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| i have no idea how to feel about shang chao still. great episode though, they went hard with the slow mo at the end too. |
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Reply to JAWZ2003
That was really stupid at the end. They show e soul speeding up looking like he could intercept or at least almost intercept. Then you hear two gunshots while e soul is standing still. Next cut e soul gets there at the same time as the girl?
I know it’s nit picking but that kind of just made the scene had no believability to me.
I know it’s nit picking but that kind of just made the scene had no believability to me.
| @JAWZ2003 Not sure if anyone else has said this, but it's my current personal theory that he let Shang Chao die. From what we've seen, he definitely could've made it, and I doubt saving a life would go against what his fans want him to do. Additionally, when considering the possibility that he kills Moon eventually, it's possible that he's not quite as heroic as portrayed. Whether consciously or unconsciously, perhaps some part of him wanted Shang Chao dead, over something as simple as wanting to be with Xia Qing - especially when considering the fact Chao asked her out, and she said "not yet." As for why he may be such a character, I'm guessing the effects of having no trust factor - we saw in his flashback in the interrogation room that he's been excluded for a lot of his life, and that he is an outsider, with no trust factor being exceptionally rare. It's possible he's treating others as they've treated him - not trusting them, not even Shang Chao who was helping him out so much. Maybe Qing was the only person he "trusted" or believed could trust him on an individual level, and Chao was an obstacle? Either that, or the rain somehow had an effect on his power, seeing as it's electric based. |
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Reply to roppuri
@Moijer9869 Don't think so, after he got the power of "E-soul" from Pomelo, he electrocutting everyone, he shakes hands with children and electrocutting them too, it's not because of costume.
| @roppuri Yeah, also, Shang Chao states that one advantage Yang Cheng has over the original E-Soul is that Cheng is "still E-Soul without the mask." He's already been shown as the man behind E-Soul, so he should definitely be able to take full advantage of his powers, mask or no mask. |
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| Yet another interesting theme discussed here. In the beginning I compared this show to Tiger&Bunny, but it gets beyond with exploring stuff like superhero copyright infringement and battles meant for the courtroom not for the crime infested streets. Also the Enlighter strikes again...I mean in chronological order he strikes for the first time in the story. I can't get enough from this smug bastard, so much fun! |
| so when will we get back our MC mr nice ?? |
Reply to DonghuaFan
@roppuri You are right that it does seem illogical. But the lesson we have all learned from Link Click season 2 is that Li Haoling likes to deceive the viewers about the events shown on screen. There is a reason why after Yang Chang started to blitz towards the killer / Shang Chao that the scene switches over to Shang Chao being dead on the floor. I can be wrong but my theory is:
As to your comment about Yang Cheng being able to shoot lightning bolts...that version of E-Soul is in the future where he is the number 9th hero and is a lot more powerful. Ep 6 takes place 5 or 6 years in the past, Yang Cheng only has about 1% of OG E-Soul's power. In Ep 5 and 6, he is only shown being able to run fast, charge his punch with electricity and imbue things with static charges. But he technically hasn't thrown any electric beams at anyone yet.
As to your comment about Yang Cheng being able to shoot lightning bolts...that version of E-Soul is in the future where he is the number 9th hero and is a lot more powerful. Ep 6 takes place 5 or 6 years in the past, Yang Cheng only has about 1% of OG E-Soul's power. In Ep 5 and 6, he is only shown being able to run fast, charge his punch with electricity and imbue things with static charges. But he technically hasn't thrown any electric beams at anyone yet.
