The Daily Life of the Immortal King

仙王的日常生活 (Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo)

8.3(3)

OtakuDen

7.3(184,583)

MAL Score

Ranked #3097

Popularity #677

Adventure
Comedy
Fantasy
School

Episodes: 15
Duration: 19 min per ep
Aired: Jan 18, 2020 to Mar 28, 2020
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Wang Ling comes across as an unbothered high schooler with barely any spiritual presence. In reality, he’s hiding an overwhelming power—strong enough to wipe out the world in an instant.

To keep that force in check, his parents rely on a sealing amulet, but it’s only a stopgap. As the charm gradually loses its hold—and cracks faster when Wang Ling’s emotions spike—its failure draws near. With the seal close to breaking, Wang Ling and his father scramble to find a way to repair it before his power slips free.

Otaku Consensus

The Daily Life of the Immortal King lands best as a fast, meme-literate school-fantasy parody: Haoling Li’s chief direction and storyboard involvement give the early season a clean binge rhythm, and Haoliners Animation’s character designs and action cuts were singled out even by less enthusiastic viewers. Its real ceiling is originality and pacing, with criticism often aimed at how many familiar super-power, cultivation, assassin, and campus-comedy elements it tries to juggle in only 15 episodes.

Why You Should Watch

Watch The Daily Life of the Immortal King if you want the deadpan overpowered-comedy itch of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. filtered through Chinese cultivation fantasy rather than psychic gag manga. Its appeal is not slow-burn power progression; it is the contrast between absurdly high-stakes magic systems and the petty rhythms of school life, student politics, and social embarrassment. The 15-episode length makes it a compact binge, and Haoliners Animation keeps the tone light enough that the parody and satire tags feel baked into the structure rather than added as occasional jokes. Viewers who enjoy One-Punch Man-style anti-climax but want more urban-fantasy classroom energy will get the most out of it; viewers looking for careful lore escalation may notice the rushed, crowded pacing more.

Key Characters

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Rong Sun(VA: Yuuka Hiiragi)
Rong Sun functions as the series’ social engine, the kind of driven school figure whose ambition and presence keep the comedy from becoming a one-note overpowered-protagonist routine.
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Ling Wang(VA: Shigeki Hirahata)
Ling Wang’s fan appeal comes from his extreme emotional minimalism: he is written less like a conventional shonen lead and more like a straight-faced punchline dropped into a cultivation power fantasy.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Haoliners Animation handles the production, giving the series a donghua identity rather than the visual grammar of a typical Japanese light-novel adaptation; reviewers who disliked the writing still noted the animation, art style, and character designs as strengths.
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The series compresses its first televised run into 15 episodes aired from January 18 to March 28, 2020, which helps its gag-action structure feel bingeable but also feeds the common complaint that the pacing is crowded.
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AniList’s high-confidence tags frame the show more precisely than its broad genre labels: Super Power at 92%, School at 80%, Urban Fantasy at 80%, Magic at 78%, Parody at 72%, and Cultivation at 68%.
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Haoling Li is credited as both chief director and storyboard, a production detail that helps explain why the season often moves like a continuous escalation of set pieces rather than a loose anthology of school skits.
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The show’s reception profile is unusually broad for a Chinese animation title on mainstream anime databases, with a MAL popularity rank of #677 and 184,583 MAL score votes attached to a 7.31 average.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The original story credit goes to Xuan Ku, while the animation production is by Haoliners Animation, placing the series firmly in the modern Chinese donghua pipeline rather than the Japanese manga-to-TV route.
Fun fact 2: Haoling Li holds two key creative credits on the season: chief director and storyboard. Shixuan Ouyang is credited as director, with LAN listed as animation director.
Fun fact 3: The English-language production credits include Jerry Jewell as ADR Director, Gino Palencia as ADR Mix Engineer, Tyler Walker as ADR Script Supervisor, Jill Harris as Assistant ADR Director, and Benjamin Tehrani on ADR Prep.
Fun fact 4: Its database footprint is consistent across platforms: MAL lists a 7.31 average from 184,583 votes, while AniList lists a 73/100 score and 2,989 favourites.
Fun fact 5: Online reception split sharply over tone: positive writeups pitched it as an energetic action-adventure comedy, while harsher reviews called out boredom, derivative elements, and pacing despite acknowledging that the visuals were not the problem.