In the July issue of Kodansha's Be-Love magazine, it was announced that author Miwa Ueda (Peach Girl) will release a new manga titled Saredo Itoshiki Otsuma-sama, in the next issue of the magazine on July 1.
The manga is an adaptation of the eponymous novel written by Daisuke Suzuki. Suzuki published this novel in 2018 and tells an autobiographical story of when the author worked as a reporter and suffered a stroke. The novel follows his rehabilitation and recovery, as well as the acts his wife did for him during this.
Ueda is also the author of the Peach Girl manga, which she published in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine between 1997 and 2003, with a total of 18 compilation volumes. This manga inspired a 25-episode anime adaptation, produced by Studio Comet under the direction of Hiroshi Ishiodori and scripts written by Hiroko Tokita, and released in January 2005.
Subsequently, Ueda released a sequel titled Peach Girl Next, which she published in Kodansha's Be-Love magazine between August 2016 and December 2019, with a total of eight compilation volumes.
Peach Girl Synopsis
The story centers on a normal high school girl but that all her classmates believe that she is an easy girl because she has tanned skin. The real reason for his tan is simply because he is part of the swim team and because his body bronzes so easily. However, she likes a boy who doesn't seem to like her appearance, which lowers his self-esteem too much and he will begin to invest his time in remaking himself in the type of girl he likes.
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