yes, I only mention it since it seemed @MeowTavern was unsure whether they did or not
@@pintsizedpicasso3402 And I'm just saying in the anime, Momo and Toji definitely don't sleep together. It doesn't matter if they didn't use that conversation in the manga.
@@valvihk3649tell the creator that then, not the person saying the same exact thing
Why are you making a redundant comment? Is English not your first language?
@@FirstLast-lw5wh "But in the manga, Toji and Momo definitely don't sleep together" It's not just in the manga, they also 'definitely' do not sleep together in the anime. Then you proceed to explain what happened in the manga, while my comment specifically talking about the anime. Phrase your paragraphs better to make your point across.
As someone who enjoys that good messy drama, love triangle things (do not look at my history of anime/manga/manhwa, it is a lot), especially when I was younger.. Sometimes I remember Peach Girl and the series. And I can't help myself but wonder.. "..What the fuck is going on." I love it still to this day. But.. What the HELL was going on when making that story at the same time. I sometimes wondered if the author was okay but it felt a bit personal at times like. DAMN.
There was another story a few years ago to mark the anniversary of its release. Sae was still causing Momo and Kairi issues as adults in their late 20s!
Sae is a miserable loser 😂
Wait what? Jesus, high school never ends for Sae.
35:20 if I’m remembering right, I think in the manga it was implied that Blondie had SAd Momo in her sleep.
She finds herself in this room with him and doesn’t remember anything, but then she finds a broken package of condom in the bin….
Hence Momo was curled up in her blanket and scared.
This is what I remember the most from the manga.
@@simplesimply3753 yeah actually me too.
Like no wonder Momo acts so desperately when Toji tries leave without explaining she needed someone to be by her side after such traumatic event.
@@Gya2foonsjIf I recall correctly, it's not just an open pack of condoms but explicitly USED condoms in the trashcan. But later it comes out that he just filled them with shampoo to trick her, and never actually assaulted her. Still, realistically, being faked out in that way would be just as traumatizing as it actually happening. It traumatized me just from reading about it. Shit stuck with me forever.
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Peach girl was one of my first animes. As a brown girl i was so excited to see a brown girl in anime only to find out she was just tan. And she didnt like her skin color! it was so wierd, cuz i never had a problem with mine, so i couldnt relate. But the drama! God i was living for this stupid romance drama, you have no idea. I wanted to choke sai so many times
Early 2000’s shoujo was wild. Reading Hot Gimmick might actually put you in a ward.
i think reading sae as a repressed lesbian who's got a psychosexual obsession with momo re-contextualizes a lot of her actions. i don't particularly subscribe to this headcanon (only found out about it from a tumblr mutual lol), but i think it could add some depth to her character so she doesn't come across so shallow and one dimensional in her evilness and quest to destroy momo's any chance she gets.
Well both of the men who were in love with Momo were pretty toxic themselves.
Let's practice kissing so I can give my gf a proper kiss.
My man is a genius. He is protagonist for a reason.
What in the wattpad set up? 😂
My mentality is: if the story set in the future makes the main story worse then it is not cannon
I remember Peach Girl in a positive light,as for me,it was the first time an anime showcased toxic girl friendships that I,myself,was going through at the time. Of course,it was a bit more dramatic,however some of the words Sae says to Momo are things my,at the time best friend,said to me. This anime and manga were very effective in that regard. I wasn`t obsessed with the romance aspect of it,but I did like the small complexities characters had.
I remember being sooo enthralled with Peach girl as a teen. I recently decided to watch as an adult and was shocked… EVERYONE in this show was so problematic 😂 like when momo threatened to jump out the hospital window omg. It’s a mess
Which character was problematic?
@@samflood5631 looking back, they all were 😂 but I guess that’s what made this series so entertaining.
At one point I was yelling at my TV. I was like oh hell no I gotta cut this nonsense off. The fact that she didn’t try to cause bodily harm to Sae is fascinating….
I would love to hear your take on Kamisama Kiss. I know it's a super loved manga and anime, me myself loveeeee this anime. But sometimes when rewatching I notice how problematic the protagonist relationship with the "man" is.
