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He's a literal magician

>ahu has literally only one episode
>it's the best episode of the entire show thus far

This PV is needed for some episode context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-0ntGxoPo

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>Seems like the cat is out of the bag

Great episode, while nice is a tragic character he's also really isn't a good person
So X is gonna fake nice death? i hope it's less about saving nice and more about making lin ling a hero.

>>282072678
>Seems like the cat is out of the bag
I thought today was a dog episode

>>282072701
I'm interested in why X is even there. He has no real connection to either Nice or Ling.

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I guess everyone's going to be in 3D now

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Final episode PV
https://x.com/tbhx_officialCN/status/1964487530679607696

>>282072701
this is like a third of the heroes
>Ghostblade
>Nice
>E-Soul
>Dragon Boy (yes, even this guy clearly had a bad past)

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>That fucking cliffhanger
>Only one fucking episode left
I fucking hate this show so much. Fuck.

>>282072746
We know from Lin Ling's arc that X seems to have a vested interest in Lin Ling since he seems to have personally stepped in multiple times during that arc, but we really cannot even begin to guess why.

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>>282072780
It's not really a cliffhanger when we know what happens next.

>>282072766
Man. The final shot of this season is likely going to be Lin Ling entering the arena isn't it.

The Fujo's and gays are going to have a hard time defending Nice trying to kill a innocent little girl and her dog. Ahu's episode was great though so glad this show bounced back after the Cyan-Queen-Loli arc slump.

>>282072584
link?

>>282072780
this was a good scene
seems fear eroded his mind.

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>>282072762
Oh God, it's gonna take a while to get used to it.

>>282072762
I guess it really was like others said. They didn't have the 3D models for the rest of the cast ready to go, but they do now.

>>282072762
This is honestly horrifying.

>>282072802
Yeah, but now there're even more questions as to what exactly happened and why.

>>282072584
It's hilarious to watch Nice's ongoing mental breakdown, this entire series has been his thirteen reasons why.

>>282072822
What was there to even defend? After the episode with him trying to kill Loli's dad and the other researchers, it's pretty clear he wasn't a good person. With the DB episodes, it was clear he was just a puppet doing whatever Shand wanted. People who thought he was le innocent victim were deluding themselves. He's a villain in his own right. He wanted to become a hero but fell off due to Shand's malice and direction for him. Both of these things were true before this episode. They are true now too.

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Finally, back to the year that started the show.

>>282072584
Thanks for making the thread, OP. I ended up late, so couldn't create this one in time. That will most likely be the case next week, as a heads up.

>>282072762
>La creatura
but actually this time

>The very first teaser tied back into the show.
Alright. That is pretty damn cool.

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>>282072644
ABSOLUTE CINEMA

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Ahu is awesome I loved this episode. Think about all the episodes we've had all the stinkers have been episodes centered around female heroes. Chang can't write good female characters he can only make good designs

>>282072869
the final epsiode will be prescreened a day early in china don't know if we will get a leak or not

>>282072925
Seriously, there's no way to deny it. All the guy episodes, except some of Johnnies were good ones. All the women episodes were alright at best. Queen being the biggest disappointment in the show

>that crashout
wait a second, did this fucker actually die not knowing what he was doing? it wasn't a suicide, he was just completely out of his mind, and didn't even notice Ling until he fell?

>>282072972
That is very much like it looks like at this point.

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>>282072972
Fear is a hell of a drug

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>>282072584
Dogs are so based

>>282072972
So he might have acted like a literal doll, walking aimlessly like a wind up toy while doing his iconic pose and saying his catchphrase.
Such pottery.

>>282073090
I've played hentai RPGMaker games with this premise

i like nice the crazier he gets.

>>282073127
was he a gay

>>282073138
in china that would be seen as an imperfection

>>282073138
The more episodes pass, the less gay he gets. I don't think he gives a fuck about anything other than heroing. Not a single romantic sentiment in his body.

>>282072766
ling ling thinks hes so hard walking in like that but x will fuck his sweet little ass immediately

>>282073197
Isn't it decided on fan polling?

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>>282073161
He clearly doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself.

>x nice shippers full force last episode
>this episode X put nice on top of the building so he could kill himself and be replaced by lin ling
Beyond based by X

>>282073229
I really doubt they are setting the entire plans of their story on the fan poll. The fan poll is just doing things like "setting" power levels for season 2, or more likely whose going to get extra screentime or win a fight where it doesn't really matter for the sake of the plot who wins or lose

>>282073090
You know the highlight of this series is watching the world repeatedly shit on Nice. It's hilarious watching this man's soul die inside him as things just progressively get worse every time we see him.
It's like you think the Smile Incident would be the last straw, but THEN it gets even worse. Honestly at that point, it's surprising he lasted so long.

>>282073229
if that really is how it ends its a little silly, x was able to beat everyone and become number 1 while he was his own only fan. idk how getting more trust factor would help anyone when he can just warp them to another dimension instantly

>>282072848
It's been said that the entire series was done before they started airing it. so this doesn't seem true.

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what the hell did he mean by this
https://x.com/steIIarevue/status/1964504944704442372

So, the biggest douche CEO is absolutely Shand, right?

>>282073244
>X snapped him
What I think happened is that Nice's consciousness skipped. He was basically on auto-pilot until he ended up there. That's why the videos are glitching. He's the one actually glitching out. It's representing his PoV.

>>282073367
Hes alive in crazy niggas hearts

>>282073370
The biggest douche is DoS CEO
Shand wants revenge and will burn everything and everyone for it. Given what Rock did to him, you can somewhat get it. He's not in it to fuck anyone but Rock
Rock will fuck over everyone for his ideals. Worse though is that he will use anyone like a pawn and toss them aside at the slightest hint of not being an obedient puppet.


Mickey is the worst of the lot mainly because he's the type to fuck you over even IF you were a loyal ally, because there are no allies in business. That guy is in it for the love of the game. No real motives so far.

>>282073370
Rock is worse.

>>282072848
Are you dumb bro? Or haven't you been watching the episodes? It has been clearly estabilished that the 2D and 3D are part of the plot and directly influenced by X
>>282073367
X is Zero this series was a math kino all along

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they should make the hero tournament arc into a movie and pump it out asap

>>282073370
The worst thing Shand has done was kill researchers and bully Nice. He's not on Rock's level.

>>282073370
Shand is just driven by revenge and doesn't look at anything else.
Rock is worse because he's a cultist and a groomer.
Shand seems like a groomer too, but he was just grooming Nice to be an instrument of revenge.

>>282073367
>>282073381
My theory is becoming vindicated where I predicted that when OG E-Soul defeated Zero, residual fear ended up in the hearts of the people and X exists to prevent his resurrection.

>>282072941
I think I'll still stick around on Saturday to discuss the season and be jealous of people who get to see all of it in one go.

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Special Announcement:
From September 12th to October 31st you can withdraw any of your votes and reallocate them to a different hero.

