toughts on the E-Soul Arc as a whole now that we're leaving him for a an idol that uses autotune?
To Be Hero X
our Ehero is coming back in season 2
this is a chinese-japanese production.
Mighty Glory finally has an ad(in chinese)
episode 8 teaser
“Rumoured to be blessed with luck, is it really a good thing? A young girl got placed onto a divine pedestal, how would she find her own self?”
“Being lucky doesn’t necessarily means it’s perfect”
this and link click really turned me around on chinese cartoons
my only other impressions were some random chinese vampire cartoon that I dropped when the language was unbearable to listen to
thankfully To Be Hero X has a jap dub but the lipsync is obviously made for chinese still
it is genuinely incredible how irritating the chinese language is to hear, like how the fuck does that happen.
Link Click and To Be Hero X are made by the same person.
yeah and i like em both
prob explains the relatively high amount of bro on bro friendly action as well but maybe that's just chinese culture
ye, Li Haoling.
then don't watch a chinese donghua weeb
i'm really worried that the show will not reach the absolute PEAK that was this arc ever again.
the PVs seem rather promising
lots of hidden bits of info that the show didn't even show that they reference as well without a second thought like the fight old esoul had that caused him to forsake his signature move
i really want to know more about Zero and the Past Xs
He's basically a morally bankrupt retarded puppet.
I can't think of a less appealing character.
I'll be surprised if he doesn't come dead last in the popularity poll after all characters have their episodes aired.
We'll likely get some info on Johnny's dad and E-soul with Johnny and Ghostblade, but all the other guys except the one directly before X won't get mentioned likely. Zero shows up too often and is referenced too much to never appear again I think
his name is hun dian you bigot
a morally bankrupt retarded puppet.
you act like that's not something that can be improved upon. He's basically Darth Vader. People love Darth Vader in the end.
There's also that concept art of him when he's older sitting in the love chair and fixing some broken doll, so there's clearly a potential avenue to explore his remaining humanity.
I think if he gets shown in more of a mentor role to younger heroes (loli, technically cyan, Johnny. He's shown interacting with other heroes later. I imagine he's going to be pretty much just a Ling Lin antagonist after the moon murder though despite being in a prime mentor role
I can't believe he's not going to have a role. It's like being friends with a girl who becomes an idol and starts ignoring you. What the fuck.
I'll be surprised if he doesn't come dead last in the popularity poll after all characters have their episodes aired.
irrelevant, creator already said he is the most complex character
creator already said he is the most complex character
You love making shit up
I love the fake propaganda they're making. It adds alot to the worldbuilding and I wish more shows would do stuff like this.
i really liked it mostly because yang felt more like an actual human instead of a protagonist i normally find annoying when a character is just insecure or cant make an easy decision but the show knew how to hammer home how important was for him the title of hero and how it ended playing against him there are things that i would like them to explain like what was uncle expecting from the hitman and why he made that restaurant in the first place
i would like them to explain like what was uncle expecting from the hitman and why he made that restaurant in the first place
my impression is that old e-soul wasnt as profitable so he decided to do the whole lot of e-souls thing to find a successor and eventually landed on the protag. Maybe he had already seen him as the best candidate since he knew protag was saved by e-soul.
So the hitman would be to have protag hate e-soul and ask for the fight. The cafe I guess he opened it when he saw potential in protag in order to groom him (he was a friendless orphan with 0 trust value) so he'd be very groomable
Anyone else preordering the BDS? It's 20k for 7epe so it's not as expensive as other shows
Honestly this whole thing needed one more episode. It wasn't bad, but it needed more time to cook.
I kind of wonder what happened to the kid.
Im glad we are finally getting an arc about a real hero and not a random-ass usurper
I quite like this how arc went from a story about a guy starting at rock bottom, then copyright infringement and dirty dealing and finally a revenge epic directed at the wrong person.
I really wish that the old E-Soul actually had more to say about the entire thing. He's just a complete cypher.
All-in-all they needed more time for this to breathe, though I'm relatively satisfied with what we got.
it belongs in Anon Babble
making shit up
Here’s the source.
x.com
He’s the most complex character out of the rest.
take a nap
thread didn't die
i am surprised
felt like Anon Babble is avoiding this purely because its a chinese cartoon like I did before giving it a whirl
Anons said the same after Ling's arc
desu i gave it a chance purely due to the music
New Type Of Hero, Paragon, Inertia, Jeopardy and now Neon rain are all amazing songs.
Oh, I was expecting Queen to be some kind of Ojou from a wealthy family but she grew up pretty normal?
I kind of wish they just stuck with the 3D because the obvious CG assets in some shots stick out pretty bad with the 2D. It's really noticeable with the crowds. It was an alright episode, but I felt like the part with the people taking advantage of Cyan's power ate up too much time. The episode really improved once it focused more on Cyan and her relationship with the boy which is likely going to end in a heart breaking fashion.
This anime is really fucking good.
The first episode was meh or even stupid, but the rest are really something else.
Amazing story and animation.
just stuck with the 3D
anon this is 3d animation or at least helped by cgi. It doesn't move like traditional 2d
I think it's because they use too many cacophonic sounds one after another without breaks.
Chinese sounds like "shi shu shzhchshsh shsh zhshsh chchch". Add a high pitch and random intonation.
It's fucking annoying.
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, it holds an infinite amount of secrets. These are secrets that only Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang are able to find. In a small shop called "Time Photo Studio," the two friends provide a special service: using their extraordinary powers that let them enter photographs, they jump into pictures brought to them by clients in order to grant their wishes. Through the eyes of the photographer, they live through the events surrounding the picture and try to decipher how to solve their client's request. But every time they jump into a picture, they take a great risk. One wrong move and they could alter the future of the person who took the picture... and possibly countless other events too. So when the events they are forced to live through in these pictures start to become personal, it will take the utmost strength to push their feelings aside and focus on accomplishing the task they were paid to do.
What is this anime really about? Sounds kind of homosexual. Is it yaoi?
*becomes corrupted by money in the span of like 5 seconds and starts to make a cult*
I feel like this only happens with the type of CN used in tv because mandarin that i hear IRL and via street interviews never sound as annoying as the people on tv. It's such a weird disccount because I agree with everything you say but then i heard mandarin, cantonesee, hakka etc from irl people and it's no where near as annoying? I wonder if it's on cadence or something like a newscaster?
it starts off as "mystery of the week" with two bros that have a time travel power
without spoiling anything major it evolves to move away from that format and become more of a story surroundin the main characters and an introduced cast later
it sadly is only dubbed in chinese to my knowledge, so that might be a deal breaker
as a chinese language hater myself I ended up sticking with it though
I don't think China allows gays, they just like their bros, surely!
to be fair cults like that make infinitely more sense in this universe because them worshiping something has an actual real world effect on things
you can not fucking tell me that people wouldn't join a cult that would make them lucky
Add a high pitch and random intonation
I dunno with Scissor Seven I felt like everything sounded extremely low pitch
Alright. I'll check it out, then! Thanks for the recommendation.
I liked the first ep, it felt like it served as a decent introduction to this universe, its the reason why nice had 4 episodes planned while most have 2/3
I think it was pretty good, not great but I didn't mind it for the most part.
