History YMMV / WeddingPeach

** It never aired on a TV network there (with the exception of Italy), meaning it never managed to reach the target demographic in the first place, so even after it was picked up by Creator/ADVFilms the only people who were willing to look into it were already anime fans.

* AmericansHateTingle: For the most part, the series has a very negative reputation in the West as a cheap ripoff of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', as it never managed to be VindicatedByHistory the same way it was in Japan. This is due to a handful of reasons:

** Due to ValuesDissonance (see the entry for the trope below), Westerners are more likely to be turned off by the premise.

* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, the anime gained a bad reputation at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations (mostly from people who [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch hadn't even watched it]], or at the very least hadn't gone beyond a few episodes). After things had cooled down after ''Sailor Moon'''s broadcast, professional critics began looking into Creator/OLMIncorporated, an up-and-coming studio at the time, and gave the series a number of good reviews as a "hidden masterpiece" and "hidden good work". The resulting CriticalDissonance prompted the Japanese anime fanbase to reassess it; ultimately it gained a respectable reputation, became a TropeCodifier for some motifs in the modern MagicalGirl genre, and is considered to be fairly significant as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first major anime. However, this vindication failed to ever make it to the West, where it's still considered a cheap ripoff by most of the people who've heard of it.

* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, the anime gained a bad reputation at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations (mostly from people who [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch hadn't even watched it]], or at the very least hadn't gone beyond a few episodes), but after things had cooled down after ''Sailor Moon'''s broadcast, professional critics began looking into Creator/OLMIncorporated, an up-and-coming studio at the time and gave the series a number of good reviews as a "hidden masterpiece" and "hidden good work". The resulting CriticalDissonance prompted the Japanese anime fanbase to reassess it; ultimately it gained a respectable reputation, became a TropeCodifier for some motifs in the modern MagicalGirl genre, and is considered to be fairly significant as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first major anime. However, this vindication failed to ever make it to the West, where it's still considered a cheap ripoff by most of the people who've heard of it.

* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, after its rocky start at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations and its resulting negative stigma, evaluations of its quality conducted after its initial broadcast along with a sufficient amount of time passing from ''Sailor Moon'''s airing allowed it to gain a respectable place in anime otaku circles; it's sometimes referred to as a "hidden masterpiece" or a "hidden good work" and is considered fairly significant as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first major anime. Unfortunately, this vindication failed to ever make it to the West, where it's still considered a cheap ripoff by many.

* DuelingShows: With ''Anime/SailorMoon'', although due to the fact the creator was one of the main writers for ''Sailor Moon'' makes it more of a sister show.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The anime, despite the fact the manga ran earlier. Notably, the [[http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%84%9B%E5%A4%A9%E4%BD%BF%E4%BC%9D%E8%AA%AC%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81 Pixiv article]] for it barely mentions the manga or its continuity at all. It's hard to say whether this is an ''adaptation'' displacement, however; the manga indeed ran for a year before the anime began, but the two are separate entities as part of a mixed-media franchise.

* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, after its rocky start at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations and its resulting negative stigma, evaluations of its quality conducted after its initial broadcast along with a sufficient amount of time passing from ''Sailor Moon'''s airing allowed it to gain a respectable place in anime otaku circles; it's sometimes referred to as a "hidden masterpiece" or a "hidden good work" and is considered fairly significant as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first major work. Unfortunately, this vindication failed to ever make it to the West, where it's still considered a cheap ripoff by many.

* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, after its rocky start at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations and its resulting negative stigma, professional evaluations of its quality conducted after its initial broadcast along with a sufficient amount of time passing from ''Sailor Moon'''s airing allowed it to gain a respectable place in anime otaku circles; it's sometimes referred to as a "hidden masterpiece" or a "hidden good work" and is considered fairly significant as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first major work. Unfortunately, this vindication failed to ever make it to the West, where it's still considered a cheap ripoff by many.

* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, after its rocky start at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations and its resulting negative stigma, professional evaluations of its quality conducted after its initial broadcast along with a sufficient amount of time passing from ''Sailor Moon'''s airing allowed it gain a respectable place in anime otaku circles to the point where it's sometimes referred to as a "hidden masterpiece" or "hidden good work" and is considered fairly significant as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first work. Unfortunately, this vindication failed to ever make it to the West, where it's still considered a cheap ripoff by many.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The most frequent negative backlash against the series in regards to itself and ''Anime/SailorMoon'', as it was a particularly common criticism in Japan during its airing and tends to elicit this reaction even now when first presented to anyone who's familiar with the latter. Ultimately, the high production values and its later influences on the MagicalGirl genre redeemed it in its home country, but it never quite escaped this stigma in the West, as it is indeed one of the MagicalGirl shows that resembles ''Sailor Moon'' the closest (mainly due to its shared primary writer and anime character designer).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Ripoff stigma aside, the series was a moderate success in Japan and eventually earned a fairly comfortable seat in MagicalGirl and Creator/OLMIncorporated-related history, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub was in 2013 in an attempt to gain a new generation of fans ''eighteen years'' after its initial airing). The first dub's AlternativeForeignThemeSong, "The Legend of Love", also happens to be one of the more famous anime songs in Korea, to the point that some of the backlash against the third dub came from the fact [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks it didn't have it]] (the second dub was forgiven because it was a translated version of the original Japanese song).

