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Peach Girl #5

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Just when you thought Sae had lost her edge, a kiss from a supermodel brings her back to her old self. Add a little jeaslousy over Momo and Toji's happiness and you have a Sae that can only be described as evil.
Momo and Toji have finally kissed, and are as happy as a couple can be. They are even planning on celebrating Momo's 16th birthday alone. Unfortunatly, Sae's supermodel boyfriend has promised he'd do anything for her... even help her get Toji. There are some endearing moments in the story about being satisfied with what you have... Momo just keeps getting more lovable.
I can't spoil the ending, but at the last minute Peach Girl goes beyond risque and fun and deals with some serious issues. I very much enjoyed this volume, from the romantic moments to the comedy to the drama, but the cliffhanger might be too shocking for the 12 and under crowd. The end is shocking enough for the older readers.
For Peach fans, number 5 stands up to the previous volumes (with the added perk of "pro Sae" fan mail). However, be prepared for heavier drama.

The latest volume of Peach Girl is STUNNING. What's happening?
Sae has started a new fling with Goro, a famous model, desperate to make Momo jealous. Momo is going out with Toji and their relationship is going great. They plan a small celebration for her birthday, but Sae will NOT let the night end without being on top.
The ending is, of course, a bit of a cliff hanger. You must read this volume if you're a Peach Girl fan.
My only complaint is that there is only a couple of pages that feature Kiley. ;_;

I truly love the Peach series, I really do. I wondered how there could be 10 books total, but now I see why. Evil Sae wants Toji and she'll do ANYTHING to get him and she's really executed the most vile plan now. And of course Goro will do anything she asks of him, but this time, she really has gone too far. Watch your heart break for Momo yet again and in the worst way this time. It's just hard sometimes to see how some people can be so malicious. I enjoyed this book and can't wait to see what's in store for us next.

Goro Oji, a gorgeous model, has rescued Sae from a fate of her own making. In meeting her at the modeling shoot for the men's magazine he has developed a crush on her and restored her egomaniacal faith in herself. Now Sae is on the rampage and the first target of her destructive tendencies is Momo and Toji...again... Sae is unnerved by their newfound love and wants to break them up and restore herself to the position she was in before, even if it is by usury and scheming.

Meanwhile, Momo's birthday is coming up and Toji has a special evening planned for the two of them. His parents are going to be off for the evening and he invites Momo for a special dinner alone, but in the aftermath of their very first kiss is Momo ready to jump to the next step already? Well, if Sae has any say in the matter Momo will be deflowered on her sixteenth birthday, but she hasn't factored Toji into the plan at all...well, not where Momo is concerned anyways... Sae wants Toji for herself and is willing to throw anyone at Momo in order to get him, even Goro, who genuinely likes her (Sae, that is...not Momo).

One big dramatic mess... and it just keeps getting better and better. Of course, it's like most typical manga romantic shojo situations, when the characters take a step forward they always take two steps back, but hey, that's life I suppose. I can't wait to read the next volume in this series. I just can't seem to put any of them down.

This is one of the best volumes yet! I love how Miwa Ueda keeps you wanting more. Even my guy friends like it!

Just a note to parents out there - these books are not as innocent as they might appear from the cover. They are about at a level with modern American soap operas - pretty bad. No actual drawings of sexual organs but lots of pictures suggesting sexual activity; boys talking about taking a girl's virginity; intended rapes - including gang rapes - that are prevented at the last minute by the entrance of the hero; girls trying to win boys over by offering them sex; misunderstandings galore in which the boy has sex with the wrong girl or the girl wakes up in a strange bed. Even if you don't object to your daughter reading something with so much sex in it, you'll probably object to the antifeminist portrayal of girls obsessed with catching the right boy and using sex to do it. The heroine and hero do try to stay above all this and true to each other, but they still involve themselves in vengeful plots to teach the bad girls lessons. It's only natural that preteen girls should be curious about dating, etc., but these books give a really false and bad impression of what sex, love, and life are all about. People might say that this type of book is just for fun, but there's a lot of fun stuff out there that also makes you think and grow as a person: books and movies that deal with social-sexual issues in a more moral and responsible way and lead to an appetite for better and better literature. Sex is, after all, a major theme in literature. But the "Peach Girl" series would only develop a taste for more of the same, or worse.