Anime: Peach Girl

Well.. lol, not much reviews on this anime, so I'm going to decide to write one. This is my first review, I hope you like it!

General:
Before I start to give out my ratings and my reasonings behind it, I would like to point out that this series had many good and bad points. These points can, and in my opinion, contradict eachother and in turn kind of switch? Good to bad, bad to good. I guess what I'm trying to say is, is that it all comes down to you tastes and what you're looking for...


Animation and Sound: 5
I'm going to rate animation and sound together, because the aspects support and depend on another very heavily.

The reason why I'm giving it a 5 is because alot of times, the speeches does not match the animation. The mouths move alot longer than they should. At first, I thought it could of been something wrong with the timing with the sub group, but then I realised that sometimes, the mouths would start moving 1 second before speech and continue moving 1 second after speech. That's one of my pet peeves in anime and it did weigh the animation and sound down very severely, but that's not all.

Another reason why Animation and Sound recieved a rating so low is because mainly of Sae-chan. Throughout the anime, Sae-chan's phsical attributes would change and the music would change too. Sometimes she'll be thin, sometimes she'll be chibi, and sometimes, she'll recieve fox ears and tail. This completely changes the atmosphere of the anime because no other character's physical attributes are tampered with. It almost feels like I'm watching a different series and different setting, but with same characters. On the other hand, this physical change emphasizes on the change character mood which is very effective and done alot in other anime. I just think that they could of done this without the need of altering Sae-chan since they did it very well with the rest of the characters, or, alter all the characters instead of just Sae-chan.


Story: 9
The story is not very original at all. It's very cliche, but what's the harm of using it if it's good? I'm sure you all heard of this type of story. A likes B, but B likes C. In the end, B has to choose between A or C. The basic triangle relationship. But this isn't the reason why I gave it a 9.
The reason why I gave it a 9 is because within the triangle relationship, there are mannyyyy triangular relationships... Confused? Let me explain.
The series is divided up into several parts. Each part has a nice little conclusion to it that makes you satisfied. After that, another part starts, sort of like an aftermath of what happened last part. Then after that, another. Then it all combines together into one giant plot with everything that happened in every part. At first, after watching the 5th episode, I thought it was over (I never saw how long this series was). Then I thought it would end at 12.. but it kept going lol. I found this very well fitted for me because even though I want to watch to the conclusion, I don't actually want it to conclude. After each part, it gave me the satisfaction that I would have as if the anime ended and then it gave me more!
But some people might not think the same way as I do and find this very damn annoying. Sort of like the other reviews said, "Kiss her already damnit, and end it!" But if you think like me, you'll freaking love it.

Character: 8
All characters were really well done, except Touji. You'll feel the characters as you watch the anime and see all the events slowly unfold. You will, indeed, feel like you're some of the characters. They made it that way. Again, like the previous reviews stated, you'll feel a STRONG hatred towards Sae-chan. I never thought someone can be such a complete bitch. You'll feel what Momo-chan is feeling in the beginning, and as Momo-chan starts to forgive her, you'll slowly forgive her aswell. I would rate it a 10, but again,.. Touji was a huge problem. In the beginning, he's all shy and stuff. Then, he's never again seen until near the end, and suddenly he's all changed. Like what the hell? It was like Clark Kent changing into Superman in the phone booth. One moment he's a shy reported, next he's a super hero changing people's lives. One blink. He's a main character, but he was completely neglected at a point.

Enjoyment: 10
Episodes one to five had me annoyed to hell, but that's just because of Sae-chan.. after that, it leaves you wanting more after more. My suggestion is that you endure those first few episodes, then the drama starts pouring in.
It took me about two days watching episodes one to five and they were in between other anime. Then after 6 or 7 ended, I rushed to the end in about a day, watching nothing but that.

Value: 7
Umm,.. I keep every anime I watch for atleast a month or two, just incase I want to watch it again. After watching a drama anime, you really don't want to watch it again right after... that is why I'm going to keep this and see if I have an urge to watch it again in the future. Can't really give a value rating now, so I'll give it an average of 7.

