Thread 282084289

Whoever predicts what happens in the final episode wins.

I predict it will be shite

>>282084289 (OP)
We learn briefly about X's past, but moreso about Lin Ling. It would end in a cliffhanger in which every top 10 hero stares at one another as the clock for the tournament counts down to zero.

Gay sex

>>282084726
between who?

Ahu winning the tournament

>>282084289 (OP)
Show is so trash, I fogot how ep 23 ended even though I watched it like 2 hours ago

>>282084289 (OP)
Show is so good, I still vividly recall how ep 23 ended even though I watched it like 2 hours ago

Why exactly is Loli immune to trust values or she drains them or something?

>>282085515
ayy materials, don't need to explain shit

>>282084750
only with x and nice

>>282085699
I like thinking X put him on the roof at the end of ep23 to make him kill himself.

Utterly impressed by how fast that airing thread maxed out. First thread to last almost a full day vs. the two that usually happens.

>>282086429
Even X couldn’t handle the cringe

>>282086429
yeah that's hot though. nothing better than violence as foreplay for a pathetic man. many such cases

>>282084289 (OP)
The only real heroes in this show so far:
>X
>Ahu
>Yang Cheng (pre-mindbreak)
>Smile
>E-soul
Everyone else is a fraud. A FRAUD

>>282087088
>Smile
>a real hero

>>282086429
Anon that's retarded, you don't save someone to push them to die later, if you do, you are no different from an asshole
I can't even understand how you could come up with that idea

>>282085515
Her suit did all the heavy lifting, Loli only has her strong will for justice

>>282087436
I don't think he knew Nice was an asshole willing to let kids die when he saved him first time.

>>282087120
He was a real one dammit!

btw there will be a special screener of the last episode in china one day before it is released globally so beware of spoilers

>>282087617
S'fine I don't speak chang

>>282084289 (OP)
Some weakness of X will be revealed, so that the tournament won't be him snapping everyone instantly.

>>282087514
I doubt he didn't know how corrupt the whole hero business was, I can't imagine why he would want to kill Nice and Nice only when he spared even DB.
He might have been a piece of shit but so was half the heroes, and the main villains were the CEOs.

>>282087514
Doesn't mean he would encourage someone unstable to take their own life, that's malicious intention

>>282087088
Firm Man?

>>282084686
We know it’s not really a tournament anymore but rather an “everybody is told to kill X” hunt.

>>282087949
Oh yeah I forgot about him

>>282078086
>Queen is on top of X's crotch
What did they mean by this?

>>282088142
It means X dicked her down for a few minutes after bro snapped his fingers, what else could it mean

>>282088142
After failing to beat X she decided to breed with him to have their daughter be the strongest hero ever.

Nice in despair scene technically is also a collection of many different animation styles, kind of funny we just had it last episode with X, it's definitely not a coincidence but I'm so tired of Haolin pushing all these hints and Nice is still just a dead plot device

>>282088142
The more important question is why is Yangcheng on his ass?

>>282088310
haolin knew the shippers were wrong when they shipped wrice and had to sort them back

Looks like we know at least one thing about what X is going to do in ep24. He’s calling a press conference.

>>282078086
>Nice lives rentfree in X's heart
Can't make this shit up

>>282088495
>Tonight at 7 o'clock
>The show airs at 7 o'clock the morning
Hmmm

>>282087088
Retard.

>>282088538
holy shit anon this is the fucking picture i wanted you to grab from lofter.
fucking saved

>>282087514
We know X didn’t actually drop Nice on the roof. In episode 1 Ms. J and her goons bust in like a minute after he killed himself, which means they were trailing him and were close behind. That wouldn’t have happened if X just had warped him there. X was clearly involved behind the scenes somehow, but not like this.

>>282084289 (OP)
As a Nicefag, Idk how the season final could make me feel satisfied, many fans started this show because they got baited with Nice's PV made by the Korean studio, and Nicefags went through so many trials to test their loyalty and sympathy with Nice, some have given up on him, some accepted all of his imperfect sides, but the problem is there's a high chance he will stay dead and become irrelevant in ss2...

Nice's fanbase is also pretty big, are they really going to let Nicefags give up on the series?

>>282087850
What could potentially be his weakness? His parents if they're still alive?

>>282089164
the entire tournament is no overtime pay

>>282089164
Poison

>>282089164
Chocolates.

>>282089164
Nice

>>282089092
Nice literally kills himself episode 1 my man

Why does this season not have much comedy like previous ones?

>his smile and optimism: gone
Remember when civilian X was still a cheerful weirdo?

I was thinking if the thought of offing himself steams from seeing LL planning to do so in front of Nice, that would be hilariously tragic
I honestly feel bad for people committing suicide because of depression ;__;

>>282089092
lol

>>282089939
He looks like he is about to get serious cause the commission finally succeeded in pissing him off

I guess you can interpret the ED this way too

>>282089967
He looks like bootleg nice. They gave him Asian face with no make up or eyelid tape

>>282090201
little johnny would be as useless as always (he should just quit heroing and go full model gig), but big johnny should be able to do something if X's powers is powered by trust

>No family
>No Friends
>only person who even knew he died was his shithead boss
>obsessed with a woman who didn't even know he existed

Nice will suffer for the entirety of S2

Damn it's not even a day after the new ep is aired yet TBHX tag on both twitterland and chink social media are full of Nice's fanarts

>>282090779
Sounds like me

>>282090779
He's a mystery which I think is what they intend at this point. Lin Ling in general is just kind of a teaser for the second half especially since chronologically his arc comes at the very end of the show.

>>282090854
He needs to be alive to be relevant by then

the problem is that we have 3 main characters and 1 is presumably dead
>ling ling
>X
>nice

>>282090882
he's way better than yang cheng (nu esoul) and pretty much the most entertaining chara in the series

>>282090326
OG Nice is bootleg Nice. Lin Ling managed to be a better Nice than him.

>>282090951
Interesting how the wageslave fanboy outdid the formerly real thing. OG Nice was a complete fake.

>>282088977
I'm calling some unreliable narrator fuckery with Lin Ling/Nice that we either learn about next episode or the start of season 2. There's too many oddities about that scene including the glitching

>>282090854
In hell

>>282090749
You think X can't teleport or space warp Big Johnny?

>>282090983
to be fair, lin ling the wagie only has financial probs, while nice has a lot of emotional baggage and possibly daddy issues too.
being a hero only made nice's life miserable while the former have it solved

damn, I actually cried when ahu became a hero
I can't believe this is the one anime to make me cry this season

>>282091013
I'm not buying into the schizo theory that Lin Ling is actually dead and Nice deluded himself into thinking he was Lin Ling. Miss J and her men show up right after Nice fell off the building so they were following him, so that kind of crosses off that X just teleported Nice to that building. Lin Ling is also essentially powered by his feelings for Moon since even in Episode 1 it was pretty much thinking of Moon that seemingly helped Lin Ling overcome Fear.

>>282091061
he should have more control over his own body compared to the rest. at least less disoriented.
big johnny was the only one who managed to move his entire body inside queen's force field (powered by trust).

So X worked as a magician in the circus in disguise as a hobby? I was thinking the scene was just Ahu relating it to his past, but X does gives him a look as if he knew him when they are fixing the vending machine.

>>282090929
>LL
>Main character
>Been irrelevant for 19 episodes
Nah LL is just another fodder for out mighty king X, he will fall once X snaps his fingers like everyone else in the ending

>>282091120
Thing is though, we know that building was already Treeman's and it's right across from the dilapidated structure that's also theirs.
I doubt it would take that much time for them to get there after seeing their guy on top of their building near some dude about to jump.

>>282090951
Don't ever reply to me or my wife again

Funny thing is that Nice is actually becoming very popular instead of getting worse in the eyes of the fanbase like E-Soul (actually good character) and DB. I think it's because he's an asshole who actually gets punished, even when he tries to do the right thing. He's so pathetic and makes all the wrong choices. It's fun to watch

>>282090951
>>282090983
>a 'totally me' loser in life is way more interesting and complex than this tragic hero guy
LL schizos are at it again

>>282091229
Pity = hotness

>>282090983
I would have loved to see him failing miserably during that talk show. Enlighter's plan was perfect, he just got extremely unlucky that the guy that night wasn't who he was truly targetting.

>>282091269
nobody said that, schizo.

>>282091097
This season has many good quality shows but storywise they are all boring, TBHX easily comes out on top, I think JJKfags would love this show if they give it a chance but they would be 'not anime' and proceed to shit on whoever recommends them

>>282091272
I don't think it's just pity. Nice is generally just interesting. He's a victim and a villain. A negative character arc leading to a suicide mystery in the background of other arcs is...new? Makes him feel like the central character of this season despite barely being in it.

