Is This 90's Magical Girl A Sailor Moon Rip-Off

[@Ranakel]

Little fun french fact: Pluie means rain, which is interesting in this context because of a french saying: "Mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux" or, a rainy wedding is a happy wedding.

[@Aishyo]

@@Ranakel yeah this series loves French

[@HexleysCauldron]

56:09 Honestly, the only one I can think of is Winx Club with Bloom’s adoptive parents. The writing COULDVE made them oblivious but they were the first to know she was special since Mike found her perfectly fine in a burning building. Like it was only a matter of time to them lol.

[@Aishyo]

Yeah they were very supportive parents when Stella wanted to bring Bloom to Alfea I forgot.

[@kittygardenva2741]

1:55 If it's any consolation, nobody ever said that you had to be the first to come up with the idea of a flower name themed magical girl team. You could still make that story and a lot of people hungry for more magical girls would be happy to eat it up!

[@Aishyo]

@@kittygardenva2741 I found my old drawings while making this video

[@nezzkid]

Just woke up. Saw wedding peach in the thumbnail. I never finished it oh my god. I should track it down!!!!

[@Kurichestnut320]

Thank you for making this video! Wedding Peach is such an under appreciated gem that deserves more attention than it gets. It’s great to see they’re still fans out there that care about the series 🌸✨

[@heartbeattoya1718]

Oh my god Wedding Peach! I watched this a lot when I lived in Germany. Let me get my food together so I can enjoy this

[@juliamavroidi8601]

I'm German, but I never watched this show, because the main character's voice in the German dub was so annoying. 😅

[@heartbeattoya1718]

​@@juliamavroidi8601 lmao I can understand but I loved the theme song

[@Shewhospeakesinverse]

I really love trope here of love interests being secretly the villian or ally. Its cardcaptor with yukito/yue. Its in kamichama karin (not gonna say which of these situations it is bc its a series not as well known so im avoiding spoilers), sailor moon like you mentioned, tokyo mew mew. I had no idea that wedding peaches theme shared a tune with sugar sugar rune.

[@Lboogie0711]

It’s crazy how sailor moon had an actual American rip off anime, it was cancelled before they even released. There been plenty of anime’s that might seem like rip offs, like kaitou saint tail

[@Aishyo]

@@Lboogie0711 I love Saint Tail, I remember Tokyopop called it "robin hood meets sailor moon. It has become short hand to explain the genre to newcomers.

[@MJAYMONONOKE]

Do you mean the Haim-Saban version? Where it was a hybrid of live action and cartoon? It got scrapped because it was cheaper to dub the original anime instead of hiring new actors, film the live action scenes, create new animation, and do the voiceovers.

[@RyuB008]

This is making me want to rewatch the whole show :') Amazing video, thank you!

[@star-tm8lj]

>Magical Girl cartoon >Sailor Moon Rip-Off It's almost 2025 and I still continue to see this cr(a)p

[@ShadowMellowK]

Wow, im kinda surprised that wedding peach is overlooked in other countries cause here in germany its one of THE magical girl anime from the early 2000's. it was one of the earliest animes to air in german free tv during the anime exclusive after school time so loads of people watched it and have heavy nostalgia for it. obviously not as popular as sailor moon, ccs or the first season of pretty cure but it usually comes up with magical girl fans my age.

[@Aishyo]

Yeah Germany loves this show, a lot of the older fansites I found were in German. Gave me a chance to work on my really bad German language skills 😅

[@kerrygligorovic9758]

I wonder if the Japan will be thinking about reboot the Wedding Peach series in the future just like Sailor Moon Crystal, Shaman King, Tokyo Mew Mew Power and Kinnikuman.