>>282073524
RIP Nice

>>282073524
doesn't this make all the voting so far kind of pointless?

>>282072584
Holy fucking kino episode, I cried when Ahu admits he started to believe in himself actually being a hero and recognizing that trust value 1.

I just wish Queen/Johnny/Cyan had the same kind of quality for their arcs, something simply emotional like this.

>>282073587
Cyan and Johnny had emotional backgrounds but they're not relatable because the characters are upbeat

I hope next episode we at least get to see Lin Ling beheading E-Soul with his bare hands

>>282073646
Please wait for Season 2. After Shand realizes that he fucked up his sole vehicle for revenge, it's not beyond him to have someone impersonate E-Soul to kill Moon (my personal theory).

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>>282073244
You think this would stop me??

In fact it just made me ship them more.
>X snaps away nice's fear
>Nice losing his fear of disappointment
>No fear of death
>Nice suicides
>X pins for him as a missed opportunity

You don't know the inner working of a homoshipper mind. This is like an archetype of doomed yaoi

>>282073646
Why would they throw in something that is very likely going to be a high point of Season 2 right at the end of Season 1?
We gotta get some build up first.

Again. Why did E-Soul kill Moon?

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Absolutely great episode though.
I'm really happy they didn't reuse all of the same animation from the pv though. Ahu being Tora in nip was kind of funny. I think I prefer Tora as a name.
The more pathetic nice gets the better his character becomes. He was created by fear but his downfall was a lack of fear

>>282073706
My guess is that uncle Rock told him to do it and he did it like a good puppet

>>282073706
see
>>282073669

With a hero agency not very high staffed relative to the others and you've spent 5 years on this quest with nothing to show for it other than a technology with a decidedly mixed success rate, how else would you get revenge?

>>282073706
He did it just for the lulz.
Source: my uncle slept with the director.

>>282073706
Lin Ling's entire existence is enough of a upset that Rock wanted to try and mentally break him before the tournament because Queen's episode established that top 10 ranking heroes cannot be attacked by other heroes prior to the tournament. The other guess is that Shand was somehow involved because he wants Lin Ling to join him on the wild revenge ride.

Not a fujo or a fag, but watching Nice's psychological deterioration at his failures is kind of fun. I want to see more.

>>282073822
As a fag, it's my favorite type of thing to see. Characters subverting your expectations and having a full mental breakdown is one of the best types of characters it's also hot as fuck to see someone become pathetic

>>282073669
>>282073756
Speaking of Shand and E-Soul plot, whatever happened to Little Pomelo?

>>282072802
the fact that we know he is gonna fall and kill himself is not the point, it is the why and exactly how he even dies from a fall when he still has powers? Or he forgot but didn't forget about his pose? Like more questions than answers and damn nothing new on Moon....it is like FUCK!

>>282073798
Yep, makes sense to me.

>>282073856
Same thing for Luo, we just don't know.

>>282073524
>>282073551
>>282073581
Well, now that S1 is almost over, it kinda males sense...but I believe in you, Lin Ling!

>>282073877
It doesn't really make sense anymore. That fall shouldn't have killed him.

Forwarding if you don't want to be spoiled for the last episode avoid chink communities. They are having an event a day before the official release of EP 24 where ahu&x episodes will air a day before they release online

is that a kugyu

>>282073877
We might get something minor on Moon next week considering the PV seemingly has Lin Ling heading into his first match, so there is probably going to be some follow up to the beach scene next week.

>>282073969
I think X will have a hand in making him still alive. I wonder if he'll be a catalyst for a zero rebirth or something.

>>282073242
>Episode 1: Why did he kill himself?
>Episode 20: Why is he such a douche?
>Episode 21-22: Shand, this is not the way to avenge your son
>Episode 23: Ends up a mental wreck after the events of Episodes 21-22

What an incredible arc.

>>282072584
This might be the only show capable of slow rolling a dude's suicide 3 minutes into the show for 20+ episodes and managing to deliver on fucking peak

I wasn’t expecting anything from this episode, I thought it was literally going to be shit, but it turned out to be one of the best so far. I’m impressed.

So the votes will influence season 2?

>>282074068
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/281874919/#281876492

This post was close enough to what happened.

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I wonder how high Ghostblade is gonna rise with the revote, he's been gaining on Queen for a while now.

>>282072925
The creator is Chinese Gege

>>282074090
They said it will effect things like determine character's starting power levels in Season 2, but the reality will more likely be that popular characters will get more screen time and ranking fights where it doesn't really matter who wins will be decided by rankings.
I don't think it's going to change whatever story they have planned.

>>282072999
saar spotted

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>>282074051
We have all spent the last 6 months waiting to see a guy kill himself. Again.
It's a rather unique and marvellous experience.

>>282074108
Honestly, unless Big Johnny has a 3rd transformation form, there is no way on Earth they're beating Ghostblade.

From what little we know of it, it seems like the tournament is not a fight to the death...yet.

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>>282074108
I hope queen, loli, cyan and jonnies get the lowest trust score. even kino soul and the purple raped kid deserve more

>Gets splashed by a little bit of fear
>Fucking kills himself
Fear seems like OP bullshit. I really hope it doesn't turn into something repeated through out Season 2 unless they introduce something that can negate it.

>>282074154
Seems like the most the original poll did was affect E-Soul's trust. Went from having very little to straight up zero because he was last in the poll. Probably going to minor but impactful for this round too

>>282074208
We have several negating powers for it though?

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>Thought Loli beating the shit out of Nice barehanded was what mindbroke him into suicide.
>It was actually the dog.
kek

>>282074208
he didnt even get splashed by fear really, he just has ocd and was already mindfucked. he was imagining himself getting infected watch it again it didnt actually happen

>>282074208
He saw up close what it could do to someone and freaked out and maybe felt bad for Smile's death

>characters that wanted Nice dead:
>Loli
>Ghostblade
>Ahu
>X
The Four Horseman of the Niceocalypse

>>282074240
It was Loli.
And Smile's death.
And thinking he got infected with fear.
And the dog.

I just went back to look. The fear barely touched him. Ghost blade was inefected by worse and came out just fine. It was exacerbated by the PTSD lmfao.

>>282074316
Maybe using Fear on someone to make them a hero was not the most ideal. Seems like you gotta have a pretty solid sense of self.

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>After weeks of Nicefags naysayers saying he's not a maniac and was only manipulated in killing Glitter Lab when in reality he was never manipulated and only cares for people close to him but fucks everyone else and will 100% let them die for his own gain
Feels good honestly. X should've let Dragon Boy kill the twink

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>>282072584
>do you like Daddy or Ahu more?
>I love Ahu more of course
You Just Know: The Episode

>>282074357
>revising history

Dragon Boy's arc was the worst one by far. He's a boring character, and it was more about Smile anyways.

