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| Poor emma and her family... This didn't end well. |
| You are welcome. Btw here is the link. https://twitter.com/STUDIO_Lan_/status/1461176617586229248?s=20&t=eH5yBcZQDCclWUf6VLYiSw |
ZXEAN said: You are welcome. Btw here is the link. https://twitter.com/STUDIO_Lan_/status/1461176617586229248?s=20&t=eH5yBcZQDCclWUf6VLYiSw Just an FYI, that was the release date for the Season 2 Preview Trailer, that was released on November 20th, 2021. There's no release date for Season 2 yet. |
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| Daaaaaaaaamn that was good ! I hope the season 2 comes in October for one of the most banger seasonal split since 2012 in my opinion ! |
| One of the better executed twist endings. Overall the show was very good and the mc are well developed working well in the story. The art was a little wonky at some parts, but for the most part the animations where good. I am a little worried they will not be able to execute the story for s2 as it seems like villian is very overpowered. Him being able to be in multiple places at once and basically having a power similar to there's in a sense. They will need a complex way to stop him and it might be difficult to do in 11 episodes if they go for that again. I hope they can execute on a similar level to this season as it seems like it could be very difficult. |
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| What will happen now?! |
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| Holy hell, what a cliffhanger! |
| Next level animu. 10/10 *chef kiss* Make sure you catch those words right at the end of the credits. |
| This anime was a solid 9/10 through and through, and then that CRAZY ending occured. Now this is a 11/10. Damn |
| That was kinda fucking incredible. Holy shit. I think that was kind of an amazing finale, but now I'm kinda annoyed, cause I wanna know what happens next. Damn, brought me abit to tears, then flipped the plot on me. That was incredible |
| "We brawlers are sustained by willpower! Even when mocked as reckless and crazy!" |
| i can't handle it. Emma just couldn't have her peace 😭. Absolutely banger of an episode. What a great show! 10/10 for me. Had me in tears and at the edge od my seat so many times in just 11 short episodes. |
| WTF? Maybe that red eyes is like a shinigami or death itself |
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| Wherever there is light, one can photograph. That's such a great quote for this episode and series. Nice timing to put it after Cheng Xiaoshi's speech too. Feels like I could watch another dozen episodes of Lu Guang, Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling just working at their photo studio and helping people. I really enjoyed the episodic stories. The OST is simply amazing as well and I've been completely absorbed in it. Seems like we're just getting to the meat of the story, so I'm happy to hear there's another season on the way. |
| That was a big fuck you cliff hanger |
| That cliffhanger! \\>^<// |
KatouHasegawaJan 14, 2023 6:52 AM
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| I love that ending. It makes perfect sense, but I never thought that may happen, so it took me by surprise somehow. Best feeling. Can't wait for S2, but I'm also a bit scared. Different direction, not expecting more episodic stuff - let's see how it goes. |
| No happily ever after in this one huh |
If you are going to disagree with me, don't bother talking to me. I will seriously hurt you! |
| This show always had great cliffhangers but this episode was especially amazing I can't wait for the second season |
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| And it all came back in a full circle. One of the agents, so there are other people who can time travel, right? What a fantastic series, definitely in my top 10 now. It was so suspenseful and insane!! Lol when white haired guy looked at the picture of Emma, the phone was upside down. What I don't understand is how no one notices the yellow eyes when brown haired guy jumps into people's lives and takes control of their bodies. I'm so happy Shanshan and Dong Yi had a happy ending where they found each other again!! What the hell??? How could they send the series like this?? What the fuck man I'm so pissed right now. |
As a wise man once said, "No one hates anime more than anime fans"  |
| That was a ride. The show's definitely a masterpiece. So sad that Emma wasn't saved in the end but I think it fits with the overall melancholic tone of the show. This one made me cry on multiple occasions and that makes it special in my book. Special kudos to artstyle and ost, so beautiful. Season 2 can't come sooner |
