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Yesterday, 1:36 AM

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I really liked this episode. This series is so packed with details it will definitely be deserving of a rewatch to catch everything better and notice more of the foreshadowing. I'm definitely enjoying watching everything slowly come together each episode.

It's interesting how few dialogue lines Nice actually gets during his appearances, as if it's emphasizing that he really has no say in what his fate is. He's just a marionette on the string. Suicide ends up his only way out in the end.

Yesterday, 1:45 AM

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so smiles daughter moon will be killed by esoul from the command of uncle rock to mess with x it seems



@deg How do we know Moon is Smile's daughter?
Yesterday, 1:46 AM
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Banger episodes one after another 🔥🔥
Yesterday, 1:51 AM
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It was so Amazingly Good
Yesterday, 1:59 AM
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dragon really said to X « your rank is mine🤡 » it was absolute cinema
Yesterday, 2:04 AM

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Holy shit! What an episode it was!
It seems like Rock has figured out something about X. But I don't think he can ever beat X, no matter what he does.
And fuck these stupid peasants. How can they still cheer for Dragon Boy after seeing him being consumed by fear?
Yesterday, 2:11 AM
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Holy shit! What an episode it was!
It seems like Rock has figured out something about X. But I don't think he can ever beat X, no matter what he does.
And fuck these stupid peasants. How can they still cheer for Dragon Boy after seeing him being consumed by fear?
Rom-Com_lover said:
And fuck these stupid peasants. How can they still cheer for Dragon Boy after seeing him being consumed by fear?

They don't know about it, all they see was Dragon Boy fighting some Monster(Smile) and Nice attacking DB
Yesterday, 2:29 AM

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@deg How do we know Moon is Smile's daughter?
@C1rrus_ His personal fan theory.
Yesterday, 2:31 AM
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@deg How do we know Moon is Smile's daughter?
@C1rrus_ its a popular theory ever since that picture holder keychain has been brought up plus uncle rock is the boss of new esoul anyway
Yesterday, 2:36 AM
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Dragon boy wasn't even the main character of his own arc and got is ass kicked by X
Yesterday, 3:18 AM
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X'S PULL UP HAD ME LIKE
Yesterday, 4:03 AM
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Best episode I've ever seen
Yesterday, 4:34 AM
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I hope there won't be any backstory episode for Mr. X. It's best that he remains an enigma. It's enough if they drop bread crumbs of hints for people to guess and speculate.
Yesterday, 4:43 AM

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So Smile didn't call him "brother" for no reason. They're brothers-in-law. That's why Yan knows who he is now that he picked up Smile's necklace. Maybe Yan knows Smile wasn't close to anyone, so nobody could know about that necklace except for family and the ones that disappeared them (himself)?

All in all, great episode and so glad to see the 3D back in action.

I'm even more, MORE convinced that X's power is that of imagination. Can't wait to see Yan's ass kicked.

And poor Nice... I wanna hug that poor boy.
Yesterday, 4:45 AM

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M-T_S said:
Rom-Com_lover said:
And fuck these stupid peasants. How can they still cheer for Dragon Boy after seeing him being consumed by fear?

They don't know about it, all they see was Dragon Boy fighting some Monster(Smile) and Nice attacking DB

I was meaning when Dragon boy was consumed by fear and became purple. It was crystal clear.
On the other hand, maybe they thought it as one his power to transform.
Yesterday, 4:58 AM
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man that was so good

the animation changeup goes so hard!!!

seems like X can manipulate space and time or some shi
Yesterday, 4:58 AM

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ZXEAN said:
Marinate1016 said:
I can’t believe I used to be sleep on Chinese animation
You should catch up with Link Click before S3.

Yea same director, people been tryna get me on forever. Soon.
Yesterday, 5:21 AM

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Man just two episodes left.
Yesterday, 7:05 AM
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The audience freaking out about what happened to Dragon Boy is not because they can't perceive it, I just think its because they r too far way and X just covered his with his hands. Beer cans floating around in the first snap is such a nice detail as well
Yesterday, 7:56 AM

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X first full appearance kind of left me unfulfilled. Even he didn't kill Dragon Boy, he should've taught him a good lesson and beaten him half-dead for his friend Smile instead of just throwing him into water.
Heavens committed a sin.
Yesterday, 7:59 AM

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So Dragon Boy was already trained even to withstand fear.
X was a little late to the scene. Goodbye, SMILE ! 💔💔
NICE was saved by X but he's gonna end up taking his own life due to the guilt of being responsible for the death of the hero that he loved and aspired to become.
X's entry was so awesome. Switching things from 2D to 3D and I guess he even made himself sober by getting that beer in cans out of him and made them disappear 😲😲
X just crushed Dragon Boy like a paper and threw the trash lol
There's nothing that X can't do 🫰😭❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
I guess Rock will spin the story like Nice made Smile become a monster and Dragon Boy took care of it. But when Dragon Boy tried to stop Nice, X intervened and saved him.
Now Rocks found a weakness in X that he could exploit when X was holding on to SMILE's locket.

