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Aug 17, 2025 5:42 AM
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GOOD LORD!!!!!! PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
They came for the full clutch with the tragedy this episode and my good man Luo had to go, smfh.
Nuonuo is badly hurt,💔 Loli's eyes look devoid of life and she might be out for revenge, Ghostblade withdrew from MG, X is really the one alternating between 2D and 3D in fact, Queen was and is still badass, Cyan was cool, Big Johnny was awesome, and Lil Johnny wants to get stronger. X is back and something is cooking behind the scenes.
A big thumbs up to Sarah Wiedenheft for a spectacular performance on Loli. The screams were top notch and I could feel her pain. 11/10 episode. Wasn't expecting any of this and the fights of E-Soul vs Ghostblade and Loli vs Nice were epic.
Four episodes left. 💔


So we saw what OG Nice was doing but my question now is...what made him off himself in the first episode? That's my only question. I'd appreciate an answer from anyone. Thank you.
CheliosXAug 17, 2025 5:46 AM
Aug 17, 2025 5:59 AM
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GOOD LORD!!!!!! PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
They came for the full clutch with the tragedy this episode and my good man Luo had to go, smfh.
Nuonuo is badly hurt,💔 Loli's eyes look devoid of life and she might be out for revenge, Ghostblade withdrew from MG, X is really the one alternating between 2D and 3D in fact, Queen was and is still badass, Cyan was cool, Big Johnny was awesome, and Lil Johnny wants to get stronger. X is back and something is cooking behind the scenes.
A big thumbs up to Sarah Wiedenheft for a spectacular performance on Loli. The screams were top notch and I could feel her pain. 11/10 episode. Wasn't expecting any of this and the fights of E-Soul vs Ghostblade and Loli vs Nice were epic.
Four episodes left. 💔


So we saw what OG Nice was doing but my question now is...what made him off himself in the first episode? That's my only question. I'd appreciate an answer from anyone. Thank you.
CheliosX said:
So we saw what OG Nice was doing but my question now is...what made him off himself in the first episode? That's my only question. I'd appreciate an answer from anyone. Thank you.
It seems that amount of pressure make him off himself. We saw how important for him and Shand was to get into top 10 as fast as possible. As he promise to Shand - he would get into top 10 during this year. Next year at best. But as we know - 2 years passed and OG Nice rank was #15 (it Lin Lin was the one who enter into top 10)
Aug 17, 2025 6:00 AM
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LG545 said:
CheliosX said:
So we saw what OG Nice was doing but my question now is...what made him off himself in the first episode? That's my only question. I'd appreciate an answer from anyone. Thank you.
It seems that amount of pressure make him off himself. We saw how important for him and Shand was to get into top 10 as fast as possible. As he promise to Shand - he would get into top 10 during this year. Next year at best. But as we know - 2 years passed and OG Nice rank was #15 (it Lin Lin was the one who enter into top 10)

oh, pressure. sad indeed. thanks, mane. i appreciate the clarification.
Aug 17, 2025 6:06 AM

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We're back to resent time, and 3D returns! Hype is real! OG Nice was still in top 20, meaining Nice and E-Soul walked away from assasination unscaved. How tho. Queen and Lucky Cyan are first hand witnesses. Corruption most likely, and they probably can't annaunce that multiple heroes are assasins.
Aug 17, 2025 6:14 AM
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holy PEAK!! that was so good!!!
Aug 17, 2025 6:24 AM

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WHAT THE HELLLLL???? THIS EPISODE WAS JUST PEAK FROM START TO FINISH OH MY GOD????!!! Lou was soo dang strong she defeated Nice (that why he offed himself?) and her screams when she saw her dad and gf injured sent chills down my spine. Ghostblade actually defended lil Johnny even tho E Soul bested him. QUEEN JUST CAME IN AND AURA FARMED THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE!!! Lucky Cyan my sweet goat as always. the end with the graveyard?! X WE GOT X SNAPPING THINGS TO 3D AGAIN?! OH MY GODD we also got lore and now we know what the hack the hero commission was formed. Dragon Boy is also Rock's pawn?! i'm just so excited about how this show goes for the last 4 episodes, i'm so dang invested, peak anime fr. pls let it win some awards, pleaseee
Aug 17, 2025 6:25 AM
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We're back to resent time, and 3D returns! Hype is real! OG Nice was still in top 20, meaining Nice and E-Soul walked away from assasination unscaved. How tho. Queen and Lucky Cyan are first hand witnesses. Corruption most likely, and they probably can't annaunce that multiple heroes are assasins.
FiendishChan said:
We're back to resent time, and 3D returns! Hype is real! OG Nice was still in top 20, meaining Nice and E-Soul walked away from assasination unscaved. How tho. Queen and Lucky Cyan are first hand witnesses. Corruption most likely, and they probably can't annaunce that multiple heroes are assasins.