>>282074347
OCD*. We saw on EP2 when Lin Ling compulsively went to clean his hands after grabbing food with them. Considering Nice's already fucked up mental state from all the failures and being responsible for his idol's death it's likely that the OCD went on overdrive and made him think he would end up like Smile.

is this korean?

>>282074426
Be careful, you will make the fujos mad.

>>282074240
Anon it was really all of the scenes with him getting infected with fear. They wouldn't focus on him getting fear/blood splashed on him so many times otherwise. They clearly showed that he was able to get ridded of it by something he had but he as unwilling to do it for nice as he no longer saw any use for Nice.
Nice then became panicked because he sees what fear does to people. In the end the fear of fear is what does him in

>>282074277
Yeah, same thing happened to a friend of mine with OCD during Covid.
Someone coughed right next to him and it basically snapped him.

Also
Could Treeman be using the corpse of the original E-Soul to kill Moon?
>Nice, Shand's vengeance kills himself after failing time and time again - Unknown to everyone but Lin Ling and the Marketing Team
>Suddenly, Nice is competent and makes top 10.
>Reveal is that its Lin Ling, original Nice killed himself. Lin Ling is more competent than original Nice ever was.
>now The Commoner, getting invitations from FOMO, etc.
>Shand realises the best way to groom Lin Ling to commit to his vengeance against Mighty Glory is to do unto Lin Ling as to what was done to Yang Chen, by killing the person closest to him. Kill Moon using E-Soul, just as Yang Chen was led to believe OG E-Soul was behind Shang Chao's death

>>282074447
Chinese, but with actual Japanese partnership via Aniplex so it is a hybrid production, a Anime-Donghua chimera.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to have Nice rescue the local community vs. using clone guy?

>>282074357
he was manipulated didnt you watch the dragon boy episode? they literally show him as a child being contorted with ribbons like a puppet to dance, and the guy even says he created nice. its not like its sub-text they show and state it over and over

>>282074394
It's okay Nice fag. Maybe you'll receive some pity votes in the poll

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>>282073271
>The fan poll is just doing things like "setting" power levels for season 2, or more likely whose going to get extra screentime or win a fight where it doesn't really matter for the sake of the plot who wins or lose
Cyan for all of that, please. She's so cute and strong. I don't even want her to be in the main plot, just a cutey that drops in from time to time and does cute things.

>>282073905
>Same thing for Luo, we just don't know.
At least Luo dropped out after that arc's ending. Pomelo dropped out immediately.

>>282074471
>he was manipulated
He really wasn't. Nice was 22 years old during the Ruins incident.
>>282074471
>they literally show him as a child being contorted with ribbons like a puppet to dance
It's like you're watching the show with your eyes closed. He wasn't manipulated since he was a child. The imagery of him being controlled by Shang De was purely symbolic. In reality, Nice had a good childhood. He grew up alongside Wreck, and the two trained together with the goal of becoming heroes. We see them grow up, happy and deciding to be heroes together. The emotional abuse didn’t begin until he joined Treeman and that's when he became an adult. Shang De may had a hand but Nice has no excuse for being a piece of shit and killing people for his own heroic image. He's not a child

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Dragon Boy shouldn't have gotten two episodes if Ahu's episode was going to be this compressed, without watching the character concept PV you don't even know what Ahu's power is.

>>282074449
Imagine being a Rock x Dragon Bussy fujo shipper instead of XNice, XSmile or Ghostblade x Little Johnny

>>282074154
I hope this means Ahu has a much better chance in the show's events compared to the poll results. I like dogs. I don't want popularity among Chinese of all people to determine what happens to him.

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>>282074557
By that logic Queen shouldn't have had any episodes. Wait.

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>>282074208
Mind you, we see this happen to Lin Ling and he came out fine. And the jury's out if this is actual fear, Nice's OCD or him fully hallucinating

>>282074620
Probably just Epstein trauma making him especially vulnerable to it.

>>282072678
X bros how are we looking?

>>282074557
>trusting concept PVs
Nearly all of them have been retconned by the show
Ahu never once showed transformation powers, he just kicked ass as a dog and shat on Nice's head for good measure

I read a theory that Lin Ling is the one who jumped and Nice went schizo and took in his personality. Sounds crazy.

>>282074471
>they literally show him as a child being contorted with ribbons like a puppet to dance, and the guy even says he created nice
Treeman never existed back then and Shang's son is still alive, are you stupid?

dog anus

>>282074650
Recent renders of Ahu show him with a shadow humanoid figure behind him, his powers seem to be the same as intended, they just didn't show in this episode, which is the issue at hand.

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>>282074462
Unlikely, the original E-Soul was way bulkier than Yang Cheng.

>>282074670
>that who am I as he looks down at Lin Ling
>Lin Ling visualizing him falling down the building
>Lin Ling having a Nice install in the PV
>Ms. J saying that it was Lin Ling that died and that he will be forced to make a similar choice eventually
Nonzero chance X actually reset Nice and swapped him with Doug from advertising

>>282073271
Looking forward to how this goes narratively, Nice and Lin Ling are the last two people you'd want on top if you were one of the CEOs, though the same could be said for a couple of other heroes

Ahu's design and especially his tiny tail are so cute, I want him to win the tournament just on principle, don't give a shit about the plot

>>282074762
That would fucking suck because it's the worst way to give Nice a redemption arc and would make X look like a huge asshole.

>>282074814
X snapping him to a rooftop while he's having a psychotic breakdown has no explanation that doesn't make X look like an asshole.
The best you can say is that he got revenge for what he did to Ahu and Smile by giving Nice a convenient roof to fall off of

>>282074723
The Luckiest Strongest Ass

>>282074723
I'm so lucky.

>>282074881
No, the asshole part would be X swapping Nice with Lin Ling. Him snapping Nice to a convenient roof is just what that fag deserved after completely losing sight of what a hero should be.

>>282074881
You think that was X? I think that's just artistic license. Nice saying "who am I and what am I doing here" to me indicates that he had a psychotic breakdown and lost his sense of awareness. X is "somewhere" but he didn't snap Nice there. Look at Nice's arms, he's not wearing his gauntlets anymore. There is a timeskip that Nice has no recollection of.

>>282074949
We've seen animation changes with and without the snap and this one had it.. I'm more 50/50 on it being X's involvement or not, but the glitching screens and images of X showing up in the background of the suicide feel too intentional.

I equally buy psychotic breakdown with no outside involvement

>>282075010
I didn't say X wasn't involved. I said X didn't snap him there. I think Nice went there himself, but X is somehow involved in that suicide. I don't think for a second that X killed him or let him kill himself, but he did something.

I wonder if at least there won't be some form of frank discussion between X and Nice before he jumps, I dont know that I buy the whole X faking Nice's death thing. X does snap before the transition, but what happened between that period remains to be seen. The doves flying by Nice is, if nothing else, peculiar

>>282075100
>The doves flying by Nice is, if nothing else, peculiar
John Woo reference?

