Gaming chairs don’t always have the best reputation. Look through any of our reviews here (or anywhere) and you’ll find common themes in the comments section: poor support, back pain, and style over substance. The Razer Fujin Pro aims to change all of that. It’s a mesh gaming chair that’s designed to compete with Herman-Miller instead of DXRacer, and looks just as at home in an office as it does behind a gaming PC. At $1,049, it brings the best of both worlds between gaming and productivity, but has at least one big caveat you need to know before pulling the trigger.
Razer Fujin Pro – Design and Features
If you’re in the market for a racing seat, you’ll need to keep looking because the Fujin Pro really doesn’t look much like a gaming chair at all. When it comes to appearances, it has far more in common with mesh office chairs than it does with your average bucket seat.
That doesn’t mean it looks boring, though. While perhaps not as edgy as the bright colors and carbon fiber patterned plastics we typically think of with gaming chairs, there’s an elegance to its design that feels refined and grown up. This has a great deal to do with the fully aluminum frame, painted a deep gunmetal gray, and how it wraps up and around the back. This style is hardly unique to Razer – the Vertagear Triigger 350 offered a similar design years ago – but that doesn’t stop it from looking fantastic in a subdued kind of way.
All it takes is a glance to see that the chair is designed for support. There are no pillows to make up for a flat backrest or poor neck support here. Instead, its mesh back curves gracefully outward in the lumbar region where a dedicated lumbar support is visible through the mesh. The seat is also contoured and ends in a waterfall edge to promote blood circulation. A fully articulating headrest sits atop the backrest, arcing around the neck. Each of these elements is formed to gracefully guide you toward its center to evenly distribute your weight.
With a closer look, you’ll find that it has a far more adjustable and supportive design than your average gaming chair. The lumbar support moves up and down and can be shifted in and out using the knob on the middle of the backrest to perfectly match your anatomy. A seat depth slider works in tandem with this to adjust the angle your back meets that support, allowing for different seating postures without sacrificing comfort.
The rock and recline systems work a bit differently than most gaming chairs. There is no dedicated recline lever. Instead, the backrest moves along with you as you apply pressure, ensuring that its support stays in place as you move. You can adjust the tension of its rocking action using a knob that slides out and tucks away under the seat or lock it into place with a lever along its left edge. This isn’t a chair you can fully recline with, though. Maximum tilt is 130 degrees – enough to put your feet up but probably not to take a nap.
It's also height adjustable, or course, and again with a small lever along the edge of the seat instead of a handle underneath. Its maximum height is surprisingly high. I’m noticeably higher in it than in my Secretlab Titan Evo 2022, and at 5’8”, only my toes touch the ground. It’s perfect for larger monitors or displays on a shelf or wall mount where they may sit a little higher.
The Pro version also comes with a 3D contoured headrest. It can be adjusted for height, depth, and angle, and is easily the best headrest I’ve used on a gaming chair. It’s so adjustable that it can be positioned perfectly for your natural seating posture. Once it’s in place, it stays well, so you can move about and lean back and find that support exactly where you need it. I have found that over extended use, my posture tends to change, however, so I do usually readjust it each morning.
The armrests are adopted straight from Razer’s gaming line and the Fujin is better for it. They’re padded in soft foam that’s easy on the elbows and are 4D adjustable for height, width, depth, and tilt. They also lock in position so you won’t slide them out of place by accident. Ironically, while these are mostly standard on the best gaming chairs, they’re not a given on high-end ergonomic chairs. They’re a core part of what makes it a gaming chair, allowing you to adjust them in or out to support your arms with a controller or mouse and keyboard.
The chair uses a high-strength mesh webbing for its support. Its breathable nature is great if you spend a lot of time at your desk, warding off sweat especially in warm rooms. Its flexibility also allows the chair to adapt to your body in a way that feels more responsive than typical foam chairs. It’s not as soft, however, and if you weren’t a fan of mesh before, this won’t be the chair to win you over. The mesh is also a bit grippier than other task chairs I’ve used, which can make sliding around a bit harder. It feels particularly durable, however, and has just the right amount of tension.
The Fujin is a chair that’s made to blend in. The branding is subtle. There’s a small Razer tag on the edge of the backrest and another logo on the back of the frame. The latter is gray on gray, so clearly not designed to stand out.
Taken as a whole, the chair feels exceptionally well made and competitive in the upper-level seating market. I’ve been lucky enough to test a number of high-end ergonomic chairs, including the likes of the X-Chair, the Herman-Miller Embody and Vantum, the Vertagear Triigger 350 SE, OdinLake Ergo PLUS 743, and more. The Fujin Pro lacks nothing alongside them.