The animation for peach girl is very ordinary, but im sure it could have been done ALOT better..the cg parts reminded me alot of inital d for some aparent reason..

the op and ed song were better good..the peach girl ost is pretty average...

the charaters are made pretty good...you'll fall in love with the momo-chan and hate sae so fucking much...and yes the charaters all evole so much later on during the series..

the story was very good but it repeated so many times...get with him lose em get with another...
it went back for forth alot...i got into many parts of the anime and just wanted to be like
"dude your such a fucking pansy" and so on..
overall i think it was pretty good

I am not going to watch this series again..
I think peach girl a great anime when you see it once but it would probally be pretty weak if you saw it a second time..

overall peach girl is a dope series for hardcore shoujo fans and yes i agree with the person who first reviewed it..a wink at what goes on the minds of young japanese girls

Wow, I hadn't seen a "real" shoujo in a while! I have mixed thoughts about this series, so while I sort them out let's talk about the easy stuff.

The animation is very colorful, but very ordinary. The characters are drawn in the newer "shoujo manga" style that I've seen appearing here and there in the recent years (i.e. big lips, bigger eyes than usual, softer, rounder features, lots of emphasis on the fashion style of the girls, etc.). Not impressive overall, in fact I felt it was jerky most of the time, but it has a touch of originality that I hadn't seen for a while in the genre.

The sound is also very, very ordinary. The opening song by meg rock is too girly and high-pitched to my personal taste, although it does fit the style of the series. I was happy to discover Sonim though, who did the ending song. Great voice! The rest of the BGM is repetitive, and what you would expect from this type of series: piano and violin for emotional moments, boring synthesizers and beats for the rest.

The seiyuu made a good job, especially for Sae and her annoying, arrogant voice, as well as Kairi, who had a very funny twist to his sentences.

The story.... meh. That's the good and bad part about this series. First, it starts off too quickly and we don't really get a good feel for what really goes on between Sae and Momo. Frankly, although the taiwanese drama was really badly acted, at least the script was much more efficient in letting transpire the jealousy of Sae and the emotional fragility of Momo in the introduction. It takes time to build this kind of situation between two persons, but the anime readily starts off into the action with a few flashbacks on important scenes to explain what happened. It feels like there is something missing right at the beginning.

However as the series progresses, the story catches up in no time and gets VERY extravagant, borderline General-Hospital-impossible, and it's hard to believe everyone is so dumb that they always fall for Sae's stupid plans to break the couple up. It's almost more frustrating to see such a weak plot unfolding! Yet this contains soooo much shoujo drama that part of you will ultimately fall for it, and you'll be caught up with the characters emotions and become addicted to it. Yes, we finally get a full glimpse of Sae and Momo's hearts as we follow them along, but it wouldn't have taken so many episodes if the script had been better written.

The characters do grow up and evolve in the series, but I feel they do so in a cliché(d) way. The innocent and pure-hearted Momo finally sees beyond her own little virgin princess world after some time, while Sae does grow beyond the arch-enemy "bitchy" stereotype. The guys though (=supporting, second-rate characters) are overall unimpressive, always acting like perfect princes (because this IS shoujo anime, hey), and they are there only to make the drama part of the script. They felt to me like toys and tools for developping Sae and Momo, more than humans in their own right. Kairi was the only one they thought would be worth developping, but the "ultimate prince" Touji was kind of boring and stoic. I don't know about you guys out there, but it seems at 16 that no male teenager would be acting (and looking) that way in real life. Oh wait. This is anime. Eh :)

I won't be watching this series again. It was good, I enjoyed it, but it wouldn't be pleasing to go through the same weak script and stereotypical scenes again. I watched the taiwanese drama too, so if you are a real fan of Peach Girl I'd recommend you give it a try (warning though, it's really bad acting all the way), but this animated series is better in my opinion.

A good, typical shoujo series for hardcore high-school romance shoujo fans. It's a wink at the image of the ideal&perfect young Japanese girl dreaming about platonic love at 16.