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TO BE HERO X: Episode 22 FULL LENGTH Reaction! (Patreon)

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2026-07-28 13:00:09
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2026-09
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*FOREVER SMILING HEADPHONE WARNINGS*

It took me all but one episode to get attached to Smile, all but one episode to understand OG!Nice's despair, and all but one episode to board the aura-farming hype train that is X!

This episode was wild, wonderful, and I'm not ready for the next two episodes -- or for this series to end, yet!

LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/VAKPQzKKQMvbcSA5BBbgDB

Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!

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Romania Black - TO BE HERO X: Episode 22 Reaction! THE LAST SMILE!?

LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/VAKPQzKKQMvbcSA5BBbgDB **FOREVER SMILING HEADPHONE WARNINGS** It took me all but one episode to get attached to Smile, all but one episode to understand OG!Nice's despair, and all but one episode to board the aura-farming hype train that is X! This episode was wild, wonderful, and I'm not ready for the next two episodes -- or for this series to end, yet! Thank you for watching with me and for all the support! #romaniablack #tbhx #tobeherox Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RomaniaBlack My Anime: https://myanimelist.net/profile/RomaniaBlack Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RomaniaBlack You can mail me a letter or anything (except food, please) at this address: Romania Black PO Box 768 Harrisburg, IL 62946 USA

Comments

Be Happy

That was such a heart breaking episode Smile deserve so Much better honestly.. he didnt ask for any of this .. the man just wanted to live peacefully.. but noooo .. in this corrupted world where rank and power are everything, umbushing an innocent and killing him to climb the ladder seems like the most normal thing which is absolutely horrifying My heart broke for Nice over and over this episode .. for the little boy that had such lively personality and believes in principles and wanted to be a Hero alongside his boyfriend but ended up killing ~~indirectly~~ his idol which broke the rest of his sanity in mu opinion 😭 My heart broke for Nice For the little boy that was a puppet for Shand and most all agency and couldn’t have a say in his life and lived a life of psychological abuse and manipulation … all of it to end up hating himself and his life and taking it… Dragon Boy is another poor traumatized abused boy groomed by Rock to achieve his fanatical dream of re creating Zero… despite his ragebaiting persona , my heart aches for the little boy abused by his parents and manipulated by Rock Well now you were finally introduced to X and his reality defying powers When i was watching this episode the first time , i was gutted and teary eyed, and then he showed up and my jaw hit the floor 🤣🤣 like NO WONDER the Comission is pissing their pants thinking of him … the way he folded DB like trash and sent him to the river to chill out 🤣🤣 the absolute disrespect 🤣🤣 But his OP powers aside, i love X for the humanity he showed Smile and Nice as well .. he doesn’t seem corrupted by the ranking or the power , in the contrary he wished to give it up But then they had to ho and kill his friend.. the look on his face when Smile died , means that those CEOs really messed with the wrong guy Shang and Rock need to be skinned alive , burnt in hell, regenerated and punished the same way again … indefinitely 😤 Absolutely amazing episode and reaction and discussion .. i m so glad you re having such a good time with these latest episodes 🥰

romaniablack

Not an episode to…Smile about…eh? I’ll see myself out. Smile deserved SO much better! He just wanted to have a good life and be heroic (and have a potential relationship with X and his family), but nooooope. We can’t have nice things here. And yeah, my heart broke for Nice as well - he looked up and wanted to be like Smile…and then to be responsible in part for his death? Horrifying and yeah, I agree this broke him completely. The puppet scene with him, Mr. Shang, and the society lifting him as a hero was so heartbreaking and fully shows the psychological manipulation of this world and how it works. And YES, Dragon Boy has been groomed by Rock and is masking his trauma through his actions. I do sympathize with him trying to ragebait to mask all of that - Rock really needs to go, haha! AND X – WOW. And yeah, he’s literally bending the REALITY of the world they’re in…that’s….insane. I do love X for his humanity and that moment when he found Smile. 🙁Yeah, this is not how you want to provoke the most OP character in the show. Shang and Rock are really awful and I’m curious how these last two episodes are going to go down! I’m….NERVOUS….but excited to see what happens! Thank you for the comment!!

w/smallscreen Computer

I feel like Nice was afraid of confronting another "hero" head-on since the Ruins Incident (maybe because of Queen's freeze and stare), so he chose the easy way out to avoid being in a fight, though it didn't end well. It's likely that the Fear spilled on Smile was amplified with greater strength, even bigger than DJ Shindig, since Dragon Boys says that he can return the damage that was done to him by twofold, whereas the Fear on DJ Shindig was mostly developed in the labs, and Smile ended up becoming more distorted with the amplified Fear. Or it's possible that the bigger the Trust Value that you have, the stronger the Fear can twist an individual. Aside from marketing a persona for a hero, I believe that the power display of a hero is another major selling point for a different group of people to give their Trust to a hero in the world of TBHX. Enlighter has brought up that, "...these 'heroes,' be they real or fake, can be created from nothing! There are no more real heroes in this era! And the ones responsible for this aren't just the Commission or the hero agencies, but all of you in the audience!" as God Eyes in EP4. The Commission is always looking to replace the then-current X through the tournament and other means, and the audiences who favor the tournament are participating as a part of the whole intervention process. Those audiences are eager to see what miracle the then-current X can achieve. They are clamoring for the next challenger who has shown their power during a duel in a justifiable situation. Then they will put the one who remained standing on the pedestal. I think that people have become accustomed to treating top heroes as exotic contestants instead of heroic icons, as they're replaceable and someone new will show up another day. The people are giving their Trust Value to the heroes while the heroes are giving their all in return. Only someone who is truly special can stay in the public's eyes in the world of TBHX, but then the Commission doesn't want that, while other players like the CEOs have their own plans. And it goes on and on... Fun fact: X got an alcohol burp during his dive, but the burp sound didn't get recorded in the Japanese dub, and the lack of the burp sound make some watchers think that X was yawning during his dive.

w/smallscreen Computer

Btw, I've made playlists that I want to you to check out because I don't know what videos you've prepared to watch. There are videos that have different versions uploaded by Aniplex and Bilibili, but only the Bilibili versions have the embedded subtitles instead of the auto-generated ones, yet some videos are only available on the Aniplex channel (while also on the Bilibili's own site but not on their channel). Maybe someone can crosscheck them? (Lucky Cyan's MV isn't on the Bilibili channel so it can be replaced by a lyric video, and OG Nice didn't get a MV while not having a music video because his song didn't get published as a single but as a part of the OST, etc..) Thanks a lot for looking this over! Character PV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHh4ZIA5R84 Character MV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPMHg5KJv3oFZtihdDSwenxG4E8X2N6m Main PV https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdNv429Z72h4

romaniablack

Thank you for this! Since a patron had already started compiling a playlist a few months ago - I asked the mods to take a look at yours and see if anything was missing from the other patrons as well - I really appreciate you taking the time to put this together!

romaniablack

That is a good point about Nice avoiding a fight after it didn’t go well with Queen! Oohhhhh, that is a great point about DB amplifying the fear when he attacks back! That’s a great point! And the fact that Trust Value can affect fear is a really interesting point! Enlighter really had something going on, didn’t he? He knew all along! The commentary on celebrities and idols really is on the nose in this series, but still effective and very true. Ohhh, I didn’t think the drink was alcohol, so that’s interesting! Thanks for the comment and noting all that!!