I love Kamisama kiss ! Haha rewatching it will be a treat since I think they fully adapted everything now. I'll add it to the list of videos🖤🖤
Not our girl going to her local library and renting a book for an analysis on anime. Queen tingz
Sae and Ryo are possibly the most accurate depictions of psychopaths I've ever seen in any media. Look into them and that's how they really can be. Befriending them or appealing to their conscience doesn't work because they lack the emotions needed to have real friends or feel bad about doing terrible things. Yes, their behavior is terrible and gross but it's realistic in that regard and, yes, stupid manipulations by psychopaths can work like that in real life because most normal people find it difficult to imagine people can be that awful or lie that shamelessly. Maybe that's more unpleasantness than a lot of people want in a romance anime, but not stupid. Peach Girl Next, on the other hand, is an attempt to extend a story past where it needs to be told and is pretty awful. Should be avoided.
As someone who was bullied I can say bullying from an entire class is plausible. People when seeing someone bullied they either try to be invisible or they join in so they themselves don't get bullied also. For me I somehow got on the bad side of the girl who happened to be the daughter of our elementary school principal (mother) and again later the daughter of the high school principal (father). So not to end up getting terrorized I got bullied by kids even from other classes even when they didn't even know my name. I pretty much became the isolated kid st school that no one became friends with because it was a sure fired way of getting bullied by the rest of the school. That changed in high school when I started hanging out with the Goths cause they didn't give two flips about being bullied and some even fought regularly with the jocks in school but yeah mass bullying does happen but isn't well translated in shojo comics all that well
Peach Girl is like the only anime I’ve watched that made me want to smoke a cigarette. It made me so stressed
I've never heard of Peach Girl before, but I said "what the hell" out loud multiple times as you explained the story. Man, just watching this video was a wild ride, so I can only imagine how experiencing the series felt.
Excellent video! You're easy to understand and it was easy to follow along with the story. I really like your voice, too; it's very quiet and calm :)
Side note: my aunt married a half-Hispanic man and all their kids are pale except for the youngest, who has a permanent tan because she spent so much time outdoors growing up. I didn't know that was a thing until I kept seeing her and started thinking "Has she...has she always been that tan?" Now she looks full Hispanic.
It is mostly likely just because of how genetics work. Tanning is not going to permanently change your skin color, unless you get sun poisoning. I’m biracial with Peruvian and my cousin is much darker than me or my sister. That’s why you find people finding out they had black in their family because it will pop up generations later. (It was a common thing in the us for white passing people to lie about their race as a survival mechanism sadly)
Plus although we are taught we get half and half from our parents, it’s a little bit more complex than that. Some kids get more DNA from one parent versus the other. So she may just legitimately have a higher percentage of Hispanic DNA in her.
Hispanic can still be White. It's an ethnicity, not a race.
Its common for there to be a sibling who is paler or darker than the rest. My extended family is brown except for 2 kids who didnt get the memo lol.
Wow... Peach Girl is worse than I remember lmaoooo loved this recap and analysis! Thank you for enduring this rewatch for our sakes (and good luck with Vampire Knight my god you will need it)
Just to clarify, it is confined by Tokyo Pop (English translators), the manage and the anime that Mom does NOT sleep with Touji between episodes 20-21.
The anime was a rollercoaster, but it doesn’t change the fact that event did it happen.
All of this would be fixed if they just texted . Like literally if Kairi just TEXTED HER AND WAS LIKE HEY IM LATE BUT IM TRYING TO COME.
This all could be avoided. Ya know- I’m glad they got together, but oh my god so much drama. Kairi is better for her because Toji just never trusted her.
I guess the early days of cell phones made people forget they could do that?
@@GenerationNextNextNextthey texted in nana bruh 😭😭
This could been solved if Kari as he and Maso are heading into the car he shouts to Momo that Ryo has been injured then bam
I remember when I was in the 6th grade, my friends were obsessed with this manga. They were so hyped about the crazy drama…
Tbh I kinda feel like that’s pretty much the demographic that can completely enjoy this series without having an aneurysm.
peach girl was crazy, it was the first manga I have ever purchased too, legit I was like 10 years old as well but the illustrations stuck with me so much, they were beautiful. Ueda Miwa is a great artist.
Have you heard of Hana Yori Dango? I LOVED that as a preteen/teen. Looking back as an adult it was…pretty toxic. Please, DO THAT NEXT
I loved this series when I was a kid. The art is so pretty and Momo is so cool. It’s kind of weird which series got picked up for English release in the 90s. I read every manga I could get my hands on then.
Peach girl gave me anxiety, yet i still watched it. Sae caused Momo so much damage in later episodes.
Marmalade Boy was wild too
peach girl next is peak lazy writing imo. its been 10 years and youre telling me kairi is still making momo feel no.2? hell naw
True!!! bcs like does Misao not have nobody else in her life to help with her parents being sick(haven't read the manga), and like he's 27 years old and still hung up on his childhood crush(like move on bro), surely there more drama to be had in your adult life than used material.
