Shiguang Dailiren: Yingdu Pian Episode 1 Discussion

It's back after a year break only, with an hour premiere no less, and we start off with the flashback that started it all from what we've been lead to believe, the basketball scene... or so you thought, because a minute in and STRAIGHT to the action, with this Alucard looking dude, and KILLS XIAOSHI???? Brutal start, to say the least.

Back to the past in order to save the dude though, and everything seems as fine and dandy as they used to before the mess of last season. It is nice to see the gang just do some normal antics and not be in a photo already six minutes into an episode. Instead, we're at an anime con.... LOL. Landlady as badass as ever and helps out a poor girl who's getting a photo taken of her panties... great.

Which ofc, has to lead to Landlady losing her bag thing and mixing it up with the other girl's bag, which leads to a whole journey to find it, and the girl ofc. Wouldn't be a new Link Click character though, if we didn't get their backstory. For a second there, they really had me thinking that this girl would have a happy backstory... but this is Link Clicl after all, that isn't possible.

At least they find the girl in time to give for her to give it to author to sign, and all is well at last, and we get to the startup of the photography studio. This being dubbed the 'Bridon Arc", something had to lead to us getting to this Bridon, and the dude and his girlfriend's "photos" of Bridon is what lead to it.

We meet this girlfriend of the dude, and find out, surprise surprise, she's a scam, and BREAKS UP WITH DUDE ON THE SPOT LMAOOO. Though ofc, this girl isn't just a scam, this girl a whole ass liar, and in NORMAL LINK CLICK FASHION AGAIN, somebody has to get beat up and kidnapped. These two man, I outta tell you, they can't go a day without getting into some trouble.

As usual, one of the two come save the other, and go straight to the police to tell everything... but not scot-free. They did, but poor girl did NOT, as she got STABBED and killed. Tbh, anything is better than the abuse she was getting from those pricks. It's a Link Click death, so you know it hits hard.

But yeah, this was the mission that started it all then eh. Was sweet to see how it all started. And with that, I can't wait to see where we go from here and to Bridon and such to take down the dude and everyone else who was behind Xiaoshi's death back in the present.

But that post credit-scene... that's how it all ties to Bridon... Xiaoshi's DAD IS IN BRIDON??? Couldn't be more excited for the next ep.

heart aching all throughout :'C

WOW, what a way to open things up again. So Vivian didn't die? I wasn't clear on that. Poor woman, she is really brave. I'm glad to see how hyped the fandom is, I was nearly crying.

@StateofOhayo Vivian did die in this episode. On the TV news report it showed "Deceased" over her photo, iirc the Chinese was "死亡", and that's why Cheng Xiaoshi expresses regret over getting involved, and Lu Guang consoles him.

There were quite a few Chinese texts on-screen in this first episode that weren't subtitled yet on CR that I'm hoping can be added in the future. Nothing that makes it impossible to follow along otherwise but definitely makes it easier to!

It would make sense that he's the man from the future

Let's see if I got this right.

- Xiaoshi's parents had both Xiaoshi and Lu Guang powers.
For some reason they "disappeared", with the antagonist/villains searching from them, apparently to kill them and get right of their power that can change time.
- Before disappearing they passed their powers to Xiaoshi.
- Xiaoshi meet Lu Guang on that baskball ring, they became friends.
I don't know why Lu Guang always looked so solitary but it's not important at the moment.
- Occasionally Xiaoshi used his powers as their side job, they got tracked, someone went to kill them.
- Xiaoshi was shot dead, before dying he passed both powers to Lu Guang, so powers are transferable at will.
- Lu Guang went back in time, this is probably the time line of the first season, the same of this first episode of season 3.
- At some point Lu Guang split the powers between he and Xiaoshi.
- Series happened, first season, second season... etc.


This first episode served to tell is already these important information, that finally will be crucial for the events that will happen in Season 3.
We'll probably see what happened with Xiaoshi's parent and how they got the villains to got kill them.

The great dilemma, I believe, is Lu Guang making a decision of changing the past.
Remember, he didn't got back in time because he planned, it happened in the moment. He is probably suffering all this time with the realization that he committed a great "sin", he reverted Xiaoshi back from death. He probably feels this is wrong, that's why he was so insistent about not trying to change the past.
He will probably need to make a decision, and it'll be harder because changing the past, preventing all these bad things involving power to happen, will mean that some people that died will live, some people that lived will die, and most important of all, be separated from Xiaoshi. If he really changes the past his meeting with Xiaoshi on that basketball court will not happen... (but I predict they'll meet somewhere else in the end).

EDIT:
Reminder, I still believe!

So does this mean lu Guang knows everything thing means everything before only like what will happen to those both twins in S2 and how that police man in S2 control them 😦 and what will happen after that till Cheng xiaoshi's death does he knows everything ?