Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari

A decade ago, princess Krystal Novaty “Hime” Nokanatika traveled from another world to escape assassination attempts by an evil force. When she arrives in modern-day Japan, she encounters Haruto Satou. With him she shares a promise: he must forget what he has just witnessed, and the two will become friends. Now heading back to the Nokanatika Kingdom to fulfill her royal duties, Hime bids farewell to Haruto. However, when the young man suddenly remembers his first meeting with Hime, he rushes to the location where she first appeared and crosses the dimensional portal to be reunited with her.

His arrival disrupts the marriage ceremony between Krystal and prince Marmarugias Gisaras. The wedding is brutally interrupted by the attack of an abyss monster who threatens the princess' life. Acting impulsively, Hime decides to exchange rings with Haruto, which grants her new husband light powers that permit him to slay the monster. Now dubbed as the Ring King, Haruto must marry four other princesses to acquire new magical powers and have a chance to prevail in his fight against the enemy of the world: the Abyss King.

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Needakitta, Granart Main

Ueda, Hitomi Japanese

Nokanatika, Krystal Novaty Main

Kitou, Akari Japanese

Maasa, Saphir Main

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Satou, Haruto Main

Satou, Gen Japanese

Romca, Nefritis Main

Shimabukuro, Miyuri Japanese

Idanokan, Amber Main

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Gisaras, Marmarugias Supporting

Sakata, Shougo Japanese

Peridot Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Nokanatika, Morion Ravri Supporting

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Tanaka Supporting

Inomata, Satoshi Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Watase, Shouta Producer

Ueda, Shinya Producer, Planning

Sawahata, Kouji Producer

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Mar 25, 2024

Smilomaniac

Recommended

6 - Inoffensive isekai slop, with some nice pacing and story beats - It has some heart - Not bad, not great. The score of '6' is what I give it relative to other things, my enjoyment of it was a '7' and I never felt like I shouldn't bother with it whenever I saw a new episode pop up.

Story: High school student turned protagonist in a fantasy world to become the 'Ring King' who needs to convince five princesses to give him their paired ring, in order to fulfill the legend and beat the baddie. He's into the main girl, who's into him.
There are ... some nice locations with interesting dilemmas and the circumstances he has to go through, at the end of the day it does feel like an adventure, which is fun.

Ecchi: While this is an ecchi show with partial nudity (breasts), it doesn't do much with it and it actually tones it down quite a lot as the show goes, despite it adding girl after girl.
It is extremely frustrating the MC is either constantly interrupted or wimps out. This is a boy turning into a man who has no social expectations of him since he's not in Japan anymore, but for an entire season he just can't get to grips with how to get with a girl, let alone multiple, because he insists that he's only into the main girl. Whatever happened to having casual fun?
The girls look good but have no appeal.

Isekai: I don't know why it's an isekai.
The story hook of the main character following a childhood friend (girl he likes) through a portal isn't particularly engaging and it adds absolutely nothing to the story since our protagonist doesn't do anything clever with his modern knowledge in a fantasy setting, he's mostly just 'guy who tries hard'.
At one point they return and you'd think there'd be some fun to be had with the fantasy girls with cat ears, horns, elf ears in modern Japan right? Nope.

Ultimately the show takes itself too seriously too often and completely forgets to have fun with things. I recommend it because the story in itself is not bad, there's a really good foundation for something that could've been great.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 23, 2024

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Tales of Wedding Rings - What a way to force a harem through circumstances.

If you didn't know, mangaka duo Maybe has previous adaptations in the AniManga space: Silver Link's Spring 2012 adaptation of Tasogare Otome × Amnesia a.k.a Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (which is low-key one of my favourite shows of the early 2010s), and MAPPA's Summer 2019 adaptation of Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e a.k.a To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts (which was kinda meh to low-level decent). This season, the duo's entry has extended one more adaptation: Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari a.k.a Tales of Wedding Rings, with its manga ongoing into its 10th year, while ... Kemono-tachi has ended last year. But when it comes to the ultimate comparison of quality and content, Tasogare Otome comes first with a wide gap, while both Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari and Kemono-tachi share the same problems having to be serialized alongside each other and sharing resources to keep its content fresh, which if you've watched MAPPA's anime back in 2019, you would understand why.

