yea I’d definitely say it compares to liz the most, but i think there are some small similarities to the rest of euph too

the yuri is not really there, but it's implied. I think this movie is so much like revue starlight in that sense

Well, Cheng Xiaoshi did develop, but I still wasn't quite satisfied by his character. Like, I acknowledge he had character development, but I still don't like him as a character. I personally wasn't very attached to him from start to finish, but I guess that's just me. I feel like these certain things about a show should really be explained rather than be left for watcher assumption. Obviously everyone looks for different things in a show, though, so that's just me. To me it was just something really important that they never touched on and I was bored since the first episode because of it.

I feel like the things you should "show, not tell" are things that the reader is capable of assuming due to the nature of our reality (what we know in this current world) or what we've seen already in the show (i.e if there's already a magic system portrayed in a certain anime, you don't have to explain why every power works if its not important and whatnot), and imo Link Click takes the term "show, not tell" a little too far. I think that better writing and plotting is shown when you use "show, not tell" for for scenes such as this one: instead of having one of the characters say it's cold in a black room where you don't know anything, you can have the character puff out some air and put their hands in their pockets, or a more complex example, instead of having a character tell you that they're hiding something, you can have him avert his eyes from the public, wear a long coat, and be frightened by the sound of police sirens and such. BUT, for things such as complex magic systems and things that we don't know, especially within the nature of our reality, we should flat out tell the audience and not keep them in the wait. It's kinda like you're watching Naruto and they don't explain anything about chakra or how anything works. Actually, it's exactly like that. The whole show revolves around Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi's powers, so not explaining their powers wouldn't just be a classic "show, not tell" example where you piece things together and hope that the audience derives a general clue, it's just flat out a plot hole in my eyes. We have to know why these things work, ya feel? The show really just made me bored because I didn't know what was going on in terms of these guys' powers and who they are and for as long as they didn't explain these details, the show was gonna be hard to watch and boring for me.

I like what you said about season 2 potentially clearing up things, but I most probably won't be convinced that it'll be any better because at this point it's already far too late in the game to be giving us these details, and at the end of Link Click they just introduced another huge power that most probably won't be explained either, and it's just taking way too long to get to the point of all the character development and backgrounds and why this works and whatnot.

tl;dr: The term "Show, don't tell" doesn't mean "Show, never tell," and there's things that honestly are better off explained than shown.

I know there's gonna be a season two, but all this supernatural stuff is rushed as hell and the fact that there's no backgrounds towards anything or any explanation is the major reason why I'm not invested into these characters or anything they do. I'm not really that excited for season two, partially because I stll doubt that I'll be getting any of my questions answered.

I guess if you don't care about all this supernatural stuff happening this could be for you but its pretty huge for me

Notice how if you pay attention there still aren't any backgrounds given... how are you supposed to guess the fundamentals of the power system for the show? This isn't no "Oh, so-and-so's mother died, he might depressed" type of show where you can just piece together some sort of explanation for a thing that happens, this is a supernatural show where the worldbuilding is set to mimic that of real life's therefore this is a show that needs to have an explanation. Since the world is set to mimic real life, everything that should happen in the show that is supernatural would be better off explained as that gives it a much more established ground in the show and it can make it have... better writing? Yes, better writing. Am I supposed to predict that Lu Guang and Cheng formed a contract with a magical girl and therefore have their powers? It's not some sort of thing where you can piece together two or three parts and make sense of it, if you don't explain it it's straight up a plot hole.

I understand if you didn't mind it because you were enjoying it, because in the end it's all for your enjoyment, but you're basically saying I didn't understand the show when everything is obviously in the dark from episode one

i dont know why wanting a more polished story with better characters and a little deeper fundamentals would be a problem with anime fans if im real

but there isnt any hints, and not explaining the details would outright be a plot hole imo, not some sort of inconvenience that we can just ignore because its episodic or whatever

well thats a good way of looking at it

i didn’t run into any of those problems (mainly because im not chinese), but that was certainly interesting lol

holy shit lemme read

what are the other issues, if you can share?

i also heard somebody say that, but imo its far too late to be expecting any character development or any sort of backgrounds, I think it was something they should've explained over the beginning four eps

yea, like I understand that people enjoyed the show and all since to be honest you don't really need a huge reason to like any show, but it wasnt really for me. I think the show would be good if they changed a couple things tho

To start―I really didn't like the show. I wanted to make this thread since none of my friends have actually watched Link Click yet and therefore I don't have anyone to make this rant to, and I wanted to hear some of your thoughts. I watched it a little over a month ago and my memory of it isnt that bad, but I still remember how much I didn't like my time watching the show.

I had a lot of complaints in the beginning eps that were just not answered, and everything about the show feels so unaccomplished and vague. I often make this comparison between Link Click and Erased, because both shows have similar errors in the show present, but they're somehow overlooked in Link Click―there isn't any explanation towards the main characters' abilities which is a BIG downside for me. The bigger downside is that neither of the main characters have any character development or backgrounds aside from Cheng Xiaoshi, and his backgrounds don't answer at all why they have this time travel ability. Hell, Erased was much better imo because you can at least watch it all in one straight sitting, whereas Link Click was never going to be good for as long as they didn't explain to me what the fuck was going on in the show, and in the end they never did. And the ending was―just like Erased―very rushed.

I don't really watch a lot of seasonals, but so far it's the worst this year. I don't know, what are some of your thoughts?

2.5, first episode being something like a 3

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@gang I'm gonna take a guess and say you are 15

i heard the mangas way better so prolly watch that