Crowned in a Hundred Days

百日成王 (Bai Ri Cheng Wang)

6.7(687)

MAL Score

Ranked #6773

Popularity #9591

Action
Fantasy
Gore

Episodes: 25
Duration: 12 min per ep
Aired: Jul 3, 2026 to ?
Status: Currently Airing

Synopsis

In a kingdom shattered by betrayal, the peaceful reign of a beloved monarch is violently disrupted when a horrific massacre unfolds, leaving Ming with nothing but a thirst for vengeance. As he embarks on a relentless quest to confront the tyrant responsible, he uncovers a shocking truth: the rightful ruler, King Lie, has been stripped of his identity and power. With the clock ticking and only 100 days remaining to reclaim the throne, an unlikely alliance forms between the king and his would-be assassin.

Together, they navigate a treacherous landscape filled with hidden dangers and dark forces, racing against time to expose the imposter threatening their land. As they delve deeper into the heart of the conspiracy, they must confront their own motivations and the true meaning of justice, all while the shadow of despair looms over the kingdom. The fate of their world hangs in the balance as they strive to restore hope before darkness consumes all.

Otaku Consensus

Crowned in a Hundred Days is landing as a niche, mixed-reception donghua rather than an immediate breakout, reflected by its 6.64 MAL score, 60/100 AniList score, and very low popularity footprint. Its clearest strengths are Haoling Li’s unusually centralized creative control and the clean pressure-cooker pacing implied by the 100-day structure, while the most visible weakness is that its conspiracy-heavy, gore-tinged fantasy has not yet built broad audience buy-in beyond early adopters.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Crowned in a Hundred Days if you want royal conspiracy fantasy with teeth: assassination politics, supernatural complications, and enough gore in the margins to make power struggles feel physically dangerous. It is best suited to viewers who like the court-collapse tension of Yona of the Dawn or the palace-intrigue side of Kingdom, but want a more compact, ticking-clock format instead of a sprawling war chronicle. The hook is not just revenge; it is the friction between revenge, legitimacy, and identity, with ghost, magic, and body-swapping tags hinting that the show’s power games are not limited to armies and thrones. Its currently airing status also makes it a useful follow for donghua fans tracking Haoling Li’s original, director-led projects in real time.

Key Characters

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Lie
Lie stands out as a royal figure whose loss of authority is treated less as symbolic humiliation and more as a practical crisis of identity, power, and public truth.
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Xiaoming Wang
Xiaoming Wang is the vengeance-driven half of the lead pairing, interesting because the story positions his rage as both a weapon and a liability inside a larger political conspiracy.

What Makes It Stand Out

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LAN Studio is handling a 25-episode run, giving the series more room than a standard single-cour fantasy to escalate its conspiracy structure while it airs week to week from July 3, 2026.
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Haoling Li is credited simultaneously as original creator, director, and chief producer, making this a project with unusually concentrated authorial oversight rather than a straightforward adaptation pipeline.
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AniList’s highest-weighted tag is Conspiracy at 79%, above Revenge, Magic, Ghost, and Royal Affairs, which signals that the series is being categorized first as a political thriller rather than simply an action-fantasy revenge story.
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The tag mix includes Restaurant at 50% and Body Swapping at 20%, two unusually specific elements for a royal-gore fantasy and useful clues that the show’s intrigue is not confined to battlefields or palace chambers.
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Its reception profile is narrow but measurable: 304 MAL votes, 17 AniList favourites, and a MAL popularity rank of #11941 mark it as an under-the-radar seasonal title rather than a mainstream conversation piece.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Haoling Li holds three top-level credits on the project: original creator, director, and chief producer, with Shengyan Zhang also listed as chief producer.
Fun fact 2: Ni Li is credited for planning, while the producer slate includes Yunkang Tang, Jun Kang, Qing Chen, Lei Tian, and Aoxiang Chai, indicating a notably large credited production-management team for the title.
Fun fact 3: The main character database currently lists Lie and Xiaoming Wang without voice actor credits, so the public cast information is still thinner than the staff information.
Fun fact 4: Despite Gore being the theme surfaced in the database, AniList weights it at 53%, lower than Conspiracy, Male Protagonist, Ghost, Revenge, Magic, and Royal Affairs.
Fun fact 5: The anime began airing on July 3, 2026 and is still listed without a confirmed end date, even though its episode count is already set at 25.