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>>282074426
Dragon boy's arc had good episodes, but was a bad development for Dragon Boy himself. I expect that his parents(?) that showed up when he was trapped in ice would make a comeback next season and help develop Dragon Boy properly.
>Worst arc
Nothing beats Queen as the worst arc imo. We still don't know much about her powers, her parents, and why she of all people wants to eliminate the trust system, all topped with a way too long fight with Bowa.

>>282074723
Erm, how old was she here?

>>282075180
19 or 20

Hold on. Was it ever explained why Lin Ling suddenly started having episodes about Moon's death? Those kinds of hallucinations are more fear's territory now that we've seen how it works.

was nice actually infected by fear or he was just freaking out because of his ocd? it was a very small amount like what ghostblade took and he was fine

>>282074466
the visuals (3 studios) and sound effects are all chinese
the insert songs are japanese, plus the jp dub
aniplex probably handled the other dubs as well aside from ch dub

>>282075249
the consensus is that it was his ocd and ptsd.

>>282075180
She's pretty much a hag larping as someone younger.
Trust helps too.

>>282075249
Ghostblade's tism makes him immune to fear

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>>282074723
Queen was eating Cyan out before they went in, explaining the missing pantsu
Drinking the resulting lucky juice is why she didn't job

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I've seen some theories about how Lin Ling is related to Zero because of his newly ignited rivalry with E-soul (just like Dawnfall), how much sun imagery (like Zero's chest hole), and how much God's eye imagery (zero became a god) there is in his arc. I also wonder if there's some sort of sun and moon meaning going on when Moon herself was killed in ep 4. Not to mention, we still don't know his backstory, and his lack of friends and family caring about his fake suicide is worrying. He's the only character in the Bilibili polls that only has 1/3 trailers unlocked (everyone else is 2/3 or 3/3) so despite seemingly wearing his heart on his sleeve, he's surprisingly just as mysterious as X.

I don't take this theory too seriously, but how much of a stretch would this theory be?

>>282073524
Queen, Loli, and Johnnies will definitely go down
Dragon Boy will remain at the bottom, orig E-soul fans will probably vote someone else either
Nice votes will probably spread out to X and Lin Ling if they even want to bother

>>282072701
>i hope it's less about saving nice and more about making lin ling a hero.
Why would X give a flying fuck about a literal who?

>>282075218
Don't know, but I'd wager it has some sort of connection to OG E-soul, seeing as how he also had a premonition about being stabbed in the neck in his character PV.

>>282075614
We really just don't know and we have no way as to make a guess, but X was involved multiple times during Lin Ling's arc. Style switches aside, we also know X is the one who got his hands on Lin Ling's rejected ad and uploaded it to motivate Lin Ling.

>>282075585
Why would Loli go down? Her episode 20 development allows her to have a more favourable impression by the audience, especially now that people realize just how much of a little shit Nice was in his last moments this week.

>>282075698
LL was a literalwho. X has no real reason to even care about him or follow him around. Nice is at least somewhat in his purview. Idk about this whole "Nice is LL" theory, but I'm starting to agree that there's something more to episode 1 than we were led to believe.

>>282075746
X was a literal who as well until he seemingly just got his powers one day and even with those powers he just wants to live an ordinary life as a literal who. Maybe he just felt a sense of kinship with Lin Ling because Lin Ling was formerly a corporate slave as well.

I feel like they spent way too many episodes on things that didn't really matter that I have no idea how they are going to conclude this season without it feeling rushed.

>>282075707
cause her enitre development relies on nuonuo, who's currently in a coma and is ghostblade's daughter.
i can see them voting for ghostblade instead since he has gone solo.
loli's current track record as a hero isn't good either with her 2 loses aginst phobiaclone and nice. not to mention she failed to protect several people she supposed to protect

Will season 2 be full 3d?

>>282075134
Yeah, that much seems clear enough, I'm wondering about what that's meant to mean for the the circumstances behind Nice's death.

We see him arrive at the garage at night, freaking out
>Snap
It's now noon, he's got some kind of amnesia and is right above Lin Ling

Did X simply offer him an out, or is he making the choice regardless of whatever X seems to have done between the time we don't get to see. He seems to be at peace one way or another when he gives Lin ling the finger guns, a far cry from his demeanor during the scene in the garage

>>282072701
No, X engineered Nice's suicide to happen in front of Lin Ling so that Lin Ling can be a hero that isn't a piece of shit.

>>282075860
In her defense, she couldn't protect her dad and Nuonuo and also fight Nice.

>>282075984
I think him being at peace is just his zonked out state defaulting to the built up persona. He sees someone, does his signature smile and finger guns, then goes splat without cognizance

Going over the snaps I can remember, I lean toward thinking that X has been creating a top ten privy to the bad shit the agencies get up to early on, but I don't think it really fits for yang chen who's running around murdering people even in modern day, if we go with it being him that offed moon

>>282076042
In the end I like it being his choice more than any kind of outside fuckery, though I am curious to see what the snap was all about, feels odd for X to just be around to snap Nice onto a roof and leave

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Speaking of snaps, am I deaf, or was there no audible snap in ep 1 and 4, while there was an audible snap in ep 2? Curiously, ep 1 played Lin Ling's/Nice's character song just as the artstyle changed, while using Jeopardy in ep 4.

>>282072857
Nice had mental breakdown and became suicidal. He wanted to be a hero and what he got was becoming a contract killer, watching his hero get murdered in front of him to a cheering crowd, got his chance of being a big time hero stolen by a dog, and was told by the guy that made him a "hero" and hires people to kill other people that his is worthless. All while infected with fear. Then X teleported him in front of a guy about to commit suicide.

Its very simply why he killed himself. Lin Ling gave him the idea on how to escape his problems. Why didnt his powers work? He didnt want them to; he wanted to die.

>>282076152
This is nice, but the only counterargument is that in this world so far, it takes considerable effort to break free of your powerset. It's why Firm Man could never sit down, it's why Ghostblade can't talk, it's why Nice was brought to OCD-ism, and so on.

>>282075991
honestly can't imagine how she will develop in s2
if her mech suit keep on blocking trust, then her newly found popularity isn't going to help her cause
and we all know by now that trust/fear > tech on the current setting

>>282076130
The snaps I remember are in Episode 2 and then in Episode 7 right before Yang Cheng faces E-Soul. Rewatching Episode 1 is kind of interesting since we know at this point that the black stuff is actually a visualization of Fear and Lin Ling seemingly managed to drag himself out of it.

where's the link to the new episode dammit

>>282076152
>Why didnt his powers work? He didnt want them to; he wanted to die.
I think it's more complicated than that, seeing as how Firm Man also strongly wanted to deactivate his powers, but couldn't. Perhaps it's the fact that Fear can deactivate powers and can manipulate people to their doom, in this case, a suicide.

