English Dub Review: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom “Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself, and Your Union Shall Not Be Endangered”

Overview:

One evening, Excel whispers to the fiancees Liscia, Aisha, Juna, and Roroa that she will teach them how to please their man, and suddenly commences a “Fiancees’ Bridal Course.” The secrets of Souma and his fiancees are about to come to light…

Our Take:

If we’re going to have harem elements I would rather they be implemented this way. At least here they do show a little bit of agency but once again it’s all on the women to do things. Like why isn’t Souma out with each of his future brides? I know there are four of them now and that takes time but we learned that there are more days in a year in this world so get on it bub. It should be just as much Souma’s responsibility to please them as it is theirs to please him. If anything he should be doing more!

Next episode there is going to be a meeting with Albert. The king that Souma took over for, so that could be interesting but we will have to see. I don’t know what it could be about because he already has permission to marry Liscia and he can’t go back to his world that I know of. But that’s for next time. It was nice to see that maybe a romance is brewing between characters other than Souma and every woman on the planet though.