The only thing that really stood out to me were the ball and the choir of bunch of A posing kids
wrestling in the TBHX world must be the coolest shit ever.
The first episode was meh or even stupid
it was enough to get my interested in watching more, so I think it did its job
gonna sound cliche as fuck but it let me know that it wasn't going to just be a chinese my hero clone and leaning more into judging the whole identity/fame/worship of heroes and not be all sunshine and rainbows
hoping it stays good, since its an original we don't know how it'll turn out
Just saw the trailer of X fighting the cloning guy, days after catching up to the show. What the fuck man. That's so cool. Please let this guy show up at least a bit before the literal end of the series.
So was Old E-Soul who won or the New one? It seems it's not clear going by comments I've read.
I told ya'll the 2D was a sign of a downgrade.
im pretty sure new e-soul won but when you get the other's trust score you get forced to become what those believers believe in/want you to be, so there's probably a mix in there?
he's missing an arm now like old esoul but my guess is he lost it in the final clash
Ohh hey orphanage direction is a cool....
ohh wait he goes to shit
Well, here's our badguy for the arc.
Yang Chang won, but we have absolutely no idea what happens when Trust values merge. Yang Chang probably was forced to inherit a whole bunch of E-Soul's traits the moment their values merged.
The last scene with Cyan felt extremely fucking weird because it felt like something that should happen when they are teenagers and not preteens
it just didn't feel like something a kid would do
if I had to guess he might appear during the mystery episode(EP 20) but before that I wouldn't count on it.
It's really not though. It's 2d assisted cgi.
he's missing an arm now like old esoul but my guess is he lost it in the final clash
They did make sure to zoom in on Yang's arm when he was doing the training with the armor dummy thing, showing the new gloves were fucking up his arms. Which is probably why he lost an arm in the final attack.
petty cute episode good introduction even tought as always at a breack neck speed some od things with 3d assets thought but also holy shit
be known as the calamity in orphanages known to be unlucky
still have more value than yang cheng
man the system really said fuck this kid especially
You know the whole luck thing actually reminds me of Anon Babble's Joker Quest. There was a similar thing about a girl who brought good luck to everyone because she could absorb their bad luck.
In the end, the backlash hit her and she died of sudden and virulent cancer. Her father went insane and became a supervillain.
He even founded a cult of orphans!
it was 100% new esoul, don't let the schizo tell you otherwise
every single possible sign leads to him being yang cheng
I see. I also thought the New one had won but didn't consider that the Trust merge would change him psychologically.
Interesting and thrilling.
Kek
Yeah. It stood out to me that even a kid who was known for nothing but being bad luck still managed to gather the trust of 10 people, but I think Yang's issues came down to self confidence while the boy seems to have no issues with confidence despite having shit luck.
the problem is that because the obvious CGI is more of an afterthought they didn't feel like giving it much polish resulting in shit like this(they are all completely motionless for the entire 5 seconds of this shot)
Was this series always planned to be an anthology series? My friends seem to be down on it because they thought it would focus on Nice the whole way through.
I would assume that his trust score is really based on how many believe in him to bring bad luck. his trust score could be amplified by people thinking he was bad luck?
I hope LC fighting villains is just complete slapstick nonsense. Increasingly absurd variations of the thing where a cartoon character is standing in the exact spot to avoid being crushed by a falling building.
its still not entirely clear what "trust" really is
could it be that 10 people just "trusted" that he is an unlucky calamity?
It wouldn't be a "fear" of him per se it would just be a very strong belief about him
it literally advertises itself in episode 1 as having a tournament arc
so more like fate or ishura maybe? op/ed obviously show that X is going to cause some sort of upset or twist when they all clash in some way
X is basically depicted as a reality-bending god and the PVs use the term "believer"
My understanding is that the director is an absolute mad lad and the first season is going to be nothing but hero introductions with a possible season 2 focusing on the hero battle royale that it was initially announced as.
anilist shows it as being 2 cour; do we know if its having a break inbetween or are we expecting another full season of 12-24 episodes after this first 24?
according to the creators more and more heroes will start appearing in the episodes dedicated to other heroes though
nice will most likely appear as well (though it will be actual Nice and not lin ling)
it's airing weekly til X's episode. no planned breaks
several did show in the Nice arc already, and recurring characters seem to be a common theme with the brand owners and business guys behind the scenes
im sure stories overlap
Not the anon you were talking to, but, according ot the director, the plan from the beginning was to do 48 episodes. the first 24 are hero introduction arcs, then the back 24 is the heroes interacting with each other more + tournament.
see no like the actual top 10 not just random other heroes
We know how this season is going to be handled. There is no break as you can see with chart, but the director wants to do a whole another season after this one is done that will focus on the actual battle royale.
This whole first 24 episodes is nothing but setup for the next season, but the director also wants to do stuff like take popularity polls into consideration so they can effect how certain battles will play out.
fus rod dah
the plan from the beginning was to do 48 episodes
we eatin good
i think i trust this creator since I did enjoy link click a good bit
the question is can they keep up the insane quality that i've seen from the 7 episodes i've watched so far with the power of Mr. Pooh?
it's billibilli I'm entirely sure they could do 100 series of this quality
From what they've said all the episodes are done already, so, if there is a quality drop off, it wont be due to episodes being rushed later on.
Episode was a little too fast considering Cyan has 2 more episodes but I'm guessing that after episode 2 of her arc it'll probably focus on her in the present rather than in the past. Rip Calamity though
no like the actual top 10 not just random other heroes
new e-soul briefly was shown during the mr.stand/firm man episode
also the flying guy who I thought was a nemesis from an esoul acting play in one of those first epidoes?
honestly the first 4 episodes bought me completely, even if an arc is completely shit Im willing to tough it out until later episodes
Zero went mad after getting bald
went mad after getting bald
many such cases
Lin Ling's arc is really good, but it's kind of a shame that we likely aren't getting anything with him until we get to the proper season 2. I'm looking forward to the showdown between him and E-Soul because there is absolutely no way that won't happen since Lin Ling and Yang Chang are parallels.
I-is the kid okay?
For a second I thought this was young Yang.
Don't worry about how shit this arc is guys, X will save the day eventually.
that force? at least paraplegic
They're 100% going to kill this kid
We already know hes dead from Cyan's PV
Speaking of Zero, there was a pretty big lore drop regarding him and the ways trust value works in the director's recent QnA. Full vid: files.catbox.moe
Do you think Zero achieved the title of "god"? Has any human achieved this?
Her PV pretty much spoiled it and the reason why she is seemingly aiming for X which is probably to bring him back.
Man, that boy is so extremely turbo dead. I'll be shocked if he's alive by the end of the second episode unless he's only alive cause he got turned into a villain.
Really wonder about the relationship between the reporter and the dean. They clearly know each other very closely, and the Dean seems to have had aspirations of being a hero in the past. Would make gay jokes but seeing how the reporter has a daughter I assume he's gotta have/had a wife.
Hope the dean doesn't just end up super evil. We already got Uncle Rock for that. Have the head of DOS be a different flavor of dick at least.
