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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
X of today and the X of last year
they're living a happy life your honour
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"Who are you really? Lin Ling or Nice?" ⚠️❓
Translation:
Hero name: Lin Ling [Chinese] / The Commoner [English]
Slogan: "Everyone can be a hero!"
Birthday: 5/22
Star sign: Gemini
Height: 180 cm
Sponsor: Treeman
Interests and talents: making PowerPoints, creative director. Details of personal interests are unknown.
Superpower: Bastard Fist*. A chaotic flurry of punches that his opponent is unable to make sense of.
*Slang term that refers to throwing an overwhelming array of wild punches with no form or strategy; a technique used by drunks, cats, and divorcing couples
Yes I am 100% sane after to be hero x episode 2 why do you ask- WHY IS IT ALWYAS THE WHITE AND BLACK HAIRED DUO
I love this, not only because nice bypasses whatever grips him towards cleanliness, when he's with Wreck he can accept himself falling into a different persona, and he is okey smearing Wreck with him by this persona... a becoming one when they are together kinda thing
Original concept Wreck looks like he is going through a really bad divorce.
og concept of nice, wreck and moon
Spiderverse: Previous hero dies tragically while saving your life and with his dying breath entrusts the mantle of his great responsibility to you, conveniently also a bearer of superpowers
To Be Hero X: Previous hero fingerguns at you as he walks off a building. Thwarted at the killing-yourself game, you are kidnapped by his PR team and forced to do the dead guy's job
To those saying that it’s okay to call To Be Hero X “anime” because the Chinese equivalent term “donghua” (动画) literally also means “animation” don’t get the point.
Would you call your English breakfast tea “chai” even though “chai” is just the Hindi word for tea? Or any bread “naan” even though naan also just means “bread”? Café au lait and café con leche both literally mean “coffee with milk” in their respective languages, but their traditional preparation method and taste is very different. There’s also American comics vs Filipino komiks.
But most of all, would you call your Japanese anime “cartoon” even though that’s the actual English word for animated shows?
You won’t.
So when you borrow a term from another language to describe one thing, you’re actually saying that that thing comes from a particular country or culture.
Calling To Be Hero X an “anime” is like saying it’s from Japan.
“Oh chill, Miya, it’s not that serious—” But it is.
It’s bad enough that a lot of people already think that the show is from Japan and don’t bother to watch it in the original audio, but it’s even worse when you see the sinophobic comments online about people’s resistance to the original version despite learning it is from China (insisting the jp dub is better even though they can’t understand Japanese).
Calling TBHX an anime would be acquiescing to the erasure of the Chinese background of the show and saying that it’s actually Japanese when it’s not. (And if you just pause for a second to think about it, that is such a fucked-up thing, considering what Japan did to China in WW2. But let’s not delve too deeply into that.)
“But some people call ATLA an anime even though it’s not from Japan—”
Yeah, but the USA-Japan relationship is very different from the Japan-China relationship. You cannot compare these two. I can go at length about the geopolitical implications, but to keep it simple, just think of it this way: Calling a donghua an anime would be similar to whitewashing.
But even without considering the “serious” context, TBHX animation isn’t even like that of a typical anime. Have you ever seen an anime that blends 3D and 2D animation so seamlessly and ambitiously like TBHX does?
3D animation is kinda a staple in donghua. There are so many great 3D donghua out there. Recently, the 3D donghua Nezha 2 even beat Inside Out and The Lion King for highest-grossing animated film of all time. And even before TBHX, there were already many other donghua that mix the 3D and 2D mediums (e.g. You Yao, No Doubt in Us, etc.).
So to say, TBHX animation style is distinctly Chinese. You cannot call it an anime.
i wonder if x is so different from everyone else in the hero industry is because he has 0 affiliation to any companies. i firmly believe this makes him have much more freedom than the rest, plus there's no manager on his ear yapping their gums out on this-and-that.
x's freedom is shown a lot of times in trailers, endings, and the opening by him being in his "citizen" persona – which we have seen no one have unlike him – a work life that is outside of his hero work that makes him have a separate identity as people there, possibly, only knows him as the 'chill guy who takes all the sugar in the office' than the cool omnipotent hero x.
that doesn't make him obviously free from his responsibilities. he has two jobs where one he can slip away when it's dusk, and the other one he has to work for almost 24/7 that has no time in or out unlike the office job he has. of course, there's other heroes but he's top 1. expectations still weigh on him.
he's enigmatic because no one owns him. think of him like an indie artist with no label company and with the freedom to do anything except they're also stuck in the same system with how the work can take over their lives and the audience views them.
i speak on this in my opinion and belief, how x does every move it's like art itself.
CONGRATS WRECK FOR BEING CROWNED KING YAOI THE 4TH!!!
Grief was a strange thing. He had always thought that it came in like a wave. Whenever he had read about it or saw it through a screen it had seemed elegant in its destruction. He knew, of course, that it was debilitating. But he hadn’t expected it to be quite like this. The hollowness that accompanied it. As though his heart and soul had been torn from his being, body still calling out for them but finding nothing in their place. It allowed the pain to echo and rebound within him. Compounding on itself.
And he still couldn’t quite comprehend the guilt that caused his mind to turn in on itself as well. The ‘why’ that would never be answered. Nice had taken his own life. Why? He would have been there for him. How much pain had he been in? To the point where he never reached out, never asked for help, hadn’t thought to lean on his shoulder? If he could even do that anymore. They could have run away together. Left Nice and Wreck behind.
Left it all behind.
But now he is gone.
And someone else had taken his face. Had taken his voice. His eyes. All of it. Keeping him alive when all he had wanted to do was rest.
The fight, the one he had looked forward to, a moment to reunite with his other half, was meaningless. The anger that had burned within him managing to go out all too soon, the grief that had come drowning any last embers.
And when he fell he let himself.
It felt like freedom. Like he was chasing after Nice one last time.
Perhaps he was waiting for him, wherever he had ended up.
And wherever they were at the end of this, they’d be together. As they should have always been.
I literally can't stop giggling seeing this. They know
IDK if that'll stop Li Haolin lol
Gonna be brutally honest. People who think that Nice and his nemesis aren't gay must be blind asf
You do realize Chinese censorship wouldn't allow them to be openly in a relationship right? This was the closest they could go with it. And tbh the romantic tension between the two was so obvious like come on...
so i might be a little obsessed
babe wake up new black and white doomed yaoi dropped
Btw, did Wreak follow Nice in the doomed yaoi death land or should we apply the "until I don't see the body he ain't dead" logic?
Bc no one mentioned that he died, not even in passing, nor did we see his body
nature abhors a vacuum
outsider POVs, written before episode 2
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64676155
And, there's more!
Lord forbid men with white and black hairs have a normal and happy Situationship without it being doomed as fuck :(
can i invite him for dinner, please 🥺😭 he js so preciosus
i have nothing else to say except we have to get wreck & the original nice set to good luck babe