Line #17 YMMV/WeddingPeach


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: The anime, despite the fact the manga ran earlier. 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.
2	* AmericansHateTingle: For the most part, the series has a very negative critical 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 mainly in regards to surface-level critical reviews that don't go beyond a few episodes or simply from people who haven't seen it at all, as it tends to get moderate to positive reviews from those who actually manage to see it to the end.) This is due to a handful of reasons:
3	** It never aired on a TV network there (with the exception of Italy and Germany), 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 adult anime fans who would be less likely to be interested in this kind of series and don't have the perspective of people who watched it as part of the intended audience.
4	** While ''Sailor Moon'' was certainly iconic and incredibly popular in Japan, it still happens to be one among an entire genre of MagicalGirl shows, all of which share similar tropes and visual elements; on top of that, Japanese MagicalGirl fans are familiar with Sukehiro Tomita's role in founding the MagicalGirlWarrior genre as a whole and can more easily recognize this to be his pet project. However, in the West, due to most of said shows [[NoExportForYou never making it across]], ''Sailor Moon'' is put on a pedestal as it's considered synonymous with the genre or even anime as a whole, and so the fact that this anime has more similar elements to it than most makes it seem more like a ripoff.
5	** Due to ValuesDissonance (see the entry for the trope below), Westerners are more likely to be turned off or alarmed by the premise, leading prospective viewers to dismiss it due to that alone.
6	* AngstWhatAngst: Potamos is bereaved and saddened by killing Igneous, until Rainedevila tells her to get over it and she immediately does.
7	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: As mentioned multiple times on this page, people tend to get turned off of the anime purely because it's heavily wedding-themed, the girls often dream of weddings and chasing after boys, and one of the MagicalGirl forms is a wedding dress, because [[QuirkyWork it sounds weird]].
8	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: DX's OP, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-5MMqvzqc8 Merry Angel]]"
9	* BrokenAesop: Sometimes the morals in the anime don't fit the events of the plot.
10	** The 'fat' episode has guys say they like slim girls. The Aesop is there's more to attraction than looks, but the love angels themselves still crush over Yanagiba based on his handsome appearance. In the same episode it's played with, as the guy in the episode's couple broke up with the girl not because she was magically fat but because she ruined the hard work she put into athletics.
11	* DuelingShows: With ''Anime/SailorMoon'', although the fact that the creator was one of the main writers for ''Sailor Moon'' makes it more of a sister show (and in fact, there were rumors of Takeuchi herself being a fan).
12	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series was a moderate success among its target demographic in Japan and eventually earned a fairly comfortable seat in MagicalGirl history, but the negative stigma from accusations of being a ''Anime/SailorMoon'' ripoff prevented it from gaining too much lasting popularity. However, the anime was ''explosively'' popular in Korea, to the point where it received three entirely separate dubs in four airings, is probably one of the most well-known MagicalGirl shows from the era there, and still maintains a fairly dedicated following to this day (the most recent dub being 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).
13	* JerkassWoobie: Salvia during her intro, who refused to believe that Devils can before reformed, despite Wedding Peach doing it once per episode, and even insulted both Jama-P, for being a reformed Devil, and Limone, because she believe he was a weak coward. Even Jama-P said that she was worse than any Devil that he ever knew. When Peach finally slaps some sense into her, she reveals that [[spoiler:her best friend was killed by a Devil during the war, and she was so shocked by her death that she closed her heart to everyone to keep herself from getting hurt like that again]]. Good thing she has the other Love Angels to mellow her out. In the manga, she is so anti-Devil because [[spoiler:she remembers her past life and that she, Yuri, and Hinagiku were all killed because Celestia decided to show Uragano mercy and he used the opportunity to get in a cheap shot,]] making her believe any good devils show was just them biding their time to do evil.
14	* {{Macekre}}:
15	** There were three Korean dubs, but the earliest one from 1996 notably ''erases Pluie from existence'', using very abrupt and forced-in cuts to pretend he's not there. The episode order is mixed up to the point where the plot no longer makes sense.
16	** In the Italian dub, the conflict was changed from angels and demons to aliens of the Crystal Planet and the Dark Planet, most likely to avoid offending religious viewers (since the show takes a lot of liberties on what angels are.) Added to that, Wedding Peach was renamed "Sun Rose," possibly to cash in on ''Franchise/SailorMoon.''
