I LOVE PYONCER

Happy Friday the 13th

I need to know if there ok or not.

I hope Adachitoka-sensei will recuperate soon! We don’t even have any info about them :(

Obscura has entered into my top rated games that have caughted my game this year. And as someone who is also in the Touchstarved fandom, I DEFINITELY recommend others to check it out. Keir, Oleander’s, and Cirrus route both intrigue me and Francesco is such a wholesome (but naively dangerous) angel.

Here is my Vesper MC who I call ‘Lupine’

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Jigoku Shoujo: Yoi no Togi

Finally!! After 9 years, Hell Girl has come back to haunt us with beautiful nightmares yet again.

The Straight-Gay Misdirections in TBHX Episode 6

I finally watched ep6, and I was so right about Shang Chao. He really is just gay for Yang Cheng. Yang Cheng may have had a little crush on Xia Qing, but it was Shang Chao, who has been enthusiastically supporting him, whom he actually fell for...

But since this is a Chinese show, they can’t outright say he’s in love with a man. They can only subtly hint at it.

At this moment, I thought we were gonna have a straight date scene between Yang Cheng and Xia Qing, but then the show cut that off and instead showed us something more intimate between Shang Chao and Yang Cheng:

This scene looks like the boss is trying to match Yang Chao and Shang Cheng together, so his interruption in the earlier “date” with Xia Qing now seems deliberate.

Yang Cheng here looks like a guy feeling nervous on his first date 😂

The scene being set at night and with only the two of them around also makes it more romantic compared to the morning “date” that was interrupted by so many kids flocking the store

Another misdirection was this scene:

Oh no, the “love rival” has a surprise for the “love interest”! What will our Yang Cheng do?

Oops, false alarm! The surprise is actually for Yang Cheng.

All this time, it was always just Yang Cheng for Shang Chao.

And now this is what Shang Chao looks like in Yang Cheng’s eyes:

He looks so warm and bright and loved.

Yang Cheng’s earlier discomfort when Xia Qing mentioned that “Shang Chao asked her out” can now be interpreted as Yang Cheng actually being jealous of Xia Qing. He was uncomfortable because the man he loved had asked a girl out, but then felt relieved when it turned out to be just a misunderstanding.

More proof that Yang Cheng has fallen in love with Shang Chao...

When he saw only Xia Qing in the room, his reaction was just of normal surprise

He then asked where Shang Chao is… which is still normal. After all, they’re friends now.

But then Shang Chao finally arrived...

and Yang Cheng looks so so happy.

With Xia Qing, he was only surprised. But with Shang Chao, he was elated.

But the most convincing evidence of all was Yang Cheng and Xia Qing’s conversation at the end:

Things have been going well between the two of them, so why so serious?

Because Xia Qing has caught on to Yang Cheng’s feelings for Shang Chao. She sees him slowly falling in love with Shang Chao, while Yang Cheng still doesn’t know how to face it.

It’s true that Yang Cheng had feelings for Xia Qing before, and it’s also true that he still cares for her now. He can also see how much Xia Qing cares for him.

But these just make it all the more difficult for Yang Cheng to face his true feelings.

He feels guilty for Xia Qing

yet at the same, he can’t take his eyes off Shang Chao

And that’s why Shang Chao had to die. Because every hero love interest in this show has be to killed off by the narrative—gunshots

You know that strange itchy feeling you get when you see a character pop up enough times, you grow assumptions that you kinda hope your wrong about.....

Well that was me with this EP. of TBHX........(Spoilers ahead!!)

It might be because I'm already overprotective of E-Soul/Yang Cheng, But Shang Chao gives me the biggest Suspect vibes after re-watching the Ep. 3 times.

The first thing that caught my attention was his name: SHANG CHAO

Now we were already introduced to a Mr. Shang ( Not Shand, Good these english translation are such a mess), who is CEO of the Treeman Corporation after being the son of upper management in Mighty Glory.

But by the timeline, it can't the same person. So I thought cause of the name and the connects Treeman does have, he could possibly be the CEO's son/relative.

Having a different vision but the same cycle wanting to break into the Hero enterprise.

He has ambitious goal, which you got to be going against the Big 4 agencies. ( especially with DOS buying others out.)

However, he was able to get a spot, at MG, as a judge for the anniversary of one of their top heroes.

It could be because he's a possible Nepo baby or have a prodigy's eye, but him casually and inadvertently cockblocking Yang Cheng, pulling away his focus.

Now this could all be a misunderstanding. And misunderstanding is one of the most used tropes to create tension or false perceptions. Which during my first watch, maybe he's a cool guy, a friendly guy......

A guy that has a secret crush on Yang Cheng this whole time....

But while this was happening:

This is happening:

THAT MOTHERFUCKER IS GONE!!

HE IS ONE OF THE PANELING JUDGES AND HE IS GONE!!

So that detail caused me to think, what if he was the one who set that whole kidnapping scheme. He is obviously close to Yang Cheng's crush, and even has connections to get tickets to a concert she obviously wanted to go to.

So If he has connections to do something like this, than he has the means to make offers that could change a persons life financially.

Which brings me back to his ambitions

And how far is he willing to go for them.....?

It's too coincidental for this guy to show up every time Yang Cheng is with this girl and him showing up as judge for a competition he's participating in.

While the prevs for next episode show him being on Yang Cheng side, and I wanna believe this guy has his heart in the right place...

....but it's too eerie for me NOT to see that their is something sinister in his presence.

fingers crossed that I'm wrong 🤞🏾

Here's to @vaccoi & @marisandini-chu-blog for another crazy tbhx theory.