Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tales of Wedding Rings episode 7!!

Summary

• Tales of Wedding Rings captures the best aspects of adventure anime by focusing on the journey to different kingdoms.
• Each kingdom visited in the series is affected by conflict related to the ring princess, diversifying the storyline.
• The formula in Tales of Wedding Rings is more diverse and justified compared to other epic adventure series like One Piece, adding depth to the series.

The obvious appeal of a new it's a romance isekai. However, this anime is unexpectedly doing an incredible job at capturing the best aspects of adventure anime. Of course, the series' main premise obviously relies on adventuring to some extent, since the Ring King must gather eponymous rings from certain princesses he then marries. However, it could have easily gotten away with putting less focus on this aspect in return for more explicit content – but didn't.

While a good deal of adventure anime revolves around the journey to certain places, some of the most celebrated series explore the destinations equally, if not more so. The poster child of this formula is undeniably One Piece for obvious reasons.

What One Piece fans love most about the series is how Luffy and his crew get involved in the wars rampaging each island they visit on the Grand Line. This is exactly what Tales of Wedding Rings has done so far with each kingdom they go to, but the formula is arguably more diverse, although obviously nowhere near as convoluted, and even more justified.

Tales of Wedding Rings Follows & Improves One Piece's Adventure Formula

Produced by Staple Entertainment, based on the original series by Maybe

Similar to how Luffy and his crew get dragged into the wars that always plague every island in the Grand Line, the vast majority of the kingdoms that the Ring King goes to in Tales of Wedding Rings are all affected by their respective rings. Apart from the fact that One Piece never truly justifies why there just has to always be a war taking place on all its islands, Tales of Wedding Rings is already diversifying where each form of its warranted conflict comes from.

The series' second kingdom of Needakitta actually didn't suffer from any conflict aside from what the Ring King naturally brought along with him.

The elvish kingdom of Romca used their ring to stave off a curse from the ring-bearing princess' sister who just so happened to do so because of how the ring indirectly impacted her life. As a result, the Ring King couldn't collect the ring so easily on his journey. The series' second kingdom of Needakitta actually didn't suffer from any conflict aside from what the Ring King naturally brought along with him. Instead, the focus there was on the uniqueness of Needakitta, which is literally a moving kingdom.

Meanwhile, the third and latest kingdom's capital city of Maasa is afflicted with the type of conflict that always seems to befall every island in One Piece. In the case of Maasa, it is being encroached upon by an allied empire, and the ring princess is using the Ring King to help save her home there.

Tales of Wedding Rings World-building Is Unique, Lush, and Full of Wonder

Despite its mature premise, the fantasy series looks beautiful and feels lived in

With one more kingdom left, fans' expectations are undoubtedly quite high about what conflict or dilemma the Ring King will find there, possibly just as much as the obvious appeal that's expected to come with the fifth and final princess whom the Ring King will have to marry.

Tales of Wedding Rings is simulcasting on Crunchyroll.

Even though viewers aren't watching Tales of Wedding Rings on Crunchyroll for its well executed form of adventuring, especially in how it relates to other series, it definitely adds some depth and proves that the isekai harem series can be so much more than a guilty pleasure.

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