Ranking of Kings · Season 1 · Episode 23 · 25 March 2022
S1E23 The Gigan Clan and the Greatest King
THE MOMENT Bojji's final declaration of intent - the moment the premise of the entire series earns its payoff.
The finale resolves the season's central arc and delivers an emotional catharsis that cuts through the show's fairy-tale register. The ending can land differently for those who feel the second half over-complicates what the first half sets up cleanly.
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Ranking of Kings Season 1 Episode 23 'The Gigan Clan and the Greatest King' aired March 25, 2022 on Fuji TV as the finale of Wit Studio's 23-episode series. IMDb holds the series at 8.4; MAL users scored it 8.49. Slashfilm praised characters who appear simplistic but prove emotionally complex. The finale delivers the payoff of Bojji's arc across both its emotional and action registers: the coming-of-age question the series posed in its premiere - what constitutes a great king when conventional measures exclude you from consideration - receives an answer the show has earned through consistent investment in both its protagonist and ensemble. AniTrendz's 77/100 season review identified pacing issues in the second half, a fair critique: the final revelations carry accumulated lore weight that some critics felt diluted the first half's cleaner storytelling. The emotional catharsis, however, holds.