One episode in and Cyan's episode is already better than E-SOUL and LL
lore drop outside of the series itself
bro wtf
The power of being cute and funny.
Would make gay jokes
when has that stopped anyone? in the 1900s people have wives but that didn't stop them. same with being married in japan because even if you were gay you needed to have a family. the divorces in recent times because the wife found out their partner was gay?
people today are weak.
the PVs having lore that never gets shown (at least so far) was already quite the revelation when i was browsing youtube shit about it
Would make gay jokes but seeing how the reporter has a daughter I assume he's gotta have/had a wife.
She's probably adopted. Queen has two dads
Well at least this answers the question about the show's second half. It doesn't really seem like an if, but a sure thing. The question and answer he provided about Enlighter makes it seems like he wants to turn this into a world that he can let other creators dab in as well.
What makes me wonder about this kid is that he's named Luo in Cyan's chinese PV (they are voiced and subbed unlike the japanese ones) and the MG assistant say that he's dead... but there's also this "Professor Luo" that's mentioned by the grey haired girl in Loli's PV...
Guess the one in the right is DOS's chief?
Guess the one in the right is DOS's chief?
Yeah, and he's the Dean of the orphanage too. Clearly he ended up going from well meaning guy wanting to just make as many people as possible happy into cold blooded corpo CEO over the course of things.
It was with the help of fan translators looking into a barely legible paper in the background of ep 5 that we found out that E-soul was the original X and what is the fall of dawn incident. I feel like these huge lore drops for the dedicated few is a pattern on purpose.
The gunslinger couple in the OP really were former Xs
Huh, so I guess that means everyone in that shot going up the tower really was a former X like anons have been saying. Which would include this goofy ass motherfucker since you can barely see him standing on some platforms before it zooms in on X.
I feel like these huge lore drops for the dedicated few is a pattern on purpose.
Part of the reason I feel speculation is fun for this series is that there is value in over analyzing things.
this goofy ass motherfucker was X
based
Based Cyan.
Which would include this goofy ass motherfucker since you can barely see him standing on some platforms before it zooms in on X.
It's reflective of reality I guess. There were probably some Xs that were essentially just complete memes because that was what the world at wide decided, but they probably fell off during the next ranking.
I think that the creation of gods will be talked about in the [????] Arc. Looking at how that arc is seen accompanied with a picture of the Heros' building, (as seen here ) I think it'll detail the Commission's dedication to preventing gods from forming by creating some sort of living space, perhaps to spy(?) on them.
After I watched the whole Three Kingdoms show Chinese stopped being hard to listen to and I actually quite like it now.
Increasingly awkward days at the hero tower as a burgeoning online mass-movement boosts "The Kraft Dinner Nigger" to the top position
The plane crash was 23 years after commission, then two time skips for 9 years, Cyan current story is 32 years after commission, when did Lin Ling and Yang stories happened again?
Lin Ling happens Year 41, Yang 36
so the gay couple produced two top10 heroes
Oh absolutely. E-soul's arc especially feels like it's super dense with info. For instance, the fact that there isn't 2 enteries for him in the bilibili polls, compared to Nice and Lin Ling, is very suspicious.
They have 3 under their agency, though presumably they didn't raise Johnny since we heard in his preview that his dad was a former X.
tbhx.net
Japanese producers of tbhx released this timeline. Do keep in mind that while the years are accurate, the images are shuffled a bit. For instance, year 36 had Firm Man's bronze statue in the background in Yang's arc, so while it's the correct year, it shouldn't be the last image.
Fomo is the based one
Sell me on this show.
So presumably all these characters in the second to last part of the OP are former Xs (and current X, and Zero match cut to X for some reason).
We saw the gunslinger couple were breaking up at the same time as Queen's graduation speech. And the plane crash had someone that took a picture with the purple chick. We've also seen broken Smile (the yellow superman clone) posters in Ling Ling's arc, so I wonder if he's the one prior to X.
Maybe The Johnnies' dad was part of DOS, so they easily took the kid too? After all, DOS seems to be the oldest organization of the four, so they could have raised a few generations of heros already.
bikinischizo
Actually, I think Mighty Glory is the oldest one.
They're E-Soul's agency, and he was the first X supposedly. Makes sense that they're the oldest and the most corrupt.
After them, I think we're about to see the founding of DOS with Cyan and Queen. I don't think it formally exists just yet since the orphanage dean is clearly the CEO of DOS and we haven't seen anything about that yet.
FOMO and Treeman are both newer. We basically got the founding of Treeman set up in E-Soul's arc: it's probably the agency Shang was trying to start with New E-Soul. After his death, his dad left MG and formally made it a real agency.
it sadly is only dubbed in chinese
I remember watching the first season in Japanese. I watched the second in Chinese since I don't mind it and didn't want to bother waiting but it's probably dubbed by now.
God fucking damn it! Can we have ONE episode were I'm not left screaming at the screen?
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so The Johnnies' dad was the second X, dethroning Old E-Soul.
really blew me away
Yeah, and he's the Dean of the orphanage too.
I thought they were two different people, no? The Dean is fairly young and the vision Queen had of him in the PV wouldn't make sense if it were him. I assume "Mikey" that her dad mentioned was him
I hope we get a Lucky Cyan gravure scene haha
I think you missed this guy who appears right after the purple lady, to her right.
But yeah, the Smile Hero that was discussed last week is the one X beat in the tournament in his 1.5 min pv by teleporting him to the moon. So I assume that current X got his title because of this matchup against the last X.
10 bucks says Nice accidentally flew into the planes engine and crashed it and that's the "incident."
good characters, cathartic arcs, great 2.5D/2D animation
At the current moment at least I'd say it's more of a whodunnit than a super hero show.
You're probably right on that. My guess then, from oldest to newest, is MG-->DOS-->Treeman-->FOMO. I'm guessing FOMO is last since both Loli and Ahu that belong there are pretty young (presumably 18 and 13 respectively in the year 41AC) so they couldn't have been on the job for very long.
Spoonfeed link?
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Did they specify how often the tournament happens?
Cause wasn't it a possible record for X if he manages to keep the title for one more tournament?
There's only 8 (9 if the couple counts as 2) heroes there, so there's no way that covers all 40 years since commission.
I'm waiting for Scar and Queen of the Stars
There's only 8 (9 if the couple counts as 2) heroes there, so there's no way that covers all 40 years since commission
Actually, it could be 10 if you count Zero as well. Anyways, I have seen some say that perhaps the tournaments aren't every year, but I'm not sure.
What could he want Anon Babblenons?
To turn the 2D world 3D
Alright now we got the supes, where's the boys?
Luo is unlucky and causes calamity around him
Learns about her power when they were kids and doesn't use it for his own selfish reasons unlike the adults around him
Doesn't let adversity get him down and stays positive (Yang could never)
Saves Cyan
Man we're gonna lose him, it's just not fair
The stupid episodes are unironically the best. I don't really care about this Cyan stuff going on now.
Is he why the heart in the OP gets pixelated? I wonder what that could mean.
KEK
What could an over worked salary man want?
He probably just wants some sleep
Hmm wait a minute, is X...