But back to Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari. Again, I found the manga to be a plentiful read after watching Kemono-tachi which was frankly a mess back in the day, and then again, it's not exactly like a mind-blowing mind-over-matter kind of story, given its romantic fantasy context. And before you mention it further, nope, it's NOT an Isekai (though technically it has elements of it).

The story of a boy being introduced to a girl whom he was supposed to take care of while escaping from the perils of another world, this is the life of Haruto Satou, who took care of Hime for 10 years until she is called back home to her original world. Seeing that he has regarded her as his childhood friend (and literally one who cannot stop simping for her), he can't let her go that simply, and decided to follow her and her grandfather presumptiously back to her world, which he learns that Hime is not just a typical girl, but the princess of her own land: Krystal Novaty Nokanatika, along with her grandfather, who is the Great Mage of her land, Alabaster. Her being wed to a prince is customary, but something which Satou doesn't quite understand, and is forced to act when demons attack their land in the way of Hime suddenly kissing him and granting him the powers of her ring to defeat said demons. He then learns that Hime's ring is only but one of a set of 5 rings which represent the Earth's elements, hers being of the light, and he needs to acquire all 5 rings to be able to defeat said enemy of the Abyss King as the legend's Ring King. And despite said prince being not too all happy about it, he obliges to help Satou, Hime and Alabaster go around their world to find the Ring Princesses which safeguard the rings, which also grant him powers, and ultimately adopt them into the harem as his potential wives, to put their mind and strength together to take down the Abyss King and save their land.

Let me make this clear: Haruto Satou is no gigachad 100 Girlfriends's Rentaro, that is for sure. Despite him having the looks of an average guy who is not cut out for anything, he's still has to ultimately accept that he is assigned a hero role and has to wed the girls of various looks and sizes, no matter the context of their origins. The TL;DR about Satou is that he's very wishy-washy, often one who can't make rational decisions until he's being told to man up and take charge of the impending situations, unlike Marmarugias "Marse" Gisaras, the prince who was supposed to be wed to Hime, who'd rather support him in being the Ring King. The girls fare no better, as they're in every sense of the word: plot devices to forward Satou's role as the Ring King. So as long as they're "conquered", the plot-girl moves on and becomes a background harem character. The only good thing about it is that despite having a harem, Satou literally pines for Hime and her alone as his destined wife, always wanting to have sex with her, but gets cockblocked each and every time new troubles come along. Also, Hime is naturally jealous that Satou's other 4 potential wives: Earth Ring Princess of elf Nefritis Romca, Fire Ring Princess of catgirl Granart Needakitta, Air Ring Princess of Saphir Maasa and Earth Ring Princess of Amber Idanokan, their personalities (to each their own) are interesting, though as mentioned, they're plot-devices who lie on the sidelines, always wanting to juice up Satou when he feels down, or his commitment to Hime hits constant lows. Nevertheless, the girls are a fun bunch when they're allowed to go loose, and that's about the best thing I can say about the main character cast.

The production is just about as decent as studio Staple Entertainment's last offering of a similar kind: Summer 2022's Kinsou no Vermeil a.k.a Vermeil in Gold. It's not bad, but nothing great either, with rather dark undertones for a fantasy show, despite it being uncensored for the eyes of culture. Likewise, the music is just so-so, it just exists and is rather unnoticeable. The show's theme songs on the other hand, it's all hands on deck for the musical project Sizuk, with the OP "Lover's Eye" feat. AYAME (from AliA), which is a rather musically tonal song fit for the series in a good way, and the ED "Kokoro no Naka" feat. AliA being a rather low-ball effort being just a presentation for the 5 central girls in pure ecchi taste.

Look, I can also appreciate a romantic fantasy Ecchi series if it's done right, but as much as I put Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari's manga to decency levels, while the anime is not a bad adaptation per se, the story elements definitely suffered as the Elephant in the room, and the production isn't as good as the manga's art, the Ecchi segments included (which is one of the highlights of the original source material).

Fool me once, shame on me (because Tasogare Otome is THAT fantastic). Fool me once, shame on you (Kemono-tachi is nothing memorable). The 3rd time's the charm, and this falls close to Kemono-tachi levels but better by a tad bit, however, is an untouchable when compared to Tasogare Otome. If you're interested, the ongoing manga still has lots of material content left for what happens thereafter, and that is left for you to judge the series in totality after watching the anime.