>>282091142
If X used to be a magicain, then he wouldn't be a complete mystery, would he?
Think anon, think.

>>282091097
I cried when he licked his owners hand in the hospital

>>282091142
I think I have seen this question on internet for 3-4 times today, how young are you guys to not even understand a metaphoric concept?

The dog was simply thinking X is like a magician it had seen in its early days at the circus

>>282091288
The Enlightener had a power that would stop all plans and solve all problems the cast is currently facing. That's why he needed to go bad and presumably get arrested.

>>282091552
That's what I thought, but rewatching the vending machine scene made me question it. He could just be giving the look to Ahu for another reason.

>they redesigned the entire arena so instead of a bracket or regular tournament, it's a fucking 9v1 death pit for X
Yeah I don't see this tournament lasting anywhere near 24 or even 12 episodes. Fuck they can end it next episode and do the actual plot for season 2 with this format.

>>282091229
>Johnny arc
>People talked about Nice vs Loli instead
>Dragon boy arc
>People talked about Nice and X instead
>Ahu arc
>People continue to talked about Nice and X instead
Nice becomes more and more popular in both good and bad ways, it would be interesting to see his final ranking on October 31st now that they allow audiences to withdraw their votes

>>282084289 (OP)
Some kind of cliffanger.
So Nice just gradually slid moral horizons off-screen ending up killing people no question asked in order to stay hero in public eyes?
I expected some kind of better breaking bad scenario, ngl

>hey gaysss
>holds up spork
>I am le fag xdD
>did you know I like dicks?
>here is an image from Twitter xddd
>did I mention I am le fag? :O
zoomers and their identities being whatever they shove up their buttholes will always be a sad sight

>>282091509
It was so cute

>>282087436
Nice revealed himself as a child and dog killer and forces the elderly to be homeless. Of course X would make Nice jump

>>282089164
X so far has been shown to always manually activate his powers, if he doesn't have means of automatically warping reality he is not really untouchable, he would be one of the less broken reality warpers in fiction actually.

>>282091272
>Pity = hotness
This is the only reason. I can guarantee you if ESoul or DB was in his position they would not be let off easy

So Nice didn't have OCD but Fearphobia

>there are people who actually think Nice was teleported by X
Grim media literacy. He was with Shang De in the night, and is in broad daylight behind LL next. He's a schizo now.

>>282092340
Yeah but what can the commission do for X to have no means to warping reality anymore? X can wrap it to get home earlier after his work slave hours, he can do whatever he wants at will

>>282092382
Lmao this scene got a chuckle out of me
You don't usually see director making fun of the fans in their show

>>282092455
Same goes for retards thinking Ahu's imagination is real and X is a fucking magician

>>282092468
Maybe he loses his powers if he gets fired

>>282092442
It's both

>>282089945
>>282089596
probably because they wanted to cook a very good and complex story with a serious twist this time.
I really loved that they didnt reuse the concept video and redid it from the perspective of Ahu and not the omniscient viewer. Those who didnt see the PV dont even know what trippy things actually happened.
The thing I cant understand is what do different art styles signify? Different time period in chronological order, the "world tendency" or its just a side effect of whatever X is doing off screen somewhere else.

>>282091733
>Johnny arc
>People talked about Nice vs Loli instead
Reasonable since Little Johnny is a barebones character that didn't need so many episodes dedicated to him
>parents died, guy I think killed my dad was 9/11ed, I guess I'll just do literally nothing for over a decade
FOMO milked those onee-sans lusting for him so much until they were dry and tossed him over to Mickey for retirement

>>282092615
Ghostblade once again shown to be best bro

>>282092615
He didn't kill them

>>282092208
Yeah I get it, no one would say I was wrong for making an idiot like you jump either, one less retard for the world

>>282092902
Calm down Nice sis

nice had so many opportunities to redeem himself or just to say no to the crazy fear dude, shame he didn't learn his lesson
also it wasn't the ocd or fearphobia or whatever, retards, it was PTSD from watching what fear did to smile,I can't believe how dense people can be

>Ghostblade killed a bunch of people and everyone loves him
>Nice only tried to kill some people and everyone hates him

>>282092678
>I really loved that they didnt reuse the concept video and redid it from the perspective of Ahu and not the omniscient viewer. Those who didnt see the PV dont even know what trippy things actually happened.
I feel the same, I was kind of expecting they would use the concept pv animation here to save some budget but I'm glad they didn't
The director probably thought if the audiences feel attracted to a character arc, they will check out the PVs themselves later

>>282093113
director outdid himself, so did the animators.
I wish that part 2 wont make us wait 4 more years

>>282092902
>He didn't kill them
Yeah, ordering someone to kill a child and dog is so better.

>>282093069
He can't say no but I'm more surprised he didn't kill the dude when he was no longer sane

>>282092902
>He didn't kill them
Nice has command over the clones, and they killed the scientists, so he is responsible for their deaths.
And he would have killed directly if Loli didn't intervene.

>>282092039
I'll keep your seethe in mind the next 30 trillion "I have no personality besides announcing that I want to fuck my waifu." posts I see.

>>282091552
To be fair, his official profile says magic tricks are his hobby. It might be a cheeky joke, hinting he’s as close to a real, honest to god mage as it gets.

>>282093267
Lmao

>>282093226
>>282093293
Isn't the writer pretty clever with this whole Nice killing people thing? In fact we haven't seen him successfully killed anyone on screen, the blood that was shed is always on the hand of others

>>282093483
Not for a lack of trying

>>282088495
Maybe that's what we see here? Don't know who else he could be talking to aside from Ahu, maybe

>>282092615
There was nothing normal about Ghostblade’s childhood because he has actual brain damage.

>>282093499
Zero is X's mother

>>282093267
Considering those dudes were cheering for Murder Boy when Nice was just trying to protect Smile, the joke’s on them.

>>282092615
>bro skipped the whole sequence of Nice being traumatized by the forced image of his fans and corpo owners

>>282093604
>>bro skipped the whole sequence of Nice being traumatized by the forced image of his fans and corpo owners
>Retard can't understand symbolism when it's there.
You realize Treeman was never founded at Nice's age during that scene, right? Treeman was created after this son died which is when Nice is an adult

>>282093649
kid was groomed from the start because he wanted to be like smile my man

>>282093170
Honestly, next ep will decide whether ss2 is worth looking forward to
People lose interest easily because new things happen everyday, JJK ss3 is coming out next year, it's not a good arc but who knows how Mappa will cook it, and there's Frieren ss2 coming too

>failed as a hero
>failed as a killer (literally didn't kill anyone)
>the harder he tries the harder he falls
nice is a trainwreck and people love watching trainwrecks

>>282090779
>>282090892
LL is Zero's bastard child

>>282093293
>Nice has command over the clones, and they killed the scientists, so he is responsible for their deaths.
Oh shit, you're so fucking right. My mind's been deadset on the fact that they work alone

>>282093691
He's not a kid, he's an adult making conscious decisions, you Nicefags needs to stop babying him

>>282093815
i don't even like Nice bro
he's clearly not one of the good guys in the show
easily manipulated and takes part in a bunch of the evil plots

>>282088977
I lean toward X moving Nice somewhere for a face to face, if nothing else. There's anywhere from a few hours to half a day's time between Nice showing up at Shand's garage to Lin lin being fired from his job and ending up on the roof. It's possible for X to pull some time distortion fuckery to make it seem like an instant for Nice, but he's way too calm walking off that roof compared to how he's acting in last ep's final scene. I still think the decision was ultimately Nice's but anything could have happened prior to the rooftop scene

>>282093815
He is capitalism's slave and no hero in this world can go against the public opinion because of the Trust system

Well his decision as an exhausted adult is committing suicide

>>282093867
>i don't even like Nice bro
You keep telling yourself that

>>282093871
Anon, Miss J and the bodyguards were following Nice so they definitely knew where he was heading, he probably float/walked their on autopilot

Some of these heroes or arcs seem very underdeveloped. Like 1 ep for the dog and then 1 ep for X? What even is the point?

>>282094147
X has been built through the entire show in the background, his episode is only finally getting more insight from his point of view.

Ahu's backstory is self-contained, pretty much just a special dog who stumbled into becoming a hero, he doesn't need more than a episode.

say something nice about Big Johnny

Are we gonna get 3D models for all 10 heroes? Looks like we will for Johnny and Ahu (who technically already had one).

>>282094572
lol no

>>282094588
I thought CG was supposed to save money in the long run. Make an asset a single time instead of having to draw it out constantly. I was a bit surprised most of the season was 2d.

>>282094572
We've already gotten Loli and Dragon Boy too. Just missing GB, Cyan and Queen now

>>282094572
Hard to say. My initial thoughts were they might be a bit concerned about going full 3D since they are unsure how characters like Cyan and Queen will come across in 3D, but I don't really think that is an issue since Moon and Miss J looked fine.

