Wedding Peach

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Wedding Peach
愛天使伝説ウェディング・ピーチ
(Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedingu Pīchi)
Genre Magical girl, Romance
Manga
Author Sukehiro Tomita
Nao Yazawa
Publisher Flag of Japan Shogakukan
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Ciao
Original run 1994 – 1996
Volumes 7
TV anime
Director Kunihiko Yuyama
Studio KSS
Network Flag of Japan TV Tokyo, NAS
Original run 5 April 1995 – 27 March 1996
Episodes 51
OVA: Wedding Peach DX
Director Kunihiko Yuyama
Studio KSS
Licensor Flag of the United States ADV Films
Flag of Italy Dynamic Italia
Flag of Germany ACOG
Episodes 4
Released 1996
Game
Publisher KSS
Platform Super Famicom
Released Flag of Japan 1995-09-25
Game: Jama-P Panic!
Publisher KSS
Genre puzzle
Platform Game Boy
Released Flag of Japan 1995-12-08
Game: Wedding Peach: Doki Doki Oiro-naoshi Fashion Dai-sakusen
Publisher KSS
Platform Playstation
Released Flag of Japan 1996-09-27
Manga: Wedding Peach: Young Love
Author Nao Yazawa
Publisher Flag of Japan Shogakukan
Demographic Shōjo
Magazine Shōgaku Sannensei
Original run 2004
Volumes 1

Wedding Peach (愛天使伝説ウェディング・ピーチ Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedingu Pīchi?, literally "Legend of the Angel of Love: Wedding Peach") is a shōjo manga by Nao Yazawa and Sukehiro Tomita that was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine. In North America it is translated and published by VIZ Media in its entirety, comprising six volumes.[1]

The manga later was adapted into an anime television series that was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and ran for 51 episodes on TV Tokyo from April 5, 1995 to March 27, 1996 [2] and spawned a 4-episode OVA sequel (Wedding Peach DX) in 1996. [3]

The anime (which is co-produced by KSS, TV Tokyo and NAS) is licensed for distribution in North America by ADV Films, and they have released both the TV series and OVA series onto a total of ten DVD volumes.

In 2004, Wedding Peach: Young Love was released, a compilation of Wedding Peach stories made specifically for the monthly magazine Shogaku Sannensei ("Elementary School Third-grader").[4] To better fit the magazine's target audience, the "Young Love" version of Wedding Peach features younger-looking characters, less complex storylines, and simpler dialogue.

Contents

[edit] Series overview

The story follows Momoko Hanasaki, a junior high school girl who is in trouble between the Angel World and the Devil World. It all starts when Aphrodite tells Momoko that she is the legendary Love Angel Wedding Peach, and that she will take the place of her mother, Sakura, in finding and protecting the "Sacred Four Somethings", after a devil named Pluie tries to steal Momoko's mother's ring. Now she must protect the sanctity of love from Rain Devilla and her minions. Her friends, the other Love Angels, are Yuri Tanima (Angel Lily), Hinagiku Tamano (Angel Daisy), and Scarlet O'Hara (Angel Salvia). She also has Jama-P, who originally was a minion of Raindevila. Momoko is in love with Yosuke who is, unknowingly, a half-devil warrior of a tribe in the Devil World named Viento; Yosuke's father, coincidentally, is the one who sent Celestia (Sakura) and himself to Earth in the first place. Yuri is in love with Captain Yanagiba of the soccer team, otherwise known as the angel Limone. While trying to live the lives of normal Japanese middle school students, the Love Angels must protect the world with love, or live in a world filled with nothing but hate.

