This is another great story in the Cosmere universe. It’s a standalone novel but that doesn’t make it any less wonderful to read. I loved Siri and Lightsong the most out of all the characters had something to keep you interested in them. Brandon Sanderson excels at making you care about the people and the worlds he creates. I found
I just finished reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and I absolutely loved it. It’s not very often where I find a book or any media where I love the whole cast but Sanderson did it. I’m clearly going right to the second book after finishing this little review of mine because I MUST know what happens next. Brandon was right
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Hongo is busy riding his motorcycle as he prepares for the All Japan Motocross Championships and even more miraculously he’s actually wearing a helmet for a change! Shocker thugs are watching him from a distance though. Apparently the evil boss PA system has combined the strengths of all the previous villains that went up against Kamen Rider into a new
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Jin Xia points out that they can’t run away, then tells Master Mao that she would love to draw the blueprints of the gun but that she can’t because she hasn’t seen the inside structure of it. Jin Xia says that she will need to see the gun first, if Master Mao wants her to draw the blueprints. Master Mao
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This episode starts off with a woman in black walking around putting up signs for a biological research facility that will buy cats and dogs. A moment later we see there is a line up outside the facility of people with their puppies. (I HATE them all. Pets are family and not to be sold). Apparently Shocker is using the
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As Xie Xiao runs out of the Wu An Gang’s HQ, he runs into Yang Yue. Yang Yue is surprised to see that Xie Xiao has returned and asks about Sir Lu and Jin Xia. Xie Xiao admits that he got separated from them but is too busy trying to leave so he doesn’t explain anything, he just tells Yang
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At Shocker HQ a new monster minion is being given something out of a Petri dish. The boss PA system says that when certain substances in the Cobra man’s body mix, it will allow the monster to dissolve any substance at will. The boss PA system tells Cobra man that he should try it out. This means poor unfortunate minion
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Xie Xiao demands to know why Lu Yi believes that the stones are controlled by the tides. Lu Yi snipes back that it’s because he’s smart and used his brain. Uncle Beggar loves Lu Yi’s attitude, saying that Lu Yi reminds him of well.. him when he was younger. Jin Xia asks Lu Yi what they should do now. Lu
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A Dad calls out to his young daughter Sachiko that dinner is ready. When Sachiko comes for the food, she accidentally steps on her dad’s glasses breaking them. She apologizes and her Dad says that he’ll just have to buy new ones. He’s just glad that Sachiko isn’t hurt. This leads to a trip down to Kagemura Glasses shop for
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Jin Xia gets scared so she runs back the way she came.. only to have a man jump out in front of her making funny faces (not really scary, but startling). Jin Xia screams, then pulls out her gun as she demands for the man to identify himself. The man tells her that she’s rude for pointing the gun at
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Takeshi Hongo having infiltrated the Shocker base in search of the mysterious steel box. However, Hongo was quickly exposed and got tossed into a trap. The Chameleon brags about how he created the trap specifically for Kamen Rider. The Chameleon tells Kamen Rider to die, Kamen Rider jumps but can’t reach the opening which closes after The Chameleon’s taunt. Our
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Well after figuring out that if they don’t solve whatever is going on, they might die.. they decide to go to sleep. However Xie Xiao keeps calling for Jinxia in his sleep. Lu Yi gets up and takes the blanket off the constantly moving sleepy Xie Xiao and gives it to Jinxia whom he thinks is asleep before going outside.
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In the Sunada Gallery a man is reading the paper while a mysterious shadow approaches his door. A dog barks making the man leave his chair to go look out the window, wondering if someone is there. When he doesn’t seen anyone, he turns around to see a disgusting hate symbol painted in black on the wall. The man wonders
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Jin Xia and Lu Yi wake up from being drugged, and are tied to a post in the middle of the town square. Lu Yi says that it will be 6 to 10 hours before the drug wears off. Jin Xia wonders if Xie Xiao will be okay but Lu Yi tells her that she should worry about her own
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At the Central Earthquake Research Facility a woman named Chikako Amemiya answers the phone. She identifies the facility then herself.. the person on the other line must ask about the equipment at the facility because Chikako goes on to say that it’s all state of the art and how even the newspapers were interested in their stuff. Then she asks
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After receiving the medication from Yang Yue, Shangguan Xi asks him to leave. Being a good boy, he does so after wishing her a good night. After shutting the door, Yang Yue pauses a moment before leaving the area. Shangguan Xi looks down at the medication deep in thought (please tell me you’re regretting liking Xie Xiao, and want Yang
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At Mukogaoka a fairground full of ferries wheels and spinning tea cups thee is a place called the Flower Orangery. Yukkie takes her little brother into there but finds the plants to be creepy so she wants to go home. Kenji, her little brother refuses then walks off to a nearby plant. Kenji wants to know what the plant is
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Jin Xia answers Lu Yi’s question about Yang Chengwan by saying that she doesn’t know why he stayed so long in Fujian. She then offers Lu Yi some more food but he declines saying that he’ll try some other veggies that are on the table instead. However Lu Yi hesitates for awhile not choosing anything which leads Jin Xia to
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The evil organization known as Shocker gained the knowledge of transplant techniques from Nazi Germany research. They now have the ability to create cyborgs with animal or insect traits.. of course they create cyborgs so that they can take over the world. Shocker’s current cyborg creation is the Scorpion man. In the secret base, Shocker works slaves until they are
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Shi Fan taps Jin Xia on the shoulder with his fan hard enough to cause her pain. He then says that since Field Commander Lu is being so reasonable, he won’t take his precious subordinate. Shi Fan then points out that Jin Xia is wounded, he says that he has some ointment on his boat and inviting the two of
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A car drives up to drop off a female passenger. The driver tells Miho the passenger that they have work tomorrow so she shouldn’t oversleep. Miho says that she knows then wishes the driver a safe trip home. She hears a strange noise so like every horror movie character she turns around to ask who’s there. Eventually a voice answers
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The episode starts off with Hongo riding his motorcycle while some creepy monster watches from a distance. Hongo reaches the finish line but Mr. Tachibana doesn’t think that he will make the Grand Prix with his current times. Hongo laughs saying that he’ll go another lap to cut down some seconds from his time. Hongo starts off again and Mr.