>>282075533
He's the mc his backstory should be the absolute kino that will tie the whole anime together

>>282072766
>E-Soul in Rock's basement
wait, not only did Yang Cheng kill the first X on circumstantial evidence then tried to kill multiple other heroes just because he could, but now he JOINS A FUCKING CULT TO THE EVIL GOD?!?!?

>>282076195
Thank god, I'm not the only one. What's interesting to me is that the only time an artstyle change happened without an audible snap was in LL's arc and no one else's. Wonder why that's the case.
>Fear and Lin Ling seemingly managed to drag himself out of it
He's the only one who overcame it without outside help, which is interesting. LL is also the only one who defied the characteristics given to him by the Trust system. If there's anybody who can break the Trust/Fear system altogether on a societal level, it'll definitely be LL.

Also, all this further exemplifies just how weirdly mysterious Lin Ling is.

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>you're even lower than a dog
He's not tho lol

>>282076334
who's the top 3 atm

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>>282076369
https://www.bilibili.com/tbhx?lang=en

>>282076300
>The successor of E-soul (Yang Cheng) versus the successor of Zero (Lin Ling) battling a new Dawnfall disaster, but now their alignments are switched.
You're right, that does sound kino.

Maybe Lin Ling doesn't have a defined backstory because he's the Commoner, a representation of the common people that belive heroes should be virtuous but the few heroes actually virtuous get replaced or killed the envious heroes and cheap knockoffs trying to take their place like New vs Old E-Soul and Nice killing Smile.
Lin Ling comes as the paragon of virtue, a true hero at heart someone with passion, something X lost a long time ago.

>>282076334
He's going to be after September 12 when everyone revotes for Lin Ling

>>282076407
But why is he the only character that has 1/3 character trailers unlocked, while everyone else has 2/3 or 3/3? There's obviously a lot more to his story that we're purposely not seeing for now, but will be greatly expanded upon later.

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>>282076330
There may be more later on, but at least in Episode 1 it is seemingly Lin Ling's feelings for Moon that let him overcome Fear, but the scene in Episode 1 can definitely be looked at in a different context now since I think that scene was showing how he did get a dose of fear and that fear was trying to mess with his brain which is why he went right back to the moment where he wanted to kill himself.
This also may be why Moon had to go because probably one of the CEOs connected the dots because all of the CEOs had their eyes on Lin Ling after episode 4.

>>282076407
but does LL have the aura though?

>>282075533
Ling is also the mandarin pronounciation of the number zero, so your theory has some basis

>>282072925
>Chang can't write good female characters
He wrote Link Click too, didn't he? They tried to add a girl to form a trio but she is so irrelevant and weak, they wasted an entire episode on her and that's how ss2 went to shit
Luckily she wasn't there to stop the homo happening so fujos still enjoy that shit

>>282076407
>Paragon wasn't actually Nice's theme
>It was actually Lin Ling's theme
>This is why we never got a hint of paragon with OG Nice aside from his PV

>>282072644
Im kinda surprised they didnt just outright play the PV 1:1 in the episode.

>>282073244
It goes against the moral code of saving someone just to have them dead later

>>282076526
The Chinese character for Zero and Ling's name is different, but I guess they do sound the similar enough.

Went back and watched some clips from earlier episodes and noticed some interesting things.

First of all, we’ve only ever seen three characters appear to be capable of changing the art style on their own: X, Lin Ling, and Yang Cheng, and with each one it happens differently.

• X we see changes through all different kinds of art styles on a whim
• Yang Cheng lives in the 3D world up until he confronts old E-Soul. As soon as their fight starts, not only does the art style change to the 2D style most of the series has moving forward, but even his own memories are shown in that art style, and it only changes back when the POV shifts to Rock’s perspective in the last couple minutes of the episode.
• Lin Ling changes the art style during his action sequences when he is acting as a hero, but notably it is a *different* 2D style than is used in the rest of the series moving forward, using a kind of pointillism style in the colors to make it look more like an American comic book instead of a traditional anime.
• Additionally, Ahu also seems to be the only other character who exists entirely in a world with a noticeably different art style from everyone else. Additionally, unlike other characters’ POV episodes, X’s reality-bending art-style shifting powers seem to conform more to his specific style.

I don’t know exactly what it all means yet but I’m nooticing

>>282076334
He was 15 around that time anon. He was infact lower then the dog

>>282072638
>ahu has literally only one episode
>it doesnt show any of his transformation powers
Okay?

>>282076407
>>282076562
Paragon, like Lin Ling's entire arc is the hypothetical where Nice was the hero he wanted to be. And ironically, the one that lives it out is the person that helped create that image of Nice in the first place

With one episode left how are feeling those of us who started at the start? I think this is fantastic. I also love how engaging the series is. It doesn't reveal anything too much during each episode but yet feeds us just enough.
This will probably be by second favorite show of the year

>>282076217
I think it also might have to do with the fact that he was directly in front of someone who legitimately didn’t have faith in him as the only witness to his demise.

>>282076385
>Dragon Boy 11th

Oh, it's over for him, huh?

>>282076587
i'm pulling this completely out of my ass but
>Yang Cheng
perhaps a way to show the difference between the Superhero action and the "real world the characters are living in, both Lin Ling and Yang Cheng are normal people compared to everyone else much like X is, so they see the world in a hyper-realistic light.
>Lin Ling american comic book art
American comic books, while very corporate in nature, it started out as just a bunch of dudes that wanted to create and express their ideas, very similar as to how Lin Ling was a willing cog in the machine, but also a young man with passion for what he's doing.
>Ahu artstyle
perhaps a way to show an animal's "simplistic" view of the world compared to humans?

>>282076701
to me it depends on the final episode, currently it's
orb > tbhx > dandadan > Kusuriya

>>282076701
The most I've enjoyed a original show in years. Yeah. There was some low points, like Queen's arc, but overall I've enjoyed it a lot and it's nice to just have a show that you can speculate about. I just really hope they don't screw up the second half since the first half was about setting up the world and presenting questions while the second half is where they have to present answers and that part is typically harder.
It is really nice to have a 48 episode original show when it feels like most original shows struggle to get more than 13 episodes now.

>>282076701
What I initially thought it was going to be:
>Oh okay, he's going to pretend to be a hero to get to the top and help the other ranked heroes with their baggage
What it effectively is:
>Chinese Ishura with less tournament shenanigans and people being outright shitty

>>282076774
i'm mad that it isn't more popular i looked at reddit and they banned it's discussion but were fine with solo leveling

this is just a better The Boys at this point.
not like that's very hard to do, but still.

>>282072999
Okay Anons, fess up, which one of you posted it?

>>282073303
The funny thing is, it's completely his own fault he got infected for standing there like a dumbass 5 ft. away.

>>282076805
What? Why?

>>282076809
i was very interested in the boys until that episode that focused on religion and i remember it felt very preachy and i'm an atheists dropped it at that episode and every time i hear about it it sounds like absolute shit
>>282076830
They say it's not an anime they also did the same with link click

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>>282076587
Ahu being just as important as those three makes me happy.