* DuelingShows: With ''Anime/SailorMoon''
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although the series was a moderate success in Japan and earned a fairly comfortable seat in magical girl genre history, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub was in 2013 in an attempt to gain a new generation of fans ''eighteen years'' after its initial airing). The first dub's AlternativeForeignThemeSong, "The Legend of Love", also happens to be one of the more famous anime songs in Korea, to the point that some of the backlash against the third dub came from the fact [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks it didn't have it]] (the second dub was forgiven because it was a translated version of the original Japanese song).

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The most frequent negative backlash against the series in regards to itself and ''Anime/SailorMoon'', as it was a particularly common criticism in Japan during its airing (notably, there are rumors that hardcore ''Sailor Moon'' and anime otaku fans sent angry letters ''[[DisproportionateRetribution containing knives]]'' to the staff) and tends to elicit this reaction even now when first presented to anyone who's familiar with the latter. Ultimately, its own influence on the MagicalGirl genre redeemed it somewhat in its home country, but it never quite escaped this stigma in the West, as it is indeed one of the MagicalGirl shows that resembles ''Sailor Moon'' the closest (mainly due to its shared primary writer and anime character designer).

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: The most frequent negative backlash against the series in regards to itself and ''Anime/SailorMoon'', as it was a particularly common (and scathing) criticism in Japan during its airing and tends to elicit this reaction when first presented to anyone who's familiar with the latter. Ultimately, its own influence on the MagicalGirl genre redeemed it somewhat in its home country, but it never quite escaped this stigma in the West, as it is indeed one of the MagicalGirl shows that resembles ''Sailor Moon'' the closest (mainly due to its shared primary writer and anime character designer).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although the series was a moderate success in Japan and earned a fairly comfortable seat in magical girl genre history, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub was in 2013 in an attempt to gain a new generation of fans ''eighteen years'' after its initial airing). The first dub's AlternativeForeignThemeSong, "The Legend of Love", also happens to be one of the more famous anime songs among Korean fans of anime, to the point that some of the backlash against the third dub came from the fact [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks it didn't have it]] (the second dub was forgiven because it was a translated version of the original Japanese song).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although the series was a moderate success in Japan and earned a fairly comfortable seat in magical girl genre history, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub was in 2013 in an attempt to gain a new generation of fans ''eighteen years'' after its initial airing). The first dub's AlternativeForeignThemeSong, "The Legend of Love", also happens to be one of the more famous anime songs among the Korean anime fanbase, to the point that some of the backlash against the third dub came from the fact [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks it didn't have it]] (the second dub was forgiven because it was a translated version of the original Japanese song).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although the series was a moderate success in Japan and earned a fairly comfortable seat in magical girl genre history, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub was in 2013 in an attempt to gain a new generation of fans ''eighteen years'' after its initial airing, though it carries a bad reputation among more long-standing fans due to excessive network censorship that had come into play since then). The first dub's AlternativeForeignThemeSong, "The Legend of Love", also happens to be one of the more famous anime songs among the Korean anime fanbase, to the point that much of the backlash against the third dub came from the fact [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks it didn't have it]] (the second dub was forgiven because it was a translated version of the original Japanese song).

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Although the series was a moderate success in Japan and earned a fairly comfortable seat in magical girl genre history, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub was in 2013 in an attempt to gain a new generation of fans ''eighteen years'' after its initial airing, though it carries a bad reputation among more long-standing fans due to excessive network censorship that had come into play since then). The first dub's AlternativeForeignThemeSong also happens to be one of the more prominent anime songs among the Korean anime fanbase.

* UnfortunateImplications: The main accusation against the series from feminist groups or otherwise is that it pressures girls to get married and portrays marriage as the ultimate endgame goal that a girl should strive for. In practice, the series prefers to discuss the concept of love (regardless of gender) and uses marriage as a symbol of its proof, rather than pressuring any character into desiring marriage (every character involved in a relationship does it of their own accord) or treating it like an ultimate life goal, and the amount of time the girls spend discussing the subject is on par with most other shoujo works. It ''is'' gender role-reliant, in that it doesn't show any characters who actively desire not to fall in love and get married and thus could potentially lead to an implication that most/all girls already desire that, but it's worth noting that the series was aimed at the kind of demographic that likes this kind of thing to begin with ([[MerchandiseDriven and would buy merch of it]]).

** Westerners might also question why a preference for physical violence and activity makes Hinagiku considered so masculine that she's [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon in danger of not being able to get a boyfriend]] considering that she still indulges in and enjoys dressing femininely, fangirls over cute boys, and is a fairly sensitive and emotional person. Other than some things LostInTranslation (she uses an almost exclusively masculine speech pattern and [[JapanesePronouns a hyper-masculine first-person pronoun]]), heavier pressures on gender roles in Japan mean that Hinagiku's blunt personality and hobbies would make her come off as unusually masculine. There's also temporal values dissonance at play here, too; characters like Hinagiku were not as common in Japanese media during the time of the series' run, and since then other works would produce far more stereotypically masculine female characters treated with less stigma.