>>282093293
>Nice has command over the clones, and they killed the scientists, so he is responsible for their deaths
I hadn't noticed this until you pointed it out. This implies the entire cast already knew about Nice's true nature. Loli might have shared the information with GB if they were in contact, or GB could have heard it from Johnny, who probably learned everything from Queen and Cyan. Similarly, DB and E-soul likely heard the story from Rock, and Ahu witnessed it today. I have a feeling X has been aware of everything all along. That leaves LL as the only one who's completely in the dark. Perhaps that's why his eyes were closing in the ending, with all those white feathers falling around him—the truth about Nice is something everybody knows except him wait so does this means the whole ED sequence is about NIce?

>ITT waa waa X will be pivotal in the story
daaaaamn what gave it off? the imagery of the OP that celebrates him extensively?

>DAT nonlinear time storytelling
OMFG I hate that. On a movie is a valid resource, but on a 24 ep series that broadcasts weekly? come on, its not the only series I watch.

>>282094422
I hate his alien design, there's nothing cute about it

>>282094147
What's else do you want to know about the dog? I'm more curious about Dragon boy background and why he got those tattoos

Please no he's already dead

So, the whole anime style switch effect + Nice having no idea what he's doing there basically confirms X either killed him or staged his suicide right?

>>282095091
No you fucking idiot
Stop pushing this retarded idea and making X sounds no different from an asshole

>>282095148
But Xfags told me when the artstyle changes its because X does something

>>282092442
Anon the fearphobia looks exactly like misophobia and fear of contagion people with OCD often have. It's not even subtle.

>>282095175
The artstyle changed because the animators did something

>>282095091
I don't get it. I see this theory so much but that just isn't what I watched. To me, it seems obvious that Nice is going crazy, and the anime glitch effect is representing him going crazy. It's telling you
>something is wrong in this scene
X might be there, but he is not going out of his way to kill a man, nor should he care to stage a suicide.

>>282095091
This is a shizo theory that some believe to be true but it's more of shitting on Nice than anything

>>282095091
Even if Nice is an asshole nothing with how X has been presented has hinted that he would just lead a man to his own death.

>>282085515
>she drains them or something?
That was a mistranslation

>>282095327
But he teleported him there

>>282087436
We are talking about Chinese "people's" morals, not that far fetched to be honest

>>282095342
Jesus Christ. It is not even the same time of day. I didn't realize reading comprehension was this bad.

>>282094147
Ahu had a better story arc in one episode than some characters got in 3+

>>282095342
He didn't, use your brain for once >>282094040

>>282094422
Queen finds this thing cute and fluffy

>>282095274
>X might be there
>might
Anon you can literally hear X snapping his fingers while Nice is having his breakdown in picrel. I don't know what to tell you.
So far there has never been an animation swtich where he didn't snap his fingers.
>he is not going out of his way to kill a man, nor should he care to stage a suicide
Why not? He literally goes around making heroes and killing villains. He's been doing that the whole show.
Maybe he decided Nice was a villain. Which, wouldn't exactly be unfair considering all he witnessed in the laste episode.

>>282093293
I feel dumb, but how do we know that Nice commands Phobiaclone? Does Nice tell it to target so and so in a particular region, and then it programs a system to predict how to fight if such a scenario were to pop up? What scene tips off that Phobiaclone is an inanimate object completely controlled by Nice?

Honestly, I thought it's controlled remotely by a third party from Treeman, while Nice gives it new info sometimes so that the person controlling it remotely can deduce what to do next. Otherwise, it's hard for Nice to always give real time updates on what to do when they get separated/when things go awry.

>>282095091
X did SOMETHING for sure but I dont think there's much supporting one idea or the other as to what that is

> Miss J and her goons are chasing after Nice in a panic, time cut from last episode to episode 1.

I think Nice mentally checked out for a while before ending up on the roof. The snap is well before his suicide.

This snap reminds me of the E-soul v Yang Chen snap. We don't (iirc) see X when they occur and we have no real clue to what end his intervention really had an effect on the events. Assuming X does have do be "around" the area to begin with, he was watching the two during pivotal moments

>>282094926
I laughed when he said that. Best part is that it was Nice's fault that Ahu became a hero at all.

>Who am I? What am I doing here?
An above 2 digit IQ viewer would probably assume that he's dissociated and lost his sense of identity following his fear freakout, and is no longer reliable as a source of information.
>TBX fans: X teleported him there!

>>282095416
>So far there has never been an animation swtich where he didn't snap his fingers
Not entirely true. Episode 1 and Episode 4 both don't have a snap when it switches from 3D to 2D.

>>282095441
Argably Nice unintentionally made 3 heroes just by messing up. Lin Ling, Loli, and Ahu.

>>282095416
>Nice isn't wearing the same outfit
>Not the same time of day
>Miss. J knowing exactly where he is
>The snap happening AFTER Nice is already on the building, not before
I don't know what to tell you smoothbrains.

>>282095480
Yes, X is involved in whatever is happening to Nice

>>282095416
>He literally goes around making heroes
Like when? The one who made Ahu a hero is his owner btw
>Maybe he decided Nice was a villain
Out of whim? Are you retarded? He didn't even care to touch the commission knowing fully well they are after him nor killing DB for killing his good old friend, now he suddenly feels like punishing a depressed person because he was a foolish prawn? Damn X's mind is as simple as his fans

>>282095509
Also helped Dragon Boy to get into the Top 10

>>282095504
Oh wow it's true, I wonder why.
Episode 1 is probably because it starts out as a flashback but episode 4 I'm not sure. Maybe it means Lin Ling has access to the same ability X possesses somehow.

Ahu should have become a hero back when he was a circus dog, if not for the fact that he didn't believe in himself.

>>282095509
>>282095582
>Xfags claiming X making new heros
>It was Nice actually
Kek it's funny

>>282095520
>Nice isn't wearing the same outfit
It's a transforming outfit you moron, when he enters sparkles mode it grows some kind of armor. It is the same outfit.

>>282095572
Then I'm disappointed in him for not stopping Nice committing suicide

>>282095690
But he did

>>282095718
Oh wait maybe he did but he gave up halfway cause it didn't work in the end

>>282095578
Anon we literally know nothing of X. I don't know why you've decided he was a good guy but personally I don't know him well enough to have complete trust he wouldn't push Nice from a building. Good for you if you do though.

>>282095416
NTA, but
>So far there has never been an animation swtich where he didn't snap his fingers
Actually, ep 1 and 4 likely had no snapping sound, as I discussed here >>282076130 and >>282076330. Though, I would love to be proven wrong. It's just strange that this lack of snapping only occured for LL's arc and no one else's.

Anyways, I do agree that there was a snapping sound for this ep. X can bend time and make it different only for certain people, so my schizo theory is that he did that here as well. This power is confirmed to exist in last week's ep for DB fight, where only Nice was slowed down with X, while everyone else got fast forwarded to DB getting "teleported" to the water. I apply this to my theory, but in reverse, meaning Nice got fast-fowarded to the future, but everyone else saw his descent into madness in real time.

>>282095674
kek

>>282095686
Retard. When Nice is in front of Shand, he has his full armor. The next second, he is in his casual outfit. So did X strip him then, retard?

Are you idiots incapable of understanding the concept of a timeskip?

Is this meant to be a feared up Wreck? We know from past episodes he's fought X before and the line in the PV suggests they have been sending people after X

>>282094926
This was basically a slap in the face for Nicefags
Chink fujos were really angry with this episode, they said they will never forgive lh0 for using Nice as a punching bag for lol like this. It would be funny if the next episode content makes them forgive him somehow

>>282095674
Zac already knew

>>282095941
>This was basically a slap in the face for Nicefags
>Chink fujos were really angry with this episode
Based director

>>282095768
We know that X helps people and animal in need and he won't kill his friend's killer. That's enough info to understand his moral code isn't the same as his low IQ fans

>>282095997
You know the creator is a fudanshi right

>>282095921
The armor is literally contained in the casual outfit anon. It flares up when called and goes away when released. I don't know why you're so angry about being wrong.
And why exactly do you assume a timeskip absolves X of any involvment? The guy is so overpowered having time powers isn't exactly out of the question. Especially when last episode hinted at it like >>282095834 said

>>282084289 (OP)
Did Ahu take credit out of greed or because he could tell X wanted to stay on the down low? It was kind of ambiguous IMO but I might be missing something.

>>282096058
>The armor is literally contained
>When Nice is in front of Shand, he has his full armor. The next second, he is in his casual outfit.
You realize how none of this actually matters? The fact is that his outfit changed between scenes. It doesn't matter how it changed. The fact that it did means time passed.

