is a shōjo manga series by Miwa Ueda

Miwa Ueda

is a Japanese manga artist known for her works like Peach Girl and Angel Wars. In 1999, she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Peach Girl....

. It is a sequel to Peach Girl

Peach Girl

is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Miwa Ueda. It was published in Japan by Kodansha in Bessatsu Friend from 1998 to 2003 and collected in 18 volumes...

, told from the point of view of Sae, the antagonist of Peach Girl. It was published in Japan by Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

 in Bessatsu Friend

Bessatsu Friend

is a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at teenage girls. It was originally conceived as a bessatsu, or companion magazine, to Shōjo Friend, which is no longer published...

from 2004 to 2006 and collected in three tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

volumes. It is licensed in North America

North America

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 by Tokyopop

Tokyopop

Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...

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Story

Sae is left back a year in school, for skipping classes despite her good grades. She is stubborn, so she hangs out at Momo and Kairi's university daily despite needing to attend high school. Sae meets one of her childhood sweethearts, Kanji (or Monkey Boy), who left for Malaysia when they were young, and promised to marry Sae when he returned. In love with Sae, Kanji follows her around trying to win Sae back over, very unsuccessfully. He also takes care of Sae's dog, Sora, when her parents would no longer let her keep it. Sae later purposely injures the dog in order to keep it away. Sae starts modeling and pretends she goes to college with Momo, when she is really still in high school. She meets Honda and works for CC as a model where she meets a college model named Takuma who she uses to keep away Kanji. Another model is in love with him though and despite her efforts to win him over his indecisive nature causes them to break up. Later, she meets another boy named Shinji in an accident where she knocks Kanji and his bike into his car and offers to pay damages. She works hard in odd jobs to pay him with Kanji's help, even though she claims that her modeling should cover it all. In the end it turns out he is just using her and his selfish nature is revealed when, in danger, he chooses to save his car over saving Sae. All Sae's ups and downs makes her realize that Momo, Kairi, and Kanji are the only people that actually care for her.

There is also a section in volume 1 which retells half of Peach Girl's plot from Sae's point of view where we learn that Sae is quite insecure and feels that friends and boyfriends do not come easy to her like they do others, which is partly the reason for why she is the way she is.