(L) Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon (My Happy Marriage)[Netflix][Summer 2023] Anticipation

[scififan]

Originally Posted by Last Sinner

Given the hostility of the sister and initially cold nature of the guy, I imagine it would be more like Ancient Magus Bride rather than Snow White With The Red Hair.

Other people's initial reaction is yet another Cinderella. The girl is poor and the guy is rich. It takes place in the short-lived economic boom of Japan, before WWII.

[Mazryonh]

Originally Posted by scififan

Other people's initial reaction is yet another Cinderella. The girl is poor and the guy is rich.

So many of these shoujo stories start out with a "plain jane" and untalented female lead who is picked on by everyone she knows until her Prince Charming comes and sweeps her off her feet to "happily ever after." I'd like to think that this story won't be falling into that tired old trap.

Originally Posted by scififan

It takes place in the short-lived economic boom of Japan, before WWII.

The Taisho era of Japan was like the 1920s of America, a boom period, but sadly Japan's short-lived liberalization would soon give way to the ultranationalist fascism of the 1930s and 1940s. I wonder if this anime series will give us some background as to whether or not the same trend towards fascism will be shown in this show's timeline. I remember a much older manga and anime series, Haikara-san ga Tooru or Here Comes Miss Modern dealing with the same time period and transition, so it's been done before.

[Mazryonh]

The third PV for the series just came out.

[Blaat]

I really enjoyed the first episode to a point where I'm dreading watching the rest of the series (will it be as good? I have my doubts) What was shocking it had some show don't tell scenes, which for a LN adaptation is practically unheard of.

[Kanon]

The first episode was pretty much Cinderella in Japan, so not much to say about it. Animation, voice acting, and atmosphere were all really good. I liked it but the real test will be the next episode, now that Cinderella has met her "prince".

[frubam]

The "Cinderella" comparisons is pretty much accurate. Girl that gets crapped on gets set up with cold, cool bishounen char; a tale as old as time. Honestly, when a character like this feels like they are getting hate and cruelty just for the sake of drama, it feels kinda empty. So while I can sympathize with the lead(Miyo), I don't actually feel it, if you know what I mean. The situation was probably a very realistic one, given the era the story is being depicted in, but it just feels exaggerated here. For one reason or another, I thought of Bibliophile Princess's 1st episode; the ostracization felt much more organic and believable from the perspective of the protagonist(Eli) and thus, could feel for the char better. Still, this was pretty much a setup episode; like Kanon said, how the dynamic between the two leads will be the actual strength of the series. Hopefully it is engaging enough to keep my interests.

One insignificant detail that I liked what how the other caretakers neither ostracized, nor coddled Miyo. They still showed respect, but didn't go out of their way to give her preferential treatment. Even the main caretaker lady that gave her the food on her departure; usually this kind of character "backs" the main protagonist's endeavors, but here, she is just doing her job of taking care of the master's family; nothing more or less. The stern and professional demeanor she displayed during that scene really stood out to me. Compare that to the older lady in the Kido(?) house; def fits that archetype I explained before. I don't see this as being a negative thing though, considering her brighter personality seems to be there to counterbalance the male lead.

Also, Miyo's dad and stepmother have dark hair; the sister has blonde. Makes me wonder there ��....

[Frontier]

Reina Ueda plays a Cinderella story out in Taisho (?) era Japan with gorgeous visuals, atmosphere, OST, and voice acting !

It really just sucks for Miyo. She was such a cute child with a close relationship with her mother but then she dies and in comes the step-family...her father seemed to feel bad for the loss of her mother and the grief she went through, but then when the new family came in and he got a new daughter completely wrote her off or stopped caring for her. I mean, making your own daughter a servant and treating your previous marriage like old history? Come on, dude !

It's always kind of fun to watch Ayaneru be a total B-word, and Kaya is the kind of haughty and flashy girl you love to hate, although even "love" might be a stretch because the more she drives home how much she's intentionally messing with her half-sister really makes you loathe her. And Kana Ueda as her mother isn't much better .

The only salvation in Miyo's life is her budding courtship with Koji, but even that gets twisted when he gets betrothed to Kaya, yet another thing she's lost but is too numb from years of abuse to really even feel bad about. And Koji feels awful for not being able to be there for Miyo, and will probably be miserable married to Kaya .

Although interestingly his dad's idea was to betrothed her to someone related to Koji, because he acknowledged Miyo needed to get out of that house, but then she ended up betrothed to someone else. Did Kiyoka intentionally seek Miyo out for some reason ?

Yurie seems like the kind of lively and energetic woman that will brighten up the show and both her master and mistress. Plus, is that Houko Kuwashima I hear ?

Kiyoka definitely is a breathtaking beauty of a man, and voiced effectively by Kaito Ishikawa, and I'm curious if the reason he didn't want Miyo to bow her head is because he didn't want to see her treating herself like a servant or someone who needs to lower her head to her spouse ?

[stray]

I wasn't sure what to expect but this is really promising. Thankfully Netflix finally figured out simulcasting.

[grecefar]

there was a lots of wrong and things I really disliked in the first chapter but not for the story. It's just that I was really pissed with the mistreat and the attitude of the family, it was even worse that her father seems to have liked her mother but then went a started to act like an stupid idiot.

well I just hope the worst is already over and if we get to see her family again is just to see karma working her magic.

[Alchemist007]

Pretty show with nice music. The plot setup is pretty average but we got the point quickly in one episode at least. We can see why Miyo is pitiable, if quite melodramatically, but the one I feel sorry for by the end is the guy marrying her half sister.

[Xeiros]

With no knowledge of its production, I’m tentatively optimistic regarding My Happy Marriage’s scheduling mainly due to it being the only show this season to receive a simuldub that actually lives up to the words that derive it.

Despite the word simultaneous meaning at the same time, in reality the bulk of broadcast dubs are at best three weeks behind the Japanese broadcast. Producing a dub requires a good deal more work and time than subtitles do.

To produce one such that it is ready at the same time the show source language version airs means the production itself must be quite healthy indeed so as to provide the necessary materials to make such a turnover possible.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

God dang it man, I went into the anime blind, but as I watched it, I had a bad feeling
Wow, the bad guys are sure obvious assholes for no reason
Wow, she is so gonna meet up with a nice guy as according to the title

So I decided to search online for info on this series, and well, go figures. It was Narou afterwards. The title not being IQ0 and no reincarnation really fooled me. Ugh