Peach Boy Riverside

Peach Boy Riverside (ピーチボーイリバーサイド) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Coolkyousinnjya, serialized on Neetsha's webcomic distribution site Weekly Young VIP since January 2008. The remake version written by Coolkyousinnjya and illustrated by Johanne has been serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Magazine R, as well as the website and app Magazine Pocket, since August 2015 and has been collected in fifteen tankōbon volumes. The remake is set to end with the release of its sixteenth volume. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA. An anime television series adaptation produced by Asahi Production aired from July to September 2021.

Characters

 * Sally (サリー) / Saltherine Aldarake (サルトリーヌ・アルダレイク)


 * Kibitsu Mikoto (キビツ ミコト)


 * Frau (フラウ)


 * Hawthorn Grattor (ホーソン・グラトール,)


 * Carrot (キャロット) / Meki (眼鬼)


 * Dog (犬)


 * Winnie Emex (ウィニー・エメクス)


 * Millia (ミリア) / Hatsuki (髪鬼)


 * Sumeragi (皇鬼)


 * Todoroki (轟鬼)


 * Juserino (ジュセリノ)


 * Atla (アトラ)


 * Chūki (忠鬼)


 * Kyūketsuki (吸血鬼)


 * Kiki (樹鬼)


 * Sleep Ogre (惰眠鬼)


 * Hiko (彦)


 * Noburega (ノブレガ)

Anime
An anime television series adaptation of the remake version was announced on August 7, 2020. The series is animated by Asahi Production and directed by Shigeru Ueda, with Keiichirō Ōchi handling series composition, Satomi Kurita and Masato Katō handling the character designs, and Takaaki Nakahashi composing the series' music. It aired from July 1 to September 16, 2021, on Tokyo MX, BS NTV, and AT-X. Q-MHz produced the opening theme song, "Dark spiral journey" featuring Yuko Suzuhana, while Mitei no Hanashi performed the ending theme song, "Yoru o Koeru Ashioto" (Footsteps Across the Night). Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia. Medialink has licensed the series in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and is streaming it on their Ani-One YouTube channel, but this series is only viewable on their YouTube channel with Ani-One Ultra Membership scheme. Ani-One will upload this anime to their YouTube channel from July 1 for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau and from July 15 for other Asian regions.

Episode list
The series is released in two different versions: the "On air version" (オンエア版) which airs in an anachronical order that rearranges the chronological order of the original story, while the "Time series version" (時系列版) (which is exclusively released on the Japanese streaming platform dAnime Store) follows the chronological order of the original story.

Game
A video game adaptation, Peach Boy Riverside Battle Saga, was launched on the HTML5 game platform, G123, on July 1, 2021.