>>282095941
>lmao the fujos absolutely HATE when their fave suffers guys amiright
Have you entered the internet yesterday? Welcome aboard

>>282096115
He does it for the Trust value count

>>282096118
>argues back and forth about it for 2 posts
>realizes he's wrong
>"IT-IT DOESN'T MATTER YOU REALIZE THAT RIGHT"

>>282095941
>Chink fujos were really angry with this episode
Really? Ep 20 very much showed how Nice would kill other heros and civilians (scientists) just to gain something on the Trust system, so this isn't new. Plus, it's very common for fujos to like a villain just because he's hot and/or deep.

>>282096145
But he seems like a good dog

>>282096136
They weren't angry with the revelation from ep 20 onward
If you didn't know the situation on that side, just kindly shut your whore mouth

>>282096164
>Nice isn't wearing the same outfit
>Not the same time of day
>When Nice is in front of Shand, he has his full armor. The next second, he is in his casual outfit.
Do you understand what is being said here, or will you waste my time with semantics? Never mind, you didn't even read my post going by this
>And why exactly do you assume a timeskip absolves X of any involvment?
Literally nowhere did I absolve X of involvement. I said X didn't teleport him there, retard.

>>282096167
Don't bother with him he's an idiot who just wants to call a fudanshi based for screwed fujos over in his head.

>>282096176
Well he thought if he was stronger he could protect his owner better so he claimed the credit out of good will greed

>>282095941
>Becoming a fag for a dude who dies in Episode 1
What the fuck were they expecting?

>>282096238
I wonder if X is okay with it

>>282096145
He remembered X smiling at him when he lied rather than X doing cool stunts to show off his prowess, and said prowess can be gained via Trust points. I doubt he thought of the Trust system when he lied.

>>282096253
He doesn't seem like the type to give a shit at all.

>>282096253
X doesn't care
He already reached the X title, anymore credits would amount to nothing if X doesn't run on Trust value

>>282096053
And yet he still sunk any Nice ships in the process

>>282096214
>"muh semantics"
You're still going huh. It's ok to be wrong anon, honestly it's more pathetic to hold on like that.
>Literally nowhere did I absolve X of involvement. I said X didn't teleport him there, retard
Didn't you? >>282095520 could have fooled me.
>The snap happening AFTER Nice is already on the building, not before
Do tell me then, how is he involved if teleportation isn't it?

>>282096309
Doomed yaoi is a popular subgenre, anon. So if anything, he just fed the fujos with tons of angst fic and fanart ideas.

>>282095940
The crown certainly looks like it yeah. It would make sense too since if Wreck was indeed loaded on fear steroids Treeman wouldn't just let him die like that. He's basically corporate property.
Now that I think about it maybe that's why Nice didn't message him anymore. He was scared shitless of his fear cooties.

>>282096323
>Didn't you?
Yes, that's me? You know that post doesn't say
>X wasn't there!!!
It says X didn't teleport him here. Anything X did after Nice got there doesn't matter. People knew where he was. The date and time are not the same. His gear is not the same. He doesn't know WHO he is. It is obvious that time has passed and he has no idea what he's doing anymore.
>how is he involved if
Maybe wait and watch the rest of the show, retardbro?

>>282089967
Every episode I feel less sympathy for nicelander

>>282096309
A homoship does not die when a couple of pretty boys dies anon. It dies when it is forgotten.

>>282096309
You really have no idea how a fujo thinks if you believe that.

>>282096428
What a waste of a post. Time could have been saved by not typing and not making me read it.

>>282096433
It's the opposite for me, the more I see of him the more I like him. As far as pathetic little meow meows go he's great, just my type.

>>282096479
>Translation: I had no idea what you were talking about, missed the point completely to argue semantics, and am too stupid to admit I was wasting your time.
Apology accepted

>>282096545
No idea what you're talking about but whatever helps you sleep at night bud.

>>282096433
He tried to kill Luoli's dad and everyone there. It's pretty clear that he was too deep into the game at that point. The smile arc is to show that he's human too, but not to redeem him. If anything, watching Smile die the way he did, because Nice didn't go according to plan, probably made him more unhinged.

10 bucks says Nice is not actually dead.

>>282096554
>no idea
well understood at this point. bye, bro.

Now that the full versions of all the themes are out, my ranking is:
SPARX > New Type of Hero > growL > Paragon > Because of You > Neon Rain > Scar > Queen of the Stars > Take Off > Candy Mountain

>>282096584
God I hope so. The fact that we still don't who sent the Nice ad with the finger guns and the drawn smile to Miss J's mailbox gives me hope.

>>282096627
we still don't know* who

>>282096309
The only ship he had sunk so far is Nice and his best bro, it was wrong cp anyway

Till next ep, there's no concrete proof that X was involved in Nice's death so XNice is safe for now

What's with the outfit change? He looks like he back to wearing Nice's outfit without the cape.

>>282096606
Take Off and My Color are my favorites. Everything else is whatever.

>>282096627
how do you guys notice this shit?

>ships
Nice doesn't care about romance. Never did.

>>282096627
Timestamp for pic?

>>282096783
I didn't, I saw it on twitter while I was looking for theories on who sent the ad.

>>282096705
Seems like a 3D'd version of what he has already

>>282096844
Episode 4, 00:08:08

>>282096876
It's not, look at the preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLA3Slxn41E
He's literally changing out of it.

>>282096881
Thanks

>>282096692
How so? That's the only one that isn't a complete crackship

>>282090882
>Locked out of chink social media
Someone please drop the fanart here before he's removed from the polls on the 12th I'm begging

>>282091229
I'm actually so interested to see where he lands when the vote reshuffle happens - assuming he's not pulled out of the vote entirely. At the start he gobbled up a lot of votes meant for Lin Ling but now he actually has a fanbase. Maybe he'll actually stay in the top 5.

>>282092455
Exactly, and Miss J was literally right behind him meaning she had to have been following him at some point. Wonder if anything else happened in that missing time apart from him continuing to crash out?

>>282093747
>Extremely hot trainwreck
Adds a lot of power.

the ed to this show is such a banger

Is Ahu's power actually transforming into a humanoid dog and not just the perception/illusion outsiders get of him when they look at the dog? After all, we never saw him transform when he went after Phobiaclone with the axe. It could be because he didn't fully develop his powers yet, but it still seems fishy to me.

Did you go to XFC today?

>>282097346
Honestly all Shand needed to do was praise him and pat him on the head instead of negging him constantly. I'm sure his perfomance would have drastically improved.

>>282096309
Lol, lmao even
You ever watch Gundam anon?

>>282090201
Is there really any doubt? They'd need some retarded asspulls to have anything but a stomp by X, hopefully they're smart enough to understand that doing so isn't clever.

>anons genuinely believeing X snapped Nice into the rooftop
did everyone forget the concept of symbolism and cinematographic storytelling or something

>>282098396
>the fact that we hear X snap his fingers and Nice changes animation styles 5 times during his breakout means nothing guys, do you even media literacy
Do you?

Nice killed himself due schizo shit? If you were created with Fear seems redundant to get infected with it.

>>282096433
The fact that Shang Chao died in 36 AC which means Shand De didn't start the emotional abuse to inact his plan for revenge while Nice is born in Year 16 AC makes it worse for me. That makes Nice 20 years old, not some kid that finds killing people to stay a hero fine

>>282096705
I'm gonna laugh if the Commoner's first opponent is Loli and he just ends up beating the shit out of her.

>>282098547
>If YoU wErE CrEaTeD WiTh fEaR
The sooner you understand this show has garbage subs the better, anon. Nice wasn't """created""" ex nihilo from Fear, he just improved his trust value by beating up mooks injected with Fear by his company in front of cameras.

>>282098567
>once you're past 20 you're not allowed to fall under the influence of anyone much less have a mental illness or a midlife crisis
Goddamn, no wonder so many people are in jail.

>>282098742
>Nicefags always keep trying to justify his actions
I have a new respect for E-Soul fags honestly

>>282098940
GBfags are worse, since he doesn't have anything close to the sheer number of Nicefag haters out there. Amd seeing how high he is on the polls, I'm honestly surprised that he's not called out often as a poor choice for a new X. Can you imagine GB becoming X when he didn't make the connection that he's killing hundreds of innocent people until his daughter was affected? Sure, he did the right thing at the end by resigning from MG, but him being blindsided to ever question such a serious set of actions until it essentially spat acid on his face tells me he's not a good hero model.

>>282099175
Ghostblade getting a bonus because quiet softboi daddy shows how shallow things are in and out of universe

>>282099751
He probably knew the shallowness of it all way too late because of how autistic he is. Either that, or he killed hundreds of people with a questionable moral compass if that was the case. Either way, a terrible candidate for X, and I'm shocked at how much support he has with such little pushback.

No one believes Ghostblade would ever become X. He's not even interested in becoming X.

