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[landofanimes]

My Happy Marriage Season 1

Kimono designs by Halka (with adjustments by color designer Anna Okamatsu)

Sumi's cherry blossom kimono

Miyo's cherry blossom kimono

Miyo's fancy blue kimono with flower pattern

Miyo's light blue kimono with wisteria pattern, inspired by the one described in the light novel

Miyo's pale blue/lilac kimono with lillies, inspired by the light novel's volume 2 cover

Miyo's cosmos kimono

Kanoko's purple kimono with butterflies

Kanoko's purple poppies kimono

Kanoko's blue/green kimono with bamboo pattern

Kaya's pink kimono with peonies and butterflies (rough sketch)

Kaya's purple kimono with flowers and fans

Kaya's yellow kimono with orange roses, inspired by her rose kimono from chapter 13 of the manga

Kazushi's peacock haori

Kazushi's tiger haori

[romancemedia]

Miyo's mother, Sumi had such bad luck with men. She was forced into a loveless marriage with Shinichi Saimori and she was the object of affection by the creepy and obsessive, Naoshi Usui.

[edensania]

°•.●○~ Miyo, I love you.°•.●○~

[mynamewasnobody]

From tiktok @ watakon_anime

[infloraescence]

[redsamuraiii]

My Happy Marriage (Ep 11)

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[naneki-maid]

not surprising that miyo’s maternal family ain’t shit, but it makes me INSANE to see them/others come for her now that she shows signs of having supernatural abilities. like how could they have ignored the YEARS of mental/physical abuse she experienced growing up in the saimori household? what if she had starved to death? what if she had worked herself so hard that she collapsed or had grown ill? (all situations easily done in that house) would the Usubas have helped her, would they have grieved her death—would they have held Saimori responsible? it makes me sick as hell to think about. logically, their skills are needed to help Miyo manage her abilities, but im still shook with her hesitation to stay with those monsters—Kiyoka had every right to burn that place to the ground.

[kaichan24]

You know it's sad that Sumi would never have been able to protect Miyo, no matter if she had lived. She was just a pawn in the power game. At that time women did not have decision-making power so the moment Shinichi would have discovered Miyo's gift he would have used her as a tool to gain power and prestige. And Sumi would have been discarded. It's so sad that her mother’s act of protection backfired and Miyo suffered so much but thankfully at the end she was able to escape that hell. I like to think that Sumi story was so tragic that before dying she prayed to God so Miyo could find a way to be happy and safe someday. And in a way to honor Sumi's sacrifice, God decided to send Kiyoka.

[my-animeandmanga-journey]

Hmm. Odd.

I expected My Happy Marriage to end with Miyo's family being brought to justice, but it seems like I'm only halfway thru.

Granted, there does need to be some resolution on why Miyo keeps dreaming of her mother, why her mother keeps saying these odd things. I suppose the rest of the story deals with Miyo's powers being awakened?

[yuzuna123]

The Hachijo clan is basically the Usuba clan.

Both families have dangerous hidden powers that can literally kill you and the clan members work in secrecy.

One thing is different is that the Usuba family protect while the Hachijo family were assassins designed to kill with an evil power.

[landofanimes]

My Happy Marriage Season 1

Kimono designs by Halka (with adjustments by color designer Anna Okamatsu)

[romancemedia]

My Happy Marriage 2x04 Sneak Peek Images

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My Happy Marriage Episode 11 Review - Miyo Gets Her Powers Back

What do you mean there’s only one episode left? Will there be time in the last episode for someone to beat the crap out of Arata because he needs one? Will this last episode resolve everything?

Anyways, this penultimate episode explains why Sumi, Miyo’s mother, decided to get married to the Saimori family. It all happened because the Tsuruki Trading business was about to go bankrupt. Sumi decided to accept a marriage proposal, which her father Yoshiro had kept rejecting due to the Usuba Clan’s rules, and the two became estranged after the wedding. When Miyo was born, Sumi learned upon touching her child that she has the rare Dream Sight ability which causes her to worry. Because of this, she decides to seal away Miyo’s ability so that she wouldn’t be used as a tool in the future. With the remaining time she had left, she lived her life as Miyo’s mother.

The Usuba family’s rules are wack. They have to be hidden and can only marry and procreate with the same blood (inbreeding). The fact that they want to keep Miyo in the manor and Arata is making his moves on her out of the Usuba duty and not actually his own feelings is pretty messed up. Like, both Yoshiro and Arata are so annoying. Yoshiro was spewing things about how much he cared about Sumi and Miyo, but if he cared about Sumi, he shouldn’t have gotten angry at her for her decision and should still have contact with her. If he had cared about Miyo, he could’ve shown up when Miyo needed it most. He didn’t contact Sumi at all throughout her marriage; he only contacted Miyo nineteen years after her birth. Is he only caring about her because of her ability and not her as a person? Miyo says it herself: What is family? They say they’re her family, but they’re not behaving like family at all. 

Arata was spewing nonsense about how he has to carry out the Usuba family duties and how he and Miyo are similar in terms of them being hollow people looking for a purpose. To be honest, I find that an insult to Miyo. Miyo’s not “hollow” by choice; it was forced onto her due to abuse. He doesn’t care for her as a person; he only cares about her to fill out his purpose. Fortunately, Miyo’s immune to his guilt-tripping, so she’s not succumbing to his words. Arata seems like a very contradictory person from the way he said that Miyo’s abilities have to be kept secret due to his deal with the Emperor, yet he’s revealing her secrets about her Dream-Sight to the people tending to the unconscious Kiyoka. What a way to keep secrets.

Kiyoka was shown to be a powerful ability-user in Episode 6, but the fact that he got caught off-guard and gets knocked out by a Grotesquerie shows that these things are truly a threat. Though, it does seem like an abrupt plot-point so that Miyo can leave the house and find a chance to use her powers for the first time. Though, I’m glad that her first target is her husband-to-be so that they can finally make up.

Lastly, I really like the scenery in this episode. The scenes with Miyo getting her powers back was absolutely stunning. The scenes with Sumi were pretty too! I think that the scenery is one of the strongest aspects of this anime and I can attest to that. Every episode looks pretty and it’s hard to peel my eyes away from them.

I apologize that this review got out late; I was a bit distracted from reviews as the new Pokemon Violet DLC came out on Wednesday, so my time has been occupied with that. I finished the main story today, so I will write a review soon. Anyways, what are your thoughts on this episode and are you ready for the finale next week?

[mynamewasnobody]

Our girl finally feels like she has a family that welcomed her in. She brings up that her ability has a part of it but this chapter is so wholesome I'm gonna cry.

[eternal-echoes]

My Happy Marriage

I feel bad that Sumi never got the happy marriage that she deserves. I don't mean to Naoshi at all. I just mean that she never met a virtuous man who would have loved her unconditionally, not for her Usuba blood and/or for the sake of continuing one's bloodline, but for herself.

It would have been nice if she didn't fall ill and escaped the Saimori household along with Miyo to eventually find the man she would fall in love with and accept her and her daughter Miyo.

[redsamuraiii]

My Happy Marriage (Ep 11)

Poor Miyo misses her mama. 😭