Now then, if you excuse me, I'm going to read more 100 Girlfriends in preparation for Season 2 than peril through this close-to-pornographic Lord of the Rings parody.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 7, 2024

AbnerSilva

Not Recommended

This anime isn't a good ecchi one. (Tl;Dr at the bottom)

My reference for ecchi animes are: yosuga no sora, kiss x sis (the ova one) and most recently gushing over magical girls (which is a really good anime if you don't mind seeing some uncensored boobs)

[Ecchi: 4/10]
I know ranking ecchi is somewhat strange, but if you will be watching this anime, probably you'd be expecting something good in this topic, well ecchi is highly relative, if you are new to it you'd be probably shocked by seing boobs without censor, and thinking how could this not be a hentai? But there are far more animes ... that go much far than that, with this said, if you are expecting something more than boobs appearing, then sadly this is not the one for you.

[History: 4/10]
The mc has a crush in his childhood friend that happen to be a princess from another world, when they share a kiss he gain a ring and become the "ring king" then receives some powers, it's not only one ring, in total they are five and each one of them are with a princess from certain land that he has to kiss, his objective is to gather them all and defeat the abyss lord.

[Harem: 0/10]
The harem part of this anime is very poorly done, the guy loves his childhood friend who is the first girl he gets but the others he just don't care about, in episode 9 he just straight up say to her you're the only one i want, even though he already acquired other 3, like why make a harem anime if the guy will just love one of them? This anime really don't needed to be a harem, in fact it would be better if it wasn't.

[Romance: 0/10]
The romance doesn't fall behind, it can be as bad as it gets, in this anime is that typical thing of the characters blushing for everything, principally the MC and his principal love interest Hime, but it's not the cute and lovely way it's the annoying and irritant one, like for example: every single time something happen between him and a girl like a kiss he just goes: "i'm not used to it yet" even though is the bazzilionth time he does it and as you would expect this really don't fits an harem anime.

[Characters: 3/10]
I swear i'm not just hating this anime but the caracters are just as plain as they can be, like the only really background and development that we get is in their "arc". In the anime each girl has her mini arc of 2 episodes, by the tenth episode the mc already did get all 5 of them leaving 2 episodes of them all together, outside of their respective arc they don't get any more development, for example, there is an reclusive elf girl that wants to discover the world but don't go because she made a promise, in the end of her arc the mc manage to get her to go on with him, you may think she would be baffled with everything she sees out there or scared of the people and this really happens but for like 2 episodes after her arc ends, the rest she just goes on with her life as if nothing really happened.

[MC]
I typicaly don't do a "[]" just to write down about the MC but i was incredulous, how can someone make a harem anime that goes against all things a harem anime needs?

The mc gets embarassed to everything related to "girl" he just can't interact with a girl without getting sheepish, in okay with that but it's not in an normal level, it gets to a point that is annoying, in the first meeting the girl is normal and okay to get embarassed, but not every single time to every minusculous thing, and to add in top of that this anime is like the dogshit series where every time they will do the deed something happens, there are two times that they get to the moment but the mc just says "not yet, i want a climate first" even thought the girl is totally down for it, bro if it was me the girl wouldn't be able to walk for a fricking week, if you're expecting this one to has some action (if you know what i mean) you will be disapointed.

And for the feats of the protagonist he hasn't so much in his side, there are moments he does something but aren't many and he never takes initiative in the romance aspect.

[Overall]
To be honest i was really hyped by this anime, i thought it would be a good one but unfortunatelly i was wrong, if you're looking for a good anime on the genres i cited even thought it is disrespecting with this anime i will be making a little list here because this obviously isn't the one.

Ecchi: Kiss x Sis (Ova), Mahou shoujo ni akogarette, Higschool DxD, Prison School, My wife is the student council president, Kaifuku jutsushi.

Harem: 100 girlfriends, Campione, Quintessential quintuplets, The testament of sister new devil, Saekano, Kanojo mo Kanojo, Date a live, Cafe terrace and its goddesses.

Romance: Horimiya, SAO, Sakura Trick, Citrus, Yagate kimi ni naru, The angel next door spoils me rotten, Romantic killer.

Tl;Dr: This anime manages to fail in every aspect of it, the biggest mistake i think, is it being a harem because everything goes against it in this anime.

Being kindhearted i decided to give it four out of ten.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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