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Kairi and Momo are now attending university together and are finally happy. Sae has been left behind after failing her last year of high school due to her poor attendance. We follow Sae’s adventures as she reunites with a childhood love and deals with high school life (gulp!) again.
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Remember Sae Kashigawa, the self-centered, two-faced, backstabbing girl that wreaked havoc upon Momo’s high school love life in “Peach Girl”? Well, as they say, what goes around comes around. Momo has graduated and is happily attending college with her boyfriend, Kiley. Sae, on the other hand, is still stuck in high school. She cut classes too often and now has to repeat her senior year to make up for those attendance units.
By Princess WeekesDec 10th, 2020, 2:08 pm
Some villains are notable for their kill count, their technological achievements, or their desire for world conquest. Sae Kashiwagi, from the shojo series
Peach Girl, was notable for being a life ruiner that would give Regina George a run for her money in terms of friendship manipulation.
Peach Girl, by mangaka Miwa Ueda, is a high school drama centered on protagonist Momo Adachi and her love life, friendships, and rivalries.
Peach Girl was a particularly important series for me because it was one of the first times I saw colorism addressed in something outside of Black media. For Momo, her tanned skinned and bleached hair from swimming led to her being seen as sexually forward. Thinking that her primary love interest, Toji, only likes fair-skinned girls, she stops doing things she loves (swimming), bleaches her skin, and avoids being in the sun.