[edit] Characters

Momoko Hanasaki (花咲 ももこ Hanasaki Momoko?)/Wedding Peach
Voiced by: Kyoko Hikami (Japanese), Larissa Wolcott (English)
The central character of the series. Momoko is half-angel, and is given the power to transform into Wedding Peach, a Love Angel tasked with fighting devils intent on destroying all love in the world. Like many other girls at her school, she has a crush on Yanagiba, but eventually develops feelings for Yousuke.
Yuri Tanima (谷間 ゆり Tanima Yuri?)/Angel Lily
Voiced by: Yukana Nogami (Japanese), Carla Witt (English)
One of Momoko's best friends. Yuri is very well-mannered and polite. She is actually the Love Angel Lily, reborn on Earth as a human.
Hinagiku Tamano (珠野 ひなぎく Tamano Hinagiku?)/Angel Daisy
Voiced by: Yuko Miyamura (Japanese), Heather Kafka (English)
Another one of Momoko's close friends. Hinagiku is a rough-speaking tomboy who practices judo. Like Yuri, she was an angel reborn on Earth as a human.
Scarlet O'Hara/Angel Salvia
Voiced by: Yuka Imai
The last of the Love Angels to appear in the series, Scarlet is a foreigner who comes to Japan with the goal of uniting with the other Love Angels, but is unforgiving towards the devils and wishes to destroy rather than rehabilitate them. She is the only Love Angel to not have a human history. In the series, it is revealed that she has no friends because she did not want to be emotionally hard after a devil killed her friend.
Jama-P
Voiced by: Miwa Matsumoto (Japanese), Bill Wise (English)
A small devil that served as Pluie's sidekick until he was purified by Wedding Peach and subsequently forced out of the devil realm. He becomes a close friend of Momoko and pretends to be a stuffed toy when others are around.
Yousuke Fuuma (風摩 ようすけ Fuuma Yousuke?)/Viento
Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese), Gray Haddock (English)
The freshman goalie on the school soccer team. He enjoys teasing Momoko, but eventually begins to have feelings for her. Later on in the series, it is revealed that he is half-devil on his father's side.
Kazuya Yanagiba (柳葉 和也 Yanagiba Kazuya?)/Limone
Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki (Japanese), Brian Jepson (English)
Limone is a powerful angel sent by Aphrodite to watch over Momoko and the other Love Angels, granting them assistance whenever he is able. To remain close to them, he takes the form of Yanagiba, a popular upperclassman at the school and captain of the soccer team. In the Angel World, he and Angel Lily had a very close relationship.
Takuro Amano
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi
A frail childhood friend of Hinagiku. Desiring to be stronger and more confident, he makes a pact with a devil that takes residence in his heart and controls his body when the time is right.
Rain Devilla
Voiced by: Mika Doi (Japanese), Lainie Frasier (English)
The leader of the devil world. Her greatest desire is to destroy all love and subjugate the angel world.
Aphrodite
Voiced by: Mako Hyōdō (Japanese), Catherine Berry (English)
Goddess of love and ruler of the angel world. She is unable to leave the angel world and must rely on Limone and the Love Angels to ward off the devils, She is the sister of Angel Celeste, the mother of Momoko Hanasaki
Pluie
Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (Japanese), Ben Wolfe (English)
The first of Rain Devilla's primary henchmen to appear in the story. He enacts various schemes to both destroy love and lure out the Love Angels, but is ultimately defeated and fades away.
Aquelda
Voiced by: Rica Fukami (Japanese), Alexis Chamow (English)
The somewhat replacement of Pluie, she has a blue-hair and controls water, however when she failed, Pluie was summoned once again by Rain Devilla, and Pluie was commanded to use Aquelda as one of his team. She didn't show a large role in the series.
Potamosu
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Jenny M. Larson (English)
The Third of Rain Devilla's henchmen to appear in the story. She comes to help out Igneous but later in the series kills him for turning soft by the love angels and falls for Yousuke at first sight. Potamasu is later turned good by Wedding Peach and lives a life as an ordinary school girl.
Sakura Hanasaki/Angel Celeste
Voiced by: Chiharu Suzuka (Japanese), Marla Kanoff (English)
Celeste is the sister and guardian of Aphrodite. While fighting against some devils with Angels Lily, Daisy and Salvia, she was knocked down to earth. She lost her memory during the fall. She begins to use the name Sakura. On earth she fell in love with Hanasaki Shouichirou, a young photographer. They had a child together, named Momoko.

Three years later, Limone finds Celeste and restores her memory. Celeste says goodbye to her family and leaves. Before she leaves she gives Momoko her ring, which is part of the Saint Something Four.

[edit] Media

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season one

DVD Title Episode
Number		 Episode Title

Love Wave		 01 "Celebration! Birth of the Love Angel"
02 "Splendid! Bridal Dress Change"
03 "The Targeted Bride"
04 "Angel Lily is Born"
05 "The Third Love Angel"

Pluie's War		 06 "Jama-P's Counterattack"
07 "Take Care Against Eating Too Much"
08 "Pajama and the Sleeping Princess"
09 "The Stolen Something Four"
10 "Good Work! Friendship Renewal"

Spring Storm		 11 "Time Traveling Hinagiku"
12 "The Beautiful Devil's Love Fortune Telling"
13 "Challenge! The Devil's Penealty Kick Battle"
14 "The Stolen Ring Of Love"
15 "Infiltration! The Devils's Forest"

Summer Flower		 16 "The Devil's Pride"
17 "The Secert of Saint Hana-zana Campus"
18 "Love Angels, We'll Fight, Even During Summer Vacation"
19 "Midsummer Night's Mystery"
20 "Seaside Pendant"
21 "Resound, Piano, to the Starry Sky"

Angel Bell		 22 "Targeted Jama-P"
23 "My First Kiss is Going to be Stolen"
24 "Exciting School Festival"
25 "A Devil's Kiss Isn't Sweet"
26 "The False Wedding Ceremony"
27 "No Way! Senior Yanagiba Has a Lover?"

[edit] Season two

DVD Title Episode
Number		 Episode Title

Rivals!		 28 "Girls in Love is the Strongest"
29 "A Halloween-esque Witch"
30 "Good-Bye Dear Devil"
31 "Trespassing! Rival for His Love"
32 "Putting Your Love in a Muffler"
33 "The Love That Blossomed on the Battlefield"

Scarlet Tears		 34 "The Marionette of Love"
35 "The Fourth Love Angel"
36 "The Lone Wolf Love Angel"
37 "Salvia's Tears"
38 "Passionate Farewell kiss"
39 "The Teacher is a Devil?"