He will get a happy ending with Cyan
Destroying the hero system by bending space and time
Her preview outright has a person that looks like a manager for her tell her that he's dead and she agrees and says it's her fault for bringing him misfortune.
So either he's turbo dead from some accident she failed to prevent, or he got whisked away by some shady shit and she just assumes and everyone tells her he's dead.
This is meant to be the 21st Tournament. And given that the commission has existed for near 41 years, seems to be done in a 2 year span trying to spread the Trust Value between each top ranker as people have favorites. If all went to just one, that'd possibly create yet another hero.
Source of the tournament number? youtube.com
I wonder if he turns into a villain honestly given he already has the name calamity. In a way he is dead but he's dead as a person
Seems to be he won by getting an attack on Oldsoul when he used his no defense attack but he was also hit at the same time. It likely doesn't matter since E-souls electric powers let him interface a lot better with the armor but given the Vader breathing we heard at the end he likely has a whole host of other issues we don't know exactly how deep it runs
Lucky Cyan gets 3 episodes doesn't she? This guy likely gets taken care of here like manager-guy for Lin Ling and then Cyan gets an actual villain to fight later
Where can I see all the trailers and character stuff?
Did you see the 6 years later? Somewhere around 11 years passed from her getting sent to the orphanage to the makeshift concert
Scroll down youtube.com
Don't bother looking at the Aniplex JP channel. They cut out the dub
They don't allow gays yeah but like the noodle lesbians there's a lot of implications
OG depressed Gigachad will show up
Nice! I do wonder how good the smile incident will be given the director's teased hype for it
Nice was never top 10, but Standing Man was rank 10 at the time iirc, I believe we also got some glimpses of Lucky Cyan and E-soul briefly (rank 9) during the Standing Man episode
Thanks!
bi-yearly iirc, X has kept the title for 3 years now
The fact that the director kind of danced around answering if people can be brought from the dead by stating that would be the power of a god and that the whole commission was formed to stop a situation like Zero from ever happening again where a Hero did become a god. Cyan's goal in attaining X is likely to obtain the power to bring Luo back. This will probably be something that Lin Ling also learns in the latter half that if he attains X then he can possibly bring Moon back. X's whole goal may be wanting not to just have his successor attain X but attain the power that is beyond X and becoming a literal god to change how the entire world works.
Here's a better playlist. This one has all the character previews first, then the trailers that have some stuff we haven't seen yet, and even includes the Treeman and MG ads they put out. All the important "lore" stuff and none of the clips from the current episodes included:
youtube.com
Given that E-soul defeated Zero he must have agreed to the hero tournaments. I wonder if the supercut from X to Zero briefly indicates that X is trying or will become a new Zero
they got an actual dog to cosplay ahu
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Got it! Thank you!
e-soul really wasn't the shooter
That convention where he appeared in held an off-line polling which will have its points be added to the bilibili online votes. He was 6th place in that event, but alas, he's still behind overall.
Okay, that makes more sense. Ling Ling's story is 41 AC, so it makes sense that the 21st tournament is coming up soon if they do it like at the start of the year every 2 years (so it'll be 42 AC then).
Given that, we've got 8/9 known Xs spread over 20 tournaments currently with none of them being X for more than 2 tournaments (4 years).
That could honestly fit with just the ones we've seen actually. Unless the record is counting total years rather than consecutive. If it is total, then we're at least missing one X and all of them must have done 2 tournaments.
This isn't me scuffing at your theory, but for what reason would she target Moon? E-soul makes sense since there's a rivalry going in between Treeman and MG. DOS, as far as we know, doesn't seem to pick a bone with other organizations. Plus, Moon's headshot mirrors Chao Shang's better than your pic's scene.
the lightning is cyan colored
Omg
That looks like a joke, bro.
I've unironically seen people on twitter be serious about it because the strike looks green-ish.
I mean it's not IMPOSSIBLE.
A while ago I saw some theory that Lucky Cyan was the shooter, attached was a screenshot of her aiming some bow with cyan-colored arrows.
I also kept posting about the shot being perpendicular to both Lin and E-Soul's line of sight, which means E-Soul couldn't be the shooter.
Now we have the context of Yang being manipulated by his boss, and he belongs to a different agency from Cyan. It's possible he was sent to shoot Cyan, but his boss likes suffering so it would also make sense for him to just shoot Moon. To build on my observation of the perpendicular shot, he might've bounced the shot off a nearby object to hit Moon from the side but keep himself in sight, so that he doesn't hit Lin but is still clearly seen (and thus made a rival).
It's very possible DOS and MG would both go after Lin Lin and Moon. Anyone with the power of the common man would be a massive threat in this setting
Luo is voiced by Ogata no? There's no way he isn't going to end up being evil
doesn't Loli answer to a "Doctor Luo"?
Fun fact, Loli's name is technically Luo Li (罗莉), which has the same surname as your aforementioned doctor Luo (罗). This, confusingly, is different from the Luo that is currently hanging out with Lucky Cyan, as his name is spelled as a different Luo(洛) instead.
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I have a hard time believing Firm Man was more popular than fucking Nice.
The Boys would have absolutely no chance in this world. Interestingly enough, most heroes seem to be genuinely good people.
Like Firm Man was a decent dude.
I mean, that sudden splat of the villain that E-soul chases was pretty funny. Meme-y moments like that can go a long way. That, or perhaps MG was trying their best to ensure that those who secured the top spot wouldn't be any serious competition to them.
Firm Man was basically invincible in a straight-up fight. He even gave Queen a slapping. Besides, he's been doing this for years.
Nice is fairly new on the scene, and he lost to Smile anyway.
This show is so kino
There's a lot of pretty boys to choose from, but tough guys like Firm Man are probably much less common so he has a bigger share of a that niche.
Okay, I think this is the most we can figure from the context clues and what we've been told.
E-Soul was the first X. That's for sure, so he'd be X in at least Year 0 AC.
The news report said that Matchstick & Blazing Fire were "the top hero of the previous season" in Year 28 AC, so they had to be the X of Year 26.
And lastly we know that X Has been X for 2 consecutive tournaments so far, and he got the position by beating Smile. So year 36 would have to be Smile, 38 and 40 would be X.
Big chunk of time we haven't touched. I wonder if we're going to get anything from those first 20 years after commission or not.
So what's gonna be the twist in this arc?
looking at behind the scenes video
Ling was gonna give up the mantle of Nice in God Eye's tv hijack
desu i feel like that would've hit way harder
In one of the trailers, Lucky Cyan seems to be fighting in an arena that feels very similar to the secret screenshot of Nice beating somebody up so maybe that'll be the twist, that OG Nice is an asshole
Had to wait all of E-Soul's arc for Neon Rain
They just put out Take Off right after Cyan's first episode
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THEY'RE PLAYING FAVORITES.
he was proven right in the end, and will probably show up more in the future
i guarantee he'll be in queen's arc because she's a heavy-handed authority figure and he's the autistic lawyer
i hope lin cleared up when the og nice died, because nice's superfans could blame his crimes on lin
from what we've seen out of the Top 10 in PVs and such
OG Nice
unknown, seemingly very cold and uncaring in private except with Wreck
OG E-Soul
TRUE HERO...but an asshole boomer
Ahu
literal dog
Lucky Cyan
good
Loli
seems chill
Johnnies
good boys
Ghostblade
Sociopath
Dragon Boy
Psychopath
Queen
fascist
X
the cool kind of asshole
yeah, i don't think the boys really have many targets in the top 10
i guess they can be Enlighter's hero-exposing crew lol.
