Trivia / Wedding Peach

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• The Abridged Series: Wedding Peach Abridged.
• Acting for Two:
  • Besides voicing Scarlet O'Hara/Angel Salvia, Yuka Imai has a minor role as Sonoko in episode 22.
  • Mika Doi voices Queen Raindevila and has a minor role as Sakura Hanasaki (Momoko's mother) in episode 8.
  • Haruna Ikezawa voices a younger Yosuke Fuma in addition to numerous background characters.
  • Koichi Tochika voices Jouji Tajima and Tree Face, as well as several one-off characters.
  • Yuko Maekawa voices Sonoko's mother and multiple background characters.
• The Danza: Akiko Takeuchi (Momoko's classmate) shares the same first name with her VA, Akiko Nakagawa.
• Directed by Cast Member: In addition to directing and producing the English dub, Ron Berry voiced Susumu Shindou in episode 3.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Wedding Peach hasn't seen a North American home video re-release since ADV Films' 2009 liquidation.
• Late Export for You: While the anime ran on TV Tokyo from 1995 to 1996, it didn't get a North American release until 2004.
• No Export for You: Two particular animated music videos never made it over to the American releases.
• The Pete Best: Sakura Hanasaki was originally voiced by Mika Doi in episode 8. When Sakura made her first proper appearance in episode 14, the role was recast with Chiharu Suzuka.
• Production Posse:
  • Original author Sukehiro Tomita and anime character designer Kazuko Tadano were previously involved in The '90s adaptation of Sailor Moon as the first series composer and character designer, respectively.
  • Rika Fukami, Aquelda's voice actress, also voiced Minako Aino/Sailor Venus in the '90s version of Sailor Moon.
  • Sailor Moon also featured Kotono Mitsuishi, who voiced Potamos.
  • Animation producers Toshiaki Okuno and Shūkichi Kanda would later go on to produce other works by OLM Incorporated, most notably Berserk, Gunsmith Cats and Pokémon: The Series.
  • Kunihiko Yuyama, the series director, would later go on to become chief director of Pokémon: The Series.
• What Could Have Been: Word of God reveals some tidbits.
  • At some point before 1988, Tomita originally envisioned that Wedding Peach would be first released as a light novel series. However, he took advantage of the anime boom occurring in The '90s to create it as an anime.
  • In the manga, there are sketches of a demon, Thundurus, and his Jama demon Donner, as well as a trio of Evil Counterparts to the Love Angels named Cloud, Blitz, and Noise. Donner's design was used for Jama-P in the anime, and Cloud, Blitz, and Noise were both seen in the Young Love manga spinoff and eventually seen in the anime as minions of Sandore.
  • Had the anime never been approved, the manga would have been a short one that ended with the Pluie arc.
  • Takuro was originally slated to be possessed by Pluie instead of Igneous, hence his design resemblance and the kanji for "rain" in his surname.
  • Tomita had a plan for Pluie to return as an amnesiac human named Hiromasa Amamiya who falls in love with Scarlett, which was also scrapped.
  • The anime version of Scarlett was originally a human returnee student, like her manga counterpart.
  • Momoko almost had short hair, mainly because Yazawa was told to ink her hair black for the manga, and she didn't want to go through the trouble of inking all that every time.
• Word of God: Nao Yazawa has a dedicated website where she discussed the series's development and extra info about the characters, among other things.
• Written by Cast Member: In the English dub, Cyndi Williams and Dan Dietz were the respective voices of Butterfly and Yukinojo Hengema, as well as the ADR scriptwriters.
• You Sound Familiar: Kazuki Yao played Pluie in the TV series and would later voice Belphegor in the fourth episode of the DX OVA.

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