Do you have what it takes to be a hero?
To Be Hero X
literally batmanpiderman in one person
I liked it. Actually felt bad for him but I wonder what makes him go the deep end if he's the same one that kills Moon
Should be interesting to see what drives him being a generally kind person to someone who kills other people's loved ones in front of them. I guess that is what having your crush likely stolen does to a dude. This arc is set 5 years prior to Lin Ling's arc, but I guess we could jump forward next week.
I thought Donghua wasn't allowed on this board.
Who organized the kidnapping?
I thought it was the love rival or a relative of his.
Maybe it's going to be a general loss of identity mirroring what happened to Lin Ling, but Yang Cheng continues down that path and becomes E-Soul while Lin Ling managed to establish himself as his own hero. My guess the stuff with Moon will likely tie into whatever happens with Yang Cheng's own crush and maybe he's just upset about someone like Lin Ling getting everything they wanted while Yang Cheng gave up his own identity and likely lost the girl as well.
why do they always have to force some retarded, cringe ass fucking romance into these stories? just why? can it really not work without these irrelevant hoes sidelining the story?
That's actually how it is in capeshit as a whole kek, this is nothing new
i know. thats exactly why i'm mad. why cant we be progressive? the same old fucking tired ass tropes over and over and over again. no one really likes it too? i mean who the fuck liked mary jane or whoever the fuck? they just shit up the story for no good reason. is this really the limit of human creativity? will i have to see the same fucking shit until i die?
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isn't it weird that the niggers who yap about "tropes" or romance in anime nonstop are glazing ts
what's ts? i dont watch western shit, too much of it filled with woke garbage and ugly women or worse.
Isn't this a superhero thing in general? The main motivations for people are sex and money, and superheroes generally don't get rich. That just leaves a girl.
Otherwise, what's he even doing it for?
How the fuck did he get so much power from 1 Trust value? Does how much an individual believe you impact how much power the trust value gives? Also in this episode we see that trust value might have impact on society beyond just being a hero or not.
Okay smartypants how would YOU write this then? Huh?
because romance is nice
The main motivations for people are sex and money
maybe in your little bubble, sure.
Liked the episode, but a bit disappointed that the main themes are so similar to nice's arc
The msin motivation is to save people. There's no other reason to be a hero.
The difference is probably going to be that Lin Ling managed to take everything back while Yang Cheng is likely going to lose everything to become E-Soul.The whole contest was likely a front to find a person to take the mantle of E-Soul.
No but I do have a sandwich.
I dunno, it looks like queen wants to be hero X to change the rules of the world .
Damn the parallels are pretty nuts, the fight between them is going to be insane and their clash of ideals.
but a bit disappointed that the main themes are so similar to nice's arc
Yeah. Episode wasn't bad in itself but I was actually hoping to learn more of the OG E-SOUL from the character PV's where he faces off Zero. Hopefully this is the last time we get a non-hero that replaces the actual hero and we get the past of the hero themselves. Can't believe I have to wait near end of the season for Dragon Buy ugh.
Do you think Yang Cheng could end up being the evil E-Soul we saw in episode 4? If he's suffered from having to give up a personal life to put on the hero mask, maybe he has something against other heroes being themselves or romantic
No, that fucking sucks. Look at Peter Parker, he's a thirty-something broke loser who lives in his aunt's basement. He's got no girl, no money, and his girlfriend is a huge whore fucking something called Paul.
This is why the most popular Spider-man is Ultimate Spider-man 2, where he's a successful 30-something with a hot wife, two kids, and his uncle is still alive.
this and uma are easily the best of this season
Do you think Yang Cheng could end up being the evil E-Soul we saw in episode 4? If he's suffered from having to give up a personal life to put on the hero mask
I'm actually curious how much things are going down and how much he's gonna suffer that is changes him. Unlike Ling Lin, he has two episodes left
Isn't the most popular spiderman the loser teenager spiderman? I know that's exactly why Hori liked him
Most likely. Lin Ling's arc was set in Year 41 after commission. This episode was set Year 36 so 5 years prior to Lin Ling's arc.
No, that fucking sucks. Look at Peter Parker, he's a thirty-something broke loser who lives in his aunt's basement. He's got no girl, no money, and his girlfriend is a huge whore fucking something called Paul.
Hence why you'd only want to be a hero if you want to save others.
So EVERYONE in this society has a trust meter, that's literally social credit.
Isn't it just people that want to be heroes?
It's the difference between having no batteries at all and having one.
Presumably the higher the tier, the lower the diminishing returns.
No, it's everyone. Our protagonist is just a suit actor, what does he need a meter for? Lin Ling tosses Nice's cloak and jewel-thing before fighting God Eye, he clearly wasn't expecting a Trust boost.
It's everyone in their society.
E-Soul was a masked hero for 34 years, no one knows his identity
Yang Cheng is going to become the next E-Soul
He's an orphan with 0 Trust (implying very few actually know about him)
All the promo stuff, the OP and the ED have him always masked up
I imagine part of truly becoming E-Soul will involve having to give up you identity entirely. Which sounds very dangerous when it comes to the people that are close to him.
Like, the best case scenario is that Xia Qing, Pomelo, Sheng Chao and Uncle Rock just forget about Yang Cheng when he finally fully becomes E-Soul.
But the worst case is that it doesn't come about while all of them are alive...
so he's going to get so fucked up he literally lost his arm?
I wonder if his entire point will be a kind of "what are you willing to lose to be a hero" thing.
His arm, his loved ones, his identity, etc.
Then maybe him killing Moon will be tied to that, like for some reason he felt he HAD to kill her for Ling Ling's sake.