I only read the manga growing up but Kairi’s noodle scene where he learns the lesson that what he imagines to be the best might not be the best, and the best for him was right in front of him the entire time was very formative for me. But man. This review brought so many memories backkkk. Peach Girl was such a mess but it was my mess 😂
Lol, what a throwback. I still have my copies. It was like my first taste of trash tv at the tender age of 11.
I remember thinking the story was a mess but at that point I just wanted to see sae suffer from some consequences
in the manga some things are significantly different and I wanted to highlight those things
for example, when sae blackmailed momo with the photos, sae made it look like momo had sex with that guy by taking a condom and putting shampoo in it, also I think momo was naked but i cant remember
also this part that grinded my gears so much but kairi and momo at one point in the manga were like okay lets give sae a taste of her own medicine and almost let her get sexually assaulted
the manga is so much weirder and more adult it takes the cw ass plot to like hbo euphoria levels almost
I can't believe this was my garbage as a teen. It make me so glad that Wotakoi cured my trauma from romance manga like Peach Girl 😭
If you looked at the stories as purely entertainment, and the you could just watch it for it is. I never looked to manga to model my life on - most of the stories are silly (although reflect life slightly).
Peach girl is probably still my favourite romance anime, I adore Okayasu. I think it is because it didn't feel like a shojo, it was so messed up it felt like actual human relationships that are just tangled and messy. Okayasu and Momo and Sae seemed really tridimensional. Around the halfway mark of the anime I got really mind boggled by some reveals about Okayasu that completely shifted the plot (about how he never loved Momo and he was just coping cause of trauma) but they just made sense for a teenager and really shed another light upon his previous actions. After that halfway mark looking in retrospect, everything was different. The first half is still my favourite cause it feels more nostalgic, maybe cause I rewatched it more. I also watched it with my mom
i had to drop this series solely because of how stupid and uncharming the ml was, like i’ve had my share of the mean girls and the naive fl but he really just did it for me…
cant wait for the vampire knight video! honestly that series feels like a fever dream looking back on it haha.
Sporty tan girls is such a vibe
OMG PEACH GIRL COMMENTARY!! This was my first anime when I was 11 and I barely see anything online discussing it
So when it comes to messy ass drama, Peach Girl was my show in high school. Life is another messy manga, but its way more brutal and its a hard 18+ from me.
Never got to complete Life. Honestly, I feel like it said more about Japanese or Korean society about the time.
@@zerotodona1495 It took me a long time to finish reading it, but I managed. I don't think I could ever reread it though, too depressing, too triggering
Man I remember loving this series cause it was like one of the only times the girl wound up with the guy I wanted her to. Dham did I forget like 99% of what happened 😂
I remember as a kid seeing the manga in the teen section at the library, though I was so scandalized by the covers I never dared read them 😅
Anyway, you have a really beautiful, calming voice ✌
Omg, I remember watching Peach Girl as a kid and loving the drama! Then I re-watched it when I was older, and then all the things i loved about it just frustrated me 🤣
the fact that "dark-skinned" characters in anime have the same skin tone as I do and I'm literally white lmfao
Peach girl was one of my favourite animes as a pre teen girl and what originally introduced me to shoujo. I'll forever hold it dear to my heart but damn was it filled with unnecessary drama. I could never rewatch it now, otherwise I wouldn't have anymore hair left from pulling it from frustration.
Haha I love moments like that. You grow up loving a show, then get older and have a different perspective on it.
Peach Girl was a wild ride. Like a telenovela but manga!
I really didn't remember that PG was so crazy like this, thanks for the travel to the past. your channel is amazing
I've been wondering about this one for many years. Thanks for covering it!
Peach Girl was my very first manga set. My dad would buy me a new volume every two weeks. I finally finished the collection then my grandma went through them one dau and flipped out. Then proceeded to burn them. Never watched the anime but I was having such an emotional morning and finding this really helped lift my mood.
Oh god... I remember Peach Girl. My brother would buy these books that had different manga stories contained with a few chapters and it would continue the stories with more chapters if you buy the next release (forgot what it's called).
Of all of these stories I totally remember Peach Girl the most. It was something I regretted reading but with each release, I kept reading because well - Peach Girl is like trainwreck that you just can't look away from. No matter how much you try to ignore it, the disaster just builds and builds and you have to look back, wondering when the constant crashes are finally going to end.
Kinda like that Futurama joke, "I'm sending in more trains!"
