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anime-primeJul 14, 2021 5:33 AM
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| As expected, they were not going to believe him.... He couldn't save her, but at least smth important could be saved (ಥ﹏ಥ) The police? This is going to be very interesting. It may be smth related with Emma 0.0 Whew, I almost cried at this episode again. Very good episode |
| As expected no one believed him and he couldn't save the mom anyways. Still sad to watch though, I almost teared up when the mom was left in the rubble. But at least going back to the past wasn't entirely useless, the camera was a good save. Overall really great episode, the OSTs were spot-on as well. Looking forward to the next episode, I wonder what kind of request the police has in store for the MCs. |
  "As promised, all that you seek, all that we desire, is prepared up there. On top of the Tower." |
| oh so dramatic! no oh...looks like the police knows about their stuff! 5/5. |
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| The last three episodes were kind of slow ( i feel like 3 and 4 could've been one episode) but i loved this one all the more, esp with how the architect singing his son to sleep mirrored how his mom did so when she was dying. But the boy rlly went thru so much trauma :( i'm sure he felt really betrayed by Lu Guang And also, CALLED it. I knew a police officer was gonna come into the store and ask for help. I feel like now they're gonna try to solve the murder of the lady from episode one and hunt the killer :D |
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| This episode was so good. The show just keeps getting better and better, I'm absolutely in love with it. Hope it won't disappoint. |
| I really don’t think this arc needed a full 3 episodes, eps 3 and 4 were painfully slow paced and dragged out. I also gotta wonder why the client who the black-haired mc(impossible for me to remember anyone’s name in this show) was possessing the entire time, didn’t tell the shop The whole story? iirc all he told them was to deliver a message for him, not that his mother would die in a earthquake. And since black-haired mc lost his own parents to an earthquake, he has to re-live that trauma. Unless the white-haired mc knew all along, but didn’t say anything to black-haired mc. Dick move right there. But I guess you could argue, that if the black-haired mc knew the outcome of his mission from the beginning, he’d act totally different and may not want to cooperate. Still seems unfair that he has to be the one to go through all the suffering and trauma, while the white-haired mc is just a spectator. Idk how the black-haired mc doesn’t have serious PTSD from what he’s had to been put through emotionally. With how this episode ended, I won’t be surprised if the two mcs “break up” if black-haired mc gets too fed up. White-haired mc is hardly sympathetic to what his friend is going through, he definitely deserved that punch! Be curious to see if he also has some tragic backstory, but shuts off his emotions, which is why he comes off as so cruel and cold with his “rules are rules” attitude. This show is so nasty with its cliffhangers lol. I agree with others that it be interesting if the police officer is working on the case of the woman from the first episode who was murdered. Instead of him being there to shut them down and arrest them. I’m sure what they are doing is technically not legal....since this is only 11 episodes right? I’d prefer to see the remaining episodes be focused on the same arc until the finale |
giveup-the-ghostMay 21, 2021 11:53 AM
giveup-the-ghost said: I really don’t think this arc needed a full 3 episodes, eps 3 and 4 were painfully slow paced and dragged out. I also gotta wonder why the client who the black-haired mc(impossible for me to remember anyone’s name in this show) was possessing the entire time, didn’t tell the shop The whole story? iirc all he told them was to deliver a message for him, not that his mother would die in a earthquake. And since black-haired mc lost his own parents to an earthquake, he has to re-live that trauma. Unless the white-haired mc knew all along, but didn’t say anything to black-haired mc. Dick move right there. But I guess you could argue, that if the black-haired mc knew the outcome of his mission from the beginning, he’d act totally different and may not want to cooperate. Yeah, Lu Guang (white hair) for sure knew about the earthquake all along, one way or another. It's been established that he uses his futuresight on every photo before sending Cheng Xiaoshi into it and ngl, out of the two of them he strikes me as the one to actually talk to their costumers lmao so he might've been told about the earthquake as well. I feel like the deal here is probably that Lu Guang scouts out the mission and Cheng Xiaoshi trusts him to fill him in on all the important details and lead him thru the encounters. Something that clearly came to bite him in the ass this time But I agree that he probably didn't tell him about it because it was pretty clear how Cheng Xiaoshi is going to react and he prioritised the case over his friend. No kidding, he absolutely deserved to be punched for that one. I'm mostly just