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| So masked man was indeed Zhen and Micky (MG) is Spotlight. And the leader of HAC pretty much knows what they have being doing. Ah Sheng was killed for "knowing something" as Mokusatsu said. Or rather not sharing what he found with HAC. Vortex probably was assassinated. As Zhen said "is strange no hero came to the rescue". HAC is rotten to the core. |
| Absolute cinema is the only way I can describe this episode holy shit the way everything came together so well here |
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| Absolute cinema is the only way I can describe this episode holy shit the way everything came together so well here. Sets us up for an insane final stretch. Can’t wait to see all the heroes fighting! Vortex vs Big Johnny was fire as you’d expect. Seeing Johnny beat the absolute breaks off the number 1 hero in the world is crazy tho. I figured vortex was innocent and not the one behind Sheng’s death. Seems like that’s one of the higher ups, but he was still kind of a dick so I’m not mad at him getting his ass beat. The fact little Johnny lost his parents and then his whole reason for being a hero at such a young age.. really a miracle he didn’t off himself. Having big Johnny be there for him was a godsend. But WTF. So vortex died in the same plane crash that killed cyan’s parents? That makes Johnny and Ghostblade bonding over her music that much more poignant. The way everything leads back to my girl in this series 😭 Johnny seeing his dad in Ghostblade during the car ride and defending him to Luoli really messed me up man. The eventual reveal of the truth of his father’s death is going to hit so hard now. Normally any Queen cameo would be welcome, but she looks brainwashed?? wtf are Micky and Shand planning, and does that mean that’s her attacking Ghostblade and Johnny at the end of Ghostblade’s arc using the Fear they’re weaponizing? Everything slowly but surely coming together and I can’t wait for the next few eps, |
Marinate1016Aug 2, 7:51 PM
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| omg the entire last 10 episodes finally linked up.This week's episode just wrapped up 10 episode's of setup so nicely. aaaaaah. The cliffhanger!! WTHECK!!! Johnny is about to realize who his dad's killer is. Ghostblade surely had his reasons for doing what he did right? T^T ffffuu i need answers!!!! |
G_AkerAug 2, 8:22 PM
Reply to deg
its all connected damn who is the main villain here the uncle of queen?
| @deg I think the show's true villain is corporate itself. All this big companies fighting for popularity wants profit and the show tells a brilliant perspective showing how each company's heads will resort to any means to gain the upper hand in business. |
Reply to deg
its all connected damn who is the main villain here the uncle of queen?
| @deg I think the villain is the hero system itself. Yes, Micky may be spotlight. But HAC is rotten. After the fall of dawn incident started a system that seems to have serious problems. The opening of the anime gives hints that X comes to put an end to it. |
Reply to G_Aker
@deg I think the show's true villain is corporate itself. All this big companies fighting for popularity wants profit and the show tells a brilliant perspective showing how each company's heads will resort to any means to gain the upper hand in business.
| @G_Aker It is not for money, power, or being no1. It never has been shown to be about that. What they fear is another Zero. They want control. The first X was E-soul two years after the fall of dawn. Why start a tournament? Why were they so afraid of this new X that won two tournaments in a row and have the highest hero score in history? Why they mention that fear seems to be more reliable? Why Vortex said that no hero will reach a power that rivals gods? |
Shiro_AsaigawaAug 2, 8:42 PM
| This episode was phenomenal. Who do you think this is? My first thought was that he looks like Zero, but then, his right arm is missing just like E-Soul. It could also be a completely different person but what do I know.  |
Reply to sosu3
This episode was phenomenal.
Who do you think this is? My first thought was that he looks like Zero, but then, his right arm is missing just like E-Soul. It could also be a completely different person but what do I know.
Who do you think this is? My first thought was that he looks like Zero, but then, his right arm is missing just like E-Soul. It could also be a completely different person but what do I know.
| @sosu3 maybe its the corpse of dj shindig? i mean he was infected by fear and a lot of groups right now are experimenting with fear too |
Shiro_Asaigawa said: So masked man was indeed Zhen and Micky (MG) is Spotlight. And the leader of HAC pretty much knows what they have being doing. Ah Sheng was killed for "knowing something" as Mokusatsu said. Or rather not sharing what he found with HAC. Vortex probably was assassinated. As Zhen said "is strange no hero came to the rescue". HAC is rotten to the core. hear me out, vortex power wore sealed by big jonei so if they let him leave he might leak it's existence to evryone |
| Ok everything finally fell in place but I don't get how Johnny is in FOMO. I thought he was a member of DOS like Queen and Lucky Cyan. |
Reply to RAT-Man84
So so happy to be right that Ghostblade's slash work in the forest was the thing to trigger Little Johnny's fear-induced memories of how he found his dad...who was also assassinated by Ghostblade. In turn that caused Big Johnny to transform, and there we go, we're back at the part where vacationing Queen and Lucky encounter Big Johnny. Damn good stuff!