Well, almost nothing. The Fujin Pro’s warranty doesn’t match its price or its demographic. The frame and hardware of the chair are guaranteed for five years while the mesh is only warrantied for one. Compare that to the ten year “all parts” warranty of Herman-Miller, Mavix, or X-Chair, or the 12-year warranty of NeueChair. At this price, and with this caliber of seat, halving the warranty of its biggest competitors rightfully raises alarm bells. There’s nothing I can see that causes me concern for the quality of the product, but it would be nice to have more assurance from Razer that it will stand behind its chair for years into the future.
Razer Fujin Pro – Assembly
The Fujin Pro is fast and easy to assemble. You’ll need a little elbow grease and the ability to tip the chair upright but even total newcomers should be able to complete the assembly process in under 15 minutes.
Razer makes the process as simple as possible, providing all the tools and hardware you’ll need right in the box. Most of the fasteners are pre-threaded into their holes, so you won’t have to guess about which goes where. It’s a bit of a pain to have to unscrew them first, but with only about ten to manage, it’s not a big deal.
Like most chairs, you’ll need to put the casters in the base and slot the piston into its center. The armrest and backrest are particularly easy, with clear slots that their chunky metal leaves fit into to align with the fasteners. The levels and tension knob are already built into the base and ready to go, so there’s no work to be done there. The final step is attaching the headrest and only takes two screws. The whole process is nearly impossible to do wrong and is overall much faster and easier than a typical chair.
Razer Fujin Pro – Performance
Going into this review, one of my biggest questions was what made this a gaming chair? Sure, any chair can be used for gaming, and productivity chairs in general can be a great choice for the support they offer, but when Razer, one of the biggest names in the PC gaming business, brings a gaming chair to the table, I expect to see some benefits.
The Fujin Pro is far more supportive than your typical racing chair. The lumbar support system is excellent. Its two-dimensional movement let me position it perfectly no matter how I was sitting. Over time, I’ve found the integrated lumbar of the Titan Evo 2022 to be a bit too big – it pushes out a large section of the cushion when what I needed was something finer and more precise. The Fujin, in contrast, breaks its lumbar support into two sides, each comparatively small and a good match for an average back. They’re easy to adjust up and down, in and out, but the depth is limited to avoid creating actual discomfort.
Put another way, the Fujin Pro gives you a workable range but doesn’t let you hurt yourself. That’s absolutely not a given in higher-end ergo chairs. The Embody, when not adjusted properly, will allow you to sit out of alignment and actively leave you more sore than when you first sat down. I’ve done it, first learning how its support system worked. Here, you can have it out of position and it may not be great, but you won’t be achy afterward.
Over the last month, I’ve spent multiple six to eight hour stretches in the chair. I never once experienced back pain. I’ve never even felt fatigued. It’s designed for the kind of heavy use that full work days and full days of gaming demand. Simply adjust the lumbar, seat depth, and recline tension/position, and you can sit in everything from an active posture to a sleepy slouch. That level of support and adjustability isn’t exactly a gaming “feature” but it’s definitely a gaming benefit.
I also cannot sing the praises of these 4D armrests enough. I’ve reviewed enough gaming chairs to know that bad armrests wreck an otherwise good chair. These are large, soft, and supportive. I wish they could move in a little tighter, but tilting them inward made putting my feet up with a controller viable. They also raise an inch or two higher than most gaming chairs I’ve tested, allowing me to put them in line or slightly higher than the edge of my desk, hiding its hard edge.
In a briefing, Razer claimed its mesh to be a benefit. In breathability, sure, but otherwise, not so much. Its grippy texture helps keep you locked in place but that’s actually not something I prefer. Being able to easily slide and shift position is more important than being locked steady, at least for a casual pleb like myself. Pro players may disagree.
In this uber-expensive chair space, there are a lot of shared qualities between chairs. You’ll find extra adjustments and plenty of clever support systems. But with the Fujin Pro, there’s enough small touches, like its extra adjustable armrests, that make it feel like an exceptionally good choice for gamers looking at this space for their next chair. 4D armrests are no big deal on normal gaming chairs but in this market segment, they’re a killer feature again. The made-to-match headrest that caters to every sitter. The excellent and easily adjustable lumbar support. The fact that it’s quiet and won’t creak on stream (I’m looking at you, Embody). The Fujin Pro isn’t leagues ahead of other great options in this space, but the ways that it is have made the difference in the chair I’m reaching for every day.
