"Nike, the determined princess of the Rain Dukedom who has a mysterious power: she can control rainfall. She is forced to unwillingly marry the king of the Sun Kingdom, Livius I. Livius (or Livi for short) conquered the world in three years, and is known as the "Dreadful King."" - Manga-Updates

Download: Episode 1 - HS
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Shoujo
Links: Official | AniDB | ANN






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I looked forward to this show based on the description (longer ones than my edited spoiler free one here) and the genre list. Adventure shoujo has actually served me some jolly stories in the past and the description of this show sounded especially delicious with the forced marriage of persons who should be somewhat hostile, plus the guy is even younger than the girl. I'm no Korean, but a younger guy, older girl somehow interests me in manga/anime. It also doesn't hurt this show that the dude is apparently some kind of genius who not only managed to conquer the neigbouring countries in a few short years but also stabilised his own country and raised people's standard of living, yet the girl balances that out by being a powerful magician of some sort. So, neither should be useless by far.

Naturally I'm mostly looking forward to the interaction between those two. There probably won't be any love lost whatsoever in the beginning (what with the king throwing the princess into a prison cell right off the bat, according to the longer description), but that's all the better. If he treats her initially as an amusing performer of tricks and she treats him as a demon king, it should make a very amusing trip to the love-love land.

Production values generally looked very mediocre, so no surprises there. I'm not a huge fan of voiced narration, so I hope it maintains a level as low as in this episode or disappears altogether.