Review of The King's Avatar

The King's avatar is a pretty good Chinese anime about gaming/esports. The story is about a game called glory which is an mmorpg with a big esports scene and one of its best players who recently 'retired' due to 'issues with management'. We follow the main character after his retirement as he starts working in a net cafe where does more playing than working. He makes a new character, starts playing on the new server, sets dungeon records, first clears bosses and things like that. It's a very reactive story about the guy just playing the game and large goals next to just playing thegame start to appear only near the end of the season.
It's a pretty fun story to watch and you get to see the people actually physically playing the game instead of just seeing the game world. The controls, the games mechanics and the game world don't make a whole lot of sense to me. For example there's a moment where someone doubles over in game in response to getting hit and acts like it hurt which is impossible. This isn't a large problem though and I'm glad the characters in the game are expressive since it's more fun to watch. Sometimes the story was a bit hard to follow because I could not find a high quality sub.

The characters are older than the characters in the average anime and similar anime like SAO. I'm a big fan of the characters since they're more mature but a lot of them also have fun personalities. Character depth varies from character from character and some seem more like jokes. Overall though it's fun to see the dynamics between the rivalling esports clans and their reaction to this unknown incredibly skilled player in the new server.

The animation is good enough overall. The anime resorts to cgi for unimportant scenes, crowds or some backgrounds but the fights and normal animation are both good, though clearly sponsored by McDonalds. The sound/music were both great and suited the anime really well. The voice acting was in Chinese which is weird for a moment but you forget it's a thing after you're three episodes in.

Overall this is a nice anime about gaming in general and esports specifically with solid characters. It's pretty fun to watch and I can recommend it to most people except maybe those with absolutely no interest in videogames.