Peach Boy Riverside Vol. 14

Peach Boy Riverside Vol. 14

There’s demon-slaying action galore in this stylish update to a Japanese folktale from the creator of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid! The rambunctious, teenage Princess Saltherine is fed up with being trapped behind high walls and engineers an escape. But this world is full of monsters both human and otherwise, and it could be Sally herself is one of them… Read the series that inspired the anime!

Saltherine, princess of the Kingdom of Aldarake, dreams of traveling the world…a dangerous dream in a land where monsters roam the countryside! A chance meeting with a wanderer gives her hope that she might still find excitement in her life. But then she discovers the wanderer’s true identity: Momotaro the Peach Boy, demon-slayer of legend! Though terrified by his bloody profession, Sally feels driven to follow Momotaro and learn more. But is this curiosity, or a magical connection that goes deeper than either of them realize…?

Biographical Notes:

Coolkyousinnjya is the creator of the global bestseller Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, as well as the popular gag manga I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying and Komori-san Can’t Decline. Their newest work is action folktale Peach Boy Riverside.

Johanne is an experienced creator of doujinshi (indie comics), whose first manga from a mainstream publisher is action folktale Peach Boy Riverside, now out in English from Kodansha Comics.

Title Notes:

A mash-up of an ancient Japanese folktale with a medieval European-tinged monster-fighting fantasy setting, this fits in nicely with current king of the shonen hill, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Demon Slayer.

ans of the author’s previous work Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, which was published by Seven Seas in English and has an anime streaming on Crunchyroll, will find a similar mix of action, creativity, and humor.

More details on Coolkyousinnjya & Johanne:

Coolkyousinnjya’s Twitter account

Coolkyousinnjya’s Pixiv account

Johanne’s Twitter account

Publisher’s Twitter account