The World Is Still Beautiful (それでも世界は美しい) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Dai Shiina. It started with a one-shot published in Hakusensha's manga Hana to Yume in March 2009, which was followed by a second one in June of that same year and a third one in September 2011. It began a regular serialization in the same magazine in December 2011 and finished in May 2020; its chapters were collected in 25 volumes. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Pierrot aired on Nippon Television between April and June 2014.
Plot
Nike, the fourth princess of the Rain Dukedom, possesses the power to call forth the rain. She travels to the Sun Kingdom to marry Sun King Livius for the sake of her country, despite her own reluctance. She soon discovers that the King, who conquered the world in only three years after his ascendance to the throne, is still a child. Furthermore, for trivial reasons, he has demanded that Nike 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.