Most of the top 10 don't seem to care much about the position:
>Loli
>Cyan
>Ghostblade
>The Johnnies
>Ahu
>X

This might be the largest amount of apathetic top 10 heroes the commission has ever had

>>282100321
Loli, Ahu, and Johnny would have reasons they would want to get stronger at least, and Ghostblade would probably want revenge. I don't know why Cyan would care at all though.

>>282100377
I could only see Cyan becoming X if she teams up with Queen to become the second co-Xs in history

Scariest part about Nice's breakdown are the background sounds. It just sounds like a computer or TV breaking down and blaring noises and then he wakes up on top of a billboard glitching out.

>>282100321
Johnnies might just get out of the whole hero thing now
he really doesn't have any reason to stay since he doesn't know that GB was the one who killed his dad and Vortex (the scapegoat) is long dead

>>282100429
>to become the second co-Xs in history
This.

So... XX?

>>282096876
Why Commoner punch has that golden ratio thing like Nice's hero concept? Is it going to be a perfect punch or sth?>>282097128
>assuming he's not pulled out of the vote entirely
It will be a rigged poll then

>>282097346
Nice is a cute little failure
I could impregnate him

>>282097643
Those unrealistic powers are granted by the public

Lil Johnny didn't even manage to call for beasts like he did in the PVs, FOMO only produces fake heros

>>282098453
It means the animators worked their asses off and XNice is real

>>282101332
If his fans believe Nice is carrying X's child, it will happen

>>282100799
I think he's going to start to realize that something doesn't add up since the same tree damage that was where his dad died was at that camp site. He was too addled by the fear aura to put two and two together then, but he might later on.

And Rock may try to push him in the right direction. He wants Johnny dead, so having Johnny try to get revenge against his dad's killer who is infinitely more powerful than him would be pretty smart.

>>282101367
I assume Johnny can "control" animals, we just haven't seen him in a scenario where he'd want to or need to.

>>282101501
i guess that works. If Rock wants GB out as well, then that works out for him, killing 2 birds with 1 stone.
But that means he'll be used as a plot device, yet again.
Kinda sad that his tamer shtick didn't really took off. Little Johnny was one of the heroes I was eyeing on the most when their PVs dropped.

Did the show ever explain why Lin Ling saw Moon dead on his bed in episode 1 the way she was at the end of ep 4?
>>282101564
Well this could be where he actually starts using his powers effectively. Again, he's never actually been in combat scenarios before as a hero, so it makes sense he wasn't being super smart about it, especially with such a specific power set.

He'll probably get smarter about his powers...I hope.

>>282101777
>Did the show ever explain why Lin Ling saw Moon dead on his bed in episode 1 the way she was at the end of ep 4?
Nope. People speculated that maybe the powers of precognition came from Nice, but nothing with OG Nice implied that he had precognition so that may be something specifically unique to Lin Ling.
Lin Ling in general is just a mystery.

Ahu realizes his transformations can copy hero abilities and he uses X's to curb stomp all the other Heroes.

>Nice appears in an episode
>It's good
Seriously check them. He has never missed.

>>282101864
Right up until he faces Little Johnny who then controls him and his powers

>>282101905
Would LJ really be able to control him once Ahu transforms to a more human-esque appearance?

>>282091142
It's a visual metaphor. It didn't literally happen

>>282091229
E-Soul is still my favorite arc so far though Ahu and LinLing are tied for second

>>282090201
what if this happens and he wants to chat with the other 9 heroes in his altered reality? and that's how the season ends

>>282102049
I guess once LJ and his fans still believe Ahu is a dog no matter the transformation, it should still work

>>282101420
!?

>>282096433
I think he's cool and the most interesting hero, although he has the most screentime I think. He's clearly a soft guy playing tough, dont know if he has actually killed anyone since so far either he fails or someone else does the job for him. I find the idea of a coward superman interesting. He just wants to play prentend hero with his buddy

Does this shit have anything to do with the superhero genre or is it just idol cringe?

>>282102349
If you have to ask then get filtered

>>282096115
he took the credit because otherwise he would lose his trust value and then he wouldnt be able to protect the girl

>>282096627
are you actually retarded?
it was LL, go back and rewatch the first three episodes you fumb fucking nigger

>>282102349
If you mean "idol" as in idolatry, then this show explores it thoroughly and its dangers within a wide spectrum. There's the classic idol/pop singer worship, there's cult/religious worship, there's worship of private persons who want to be left alone, etc. all within the context of them possibly becoming or retiring the superhero label.
In other words, it's a superhero show interwoven with exploring idol cringe.

>>282102691
the original didnt have the smile nor the hand pointing to the X

>>282087088
Is X really a true hero when he's a burnt out wage slave who treats heroism like a 9 to 5 work shift? He has all of the power but none of the spirit.

>episodes with dog, x, and nice
>it's good
felt refreshing after that fucking slog through the middle of the series

i dont like cyan, the disconnect between her regular voice and her singing voice is way to wide

>>282102691
The original video was done by LL, but the video having graphiti of Smile and such at the end despite Smile being dead is the work of someone else. Also, Miss J insinuates that the email was recent when she showed it, yet civilian LL was already gone for months. Someone else tempered with it and sent it to her.

>>282102727
literally a nothing burger anon

>>282102822
its something, anon, he was the editor, he send the AD as is, someone edited it afterwards, presumably X who happens to work there too

>>282102822
>Arc highlights that you will be rewarded with significant lore if you focus on the tempered advertisement banners. For instance, the very 1st ep evidently has some significant relevance all the way to at least ep 22.
>A mysterious person sends Miss J a clearly tempered advertisement banner with LL's voice in it before he ever publicly announced his hero identity.
Anon...

Do we have ANY theories for what Rock figured out about X?

>>282095940
why does fear turn you into graffiti?

>>282084289 (OP)
Kino episode.

>>282084302
And you were wrong, it was easily one of the best chapters in the entire series. The problem this show has is the same that's inherent to all anthologies regardless of whether they're disconnected or building up to a larger narrative, which is to say that some stories will always be better than others, and that means your experience as a wiever is a rollercoaster in terms of experience quality.

>>282103237
Probably a tracking device inside that locket

>>282095409
If her sense of aesthetics is so distorted, that means I have a chance with her. It also explains her dressing like a pimp granny on her off days.

>>282103408
Not him but what's the general consensus for worst arc? It's gotta be Johnnies or Loli, right?

>>282103237
Next ep trailer showed that Shand and probably some other corpos, likely including Rock, know his civilian identity already. They have already joined with each other and the commission in a plan to take X down a few eps prior.
I guess they found him out since Rock noticed how emotional and personal X was via clutching Smile's pendant. Rock likely followed Smile's footsteps and found that he visited someone close to him just before he died who is also facially similar to X. Hence, them connecting the dots.

>>282103512
Ok but what are they supposed to do with that? Poison him? Blow him up while he sleeps?

>>282103537
Perhaps threaten the weaker people around his personal life and only letting them go when he drops out of the race/ensures he won't be X again.

>>282103483
Yeah, those two by far. I'd say the difference was that the Johnnies arc got really fucking good on the last one and a half episodes (when it stopped being about the Johnnies, ofc), while the rest was an absolute bore. By contrast, Loli's arc was never as good as the best of the former's, but was never quite as bad the worst of it either.

>>282103483
the Johnnies hand down, too long, too pointless

>>282103537
have you been not paying attention? they couldn't hurt him because they had nothing to coerce him with, relatives, things, etc. now they know who he is and can use any of those things if available

>>282103669
I thought they couldn't hurt him because they realised he's literally omnipotent.

>>282103679
if god bleeds then he is not omnipotent, killing smile showed he does bleed (has emotions which can be manipulated)

>>282103483
Dragon Boy's arc when it was about Dragon Boy

>>282103483
Queen for me, and it's not even close. A nepo baby who I am still confused why she of all people wants to dismantle the Trust system, along with a fight that actually bored me to tears and has no justification for being so long. That length could've instead focused on proper characterization and explaining why she has the goals that she does.
At least I understand why Johnny and Loli want to further their specific goals, and both of them defying the Trust system via the tools around them (pet and suit) makes for an interesting story. But Queen just repeats the story of Fear taking over someone and a hero needing to defeat it from Cyan's arc. At least we get our first proper X appearance in this arc.

>>282103754
You know what, the only thing I remember from the Queen arc is her fight with X.

>>282103483
You could completely remove Cyan and nothing would change. Her airplane killed some guy, but they could've killed him off any number of other ways, and it's not it ever revisited what crashed the plane.

>>282101420
He can carry my child

>>282103777
Yet Bowa's was many times longer. What significance does she bring into all of this compared to DJ (leading to ruins incident) or vortex (leading to plane incident).

>>282103679
If he really was omnipotent, he wouldn't have let Smile die. They realized this vulnerability, and are going to utilize it to threaten his loved ones now that they know his identity.