X's trailer shows that he transports into another dimension he manipulates freely. Every time he uses his power, the animation changes from 3D to 2D.
Does this mean that in other heroes' fights when animation changes, X is possibly getting involved?
Also, in one of the PV's, Dragon Boy says "after becoming Zero, can I get rid of the trash?", instead of "after becoming X". What's the difference? I feel it's relevant.
Also, isn't Zero the hero-turned-evil that E-Soul defeated at the beginning?
Psychopath
Where do you get that from? From what I've seen, he's a cool no-fucks-given vigilante that WILL beat up and kill criminals even if corrupt cops/heroes won't.
Does this mean that in other heroes' fights when animation changes, X is possibly getting involved?
Possibly, but there is 2 very clear moments that X seems to be involved because the animation switch is also accompanied by a very clear snap.
It happened in Episode 2 and then it happened again in Episode 7.
X definitely seemed to be involved near the end of Lin Ling arc's since the implication is that the one who yanked Lin Ling's ad and aired it was X.
Similar with Ghostblade. He certainly has psychological problems but he claims to go only after evildoers.
Damn, interesting.
Stop your fanfic.
Ghostblade seems like a guy who just genuinely wants some chill but likely was experimented on/can't feel emotion so he's like a depressed punisher type
Queen is raised by one guy
Lucky Cyan is raised by the other
Both obsessed with creating a hero who will save the world
The guy who saved Cyan and raised Queen knows about 'Aether laboratory' and talked to some conspiracy theorist regarding 'fear' and its importance to the world
Both guys were involved in raising Queen as well, who is actively aiming to become X
The orphanage guy who is shown to be selfish yet proclaims to selflessly care for children suddenly brings in a boy who is called 'Calamity' to interact with a girl renowned for her blessings
I believe that they are planning to use Cyan and Calamity to control probability itself by making Cyan a hero and Calamity a villain. And they wanted to use their dynamic to propel Queen as a hero, likely having her be blessed by Cyan with or without her knowledge, and using Calamity to induce disasters for Queen to solve and to harm and even kill rival heroes. Calamity is likely not actually dead but was instead taken by Aether laboratory to develop his powers of Fear to drive this point.
If you want some really schizo shit? They're going to call back to the whole 'Throw the marble at the red dot' scene at the end of Cyan's arc. She's going to shoot an arrow. Calamity will be used to convert it to negative luck or some shit and it will pierce and kill Moon on the other side of the planet. It will turn out they are using Calamity to corrupt Cyan's arrow shots during her concerts to bring chaos to their enemies. Twisting her pure good will for their own gain. Likely with Calamity as a victim as well.
Thinking on it on the whole "Cyan killed Moon" schizo shit they don't actually need Calamity involved. Just have it so Cyan's luck registers it as 'good luck' for her arrow to kill Moon. And she has been killing heroes and villains all over the world without even realising it.
If you want some really schizo shit? They're going to call back to the whole 'Throw the marble at the red dot' scene at the end of Cyan's arc. She's going to shoot an arrow. Calamity will be used to convert it to negative luck or some shit and it will pierce and kill Moon on the other side of the planet. It will turn out they are using Calamity to corrupt Cyan's arrow shots during her concerts to bring chaos to their enemies.
wait isn't that literally the final fight of Steel Ball Run?
Who will be the designated jobber and get knocked out first?
Loli or The Johnnies
e-soul came to intercept the arrow but was too late
he could not outrun fate itself
is raised by the other
The Dean and the other guy Queen sees in her vision are different people. It's pretty distinct considering the vision she has in the PV is recent events and the Dean isn't that old either. The eye colour is different as well. Queen is raised by two people. Her dad mentioned they discussed with Mikey which could very well be the other guy's name.
X
Lin Ling
E-Soul
All guaranteed to make it far. Lin Ling and E-Soul in the Semi-Finals is pretty likely.
Dragon Boy
Ahu
Loli
All seem like potential jobbers. In Dragon Boy's case I can see him getting knocked out early due to a longer term plan involving Zero. Assuming he really is working towards that.
Johnnies
Seems likely to job relatively early but could be totally wrong.
Cyan
Queen
Ghostblade
All three feel like they'll go pretty far but I can see Queen losing early on for an upset. For some reason I get the feeling it will be E-Soul who beats her but Cyan seems fitting as well.
Somewhat shakes up my theory but I still think it's plausible there is some sort of connection between Queen and Cyan and how they are being used by their respective father figures.
HOLY SHIT
Lin and E-Soul have to fight and i doubt it will be on the first round so they should be safe there is no way Queen loses her first round and as unpopular Ahu because of his gimmick and conection with x he should win at least one round so i would say loli and dragonboy are jobers not sure about The Johnnies since he gets 4 episodes and is someone favourite in production Ghost and Lucky are hard to measure
there is some sort of connection between Queen and Cyan
I agree with the connection. In most of the promotional art, they're almost together
Do you anons remember last week where there was a concept art of an E-soul a few years down the line being shared? And people asked if he had a kid because of the bunny toy he was sewing?
Well, it might be Ghostblade's.
I believe E-soul and Ghostblade might have some sort of close companionship (at least, in the non-final stages of production). It makes sense for them to have some connection, since they're both part of MG. What do you think?
This is the concept art I'm talking about by the way.
How did Cyan escape the orphan and become an Idol than joined DOS? I wonder if the church is still active.
She didn't escape. DOS is still that guy's company
Another Kino episode. How did they do it?
Not one episode so far has had filler. A lesser show would stretch these out 3 times the length. Watching this weekly and I'm satisfied.
So far every arc feels unique. And there are so many plot-points and connections that are set up that have (or will have) a pay-off later. Like how we get to see there was a scandal about heroes in the past.
I love comical expressions in shows too hehehe littel goober
There are a few people here than mentioned they are probably different people, I also think so since it makes no sense that the orphanage director will suddenly agree for her to do Idol shit instead of becoming becoming their savior.
How much porn suffering will we have with Cyan? We already know that the boy is destined to die, the question is how. Killed by Cyan herself for maximum suffering and guilt?
porn suffering
she's a good religious girl, she wouldn't suffer from a porn addiction
she's not gonna have a good time, everyone wants to be x for their own reasons
We already know that the boy is destined to die, the question is how.
some luckery fuckery happens and he hits his head on a rock while escaping or something like that
MG commercial. Join the bad guys
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Her luck is going to kill him, there will be some luckery fuckery going on that it ends up being killing him to save her.
Yeah, they're definitely different guys. Just happens that the reporter dude is close with 2 skinny dudes with short hair and glasses.
Cyan will probably get away from the orphanage and end up finding the reporter, Queen or the DOS head eventually while on her own.
The orphan director will aim at Cyan and he'll accidentally hit the boy instead, because Cyan's luck will redirect the attack.