Anyways, Ahu's and LL's artstyle both seem very Western to me and stand out the most consistently from the other two. X has some "normal" artstyle shots, but just like his civilian costume not being permanent, the normal artstyle is also not always there. Meanwhile, YC has the most appealing to conformity artstyle by imitating the other 2D-only heros' style.
Perhaps that conformity has a double meaning with him not being able to break out of his responsibilities with Rock/MG/Chao Shang's wishes, while LL can easily break free from the standards given by others around him. I guess Ahu also breaks free, because he's a fucking dog, and maybe also him being the only one close to X (as seen via the next ep's trailer). And X has no corporate backing, so Ahu is also kinda standing out from others by virtue of his association with X.

>>282076754
All sounds just as plausible as anything else.

One idea I have about Yang Cheng specifically is that the art style change with him has to do with him letting go of his “humanity” and fully becoming E-Soul. He was so similar to Yang Cheng for so long but then not only did he change, but even the way he perceives his own past did as well. Other people like Rock can see him as he was, but he’s let go of the part of himself that was “realistic.”

But for Lin Ling, he’s creating a new kind of fantasy, a new kind of hero, which is why his heroics have a bespoke artstyle unto themselves. Even when we hear the X snap during his fight with Wreck, the background had already begun to change, meaning he has to have some kind of influence over the world like X does (though maybe not to the same scale or degree, or even via the same mechanism).

And then Ahu is fundamentally not human, so he just sees everything differently I guess, yeah.

>>282073776
Is your uncle named Rock?

>>282073303
Yeah, I remember every thread we got to see nice someone would say "I see why he killed himself" and somehow it gets far worse for him

>>282076871
I mean i'm pretty sure you can't make threads here either after the episode day or they get deleted
The bootlicker weebs fear good content

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>>282073138
I guess you could say Nice was designed to attract fujos and homos, but turned out he didn't act like a faggot like they expected. In fact, I find him pretty ruthless

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>>282076761
This is my ranking as well so far. Orb and then going right into tbhx has been a great year for me. Been nice to stick with you anons throughout it all

>>282076587
I wonder if you could twist that into the implication that Lin Ling, X and Yang Cheng have the ability to conform the world to their wills aka they actually have the power to change the very foundations of their entire world which is why those 3 will probably be the core of the second season.

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We finally get these unlocked next week

>>282074470
>nice
>rescue
he was put in charge of extorting the contracts out of them lol
and he failed like every time he tries to do something evil lol

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I loved the art style this episode. I understand it's lower on a technical and budget level but it was unironically full of SOVL.

>>282074208
>unless they introduce something that can negate it.
They already established Dragon Boy can straight up tank it, and Loli's armor probably can resist it too.

>>282076936
maybe Lin Ling, but Yang Cheng is so fucked in the head that he actually changed the very foundations of his own self and killed the man who saved his life then joined a cult.

I feel like I'm a schizo and somehow missed the explanation for Loli's armor negating trust. I remember them bringing it up in the ruins fight, I just mean I cannot for the life of me remember them talking about it or explaining it before that. How does it do it? It was after a massive low point with three women in a row, so forgive me.

>>282076968
I think with Yang Cheng they could present it in a bittersweet way. He was a man who had the potential to change the world, but due to various factors like his own fucked up head space and Rock's manipulation, that he ultimately ended up as nothing more than a pawn.

>>282076936
>>282076882
>>282076587

Fuck now I’m excited to see what the animation does when Lin Ling and Yang Cheng inevitably have to fight each other

>>282076968
>Yang Cheng is so fucked in the head that he actually changed the very foundations of his own self and killed the man who saved his life
It was already pure poetry the way it happened but I still wish they had a chance for a conversation.

WHO IS THIS NEW TYPE OF HERO

>>282076830
Solo leveling is primarily done by A-1 pictures, a Japanese studio. Tbhx is done only partially done by Aniplex in Japan, with the rest being a bunch of Chinese studios that Li Haoling is associated with. However, Japanese dubbing having equal priority as the Chinese, naming system also going the same route as the dubbing, and songs being only done by Japanese artists can tip the scale into it being "anime enough". But alas, that's not enough for reddit, even though a bunch of anime is now mostly animated overseas.

>>282076981
they talked about it like the end of her arc right after she defeated the dj

>>282076981
It was made from space ship metals they had in the lab, whatever the space metal's got going on negates trust and fear

>>282077000
Trust values will go full Newtype later on in the series and Yang Cheng will get a chance to maybe chat with E-Soul due to their trust values being merged.

>>282076981
I think it has to make contact with your physical body to do anything to you, ie via injection or skin contact. Probably could soak through clothes as well. But the armor isn’t permeable enough to let it through.

Also, it interacts with Trust and perception, right? We see that Loli/Luo Li’s strength goes down when people see her face and body and perceive her as a small girl, but the armor negates that because her identity is obscured. So the Fear also probably has a greatly diminished effect because the armor itself doesn’t interface with her Trust directly

>>282077017
Tell the people to actually read the credits in nip. 99% of the animation is done in Korea or China (or even in places like Thailand & Vietnam). This elitism is bullshit

I wonder what they do having found out X's identity. It's clear enough they want him gone but I hope we get to see X get serious having lost Smile and whatnot

>expected nice would wise up after Smile's death and redeem himself
>he got worse, more afraid to the point of losing his mind
This guy is the most entertaining character in this show. Even more than Ghostblade

How is there no mention of whoever the dog replaced in the top 10

>to be hero nice

>>282072644
Man, this PV was kino. Entire show has been quite kino so far

>>282075816
>X was a literal who as well
LL schizos are unbearable...

X and Nice are practically the main characters of the show or you could say Haolin's poster boys, they want to create a story that everything started with Nice and ended with X

LL role is probably like Puta I guess? The real MC in the writer's heart for a light-hearted shonenshit story but for this one, he is just a irrelevant literal who that contributes absolutely nothing to the plot till the final show down. What makes it funnier is LL isn't included in the circles of the top 10 heroes so he is really a literal who to all of them, not just X

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looking kind of psycho there, nice

>>282077143
There's also no mention of who Loli, the Johnnies, Cyan, etc. have replaced. I think Lin Ling, Yang Cheng, and Dragon Boy are the only obvious ones iirc.

>>282077018
>>282077025
>>282077060
Thanks

>>282075828
Yeah LL, Cyan and Queen arcs are basically fillers
Queen arc at least gave us some info about the past events but it was a waste of time to watch a jobber won

>>282076587
Yeah it's interesting, but too bad all the other characters are irrelevant.

Ahu was X's partner after all along, not Nice

>>282077182
Seeing as the artstyle uglifying Nice only pertains to this arc, I bet that's how Ahu sees him.