it seems:
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1)E-Soul fall in rank a little bit, but they put it as if he fought against Big Johnny in his monster form and try to save everyone from him, while Nice defend expedition from clone dudes
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2)How they manage to do this? Well, Commission is happy to hide it under the rug (this is exactly what Queen want to change), while Micky and Shand use their media machine to promote their version of this story
Aug 17, 2025 6:25 AM

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absolutely incredible, I was so hyped i actually was shaking throughout the episode, To Be Hero X is my favorite thing right now.
I love all the heroes, I honestly can't bring myself to hate any of them (still have some beef with E-Soul since episode 4, but I still like him as a character lmao)
BUT AAAAAH LIN LING WE SAW YOU AGAIN!!!
AND X, HOLY CRAP AURA FARMING SO HARD, I MISSED THAT 3D STYLE
@thefanartfreak where was Lin Ling? I must've missed it
Aug 17, 2025 6:28 AM
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As someone who hasn't exactly liked some of the more recent episodes, this one was amazing although I am a little bit confused about the story and where it'll go from here

Judging by the ending of this episode we might see dragon boy's backstory and his rise as a hero
Aug 17, 2025 6:33 AM
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@thefanartfreak where was Lin Ling? I must've missed it
@annice123 We saw him in office making commercials for Nice
Aug 17, 2025 6:48 AM

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@annice123 We saw him in office making commercials for Nice
@LG545 yeah yeah i went back and spotted him. that's so cool how they put him in too. like all top 10 heroes showed up this ep except for the dog
Aug 17, 2025 7:02 AM
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best episode so far
Aug 17, 2025 7:06 AM
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If you think about it....OG Nice most likely hate Queen out pure envy. We know that Nice was all about perfection. Prominent boy which quickly rise in the ranks and "soon enter top 10"...Until he hit a wall and in next 2 years fail to do so. His perfection fake and artificially constructed. Meanwhile Queen was a definition of true perfection - enter top 10 without issue when she was not even 18 years old. Become X material and destroy Nice without efford (giving him this cold stare as if he was nothing but a worm)
Aug 17, 2025 7:57 AM
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The conspiracy was stopped but not halted It helps to be able to stop time There were causalties on both sides and the tournament is stopped
Aug 17, 2025 8:14 AM
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Hot take, but maybe X is what came out of the spaceship crash
@Kal_Moot hold up, you are onto smth
Aug 17, 2025 8:14 AM
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Hot take, but maybe X is what came out of the spaceship crash
@Kal_Moot hold up, you are onto smth
Aug 17, 2025 8:23 AM
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The new characters aren't just doing it for me other than Queen and Ghostblade. It was a massive downgrade after E-Soul's arc and them wasting the runtime with Lucky Cyan boring ass arc. So, I'm fucking glad we're finally back at the current time line.
Aug 17, 2025 8:45 AM

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An amazing episode, perhaps the best one this season as far as animation is concerned.
Aug 17, 2025 8:54 AM
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Anime episode of the year
Aug 17, 2025 9:07 AM

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RIP Professor. Nuonuo seems not well too
Queen has too much aura
X appeared as well
Aug 17, 2025 9:12 AM
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May 2022
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this is peak fiction.
Aug 17, 2025 9:25 AM
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our love to our queen 👑❤️
Aug 17, 2025 9:26 AM

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Is Johnny really that weak compare to E soul? or was it just that he lack actual trainings
Aug 17, 2025 9:59 AM
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An amazing episode!!
Aug 17, 2025 10:05 AM
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Ok Queen and Cyan showing up to save the day just in time for the investigation to be stopped but still saving Ghostblade Nounou and the Johnnies, stopping E-soul, Big Johnny, and Loli all at once. Queen showed why she's number 2 this ep. Without X she would undoubtly be the top hero. Cyan's power in action was cool to see as well.

Then at the end of course X being X looking cool.


Then we see dragon boy with Rocks. This ep we get into a lot of the motivations of the CEOs besides I guess Zack with FOMO. Rocks wants to revive Zero. Zero the first hero and the only one who touched godhood. Mickey probably the one who gained the most this ep. Everything seems to have gone as he wanted.


