Kekkon Yubiwa Monogatari

6 - Inoffensive isekai slop, with some nice pacing and story beats - It has some heart - Not bad, not great. The score of '6' is what I give it relative to other things, my enjoyment of it was a '7' and I never felt like I shouldn't bother with it whenever I saw a new episode pop up.

Story: High school student turned protagonist in a fantasy world to become the 'Ring King' who needs to convince five princesses to give him their paired ring, in order to fulfill the legend and beat the baddie. He's into the main girl, who's into him.
There are ... some nice locations with interesting dilemmas and the circumstances he has to go through, at the end of the day it does feel like an adventure, which is fun.

Ecchi: While this is an ecchi show with partial nudity (breasts), it doesn't do much with it and it actually tones it down quite a lot as the show goes, despite it adding girl after girl.
It is extremely frustrating the MC is either constantly interrupted or wimps out. This is a boy turning into a man who has no social expectations of him since he's not in Japan anymore, but for an entire season he just can't get to grips with how to get with a girl, let alone multiple, because he insists that he's only into the main girl. Whatever happened to having casual fun?
The girls look good but have no appeal.

Isekai: I don't know why it's an isekai.
The story hook of the main character following a childhood friend (girl he likes) through a portal isn't particularly engaging and it adds absolutely nothing to the story since our protagonist doesn't do anything clever with his modern knowledge in a fantasy setting, he's mostly just 'guy who tries hard'.
At one point they return and you'd think there'd be some fun to be had with the fantasy girls with cat ears, horns, elf ears in modern Japan right? Nope.

Ultimately the show takes itself too seriously too often and completely forgets to have fun with things. I recommend it because the story in itself is not bad, there's a really good foundation for something that could've been great.

Production:
Visuals are decently good.
Audio is fine.

Setting:
MC is very unsatisfying to watch and is the most inconsistent character out of the entire cast.
Supporting characters are actually interesting with unique powers, personalities, and body types (important in this genre).
Story setting is fine, but the isekai elements seem unncessary for the plot as the story almost never acknowledges the isekai elements after the initial episode.
World rule consistency is not very good at the start, but this went away as the story developed.

... Plot:
Plot is basically a combination of Lord of the Rings + Strike the Blood, but much worse.
Story needs more explaination/exposition as often time events just suddently happen at random.

This anime isn't a good ecchi one. (Tl;Dr at the bottom)

My reference for ecchi animes are: yosuga no sora, kiss x sis (the ova one) and most recently gushing over magical girls (which is a really good anime if you don't mind seeing some uncensored boobs)

[Ecchi: 4/10]
I know ranking ecchi is somewhat strange, but if you will be watching this anime, probably you'd be expecting something good in this topic, well ecchi is highly relative, if you are new to it you'd be probably shocked by seing boobs without censor, and thinking how could this not be a hentai? But there are far more animes ... that go much far than that, with this said, if you are expecting something more than boobs appearing, then sadly this is not the one for you.

[History: 4/10]
The mc has a crush in his childhood friend that happen to be a princess from another world, when they share a kiss he gain a ring and become the "ring king" then receives some powers, it's not only one ring, in total they are five and each one of them are with a princess from certain land that he has to kiss, his objective is to gather them all and defeat the abyss lord.

[Harem: 0/10]
The harem part of this anime is very poorly done, the guy loves his childhood friend who is the first girl he gets but the others he just don't care about, in episode 9 he just straight up say to her you're the only one i want, even though he already acquired other 3, like why make a harem anime if the guy will just love one of them? This anime really don't needed to be a harem, in fact it would be better if it wasn't.

[Romance: 0/10]
The romance doesn't fall behind, it can be as bad as it gets, in this anime is that typical thing of the characters blushing for everything, principally the MC and his principal love interest Hime, but it's not the cute and lovely way it's the annoying and irritant one, like for example: every single time something happen between him and a girl like a kiss he just goes: "i'm not used to it yet" even though is the bazzilionth time he does it and as you would expect this really don't fits an harem anime.

[Characters: 3/10]
I swear i'm not just hating this anime but the caracters are just as plain as they can be, like the only really background and development that we get is in their "arc". In the anime each girl has her mini arc of 2 episodes, by the tenth episode the mc already did get all 5 of them leaving 2 episodes of them all together, outside of their respective arc they don't get any more development, for example, there is an reclusive elf girl that wants to discover the world but don't go because she made a promise, in the end of her arc the mc manage to get her to go on with him, you may think she would be baffled with everything she sees out there or scared of the people and this really happens but for like 2 episodes after her arc ends, the rest she just goes on with her life as if nothing really happened.

[MC]
I typicaly don't do a "[]" just to write down about the MC but i was incredulous, how can someone make a harem anime that goes against all things a harem anime needs?

The mc gets embarassed to everything related to "girl" he just can't interact with a girl without getting sheepish, in okay with that but it's not in an normal level, it gets to a point that is annoying, in the first meeting the girl is normal and okay to get embarassed, but not every single time to every minusculous thing, and to add in top of that this anime is like the dogshit series where every time they will do the deed something happens, there are two times that they get to the moment but the mc just says "not yet, i want a climate first" even thought the girl is totally down for it, bro if it was me the girl wouldn't be able to walk for a fricking week, if you're expecting this one to has some action (if you know what i mean) you will be disapointed.

And for the feats of the protagonist he hasn't so much in his side, there are moments he does something but aren't many and he never takes initiative in the romance aspect.

[Overall]
To be honest i was really hyped by this anime, i thought it would be a good one but unfortunatelly i was wrong, if you're looking for a good anime on the genres i cited even thought it is disrespecting with this anime i will be making a little list here because this obviously isn't the one.

Ecchi: Kiss x Sis (Ova), Mahou shoujo ni akogarette, Higschool DxD, Prison School, My wife is the student council president, Kaifuku jutsushi.

Harem: 100 girlfriends, Campione, Quintessential quintuplets, The testament of sister new devil, Saekano, Kanojo mo Kanojo, Date a live, Cafe terrace and its goddesses.

Romance: Horimiya, SAO, Sakura Trick, Citrus, Yagate kimi ni naru, The angel next door spoils me rotten, Romantic killer.

Tl;Dr: This anime manages to fail in every aspect of it, the biggest mistake i think, is it being a harem because everything goes against it in this anime.

Being kindhearted i decided to give it four out of ten.