17	* MagnificentBitch: [[{{Yandere}} Potamos]] is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent water demon]] and the final ArcVillain. Initially having a crush on the fire demon Ignis, she gives him a MercyKill when he's redeemed and has his powers drained, vowing revenge on the Love Angels. Potamos attempts to kill them several times and is nearly successful, once catching them in their civilian identities by not letting them transform, and only fails due to outside interference. Her crush on Yosuke/Viento ultimately leads to her [[TakingTheBullet taking a mortal wound for him]], and she dies happy that he lived, with Wedding Peach realizing her feelings for him were genuine.
18	* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: Other than the usual "[[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks Sailor Moon ripoff]]" argument, the series is often said to be a fairly cookie-cutter FollowTheLeader magical girl show. While it wasn't the first to use most of the tropes in it, it was in fact the TropeCodifier for certain elements of the genre, such as the PinkHeroine being the lead magical girl.
19	* StrangledByTheRedString: The way it's initially presented, [[spoiler:Yuri's crush on Yanagiba]] had always been about as shallow as the other girls', and as soon as her [[spoiler:previous life's backstory with Limone]] (which had no foreshadowing at all) comes up they immediately become a couple without much development compared to the other two. It's slightly better in the manga, in which an extra chapter reveals the details of what their [[spoiler:past relationship]] was actually like, but it does so ''after'' the fact. Both versions eventually do build up what their romance ends up being afterwards, but the fact that it's done after their hookup and that their initial fall for each other comes out of nowhere is a little jarring.
20	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh5RL9dNutc Wedding Wars]] is quite similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58GQYFZeLE "Fantasy" by Earth, Wind, and Fire.]]
21	** The first OP, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mhssA54aA Yumemiru Ai Tenshi]], sounds ''very'' similar to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRva0YOVtcI Poupèe De Cire, Poupèe De Son by France Gall]].
22	* 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 the fact it really doesn't have all ''that'' much in common with ''Sailor Moon'' improved the critical outlook on 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) and, until ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' brought on the DarkerAndEdgier trend, Western viewers (with the exception of Italy) have by and large dismissed the ''entire genre'' as "''Sailor Moon'' ripoffs."
23	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
24	** Hinagiku's brother Akira. Even [[Anime/SailorMoon Shingo Tsukino]] got a DayInTheLimelight once or twice!
25	** In one episode, it's revealed that Takuro's bracelet still has powers. Despite this, he never gets involved in battles.
26	** Momoko's father learns that she's a Love Angel and that his wife is an angel, which is the extent of his involvement in the plot.
27	** The Fallen Angels, a group of angels who were banished from the Angel World for wanting to rule humanity, were only mentioned in the second OVA and the only one we see is Clark Oasis.
28	* ValuesDissonance:
29	** 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 with this demographic in mind. This is more in terms of its AudienceAlienatingPremise, as people who watch the series itself have usually noted that its actual writing is more respectful about the concept of romance and marriage than it seems at first.
30	** 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 (the use of an almost exclusively masculine speech pattern and [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns a hyper-masculine first-person pronoun]]), heavier pressures on gender roles in Japan mean that Hinagiku's aggressive 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.
31	** Tomita himself outright referred to this when starting production for its SpiritualSequel ''Wedding Apple'', stating in an interview that the original series was made to explore the concept of love and marriage in a way understandable to children in the mid-nineties and that he wanted to revisit the concept to reflect societal changes such as LGBTQ+ romance, divorce stigma, and women who don't even want to get married in the first place.
32	* VindicatedByHistory: In Japan, while it was airing, the anime gained a bad reputation at the hands of ''Sailor Moon'' ripoff accusations. When things had cooled down after ''Sailor Moon'''s broadcast, some professional critics began giving the series a number of good reviews as a "hidden masterpiece". The resulting CriticalDissonance prompted those in the Japanese anime fanbase to reassess it; ultimately it gained a respectable reputation and carries some significance as Creator/OLMIncorporated's first major anime (although it never managed to gain long-lasting popularity). 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, and many consider the overall wedding theme off-putting due to ValuesDissonance.

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