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Mary’s gonna trip without her glasses.

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I’ve got actual proper scans coming in the future, but I absolutely couldn’t help posting a preview of this illustration featuring Angel Peach (Wedding Peach) by Fujii Midori. 

This variant costume is absolutely amazing, I love it to pieces – I can’t believe nobody has drawn any fan art of Peach in this high femme frilled version of her upgraded battle outfit before. Seeing this just makes me so happy~

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Yoroshiku Business Card (meishi card) set featuring Peach, Lily, and Daisy from Wedding Peach as illustrated by series mangaka, Yazawa Nao. This item was bundled with the April 1995 issue of Ciao magazine and scanned from my personal collection.

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My copy of “MoMo-MaRu Zukan vol. 1” a doujinshi by character designer Tadano Kazuko featuring her preliminary work from the Wedding Peach anime series.

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Original character designs scanned from the Wedding Peach Secret File.

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Fighter Angel designs from the first Wedding Peach DX OVA episode as created by video animation character designer, Ichiishi Sayuri. This spread was originally published in the September 1996 issue of AnimeV magazine and scanned from my personal collection.

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Odekake bag file art featuring the three angelic heroines from Wedding Peach as illustrated by supplementary mangaka, Konomichi Ayumi. This item was included with the May 1994 issue of Shougaku Ichi Nensei and scanned from my personal collection.

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An introductory article on the first Wedding Peach DX OVA featuring artwork of all four fighter angels by OVA character designer, Ichiishi Sayuri. This piece was originally published in the September 1996 issue of Anime V magazine and scanned from my personal collection.

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Colour page for the 5th chapter of Wedding Peach. Illustrated by series mangaka, Yazawa Nao and scanned from my personal collection of clippings.

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Five page feature on the Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach anime series with artwork by animator, Watanabe Mayumi (and Takashi Akira). This piece was scanned from my copy of the June 1995 issue of Animage magazine.

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Feature on the first Wedding Peach DX OVA featuring artwork of all four fighter angels by OVA character designer, Ichiishi Sayuri. This piece was originally published in the December 1996 issue of Animedia magazine and scanned from my personal collection.

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Colour page for the very 1st chapter of the Wedding Peach manga series as illustrated by series mangaka, Yazawa Nao. This page was originally published in the March 1994 issue of Ciao magazine and has been scanned from my personal collection of clippings.

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Furoku booklet illustration of Angels Peach, Lily, and Daisy by Wedding Peach supplementary manga artist, Ueda Michi. This booklet was bundled with the June 1995 issue of Shougaku Ichinensei and scanned from my personal collection.

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Series: Wedding Peach Artist: Yazawa Nao Publication: Ciao Magazine (01/1996) Details: Ciao Character Data ‘96 All-Star Karuta (cards) Source: Scanned from personal collection

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Series: Wedding Peach Artist: Ueda Michi Publication: Shougaku Ichinensei (06/1995) Details: Postcard from “Wedding Peach Secret Note” (booklet) Source: Scanned from personal collection

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So I received my final big package of proxy stuff I'd bought before I changed jobs and it's full of great stuff (and weird stuff -- now I know why there's no internal pics of Asamiya's Lebia doujin around, her nips are out the whole time lol). However, there's one thing I am just absolutely over the moon about.

Like... just... I was stunned.

I managed to win an auction a few months back of the first Shougaku Ninensei issue featuring Fujii Midori's Wedding Peach manga (one of the manga serials that was never published in collected volumes). That in itself is pretty exciting, the only other chapters I own are towards the end of the series' run and I've never had the opportunity to see how it all started. BUT IT GOT BETTER.

*deep breath*

The first chapter of Fujii Midori's Wedding Peach manga is IN FULL COLOUR.

A FULL COLOUR WEDDING PEACH MANGA CHAPTER.

Now admittedly this chapter is like all of Fujii Midori's Wedding Peach manga chapters and only 8 pages in length. But it also has a bonus page in colour so that's 9 full colour pages in one issue. OF FUJII'S GORGEOUS, FUNNY, AND WHIMSICAL SHOUJO ART. ;o; I've been following Wedding Peach for 25+ years and it amazes me that I can still be floored by finds from this series after decades of digging into it.

Story-wise we have Momoko, Yuri and Hinagiku seeing a wedding in passing which causes Momoko to think back to her mother and the ring she left her. Enter Pluie who is after the Saint Something Four. He attacks the girls, they smack him back a bit, Limone appears with a compact (Saint Miroir) through which Aphrodite appears. Momoko shouts "Wedding Beautiful Flower!" and ALL THREE transform into angels before powering up (per above) into their fighter forms as Angel Peach, Angel Lily, and Angel Daisy.

Pluie is dispatched with Peach's "Saint Miroir Bridal Flash" attack and the girls return to their civillian forms, each wanting to know more about their new circumstances and the angel Limone. End chapter.

So a super condensed intro chapter that has all the girls awaken and transform at once (which makes sense given the number of pages Fujii was working with here). It's fascinating seeing what things were kept and what was ditched for length here.

Unfortunately my scanner problems are not over so it might be a while before I can share this chapter (which BTW has the kana title of Super Angel Story Wedding Peach or Chou Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach, potentially a variation on the initial Ai no Chou Tenshi Densetsu subtitle Yazawa's Ciao manga had). I just wanted to let you all know that this has consumed my mind today despite all the other crap going on in my life and the world.

Oh and I got some other sweet stuff too, stay tuned for more.