Shiguang Dailiren

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, it holds an infinite amount of secrets. These are secrets that only Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang are able to find. In a small shop called "Time Photo Studio," the two friends provide a special service: using their extraordinary powers that let them enter photographs, they jump into pictures brought to them by clients in order to grant their wishes. Through the eyes of the photographer, they live through the events surrounding the picture and try to decipher how to solve their client's request.

But every time they jump into a picture, they take a great risk. One wrong move and they could alter the future of the person who took the picture... and possibly countless other events too. So when the events they are forced to live through in these pictures start to become personal, it will take the utmost strength to push their feelings aside and focus on accomplishing the task they were paid to do.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Cheng, Xiaoshi Main

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki Japanese

Lu, Guang Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Qiao, Ling Supporting

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Wu, Lihua Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Liu, Min Supporting

Kawanishi, Kengo Japanese

Chen, Bin Supporting

Morita, Ryousuke Japanese

Xu, Shanshan Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Li, Xiao Supporting

Sakaguchi, Shuuhei Japanese

Lin, Zhen Supporting

Toyoguchi, Megumi Japanese

Yu, Xia Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Li, Haoling Director, Script

LAN Episode Director, Character Design, Animation Director, Chief Animation Director

Nolan, Diana Script

Tenmon Music

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Nov 23, 2024

Rwurg

Recommended

You aren't ready for the ending...

It seems rather innocent in the beginning. But don't give up.

If you are confused about what's going on, and how this universe works, that's intentional. It works you into the story. Starts you off slowly, and introduces different concepts and characters that you should pay attention to. I will admit, it may be difficult to see where the story is going at times.

The two protagonists are great complements of each other, and offer comedic relief at times when necessary. They do very much drive the story forward, and you will feel yourself becoming connected to them. ...

The art style is unique and refreshing. I like that it's something different, while at the same time, managing animations almost flawlessly. It's not at the same level as AOT or DS, but it does things better than most.

One last thing I will say, I loved the concept of this story. It's difficult to talk about this too much without giving away the story. If you enjoy mysteries and time travel, you will love this. This for me was a true masterpiece, no question. It kept me and my wife on the edge of our seats, so much so, where we were staying up late (with an infant child) to continue watching.

(just wanted to edit to say that the ending song was an absolute banger, and fit perfectly ever time).

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 23, 2023

VaioletteZ

Mixed Feelings

This is a great show that I feel threw away its entire plot in the last 2 minutes of the final episode. Like they've ended the season PERFECTLY, then the writer couldn't control themselves and had to keep writing and wrote the story from a Your Name level of perfect ending to one that is just sadistic, evil, needlessly cliff hangery and lacking in confidence.

It just feels like they had so little confidence that people will come back for season 2 that they decided to write one of the most contrived and unnecessary endings in and ruined a beautiful story from the heart into ... a generic good vs evil story. I went from being extremely excited for season 2 to not even having ANY interest in continuing after the writers showed just what kind of petty people they are to the viewers and the characters.

I won't spoil the ending but all I'll say is that if you want this show to be a 8-9 out of 10 instead of 7, stop watching at the first credits of the final episode.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 16, 2024

ktogmm

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/11 eps)

this show is genuinely one of the worst animes I've ever watched and even got me to write my first review on MAL. I'll keep it short and simple, nobody is here to read long essays on one person's watching experience.

Storytelling - This is the BIGGEST thing in any show and it is absolutely horrid here. It's a bunch of mini stories compiled into one show and the fact that a good chunk of these "mini stories" are <1 episode in length, there's nothing to be resonated or feel a certain type of way towards these stories. Throughout the show, it builds up slowly the ... main plot of the show, but it started off with bare info.

No proper introduction to these characters, how their shop came along, and how Qiao came along to work in the shop, and so much more viewer questions. If you leave essential info like this and push it towards a deeper part of the story, it doesn't produce that "mystery" reaction. It produces boredom and acts as if we already know these characters coming into this show... which we don't.

Visuals - Animation was well designed, but their formatting by putting black bars was completely unnecessary and ruined it. This is not a movie, what was the point of black bars? To add an imaginary cinematic effect throughout the whole season? 😂

Have nothing else to talk about. Everything else like SFX, characters, etc were somewhat decent. Dropped this anime and have 0 plans on picking it back up, waste of time and there's way better shows to spend your time on then this. Genuinely don't know how this is so high rated, this show is a snoozefest.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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