Non-Spoiler Summary

To Be Hero X Season 1 covers our 10 MCs and the supporting crew, which was extraordinary for a few characters and could have been better for others.
The To Be Hero X world operates on a trust system that mostly determines the powers of individuals and their ranking in society. If those particular heroes land in the top 10 spot, they may be invited to the Hero Tournament, in which the winner becomes X — the ultimate hero. The story revolves around these ten heroes in various timelines, connecting them all in Episodes 23 and 24, and prepares us for Season 2, where the Hero Tournament commences.

It is to be noted that the powers of heroes, and their performance in the next season, are going to be decided by us, the real-time viewers, through a public voting system

which im not a big fan of since it negates the fun of suspence since we already know who is gonna be X beforehand.

"MOSTLY NON SPOILER" IN DEPTH REVIEW

ANIMATION - 10/10
The Animation is top notch and revolutionary, there is not even a single badframe in the whole 24 episodes. The moments where they transition form 2D to 3D that too with different art styles are phenomenal and a feast for eyes.

FIGHTS
The Fights are very fast paced, which is somewhat hard to track and mostly involves blind punching, kicking and swinging around. A little more innovation on characters using their intelligence and strategy during fights would have elevated this to the next level and provided more complexity alon with suspense to the fight rather than blind trust values.

The only exception to this is the fight between Old vs New E Soul and Dragon boy vs Smile to some extent

STORY ARCS

1. THE COMMONER STORY ARC

The Commoner aka Lin Ling story arc is what we get first introduced to, he gives you the typical shonen MC vibes "The guy who is average with a good heart raising to fame and power", each episode is ended with a cliff hanger of which the fake 1st episode cliffhanger could have been prevented since it negated the original intended effect when it actually happened in Episode 4

2. E-SOUL STORY ARC

With an awesome cliffhanger from the Lin Ling story arc we enter the E soul's story, It sheds light on our first antogonist, the story arc and the chracters are well developed but is very slow paced with over explained plotlines which is compensated lated by theplot and character twists at the end, but there are a few unanswered questions reg the character like the guy who once was so pure hearted turning so evil in the upcoming episodes. which i hope will get answers in the next season

3. LUCKY CYAN STORY ARC

The Lucky Cyan's story is more of an emotional and imitates the real world scenarios. It explores the human nature and how even the people with best intentions get corrupted due to various reasons, but her evolution from a lucky charm to someone who is capable of fighting and holding her own with top tiers is not explained.

4. QUEEN STORY ARC

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The Queen's Story is the part where people got fed up with the flashbacks, the integeration of unwanted side stories of characters such as Bowa entirely ruined the mid part of the series but her story arc covers a lot of information on how the hero tournament and hero companies operate.

5. LOLI STORY ARC

Loli brings fresh air after the disastrous queen arc including comedic relief and simply can be defined as the "calm before storm" phase of To be Hero X, Loli's story arc focuses on minimal characters who are well devoloped within just 2 episodes and was fun to watch

6. GHOST BLADE STORY AND THE JHONNIES ARC

The best part of the entire series with a perfect blend of emotion, comedic releif action and suspense, this part of the story unviels most loose ends and provides a better picture on whats going on, both the MCs are very likable and makes us to honestly root for them

7. PRE HERO TOURNAMENT ARC

The Pre hero tournament arc covers up a lot of characters and the world very fast to give a small glimpse of whats happening and what to expect in future, like the previous arc this arc also has its emotional, comedic relied and stunts in a perfect mix, the characters who are being skimmed are as follows

DRAGON BOY

The most cliche, corny, boring antagonist who is poorly devoloped (as of know atleast) there is nothing regarding him even in his back stories we learn nothing about him aprt from the fact that he is a merciless, twisted, cunning guy who is power hungry

AHU

The Last character whom we get introduced in the series the character development he gets in just one episode is unmatched and makes us like him so hard, very little about his powers is seen as of now but he definitely peeked my interest on what he holds in future

NICE

The character whom we see from 1st episode till last throughout the entire series but still couldnt understand, one episode he is good and the next episode he is a jerk, Is he dead?? Is he alive?? Is he dead and then reincarnated?? so much to answer

X

The GOAT, The Aura farmer, he has the least amount of screen presence but changes soo much in the storyline, at first he appears to be just a overpowered guy but as the story reaches the climax we come to know that this guy single handedly saves the To be Hero X world from collapsing and is playing 5D chess with evils of the world maintaining balance and preparing his soldiers for the right time that too without their knowledge
Still a lot about him is not known and he may pull up a lot of plot twists but something that is undeniable is that everyone is excited to see what he is gonna do