@Niwaka-Samurai Since X is so powerful why not just kill Rock directly instead of giving him any chances. A good riddance for a villain and also take revenge for his friend Smile in the process.
LordGrim9987Yesterday, 8:02 AM
Heavens committed a sin.
Yesterday, 8:10 AM

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@Niwaka-Samurai Since X is so powerful why not just kill Rock directly instead of giving him any chances. A good riddance for a villain and also take revenge for his friend Smile in the process.
@LordGrim9987 Killing Rock without any prove will only cause X downfall. X will be consider as a threat rather than a Hero and will ultimately suffer same fath as Zero. This socity works on people's trust so any wrong moves can be fatal.
Yesterday, 8:12 AM
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damn that appearance of X was lit
Yesterday, 8:13 AM

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@LordGrim9987 Killing Rock without any prove will only cause X downfall. X will be consider as a threat rather than a Hero and will ultimately suffer same fath as Zero. This socity works on people's trust so any wrong moves can be fatal.
@ZXEAN But from what we've seen so far, and the major reason why others are investigating X, is that the Trust concept doesn't seem to directly apply on X.
Heavens committed a sin.
Yesterday, 8:19 AM

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@ZXEAN But from what we've seen so far, and the major reason why others are investigating X, is that the Trust concept doesn't seem to directly apply on X.
@LordGrim9987 Still everyone consider him as a Hero. Things wouldn't be the same if they started seeing him as a Villain.
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Yesterday, 8:29 AM

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@Niwaka-Samurai Since X is so powerful why not just kill Rock directly instead of giving him any chances. A good riddance for a villain and also take revenge for his friend Smile in the process.
@LordGrim9987 isn't that what all superheroes shows are about !?
And also killing Rock wouldn't work in favour of X. And it might decrease his trust value. We still have no idea how X's powers really work. X might also not be aware of the full extent of Rock's plans to go after him. I guess X is really playing it safe and avoiding conflict.
Yesterday, 9:27 AM
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Season 1 of TBHX is all a set up for the tournament that happens in S2.

Dragon Boys story (along with Queen's story) will continue in season 2. Most likely because they are integral to Rock's (Dragon Boy) and Micky's (Queen) plans. Ep 23 will be Ahu's origin story but keep in mind that a big chunk of his story was told in the first To Be Hero X concept trailer (X fighting the phobia clones). Ahu will most likely have a bigger role in the story in S2.

Although X's episode is ep 24, he technically appears in Dragon Boy's and Ahu's episodes. And we already learned bits and pieces about X in the shows concept and character trailers. Most likely ep 24 will be a set up for S2 and S2 is where you will learn more about X.

The director of the show is Li Haoling and he likes to keep things suspenseful until the very end. Look at Link Click, you don't learn about Lu Guang (one of the main characters of the show) until S3.
@DonghuaFan I think you are correct in your assumptions about what will happen next.

Queen and Dragon Boy's backgrounds were the least explored thus far, so going into greater detail later as part of exploring Micky's and Rock's backgrounds makes sense.

Personally, I don't think shortchanging these origin stories for later is fair to the viewers based on the expectations the series itself set in its road map for the season. That feels like a cop out for running out of time imo.

I hope season 2 doesn't commit to a set schedule like they did here so they're not worried about fitting things in to a certain budgeted time frame.
Yesterday, 9:28 AM
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I feel bad for anyone who’s not watching to be hero x weekly. I can’t believe I used to be sleep on Chinese animation. X, it’s oozing off the screen goat. Finally got to see him in action and this is the most emotion we’ve seen from him as well.

I fucking hate Smile went out over some bullshit like that and the fact he died with a smile on his face… man just wanted to see his daughter and make sure she was ok. Didn’t hurt a fly, did things the right way and by all accounts was the ideal hero everyone strives towards. You know he was one of the good ones when X, who’s shown zero emotion in any of his appearances, is visibly upset and angry about losing his best friend. Congrats, you just made an enemy of the strongest being on the planet.

The choreography for the nice vs dragon boy fight was absolutely incredible as was Smile alter vs Nice. The 2D/3D shifts with X were also dope. I feel like these last few episodes are going to be insane. I can’t wait.
@Marinate1016 fr why it is not popular like other shounen
Yesterday, 9:34 AM

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MentionLizard said:
@Marinate1016 fr why it is not popular like other shounen

Because it’s not a shonen. It’s a Chinese donghua with no source material.
Yesterday, 9:36 AM
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the dragon was crushing, and when the X appeared it was reduced to nothing, incredible
Yesterday, 9:50 AM
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Using X's ability to change reality and having a Spider-Verse/Movie Quality storytelling for this whole episode is insane.
Kaiju No.8 coming out the same day is criminial as I was enjoying it more until I just seen this, the craziest work of art all year.