Black Heart		 40 "My Love Is Being Sucked Away"
41 "Pretend Love - Great Skiing"
42 "Yuri's Lips"
43 "The Truth About Raindevila"
44 "Jama-P's First Love"
45 "Mama's Come Home"

Wedding Day		 46 "My Boyfriend is a Devil"
47 "Revive, Memories of Love"
48 "Loving is Painful"
49 "The Night for Just the Two of Us"
50 "Inseparable Hearts"
51 "Last Wedding"

[edit] Wedding Peach DX

DVD Title Episode Number Episode Title

Revival		 OVA 1 "Revival of the Love Angels! We'll Fight Even When We Go to the Beach"
OVA 2 "Salvia's Love... We'll Fight, Even on a Luxury Liner"
OVA 3 "Reunion - We'll Fight, Even on Christmas"
OVA 4 "The False Love Angels - We'll Fight, Even On Valentine's Day"

[edit] Sound Tracks

Wedding Peach Furil
  1. "Lucky & Happy"
  2. "Anata no Tenshi ni Naritai" (I want to be your angel)
  3. Intermission I
  4. "Anata ga Iru Kara" (Because you're here)
  5. "Tokimeki Nagara For You" (Wnen my heart pounds for you)
  6. "Yume Miru Ai Tenshi" (Dreaming love angels)
  7. Intermission II
  8. "Hitomi no Oku ni Dakishimete" (Hold me deep in your eyes)[5]
  9. "Zutto Aitakatta" (I've wanted to see you for a long time)
  10. Intermission III
  11. "21 Seiki no Juliet" (21st Century Juliet)
  12. "Ai to Bi o Kono Mune" (Love & beauty in my breast)
Wedding Peach - Memories
  1. Wedding Wars (TV-Version)
  2. Serenade I
  3. Wedding Beautiful Flower
  4. Angel Amour Peach
  5. Saint Crystal Love For You I
  6. Saint Crystal Love For You II
  7. Love & Beauty in that Breast
  8. Open the Door of Hope
  9. Peach-Daisy-Lily
  10. To the Future
  11. Serenade II (Hinagiku Tamano)
  12. In the Language of Flowers, Salvia Means a Burning Heart
  13. Angel Passionate Salvia
  14. Saint Pure Sword
  15. Serenade III (Yuri Tanima)
  16. Wedding Dream
  17. Saint Something Four
  18. He who is Leaving I
  19. Thoughts that Can't Be Forgotten
  20. He who is Leaving II
  21. Reunion
  22. Serenade IV (Yosuke Kazama)
  23. Bridge Collection I
  24. Bridge Collection II
  25. Serenade V (Jama-pi)
  26. Transfer Student
  27. Hiromi Kawanami
  28. Like --- Devil !
  29. Insentient - Rules of the World of Spirits
  30. Evil Tree
  31. Supreme Ruler of the Evil World
  32. Eye Catch I
  33. Eye Catch II
  34. Serenade VI (Kazuya Yanagiba)
  35. Dreaming Girl
  36. Following the Longing Guy
  37. Friends are Rival
  38. We Three will be Cheerful Tomorrow
  39. Serenade VII (Scarlet O'Hara)
  40. Virgin Love (TV Size)
Wedding Peach - Summer Carnival
  1. Merry Angel (Furil)
  2. "Koi wa Prism" (Love is a prism) (Hikami Kyoko)
  3. "Datte, Koi da mon" (Because it's love) (Mitsuishi Kotono)
  4. Sweet-Little Love (Furil)
  5. Sound Drama: "Manatsu no Yoru no Mystery" (Mystery in Midsummer)
Wedding Peach - Dream Collection
  1. Wedding Wars (Nakajima Erina)
  2. Virgin Love (Furil)
  3. "Ichiokuichi no kiseki" (Miracle of one in a million) (Imai Yuka)
  4. "Kisetsu ga Kureta Jewel" (The jewel the season gave us) (Furil)
  5. Funk Jama-pi (Matsumoto Miwa)
  6. Monochrome (Furil)
  7. Sound Drama: "Taiikusai ha Daisoudou" (School Athletics is Disturbing)

[edit] Games

A Super Famicom game was released only in Japan in 1995. In the game, the player plays as one of the three main girls (either Momoko, Yuri or Hinagiku) to compete with each other in a series of mini games. The ultimate goal is to win the competition over the other two girls so that the player who won the competition can ask the guy that all three girls are in love with (Yanagiba) to the school dance. The game has a three player option as well, where two other people can play the other two girls that you did not pick.

Wedding Peach games have also been released for the Game Boy (Jama-P Panic! - 1995) and Playstation (Wedding Peach: Doki Doki Oiro-naoshi Fashion Dai-sakusen - 1996).

[edit] References

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