【IMPORTANT INFO】
The anime movie is just a fanfic, we Chinese fans have always been boycotting it. In the original novel it is mentioned that YX smoked since less than 18 yo as well as WC. The playwright of the anime is a notorious fanfic writer of TKA in Chinese fandom. She ships SMQ x YX and Hundred Blossom duo. So wrote slash fictions about those two couples. She drew so many personal view into the movie. The movie changed the personality of YX(from the very beginning of his journey as a gamer he’s already made up his mind and he didn’t play for SMQ; he never regretted running out of home for playing games, he’s already mentally matured and his character is already built up and grown up from ten years ago, he’s not the growing up type of MC.—quote from an interview with the author BB),  the age the SMC(She’s only 3/4 years younger than YX), sources of YX’s famous lines(even all of the motto-like lines SMQ said in the movie are from YX)......... the anime movie bombed at the box office in China because almost all of us, text-loyal fans, are boycotting it. Some of us even tore the prepurchased tickets up to show our anger.
All I wanna say is that, pls pls pls don’t worship the anime movie as Bible . The real sources are only THESE TWO TEXTS: THE KING’S AVATAR AND THIS PREQUEL.

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MC is pretty cool and there is some pretty decent world building. The game seems decent bad is fleshed out however the ml and the other side characters are already unbearably irritating.
Would like to carry on with it but I just can't bring myself to read more

I have just finished the first volume and really enjoyed it! The characters are interesting, the way they play the game is something you don't often see in novels like these but with the writing style of this author it really shines!

I am greatly enjoying the writing style of this story so far! The protagonist/narrator is funny and definitely feels like the age he's described as. The silver haired girl is strange but intriguing. I look forward to continuing to read through this story!