Ginger Boy Riverside: this anime leaves a peppery, pungent taste in your mouth, just as ginger.

Peach Boy Riverside

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This adaptation of the same-titled manga written by Cool-kyou Shinja—known for his work as the mangaka behind Maidragon—is about Silly, a princess who travels from a kingdom to another in look for adventures and meeting people on the road. Nonetheless, do not mistake this anime for a common adventure-themed work where the hero uses magic and such to make people happy; Sally is not that kind of hero, and neither this anime is that kind of production.

The first two episodes of Peach Boy (as I will call it henceforth) are critical to analyzing the kind of anime it will most likely be, as they were developed to show the main aspects of the production—including a suitable amount of sanguinary battles along with a strong characterization of Sally. Also, in the first episode, viewers would get to know who is going to accompany Sally the princess on her adventure—and meet my favorite character of this anime, Frau.

Balance is a feeling derived from being whole and complete; it's a sense of harmony. It is essential to maintaining quality in life and work. - Joshua Osenga

This anime knows that establishing an equilibrium in a story is important to avoid falling to recurrence and monotony. Although having many bloody action-packed scenes, and overpowered characters that seem out of a fantasy novel, _Peach Boy_ gives Sally and Frau easy-going, flexible personalities—especially to the latter, whose design and traits are charming, but they serve as masks to her steadiness.

Notwithstanding the fact that the quote I cited does not completely convey the idea I wanted to share, it helps us understand how harmony is essential to maintaining the quality of a piece of work itself. Peach Boy demonstrates that they do not need to have Madoka Magica or Gakkou Gurashi's style to take lovely characters into harsh environments.

However, not everything was roses and cute characters for Peach Boy, as it messed up in a whole lot of aspects, making a boring anime that did not manage to meet my expectations.

From around the fourth episode onwards, Peach Boy started to introduce pointless, barely explained issues regarding the world of the series, including an organization that wants to kill every human on Earth... because, well, they needed a villain. Thus, our clearly original characters (sure...) started their adventure about killing ogres, meeting people, killing more ogres, walk... and kill more ogres—while trying to come to peaceful terms with them.

Peach Boy riverside is the anime version of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (Go to Wikipedia if you don't get the joke). Sally is, on one hand turning down the opportunity to kill ogres, so that they make peace with humans and, on the other hand, killing ogres herself.

And let us not talk about the messed-up chronological order.

Peach Boy was an anime that had the potential to be an outstanding seasonal, but it ended up being a mediocre production. This anime went by unnoticed thanks to the fact that it shared season with even worse anime. The first three or four episodes were good—just good—and it went downhill henceforth.