Peach Girl #1 [Paperback]

Miwa Ueda (Author, Creator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: TokyoPop (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892213621
• ISBN-13: 978-1892213624
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,804,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peaches and Cream!, November 6, 2000

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Ashley Bollhorst (Decatur, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peach Girl #1 (Paperback)

Momo Adachi is a teenage girl who is desperately trying to overcome what her outside appearance suggests and win the boy she's crazy for! To clarify, Momo ("peach" in Japanese) lives in an area where only pale girls are considered beautiful and innocent. Those with tan skin are stamped with the derogatory title of "beach bunny" and are viewed by society as easy party girls. Momo's problem is that she tans so easily and with light hair that everyone assumes is bleached, she fits the physical description perfectly! However, Momo is anything but the beach bunny her looks make her out to be. Shy and pretty, Momo tries desperately to lighten her skin with sunblocks and look like the girl she feels like inside. Only one boy seems to understand that Momo isn't what she seems--Toji. Toji is also Momo's love interest, and readers will grow to love him as much as she does! Of course, just when it seems like Momo might have Toji for her own, Sae--Momo's jealous "friend"--makes plans to make sure that doesn't happen!

This is a good MANGA series! Any female reader would be finding herself eagar to turn the pages!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Peach Girl!, September 3, 2000

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Caroline Moran (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peach Girl #1 (Paperback)

Peach Girl is one of my favorite manga series! I first read it in SMILE magazine. It is a story about a high-school girl named Momo (Peach in japanese- hence, "Peach Girl"). Where Momo lives, only bad girls have tans, and Momo tans way too easily! This causes her to be insecure, because people think she is a bad person who only parties all the time, when she is really a girl who is very shy and nice. Her "friend" is Sae, who wants anything that Momo does, including the boy Momo likes! Poor Momo. Will she ever get to be with the boy she likes? Read Peach Girl to find out!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute and funny..., June 3, 2004

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Liolania "In2Jesus" (Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Peach Girl #1 (Paperback)

Peach Girl is an odd concept really, I mean we're following the love escapades of a girl whom is naturally blonde and tan in a world where everyone has dark hair and non-tan skin haha(Unless they fake'n'bake). Momo can't help it, she hates the way she looks. Now in the U.S. someone like Momo would be considered an absolute babe, but obviously in Asia, they have different standards of beauty.

So in this volume Momo has to deal with a backstabbing friend whom copies everything she does and tries to steals all the guys from Momo's life. Any guy that seems to take interest in Momo or/and that Momo likes. All Momo wants to do is look normal and get some friends who are'nt total (...) and because Momo is so insecure about the way she looks she doesn't realize all the guys that like her. its kind of fun to get some insight into the life of the "hot" girl. All girls are insecure about the way they look, especially the ones we consider hot.

Of course "Peach Girl" isn't deep, its a whole LOT OF FLUFFY SHOUJO!!! If you like fluffy shoujo then you'll love Peach Girl no doubt.!

God Bless & *enjoy* ~Amy