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To Be Hero X - Blog Posts
I need to see more flashback scenes with these two SO. BAD. genuinely any interaction with og nice and wreck pls pls pls
they're living a happy life your honour
bonus
SPOILERS for to be hero x ep 2
"they were boyfriends! They were boyfriends your honour! boyfriends I tell ye!"
- i yell as they drag me away to the yaoi asylum.
I don't know if it's the translation but like...dude you are down BAD if you're fucking EMAILING him. the only thing you could do that'd be more desperate would be taking one of those creepy ass doves and tying a gotdam message to its leg and hoping it finds him
TBHX EP 2 SPOILERS
If I had a nickel for every time Li Haoling did a black and white doomed yaoi on an original work, I'd have two nickels... Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
wreck and nice as satosugu ☹️
from this jjk scene!
😀someone on bilibili mentioned in the comments that wreck's and nice's apartment had rainbow magnets on their mini fridge im sooooooooo normal guys
source btw
"Oh my bestie isn't texting me guess I'll actually wreck shit now bc then he'll talk to me right?"
Lin still really needs to be set free from the actual mess he is in, my man did NOT sign up for any of this. I mean like literally he did but that's besides the point. How was dude supposed to know about Nice's boyfriend bestfriend?
They were doomed from the start fr
THAT’S IT! JUAN JIE HAS GONE TOO FAR!!!! HOW DARE SHE BREAKS THEM APART!!!! I NEED TO TEAR THAT BITCH INTO PIECES!!!!
To Be Hero X, gayer than anticipated
miss J really said forced close proximity, (corporate) arranged marriage, love triangle (?), fake death, hit post and send
what do u mean the nemesis immediately knew his rival had been replaced and is intensely jealous to nice's girlfriend and apparently was set off by nice not replying to his messages and then has a complete breakdown when he learns what happened to the original....
angry post
i have a personal problem with this kind of attitude. it's not a petty thing i am unreasonably angry about. there is a politics of translation and it affects one's understanding of art and popular culture/cultural geopolitics.
yes, tbhx has an unprecedented world wide release for a donghua/Chinese media and it's vital for its popularity, especially among transnational fandom spaces. Transcreated works are important for easier access. BUT, my gripe with the Japanese dub of a Chinese media WILL never be resolved. I am not talking about the quality, the issue lies in the very creation of the Japanese dub of a donghua itself. Let me give you an example.
Last year, we had an optional course called translation studies and one of the first things our professor asked was : who are the writers of A Doll's House and Waiting for Godot? He told those few of us who had read these texts closely to shut our mouth and let others take a guess. Most people answered : British writers. The texts are English texts. Because it's so famous among literature enthusiasts and when a piece of literature has a 'classic' tag attached to it, we tend to generalize and oversimplify it. So, a Norwegian playwright's original Norwegian play or an Irish playwright's play originally written in French- both get labelled as British literature. Get my point?
The anime industry is justifiably dominated by Japanese productions but when we forget to accommodate the nuances, the origin culture decays. It is, in many senses, a form of subtle cultural imperialism brought by ignorance.
People complain about Link Click's 'poor marketing' but I think Haolin was clever doing so. Even in the reviews by Indian anime bros™ I see them trying to pronounce 'donghua'. People RECOGNIZE that Link Click is a Chinese media, it's NOT an anime. You may laugh at those link click related youtube video titles saying stuff like : China is taking over anime, this Chinese anime is better than your favourite anime, PEAK Chinese anime, the best anime of 2021 is NOT Japanese?!, Link Click is taking over anime, China's hidden gem, China might have created the best anime of the year- CHINA IS IMPORTANT.
Whenever people talk about Chinese donghua- Link Click, Heaven Official's Blessing, Master of Diabolism etc are mentioned and people KNOW that it looks like anime but not really anime. It's... something... something else. This distinction is critical and essential.
Now, thanks to censorship (the Chinese version is not available on any official platform), many people think (not all people dig that deep while watching things, like come on) Spiritpact is a JAPANESE anime. Who the heck is Tanmouki or whatever. They are are Duanmu Xi and Yang Jinghua.
Reading up to this part if you think I am a Japanese anime hater then...*sighs*. Please read the whole thing again.
I like the Japanese dub of Link Click but there was a c*** in the comments who said "uwu it's not in japanese so I won't watch it" b**** doesn't even understand Japanese. B just wants an 'authentic Japanese anime experience.'
I feared that tbhx would face this issue.