>>282103800
>nothing would change
Queen would have never recovered from her depression nor have survived being hospitalized if the Bowa fight still happened.

>>282103902
Just replace Cyan with a bottle of prozac.

>>282091142
>So X worked as a magician in the circus in disguise as a hobby?
No, that was Ahu's interpretation of X's powers diplayed as a visual metaphor for the watcher's benefit. The entire episode was told from Ahu and the little girl's perspective, which is why the change in art style was so effective.

>>282103715
Dragon Boy's arc was hardly about him. They should have renamed it the Nice arc. Even then the arc was shit. The only redeeming thing was Smile and X

>>282093696
I think you misunderstand on a basic level the inherent appeal of an anime original where spoilers are impossible because the only version anyone has is the anime. The more rare something is the less likely it'll be completely swept away

>>282102901
>Ahu
Superpowers: Being cool
Ultimate: Bite the private parts
Weakness: His beautiful owner

>>282104106
Speaking of, when was the last time an original anime that isn't tied in to some larger franchise got a proper second season(and not just a tie-in movie for instance)? Li Haoling's works seem to be pretty unique in that regard. So the ability to generate this flavor of hype after a season's conclusion is pretty much an uncharted territory.

>>282103800
>and it's not it ever revisited what crashed the plane.
Peronsally, I'm glad that they aren't revisiting it at all. Makes the world feel a little more real by not having every bad event be some interconnected conspiracy.

>>282104221
I feel like it has been a long time. We are in an era where even something like Gundam is seemingly struggling to get 50 episodes with the latest entry being a mere 12 episodes.
The fact that TBHX was penned with a 48 episode structure in mind from the get-go makes it pretty damn rare in the current era.
It really makes me wish we saw more companies willing to take a risk since I really don't think you can tell a good original show in 12 episodes, especially if you are setting up a new world.

Xinya is so cute

>>282102349
I think this show carries a similar enough spirit of pulp that older cape comics did, but in an anime version with cheesier (but also sometimes better and more memorable) OSTs. Or like what a select few older superhero cartoons attempted, but more serialized in structure even with all the origin stories strung in there. Like how Young Justice the cartoon tried to string together a large world of groups of heroes despite the flaws or frankly insufferable aspects it included with the good stuff.
That means the show comes with its own uneven hit or miss aspects but eh. Every faction has some level of understandable enough motives even if they act demonic or cold on this or that thing. It almost doesn't even matter /that/ much if it ends up a trainwreck by the last third, or 2nd half, because at least it chased the ambition to actually attempt a larger world like this to entertain me for a bit

>>282104316
Both her and Ahu are pretty adorable together, and I wish the best for both of them. But knowing Ahu is already 13 years old...

>>282104375
Maybe the same kind of trust magic that gave him Super powers and speech can extend his life.

>>282104289
I think they don't take the risk because they don't want to 'fail' but yet the problem is when you focus on visuals and let the writing suffer you end up with the same thing. It's not ironic to me that most of my favorite series started as OVAs such Takt op, blood+, Gundam, Yuri on ice, space dandy, tbhx and so on. OVA gives you the most freedom with art style and direction but you need a good team of script writers. China is at the stage where 80s-2000s anime was with the bold ideas and the funding for it. They're sending off animators(although not just animators it's a lot of industries) for training and research and then love calling them back to China.

>>282104465
Sure hope that's the case.

>>282104316
Late 90s to early 2000s anime energy
>>282103902
Yang Cheng never would have become new E-Soul if he wasn't trying to invite his not-girlfriend to a Lucky Cyan concert only to accidentally end up as the bull in their weird 3-way cuck situationship

>federation be like
>X clearly wants to stand out, lets kill him"
is this jap syndrome?

>>282103483
I feel Ghostblade, the Johnnies, and Loli's arc could have been compressed down to the A, B and C plots of a 4 episode arc (maybe 5 episodes so the ruins incedent gets it's dedicated episode) instead of taking up 7 episodes that felt like a lot of recap

the Johnnies arc has literally no pay off
>he didnt get revenge
>he didnt find his dad's killer
>he didnt get murdered only because e-soul intervened
its also the longest arc for some reason

>>282105059
It's called toxic confucianism

>>282105059
That's literally every Asian country ethos, especially on ones influenced by Chink culture and philosophy. You can only stand out in ways that are approved the state and society.

>>282105143
Most of the arcs have no pay off for that matter
Think about it

>>282105059
Did you miss the part where the world is going to end if someone stands out too much?

>>282105143
Johnnies is only redeemed by all the moving parts set in motion by and for all the characters not named Johnny. If you want to talk about utterly pointess, it feels like all of Cyan, Loli and Queen episodes could have been condensed into two and not miss any relevant.

Where's the X x Ahu ship art.

>>282105059
I don't think they do this as much now because of how much international news coverage gets drawn to it like moths to a light, but in China some big wealthy businessmen (like super hundred-millionaire or billionaire rich) could get exiled or worse very quickly by the current party faction in power, because they were accumulating way too much influence

>the tittle of hero X will be relinquished after 1 year of acquisition
there, i fixed all the problems

>>282105223
I kind of disagree. None have a definitive resolution because all of them are part of a grander narrative, but several did manage to develop its central characters, establish the world's lore and some definitely helped advancing said larger narrative more than others (see Ling Ling and E-Soul's arc vs Johnnies or Loli's).

>>282105223
Yeah because everything is being setup for the second half which is something that started to really frustrate me around the halfway point. I think the recent arcs have been better because Nice is something that can kind of be resolved this season so we are getting closure on something.

>>282105303
The one disadvantage of this in the perspective of the table bigwigs is that they don't sniff out the potential cases that are extra greedy to remain as X and then fast accelerate a timetable to eliminate them, vs the ones they can just hit with a cooked scandal and consider them done

>>282103800
Cyan is cute and sings

>>282105411
Why?

>>282105580
Because no one cares about a basic bitch waifu

>>282105580
I can get those anywhere.

Speaking about Chink repressive and comformist culture, I wonder how this show is received over there. It has good production values so I'm guessing it's popular, but I wonder how some of its subversive elements get past censorship. By which I mean, while a lot of the show is "safe", it's entire trust & fear value power system and the goverment and corpo schemers manipulating it seem to skirt way too close to an open critique of Chinese vigilance state and social score system, and that ought to have ruffled some feathers.

>>282105629
It’s doing great. The only shows averaging higher viewership are LOTM and Dragon Raja, which are both ultra popular IPs with a huge pre-existing fanbase.

>>282105781
I have no fuck idea what either of those two are, but good to heart I guess.

>>282105143
johnnies arc has:
1 recap ep
1 backstory ep that has shown no significance yet
1 group ep where he's a minor character
honestly, queen, loli, ghostblade, and johnnies all deserve only 1 episode each (kind of like intro arc for all 4) followed by the ruins arc that flows continously

>>282105629
Link Click had done better, iirc.
that one has a specific viewership to boot.
though tbhx is successful enough to warrant a second season.

>>282101896
Now I wonder how will ss2 goes if Nice is no longer needed for the plot anymore

>>282106111
>Nice is no longer needed for the plot anymore
Says who?

>>282105781
Is LotM doing well there even with the pacing controversy? Kinda based, I think it did get better after the first few episodes.

>>282105200
To be fair, the same is true in America except your standing out will be turned into a product and sold

Ahu is the BEST

>>282104007
without Nice both Loli and Dragon boy arcs are just boring fest for Queen and X aura farming
You can hate him but can't deny his potential as the most interesting character in the story

>>282105717
Cute
X will beat the shit out of those making Nice cries

>>282103902
She will cheer up when she meets Big Johnny anyway

>>282105629
Rank 8 in top 10 donghua summer 2025
Pretty good but not impressive

>>282105781
both LOTM and DR are big IPs but fans of the original works were disappointed with the adaptation, DR2 also looks pretty low budget yet TBHX still couldn't out perform them, maybe china hates this western heroism slop, there are many reasons to drop the show early on: Nice isn't as beautiful as the PV, Nice arc isn't about Nice, Cyan and Queen arc being boring, X was late to appear, etc.

What did they mean by this

>>282107067
>all the other donghua are established cultivation slop franchises on their second, third, and more seasons
>not impressive
LMAO.

>>282106178
The mystery behind his death is already unfolded, all heroes are aware of Nice's deeds, he couldn't make it to top 10, what else can Haolin use him for?

>X is no longer motivated at work
Now we know it's serious.

>>282085515
Loli's dad had sent people to collect spaceship materials, but didn't discover it had nullifying properties so he just left it there at home gathering dust. When Loli made her suit she just used whatever "junk" materials she found on her dad's lab at home, picking up the alien shit, thus, we have a suit that's resistant to both trust and fear.