| @DonghuaFan I feel like this is just me being nitpicky over how avoidable SC's death and the whole "i see everything" drama is uneeded but the point is he's really dead anyway lol, there is post that said it maybe that YC instinctively let SC died too. Valid points about Haoling. Oh yes, you're right about that, re-watch again and he never shoot beams towards enemies, he's pretty much still novice in of fighting skills and abilities now but YC in 5 yrs after this episode is definitely far stronger than this. |
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| Damn, another cliffhanger. This series has been solid so far. Yang seriously needs to find his backbone for a second. Other than that, just gotta playing the waiting game for the next episode. |
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| The REAL original E-soul has only 1 arm! But the dude is a scarred, grizzled, real BEAST. Unfortunately his PR management only has him doing appearances and not fighting villains anymore? So the shiny new guy is taking some of his trust value. That can't feel good. Oh no, so the blackmail attempt backfired! And whoever is behind it escalated by killing Shang Chao, who turns out really WAS his friend just all excited to show him the new mask and happened to be wearing the mask when the hired killer showed up! Initially thought he might have been manipulative but he really was just a businessman, classmate and friend! Oh no! What is going on! Why didn't he just chase after the villain that killed his friend instead of dramatically crying?? Gaaaah!!! After this episode I told myself to think of this anime like Game of Thrones and NOT get attached to any character. Not even the kid ones. Men, family, Women, children doesn't matter, they might die in that ultra violent world. |
Stormy_77May 12, 10:42 PM
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| I actually had doubts about Shang Chao, thinking he might be helping Yang Cheng for a selfish reason, but he's actually a genuine friend and a fan who saw the potential of a Hero from Yang Cheng, that's why he ed him. From a careless mistake of putting the mask on, his life was taken away, how do we keep losing the good side characters in this show? Enlighter made an appearance and this time he's on our side, but when you think about it, he was always in the side of the truth, he was only hostile to Nice because he knew the Nice-Moon relationship was fake. I think Xia Qing actually likes Yang Cheng, she's just waiting for him to confess. So Yang Cheng becoming E-Soul is because the people wants to see a real hero, maybe the Original is not that active anymore and is just a celebrity and icon at this point, and someone (Yang Cheng) borrowing his identity ignited the people's trust to shift towards the new version of E-Soul (a version similar to when he goes around saving people). What would happen to Yang Cheng now... |
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| Tbh I'm getting pretty annoyed on how they are handling almost every episode ending with a head-blood-possible fake death cliffhanger. Like c'mon it just feels overused at this point. |
| I was wondering about the timeline. Looks like Yang Chan's story is before Lan Ling's, but not that much earlier, perhaps even simultaneous. I wonder if we're getting origin stories for a superhero group/unit. |
| I was expecting Xia or her brother to die, but Shang? That one came out of left field. |
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Reply to DonghuaFan
@dragynfaerie The story for this show is told in a non-linear manner and possibly backwards. The timeline for E-Soul's arc is 5 years before Lin Lings. At the beginning of each arc, it tells you what year the event takes place in (ie. XX year after commission).
| @DonghuaFan thanks. I seeing the year but I couldn't rember Lan Ling's. Thanks |
Reply to Camoboi1
That ending was unexpected!!😳😳
| @Camoboi1 Not really unexpected. It was obvious when they drove the point home with the original Esoul guy hiding his face and giving a slow speech about hiding his identity to the media. They're just copying regular tropes and it makes sense. A hero showing his face invites trouble to his friends and family. |
| nothing takes the thought that shang chao was the one who paid for the thugs to kidnap the child and hire yang cheng after he went viral out of mt head. and his father is probably the owner of the organization that recruited enlighter in nice's arc. (also wasn't nice's arc supposed to be chronologically happening after this? why are they calling him by the name he got when he got recruited?) and ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO THROUGH THESE CLIFFHANGERS WITH PEOPLE DYING EVERY OTHER EPISODE? yang cheng is a mix of deku and spiderman to me. i don't think the writing is any good in this arc, but as i said on the last one, at least it's still very pretty to look at. |
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| Lmfao just when everything was going good, another character is dead. This anime with his cliffhangers... |
| "When they're alive, you can enjoy watching them struggle. When they're dead, you can enjoy tearing out their guts. Tales are things you get to enjoy twice." |
| I got a feeling that Shang Cheng was the culprit behind the kidnappers and did it to make his friend into a True E soul but now that he's dead, This theory goes out the window lol. |
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| The OP is a banger. |
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