Review of The King's Avatar

The King's Avatar (Quan Zhi Gao Shou) short review. Positives: Characters - Each character has a goal or reason for being there whether its for redemption, fun, a challenge, revenge etc. Setting - Mostly based within an MMO game with some E-sports type elements and real life in there as well. Although mostly set within the game itself. So don't get your hopes up for it being an E-sports anime at this point. Negatives: Animation/Art - Although clearly good for a Chinese made anime, wouldn't say it quite matches Japanese anime. But is the best I've seen so far out of China and is likely to catch upto the Japanese sooner rather than later.

Not Positive or Negative:

Story - Although I enjoyed the story, I kinda feel like this season was only the ground work for the future. Therefore, wasn't particularly amazing nor was it bad.

Sound - I liked the opening and closing soundtrack for the anime, but the sound quality in the episodes when it came to certain weapons didn't seem quite right to me.

Character Development - Although lacking overall, supposedly the anime has been planned out for somewhere between 3-6 seasons according to rumours that I've read so far. So the lack of character development isn't as much of a problem if it does get fleshed out in future seasons.

Overall Score: Recommended.

Although it may seem as though The King's Avatar may not have all the things for people to love to bits. It does enough things right in my opinion to be worth saying to others, "hey, check this chinese anime out, its pretty good for what it is" at the very least. What will carry this anime in particular is the MMO setting and following the main character of Xiu Ye. If you like games, fighting or action its likely that this anime will be for you. If you want story or character development then you should wait for this anime to get more seasons/episodes first, otherwise you probably find it disappointing. Even though the majority of the things I've said are not under the positive category, I quite enjoyed watching this and each episode seem to have gone by quite fast for me with none of the episodes feel like it was dragging. Plus I think it might be the anime of the season for me (Spring 2017). Since I rate anime on how much I enjoyed it overall instead of averaging out all the different elements, I gave it a 9 and its highly likely that I'll be rewatching the anime in the future.