>>282077252
>homophobic dog
would adopt

So was X intervening in our top 10's lives for laughs?? Im wondering how we resolve that next ep or if it'll be a s2 thing, if its more of an "im assembling an army" thing

>>282075971
It was hard enough to attract nips, now you want them to lose all of their audiences?
The shitty low budget 2D style is already a turn off for them, barely any male audiences watch this show

>>282077223
Typical shonenslop normalfag who judges characters’ worth by how kino their epic fights are. Why don’t you follow in Nice’s footsteps?

>>282077252
>I bet that's how Ahu sees him.
This is what Nicefags said when he tried to kill Loli and her crew. Some being denial, Nice is a maniac that loves to beat up and kill people so he can stay a hero

>>282077202
Yeah, but 2 eps ago, rock, dragon boy, nice, and shand had a whole speech about how smile is the only guy they can possibly gun for. Now, there is suddenly a rando who lost their spot to a dog in the span of less than a year.

>>282076974
Lmao
That's cute

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>>282077224
It was pretty obvious if you looked at the official merch and social media arts they released of them.

Ahu didnt change forms because he only got strenght from the little girl's trust
his shapeshifting power comes from everyone else wondering
>how did he fight the bad guys?
>i bet he got a gun and shoot them
>i bet he got a sword and cut them down
>i bet he is super strong when mad
etc.

How can a dog jump from nothing to top 10 in like a day but Nice can't? He's like super popular. It makes no sense.

>>282077389
novelty
its been shown how the people in to be hero X world are literal douches and retards

>>282077389
I doubt the writers really care or thought about it, but I think it makes sense. All the animal lovers in the world very likely don't have any other options, so all their trust value would go to him.
Not that it mattered at all in the official polls, but it is China after all.

>>282077351
Post more proof

>>282077224
Mate, if you bother watching the early trailers and character PVs then this should be quite obvious

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mfw

>>282077389
Plot holes that can be ignored as long as they shit out more impressive fight animation

>>282077415
There's literally big johnny

>>282077457
That thing isn't an animal.

>>282077095
They don't have Ghost Blade around to do their dirty work anymore, and it looks like Split (the clone guy) might have actually gotten killed for real by Ahu here. They might send E-Soul or more Fear infected after him to try and assassinate him.

>>282077296
What are you talking about? Nice was a maniac since back then, yes, but he maintained his false "perfection" via facial expression. In this episode, he's drawn more crudely and unruly, with dark circles under his eyes and all. His imperfections are standing out more visually this time around.

>>282077464
Say that to all the people buying pikachu merch and shit. Also, the average joe there doesnt know it is an alien like us alien. They could just think it is able to transform because of trust like ahu

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>>282077351
What is that drink exactly? China equivalent of Monster?

>>282077433
X wife?

>>282077389
the hero rankings are worthless. that is the joke. you don't get popular because you're strong. you get popular because the public finds a shiny new toy. remember, dj shindig, that utter bum, became the fastest X ever. He wasn't a fighter or someone who saved others. He was an entertainer that people thought was cool.

Luo Li became top 10 because of the novelty of being a mech hero. Johnnies became even higher because his dog was found out to be an alien and stirred controversy. He did NOTHING to boost his status. People just started talking about him more. Ghostblade got more popular just for quitting MG.

Bowa, who was also strong as fuck, got booted out of the top 10 just because she lost to the guy that everyone may as well consider a god.

Nice's problem is that he's too stale. Too consistent. He didn't have the upsets that LL did. LL was trapped by Enlighter in a real scenario and turned things around. Firm Man had a real scenario and LL helped turn things around. It was that simple. LL just did real things that Nice didn't because of the opportunity he was provided.

>>282077496
A dog has familiarity and novelty unlike Johnnys...thing. It's weird to compare the two and imply that Big Johnny would steal all the animal lover votes.

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so they found his secret identity?

>>282077389
Cause both Nice and Treeman is incompetent, fake, and soulless. Only reason Lin Ling hit top 10 is cause he actually does heroic shit and is genuine whenever he follows Miss J's schemes. If Nice was doing the early episodes he fucks it up everytime.

>>282077457
>>282077496
the ruins incident already exposed big johnny as an ayylmao
its literally the reason why johnnies is at #6

>>282077511
I'm just pointing out there was another option when you said there wasn't any other option

>>282077355
That's an interesting theory. This is similar to he could X is snapping his fingers to shift reality. However, no one else sees it as that, rather just people being teleported around.

>>282077531
Not really. Everything in the ruin was covered up. Plus, they already knew big johnny could transform even before little johnny decided to become a hero. The second ep of his arc is literally the public seeing vortex getting rekt by a transformed big johnny. The johnnies reaching #6 after the ruin is very much them grinding their ass off after lazing around for decades

>>282077577
NTA but we are literally told in an interview that the ruins incident exposed BJ as an alien, and it ld to a rise in his ranking. It caused polarizing discourse -> people started talking about him -> popularity boom

>>282077298

The reason they went after Smile was because he was a former Hero X, and because it wouldn’t have ruffled any feathers at any of the agencies. Smile was a washed-up has-been at that point, and they needed him out of the picture. Also by killing his own inspiration, Nice could’ve proven his loyalty to the Association and worthiness to them to be in the Top 10. They couldn’t go after any of the people from the Ruins Incident anyway, and they knew not to fuck with X. That leaves Smile and some literal who who easily could’ve been just pushed out by Ahu moving up.

>all the people out there who are gonna wonder why Ahu suddenly has a hat now

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>>282077599
>"Isn't it bad luck to wear a dad man's hat?"
>"Not if you're the one who killed him."
Justified bros...

>>282077588
Is this one of those interviews after the ep? I stopped reading them after there were people arguing about mistranslation and stuff. Either way, nothing in the ruin revealed big johnny as an alien. People already publicly know big johnny could transform. This is very likely another mistranslation.

>>282077513
Yep, probably by tracing Smile’s routes and associations. X’s anonymous life seems to be over.

>>282076587
We actually hear X’s trademark fingersnap before Yang Cheng changes into 2D.

>>282077688
I'm a dummy. Was X really a magician in the circus or just doggy delusion?

>>282077788
Ahu was a circus animal, so I think that was just him making a connection to something he knew. X isn't literally a circus magician, but what he does looked like outright magic to Ahu

>CEOs use heroes weaknesses to bring them down
>Ahu's weaknesses are all over the place
brehs...

>>282074881
X didnt snap Nice to the rooftop.

If you go back to the first episode, Ms J and her entourage was literally on the roof a few seconds after Nice falls to his death. They were clearly following Nice, and this wouldn't be possible if X teleported him around.

>>282077857
Mine's chocolates.

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>>282075134
We also see them in ED, where they’re watching creepily and then white feathers start raining down after X snaps everyone into the Technicolor world.

>>282077137
You think he can't fall any lower than this and he digs his way to an even deeper undiscovered pit of sheer failure. It's great.

>>282073524
Does this mean that Nice's points will be mostly allocated to Lin Ling by fans? The points gained to the latter only happened after Lin Ling's arc ended, but throughout the 1st arc, people could only vote Nice instead. I fear X won't remain first as a result.