Straight heat from the beginning, they start off fighting as the intro starts playing during the scenes (yk its gonna be good after that)
Then lyrical music playing during the first fight, then essentially no freeze/still frames but straight hands being thrown for 11 minutes.
Then X's intro, didn't read the manga, but this has gotta be the top anime of 2025.
Yesterday, 10:18 AM
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Why do we have a scene of Nice as a child being manipulated by Shang de, telling him that you're just using me for my revenge? Knowing that he only started talking about revenge after his son's death, but when his son dies, Nice is no longer a child, he's an adult lol
Yesterday, 10:21 AM
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X just showed to basically be the god controlling the "show", besides going from 2D and 3D he can literally turn characters in A4 paper and crumple them as if he's throwing away a story draft into the trash, insane.
Yesterday, 10:43 AM
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This might be the BEST episode of anime this year.
Yesterday, 11:13 AM
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I got chills as Smile turned. This episode was intense!!! Also sad were almost at the end of the season. Maybe we get a season 2, but regardless I hope this has a good ending :3
Yesterday, 11:27 AM

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Ok episode. But surely this wasn't "THAT" episode that you guys kept hyping up, right? There was this hype that one of the upcoming epsides will have crazy animation. But if that SHORT scene of X switching artstyles was that, it was way too little justify the hype.
If you haven't watched "Fantastic Children", don't talk about "best anime". Thank you.
Yesterday, 12:09 PM
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X switch between different animation with a snap of fingers
Yesterday, 12:09 PM
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man, why kill off Smile ffs? i love him. smfh.
fuck Dragon Boy. but yup, that X entrance was smoke af. holy mother of aura farming. 🤣🙏🏾
Yesterday, 12:44 PM
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nice episode

took me all day to realize the irony in X crumpling up Dragon Boy like trash

I think everybody who thinks Moon is Smile's daughter is onto something — Rock has figured out that X is connected to Smile and Moon, and this is what leads to her assassination later.
Yesterday, 12:45 PM

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@dior You managed to take screenshots of these impact frames. So cool ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
Episode fire as usual.
@Niwaka-Samurai These 2 are the sickest, in total there are 7 frames [including initial 3D].
Here's all of them I could capture, I can't post all as screenshots so here in imgur you'll find screenshots uploaded -> https://imgur.com/a/0JnM1EH
Yesterday, 1:26 PM

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The way we started the show with Nice jumping off, not knowing anything about him, to reach this far and learn more... People calling X a god gives me a bad feeling. Also I wonder if this season is the ending? Because so far characters had their episodes, but Dragon Boy feels a bit like a stepping stone for Nice and X... Unless we will get more of his story? But what about Ahu's story? And X's since we also know very little? I do hope there will be more because it feels unreal to wrap up
Yesterday, 1:27 PM
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X Power is Dimensional Manipulation huh..
Yesterday, 1:35 PM

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Episode fire as usual.
@Niwaka-Samurai These 2 are the sickest, in total there are 7 frames [including initial 3D].
Here's all of them I could capture, I can't post all as screenshots so here in imgur you'll find screenshots uploaded -> https://imgur.com/a/0JnM1EH
@Zettaiken That's Awesome..thank you ! ✨💖
Yesterday, 2:04 PM
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The 3d is back! Poor Smile and Nice.
Yesterday, 2:07 PM
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You know, there's a lot of times in this series where i've wanted the show to linger a bit to breathe, but i've never wanted it more than after the first transition to 3d in this episode. That scene was amazing. I also really love the subversion from music swelling when X crumpled DB. Ugh there's so many small things this show does well that I could go on for literally hours.

I came in with literally no expectations and have found my favorite anime of the season. The animators are putting in soooooo much work and the storytelling is great. Next saturday can't come soon enough.
Yesterday, 4:27 PM

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This was a great episode, these most recent episodes are so refreshing and make me love how the show focuses on each character separately bc it all ties together so nicely~
Yesterday, 6:39 PM
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Hero X was so amazing
Yesterday, 7:49 PM
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He could've just ripped the paper, but I guess he didn't want to kill in front of the public. So Rock figured out X was friends with Smile. Is he going to find out about his other persona/hidden identity?
Yesterday, 9:05 PM
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@Camoboi1 there is going to be a s2
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there is going to be a s2
Just googled it and you are correct, but I'm confused on what it's going to be about with a episode guide I found that was officially made by the studio!! <img src="https://preview.redd.it/the-episode-schedule-v0-zlv1ckq3cuue1.jpeg?width=320&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=a3b1c877b007b2d9c93eaef1db4c1dda857f4fed" alt="CDN media"/>
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