Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
kflm
The story is, idk if it is even a story, awful but I admit it's a little unusual concept. No one has motivation except MC and it is not so clear too. There is not even a single reason to actually care about the story and watch next episode. Characters are superficial. The audience cant tell how the characters thinking because apparently they don't think at all. Animations are generally looking good and aesthetic. All fights are basically the same and boring af and it's a great loss for an anime that doesn't have a strong story. Quanzhi Gaoshou sucked in many ways but the worst part of it is definitely Chinese. It's unbearable and really terrible. A few times I just muted it. Overall its too boring to watch and only offers you a few aesthetic shots. Scrolling down on twitter for 12*20 minut…
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Quanzhi Gaoshou
“The first Chinese anime I watched. The first Chinese anime I dropped. The first Chinese anime I re-watched. The first Chinese anime I cried to. And The first Chinese anime that became the best RPG anime I've ever watched.“
Now I have a lot to say about this show but I shall condense it to make it easier to read. Quanzhi Gaoshou is possibly the best RPG-based anime ever made. Though it does not really go into the detail of skills & feats of players. The show excels in representing the competitive side of gaming, giving the appreciation and admiration it sincerely deserves.
A retired professional gamer goes into the new server of a game and has fun. Though the OP MC trope may be considered as "overrated". I find Quanzhi Gaoshou very entertaining to watch. Why? Because th…
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Quan Zhi Gao Shou, or King's Avatar, can be seen as many things. China's first big-budget foray into the world of animation. A realistic take on MMO gaming in Anime. An OP protagonist stomping everyone with masterful mechanics and strategies. The long-awaited "eSports anime". A character study about a master of his craft striving to reach the peak one last time.
It is all of these and yet none of them, a unique entity that is truly one-of-a-kind both as a novel and in animation. The entire novel clocks in at a whopping >1700 chapters, of which this first season covers ~250 in 12 episodes. Now for a more detailed breakdown...
1) Story
King's Avatar has a fairly simple premise. The man known as the "Textbook of Glory" (Glory being the MMO game at the center of this anime) carried his team…
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I like video games, so I had high hopes for this series, but they were quickly dashed. The protagonist is a typical Mary Sue character. His sole flaw is being too nice and amazing a guy. No, I did not make that up. Nice and amazing is why this professional player is penniless despite being a "god" among men. Quanzhi Gaoshou is about this amazing guy who, when others don't recognize his amazingness, leaves the rockstar-like existence that is professional video games behind and lands a job where he plays his favorite video game full time. He starts a new character and continues doing amazing things.
Storywise, this series is extremely shallow. There is no real conflict, since there's nothing the main character can't do. Supporting characters are likewise one dimensional. Each exemplifies a…
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STORY: 6/10
CHARACTER: 6/10
ART: 9/10
SOUND: 7/10
ENJOYMENT: 8/10
OVERALL: 7/10
‘The King’s Avatar’ is a Chinese anime that manages to be a joyous ride, filled with many badass Action settings and well-placed Dramedy that will have you wishing for ‘GLORY’ to exist in real life! (GLORY is the MMO game played in this anime) The story focuses on a superb player who’s forced into early retirement, so he creates a new character instead and starts from scratch. Some of the game settings are beautiful to behold showcasing amazing landscapes but unfortunately the anime also takes liberty in explaining the game system to the audience. The downside to this is the negative effect on the story which feels incoherent in places, so some concept goes unexplained like how the MC can employ such vast dama…
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Judging by the high overall score this seems like it's the next Sword Art Online. By that, I meant being horribly overrated. I like the gaming genre as much as the next guy, but come on man.
The anime was incredibly and utterly boring.
At the very least it's not SAO tier of being bad, but I guess the people who told me that this is "a better SAO" meant that because barely any anime can be considered as bad as SAO.
But enough about that. This anime wasn't written very well. The premise is that a popular game's best pro player is smurfing around. That's it. Nothing interesting happened from start to finish. There was no suspense, drama, and I can't fathom why comedy is one of the genres when there was barely any funny stuff, most of the few comedy scenes were very forced.