curious how long they've been doing this? Because on one hand it seems like they've got all this shit down to a T and a whole business set up and everything, but on the other Cheng Xiaoshi has been acting out during p much every case so far, which seems like it would've become a problem rather quickly [edit] I am also wondering about what Lu Guang's deal is. He keeps bringing up the fact that they could lose the lives they have now in such a way that it makes me think there's something more he's saying with it, but i can't figure out if by "we" he means the entire humanity - as in, the future could be changed drastically, and that's a problem - or if he means "we" as in the two (or three, ig) of them specifically, and he doesn't want that to change. He doesn't smell of abandonment issues, so i'm curious what that's about. |
elanyMay 21, 2021 12:57 PM
elany said: giveup-the-ghost said: I really don’t think this arc needed a full 3 episodes, eps 3 and 4 were painfully slow paced and dragged out. I also gotta wonder why the client who the black-haired mc(impossible for me to remember anyone’s name in this show) was possessing the entire time, didn’t tell the shop The whole story? iirc all he told them was to deliver a message for him, not that his mother would die in a earthquake. And since black-haired mc lost his own parents to an earthquake, he has to re-live that trauma. Unless the white-haired mc knew all along, but didn’t say anything to black-haired mc. Dick move right there. But I guess you could argue, that if the black-haired mc knew the outcome of his mission from the beginning, he’d act totally different and may not want to cooperate. Yeah, Lu Guang (white hair) for sure knew about the earthquake all along, one way or another. It's been established that he uses his futuresight on every photo before sending Cheng Xiaoshi into it and ngl, out of the two of them he strikes me as the one to actually talk to their costumers lmao so he might've been told about the earthquake as well. I feel like the deal here is probably that Lu Guang scouts out the mission and Cheng Xiaoshi trusts him to fill him in on all the important details and lead him thru the encounters. Something that clearly came to bite him in the ass this time But I agree that he probably didn't tell him about it because it was pretty clear how Cheng Xiaoshi is going to react and he prioritised the case over his friend. No kidding, he absolutely deserved to be punched for that one. I'm mostly just curious how long they've been doing this? Because on one hand it seems like they've got all this shit down to a T and a whole business set up and everything, but on the other Cheng Xiaoshi has been acting out during p much every case so far, which seems like it would've become a problem rather quickly Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Since the first episode, CX seems annoyed most of the time when he has to carry out these missions, like he doesn’t want to follow the rules to a T and etc. If they’ve been doing this for years, you’d think he’d be more levelheaded and go with the flow better instead of always arguing with LG on almost every step of the mission. Unless that’s just his personality. In that flashback scenes when CX and LG first met, they looked exactly the same age-wise, so maybe it hasn’t been that long that they’ve been doing this. Also wondering if we’ll ever get an explanation how they have these supernatural powers to begin with. The official info I’ve seen translated about this show doesn’t give any clues... |
giveup-the-ghost said: elany said: Yeah, Lu Guang (white hair) for sure knew about the earthquake all along, one way or another. It's been established that he uses his futuresight on every photo before sending Cheng Xiaoshi into it and ngl, out of the two of them he strikes me as the one to actually talk to their costumers lmao so he might've been told about the earthquake as well. I feel like the deal here is probably that Lu Guang scouts out the mission and Cheng Xiaoshi trusts him to fill him in on all the important details and lead him thru the encounters. Something that clearly came to bite him in the ass this time But I agree that he probably didn't tell him about it because it was pretty clear how Cheng Xiaoshi is going to react and he prioritised the case over his friend. No kidding, he absolutely deserved to be punched for that one. I'm mostly just curious how long they've been doing this? Because on one hand it seems like they've got all this shit down to a T and a whole business set up and everything, but on the other Cheng Xiaoshi has been acting out during p much every case so far, which seems like it would've become a problem rather quickly Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Since the first episode, CX seems annoyed most of the time when he has to carry out these missions, like he doesn’t want to follow the rules to a T and etc. If they’ve been doing this for years, you’d think he’d be more levelheaded and go with the flow better instead of always arguing with LG on almost every step of the mission. Unless that’s just his personality. In that flashback scenes when CX and LG first met, they looked exactly the same age-wise, so maybe it hasn’t been that long