| @RAT-Man84 But one thing I don't get it is Johnny was in DOS, right!? But here we see him in FOMO.. How's that !? |
Reply to Niwaka-Samurai
@deg it can't be DJ Shindig..he was experimented with fear by DOS Micky and Liu and he faced Ghostblade and died.
| @Niwaka-Samurai then its more likely old E-soul |
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| great episode poor kid... |
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Denkenisme said: I feel that the boss of the Hero association, where Queen and Lucky Cyan belong, is just as bad as the other Hero associations. now we need to see what the 3 guy has |
Reply to TKZmine
@Niwaka-Samurai then its more likely old E-soul
| @TKZmine yeah, that's my guess |
| This episode was like a recap of the ghostblade arc |
| Wow, so much got rehashed it felt like a recap episode even if it was a slightly different perspective. |
| Another guy made famous because of FOMO. Little Johnny was accidentally(?) filmed taming the rampaging Big Johnny and earned trust value enough to make him a hero, he took this opportunity to get close to Vortex hoping to learn the truth of his dad's death, but Vortex unfortunately died in the same plane crash with Cyan (what a connection, I wonder if that was planned to assassinate Vortex), with Vortex gone.. Little Johnny was left without a goal and he just kept doing commercial stuffs. I take it that Liu Zheng (Queen's Father) is the masked guy that experimented on DJ Shindig along with Mickey. Mickey knew about Sheng's mission and that he held his discovery and something that he might have brought back (Big Johnny), he also seems to know Little Johnny is Sheng's son that probably has information about what Sheng found? Who was it that hired Ghostblade to assassinate Sheng? and also told him to not do unnecessary things during Big Johnny's rampage? Could it be Mickey? because he seems to know a lot of things with the events. Shang De is experimenting Fear with a one-armed corpse (Old E-Soul's?) Queen and Cyan were told to go on a vacation.. well to spy on the expedition. Little Johnny hallucinating about his past and remembers about his father's death, and it leads to Big Johnny's rampage again... Big Johnny sensed something before it too, maybe it was from the space ship? Will next episode be a big fight with all these heroes working together to stop Big Johnny? I can't wait! |
Reply to Teruki_Inoue
@Niwaka-Samurai I think we just thought of him as a DOS guy just cuz he's chums with Queen n Cyan. I mean, it wasn't revealed back then what agency he was part of, right? It may as well be our mistake.
| @Teruki_Inoue Teruki_Inoue said: I think we just thought of him as a DOS guy just cuz he's chums with Queen n Cyan. You're so right 😅 |
sosu3 said: This episode was phenomenal. Who do you think this is? My first thought was that he looks like Zero, but then, his right arm is missing just like E-Soul. It could also be a completely different person but what do I know. Im thinking it's phobia-clone. Name fits the power, mask looks similar and it would make sense why he's injured because he fought vortex which caused the plane crash.  |
Reply to Beyful
sosu3 said:
This episode was phenomenal.
Who do you think this is? My first thought was that he looks like Zero, but then, his right arm is missing just like E-Soul. It could also be a completely different person but what do I know.
This episode was phenomenal.
Who do you think this is? My first thought was that he looks like Zero, but then, his right arm is missing just like E-Soul. It could also be a completely different person but what do I know.
Im thinking it's phobia-clone. Name fits the power, mask looks similar and it would make sense why he's injured because he fought vortex which caused the plane crash.
| @Beyful Don't remember all that well, but was the Phobia-clone guy that was mentioned a Hero or Villain? (Whatever the case, the powers of thr goons we see in the first ever TBHX trailer do seem to match the name. That's a WILD finding, mate! |
| Alright ep Ig this is how Lil Johnny rose in trust value and struggled to become a hero. Bro boring asl for a mc ngl. So everything in this ep is a retelling / recap, but thru Lil Johnny's eyes. Nah Loli and Lil Johnny using their heads to actually expose Ghostblade was funny, I can't lie. Looks like the character design of Queen changed a bit, but nice to see mommy back :). Also, this brings the reason why she's going on that trip with Cyan. The connection to the airplane crash and spaceship is strong. I'm assuming he'll see Ghostblade and attack him considering the running home scene could be connected, despite him being delusional in the moment. The worst ep of the series, in all honesty. 7/10 |
JayDaAnimeLordAug 3, 6:45 PM
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki |
| Genuinely the first bad ep of the show so far. Alot of unnecessary recap with more insight from Johnny's perspective and from other characters. I just would like to know if there was any better way to pace this out. Like, the writers surely know that the viewers already can connect the dots of future events, especially from last week's ep, so to give a good chunk of this ep's time to recapping was just bizarre to sit through. But I guess they all cant be bangers. |
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| We've seen the other side of the story and yeah this is setup episode. |
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