Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii
Announced a few days ago as being a part of the spring anime series, we’ve now got confirmation of the studio behind Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii, the latest shoujo series to get some good treatment. According to the latest issue of Hana to Yume that will arrive next week, Studio Pierrot will be tackling the series while adding that more details will arrive with the February 5th issue of the magazine. Based on the manga series that began in 2011 after a pair of one-shots by Dai Shiina, it’s been running in Hana to Yume and has five volumes out so far in Japan. No details about the production have formally been revealed yet but it’s expected that there will be more come January 20th in that issue of Hana to Yume, which ties into the release of the sixth volume of the manga as well.
Plot concept: The series revolves around Nike, the determined princess of the Rain Dukedom who has a mysterious power: she can control rainfall. After losing a game of rock, paper, scissors to her older sisters, she is forced to unwillingly marry the king of the Sun Country, Livius I. Livius (or Livi for short) conquered the world in three years, and is known as the “Dreadful King.” However, when Nike meets him for the first time, she finds to her surprise that he is a boy younger than she is. Livius abruptly asks Nike to call forth the rain, and when she refuses, he has her thrown in jail. The story follows the two who, while at first are a married couple only in name, gradually begin to establish an emotional bond with one another
[Source: ANN]