RIP Loli's dad. RIP Da Xiaong and the other researchers. I didn't expect him to go out like that damn. Now Loli is part of Fomo. Ghost blade also left MG.
Aug 17, 2025 10:06 AM
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YES BABY
THATS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

I was waiting to see those heels for way too long. welcome back control freak, Queen
Aug 17, 2025 10:15 AM
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My favourite hero is back..... sort of!!
Nice is so cool I wouldn't mind an anime based on the character's past and future.
This is Nice before his suicide, so when is the new Nice's cliffhanger going to be resolved.
Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol
Aug 17, 2025 10:16 AM
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I can't help but wonder an alternative anime based on the rivalry between the associations including the fear and trust value without it being told through these hero arcs. That would be fire!!
Aug 17, 2025 10:34 AM

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surprised everyone loved this episode and is calling it peak cause i was very disappointed in the direction the show is going :( i feel like it started out so strong and had a great premise but became so cliche and the characters motives don’t even make sense a lot of the time
Aug 17, 2025 10:43 AM
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Is Johnny really that weak compare to E soul? or was it just that he lack actual trainings
BigTennuay said:
Is Johnny really that weak compare to E soul? or was it just that he lack actual trainings

Back than Little Johnny was #15 and only because he was a mascot. He had little to no training because his motivation died with Vortex, but after this fight where Ghost Blade get injured in fight against E-Soul while protecting Johnny...Johnny was useless and this is why he find motivation to become strong
Aug 17, 2025 10:45 AM
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Is Johnny really that weak compare to E soul? or was it just that he lack actual trainings
@BigTennuay yes, Little johnny only managed to reach in top 15 cuz of his mommy fans and how merchandise able he and big johnny is...in reality he's not different than a regular teen
Aug 17, 2025 10:46 AM
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does anyone know if the e-soul in this ep was the old one or the new one? the whole timeline is such a mess in my head rn
Aug 17, 2025 10:47 AM
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This show is The Boys and OG Nice is just Homelander!
Aug 17, 2025 10:48 AM
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My favourite hero is back..... sort of!!
Nice is so cool I wouldn't mind an anime based on the character's past and future.
This is Nice before his suicide, so when is the new Nice's cliffhanger going to be resolved.
Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol
@Darkinvaders5
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Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol
Domain Expansion aka anyone who's in the diameter of her range should follow her "Commands" or "Rules" set by Queen
Obviously you can negate it by overpowering like Bowa or X
Aug 17, 2025 10:49 AM
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does anyone know if the e-soul in this ep was the old one or the new one? the whole timeline is such a mess in my head rn
@dwyweth it was the new E-Soul,
Old E-Soul died in the Year 36 AC and currently it's somewhere around Year 40 AC
Aug 17, 2025 10:52 AM
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I just caught out all eps watching 1-20 eps in 1 week whew the system corrupt asf bcs of TRUST letting born FEAR

Now all our SCIENTIST DIED IN VAIN, while GENUINE HERO GOT ASSASINATED

and CORRUPTED HERO being BORNED GROOMED BY THIS EVIL SHARK CEO 🐷🐷🐷 esoul nice ghostblade corrupts & the purple women & guy

HATRED is CEO that his child died friend of REPLACED ESOUL
Aug 17, 2025 11:10 AM
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My favourite hero is back..... sort of!!
Nice is so cool I wouldn't mind an anime based on the character's past and future.
This is Nice before his suicide, so when is the new Nice's cliffhanger going to be resolved.
Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol
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Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol

Order. She establish rules
Aug 17, 2025 11:12 AM
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@dwyweth it was the new E-Soul,
Old E-Soul died in the Year 36 AC and currently it's somewhere around Year 40 AC
@M-T_S ohh, I see. I definitely should've paid more attention to the years when the episodes aired. But tbf those episodes aired like 15ish weeks ago, kinda difficult to remember. Anyways, thanks for info.
Aug 17, 2025 11:14 AM
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PEAK EPISODE TBHX
Aug 17, 2025 11:29 AM
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Awesome episode, Queen with so much aura 😍
Aug 17, 2025 11:51 AM
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THAT WAS SO FUCKING NUTS??? Seeing Luoli and Nice fight each other was so cool, and getting more hints to Nice's true origins... Little Johnny still not knowing that Ghostblade was about to assassinate his ass is so funny, and Queen showing up was fucking SICK. I loved it. Ghostblade leaving flowers by his daughters hospital room but not visiting breaks my heart :(( poor Luoli too... also fucking X SHOWING UP ?!?!?! AND DRAGON BOY?!?!?! AAAAAAAAAAAAH what an exciting episode!!!
Aug 17, 2025 12:58 PM
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I'm sad for what happened to Nuono but damn I can't help but be happy knowing that it hurts Ghostblade, after killing a lot of people as an assassin saying I remember that he doesn't want to know if they were innocent or not, knowing that he's suffering makes me so happy I hope his karma doesn't stop there, I'll never forgive him for killing Little Johnny's father
Aug 17, 2025 1:01 PM
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Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol
Domain Expansion aka anyone who's in the diameter of her range should follow her "Commands" or "Rules" set by Queen
Obviously you can negate it by overpowering like Bowa or X
@M-T_S against x it was different because she didn't even have time to establish the rules
Aug 17, 2025 1:41 PM
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I'm sad for what happened to Nuono but damn I can't help but be happy knowing that it hurts Ghostblade, after killing a lot of people as an assassin saying I remember that he doesn't want to know if they were innocent or not, knowing that he's suffering makes me so happy I hope his karma doesn't stop there, I'll never forgive him for killing Little Johnny's father
@ROVI65 Yet, Ghost Blade risk his life to protect Little Johnny from E-Soul
Aug 17, 2025 1:51 PM
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@Darkinvaders5
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Also what's Queen's powers again?? Lol
Domain Expansion aka anyone who's in the diameter of her range should follow her "Commands" or "Rules" set by Queen
Obviously you can negate it by overpowering like Bowa or X
@M-T_S that's quite OP. I need to rewatch her arc again.
Aug 17, 2025 1:52 PM