that they’ve been doing this. Also wondering if we’ll ever get an explanation how they have these supernatural powers to begin with. The official info I’ve seen translated about this show doesn’t give any clues... Cheng Xiaoshi is supposedly 21 and since they met in HS i guess the timeframe we're working with is between 2 and 5 years since they might've started doing this? Which seems like plenty of time to get your issues sorted out or quit. Altho I suppose they could've started the business recently and these issues weren't as much of a problem if they were just messing around with photos from the day before or something. But i'm hard pressed to believe any teen would have that kind of restraint lmao Man, yeah, that's another mystery, innit? I wonder if we'll ever get a proper explanation. I'm super curious about it all but ngl, on the other hand i'm fine never knowing, if they spend the time on the actual plot instead. After all, if how their powers work isn't important to the story, then there's more important stuff to spend screen time on /shrug |
| This case was really slow, would've liked it more if it was condensed into 2 eps. Also it seems like white haired mc was really stringing black haired mc along the whole case (not telling him about the earthquake, lying about saving the mom). Giving how traumatizing it ended up being, that was definitely a dick move, I wonder if they'll explain what his reasons were behind that & why he's so fixated on their rules. I get how meddling could make bad outcomes in some cases (like ep 1 obv) but I don't understand how warning the town or saving someone could possibly make a worse outcome than the one where most of the town dies in the earthquake. |
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| Amazing. Some people are saying ep 3 to 5 should be condensed into 2 episodes, but I find them perfect as they are. I can't imagine how they can be condensed without losing the feel. |
| 'I have no bonds tying me down. That's why I can see things as they are!!' - Yugami |
| ah.. yeah. knew it was coming but it still hit hard. showing the town before the earth quick hit, the characters that we've seen for the past 2 episodes, knowing they'll be dead. that scene with his mom dying fucking broke me. her touching him, trying to comfort him even at times like that, and suddenly stopping. man that was a great episode police is here ? interesting to see how thatll go |
| man what an amazing episode, it was heartbreaking that he couldn't save anyone as he just watched it happen |
| Holy shit this show is good. |
| BAWLED my eyes out. 10/10 |
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| Oh damn my feels I cried to the point I had to pause the episode hahaha... TT I initially clicked on this show by mistake but damn I got hooked up so good, I just binge watched the first 5 episodes. It's really good so far. I feel so sorry for Cheng, all the feelings between his own and the client's ones. It must be unbearable. I totally understand how it can overtake his reasoning and make him act like that even if Guang tells him to stop. I have a bad feeling about the following episodes... Emma's situation keeps coming back. Someone protect Cheng. T-T |
| This episode really made me cry, it was so sad. I can't wait to see more and the OP/ED are so amazing |
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| Look at these notes here. 120 votes, 114 five starts, 6 four stars. Never seen a score so high before. I really hope that we can at least see Emma again, even if she remains dead. While watching I noticed her death would be the overreaching plot, the series was dropping subtly hints about some murderer out there with Ling Qiao's scenes (including the extra episode). |
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| I knew this episode was going to be sad , so I prepared myself not to cry but I fall Bro anime mom should be like this ngl I cried when MC's mom(this arc mc) died . And the ending scene was so beautiful and emotional , I am in love with Chinese animation now |
| I cried so damn much, this show needs more attention. |
Oussamabenzekou said: I cried so damn much, this show needs more attention. I'm doing my part evangelizing it out there. |
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PaninaManina said: Oussamabenzekou said: I cried so damn much, this show needs more attention. I'm doing my part evangelizing it out there. Bro I gotta thank you for getting the word out there, didnt cry that much since 3-gatsu no Lion. Love how they did the sequence in this episode |
| I had not payed the deserved attention before because of all the emotional impact, but the future/present was changed. Like Lu said in the episode 6 what they do is for the people in the present, not for the past. Remember episode 3 when the client reached his hand to talk to Xiao on the street and Lu grabbed it? It was intentional to show us his left hand without a ring in it. Because of the messages Xiaoshi delivered he lived with less regrets and was able to move on with his life, "forgetting" his lost love and marrying and forming a family. When he enters the store in this episode is only to develop the film, he doesn't know Xiaoshi. I wonder if this detail will be used again to change what happened in the first episode. |