That kid is fucking dead
They build their whole brand image on E-Soul just to throw him away, he was with them since the beginning.
it's an ad, but i imagine a LOT of the people working for MG at the start were E-Soul fans, which just makes Rock's(and society in general) utter betrayal of him even worse.
It will probably be something like they get into some kind of horrible accident where one of them would have had to die and Cyan is the one that lives cause of her luck leading her to believe she was responsible
I really wonder if he'll be actually killed clearly or if it'll just "appear fatal". Like, if there's no body, I'm going to fully suspect some shenanigans are happening and he got whisked away to become a villain or some shit.
That's just specifically an E-Soul MG commercial. Like how we got a Nice one for Treeman during his arc. We'll probably get a Lucky Cyan one for DOS too.
I wonder if it'll be 1 per agency or 1 per hero. Hopefully the latter cause I wanna see how the fuck MG markets someone like Ghostblade.
Doesn't let adversity get him down and stays positive (Yang could never)
You sure about that?
Love how het this series is.
So do you think Cyan's base luck is from some kind of conspiracy thing from the plane crash, or do you think it's just like her parents put all their trust into her surviving and then it carried on with the reporter believing her to be super lucky cause she survived?
Het or not, it's not like it goes anywhere.
Het, gay, or lesbian, every relationship will equally end in tragedy.
The point still stands? From what we're seeing he doesn't allow it to affect him and looks on the bright side of things compared to Yang who wallows in self pity. Luo is orphaned and shunned his life so far similar to Yang because of his bad luck but you don't see him bending over or afraid to talk to the opposite sex. He saved a girl and she's practically his gf at this point
My guy, Yang saw his parents murdered in front of him and he got beat up as a kid. Yang literally has 0 trust value whereas Luo has trust value.
saw this fan timeonlline on twitter
Ishura bros...
the director also wants to do stuff like take popularity polls into consideration so they can effect how certain battles will play out
I want the dog to win
Cyan is now n°4.
He wants to make anime real. My fucking hero.
Yeah...I already lost interest in the animation. The novelty was fun while it lasted, I'm gonna miss the 3D switching to 2D during hype moments. See you guys in September for the X episode.
Firm Man was basically invincible in a straight-up fight. He even gave Queen a slapping.
No fucking way LMAO
The 10 trust value? Yeah........ right...... he might has well have zero lol. And we don't know Luo's past but it's clear that both of them has had it hard in their own way. For all we know, Luo's parents abandoned him or he was the cause of their death cause he's the calamity. At least with Luo, he doesn't go full woe is me
Thanks bro. Do you know which song was the
ONE DAY I HOPE YOU WILL FEEL IT TOO
Or similar lyrics in the last E-Soul episode when it was all sad and shit? It sounded really good after the disappointing autotune part.
OG Nice shouldn't even be on there, he's just some random fag.
For what? She didn't do anything except not die.
Unstoppable force vs immovable object
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Immovable object wins
she's cute
Well so is Ahu and that's not doing him any favors.
I prefer Queen, she should've been higher
Don't shit on my hero, just wait until he shows up in an episode.
Luo is just a tool used by the writers to push Cyan forward as a hero and that's it. Him acting like Yang would not benefit the narrative at all. I don't really get your argument. It's far more realistic for a kid to end up like Yang than act like Luo.
OG Nice vs Loli
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I don't like her eyebrows
He went from 10th place to 11th, it can't get any worse for him.
And she wants to be X? When she can't even beat the guy that can't poop?
Bro, she lost to Firm Man.
He used to be last before that though, don't worry. It shifts around but my boy will rise.
Oh dragon boy actually looks pretty cool in that vid
I love comical expressions in shows too hehehe littel goober
It's cute when she does the Snoopy squiggley face thing.
I don't really get your argument.
It's not an argument? You're making it out to be retard, I'm just stating what it literally is comparing the two
It's far more realistic for a kid to end up like Yang than act like Luo.
This is an anime... I'm hardly looking for realism
Loli
clearly a teen bordering on adulthood
I'm never trusting chinks again
~11 year timeskip for lil cyan
she's basically the same height and build
her boyfriend is noticeably grown
Why is she so small?
doesn't matter
she makes me firm, man
Not even the most attractive woman of the hero ranking
Discuss.
wind powers
My bet that he's the one that crashed the plane.
Luo is just a tool used by the writers to push Cyan forward as a hero and that's it.
Just like yang being a tool for his uncle? Topkek
Holy shit Ghostblade and Ahu are gigaboomers
Asia still cannot into not retarded height/weight even after offshoring from jap to cn.
Did Ling Ling speed run college?
Loli: 18 years old
Is this official?
why the fuck is everyone taller than me
I wish they separated E-Soul and Yang Cheng.
Like, how fucking old was he, that 34 yearsyears ago, he was already a grown man.
they're larger than life
checked, blame the devil
pathetic virgins
ZAMN, HE'S 41??
several decades being unable to feel human emotions
Damn that's fucked up.
...would being unable to feel emotions also give you erectile dysfunction?
reminder that yang cheng birthday is on single day in china
I like weird (2D) eyebrows, they make any design more distinct
Luo will win the cyanbowl
E-Soul was probably in his 50s back in E-Soul arc. So if he had lived to current Nice arc, maybe mid-late 50s or early 60s.
They want to avoid controversy when they ship her with 41 year old man Ghostblade.
He was doomed from the start
I don't think arousal counts as an emotion. It's a reaction. Also Ghostblade has a daughter so he can clearly get it up
has a daughter
Damn, imagine being his wife
[Ghostblade]... you don't have to pretend
It's not an argument
You do know that an argument means an exchange between opposite views? I don't agree with you and you clearly don't agree with me. It's an argument.
I'm just stating what it literally is comparing the two
No, you're not. You only know of Luo's very extremely fast paced screentime whereas Yang has 3 episodes dedicated to his past and his current trauma. You literally cannot compare it.
The most emotionally unsatisfying relationship possible
Ahu is a dog boomer
Ghostblade is a middle aged dude dressing like a teenage edgelord
Cute.
Sigh, i want the 3D back. I really liked that style.
Anon, there's still 3D...
I agree, it feels like I'm watching a completely different show now.
It's the past, so it'll switch back to 3D once it's current-day
Think of it like 100 years ago when everyone saw in black and white
I thought the non-3d was a production compromise? A lot of the other heroes don't have 3D either IIRC.
It's pretty fair and honest. You have your gay couple ,but also lot of normal relationship. It's genuine and not pushed into your mouth. West should learn one or two things from this show.
Queen's PV was 2D, and I don't think we'll see her in 3D. Moon also had her own distinct 2D art style, but remained mostly 3D. I wonder how the battle for the title of X will be animated.
I just realized the Enlightener was probably obsessed about exposing Nice partly because of the whole real/fake E-Soul debacle. He might've had some regrets about contributing to its conclusion.