[@definitelynotashark1799]

I hated girly stuff as a kid, but I loved Wedding Peach! There was an intern at my after school center who let me borrow both her Sailor Moon and Wedding Peach manga. She let me keep WP. This was about 2003. I never watched the anime later on because I generally disliked the look of shoujo anime vs shoujo manga in the early 2000s era. Also I had the biggest crush on Ame (Pluie). I think catching a glimpse of his anime version 100% put me off the adaptation 💀 Oh, about the battle uniform: the manga did the classic thing of their uniforms evolving throughout the series, from the figure skating-like outfits at the beginning to the more fantasy armor-like sets that are used throughout the entire anime. Definitely feels like a streamlining matter! I feel like it's definitely distinct enough from SM to just be another magical girl series.

[@marocat4749]

Ok raindevilla really should have a more tragic backstory. or better fleshed out, pointless hatret isnt a bad motive, but she deserved her own tragic lovestory. What if she fell in love with a sick angel and they were something, a tragic accident from a careless angel, thats something.

[@senpainoticedyou6182]

I miss how silly anime ideas, were able to get aired, and taken seriously and not just as some sort of joke. Another wonderful video💕

[@Aishyo]

So funny you said that because I've been researching super pig which is a weird one

[@sweets_Cat88]

I do like the fact that the main lead childhood friends are part of the team. Unlike Sailor moon where Molly/Naru is never even considered or asked to be a sailor guardian. And she’s Usagi’s best friend from childhood. It kinda weird in Sailor moon how Usagi prefers her sailor team members over her childhood friend Sure she doing this To protect her from the evil forces but…

[@JaiProdz]

I love your videos!

[@Aishyo]

🥰🥰🥰 thank you

[@Kuudere-Kun]

The future OLM show I would connect to Wedding Peach the most directly is Pokémon, there is a lot of overlapping staff both major and minor. But Comic Party is also notable for the direct refrences. Tomita wrote episode 7 which doesn't surprise me, he also wrote the early Fatphobic Sailor Moon episode. Like with Sailor Moon Tomita is good and keeping a decent arching plot but not the best writer for one offs. I've been a Wedding Peach apologist for years but never thought to make the Romeo and Juliette connection. Part of that may be my being annoyed as that comparison for like any romance at all, when I see someone try to sell me on something being like Romeo and Juliette my first question is, who's Mercutio? The other issue here though may be that it's kind of a Spoiler. I'm taking a break at 19:55 for now, I'll watch more of the video later.

[@Kuudere-Kun]

I feel like a condescending A-hole now for assuming you wouldn't make the Tomita writing the similar SM episode connection, I'm used to youtuber never paying to the writers and only directors.

[@Aishyo]

No you're good lol when you put the timestamp there I was oh you'll see it eventually 🤭

[@Kuudere-Kun]

@@Aishyo I do have DVD Box Sets of Wedding Peach but haven't used them much since I bought them after already watching the series and OVAs. What disc should I look for the Omakes on? If it's the same one as the OVAs nothing on the back of it's case mentions them.

[@Aishyo]

@Kuudere-Kun really? If it's not on the OVAs it should have its own separate disc then

[@kawaii801]

Coexistence magical girls love those seasons because peach is basically more. Sailor Moon is basically saving the world.

[@MJAYMONONOKE]

1:40 🔞: when you mentioned flower themed names, it unlocked a memory of this hent*i called “Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose”, where the core team are named after flowers: Rose, Lily, Margarette (daisy), Dahlia and Violet. The naming scheme then kinda derails and instead refers to the person’s powers: Adonis, Lupinus, Cosmos (who is actually the Sailor Saturn equivalent). There’s even a Petite-Rose who is the main character’s daughter from the future.

[@Aishyo]

@@MJAYMONONOKE.... I know of this h*ntai 🤨 well not really it's more ecchi but yeah I'm aware.

