Spin-off of Peach Girl, but it is not necessary to read the original. ( )

It's been a long time since I bought my last manga (I was cutting my expense because it is pricey to collect mangas). I was just looking around to buy cheap old novels but to my surprise there were cheap new mangas!! The 2nd set of Peach Girl 6-8 & this (Peach Girl Sae's story 1) were more than half the price so I bought it in a heartbeat.

Actual Review: (i love the extra chapter)
This series justifies Sae's personality and perspective. She was full of insecurities and instead of improving herself, she's doing bad and annoying things as her defense mechanism. She acquired it because of her sad childhood. And her parents did not help to her situation.

It was also shown here how she became Momo's friend. I think Sae felt empty after she knew all about Momo. Hence, she copied her endlessly, out of admiration & to fill what's missing in her. She thought by pretending to be Momo, she can be happy like Momo. But what she only lacks were trust & honesty. ( )

This follow-up to the original Peach Girl series focuses (as the title indicates) on Sae, Momo's nemesis turned actual friend. While Sae had developed into a semi-sympathetic character by the end of the first series, this series has her backslide to levels of unlikability approaching her worst in the original stories. Add in that the series has a rushed conclusion two volumes later, due to the author feeling she couldn't devote enough time to both the series and her life, and this is not worth picking up unless you're desperate to read more about these characters, and maybe not even then. ( )