He stood up to the corpos and got spooked for it. He was our guy. It was fun to see that good side of him in E-Soul arc.
ling arc was boring and generic, also the whole romance is cringe because its just one sided
lucky cyan is 170cm
The fuck
Ah yes, because trauma is only real if it’s given a multi-episode flashback arc. That’s a silly way to gauge character hardship and you know it. Episode count doesn’t determine the validity or weight of a character’s trauma. Trauma isn’t a competition. At the end of the day, it doesn’t change the fact that Luo’s handling his pain better. Despite everything we know he’s been through, he stays positive, moves forward, and looks out for others. Meanwhile, Yang’s still stuck in his own head. I’m not saying it’s bad to struggle, but from what we’re shown, one’s clearly coping better than the other. That’s just a fact.
I didn't follow all this but bruh, Yang Cheng saved the little kid when he had 0 Trust. What are you talking about.
What are you talking about.
What are you talking about? That's not what they're talking about?
looks out for others
How does that not apply to Yang?
As a kid, Luo has trust level that helps push him toward being a hero, he has a friend that he could open up to, and he also has his passion of being a musician. This is shown in the show.
Compare that to Yang's orphanage experience, he has none of that. It's all bullying and the show has only shown him being miserable. Being beat up, having no friends, and etc.
Yang is written to be a miserable character where his trauma has a huge impact on his life. Luo isn't written the same way as Yang does. He exists to push Cyan forward.
Talking about who is better at dealing with their situation is so fucking pointless and is only made to poke fun at the opposing character.
This guy is 28
Isn't he some kind of animal hybrid experiment?
dirctor stated recently in E souls Q&A that he wants to focus first on the worldbuilding after that on the characters, he stated that character like enlighter or even pomelo can get their own focus
queen: 27
hag sex
how much lucky cyan porn are we going to get bros? she's cute
I’m not saying Yang doesn’t care about others, but the way he does it is reactive. Like when his jealousy led to hesitation that got Shang killed or how he left Xia Qing alone to deal with both losing Shang and him breaking his promise? His decisions come from guilt and self-loathing more than genuine care in those moments. Luo, on the other hand, actively looks out for people without it being about his own emotional baggage. That’s the difference.
Talking about who is better at dealing with their situation is so fucking pointless and is only made to poke fun at the opposing character.
No one’s denying that Yang’s had it rougher, the difference is how each character chooses to deal with it, regardless of what hand they’re dealt. Saying it’s "pointless" to compare how two characters navigate adversity in a show that shows how people respond to trauma is kinda missing the entire point when we had Lin and Yang. And yeah, maybe I poked fun but who cares? It’s Anon Babble, not group therapy. Why are you acting like it’s that deep?
Incel opinion
WAT HAPPEN
Find out at the end of Season 2 around 2027
E-Soul killed her for some reason
Yeah i start to think it was some kind of compromise, but Ling/Yang seem to be pretty important , so maybe there is a reason.
So how did Cyan get her lucky powers, she was clearly lucky even during the plane crash. Why crash the plane in the first place? Why did they name her Cyan, her original name should have been found if the parents were identified? What is Aether lab and "accept fear"?
X is not there yet. Is it possible that he changed the world into 3d with his power?
Are they going to explain how the setting changed from what it was in the original To Be Hero and To be Heroine into this?
Not sure if this has been discussed here already, but FOMO is where X (forma de civil) works at.
No. To be hero x is a different world and setting.
Did you just say calamity?
So good guys company, but where do you get that intel?
Is it possible that he changed the world into 3d with his power?
Wait... that makes sense...?...
But when child Yang Cheng got saved by E-soul, the flashback was in 3D, so its inconsistent.
The cup is seen in X's PV.
I see now. well done.
So it's just different animation studio working in the same show.
that was him remembering it so it doesn't count trust me bro
No.... NOOO.... my kino headcanon... X will bend space and time... TRUST. THE. PLAN.
YES, THIS! MUST BE IT!
Lucky Cyan 21 is pretty young, no need to fear hag Lucky Cyan.
why is lin ling so popular???
First 4 ep of the show, and good story in general. He simply got the early hype lead. I think.
He's the OG protag so a lot of people got attached to him + he has a cute and endearing personality + people love an underdog rising to the top
cyan 170 cm
?????
The Rafal effect
I dont get the surprise, that a very average female height.
moon is shot from the left while e-soul is behind her
taller than me
queen 180 cm
cyan 170 cm
Not in China
What is standing man even gonna do
luo is the new lucky cyan
Is this just gonna be ishura again where they introduce character after character and nothing happens?
Well... despite the most of the city landscape looks Chinese, the characters dont look anything like China.
I mean looking just at this episode, that orphanage and its workers looked more european, and the newspaper guy's office and the few shots of the city looked American.
The merge is a real thing and the girl is not a girl.
WELP
170 for Cyan is a lot. In all her shots she seemed like 160 to me.
The almighty salaryman does exactly this in the first PV this show ever got. “Bending space and time” indeed.
the characters dont look anything like China.
That's every anime ever so it's irrelevant newfag, 170cm for a chinese girl is tall
Now check out the director's previous "anime", Link Click.
Fucking retarded tourist.
170 cm is statistically well above the average for women everywhere except for a handful of European countries like the Netherlands, Czechia, or Denmark.
I already watched all of it, what does it have to do with 170cm being tall for a chinese girl? Are you schizophrenic?
we're finally leaving CGIshit so that's good
Yeah it's also the perfect number for women but not really the norm. Also Cyan look way more short than 170.
Replies to Anon making observation on characters looking European.
That's every anime ever so it's irrelevant newfag
Link Click exists, very Chinese looking show.
DUHHH I already watched all of it, what does it have to do with 170cm being tall for a chinese girl?
Are you really reatarded, or you simply love throwing buzzwords around? EU's average female height is 165, making Cyan's height normal, thats the fucking point.
Fuck off and die, you trash.
I'm kinda worried about that, but for now the show is good.
Because the PVs Cyan is not the oldest Cyan, 16 year old Cyan from E-Soul arc is the one that most likely will end her episode set.
EU's average female height is 165, making Cyan's height normal,
Did you even read your own post
It is, but we're still hanging on the E-soul killing moon cliff after 3 episodes of development and it seems we're going on to another character now.
Explain to me like Im 5 with down syndrome, whats wrong with that quote?
It seems like that shot is set up to get a cathartic resolution after we get to know more. Its probably meant to be an "oh shit, so that why that happened" moment.
if the average height (in your mind by a European country) is 165 then 170 would be above average and not a normal height. It's normal in the fact we do have plenty of women at that height but it's not the common height size. For women in china the average height is around 159cm. She would be considered extremely tall at 170.
Summed up, It's not surprising you get the reactions of "why is she so tall".
Does this series attract a brand new ishurafag every episode or is it just one anon trying to promote their show?
I have the bad feeling that we are not going have any answer. The last episode is about X, not really Ling.
e-soul really wasn't the shooter
HOW DO PEOPLE STILL THINK HE WAS
he is literally standing behind moon while she is shot from the side, unless esoul moved after shooting for the dramatic effect it can not possibly be him
the show is too well thought out a massive plothole like that
Just to go a bit more autistic, I found this paper, according to this bell curve, 170cm is around 15-20% of the female pop in Germany, thats not a small %. (or more like in 5cm bins, but whatever)
Taller than the avg, yes, but not nonexistent tier tall.