As a kid I looooved this show every time it was airing on Funimation i would binge it crazy till the point my brother made fun of me about it 😭 but by the time I got into my preteens i started noticing the toxicity of the characters and the overall UNNECESSARY drama. This show is the reason why I hate love triangles 🤦🏽♀️ I wished they had just talk things out rather than running away or being swayed by others opinions. Sae most of all was the vain existence of my stress just watching this series. I hated Momo forgave her every time instead of literally just giving her a pieces of her own medicine and then some.
Omg I completely shut this series out of my head but yeah it made me sooo angry to see everything momo had to go through because of all the monsters surrounding her... Ugh I needed this deep dive
Niice, I always saw the Ads for Peach Girl in Shojo Beat magazines, but never knew of the story. Thanks for making this video 😀. I will definitely watch your video on gyaru. Would love to see how the fashion changed between generations.
Thank you so much for your review on Peach Girl and its anime/manga franchise; Similar to what most were saying in the comments section that Peach Girl is a messy drama that has a lot of misunderstandings and that most of the problems could have been resolved if there was communication between the characters, I believe that peach girl had the potential to be a great show if the toxicity and misunderstandings were cut in half and if Momo didn't choose someone at the end. Momo needed a journey of self-healing, self-love, and a fresh start in life because even though she is the main character, she's been through too much heartbreak and pain. Toji and Kairi were not the best love interests for Momo because neither of them would communicate their problems to Momo, as for Sae, she's not a friend to anyone and always wants the spotlight. I felt that Sae was the main character in Peach Girl(the anime and manga) instead of Momo because when Momo has a few happy moments, all of that comes crashing down with Sae and her toxic nonsense and as you mentioned, anything that Momo has, Sae wants it as well. The good things I can say about Peach Girl are I love the fashion and art(from the manga), I love the music and soundtracks(although the only track the anime kept using was Toji's Jealousy), and I actually found the animation, a bit charming. Overall, Peach Girl(the manga and anime) is a 7 out of 10 for me, Peach Girl Next is a 5 out of 10 for me and Sae's side story is a 2 out of 10. I feel there needs to be a reboot for Peach Girl and side stories for Momo, Toji, Misao, Ryo, and Momo's three friends because even with the anime and manga series for Peach Girl, I felt that I didn't learn much about those characters. Here are some questions(everyone is welcome to answer them): Do you believe Peach Girl needs a reboot/season two in the future,? Do you think Peach Girl needs a sequel after Peach Girl Next? Do you think characters like Momo, Toji, Kairi, and others need their own side story? Your review provides valuable insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the Peach Girl franchise. Ps: Thank you for the shoutout
Oh my gooosh I remember being so invested with this show! And then Momo started flip flopping between Togi and Kairi and I rage quit 😅
I introduced my sisters to this one when we were kids and watched it with them in an awkward attempt at bonding lol.
I made it in 45 minutes and 17 seconds. You? You are a delight. This series? I Can't. It's like a LEGIT soap opera omg. I just can't listen to more of these SHENANIGANS, but I'm gonna put this on mute and let it play because you deserve those retention metrics for going through all this hell omg.
I never noticed this before but Toji gives me major Anakin Skywalker vibes
I rewatch this anime as an adult for the first time as an adult during the pandemic and the way it raised my blood pressure. This Sae is definitely one of the top anime villian of all time. The fact that by episode three we already got momo threatening to unalive herself smfh
there isn’t a price of fiction out there that didn’t piss me off more than Peach Girl 😭
i found out abt peach girl in live action and honestly, the live action was very direct to the point but still same happenings but different settings which I really like and in anime, o h boy i have to stay up just to finish it bc my stress can't handle it LMAOO I QUICKLY SWITCH TO MANGA ONE BC I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!! so the peach next is actually good tho (i rlly like the drawing styles ngl) but the fact kairi switches his priorities to misao and then goes back at again to momo just rlly made me *explodes* but overall, i love peach girl at the end.
I love your reviews on Romance anime so much. I swear you re really underated ,and thats too baaaad🎉
Thank youuu!! And it's okay. I'll grow slowly hehe 🖤
I like what you said about Momo’s good qualities. I’m light tan but very clearly not passing. I think this is part of why I like Momo too. I had an experience kinda similar to Momo when I was 5. But instead of it being about a boy, I was literally rejected from playing with a friend by her parents because of my skin color. It obviously made me aware that I wasn’t like the other kids…
I feel I have some of the same qualities as Momo but I’m not nearly as forgiving. But just because I don’t like you, doesn’t mean I’ll be mean to you, exclude you, or not defend you from bullies.
