The Daily Life of the Immortal King

Forgive me, I'm still on the first episode but this already seems like a ripoff- we've got the overpowered main character (saiki), school beauty (teruhashi) and the hot blooded and intense side character (hairo). I hope I don't see anymore characters that seem like ripoffs of Saiki K characters, it's really bugging me.

This anime is easily 10 out of 10 in the original Mandarin Chinese. The story is about an all-powerful teen, with the last name King, who hides most of his magical powers to survive in the ordinary world. Of course, he is unable to hide for long and adventure ensues.

English subtitles are accurate but you miss out on the cultural nuances and beauty of the Chinese language The Giant Frog, for example, is really called Sky Swallowing Toad. Words appear way too fast and you will have to pause and rewind frequently. It is written at a seinen level so a high school education is useful for full appreciation.

The story mixes Chinese mythical elements like alchemy balls, paper runes, and spells with modern video games, metaphysics, and humor. The animation style copies Japanese anime to a tee. It is funny throughout with real jokes instead of physical humor.

Don't miss it.

You'll notice that this anime is similar to The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, but its better because of the animation is cool, the comedy things and the romance also. I dont understand of people who review this anime worse, for me who watch chinese anime for the first time seems like there's nothing wrong with this anime and its recommended to watch. The creator of this anime is really like dragon ball i think 5555. The op song is really nice btw.

It's based on a web novel with OP protagonist trope. Some say it's a rip off of Saiki K, but that's least of the problem because this kind of OP protagonist trope has been super common in light/web novel scene for a while now and Saiki K itself was a late comer to that trend.

What makes this 3/10 is very simple -- it's just bad.

The source material was actually fairly entertaining and popular because it was makes a lot over the top reference of real world people, events and memes. In fact, most of source material was kind of joke of what's popular at the time, but somewhat tying that to the overarching plot, which made things interesting.

But the anime is nothing like the source material. Most of meme and reference were cut out (legal reasons?) and these were actually the soul of what made original web novel interesting. After cutting bunch of stuff out, story was then stitched together in a messy way that it makes absolutely no sense. And to make things even worse, around episode 8 or so, it completely diverged from source material and starting making it's own story. You'd think that now you don't have cut out half of source plot, they can write a comprehensible story, right? Nope, it's somehow even worse and make less sense.

Not sure why this became an anime to begin with. If you have cut out half of original story arc for whatever reason, you should just realize it's not a proper source material to make an anime with.

This series starts out interesting, with a good premise and slowly-built characters to make it enjoyable. But around the last 4 or 5 episodes (the sword battle) it starts becoming repetitious, and the ending is poorly written and very unfulfilling. If a story doesn't have a good ending, the series is a flop.

I give this a 5-star rating just for the startup story line, but it loses 5 stars in the yawner, lazy-writing finish. They could have ended this so much better.