Back in 2021, S1 blew out of nowhere along with another unexpected gem. No one expected for some chinese anime (donugha) to blow up amidst some extremely popular shows like To Your Eternity, Vivy, 86, Tokyo Revengers etc. While the show is praised for being a fine thriller, I particularly don't like this part of the show. A big issue with this show is it's unpredictability. While that works in favor of the plot to grow, it doesn't seem to end. We have yet to have a clear picture on how the powers are getting manifested, though a clear trigger has been established. Or how many more characters are there to explore. While that feels exciting on its own, I can't help but fear it gets boring eventually.
But one thing that I really like is it's strong storytelling, particularly the emotional part. The show never fails to bring you into the psyche of its characters with powerful visuals, portraying some of the best psychological depiction of loss, helplessness, trauma, envy, along others. It also doesn't back down in crafting thrilling scenes with captivating narrative and a much thicker plot devoid of the episodic storytelling as in S1. This season steeped up a bit in action department. There's a fair share of fluid hand combat scenes that's kind of rare territory in action in anime. A lot of anime or manga tend to focus more on the weapon based, magic based battles that got very generic. While not the most amazing, the action scenes in Link Click deserve a praise for just giving a good hand to hand brawl, and quite a lot of them too.
The characters grew in number too, especially those with plot relevance. The main characters of this show are definitely the Li siblings. Their backstory, while not innovative in theme, stills pulls an effective depiction of violence and trauma. That people can go different ways despite living under the same roof, yet always trying to protect the other. We also got a tease of sort about Lu Guang, and that we still don't know anything about his past. Maybe S3 explores him, hopefully.
Though there are some characters that just felt not well utilized or straight up irritating. Like that bodyguard that only seem to be there just to constantly mock everyone, or the lady subordinate who had like one cool fight and got hit in the head. I seriously felt for Li Xiao though, man went through so much grief this season. The character study behind the lawyer was interesting, and a bit similar in tone with the sibling story, but he too became a little madman in the end. The grandpa was cool tho.
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