I dont know where am I going with this 170cm stuff at this point btw.
Oh man, the average woman is so short... cute...
It's a spark, like E-Soul power. Cyan arrow seem like different.
Adult Lucky will be no longer be a cute and kind girl ,but cruel and menacing villain.
Aaargh
Why are you so focused on Germany at this point? are you a tall femanon from germany or something
the usa, canada, france, eu, etc are all around 163-166.
But again, E-soul is literally standing behind her along the shore while she is shot straight from the side (the "bullet" goes all the way trough her head from left to right)
to argue that it was E-soul it would have to either be a massive plot hole or B that E-soul used his superspeed to move into linlings view for dramatic effect
Simply this was the first paper on height with a bell curve attached I've found.
Leave the topic bro...
Nothing to see here, get back to who shot fir... who shot Moon...
I accept your concession
Starting to subscribe to E-Soul and Lucky Cyan both being at the scene of the crime, not pictured Loli in the sky also ready to take the shot
Wtf am I reading. Cyan is tall for a chinese girl, everything in your post is irrelevant
He came running, shot Moon while running and then stood in front of Ling in a challenging pose.
I feel that they put E-Soul in that position only because it made a clearer contrast rather than having him seen with vegetation behind it.
I feel that they put E-Soul in that position only because it made a clearer contrast rather than having him seen with vegetation behind it.
creating a massive plothole because he looks good there sounds retarded, if so he could have shot her from the back or have lin ling stand facing the ocean and when moon gets shot he looks down and then to his left to see e-soul or something
as of right now it being e-soul would be way to big of a plothole for a show that supposedly have the entire script meticulously planned
It's really not that unbelievable that the guy known for moving fast moved like two meters to the right to challenge Ling.
Your fuckboy is a murder , deal with it.
Honestly this, I dont know why this is even talked about like a conspiracy.
Let me help you phoneposting bwo...
E-soul can teleport, or at least move at lightning speeds, as seen at 00:44 here:
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I mean I actually assume its bait and there's some other subplot. Nice saw moon dead in bed in episode 1 and we never figured out what that was either. Unless I missed something.
the show is too well thought out a massive plothole like that
I mean sure but then there's the closed door at the end of this latest episode that's open in the next shot. It bothers me now. I can't get it out of my head. Now neither can you.
I don't understand why people wouldn't want it to be E-Soul. Lin Ling and Yang Chang are very meant to be parallels. Lin Ling managed to overcome the barrier and escaped from being Nice to become his very own hero while Yang Chang lost everything he had in order to become E-Soul. The characters are meant to be in conflict.
All chinese cartoons need to do is add JP voice acting.
but then there's the closed door at the end of this latest episode that's open in the next shot.
AAAIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
If X is just a tittle then what is X's actual hero name?
I can't believe E-Soul did this...
Well uhmm... he moves at lightning speed and stuff...
but why?
can someone explain this w/o memes
watch the pv, he came out of nowhere with no background and took the top spot
no name, just x
This show is well written in terms of story, characters, setting, but perspective and aesthetic details aren't perfect.
But X was a thing before X? Johnny Dawg's dad was X, then the cowpeople that NTRed each other were both also X? And Radar Man too?
Bro forgot E-Soul is a speedster.
shows up out of nowhere
calls himself X
sends the previous X to the moon
refuses to elaborate
What a guy
Anon just pointing out some inconsistency in the last scene of this episode, as picrel here shows, the top image was shown milliseconds before the bottom, but the exit door of the orphanage magically opened in the meanwhile.
whats the purpose of e-soul "teleporting" in front of lin ling after shooting moon from the side?(outside of the meta answer of "he looks better there")
if he is a speedster that can borderline teleport then why not just make him shoot moon from the back in the first place?
Because a lot of people seem self insert into Yang more than Ling. Ling was
didn't they have the other orphan kids opening every door? maybe opened from outside while skating i dunno. why make the mistake if it was one?
"Hero X" is just a title of a strongest hero
"X" is also the hero name of the guy who is currently the strongest hero(known as "Hero X"
I think it was Lucky Cyan who opened the door, not E-soul. E-soul cant move that fast. Or maybe can?
Because a lot of people seem self insert into Yang more
Wouldn't you? Yang was a real human being. Lin had everything handed to him. Not a bad guy, but he was NEVER as low as Yang was. Even the people who don't like Yang should at least have the balls to admit that. Yang is all of us.
I am retarded but isn't CGI easier and cheaper than 2D if you already have the models? Might be different for anime though since the faces are basically non-euclidean.
Nice still in the leaderboard gives me anxiety. Some asshole could just cosplay as Nice and grab all that trust value.
Some random fag shouldn't be that popular. Lin Ling I can understand.
Well so is Ahu
anon, Ahu is a dog
this is a chinese show
He didn't want to hit Lin Ling for some reason probably.
doesn't the show open with ling ling getting fired and contemplating suicide on a rooftop?
It's a scene deliberately constructed to be as fast as possible. In different circumstances the direction would be more dramatic by revealing the killer with a much slower entrance. Imho the error is precisely an error.
Bro Yang Cheng is a random fag and he got E-Soul's power. Anything is possible.
Yes, and? That's melodramatic considering he had more than 0 trust, held a job for that long, instantly inherited Nice's identity with full power and didn't have an evil rape uncle with enough big dick energy to put top heroes to shame.
We are obviously lacking A LOT of context to be able to tell what actually went down during Moon's death scene and it's a plot point that probably won't be solved until the end of S1.
99% of the theories in these threads will go out the window the moment something happens that recontextualizes the whole show (like Nice McFucking killing himself in the first 5 minutes of the first episode). That's what's fun about anime originals.
Yep, but honestly i dont think he would have jumped. With ling they did a lot of "show, dont tell". Ling is extremely smart and WAY more cunning than Yang.
Gain Nice's power after some fag an heros with full support of the company and no real drawbacks
VS
Gain E-Soul's power after getting the shit beat out of you in a ditch, have a target on your back from the real E-Soul's company and manipulated by Uncle Doom while being spiritually cucked by a gay trust fund kid
plot point that probably won't be solved until the end of S1
Eh I think even that seems generous
You sound like a jaded, miserable man who can't enjoy anything.
Is it true that Ghostblade got the Loli? I need proof
If it’s anything like Link Click, then no. That show also started episodic and then all the previous seemingly separate plotlines gradually got tied together into one central narrative.
3 waifu arcs in a row
Nice!
That means no more waifu for the rest of the series though.
Let's hope so.
LE EVERY HERO IS FRAUD. THE REAL ARE DEAD.
Lucky Cyan isn't going to die. Her friend, on the other hand...
Yes, and? It's a pretty cool setting.
The director straight out stated that the series structure is based on 48 episodes. The first half is introduction to all the heroes then the latter half is the actual plot and said heroes interacting with each other.
It's honestly something that we don't see that often anymore because most OG series struggle to get even 12 episodes now.
S1 is 24 episodes. That’s plenty of time.
bro, your Ahu episode?
Ahu is a cute grandpa, not a waifu.
My my, 48 episodes? Even, if split into two seasons i didn't think I would see something like this in this era.