Tu Bian Yingxiong X Episode 9 Discussion

Some cultural context:

It's important to note that Lucky Cyan was almost certainly intended to parallel education and parental pressure in China, which is a very big issue for the Chinese youth. The Dean being a hero and "passing his dream" to the younger generation, the rhetoric of "I worked so hard to give you the right conditions for success", and phrases equivalent to "why don't you appreciate all I've given you?" are all stereotypes of the typical Chinese tiger parent. A key theme of this episode is its criticism of tiger parents: the episode insinuates that they work their children to fuel their own ego, and actually don't care about the well-being of their children like they say they do.

For context, Chinese parents value education a lot more, especially in urban areas, because a few generations ago, they were basically peasants and education was their only way to a decent life. Almost all Chinese parents act under the assumptions that this is still the case, leading to extreme pressure and academic competition. Lucky Cyan is definitely meant to represent modern youth who are finding their own paths in a new world; the show argues that to succeed, Chinese youth should be more rebellious and independently-minded. Considering the main demographic of bilibili (the producer of the show) is made up of young people, this makes sense.

Another interesting bit is the criticism of cult worshipping; this is probably a message inserted by the CCP. 封建迷信 (feudal superstition, with feudal referring to imperial China) is considered by the CCP to be a major issue, and there are adverts all over China telling people not to be superstitious. Old traditions are considered outdated and holding the country back from knowledge and progress. The idiotic old women worshipping Cyan in this episode is a very common caricature of a superstitious and uncultured Chinese person.

That aside, X shows up this episode! This guy is just showing up to everyone's canon events because he wants to. What's up with Luo as well? Why is everyone a zombie?

Some cultural context:

It's important to note that Lucky Cyan was almost certainly intended to parallel education and parental pressure in China, which is a very big issue for the Chinese youth. The Dean being a hero and "passing his dream" to the younger generation, the rhetoric of "I worked so hard to give you the right conditions for success", and phrases equivalent to "why don't you appreciate all I've given you?" are all stereotypes of the typical Chinese tiger parent. A key theme of this episode is its criticism of tiger parents: the episode insinuates that they work their children to fuel their own ego, and actually don't care about the well-being of their children like they say they do.

For context, Chinese parents value education a lot more, especially in urban areas, because a few generations ago, they were basically peasants and education was their only way to a decent life. Almost all Chinese parents act under the assumptions that this is still the case, leading to extreme pressure and academic competition. Lucky Cyan is definitely meant to represent modern youth who are finding their own paths in a new world; the show argues that to succeed, Chinese youth should be more rebellious and independently-minded. Considering the main demographic of bilibili (the producer of the show) is made up of young people, this makes sense.

Another interesting bit is the criticism of cult worshipping; this is probably a message inserted by the CCP. 封建迷信 (feudal superstition, with feudal referring to imperial China) is considered by the CCP to be a major issue, and there are adverts all over China telling people not to be superstitious. Old traditions are considered outdated and holding the country back from knowledge and progress. The idiotic old women worshipping Cyan in this episode is a very common caricature of a superstitious and uncultured Chinese person.

That aside, X shows up this episode! This guy is just showing up to everyone's canon events because he wants to. What's up with Luo as well? Why is everyone a zombie?

Uh, did you really try to look for him, Cyan? He's still at that orphanage--you know, right where you left him?

Maybe they'll get into that a bit later. Probably next episode will show the dean telling the hero agent that Luo passed away. Otherwise, there's no excuse for Cyan's oversight.

So far this has been the most boring story in the anime, and Lucky Cyan didn't go get her friend from the orphanage because? She didn't like him?

@utopia- This will be explained in Ep 10. But if you pay attention to her speech during the concert she thinks Luo is dead. This is also mentioned in her character PV.

Another garbage episode. Not sure, but it seems they got an entirely different crew for this arc and it's slop. Does anyone even give a rat's ass? These are the least compelling characters so far. Like how do you go from pretty awesome to just pathetic in a few episodes? And don't get me started on all the singing.... my god that hurt. Anyway 1 out of 10.

@IzanaSolos oh, that's X !😱

@Niwaka-Samurai I genuinely didn't know that was X. Glad that I came here after the episode. Seems like he's supporting them all from the shadows. Perhaps X wants to create his own team to beat the system of heroes?

at least he's still alive.. for now