Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii

Animation: Studio Pierrot

Premiere: April 5, 2014

Airtime (GMT+9): Saturdays at 26:20

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Episodes: 12 episodes

Manga: 9 volumes, status ongoing

Station: TV Tokyo (TX)

Information Links: AniDB, ANN Encyclopedia, MyAnimeList, syoboi, Wikipedia

Summary:

Nike Remercier (Maeda Rena), a simple princess of the Rain Kingdom, loses an unfortunate game of jan-ken-pon (rock-paper-scissors) and finds herself shipped off as a bride to Livius (Shimazaki Nobunaga), the terrifying king of the Sun Kingdom, who is said to rule the world. When she arrives, she meets the king, and finds that he's a boy even younger than her, though no less powerful for it. Livius asked for a princess of the Rain Kingdom for the sake of having a plaything who could show him rain for the first time, but Nike refuses to be controlled. But as Nike learns more about the boy king, she realizes there's more to him and his unpleasant nature than she had thought.

Own opinion:

I like Nike's character, which fluctuates between free spirit and feisty more often than not, and while Livius is more stereotypically shoujo, he does have interesting developments here and there. My one dissatisfaction is that the designs in the anime have been changed from the softer shoujo look in exchange for a more shounen aesthetic, but otherwise if you want to watch romance then this is your anime it has a very calming and cute story. It's truly underrated.

Rank: 5 over 5 stars