Richard Eisenbeis
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It s funny. I don t think I ve ever actually read the Momotaro fairy tale though I ve certainly learned the basic story through cultural osmosis. An elderly couple finds a giant peach. In the middle, instead of a seed, they find a child. They raise the boy, Momotaro, as their own and eventually he heads off to the island, Onigashima, and fight the ogres that reside there with his animal companions. Apparently,
Peach Boy Riverside is a pseudo-sequel to that story. Yet, instead of following Momotaro, it follows Sally a princess with a similar origin who shares Mototaro s penchant for ogre fighting.