So X is powerful because he was a famous magician back in the day?

>>282107168
Frieren can become a hit on its first season

Early X designs

http://xhslink.com/m/7Ym42kPPoQj

>>282107340
Is your IQ below two digits?

>>282107362
Maybe.

>>282091715
when did they show this new arena?

>>282107356
I wouldn't ship my bias with X if they had used any of those faggy designs

>>282107340
Of course. And can you believe he worked at the same circus as Ahu? Talk about convenient. He also apparently had an act there for years but people only found out about X a few years ago when he kicked everyone's asses at the election thingie. Who writes this shit, am I right? Also, isn't it weird how Ahu saw him performing for years but it was only then that he was impressed by his tricks?

>>282107356
I like how each one represents almost a difference animation style era and yet he still aura farms in every version

>>282107485
It's from episode 24's trailer.
https://x.com/steIIarevue/status/1964504944704442372

>>282106178
I mean you literally see his body hit the cement. And no way they would leave his corpse there. If he was really alive, they would have confirmed in in the 5 episodes Lin Ling had

>>282107234
Does he even work there or do his "coworkers" merely assume he does

>>282107192
Redemption arc? Healing arc? Wreck rescue arc? Yaoi arc? All 4 at the same time?

>>282106924
>x in the canon *pushes nice off a building*

>>282102648
Aww

>>282107748
None of those can happen when he's rotting away on some dilpidated graveyard or while his remains were chopped apart for study in some illegal lab, can they?

>>282107708
>you literally see
did we? not sure i trust ling ling

>>282107807
Eh but there are plenty of ways he could still be alive, especially if an omnipotent guy like X is involved.

>>282107825
1.No one knows if X is omnipotent, but nothing points at that being the case right now.
2. X doesn't care about Nice. Why would he revive a guy that caused his pal to get killed?

>>282107708
Do we really? We see that x can change dragon boy to paper and back in a few seconds

>>282103754
>I am still confused why she of all people wants to dismantle the Trust system
Her dad is the leader of the Spotlight organization, take a guess what values he's been teaching her.

>>282107356
I'm really glad they went with his current look even if he looks like the KFC Colonel

>>282107748
Wreck is so fucking irrelevant, forget about him already
Lh0's portrayal of Nice is relentlessly malicious—it's like endlessly kicking a corpse. He's been reduced to a pathetic stepping stone. Why bother putting more effort into a stone that's lost its glow when so those that stepped on it are shining brighter? Keeping him alive would only mean prolonging his suffering into season 2

Idk if Nice hadn't blocked the first blow, whether AHu would have survived. But I do know that Nice's remaining conscience compelled him to do so, giving AHu the opportunity to awaken later. Faced with this situation, what would Nice have thought? Would he have thought that if he hadn't blocked that blow, things would have been completely different? I bet he would have. Even as a viewer, I've thought about this, and it's hard for the characters involved not to have thought about it, it was his conscience that destroyed his motivation to live. Nice died because of his own kindness

>>282108321
Fuck. Finally, someone who thinks the same.

who gives a shit about this dude? no idea why fujos always try to attach him to Nice when their interests are completely one-sided. Nothing about what makes Nice interesting involves Wreck.

>>282108370
I don't think it's kindness. I think it's cowardice and hesitation. What is consistent is that Nice is absolutely terrible at being a bad guy. I thought it was weird at first. He comes up against NuoNuo and the dad, but instead of killing them on-site, he introduces himself and spills his intentions first. Now it's consistent here that he meanders around instead of just taking the deed. He just doesn't have the mettle to commit evil without making a show of it. And that makes sense. He didn't become a hero to do these things.

>>282108321
If nice wasn't important why is he in the rankings still? Smile was important but he isn't in the ranking somehow I don't really get the feeling he's dead. Or nice is Lin ling or something. I feel like there is a lot more to reveal because the same seiyuu, his involvement, he's on merch more then lin ling, Lin ling isn't even in some merch.

The Nice sisters are losing it, it he’s not alive we might have a mass suicide on sunday

>pretty boy with crippling autism
>genuinely thinks he's in the right while killing innocents
>never faces consequences for his actions
>gets into top 5
>generally liked
How did he do it?

>His ears change as well when transforming
Why though

>>282107823
>>282108124
You don't think J would grab his corpse? Why would she even leave it there for civilians to see. If he was alive shewouldn't bother with LL subbing for Nice

>>282107993
>. X doesn't care about Nice. Why would he revive a guy that caused his pal to get killed?
X saving him twice would be pointless af. He wants to die, X is just gonna let him. The real reason he saved Nice the first time was to stop the fight cause he was conveniently there for Smile.

>magician to some random salary-man
Must suck.

>>282109174
>magician
Why do brainlets think he ever was a magician?

>>282109198
I don't know, they kinda showed it in the latest episode?

>>282109198
I reckon he used mass hypnosis to make everyone "forget" him, the coin on a string is a classic magic trick. Would make sense how he's so strong since people still have his trust in their subconscious.

Honestly I feel like X can still subvert expectations because his trust value is not like other people's. I'm wondering if he's a narcissist and that's his downfall
He thinks that he cannot be beaten even though he's lazy?

>>282108750
So he can hear himself job better.

>>282108321
>Wreck is so fucking irrelevant, forget about him already
People thought the exact same thing about OG Nice back when the episode count was below 2 digits so yeah I'm going to ignore your opinion.
>Why bother putting more effort into a stone that's lost its glow when so those that stepped on it are shining brighter?
LLfag detected, opinion discarded to the power of two.

>>282108598
It's actually surprisingly easy to be liked just by leaving what you actually think up to interpretation and to the projection of your audience. You can do that by remaining ambiguous and/or saying what people want you to say usually, but mute people can take it to the next level so long as they're hot.

Zhike Yang, one of the directors (also scriptwriter and storyboarder) for Ahu arc, said Xinya was supposed to die originally, but he managed to save her from Haolin after some “fierce debates”.

>>282109984
It did feel weird and counterintuitive that she survived, so whoever opposed him was right.

>>282110042
I don’t think a story about a hero dog who doesn’t manage to protect its owner makes much narrative sense

>>282109984
Haolin trying to torture his characters as expected.

I'm still amused at that one anon saying top 10 in China isn't a big deal. China has has so many people and speakers that top 10 can be more than what the whole country of Japan watches

>>282109198
X's character profile says that he's capable of doing magic tricks in his personal info (yet it's not under his professional info, so likely not hero info). So there's that link of him possibly being a magician prior.
>Skills:Master of snapping fingers, good at piano and magic tricks
These are the only things written for that section by the way.

Anyways, it's likely a metaphor that Ahu saw him as a magician. But I could at least see where the others are coming from.

>>282109984
Zhike Yang was right

Did Ahu seriously have 0 Trust value until the axe fight, or was the stone shifting to number "01" more of a metaphorical lesson that unless you're one of the people who believes in themselves, you'll be weak/powerless regardless of your trust value points? Because if it's the latter, then I have a theory as to how Nice was able to fall despite having the power of flying naturally.

I can't believe there are so many brainlets among us.

>>282111710
he seemed to have the little girl's trust value backthen, otherwise there wouldnt any explanation as to how he beat the thugs at the beggining

>>282111793
First time watching a show with a bit of subtle writing with /a/?

The power of x...

>>282108484
Hesitation was a luxury Nice could not afford, and redemption was a path forever closed to him. Even if Micky and Rock are terrible people, they don't treat their heroes less than a dog. Ultimately, Nice is a bad villain because his core nature is kind. His tragedy lies in the fact that Shang and Smile became equally vital to him, the twin pillars of his existence. His fateful choice to save Smile resulted in utter ruin. The loss of Smile then forced him to lean entirely on Shang, so when that final pillar crumbled, it took Nice's last reason to live.

While one might attribute his actions toward Shang to cowardice or Stockholm syndrome, his decision to save Ahu was a pure act of conscience—an instinctive move before his brain could rationalize it. This same innate goodness is evident when he lunges to save X from falling

>>282111793
this and lotm have honestly been super refreshing after all of the bland basic stories in most shows lately

>>282110438
To be fair we are in an anglo speaking bubble so there could be 1000 billion chinese people and we wouldn't see the difference.

>>282111849
>his decision to save Ahu was a pure act of conscience
nah, it was more like
>well, i tried, now its not my fault if they die
he lived a coward and died (supposedly) a coward

>>282111821
>otherwise there wouldnt any explanation as to how he beat the thugs at the beggining
It's a rabid dog, which trust value or not, can be pretty dangerous on its own. It's not enough to handle an axe very quickly, but a rabid dog is still lethal on their own when the opportunity presents itself.