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damn we entering the last arc bois
Aug 17, 2025 2:25 PM

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Every time I think I saw my favorite episode I'm told to sit tf down by the director because what did I just watch?! Lab guys were getting brutally murdered while we watched 2 fights. Ghostblade seemed so powerful so far but I had no idea it was such a big difference in strength with E-Soul. I was also praying one of my favorites didn't kill the other 💀 Loli keeping up with Nice and wrecking his shit, and then the music changed and they mashed Big Johnny's and Loli's going insane. Then don't get me started on Queen's entrance. They did such a good job of keeping us occupied that seeing her hills and the most badass entrance I've seen in a long time I couldn't pick up my jaw from the floor. But oh wait, more lore talk was also happening while the fights were going on! Ghostblade retired (?), they showed us X who changed back the animation, and then a tease of Dragon Boy. All in one episode. My brain is just melted... 4 episodes and still two characters to cover though, how will it all go...
Aug 17, 2025 2:32 PM

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@dragynfaerie I think you mean Luo Li. Nuonuo is the one in hospital :(
@G_Aker Yup, you're right. I couldn't shake the image of Nounou looking bald in the hospital. Thanks!
Aug 17, 2025 2:41 PM

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I'm still a little concerned about how the series is going to wrap everything up over the next 4 episodes, while still introducing 3 more heroes too, but this was an excellent episode overall as far as pulling all the disparate story threads of the different characters introduced thus far together as we push towards a likely final confrontation against a revived Zero. Hopefully they provide more exposition about the "Fall of Dawn" incident with Zero and OG E-Soul so we build him up as the final boss for the other heroes to band together to defeat.

My main questions going forward, that will hopefully be explained with Dragon Boy's arc over the next 2 episodes, is why does Rock want to revive Zero? Does he want to rehabilitate his father's image by making Zero good? Does he just want to destroy everything (No clue as to why yet...)?

I think other posters made good points about Dragon Boy potentially being a vessel to revive Zero. The markings on his body, particularly his chest and forehead, are fairly similar to what we see for Zero in E-Soul's PV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4W2A19SMak

It would also explain why he is only now being introduced into the story towards the end. Makes me think the switch up with the OP flashing between X and Zero is more to highlight how often Hero X falls to grace as we have seen with several former X heroes thus far than a risk of the current X becoming Zero himself or another "Fall of Dawn" incident for himself. X could still have some other connection to Zero that will be explained later.

Hoping they pull this off because this has been a fun ride to follow and look forward to every week.
Aug 17, 2025 2:42 PM

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Every time I think I saw my favorite episode I'm told to sit tf down by the director because what did I just watch?! Lab guys were getting brutally murdered while we watched 2 fights. Ghostblade seemed so powerful so far but I had no idea it was such a big difference in strength with E-Soul. I was also praying one of my favorites didn't kill the other 💀 Loli keeping up with Nice and wrecking his shit, and then the music changed and they mashed Big Johnny's and Loli's going insane. Then don't get me started on Queen's entrance. They did such a good job of keeping us occupied that seeing her hills and the most badass entrance I've seen in a long time I couldn't pick up my jaw from the floor. But oh wait, more lore talk was also happening while the fights were going on! Ghostblade retired (?), they showed us X who changed back the animation, and then a tease of Dragon Boy. All in one episode. My brain is just melted... 4 episodes and still two characters to cover though, how will it all go...
@rennkinjutsushi Its 3 more characters to cover. Dragon Boy, Ahu (Dog), and X himself.
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