* ValuesDissonance: For various reasons (among them being heavier emphasis on gender roles and a general promotion of femininity for girls), dreaming about getting married and a love for wedding dresses isn't uncommon among young girls in Japan, and the series is marketed towards this demographic. Although there had already been concerns in Japan about the series (see UnfortunateImplications above), the concept seems downright alarming to a Western viewer.

* UnfortunateImplications: The main accusation against the series from feminist groups or otherwise is that it pressures girls to get married and portrays marriage as the ultimate endgame goal that a girl should strive for. In practice, the series prefers to discuss the concept of love (regardless of gender) and uses marriage as a symbol of its proof, rather than pressuring any character into desiring marriage (every character involved in a relationship does it of their own accord), and the amount of time the girls spend discussing the subject is on par with most other shoujo works. It ''is'' fairly gender role-reliant, in that it doesn't show any characters who actively desire not to fall in love and get married, leading to a sort of implication that most or all girls already want that, but it's worth noting that the series was aimed at the kind of demographic that likes this kind of thing to begin with ([[MerchandiseDriven and would buy merch of it]]).

* ValuesDissonance: For various reasons (among them being heavier emphasis on gender roles and a general promotion of femininity for girls), dreaming about getting married and a love for wedding dresses isn't uncommon among young girls in Japan, and the series is marketed towards this demographic. Although there had already been concerns in Japan about the series promoting marriage as a woman's ultimate happiness[[note]]while the series doesn't contain any examples of pressuring anyone into accepting this, and its focus is more on love than marriage, it does happen to be quite gender role-reliant and encourages the stereotype that most or all girls dream about this kind of thing[[/note]], the concept seems downright alarming to a Western viewer.

** Westerners might also question why a preference for physical violence and activity makes Hinagiku considered so masculine that she's [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon in danger of not being able to get a boyfriend]] considering that she still indulges in and enjoys dressing femininely, fangirls over cute boys, and is a fairly sensitive and emotional person. Other than some things LostInTranslation (she uses an almost exclusively masculine speech pattern and [[JapanesePronouns a hyper-masculine first-person pronoun]]), heavier pressures on gender roles in Japan mean that Hinagiku's blunt personality and hobbies would make her come off as unusually masculine. There's also temporal values dissonance at play here, too; characters like Hinagiku were not as common during the time of the series' run, and since then other works would produce far more stereotypically masculine female characters treated with less stigma.

* ValuesDissonance: For various reasons (among them being heavier emphasis on gender roles and a general promotion of femininity for girls), dreaming about getting married and a love for wedding dresses isn't uncommon for young girls in Japan, and the series is marketed towards this demographic. Although there had already been concerns in Japan about the series promoting marriage as a woman's ultimate happiness[[note]]while the series doesn't contain any examples of pressuring anyone into accepting this, and its focus is more on love than marriage, it does happen to be quite gender role-reliant and encourages the stereotype that most or all girls dream about this kind of thing[[/note]], the concept seems downright alarming to a Western viewer.

* ValuesDissonance: For various reasons (among them being heavier emphasis on gender roles and a general promotion of femininity for girls), dreaming about getting married and a love for wedding dresses isn't uncommon for young girls in Japan, and the series is marketed towards this demographic. Although there had already been concerns about the series promoting marriage as a woman's ultimate happiness in Japan[[note]]while the series doesn't contain any examples of pressuring anyone into accepting this, and its focus is more on love than marriage, it does happen to be quite gender role-reliant and encourages the stereotype that most or all girls dream about this kind of thing[[/note]], the concept seems downright alarming to a Western viewer.

* ValuesDissonance: For various reasons (among them being heavier emphasis on gender roles and a general promotion of femininity for girls), dreaming about getting married and a love for wedding dresses isn't uncommon for young girls in Japan, and the series is marketed towards this demographic. Although there had already been concerns about the series promoting marriage as a woman's ultimate happiness in Japan[[note]]while the series doesn't contain any examples of pressuring anyone into accepting this, and its focus is more on love than marriage, it does happen to be quite gender role-reliant and it at the very least encourages the stereotype that most or all girls dream about this kind of thing[[/note]], the concept seems downright alarming to a Western viewer.

* ValuesDissonance: For various reasons (among them being heavier emphasis on gender roles and a general promotion of femininity for girls), dreaming about getting married and a love for wedding dresses isn't uncommon for young girls in Japan, and the series is marketed towards this demographic. Although there had already been concerns about the series promoting marriage as a woman's ultimate happiness in Japan[[note]]While the series doesn't contain any examples of pressuring anyone into accepting this, and its focus is more on love than marriage, it does happen to be quite gender role-reliant and it at the very least encourages the stereotype that most or all girls dream about this kind of thing[[/note]], the concept seems downright alarming to a Western viewer.