Tu Bian Yingxiong X Episode 7 Discussion

And how do you know that?

How do you know the lore? The videos on YouTube or what else can I read

@Marinate1016 Here's the trailer for the no.1 hero

Absolutely incredible ending to E-Soul’s arc holy shit. No disrespect to Nice, but this was 100x better and I LOVE how morally ambiguous they made Yang out to be. It absolutely makes sense that he’d potentially kill Moon in the future, I mean the dude just killed his hero who saved his life as a kid after destroying his reputation. Not to mention all the stuff about Shang we learned today, this was a masterclass both in animation and character writing. Bravo.

Xia and Yang tried to hold it together for a while, but you could tell things would never quite be the same after Shang’s death. Xia had unresolved feelings for him, Yang had unresolved feelings for her and deep down he hated himself because he could’ve saved Shang Chao, but hesitated. I love how this series makes characters out to be flawed and truly human. It’s totally natural to hesitate like that out of jealousy, it’s not right, but it’s human and real humans aren’t cartoon characters who are paradigms of justice.

New E-Soul vs Old E-soul was absolutely incredible bro, the fact Yang’s aura literally changes the art style to 2D is fucking incredible. You also hear a snap sound when it happens which seems to be a theme here! Tons of cool camera angles, great storyboarding and compositing, perfection. Feel so awful for Old E soul going out like that after having his name dragged and dude never even cared about rankings. Legit one of the good guys and gone for nothing.

Not Xia going to lucky cyan’s concert by herself with the 3 tickets she got for her, yang and Shang.. FUCK.

I’m still confused on who Uncle Rock is supposed to be, but whoever he is, he was playing 4D chess the whole time clearly. Yang’s old life is gone and he’s now fully e soul, working for the same dude who set up Shang’s murder and Xia’s brother’s kidnapping. Painfully tragic twist.

On the bright side, lucky cyan arc finally coming next week and it’s gonna be mainly 2D let’s goooo. Each arc seems to be getting better and better I can’t wait.

@Rom-Com_lover

Here's a playlist with all Character Unlock Trailers.

@HadeZerX I've watched all of them already

How do you know the lore? The videos on YouTube or what else can I read

One actor.
Two E-Souls.
Three Seats.

Truly majestic!

There are a few things that confuse me...

Why did Yang Cheng challenge the original E-Soul? Like, it wasn't ever truly implied that E-Soul would be the main culprit behind Shang Chao's death. Yes, we as viewers know it was Uncle Rock who arranged the whole deal, but where did Yang Cheng get the idea, and thus decide to challenge the original E-Soul? He seemed to be in so much rage, so it would have made sense if he thought original E-Soul was the one behind Shang Chao's death, but...was it ever clearly stated? Or, should we just piece together from the clues we got? But if so, it still doesn't make sense. After all, it was Shang Chao's father who had enlisted Enlighter to investigate the case and find the true 'mastermind' behind all. Yang Cheng knew after all, the thug brothers' other brother was behind the trigger pulling, but there was obviously someone behind it all...so, if Enlighter said 'it was the original E-Soul!' he either did a poor job or Shang Chao's father wanted get rid of the original E-Soul (politics? Revenge?) or Uncle Rock made very good trail to original E-Soul (and thus Enlighter deemed him as the "true" mastermind behind Shang Chao's death). Or, is this all up to the watcher to decide, or later on to find?

Also, if in the end the new E-Soul was indeed Yang Cheng, why would he be with Uncle Rock? Wouldn't he realize there was something fishy with Uncle Rock, as before he portrayed to Yang Cheng as being a barely staying business store manager? He even stated to Uncle Rock 'this ad must have cost a fortune...' so, Uncle Rock turning out to be a powerful CEO who runs a hero business? Erm, shouldn't that ring any alarms or something? Or, are we supposed to just assume Yang Cheng would be brainwashed enough at that point not to see anything wrong in that? That all the fame of being E-Soul get to his head, and he chose to ignore this clearly suspicious fact? Or, should we viewers assume there was a small time skip between the two E-Souls' fight and the last scene where Uncle Rock goes to see the brand new E-Soul?

I assume the someone on Twitter you’re talking about is Rin? I’m moots with them if so I need to check their tweets more 😂

Why does everybody thinks, that the New E-soul survived?
At the end of the episode it is clear, that the surviving E-soul has a robot arm, and Yang didn't have one. Doesn't this tells us, that the Old E-Soul won, and the New E-Soul was basically just a sacrificial pawn created by Rock, to renew the interest in E-soul and elevate its Trust value back?

Also wouldn't the fact, that the surviving E-soul didn't question Rock's CEO identity (and Yang only new him as a Coffee owner) , would also be telling us, that he isn't the New but the Old E-Soul?

Am I missing something here or all others just assumed, that Yang won (because it would make sense from a story writing point of view) and they are mistaken?

I'm so mad about this serious ending, they didn't show who won, who died, who was left, they left us curious to only show it at the end, there was no hook for the next character, they didn't show who killed the girl in the fourth episode, how seriously mad

The lightning that killed Moon was the same color as Yang's.

@derprume

But then why does the current E-Soul has a robot arm like the Old E-Soul, even though, Yang (if he is the one who survived) had both arms after the end of battle. Also why isn't he surprised by Rock at the end of the episode? For him he was a shop owner, not a CEO of a hero agency. Also the sound of E-Souls breathing was the exact same as the Old E-Souls.

And his design and lightning color could have just changed due to the fans expectations.

Obviously I am not saying, that I am definitely right and Yang couldn't have been the one who survived, but then there are writing inconsistencies or strange details that should be explained later (like the robot arm and not being surprised at Rock).

@derprume

But then why does the current E-Soul has a robot arm like the Old E-Soul, even though, Yang (if he is the one who survived) had both arms after the end of battle. Also why isn't he surprised by Rock at the end of the episode? For him he was a shop owner, not a CEO of a hero agency. Also the sound of E-Souls breathing was the exact same as the Old E-Souls.

And his design and lightning color could have just changed due to the fans expectations.

Obviously I am not saying, that I am definitely right and Yang couldn't have been the one who survived, but then there are writing inconsistencies or strange details that should be explained later (like the robot arm and not being surprised at Rock).

@Tuliharja 1st, he know who the killers are and they should be in prison right now. Someone bailed them out and YC suspected they're from Comisssion, which lead him to distrust them and wanted to handle the case himself. He knew those thugs had beef with him and someone from Comission wanted to capitalize that, which lead him to what he experienced in ep 6 to be prime suspect.

@Niwaka-Samurai 3 seats as in Lucky Cyan concert' seats

And how do you know that?

@fenrirr2 The E-soul standing on the rubble at the end had no right forearm. It was a fight to the death so it wouldn't be surprising if Yang lost his right arm. As for Rock, unless the public knows his face as the CEO, he could act as Yang's new manager (Yang has no one else at this point) and still be the CEO in the shadows.

Moments before Shang's death, Rock as the cafe owner responded to a customer upset with the E-soul controversy with essentially "out with the old and in with the new". Old E-soul was at least in his 50s and has refused to change his PR stance, which is a problem for the company.

It's possible old E-soul is alive and would test the limits of fan expectations. Can heroes become age-less/immortal? Would old E-soul accept such a plan that involves sacrificing someone?

@Marinate1016 Seems I'm the only one waiting for Queen's arc 😂

@Marinate1016 Seems I'm the only one waiting for Queen's arc 😂

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