| Celebration! Birth of the Love Angel | |
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Kanji |
祝! 愛天使誕生 |
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Episode Number |
1 |
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Airdate |
April 5, 1995 (JP) |
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Writer |
Sukehiro Tomita |
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Storyboard |
Kunihiko Yuyama |
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Director |
Norihiko Sudo |
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Animation Director |
Sayuri Ichiishi |
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Opening |
Dreaming Angels |
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Ending |
21st Century Juliet |
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Previous |
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Celebration! Birth of the Love Angel (祝! 愛天使誕生, Shuku! Aitenshi Tanjou) is the 1st episode of the Wedding Peach anime that aired in Japan on April 5, 1995.
Plot[]
Momoko Hanasaki tries on her late mother Sakura’s wedding dress. As she’s talking about her mom, Momoko’s father Shouichirou walks in and mistakes her for his wife Sakura. Momoko explains that she wanted to try on her mother's dress after searching through their wedding album and asks if it was wrong. Her father says he was just surprised and quickly leaves for work. As she’s posing in a mirror with the dress, Momoko is startled when her best friends Yuri Tanima and Hinagiku Tamano suddenly opening the front door. They tell Momoko they have to report on the school soccer match for the school newspaper and to get ready quickly. Momoko then slips on her dress after rushing to get ready.
Momoko hurries up from upstairs and leaves with her friends, bringing along her mom’s wedding ring. Elsewhere, the Devil Pluie appears actively searching for the Saint Something Four. The girls are then seen running, hoping not to be late to the soccer game. Yuri and Hinagiku chastise Momoko for being late and question why she was wearing a wedding dress in the first place. They tease her and make jokes along the way.
At Saint Hanazano Junior High, Momoko takes pictures of the soccer match. The three girls notice the captain of the soccer team and third year student Kazuya Yanagiba. Yuri and Hinagiku talk about their interest in Yanagiba while Momoko scolds them for being distracted. They quickly ignore her and shove her behind them. Momoko then catches sight of Yanagiba making another goal, bringing about her newfound crush for him. Hinagiku and Momoko fight over who’s going to fall in love with Yanagiba while Yuri shares her own feelings for him as well. The three end up getting into a rivalry and quickly turn away from each other. Unbeknownst to the girls, Pluie is seen behind them at another part of the stadium eyeing Momoko’s ruby ring as a possible part of the Saint Something Four.
After the game, the girls rush to interview Yanagiba and compete to see who will get their first. As their about to reach the field, a soccer ball suddenly goes straight towards towards them. Just as the ball is about to strike them, it's grabbed by the goalie of the soccer team Yousuke Fuuma. The three explain that their part of the Saint Hanazano news reporting team and want to interview Yanagiba. He yells at them for running onto the field and tells them the captain is busy. Momoko tries to convince him to let them through, but he refuses their request.
The three leave to a park and talk about Yousuke frustrated. The girls stumble upon a crepe stand and Momoko excitingly runs over to get one. Hinagiku and Yuri call off their rivalry and go to follow Momoko. The three reach the stand, but contemplate what they want and have a hard time deciding which flavor to get.
To resolve the problem, the three girls decide to take bites of each other’s crepe and pass it on. Huddled in a circle, the girls exchange their crepes and continue to do this for a few moments. Yuri then laughs, which causes the other two girls to laugh with her.
As the three are seen walking in the park shortly after, Pluie appears and captures Momoko in a dark aura on top of a gazebo. Pluie tries to take Momoko’s ring from her finger, but she refuses to give it to him. He threatens Momoko with her life and continues to try and steal the ring. Yuri and Hinagiku try to call her help, but are knocked out by Pluie’s dark energy.
Momoko’s pleads for help go unheard as Pluie continues to struggle with her. Before he is able to take away her ring, a light comes from the sky. The Angel Limone appears, telling Pluie he will never get the Saint Something Four. The two then engage in combat with Pluie summoning his sword and attacking Limone with his dark energy. Limone avoids the attack, countering it by summoning his own sword and shooting an attack towards him. Momoko is let go as Pluie deflects the attack and jumps after the angel. Momoko is then seen grabbing on to the gazebo and falls to the ground on some bushes. As Momoko yells at Pluie and Limone for making her fall, the two are seen fighting from a distance.
Momoko rushes to Yuri and Hinagiku, hoping to see if their okay. Catching notice, Pluie summons the devil Jama-P in a ball of negative energy and throws it towards the girls. The negative energy then goes into Yuri and Hinagiku’s bodies, causing them to wake up and get possessed. The girls tell Momoko to give them her ring and chase after her to grab the ring by force. Momoko hides behind a tree as Limone uses his power to halt the possessed girls. Limone's powers reveal the devil Jama-P planted inside their bodies, and tells Momoko to transform into the love angel Wedding Peach. To Momoko's confusion, Limone throws her a mirror compact known as the Saint Miroir. As Limone continues to fight Pluie, Momoko questions what the Saint Miroir is and questions who Wedding Peach is. The Saint Miroir then opens up, revealing the goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite in the compact’s mirror. She instructs Momoko she must say the words ‘Wedding Beautiful Flower’ to transform and save her friends. The possessed Yuri and Hinagiku then lunge towards Momoko and grab onto her ring. Thinking about her friends, the Saint Miroir flashes, causing Momoko to transform into the love angel Wedding Peach.
Hesitant to fight the possessed Yuri and Hinagiku, Aphrodite tells Peach to use "Lovely Operation Tempete" to rid the devils from their bodies using her bouquet. Before the girls are able to attack her, Peach uses the attack against the two girls, which brings them memories of their friendship. Intensified by the love wave, Jama-P is driven out of their bodies and flees, with Pluie escaping as well. Peach goes to see if Yuri and Hinagiku are alright, which finds them showing signs of waking up. Limone commends Wedding Peach for her work. As Peach thanks Limone, she soon passes out.
Momoko awakes as Yuri and Hinagiku yell for her to wake up. Momoko stands up wondering where the devils are, where Limone went, and if her friends are alright. The two retain no memory of the incident and chalk it up as Momoko dreaming. Momoko tries to tell them she transformed into Wedding Peach and to see her dress, but realizes she is wearing her school uniform. Yuri and Hinagiku then walk away with Momoko even thinking it could’ve been a dream. Just then, Momoko checks the pocket of her uniform and pulls out the Saint Miroir, concluding that it wasn’t a dream.
Characters[]
- Momoko Hanasaki
- Yuri Tanima
- Hinagiku Tamano
- Kazuya Yanagiba
- Yousuke Fuuma
- Jama-P
- Limone
- Aphrodite
- Sakura Hanasaki
- Pluie
- Shouichirou Hanasaki
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode Momoko transforms into Wedding Peach.
- In addition, this is the first episode Peach uses "Lovely Operation Tempete"
- This is the first episode "Dreaming Angels" is used for the opening and "21st Century Juliet" is used for the ending.
- In the English dub, the first two words of the wedding dress transformation are switched. As such, they refer to "Wedding Beautiful Flower" as 'Beautiful Wedding Flower'. This change is also present for the other girls' transformations as well.
- The German, Italian, and Korean (SBS) dubs remove the repeated shot of Momoko staring down at Yuri and Hinagiku. This was presumably done because the scene is already shown once before the eyecatcher.