Also, I don’t like Toji either 😒 but I do like Misao. She’s flawed as we all are but she’s smart and kind.
I don’t know who is worse in Peach Girl. Sae for ruining Momo’s reputation or Toji for putting Sae in a porno without her consent. I feel like these two deserve each other because they’re both toxic.
@@samflood5631 kairi did that to Sae not Toji. But yeah, both are equally bad in that sense. Sae made Momo think she got SA’d.
this was such a wild ride 😂 I never watched Peach girl as a kid/teen mostly because in my mind this was more for grownups, the whole vibe this series gave for me was mature and wild teen vibes; as a 12 year old I favored other shoujo animes like Ouran High school, kimi ni todoke, etc. I remember seeing pictures of PG on forums and thinking “maybe later”. Thank god I never watched it but I can just imagine how stressed little me would’ve been lmao 😅
This whole story and characters are INSANEEEEE. I gasped multiple times and laughed out loud at some of the shit these characters did 😂 The drama is just like the mexican telenovela my aunts see.
omgg i havent heard of peach girl since i watched it in middle school (im 29) 😂 this video revived my memory of it
Wow this video reminded me so much about how I related to Momo in middle school because of the bullying. Like, I even nicknamed my bully "Sae" in my head 🙃 anyway, great analysis, and I totally get that Peach girl drained you 😂 I still prefer the manga to the anime though, because the animation quality of the naughties was BAD.
I own a bunch of Vampire Knight too and I really couldn't keep going. That series exhausting me to after awhile. The premise was really good but god did it just get so messed up, and not in a good, literarily impressive way either; more in a “wtf is happen right now?” way.
I couldn’t be more uninterested in anime but the way you tell the story is very thrilling and exciting
I love and hate this anime/manga. Like I love drama, but there was so many things happening that I was so frustrated watching this… Like there wasn’t a single smart character in that series…
Goodness, this woke up a few memories. I was too young for this funimation show, I did not know what was going on with the “filming” episode. Seeing that AND Sae’s pregnancy reveal to her boyfriend BEFORE ever seeing the first episode? Definitely shaped how I saw Sae. Still understood her emotional distress, even if I didn’t get the context for a long time. I wonder if seeing Degrassi around that age affected me a lot…
Another thing we can learn from Peach Girl? Young people need a mentor they can rely on, they can turn to. Ideally a parent or teacher. Momo and Sae’s parents were not really part of the story, and it made the drama a lot closer to a soap opera than it needed to. Another option? Show a healthy or UNhealthy relationship at Momo’s workplace! Somewhere she can think about her life’s drama without Sae around to pull wool over her eyes.
Thanks for the captions ♥️♥️
Jesus christ, sae is an actual menace
Ugh this story really highlights how one person can manipulate and hurt so many people. Cut them off! Thank you for your recap lol
your way of talking is nice, almost like soft spoken 😻 and your mike is good damn I don't even know peach girl, I don't read mangas but I'll listen for the sake of your voice 😄
thank u for this!!! now idk if i can handle the stress of this series :'>>>>>>
Girl I really needed to hear that advice at the end of the video back in high school
This is my first time coming across a vid essay like channel..that focuses on animes! loved your vid :) and hope your channel goes far. glad the yt algorithm blessed me w/ you on my feed
The way you’re describing all of this makes it sound like a psychological horror 🙃
My best friend got me to watch Peach Girl and I knew I was in for a ride when Momo threatened to jump from that window in episode 3. The drama really does feel like it would've been great to eat up if you were reading the manga but as an anime the world is just so lonely and hostile for Momo. As far as the ending goes I think it should've been like Toradora where instead of getting together she decides to focus on her personal issues (take that with a grain of salt though Toradora is its own can of worms).
Sae is definitely not a martyr. She purely has a victim complex through and through. She doesn’t make sacrifices for others at her own expense ever she only wants the sympathy and attention that comes from being a victim.
This manga was the pinnacle of my school years in Japan… this video summary brought so many memories
This was the first anime I ever watched and what a fever dream it was. What a throwback
Your voice is so soothing!
I absolutely love peach girl, THE DRAMAAA one of a kind ❤
Ah Peach Girl. One of the first anime shows I ever watched. I wish I could forget it.
thank you so much for including subtitles!!
Holy shit I remember watching this as a literal 10 year old and I screaming at our fat desk top monitor absolutely loosing my mind😭😭😭