They keep intro…
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Quanzhi Gaoshou, or more better known as The King's Avatar, is unlike any anime I've seen before. Although it deals with gaming, it is not the typical augmented reality or death games you'd see in the infamous Sword Art Online or Btooom!. It is focused on a "retired" professional gamer who plays a normal computer game using keyboard and mouse, but with immense skill. And with talent, one would naturally attract attention, fellow skilled players and enemies. And that's what this anime is about... In a few highly condensed sentences.
* Story: 7/10
Without spoiling anything much, the story is about the esports scene of a fictional MMORPG game called "Glory". The main character, Ye Qiu, is an absolute legend at this game although he has been forced to resign from his professional team due to…
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This series is so great that it moved me to read the manga and light novel halfway through the anime. And I gotta say, for those who really like this series should try the light novel, it has much more detail than the anime.
Story:10
Just by the anime alone, the storyline deserves a 10. The basic premise of this series is that a professional gamer was forced out of this club, but he decided to start from scratch in the main game in a new server.
This storyline probably doesn't seem much, especially since he is a pro gamer going to a new server where most are newbies. Actually, this storyline is kinda refreshing, there are not many series that concentrate on the skill of a person making that much of a difference in success. There are a lot of series out there with overpowering success ma…
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I disliked this anime primarily for 2 reasons: there were too many characters to have actual development and relationships, and there was no real story line. This being said, it was slightly enjoyable to watch just for the change of pace in the Chinese anime.
When it came to characters, there were just too many. Even in the last episode, they were adding new characters that had large, important back stories just to have some more fights. There was no development and all the characters were quite 2 dimensional. In addition, the main was way OP and while some might find this enjoyable, they never explained how he was so good aside from saying 'he has played for years'.
The story line also was quite lackluster. This ties into the characters but because there was no development, it felt like n…
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brick punch OP better nerf
not a perfect masterpiece but defenitely outstanding.
the story is good. its set in this day and age and it does give you a perspective into a career you rarely get (yet).
i feel its lacking a bit on relationship developement. there is a hint of romance but not much happens there. it has a climax but it feels weird to find out about the 9 year old rivalry in the very last episode. maybe i missed the hints because im not yet used to chinese names and i often had no idea who was talking about whom.
the art is good. there are a few scenes where the 3D usage feels a bit jarring but overall its quite fitting especially ingame.
the sound is great, the voice actors seem good and i really love the opening song, very fitting in dramatic moments.
the characters are abs…
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This show is getting a full 10 out of 10 from me.
It was truly outstanding - And people still say gaming can't be made into a good anime.
Guys, if you were disappointed by SAO or any other anime about gaming, go and watch this. In my opinion it's close to be a masterpiece, and I don't say that very often.
Story 10/10:
This part of my rating is probably the one that could be misunderstood the easiest, because the story may not have been as intricate and full of twists as are some other really great stories.
It is, in a special kind of way, very simple - The main topic being "pro gaming", and everything that this notion implies.
We see snapshots of the protagonists in real life as much as in the game itself, and while all of the action scenes and many other scenes are focused on the "gami…
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My first Chinese originated anime and i was not left disappointed. It took about 1 episode to get used to hearing Chinese voices instead of common japanese seiyuu, after that i fully enjoyed the refreshing experience china had to offer.
Story: 9 If you've read the synopsis then it sums it up pretty well what you're getting in to. I personally really liked the realistic e-sports gaming story. Some people may say that it was kind of slow paced but i feel that it was paced appropriately for the story it was trying to tell.
Art: 10 I loved seeing this refreshing new art styles China brought to The Kings Avatar. The colors were not too vibrant and perfectly matched realism outside of the game and in the game was drawn how you would expect to the your average MMO. The background scenery was ve…
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People tend to meme a lot about Chinese cartoons in this community, but did you ever imagine that a genuine example of such a thing could turn out this spectacular? Quan Zhi Gao Shou—or The King's Avatar in English—is indeed a Chinese production based on an award-winning web novel series of the same name. While it is certainly not the first Chinese anime that has been produced over the years, I do believe this is in fact the first time one of them has actually gotten overall praise and popularity from the general anime community.
