Review of The King's Avatar

It's a fairly low stakes show about a retired professional videogame player basically starting a new account and dicking on people which is fun since they obviously play into that aspect. Similar to how sword art online alternative: gun gale online or Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense it's simply about someone playing video games, which is super entertaining. The animation for background characters can be quite hilariously bad at times since they use some basic CG to animate them, at other times the animation looks almost great, but since it flip flops between them it's a bit jarring. The soundtrackhas nothing noteable or noteworthy about it, it sounds mostly generic and I cannot recall any theme or track that has had an impression on me.

The characters are very endearing though and for the most part likeable, especially the main cast.

A kinda hilarious part of the show is it's McDonalds sponsorship which doesn't detract massively, but is still a bit funny since they make it a point to have an in-story character be sponsored by McDonalds as well and McDonalds shows up more than you'd expect.

All in all it's an entertaining mostly low stakes take on the "people playing mmorpg" genre that doesn't revolutionize the genre, but has some light hearted humor and some likeable characters for the most part. It also slightly touches on the professional gaming scene and what "pro gamers" do after having to re-enter the real world without actua IRLl skills.