Let's start with the elephant in the room.
The focal point of our narrative, yet he makes a concerted effort to avoid it. Every episode or story arc introduces our OP MC to subvert the clichés in that environment, which adds humor while also dropping a bunch of forgettable supporting characters into a dramatic context. But alas, it's a tragedy because that comedy quickly becomes dreary.
Due to their lack of complexity when dealing with abnormality, an OP character in a humorous environment might be amusing. I can't even complete 10 pushups for the love of my life, but if I saw a bald man in a cape performing 100 pushups effortlessly, I will giggle at how amazed I was. A miracle, however, is a miracle because it is uncommon. You might exclaim "Wah Taz!" if you ever see the Taj Mahal. Even after a second viewing, you would be in awe. However, after viewing it 100 times, you would say, "Yeah, that's Taz Mahal." The show loses the audience's initial interest when it performs the same 'miracle,' in this case Wang Ling proving once more that he is OP.
But hold on, repeating the same thing? Yes, One Punch Man does that as well. Why, then, did this fail?
Because "Immortal King" is lacking in two areas. "Quality and Effective Direction".
OPM features consistently excellent animation, and each episode just gets better and better. But with this show... Later in the episode, it almost made me think of the difference in quality between OPM S1 and S2. Moments become increasingly awkward and bizarre as CGI crowds take over the background, although it's amusing to note that there is an episode in season 2 where they discuss digital animation. It's a bit ironic that a piece of animation that aspires to be of high quality may serve as both a good and a bad representation of the field. But S2 does improve a bit; there still are some jarring moments but atleast the CGI crowds are decreasing.
Narratively speaking, the first few episodes of each season are merely dull slice-of-life episodes, but each time, a minor narrative point is left over that is employed in the conflict that emerges at the end of the season. The slice-of-life episodes will continue to become more and more sporadic. It's not well written, but it's also not bad.
It appears that the show is very unlucky to have too many annoying elements since this would have been the end. And the subtitles are the final annoying element. Like I don't even grasp what a few statements mean, and even after viewing the full episode, I still don't comprehend what it means in context. In inappropriate situations, the subtitles are unusually attentive, like this one.
Like wow! I was quite curious about the meaning of those Chinese characters, which I could hardly even see. Including additional subtitles is fine, but what good is it if the required subtitles are so poorly translated?
Who should watch this?
The concept is similar to "One Punch Man" and "Mob Psycho 100" except,
it's neither as consistently well-animated nor it's well written as either of them but,
Unlike Mob or OPM, "Daily Life of Immortal King" has romance if that interests people.
Season 3 is airing, by the way.
