English Dub Review: Tales of Wedding Rings “Episode 6/Episode 7”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

Episode 6

Satou trains with Marse, hoping to beat Granart in the sword duel to court her. Satou is torn between facing her fairly to look cool for Hime and prioritizing his duty as the Ring King. However, the Abyss King’s evil clutches are approaching Needakitta.

Episode 7

Satou visits Maasa, the Land of Water, and unexpectedly ends up marrying Saphir, the Ring Princess. Saphir believes she needs the Ring King’s power to save her homeland from being controlled by the Gisarus Empire.

Our Take:

If there’s one thing this show did all right on amid its mature, sexually-driven plot, it’s that it didn’t make Satou a sex-obsessed ladies’ man. Despite having married three princesses, Satou still has his heart set on his first crush, Hime, much to Nephrites’s mild disappointment when Satou ignores her. More importantly, he’s shown as an honorable person who’s not willing to take any shortcuts. This is proven further in the show’s sixth episode, where Satou vows to defeat Granart fair and square in a rematch without using his Rings despite Marse and Nephrites telling him to do it. Unfortunately, the rematch isn’t the only thing the Ring King has to worry about.

The Abyss King interrupts the duel by transforming a jealous suitor into an Abyss Knight with a cursed ring. However, the interruption is brief as Satou quickly saves the suitor from the Abyss King’s curse. Afterward, Satou proves himself worthy by defeating Granart in a fair fight due to the voice inside his head and Hime promising to have sex with him if he wins. As a result, Satou gains a third wife and the Fire Ring, although he wants to have sex with Hime first, much to Granart’s annoyance. However, despite his attempt to do so, Satou also insists on waiting to do so when they return to Earth, but he is able to fondle Hime’s breasts until then. You have to start with the baby steps of marriage. 

The seventh episode then sees the group reaching the Kingdom of Water, Maasa. Fortunately for Satou, he doesn’t have to wait too long to gain the Water Ring from its princess, Saphir, although it’s not without another catch. In addition to gaining Saphir as his fourth wife, Satou is assisting her in saving her kingdom from the Gisarus Empire, which happens to be Marse’s country run by his father, the Emperor, and his older brother, Prince Sluder. However, there are other problems troubling Saphir’s kingdom. They also have to deal with the Seer, Vixen, who orders the assassins to kill Satou and steal his rings. There’s also some romantic tension between Marse and Saphir’s twin sister, Saphira, due to him letting Satou become the Ring King, emphasizing the prince regarding his history.

These two episodes are when Tales of Wedding Rings provide something interesting with its characters besides the sexualization of the princesses. The sixth episode emphasizes Satou’s honorable and selfless personality, with him waiting to have sex with Hime when their quest is complete. However, Granart isn’t willing to accept defeat since she’s incredibly eager to make babies with him. “Episode 7” then has Marse getting more development that’s long overdue, in which he’s torn between honoring Satou as the true Ring King and honoring his family from the Gisarus Empire. With Marse being ordered by his father to replace Satou as the Ring King, this could provide some much-needed tension between the two allies to spark more interest in the series’s repetitive arc. Which side will Marse choose?