DVD Review: Wedding Peach Collection 2

[Chris Beveridge]

Review by Chris Beveridge

Mania Grade: B+
* Audio Rating: B+
* Video Rating: B+
* Packaging Rating: B+
* Menus Rating: B+
* Extras Rating: N/A
* Age Rating: 13 and Up
* Region: 1 - North America
* Released By: ADV Films
* MSRP: 39.98
* Running time: 700
* Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
* Disc Resolution: 480i/p
* Disc Encoding: MPEG-2
* Series: Wedding Peach

In Summary:
Wedding Peach is a series I never thought I’d like but ended up loving a lot. It takes the magical girl routine in a direction that you think is going to be even more clichéd and awful and instead makes it warm and engaging while avoiding a lot of the pitfalls of the genre. These characters do grow and change over the course of the series, they face hardships and work well together and they do it in a way that doesn’t feel all that forced. It does play with wedding dresses and it’s certainly girly and relationship driven, but it’s charming, fun and a lot of fun. With a plot that makes sense overall, builds up to a good conclusion and doesn’t save the best material for the last episode or two, Wedding Peach has plenty of replay value. And they even give us a nice four episode OVA epilogue of sorts with some mild additional adventures.

[ooga]

Another title that has been in my backlog for years. The only way I will probably watch this one is if my daughter expresses some interest in it and I sit down and watch it with her. I don't foresee that happening anytime soon though since she's only 3.

[WTK]

Originally Posted by ooga

Another title that has been in my backlog for years. The only way I will probably watch this one is if my daughter expresses some interest in it and I sit down and watch it with her. I don't foresee that happening anytime soon though since she's only 3.

I have this series in my backlog as well. I know I won't get to it this year. This what you get when you horde on those BB clearance title years ago. It's definitely good to see another favorable review though.