>>282111710
>unless you're one of the people who believes in themselves, you'll be weak/powerless regardless of your trust value points
The show has said this at least three times now, most notably with Little Johnny's dad and the Firm Man situation. Trust doesn't give you powers unless you believe you can do it. It's why E-Soul was able to beat those dudes up in episode 5. In that moment, he chose to believe he was E-Soul and tapped into that power

>>282108468
Cause X is too out of reach and normalfags love childhood friend sob story, Nice even ghosted this guy because Wreck's so irrelevant in his hero life

>>282108598
he's hot and literally me

>>282111880
>Retard thinks living is easier than dying
Underage shouldn't be on 4channel

>>282111839
No, I watched shoshimin last season with /a/ and threads were great.

>>282111793
Try jjk thread

>>282110438
It's only top 10 for SUMMER 2025
And donghua season released less shows than Japan, it's not that hard getting into top 10 at all

>>282105059
Its chink syndrome

>>282111946
>Little Johnny
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that more about the addition of fear rather than simply always having the absence of self-trust?
>Firm Man
True, though one could argue that outside perception of him being able to drop the statue might've influenced him rather than simply just self-trust.
Ahu I feel is unique because it doesn't mention external barriers for trust like fear and perception of others (ie pomelo), but rather purely internal ones. Xin Ya already trusted him, so it was something Ahu had to figure out on his own.

>>282111793
Then bless us your genius takes, o wise one.

>>282109639
>People thought the exact same thing about OG Nice
Just you, Nice was a poster boy and a large reason why people even picked up this show, then they stay to find out more about the mystery surrounding his death

>>282109475
How is being a narcissist would be his downfall? He becomes weaker if he falls in love?

>>282109298
>>282109220
One bad thing about this show is it attracts too many brainlets and normalfags and most of them coming from the west

I actually don't mind there being brainlets, it generates more discussion too.
I'm gonna miss these threads herobros...

>>282112407
Yeah. I'm going to miss it too because the show and the threads have become part of my weekend routine, but at least we know that it will come back for another 24 episodes in probably 6 months to a year which is way more than most shows get now.

>>282084289 (OP)
>chinkshit flopped in japan
Huh, the nips are based for once

>>282112407
This show helps me procrastinate less on Saturdays because I look for ways to distract myself until the episode is out.

>>282112525
Still will unfortunately take a while for 2nd season to occur. I'd wager it'll be at least 2 years from now because of the polls still being ongoing until this October.

>>282112653
I really don't think it will be 2 years. The production for season 1 has been so smooth that I think they essentially had the show ready to go when it first started airing and have likely been working on Season2. I think 1 year max. I don't think the polls are going to have a huge effect like people assume they are going to since I'm sure the story they have planned is set in stone and certain outcomes are also set in stone. The polls just help them decide what characters are going to get extra screentime or may get more spectacle during their matches.

>Ahu is higher than loli now
lmao
It'd be funny if he surpasses E-soul

>>282113085
Unlikely to happen, but there is a chance now that you can relocate your previous points from one hero to another starting next week.
I just want the dog to do better than Johnny. By god was he not good in his arc.

>>282112407
>brainlets calling others brainlets

>>282108936
So cute, can I have the source pls?
I was thinking an amnesia Nice would be cute to shelter at home

>>282112268
By "people" I mean the people in the threads not the average twitterfag.

>>282108486
>If nice wasn't important why is he in the rankings still?
I said Wreck isn't important to this show, not Nice. And he is in the ranking because he is the chosen stepping stone, also the mascot of this series. But he already finished his role, or to put it bluntly, he can't be exploited anymore since he is dead.

New TBHX merch btw

>>282113369
Nta, but https://x.com/shiro_pkd/status/1964979291902591479
Tip for next time: simply searching xnice on twitter will likely give you results if google reverse image search doesn't work, since most anons here post fanart that was uploaded recently.

>>282113395
Look at the amount of brainlet contents in this thread, you still think twittertards not flooding this place?

>>282112575
Lol retard TBHX goods sold out in Daiso in japan already

>>282113687
>look at the amount of brainlet contents in this thread, you still think twittertards not flooding this place?
I see no Soulcommon shippers here so no, I do not think so.

>>282113687
>>282112248

>>282113686
>Going to twitterland
Ain't doing that
Thanks for the source

So do we see any other company use fake villains or is it only treeman?

>>282114170
>>Going to twitterland
>Ain't doing that
You don't even need to have an account or see the retarded takes from that site if you know the ship name and how to hit search, anon. That's what I do.

>>282114473
Unless we get some sort of reveal about FOMO next ep, I think you're right. DOS is the one using the Spotlight Organization, and MG has Zero, so the others have real villains instead of fake ones.

>>282113617
I kinda want him, love the dead eyes

>>282114473
>>282114669
Treeman has phobiaclone

>>282112407
I was thinking of making a waiting thread for ep 24 on Saturday but it might turn into a spoiler thread instead

>>282115194
And Treeman also has Wreck, a fake villain. It's not about Treeman having an absence of real villains, but rather it's the only organization with fake villains present.

>>282115220
Yeah, don't. Some people might forward and post some of the Chinese leaks since it will air in some universities the day prior. We already have anons here who use Lofter, so the chances of that being the case is higher.

>>282115271
They are the only KNOWN ones, in TBHX world, the term 'villains' including those that abused trust system, those got infected by Fear and those that work for hero agencies for commercial purpose

>>282113321
Not gonna happen. Ahu might get a boost from the next episode friendship with X, but he’s still just a dog.

>get into the top10 Nice
>kill the scientist in the crashed spaceship Nice
>kill Rocks and Esoul Nice
>become my weapon Nice
>kill your childhood hero Nice
>why are you at a photoshoot
>bully locals into selling you their houses Nice
>where are those deeds Nice, we have already started promoting the buildings
>Nice
Heroes in this show really need a union to fight against exploitative practices, maybe X is onto something by leaving on time everyday.

>>282117110
He doesn't need a large boost to surpass Johnny, who's next to him in the poll rankings. Plus, Ahu is gaining more points than him in recent time.
>he’s still just a dog
By that measurement, Johnny is just someone who can talk to a cat.

Boy, am I glad that they didn't go with the rough drafts for E-soul.

>>282109519
Like Queen? Kek

>>282111880
This. Under Shand for 4 so years and couldn't even think to walk away, what a coward.

>>282113686
>pretending not to same fag
Should've known the Nice fujoshit is from Twitter land go back

>>282118341
Oh, some samefag accusations, haven't had those in a while. You can literally see me saying how I found the art too, which can easily be proven by using the same method right this second.
Just an fyi, I think Nice deserved nearly every insult hurled towards him. A shitty boss doesn't excuse your shitty actions.

>>282093499
What he meant by this was humanity in general right? I mean, Zero cant be forgotten, because the Commission exists in FEAR of him.

Fujo vs fujo violence: the thread

>>282102691
Anon that still doesnt explain who the fuck streamed the Ad.

>>282118877
paintfag

>>282119172
I think the anon understood that they couldn't back up their claim on it not being weird after stopping their replies a few responses in.

Anyways, what are the candidates most likely to have done it? It could be X, but he's evidently not omnipotent, and likely doesn't have access to Treeman's works as a FOMO employee. How would he theoretically gain access to that ad and Miss J's email?

>>282119781
X's PV shows that he can do location jumping when he is swapping between realities, so getting into Miss J's office and getting onto her computer, even if it was password locked, isn't impossible for him.
The little smile and how there was a arrow pointing to X makes it really hard to think it was anyone else aside from X who played the ad because there was also an implication that X stepped in during Episode 2 because of the snap accompanying the animation switch so he was watching Lin Ling for whatever reason.

>>282119860
I do agree that the theory that it's likely X is sound. But how would he work around
>even if it was password locked
He's not omnipotent. Where could he have gained access to such info? Is Miss J dumb enough to have her password written in her office or something?

>>282119781
>>282119172
I still think it will be a nothing burger, I will eat my own shit if im proven wrong

>>282117891
Woah, same.
I prefer 2D concept Moon though, the Totally Spies vibe is much stronger.

>>282120145
Hope you'll stream it so I can watch. It's the least you can do after a (you) like >>282102691

>>282120815
Luckily, that comics-inspired version of E-soul was scrapped pretty early on to give him a more tokusatsu-inspired flair. Picrel is another rough draft that closely matches the final version, as seen by how MG is replaced by WB.

>>282121229
I'm gonna samefag and post Ahu's rough draft too. Might as well hit the bump limit.

>>282121229
>WB
Warner Bros???

>>282121824
I'm not sure. They haven't revealed what WB stands for as far as I know. But how would Warner Bros connect to Zero irl?

>>282121591
>Weakness: his beautiful owner
You just know

>>282122208
"Doggy Go," more like, "Doggy, No!"

lucky cyan more like smelly cyan lmao

>>282121229
>>282121591
Are there others?