The explosion of "Ranking of Kings" was something I never expected.
When the anime first aired a season or two, the overall performance was still tepid. Although there are many self-media accounts that do not hesitate to praise this new series, they are still relatively niche in terms of the data played and the number of viewing collections.
After all, the style of "Ranking of Kings" is there, who would have thought that the fairy tale picture book style could hide any ups and downs of the plot? In my opinion, "Ranking of kings" is destined to be the same as another excellent original "Kit Kat Taxi" with the same cartoon style, which belongs to the good series and is only a collection of niche enthusiasts.
After several episodes of the animation, "Ranking of kings" unexpectedly went out of the circle, not only playing data to rise to the top of the list, but even fandoms and edited videos all over the platform. My friends and family members, who usually don't watch animation much around me, also joined the chase team for a while, and they all called for "King Ranking" in the circle of friends, and the avatar was also replaced by a cute Boji.
On the other hand, this kind of heat can also witness the excellence of the work. But with this comes the questioning in the wave of praise. Gradually there are a small number of doubts about this animation, is "Ranking of Kings" really good?
In fact, for this kind of doubt, individuals are confused. Because Leopard One is a pure "animation party", he did not immediately chase the original manga because he thought the animation was good. In the eyes of some readers who have seen the original comics, the plot of the later period is particularly bleak compared to the surprise of the early stage.
Not only is the plot concept mediocre, basically the character's combat power setting is in a state of collapse, basically the story is drawn wherever it thinks. One of the most unsatisfactory is that readers smell the behavior of comic book authors with "bootlegs", and there are innuendos to reality through comic stories, touching our bottom line.
On the other hand, because of the popularity of the animation itself, this also makes it possible to brush this work on many platforms. Many users who are not interested in this new series have also received recommendations from the platform. But the style of "Ranking of Kings" does not belong to the kind that the public likes at a glance. Users who are not interested in their own works will naturally have resistance after constantly receiving the recommendations of the platform, and will have an emotion that cannot be "followed by the clouds".
A bad first impression naturally magnifies the prejudice against the work, and a flaw naturally lowers the expectations of the animation. Like the previous explanatory video of a certain up master, blindly belittling "King Ranking", white is black, so that some of the audiences who do not watch the work themselves are even more excited, taking the opportunity to satirize this work. And excessive beautification of animated characters is easy to fall into the negative image of the "rice circle" and suffer from the disgust of some people.
In fact, in my opinion, the fault of "Ranking of Kings" is that it should not be so hot. The audience of its own works should be in a niche circle, becoming a part of the enthusiasts word of mouth for a good no one to see. However, under the impetus of the platform, it has gained far more heat than it should have, which naturally has to withstand more difficulties and tests.
But there is no doubt that, at least from the current animation performance, "Ranking of kings" is an excellent adaptation of the animation work. We should not arbitrarily label it as "bad" because of some criticism and deny the achievements made before this work.