| I still don't see why this show is so highly rated and I'm sad since I really wanted to like it since the premise sounded good to me. But I really think that a good chunk of people raving about this show have to be fujoshis or girls fixated with kpop that are attracted to cheng and lu guang. We have subpar characters with defined traits, two main characters with random powers that never got fully explained, short forgettable and badly written arcs (doudou one above all), average animations and a cliched butterfly effect time travel narrative. I still don't understand why Emma wants to jump from the bridge, there isn't really a valide motive. Is it because her death was set in stone when Cheng send that message and changed her past so she had to die no matter what? Anyway, even the ultra-shocking twist in the end is kinda... bad? I mean there is another mastermind that can possess multiple people at once from nowhere, no real clues are shown during the course of the show... it just happens. Just to have a stupid twist. Even the alternate timeline theory was sloppily introduced, it doesn't make sense... I see that Liu Min was possessed during those fights, but still its just poorly written and put together. It has some big melodrammatic episodes that are good and well executed like the mom from the village that got it by the Sichuan earthquake and the Emma story but thats it. Animes with time travel like SteinsGate, Rezero or thrillers like OddTaxi, Baccano and others are miles better as a whole package than this. |
WhiteTestamentMar 14, 2023 3:22 PM
WhiteTestament said: Remember when the truth of Titan in AOT only gets revealed in late ss3 or the origin of Stand Arrow in Jojo only gets revealed in Part 5? At least wait until the show is finished to state your opinion. We have subpar characters with defined traits, two main characters with random powers that never got fully explained. I mean there is another mastermind that can possess multiple people at once from nowhere, no real clues are shown during the course of the show... it just happens. Just to have a stupid twist. Even the alternate timeline theory was sloppily introduced, it doesn't make sense... I see that Liu Min was possessed during those fights, but still its just poorly written and put together. WhiteTestament said: Ok but can you differentiate between artstyle and animation?average animations WhiteTestament said: It was clearly explained through her flashback and conversation with Xiaoshi, did you just skip that part or did the bad subtitle confuse you?I still don't understand why Emma wants to jump from the bridge, there isn't really a valide motive. Is it because her death was set in stone when Cheng send that message and changed her past so she had to die no matter what? |
kizumi91 said: Yeah, but the writing, foreshadowing and characters of AoT are levels above this one, it's not even close. This introduction of an evil guy who can enter multiple pictures at the same time and possess people like it's nothing seems to be there just for shock value. WhiteTestament said: Remember when the truth of Titan in AOT only gets revealed in late ss3 or the origin of Stand Arrow in Jojo only gets revealed in Part 5? At least wait until the show is finished to state your opinion. We have subpar characters with defined traits, two main characters with random powers that never got fully explained. I mean there is another mastermind that can possess multiple people at once from nowhere, no real clues are shown during the course of the show... it just happens. Just to have a stupid twist. Even the alternate timeline theory was sloppily introduced, it doesn't make sense... I see that Liu Min was possessed during those fights, but still its just poorly written and put together. WhiteTestament said: Ok but can you differentiate between artstyle and animation?average animations WhiteTestament said: It was clearly explained through her flashback and conversation with Xiaoshi, did you just skip that part or did the bad subtitle confuse you?I still don't understand why Emma wants to jump from the bridge, there isn't really a valide motive. Is it because her death was set in stone when Cheng send that message and changed her past so she had to die no matter what? Obviously there will be a reason since this guy seems to know Cheng ("the game is reset" or whatever it said at the end) and it has been just vaguely hinted by LiuMin (when he refers that it's someone else doing the killing) but it still feels so badly put together with almost no tought behind. In this first season we dont know why our MCs can time travel, how they do it and furthermore Cheng seems definitely stupid more than in one instance. Lu tells him every single episode that he has to go with the script, change nothing, don't go overboard and yet, Cheng fails every single time. The explanation of multiple alternate reality created by him is just... put there. And that's the reason for the double attack of LiuMin (or whoever is possessing him) against LuGuang in the studio and Cheng inside Xu's body. As for Emma... I get it, her course of life has been changed by that single message that Cheng sent in EP1, that is why her parents come visit her at the city and why she rushes toward the station meeting LiuMin... but I still dont get it. Why would she want to kill herself? Just because she can't text back her parents? It seems idiotic and beyond laughable. What I don't get is... in the first EP LuGuang is perplexed at the end to find out that Emma died later that night, so Cheng actually is the reason for her death, even if throghout the season we are costantly reminded that the past cant be changed. Death can't be changed, there are nodes that would occur no matter what, so thats why she wants to kill herself? As for the animations they are serviceable.. I guess? It's like watching an animated webtoon and thats fine. There are a lot of reused scenes and screenshots toward the end. The budget should have been pretty tight I think. I still think this is way overrated and that there are a lot of time travel or thriller anime that are actually good/great compared to this. I wanted really to like it but not everything is for everyone. |