[@evanmak7837]

​@@Aishyo yeah, Papillon Rose was basically the plot of Sailor Moon with the protagonist trio of Wedding Peach (not so obvious with Rose, the only passing mention was that she has a "peachy" butt, but Margarette and Lily are obviously designed after Hinagiku and Yuri, Dhalia is basically Scarlett if you consider her joining the trio later), with the rest of the cast and the villains being designed after a bunch of Sakura Wars characters. Adonis and Lupinus were dead ringers for Cure Black and Cure White, their first appearance predates the Pretty Cure anime, but not the marketing for it. The creator of Papillon Rose had way too much fun (no pun) with anything geeky and otaku-related. Video game shoutouts, 2ch lingo, roasting the original authors, they overly fanatics who can get very creepy, the anime industry in general, the sellouts, anime tropes etc. example: They released an artbook for a "remake" a-la Sailor Moon Crystal and it pretty much predicted the reception for Crystal season 1-2. While the show was midway on its first season no less. And they hit a lot of nails in the head 🤣

[@jerfuhrer2581]

So i remember reading Wedding Peach as a kid, but couldnt remember any of it. But as you were doing your recap, each chsracter, i was like "So its like _______ From Sailor Moon." [The green-haired girl being a tomboy that loves Judo and working in a flower shop and attacking with a blizzzard is all Sailor Jupiter. Momoko and Yanagi hating wach other but eventually falling in love is Usagi + Mamoru; etc] But my FAVORITE one was Raindevila! Because this chick started a whole war and caused all sorts of death and destruction all over a crush she had on a guy that didnt know she existed. And i went "YOU MEAN JUST LIKE QUEEN BERYL???!?!!?!?" Raindevila and Queen Beryl have the exact same backstory and im MAAAAADDD about! 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂

[@marocat4749]

Ok the transformations, to be fair can be skipped as in a looot anime its a way to reuse scenes and fill out time , anime are full with that. Digimon has it too. A lot of the times its jjust good to cut budget when filling time, like still and foutth back fourth back cuts. So its often creative reusing footage while filling time without it being too noticable in the show. A lot of what became styistic choices, was creative working about limitations and filling time and reuse footage

[@ToliBera]

Maybe the real magical girls were the friends we made along the way?

[@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282]

Sailor Moon classic was not perfect. Less than half of the episodes where relevant, the animation was not that great, the plot could be pretty dumb sometimes and as a personal issue our brazilian dub was kinda bad. But i still loved for the good moments and good characters, and that beautiful soundtrack, so once and while i try some other classic magical girls like this one, and is just not the same so i usually end up dropping or skipping episodes.

[@marocat4749]

Just because it obviously riffs off sailor moon, its also different, the love interest is a secret villain thats more complicated, Ok and the yeah a complicated other member with differencesis just, part of sentai. But yeah should we kill corrupred, yeah, ok its the best lesbian cousins, but you know what thats riffing off ideas, not ripping off. Also the ending definitly is pretty different. Also the wedding theme is, new. Seriously the wedding and flower theme is new and fun. Oh and it being so charming cheesy about the power of love, is charming ok. And the show really commits to the bitter end. Ok the starcrossed lovers was neat in the angel demon that its not about being enemies, which very romeo and hjuliet, but why not. Or how about jeanne the magical thief, thats, how doesnt tha apply, if i like the masked rival love interst and twist. Oh and the music iis jzst great. , and that they took from as songs, interesting. ha aearth wingd and fire and that funky french banger, and why arent more themesongs inspired by earth wind and fire, it lends itself good for any fight theme cheesy but great music But oh god couldnt they leave the red , i forgot name not have a love interest, seriously her theme was forgiveness and love of, letting go of that anger, she didnt needed one. germany w?

[@BBXcompany]

W.I.T.C.H. MENTION!!!

[@hamidahrashid2421]

Neat video😙 Even though I didn't watch or read Wedding Peach media, mostly just watch few clips of the anime on KZbin, I'm still enjoy your video talking about wedding peach today. It was interesting to learn about history of this wedding magical girls. (I probably watching the anime online whenever I'm free later) Consider there were many reboot, remake, or follow-up of magical girls in recent years, I do hope Wedding Peach could get a chance to come back in the future(possible "follow the manga" route).