This is less of a review for others and more of a: my INTRODUCTION Listen Peach Girl means a lot to me. It was the first shoujo I ever read the first manga I ever collected and the first manga that I bought completely blind: all of the other mangas I bought I had already watched the anime adaptation first and knew at least a little bit about the story. All I did was look at the cover and the art style which are VERY PRETTY and appealing to me so I bought it. Today Im 25 years old and have finished rereading this story. And while I still hold it dear to my heart I gotta admit this is a very problematic story. SEX First I think that while it is considered a shoujo it is definitely more suitable for late teens like 18+. Sex is an important feature in this story even though there are NO sex scenes. Theres a bit of nudity theres /almost/ sex scenes theres RAPE ATTEMPTS though this concerns more violence and more. I first began reading it when I was about 8 years old so I definitely shouldnt have. There were no warnings concerning this in the cover and while I am in no way a prude I think that the reader needs to have at least a little bit of maturity to understand what is really going on. RAPE As I mentioned previously there are rape ATTEMPTS. More than ONCE even. This could potentially trigger a percentage of readers who have been through something similar. And to a younger audience it could potentially teach them wrong notions about it. By the time I reached this part in the story I was around 15 years old. Much older than when I first started reading but still not that mature enough. I understood that those were rape attempts but I didnt understand what rape really was about. LOVE TRIANGLES As a kid I liked the idea of two handsome men fighting for the love of well me. As a teen I thought that it was an unrealistic idea but I just shrugged it off. As an adult I HATE love triangles. This trope is more used to bring drama into the story and in this case it brought ALL the unnecessary drama. To the point that you start to wonder: did Momo ever really love ANY of those guys? As alluded in the subtitle of vols 818 change of heart Momo starts to love Kairi instead of Toji. As a Team Kairi person since a kid I was ecstatic to read that. But when I found out HOW that turned out oof. Big oof. Ill comment more about the couples lack of conversation in the next topic but in this one Ill focus on all the shifts the story had with Toji and Kairi: Momo starts with Toji Toji breaks up with her she dates Kairi bullshit happens lol and she goes back to Toji even more bullshit happens and she gets confused as to who to pick ??? She ends up with Kairi. Look. Im happy that she ended the story with my prefered character but it seemed so farfetched. She had at least 3 CHANCES to pick Kairi in the last few chapters and in all 3 she chose Toji. At the very last moment as if she was an actress in a movie and had just remembered that the script told her she had to choose Kairi she sprints towards that ending. I already said that love triangles are unrealistic but this manages to top that. There were several times in my reread that I was furious with Momos indecision and that had I not known the ending Id have dropped the manga. I understand that she was fragile when the whole switcharoo started to happen but wow. A side character tells Momo that to her it didnt matter who she ended up with as long as someone showed up. I kinda think shes right. Not to mention: the whole love triangles trope is inconsiderate towards the unchosen one. One of these people will always have to give up the person they love and in Tojis case I think the way Momo handled the situation was VERY inconsiderate. LACK OF CONVERSATION Toji breaks up with Momo to protect her from Sae. Did he really need to do that? Answer: NO. He couldve just talked to her and told her that Sae was blackmailing him. He couldve tried a better way to protect Momo instead of having to do what Sae wanted. But nope. Id rather take decisions by myself about my relationship without even talking to my girlfriend. Many chapters later Momo was now with Kairi and they had an agreement. Ill wait for you for 5 minutes and if you dont come by then Ill know your answer. Something comes up Kairi CALLS HER and DOESNT SAY WHAT HAPPENED and expects her to still wait for him. Like??? He already called her he SHOULD have said what happened and why hed be late. He couldve told her everything by the phone and shed have waited for him but instead he did exactly what Toji did in the beginning: didnt. Talk. to. Her. about. Important. Stuff. At least 80 of the drama in this story couldve been prevented by having a conversation. That drove me mad. THE GOOD POINTS AND CONCLUSION There are many many other little points that Id like to share but I think Ive already said the most important ones and I already gave too many spoilers so Ill wrap it up: With these many flaws how can I still LIKE this story and give it a somewhat high rating? Peach Girl while flawed and problematic is entertaining. Even though I already knew how it ended it had me avidly reading page after page on the edge of my seat hoping that it would all end okay for my favorite characters. Momo is kind and goodhearted even though she should hate Saes guts and wish her harm she keeps worrying about her and even considers her a friend. Sae starts off as a bitch but through character development she gets better and even helps Momo and Kairi towards the end. Toji is a good boy despite everything. Kairi starts off as a funny guy perfect even but through character development and his backstory we can see a whole new side of him. Many points of the story are absurd to the point of being unreal but at least the characters are very real to me. Plus: it was fun True I did have waaay more fun reading it as a kid/teen than I did as an adult but it was still nice. Would I still love it if I read it for the first time as an adult? Probably not. I probably wouldve dropped this a long time ago lol Should you read this after this monstrous review? I dont know. You tell me. If you dont I wont blame you. If you do I hope you can grow to love these characters as much as I did :