WhiteTestamentMar 15, 2023 11:02 AM
WhiteTestament said: AOT has like 25 episodes of the first season for introduction and world-building, next 12 episodes for some small reveals and the whole 22 episodes of ss3 for big reveals. How can it be compared to an 11 episode Anime with 3/4 of total runtime is drama of multiple people and only last 3 episodes actually focuses on the overaching story??? Steins;Gate would have suffered the same issue if it has ended after the first 12 episodes.Yeah, but the writing, foreshadowing and characters of AoT are levels above this one, it's not even close. This introduction of an evil guy who can enter multiple pictures at the same time and possess people like it's nothing seems to be there just for shock value. Obviously there will be a reason since this guy seems to know Cheng ("the game is reset" or whatever it said at the end) and it has been just vaguely hinted by LiuRen (when he refers that it's someone else doing the killing) but it still feels so badly put together with almost no tought behind. In this first season we dont know why our MCs can time travel, how they do it and furthermore Cheng seems definitely stupid more than in instance. Lu tells him every single episode that he has to go with the script, change nothing, don't go overboard and yet, Cheng fails every single time. The explanation of multiple alternate reality created by him is just... put there. And that's the reason for the double attack of LiuRen (or whoever is possessing him) against LuGuang in the studio and Cheng inside Xu's body. And just to clarify, if you actually pay attention you will realize there's a condition for the evil guy to trigger his ability of possessing people. Talking about forshadowing in this show, hmm, maybe I'll write a blog to debunk it when I've time. WhiteTestament said: First episode introduced that she has always been under pressure of abusing and overworking, eats dirty food and can't have proper sleep. Later, her CFO got arrested for financial fraud. As his assistant, Emma more or less was involved and lost her job and could never work in that field ever again. In the last episode, it also revealed she actually knew about his affair but just happened to turn a blind eye to it for the bribe. She acknowledged that she has degenerated into a bad person, no different than her CFO. Because of her self-esteem, she was in great torment, thinking about her parents just make her more depressed. That's why when she confronted Xiaoshi, she was bawling her eye out "Could you help me go back to square one? Then I can start over". Her phone broke here was just the last straw that led to her suicide. Isn't it too hard to understand?As for Emma... I get it, her course of life has been changed by that single message that Cheng sent in EP1, that is why her parents come visit her at the city and why she rushes toward the station meeting LiuMin... but I still dont get it. Why would she want to kill herself? Just because she can't text back her parents? It seems idiotic and beyond laughable. WhiteTestament said: The past CAN be changed but major nodes like death are not. Emma will utterly die no matter what, in the original timeline she was suicide but in the new timeline, the evil guy just killed her by possessing her body.What I don't get is... in the first EP LuGuang is perplexed at the end to find out that Emma died later that night, so Cheng actually is the reason for her death, even if throghout the season we are costantly reminded that the past cant be changed. Death can't be changed, there are nodes that would occur no matter what, so thats why she wants to kill herself? WhiteTestament said: The character designer is a Korean so indeed, it does looks like an animated webtoon. If you talk about the reused scenes and screenshots in Xiaoshi and Emma's conversation then it was used for the narrative purpose, not because of a tight budget, just look at the OP, ED and the animation in episode 3.As for the animations they are serviceable.. I guess? It's like watching an animated webtoon and thats fine. There are a lot of reused scenes and screenshots toward the end. The budget should have been pretty tight I think. WhiteTestament said: I don't get why you keep forcing it to be thriller and saying it's bad when the show was meant to be drama and mystery in the first place.I still think this is way overrated and that there are a lot of time travel or thriller anime that are actually good/great compared to this. I wanted really to like it but not everything is for everyone. |
kizumi91Mar 16, 2023 4:06 AM
| Saw it coming that the real culprit would have been someone with a special ability, but did they just possess two bodies at once? It seemed like the culprit possessed Emma and Ling's body at once since Lu Guang was stabbed before Emma jumped off. If the culprit really did possess two bodies at once that's kinda overpowered.. Also poor Ling, I can't imagine her shock when she found out she stabbed Lu Guang. |
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