WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Link Click is an 11-episode donghua (so, about 4.5hrs long). It's set in a mostly-realistic modern day world, but our main characters have some special powers that let them dive into photos for limited amounts of time. [The CN title translates to something like "Time Agents", I think?]
They do this to help people (find information that was lost, provide closure, get sucked into helping the police solve cases...), and they haven't been doing it for that long when the show starts.
One of them, Lu Guang, has the ability to look at a photo and see what happened in the 12 hours following the photo being taken. The other, Cheng Xiaoshi, has the ability to enter photos (generally by taking over the body of whoever took the photo). They can maintain a psychic link while doing this, so that Lu Guang is effectively guiding Cheng Xiaoshi through the photo using his foresight power.
I went in knowing the following facts: Time-related superpowers that have to do with photos, it's very easily read as gay, and while it starts as slice-of-life it gains plot (and everyone's yelling about where the season ended and looking forward to s2, which is in production). All of these were true.
This show made me cry and I love it because of that, because anything that hits me that hard in the emotions is something I'll get really attached to. However also I only watched through the first episode because I trusted the people who told me to watch it, because there are some tropes that briefly happen in it [which don't reoccur!] that I'm extremely tired of/dnw. But it was very very worth it for the thematic stuff and emotional heart of the show.
I'm nominating the main three characters (Lu Guang, Cheng Xiaoshi, Qiao Ling) and Worldbuilding.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): this carrd has information on that! (as well as content warnings)
Link Click (donghua)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
Link Click is an 11-episode donghua (so, about 4.5hrs long). It's set in a mostly-realistic modern day world, but our main characters have some special powers that let them dive into photos for limited amounts of time. [The CN title translates to something like "Time Agents", I think?]
They do this to help people (find information that was lost, provide closure, get sucked into helping the police solve cases...), and they haven't been doing it for that long when the show starts.
One of them, Lu Guang, has the ability to look at a photo and see what happened in the 12 hours following the photo being taken. The other, Cheng Xiaoshi, has the ability to enter photos (generally by taking over the body of whoever took the photo). They can maintain a psychic link while doing this, so that Lu Guang is effectively guiding Cheng Xiaoshi through the photo using his foresight power.
I went in knowing the following facts: Time-related superpowers that have to do with photos, it's very easily read as gay, and while it starts as slice-of-life it gains plot (and everyone's yelling about where the season ended and looking forward to s2, which is in production). All of these were true.
This show made me cry and I love it because of that, because anything that hits me that hard in the emotions is something I'll get really attached to. However also I only watched through the first episode because I trusted the people who told me to watch it, because there are some tropes that briefly happen in it [which don't reoccur!] that I'm extremely tired of/dnw. But it was very very worth it for the thematic stuff and emotional heart of the show.
I'm nominating the main three characters (Lu Guang, Cheng Xiaoshi, Qiao Ling) and Worldbuilding.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional): this carrd has information on that! (as well as content warnings)