Otherworldly Evil Monarch

Jun Xie in his previous life before reincarnating was an Assassin with a 100% success rate. However, due to certain circumstances and an RPG projectile striking him as he handled a mysterious Pagoda he was reincarnated into Jun Moxie, a previously deceased trash - and the only son of the Jun Family - One of the four great families in the Tianxiang Kingdom. In the Jun Family, he is left with his Grandfather and Wheelchair-bound Uncle as his only blood relatives who work along with Jun Moxie to stay ahead of the problems that come their way. Jun Moxie adapts to his new life inthe Murim playing his role as the Jun family's Debauchee. Will he realize his goals or will he be eliminated by mysterious forces again? Story & Characters: 4/10 Yi Ren Jun Moye makes it a point to break up the otherwise tense retribution story with light hearted characters and sudden bursts of unhinged moments. There doesn't seem to be a narrative maintained through to the end until the climax but in the beginning we see the goal for Jun Moxie and his family are to find out who was responsible for Jun Moxie's first death which we discover very early on in the series. As such, from then on the story becomes free style with smaller episodic activities occurring such as fighting bandit groups, solving mysteries, training new soldiers etc. I think this was a good approach for such a comedy driven narrative since we weren't dragged through the mud with all the unnecessary milestones. Jun Moxie and his friend group Dugu Xiaoyi and Tang yuan are an interesting assortment of main characters and they play their part in adding comedy well especially during fight scenes. The First young master of Li family Li Youran is also an interesting character who at first has not motives for his involvement in the Jun family but eventually after discovering more of the connections we understand he is a key character in the end. Overall, the named characters play their roles well as well whether for comedic or narrative driven purposes; They aren't discarded after a single episode but brought up in the background every few episodes which make their character grow on the viewer. Overall, Both character and story are appropriate for each other in terms of entertainment value. Art & Sound: When it comes to donghua CGI is the main source of animation and often times instead of high budget motion capture the CGI animation is done by keyframing. In this series it's obvious there is some high fidelity visuals but the keyframing is what this series could improve on - For the supposed budget it does seem very good overall. Sound is as expected of any series, I enjoy the effort each VA puts into their characters especially the VA behind Dugu Xiaoyi and Grandfather Jun who have extremes on opposing ends of the spectrum. Dugu Xiaoyi's VA is more snappy and girlish whereas Grandfather Jun is more demanding and desperate. Overall SFX is decent, the voice acting is really good though. Enjoyment & Overall: I really enjoyed this series for what it's worth, a comedy first series with hints of light hearted action and adventure. The ending was unexpected though and it does feel like something that could be more developed on before ending but the climax fight scene to end the series was very well orchestrated. I joined for the reincarnated overpowered main character but I stayed for the bald headed North City gang leader Qin Hu...