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merlin2v said: marsthedandelion said: I was just rewatching and Lu Guang mentions something about not be able to escape the fate of death, im wondering does that mean that he knew that no matter what Cheng Xiaoshi did that the mother would not have been able to be saved? Or did he just try not to save her on purpose because changing the past is against the rules? So from what I understand so far, it isn't that they can't change the past, it's that changing the past could change the future. And it seems that these "time nodes" are what allow small changes to not affect the future. This is probably to help explain away the paradox that would be created by doing the man's request. (If they do the request then why would he ask them to do something that's already been done thus undoing the change). In the end time travel in shows tend to be very picky about what rules apply when. It appears though that in this world the butterfly effect is very weak. (Small choices don't effect the bigger outcome easily) This nature of time travel allows for them to be able to jump in and out of a frame of time without changing the bigger picture. Tbh, they probably will end up trying to change the future at some point which will help give us more info on the nature of these time nodes. I'll be watching to see if it makes cohesive sense but more often than not time travel in stories are usually structured to fit a narrative rather than make cohesive sense in a world. The key is the "nodes", I also think. How Lu even knows what is a node? Must be because if the tries to feel how events will change if they do something differently he can't, because story changed too much and affect him. Or something like that, right? Think about this, just by going there Xiaoshi is changing story. Changing little, but story is happening differently. The world must be able to absorb small changes over time, I think that it's similar Isaac Asimov's "The End of the Eternity". The protagonist works on a job that changes story, they go back in time to manipulate events to construct story to the way they like. When they change something only a period of time changes, like a wave being absorbed by the lake. That's why must have happening here in this Arc. Pay attention that Shioshi never meet the client before the job, only after the job, so he wouldn't notice the ring or anything different, and the client also didn't mention the job they did for him not only because he never met Shioshi before, it's because for him he never went there as a result of the job beind done. |
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| Not me sobbing at the end and losing it this episode lol it kinda...gave me your name vibes except in this anime when you change the past it can completely affect the future in a way you do not intend as we saw in episode 1. And so it's interesting how despite things not happening 'exactly as they did in the past'...the earthquake still ended up happening because death is inevitable in this world/ What really got me choking was the fact the dude spent all those years probably thinking of what he would say to these important people in his life and time as well as events really changes your perspective on people and what they mean to you. The mother part honestly was what sent me because there really is no love like one a mother has for their child. The way that cheng xiaoshi asked if he could save his mother made me think he was talking about his own? I thought it was interesting how he saw his own mother in her and the way he has to live the lives of so many people. I do think this would break him emotionally, and he seems like a very emotional person, and so I do wonder what his breaking point will be (more of my thoughts on this before). ---------- my thoughts about the plot and story so far(prediction)- Like many people have been discussing...I wonder how cheng xiaoshi has been doing this with luguang for so long despite how he never likes to follow the rules. My first thought is that luguang knows him enough to understand what to tell him and what not to tell him during their missions. I know it's supposed to demonstrate the amount of trust they have for one another...but something tells me especially with this episode that there is bound to be a moment where that trust is shattered. It seems as if that trust is so strong yet fragile at the same time. I almost feel like Luguang disappearing a few moments (was it last episode) almost foreshadows something that might happen later on... Perhaps Cheng Xiaoshi will, once again, act 'off script' and luguang who cares deeply about fulfilling the client's missions but also cares deeply about xiaoshi will end up making the judgement that has very dire consequences...possibly consequences for the both of them? I feel like we expect the person who makes that judgement to be cheng xiaoshi but it will be luguang in the end. Just my theory, and I just feel like the plot might go that direction (just a hunch), but yes. it was interesting reading other's thoughts about it. |
EarlCielJun 21, 2021 5:52 PM
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