Review of The World is Still Beautiful

What does this anime remind me of? Ans, "The King and I" yes a classic 1956 movie (with its 1999 re-make) that you're great grandma has probably watched when she was younger and re-watch several times in some of those classic channels.......that is, if they have access to 'Turner Classics" or "MGM Classic, " hey, let's face it, it was almost identical to the classic where the king is a cold and uptight ruler and the girl is an independent outspoken individual, even thought there is that reverse thing, where in the classic it a east meets west kind of thing, here it wasmore of a west meets east and also it has the element from beauty and the beast where beauty was force stay with the beast, while in this anime in was more of a reverse lolicon or more like a sotacon where beauty ( I'm guessing she's somewhere between 18-21) was forced to become this kiddo's (I'm also guessing that he is somewhere between 11-13 years old) bride ( or maybe his playmate) but either way the romance and adventure really did play well or at least plotwise, so here are my ratings for this anime:

Story: Outstanding 10.

Refer to the explanation above. Take note the score is only for the plot where it does have some similarities with the classic movie.

Art: Good 7.

I like the way Nike is illustrated, though she more of a sexier version of Anna Harriette Leonowens. Also, I kinda like the Chinese Tibetan motif that were featured in the last 3 episode of this anime.

Sound: Poor 3.

Now, I may have liked the opening theme, and Nike's song "Tender Rain" but for the song "Tender Rain", well it was touching at first, but it becomes annoying later on. Also, Livi's voice would have been better of if it was continuously done by seiyuu Kudou, Haruka, instead of Shimazaki, Nobunaga, because an early teen's voice doesn't matured up until he is 14 years of age and frankly Livi doesn't look like he is 14. Nike's voice on the other hand should have that tsundere tone co'z quite frankly Maeda Rena's tone wasn't tsundere enough, also, I can't understand why Nike's grandma's farewell rain was done by a younger girl, it would have been more appropriate if Granny's farewell rain song was done by an opera singer, so its either studio Pierrot and VAP were cutting cost or Japan doesn't have any local opera singers.

Character: Dreadful 2.

This is the part were I would ask......as to WTF was series creator Shiina, Dai thinking for conceptualizing such thought about a grown up being in a relationship with a kid? Such character concept of this series' creator was enough of me to give this category a low score, let's go over the main character's

Nike Remercier- Ok, I have no problems of her marry off to a person of nobility, but my peeves about her stems from the fact that she is a person of nobility who happens to be rough around the edges, now to me I see it as a good thing where it shows humility, what I don't like was that her suppose husband is a brat and she doesn't do anything to get away from him, in fact whatever bet she had with her sisters can be declared as null and void. Now the conflict here was how does she sees Livi, does she see him as a poor soul that she took upon herself to comfort him or has she already develop that lolicon thing for him?

Livius Orvinus- He is another reason why I give this category a low score, I just couldn't fathom as to why a boy like him would go for a MILF like Nike, when he could have just went looking for Amaluna, also WTF was series creator Shiina, Dai thinking for letting a kid do a man's job. Frankly, I kinda see him as a kid entering puberty and probably he can see Nike naked and do get punish and I'm thinking that he gets to loose his virginity to her as well.

Enjoyment: Fair 6.

Mainly, there were Episodes that I find entertain and there are those that were a drag and that's the reason why I give this category its score.

Overall: Decent 4.

The story plot may be good, but the real let down was the fact that this anime has that reverse lolicon thingy, but then again it was decent enough to be view by everybody, except if kids would be watching this then their parent are gonna have a lengthy explanation about the cougar and tadpole relationship.