I'm ready for Inori Minase singing hopefully soon. (you guys are watching this show in japanese right?)
Pomelo looks like Lin Ling.
I need to see what she looks like in the CG.
Hopefully the whole show can keep up the CG style, but I wonder if at some point we're going to switch to a more traditional style of animation for a long period just to get a different vibe.
I need to see what she looks like in the CG.
Same, I'm slightly worried she may not look good because this style can only go so far, but that'd be good if they went to 2D more frequently.
Jesus, is he going to lose an arm just to become the same as the OG e-soul?
They are tropes because they work. A hero without anything to ground them is just an uncontrollable force of nature, and while that by itself can be a great hook (see Punisher) a hero who doesn't have anything to lose but still acts perfectly righteous is extremely hard to be relatable because of how alien it is. Even Superman who's a literal alien has plenty of other character that he cares about and even if I never liked how Injustice handled him losing Louis it does makes sense that anyone would go ballistic the moment they lose one of few people they're personally attached to, it's a normal human reaction which is what writers use to make most people relate to someone who can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes.
I can't get over the fact that the stupid bitch actually didn't know.
The whole time, I thought it was leading up to her revealing she knew it was Yang Cheng all along, hence why she was confused when he said he doesn't listen to Lucky Cyan. Like, surely she had to have seen him before or Pomelo told her or something.
But going by her reaction at the end there, nope. She really didn't put it together at all. This the girl Yang, my man? This is what you're putting it all on the line for?
something i find strange is that "Pomelo" is the first people to Trust Yang Cheng, despite the fact he seemingly has a father figure in Uncle Rock.
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If you watch E-Soul's PV you can see that sometimes these villain fights can get very hazardous since not all of them are constant PR stunts like Nice and Wreck. It's possible that Yang Cheng could get wrapped up in one of these and ends up as a "causality" so that all the people who know him believe that he is dead.
I don't think Yang Cheng is going to be a mentally well person by the end of his arc if the schizoing out at the end of the PV means anything.
Uncle Rock has seen how hard the boy fumbles the bag constantly. I don't blame him for having no trust in him as a hero.
More seriously, I think there's a certain distinction in the Trust Value system. Just believing in a person doesn't create the Trust. It's about believing they can be a hero. Like, Pomelo liked Yang Cheng plenty, same with Uncle Rock. But both of them saw him as just an actor in a hero show. It was only when Pomelo saw him fighting for him that he really believed he could be E-Soul, and that belief was enough to give him some E-Soul power.
If E-Soul saved the world from Evil Cult One-Punch-Man, how the fuck is he only the No. 9 hero? That's generation-defining heroics, there's no way anyone would ever forget that.
Maybe it's a plot hole, or maybe the trust needs to be something more concrete than just "I believe in you", "you have potential, kid!".
People believed Mr. Stand could never fall, that Moon could go anywhere, then that she wanted to always be with Nice etc., they never simply believed.
She doesn't actually care. She's got a hot, rich boyfriend and her own friends, do you think she extends more than professional courtesy to the nerdy, poor guy with no prospects who keeps stammering and shuffling his feet around her?
She interacts with him out of pity.
It's definitely the latter. You need to believe that Superman is coming to save you, the way people believe that God will cure their cancer. It probably explains why Lin Ling got a power spike when fighting God Eye, everyone was rooting for him to kick God Eye's ass.
Everyday "I saw Nice's video, so I gave it an upvote" Trust is worth way less.
Because the trust ranking system seems to be a really shitty system. Lin Ling went from an unknown straight to Rank 10 because of one hugely broadcasted fight. People may not fully forget it but it will fade and become blurry over time, so even something like E-Soul possibly pulling a world saving feat won't mean as much to the public as something currently going on.
We also don't know how much X is possibly manipulating things behind the scenes.
The question is how people like Blankster even HAVE a following. I don't see the adventures of CTE man selling a lot of comics.
I think he's probably not even her boyfriend or anything and Yang is thinking he's cucked for nothing
Romance is extremely relatable and something everyone has experienced before or is currently experiencing. It is literally the norm.
just 1 trust power is enough to brutalize 2 dudes while youre barely staying conscious
power scalers, do your thing
It feels like people believing in you in a life-or-death situation works a lot better. It's like how Firm Man / Mr. Stand could hold up a collapsing wall through the trust of a single little girl.
ngl, I teared up hard in this episode.
Isn't the E-soul concept idea that some evil clone did some crazy shit and made him go into extremism
The Chinese PV from E-Soul seems to showcase how a hero named Zero went from being a hero into essentially a super villain possibly due to his fanbase turning into a cult and believing Zero was evil. I think the dark E-Soul showcased at the end of the PV could be E-Soul fighting against the influence from his fanbase who believe he could be evil. Maybe that would come back to as why OG Nice killed himself because he simply could not put up the fight against himself anymore. Lin Ling simply wasn't in the role of Nice long enough to start facing those issues.
Something i didn't quite understand; the E-soul impersonqtion competition, what exactly is the point of that? Just meeting your personal hero?
Anyone know how to time travel so I can binge all of this? The weekly cliff hangers are tearing me apart.
E-Soul has been heroing for 34 years and probably wants to retire so they want a replacement
They want a new dude. If you see the concept movie, the old E-Soul is fucked up, he's missing an arm at least and is suffering from PTSD. They want a new dude in the costume.
When I saw the orphan scene with Yang Cheng, I thought it was the same orphan dude that was friends with Lucky Cyan. I guess not though, but man they looked similar. It got me excited for a second there.