Weddings in Japan: Difference between revisions

This isn't a [[Japanese Media Tropes]] so much as a Japanese cultural trope (although the tuxes may be informed by media depictions). Other East Asian countries also prefer a western wedding instead of their respective tradition.

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* Although it has not yet been animated, ''[[Love Hina]]'' ends with {{spoiler|Keitaro and Naru's}} Western-style wedding. Keitaro also fantasizes western-style weddings a couple of times -- in the first episode, with the unknown girl of the [[Childhood Marriage Promise]], later with Naru.

** There's also a brief scene in volume 8 where Keitarou feels like his life slipping away from him, and in particular, imagines Mutsumi (as the groom) and Naru (as the bride) getting married and leaving him in the dust...

* As a counterexample, the last episode of the second ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' [[OVA]] series depicts a formal Shinto wedding as held by very traditional Japanese family.

** Much earlier, during Mousse's re-introductory arc, there is a confused moment where everyone believes Akane has been turned into a duck and Ranma is thus forced to marry "her" (long story). The result is a hastily performed mishmash Shinto ceremony.

*** An anime-only episode has Happosai apparently dying, whereupon Soun and Genma decide that Ranma and Akane must marry as soon as possible.

* The ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' manga ends with a "wedding" ceremony {{spoiler|between Ichigo and Aoyama-kun}}.

* An episode of ''[[Kaitou Saint Tail]]'' had the title character go after a stolen wedding dress design at a fashion show by sneaking in as one of the models. This also gave her best friend Seira, acting as her decoy, an identity crisis of sorts -- [[Nuns Are Mikos|she's a nun]].

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', it is revealed in a flashback that Kurama's human mother Shiori had a Western-Style wedding.

* The very last page of the last chapter of [[Fruits Basket]] has in the background what is most likely {{spoiler|Kyo and Tohru's (or their son's)}} Shinto wedding photo.

* This happens twice in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''.

** In the first instance, {{spoiler|all the dead Suzaku Seishi return}} for the final showdown with Nakago, and the only one missing is Tamahome. It suddenly cuts to a sequence where everyone is preparing for Miaka and Tamahome's wedding (which was about to take place in a Catholic church), showing up in tuxedos. After a conversation with his father, Tamahome (who was himself wearing a white tuxedo in this sequence) learns that it was all a dream and resolves to go back to fight Nakago.

* In ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'', Miss Ritsuko is possessed by an [[Obake]] that makes [[Yamato Nadeshiko|happy brides]] out of its "victims" (it's generally a benevolent, well-meaning spirit who ''helps'' couples tie the knot.) [[Dogged Nice Guy|Nube]] is ecstatic, of course, and they very nearly conduct a traditional Shinto wedding... until Nube realizes that Ritsuko only agreed because she was possessed, and slaps the [[Obake]] right outta her with his sutra.

** Near the end of the manga, {{spoiler|Nube and Yukime are to wed at a church}}, in standard Western fashion. The artist makes good use of two page-wide [[Splash Panel]] to show off {{spoiler|Yukime's}} [[Costume Porn|absolutely gorgeous, hyper-detailed]] wedding dress.

** Same applies for the weddings of Gale and Sakura (Haru's parents) {{spoiler|and Haru and Elie}} in [[Rave Master]], whose world is based more on the western world.

* Several ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series have episodes that revolve around the [[Monster of the Week]] targeting brides and/or the heroes staging a fake wedding to entrap the bad guy, almost always in western-style ceremonies. Even the rare hero weddings that are entirely legit, such as in ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', tend to be western-style.

* An early ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' Episode involved a monster targeting a Bridal Fashion show, and Usagi constantly fantasies about a Western Wedding (with a bunny stain-glass window). In the manga and live-action show, Usagi and Mamoru end up having a Western wedding, complete with a Catholic church.

** {{spoiler|And the cover art for the final chapter indicates that Mashiro and Miho opted for a Western-style one as well.}}

* Recent ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' has had a few more weddings than usual: Nago and Megumi in ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva|Kiva]]'', Akiko and Ryu in ''[[Kamen Rider Double|Double]]'', and in ''Movie Wars Core'' Eiji and Hina from ''[[Kamen Rider OOO|OOO]]'' pose as a bride and groom to play roles in a movie. All these weddings were western-style.

* Photographs in ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' show that Kotetsu and Tomoe had a Christian-style wedding, which wouldn't be remarkable in the anime's New York-influenced setting were it not that the Kaburagi family is depicted as observing many Japanese cultural traditions, including {{spoiler|Tomoe's Buddhist burial}}.

* In Slayers, {{spoiler|Martina and Zangulus}} have a western-style wedding at the end of Slayers Next. However, Slayers itself takes place in a Western European setting, so a western-style wedding is only logical.

 

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