Review of The King's Avatar

Blurb: A wholesome power-fantasy for the long winter-evenings. Imagine you're in that zone where you wanna watch something that's exciting, new and unseen and at the same time you want a guarantee that you're gonna enjoy yourself cuz surviving 2020 is enough of a reason to never wanna feel shitty again. Welp, King's Avatar or Quanzhi Gaoshou has got you covered. Because it keeps to the fundamentals and it keeps to them very well. The core story of the show is predictable. You have your amiable, soft-spoken protagonist who gets booted out of his own e-sports team for being an idealist rather than someonewho's hungry for commercial-gain. He begins his journey back to the top from scratch and along the way he makes new friends, gets in touch with a few old ones and in general is a pain in the ass for the guys who booted him out in the first place.

Like most other power-fantasy shows, our hero is a guy who seems to attract good-fortune and pretty-girls like chum attracts Sharks. And his avatar in the game is so damn OP that he basically runs over anyone and everyone who attacks him. However, the show is written in a manner that doesn't make him look like a douche. The character of Ye Xiu is the embodiment of the 'pure-gamer', he eats, he sleeps, he plays, he repeats. Anything and everything he achieves in his life is based on his prowess as a gamer and the show is all the better for it. Does his character conveniently encounter great friends n subordinates? Yes. But after a time you just want things to go Ye Xiu's way regardless of logic and the randomness of life.

In summation, The King's Avatar is that show you watch where you know from episode 1 how episode 12 is gonna end. It doesn't surprise, but it doesn't bore you. And the action and animation more than make-up for the lackluster quality of the story.