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• Actors: Artist Not Provided
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: April 17, 2007
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MR9D2M
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #99,254 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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High school student Momo Adachi, the heroine of the shojo (girl's) series Peach Girl (2005), has problems. The sun darkens her skin and bleaches her hair more than is desirable, and she's convinced that Kazuya "Toji" Toujikamori, the boy she's had a crush on since junior high, only likes fair-skinned girls. Classmate Sae Kashiwagi lies and cheats to get what Momo wants--including Toji--while pretending to be her best friend. Irrevent Kairi Okayasu, the most popular boy in the class, likes Momo, who once saved him from drowning. A tangled series of misunderstandings, declarations of love, tantrums, break-ups, and reconciliations, Peach Girl suggests the anime equivalent of a junior Harlequin Romance. Adolescent girls will enjoy Momo's roller coaster rides from bliss to tears and back again, but boys and older viewers will quickly grow impatient with the characters' schmaltzy dithering.The Deluxe Starter Set includes the first volume of the manga by Miwa Ueda (which the series follows closely) and a mini-purse in a pink intense enough for Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde. (Rated TV PG, suitable for ages 10 and older: minor cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

Product Description
Based on the Peach Girl manga released by TOKYOPOP

Momo Adachi, a high school teen, is best known for her tan skin and bleached hair. Misjudged by her classmates as a wild party girl, Momo is a modest, lonely girl, who only has dark skin and bleached hair as a result of her long hours of dedication on the swim team. Struggling to fit into her new school, Momo finds herself befriended to a backstabber, pursued by a playboy, and seemingly unable to catch the eye of the guy she’s crushed on for years.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charles Solomon was too Harsh on this One, November 23, 2007

By	Jonathan McCartney "Musician" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Peach Girl, Vol. 1 (DVD)

Usually, I find myself agreeing with animation critic Charles Solomon's views but he's wrong about this one...I'm a twenty-four year old man and I find this series to be engaging, touching and funny all at the same time. It offers a realistic and likeable heroine, a horrible, scheming witch and a funny, mischievous young vagabond who actually cares but puts up a front of just being a skirt-chasing pervert. You'll enjoy it...take a chance on Peach Girl!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this anime, June 21, 2007

By	Cassandra J. Cates "Frighteninglycute" (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Peach Girl, Vol. 1 (DVD)

I'm not an "anime" girl or anything. I tolerate some animes thats as close to liking them as I get. I wanted to get into one though and found it started to watch it and I'm hooked...I can't stop. I think about it all the time lol. Its cute, easy to get in to, fun, emotional, dramatic, and funny. Its great. I hope my husband will buy me this set, the bag is cute.



This anime especially is cute and would be suitable for preteens/teens. A lot of anime is sexual or violent...in this one thus far the most I have seen is fighting between girls which isn't very violent. Also what I like is they make a big deal about kissing (treating it as serious as sex). There is no sex really in it, at one point a guy busts in the gym and hugs a girl while shes wearing bra/panties and a towel but they make a big deal about that too



All in all I love this Anime and do highly recommend it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars COPYCAT FRIEND, May 7, 2007

By	Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Peach Girl, Vol. 1 (DVD)

Momo Adachi doesn't look like your typical Japanese high school girl. She has dark tanned skin and glowing red hair from years of swimming for school teams. She's developed sort've an inferiority complex since she thinks most guys find her skin color repulsive. She's felt this way since middle school when she fell in love with her friend Toji and was told by another girl that he didn't like dark-skinned girls. She never could work up the courage to ask him directly what he thought of her and they eventually went to different schools. Now, Momo is at a new school and so is Toji. And she still likes him. She doesn't really have any friends to confide in except Sae, a wicked backstabber who tries to copy everything Momo does, even liking the guys she likes. So when Sae asks her who she likes Momo just randomly picks a guy from the crowd named Kairi to throw her off the trail. This Kairi coencidentally enough, has a thing for Momo since she saved his life years ago. So now Momo has to fight off Kairi while making Sae think that's who she likes while not letting Toji misconstrue that her and Kairi are an item.

That's pretty much what the first volume of Peach Girl is about and from the looks of it, it's not going to get much deeper than this. Sae is the villain of the piece and you sense that she's going to try bigger and crazier plans to bring pain to Momo throughout the series. Sometimes the lies Sae tells seem a bit farfetched and it's hard to swallow that Toji would fall for it over and over again. But it's hard not to believe gossip about the one that you love. All it takes is one serpent to make you doubt the world. The thing that I did like about Peach Girl was that all the feelings between the characters were pretty much out in the open by the end of the first five episodes. A lot of shojo drags things out for a whole series, culminating with the get together of the two romantic leads. In this series, declaring love was the easy part. It's the aftermath of the declaration that Sae is trying to sabotage. Sae seems a little one dimensional because it hasn't been explained why she is the way she is. I doubt she does the things she does simply because she's evil. Hopefully, we'll get a little more background on not only her, but the other characters as well. At this point, they seem to exist in a vacuum. A nice start but the characterization could use some work.