Perhaps the main reason for this is that Quan Zhi Gao Shou feels like it fills a hole that has so far been left unexplored by Japan. While there have been tons of anime in recent years about otaku, games and people somehow being transported to game-like fantasy w…
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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 up to 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,…
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Since i just watched finish this anime,i shall make a review about this. I will keep the spoilers to the minimum.
To be honest, i have very low expectation about this. At first, I thought it will be a typical anime about the main character getting stuck in the game or going in the game through the virtual device. However, it is about professional gamer, playing games using their computers. This idea is original as i think there is no anime or maybe few anime having contents about professional gamer. The main protagonist is also very strong and overpowered others which is something that I like. Story: 9/10
i gave high score for the story since the ideas are original and not typical. I also learnt about the life of professional gamer through this anime.
Art: 10/10
I have to say that the an…
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THIS REVIEW COULD CONTAINS SPOILERS
Hi everyone, I'm here writing this review cause this anime definitely catched my interest in this season, mostly cause I played a lot of online games and I am defnitely a RPG addicted, or at least, I used to be one.
-Story: 7
If we already saw from SAO, Log Horizon and hack//Series the "trapped in a videogame" plot, this time the subject is for sure something more "actual":
The eSport scene. Putting aside it's an intresting concept by itself that is probably the main reason this anime catched your attention, I felt uneasy by not having a certain knowledge of the game they are playing, quite often it looked like a music beat game where you have to hit the notes, or a typical hack and slash (maybe this was supposed to be in the enjoyment paramenter, bu…
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**TL;DR at bottom* *Spoilers are clearly marked*
The fact that this series is getting rated so low really saddens me. To put it simply, the King's Avatar is great, and hopefully, in this review, I can provide a reason to convince you.
Before I begin, however, I want to preference this is NOT an anime about eSports. This anime does not deal with, nor care about the struggles of, eSports players. It has eSports elements to it in order to logically and naturally bring in the topic of video games and how the main character Ye Xiu is so good at them. Elements of this are glorified quite often, if nothing else as a love letter to eSports in general. It is not about the struggles of players and the industry. If you're looking for something like that, I suggest Valve's eSports documentary Free to…
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TL;DR: Ex-Challenger player creates a secret smurf account to have fun with noobs in this epic MMORPG game called GLORY! In other words, if S.A.O and Log Horizon had an illegitimate unwanted child, this would be it.
[Story: 2/10 , Characters: 2/10, Art: 8/10, Sound: 5/10, Enjoyment: 4/10]
Quan Zhi Gaou Shoul or The King's Avatar hypes itself up as this hardcore e-sports anime that will have fans of online multiplayer games watching just to get a glimpse of the life of an e-sports player. However, does it really deliver at the end? Not really. Not even close to it at all. Though this anime is based on the award winning Chinese LN written by Butterfly Blue, the adaptors really let the author down. Just read on and you will know why.
The premise of the story is interesting. Ye Xie (Battle…
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I've played my fair share of games. I will fully admit that I have played games since I was 4, and I managed to git gud at some pretty hard games, like the Megaman Zero games and Robotech Battlecry. Now, I must confess:
I am not a pro or competitive gamer.
I've never done any E-Sports, nor have I done any real competitive gaming. The closest I've gotten to is dabbling in some online Pokémon battles and some "For Glory" on Smash Bros. 3DS. So, this was certainly an interesting series to look forward to, as while we've definitely had some game-oriented anime in the past that ended up being popular (namely SAO and No Game No Life), we never had one that showed the competitive side of gaming, since other game anime merely used gaming to basically flesh out a fictional game by putting player…
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Esports, through the years, have yielded amazing stories tempered by colorful and magnetic personalities. It promises a wealth of untapped potentials for stories that can go toe-to-toe with some of anime's best character dramas and captivating sports series.
Sadly, Quan Zhi Gao Shou offers little and captures less of the allure of the narrative weaved by esports. It’s worth noting that the genre tag did not even include “Sports”, given that esports is sports through the medium of video games. It’s a run-of-the-mill redemption action series with the questionable virtue of not having moe or harem elements, which apparently is enough to be praised and loved in this day and age. Claims that the series is mature due to simply having "adult" characters are equally hilarious as attitude and temp…
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