>>282077857
trust fomo
they have taken care of little johnny's very well considering they took him in when he's a child up until he reached 30+ (before he left for DoS)

>>282077143
This is a similar complaint to mine where it feels like the world doesn't exist outside of the episode, a bunch of things just stop mattering like
>Ghostblade's daughter
>Luo
>Ling Lin's lack of other heroes present

>>282077857
What do you mean by "all over the place"?

>>282077881
There seems to definitely be some time passing between the Snap and his ending up on the roof. Its night when Nice looks for Shang and in ep1 when Lin ling is fired it seems like the sun's setting

>>282077962
the little girl and all the old people by association

>>282077688
I mean, it's not like anyone can even actually ruin his life if he decides he doesn't want them to. These real problem is the public finding out and hounding him forever.

>>282077881
While you could be correct, X can bend space AND time. And, we haven't seen the latter much yet aside from Dragon Boy's fight. So for others, this could be a long time in between, for Nice, this was instantaneous due to X's snaps. As to why would X do that, I have no idea. Perhaps to put Nice out of his misery painlessly/quickly as possible?

>>282077953
>>Ling Lin's lack of other heroes present
he's Treeman Group, NOBODY likes Treeman Group.

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>>282077316
Every since the episode it's been pretty fun to see theories about them two since there's content. My favorites are the drunk fucking though

>>282075860
She fought off Nice without being an official hero which I found impressive.

But also fuck Ghostblade. Womp womp serial killer isn’t in his kid’s life

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>be Rock
>want to kill X
>X sperging about Zero too

>>282077513
that was quick

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New official art just dropped. The placement of Nice and LL on X’s chest is interesting.

>>282077928
The funny thing is, he wasn't even doing that badly in the rankings. As Lin Ling showed, it was possible for him to make it to the top 10 before the tournament if he actually tried. But he was completely defeated mentally.
Shang also looks kind of dumb for losing confidence in Nice so easily. For most of his interactions with Nice, he's basically doing the equivalent of
>you got an A and not an A+? You are no son of mine

>>282078095
He's Chinese

Did Treeman really need a hero called Nice to play the villain in scamming elders out of their home. This is anything, but nice. I am surprised Enlightener wasn't able to dig up this scandal. The Blankster would've been far better here, and he could just wipe their memory instead of all the bullshit Nice had to do this ep

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>>282078086
Based

>>282078078
I know everyone is afraid of X becoming god, but why does this guy seemingly keep wanting to kill everyone?

>>282078095
Shang was basically on a downward spiral ever since the E-Soul arc so he wasn't thinking straight from the start
>makes some laughably evil goon project by infecting a dude with fear
>makes a fake hero in the image of his son
>seethes constantly at Rock but never bothers telling esoul
>looks like he hasn't slept in decades
>>282078032
There's only a few references to Smile and X, with Esoul showing up at the end, I mean more direct representation of the current status of heroes I suppose.

>>282076539
The problem with season 2 was abandoning the format that made the show so good
If the women were gone it still would’ve been inferior

>>282078095
Yeah I don't know what Shang was thinking
>You want to be a hero? Nope. You're my tool. I made you. Don't do any hero stuff that'd boost your trust by the way, you're needed to go be a glorified landlord

I get manipulating Fear but if Shang still isn't happy with Nice's performance that doesnt seem to be going to well

oh god the schizo nice taking ling ling's place is starting to sound more true by the minute

>Rock
>groomed 3 kids into becoming his hitmen

>Shand
>got his own kid killed
>his adopted kid has a massive personality complex and is 2 seconds away from jumping off a building

How does Rock do it? How is he so good with manipulating impressionable little boys

>>282073524
The fuck
I'm starting to hate this kinda shit to push LL on top of all others, probably they plan to make him the best guy in ss2 then tell everyone that we just do what the public wants
Fucking retards

>>282078192
He fucks them properly. Shand hasn't figured anything out yet and thinks he's is the best way to do shit. You need to from the little boys to only get their pleasure from fucking

>>282072584
so let me guess, the tournament in season 2 is gonna be dominated by the contrived rivalry between Nice and all the others cause they dont know the Nice they knew killed himself

>>282073244
Nah doesn't look like something X would do, if he wants to kill someone, he can totally just teleport them to thin air

>>282078128
It seems that the sound of someone more important than the thugs, like a non-descriptive hero, meant that most of the elderly felt pressured to sign by that point. And if they disobeyed, or needed things to be smoothed out, they can be lulled in by Nice's gentle looks. And I can't think of any Treeman hero we've seen so far that can pull off that innocent gentle look other than Nice. Why go the harsh route and wipe someone's memories, which can have consequences if they need to revise some details on some homes, rather than just giving the elderly a pleasant one?
>I am surprised Enlightener wasn't able to dig up this scandal
He couldn't dig up anything about the Ruins incident either. It seems that Treeman is quite effective in covering their tracks.

>>282073437
So Rock is X's child?

Why doesnt Nice just kill Shand? Seems like he shouldve considered that before throwing himself off a building

How did Shang Chao not at any point realized his boss, Rock, was suddenly an ice cream shop owner during E-Soul's arc. Rock didn't even bother to change his name, and his disguise only work because the audience didn't know what Rock look like yet, but how the fuck does anyone in-universe not realize it was Rock.

>>282073438
My guess is if ss2 is a success, they might try a movie to end things on high note to earn extra money
TBHX is not the usuall shonenslop that can drag on for ages like the other project he's working on

>>282078285
Victims of long-term abuse rarely retaliate against their abusers. Their self-image and ability to see the bigger picture is so broken it doesn’t even occur to them.
>You’re nothing without me, you should be grateful I’m even giving you this chance, look at how much of a failure you are etc.

Maybe there was a Nice VS LinLing situation happening right under our noses just like the Original E-Soul VS new E-Soul and hes still alive.

>>282078257
nah, people make crazy fanfics and they're almost always wrong, until now.

>>282072644
genius

>>282078229
no, retard, ling ling literally announced to the world that nice killed himself, thats how the commoner was born, retard

>Nice faked his death

and didn't go find his (boy)friend wreck? guy's dead as bricks

>>282072619
>his official bio states one of his hobbies is magic tricks
>Ahu sees him as a magician and gets his childlike sense of wonder back from watching him in action
Absolute kino.

>>282078371
then why show him having beef with everyone?

>>282078431
>original theory at like episode 3 was that Nice faked his death to be with his boyfriend
>changed my mind around episode 20
>now Im back to thinking his death was faked again, just for different reasons than I thought

Ironically, I would have liked a second episode dedicated to Ahu. We are not allowed to have nice stuff.

Oh, I like that before this episode, everyone was making retarded theories about Nice committing suicide over love or some other gay bullshit. "Nice" is quite a fake person. The guy seems to hate all these things he's forced to perform.