Peach Girl made me lose braincells (A Retrospective)

What a blast from the past. It gets a 9/10 for drama from me.
Gyaru Fashion:
History of Gyaru:
90s Gyaru Mom vs 2020s Gyaru Kid:
Gyaru is not dead:
Kuro Gyaru Unit Black Diamond in Shibuya:

Who's pulling your strings? (the manipulation book I talked about):

[evafan]

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.

[natasapap]

Bro, if only Sae put as much effort in her academics as she did in being a menace to society...

[niloticnya]

As a darker skinned black girl, I dealt with extreme colorism and could relate to Momo so much

[Elizabeth-mfdn]

It was CRAZY how a group of boys held Momo down. That’s assault!!!

[nuclearseahorse]

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

[IceQueen]

I did NOT realize Peach Girl and Vampire Knight had *the same author, the But it explains SO MUCH.

[Flash_Darling]

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.

[queencinnamonroll]

Peach Girl is like the only anime I’ve watched that made me want to smoke a cigarette. It made me so stressed

[Sprkljmprpequeen]

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

[nikkorin]

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

[StrawberryChaiLatte]

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.

[anon]

If a study is behind a paywall, most authors if you reach out to them will provide the study for free

[Jimmyboygohome]

Not our girl going to her local library and renting a book for an analysis on anime. Queen tingz

[Gyafoonsj]

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.

[Serjohn]

Let's practice kissing so I can give my gf a proper kiss.
My man is a genius. He is protagonist for a reason.

[snakey]

This sounds like the most infuriating story I've ever heard of. Like it feels like just rage bait

[hannah]

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!

[velvetybom]

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

[OOLALA]

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 😆

[textlingo]

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.