And if you find those people who go : Ahhh, Japanese or Chinese- same thing, even their script look similar- fuck you, fuck you, you loser-fuckrr sinophobe i hope your phone battery dies your charger malfunctions your phone your laptop restarts with all data erased I hope you reek of wet socks and your taste sand all the time fuck you
TO BE HERO X SPOILERS!
OKAY OKAY, HEAR ME OUT. Nice x Wreck.
(his villain design is sooo cool)
The way he barged in and was like "If I can't have you- NO ONE CAN!" and I was sitting there shocked like, ayo??
The little flashback sequence?? THEY LOOK SO ADORABLE TOGETHER AWWWWW.
WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE WHITE HAIRED AND BLACK HAIRED ONES
"Now, our dreams of becoming heroes, were shattered long ago."
THEY WERE SO DOOMED AND IM A SUCKER FOR THIS TROPE
(I'm only shipping them because I think they look cute together and that I LOVE this trope.)
To Be Hero X (2025) — 01. NICE
I just want him to be as annoying as possible. oh og nice the man you could have been and probably were. at some point. *head in hands screaming*
ghost!nice au where he and lin ling get as FARRRR away from treeman as possible
closeups:
what if you were SOME GUY and the first time you meet a famous superhero is when he KILLS HIMSELF and then you get KIDNAPPED and told you have to ADOPT HIS IDENTITY and your new girlfriend HATES YOU and your new arch nemesis is GAY and tries to KILL YOU because you’re not his REAL BOYFRIEND who he ALSO WANTS TO KILL
these two and this song 😭😭😭 oW
I need to see more flashback scenes with these two SO. BAD. genuinely any interaction with og nice and wreck pls pls pls
This show (To Be Hero X) is a WILD ride!!! XD Def give it a look if you have some time!! These two characters had like 2 minutes of screen time together but I was like !!! I have to draw them!!!
the performative nature of heroism
Thinking about how Lin Ling has only defeated one real villain so far. His dream is to “protect those who are worth protecting,” but besides defeating his boss, he has only:
1) helped Moon escape the system and her role as accessory girlfriend* 2) fought Nice's fake nemesis 3) held up the statue representing the hero system
*And Moon's escape is being undone because of Lin Ling:
1) lying about being Nice, which is what God Eye wants to expose by holding Moon hostage. It's also how he even became a hero. 2) continuing to feed into and benefit from the system that forced them to fake Moon’s death in the first place
(Btw, here's a fan-subbed ep 4 preview)
In light of the ep 4 preview, the way that heroes are forced to perform for their fans becomes even more obvious. The crowd is insisting that Lin Ling not give into God Eye's demands, and Miss J agrees wholeheartedly because Lin Ling's power is derived from giving the fans what they want - never mind that Miss J knows that a life is at stake. Lin Ling's only a hero so much as he performs as what the fans expect of him. They're preventing him from doing an actual heroic act because - what? "It's a trick"? Even so, they can't be so sure that "Moon" is only a hologram or whatever. That could be an innocent person disguised as her! The fans believe they know better than Nice himself what he should do. (Hm, I wonder where I've heard something like that before...)
So much outpouring of support for Nice holding up a statue. It's very visually impressive, right? Of course he would become No. 10 after a stunt like that. But that's all it is. A stunt. Yet, when a life is possibly in danger, the fans don't support launching a rescue at all, because it's Nice's hero image on the line. The Perfect Hero bowing down to the demands of a madman, who's probably just bluffing? Pshhh. Yeah, right.
There's no heroism in being fallible - in appearing weak. We have to sell the image, not the person. Commodified heroes are just puppets on a stage, marionetted by the masses to do whatever looks the most heroic.
just watched to be hero x and I am having thoughtS
tw: sui mention / death
still unpacking the first 2 episodes but the first one is already so much to process 🫠 like OG nice taking the hero act he was presenting to the public literally to his grave, doing the iconic finger gun gesture even as he was willingly jumping to his death D: he really was that far gone and tired of the facade he was displaying to the public that it didn't even waver in his final moments oW
and then Lin Ling casually mentioning it as "he did the pose" 😭 I'm probably overthinking it but the narrative of this show has already slain me /positive
then there's episode 2 where they go into how Nice and Moon had a fake TV relationship ( much like Akane and Aqua from Oshi no Ko ) and that he had a "best friend" that stopped hearing from him leading up to his sui in episode one D:
I'm not okay at allllll QwQ and we didn't see Wreck's body I don't think he's dead ( *in denial* )
tl;dr: the link click director is doing me in again by working on this show and I'm emotionally damaged XD