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Mayor Wei asks Sir Lu if the singer is a person or a ghost. Lu Yi tells him to not be so hasty as this is the old Taoist’s strength. Lu Yi says that after he old the Old Taoist’s analysis he found that Yun Zheyue and that of Sir Zhou were murdered by the same person. Lu Yi says
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Lu Yi asks Jin Xia if she’s an orphan, Jin Xia replies that when she was a small child, she ran off and lost her family. Jin Xia says that she lived in the orphanage until she was adopted by her current mother. Lu Yi stays silent so Jin Xia says that she has a request but she’s unsure if
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Jin Xia looks like she’s having fun singing Chinese Opera when she finishes it’s Lu Yi’s turn but he doesn’t sing anything. Jin Xia prompts him saying that it’s his turn but Lu Yi doesn’t look interested in at all. Jin Xia tells Chang Sheng that her brother’s memory isn’t very good, so he forgets his lines, then offers to
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As the song from the zither fades, Yang Yue claps openly before remembering that his place. Lu Yi smiles briefly before saying that the sound of Zhai Lanye’s music lingers beautifully. Zhai Lanye replies that people often say it takes ten years to learn the Pipa **Chinese Lute** and one year to learn the Zither. She says that it’s really
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After seeing the Emperor’s decree that the investigation is now under the authority of the Embroidered Uniformed Guards, the prison guard quickly leads Lu Yi and Jin Xia to the prisoner. Once in a dungeon like interrogation room, Jin Xia reads off Zhou Xianyi’s personal information as follows: Zhou Xianyi is 28 years old, from Wuxing, Zhejiang. He passed the
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Jin Xia says that personally she admires Round Xie’s chivalry and sense of justice, but Sha Xiuzhu committed a crime so he must be arrested. As for the matter of swapping her badge out for a forgery, Jin Xia says that if King Lu of hell really does come after them then they won’t have a good ending. Jin Xia
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It was just after Xie Xiao says that he couldn’t marry Shangguang Xi that we get a flashback of her in wedding gear waiting on the bed. Outside her room she can hear the servants saying that the young master has taken a horse and run off. She lifts her veil to hear a bit better then lowers it again
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The episode picks up right where we left off with Lu Yi and Jin Xia swinging onto the ghost ship. As soon as they land, Jin Xia complains that he didn’t warn her before they swung over. The deck of the ghost ship is stained with blood and Jin Xia wonders how many people must have died there. She’s sticking
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Jin Xia is waiting on a hill overlooking the hideout, while Lu Yi is hiding not far away. They are both pretty bored though Jin Xia is silently cursing Yang Yue for being unreliable as they had both agreed to meet up outside the city. Cao Kun comes out of the little house, gets on his horse and starts to
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During the years of Emperor Jia Jing, Yan Song framed Grand Secretary Xia Ran. Xia Ran was beheaded under false charges. After that Yan Song removed Qiu Cheng, Shen Liang, Yang Qi Zheng and other political enemies. Since then Yan Song and his son have held enormous power in the court. In the 37th year of Emperor Jia Jing the
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This episode starts off in November 11, 2043. Jiang Shuo enters a futuristic looking office where a woman greets him asking if he’s the volunteer for today’s experiment. He introduces himself as Jiang Shuo to the woman. Roll those opening credits! The woman turns out to be Mu Qing (well the real version of her anyways.) and she shows Jiang
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This episode starts off with Jiang Shuo in the Psych. Jiang Shuo sees the back of Liu Zhi and slowly comes a bit closer. That’s when Liu Zhi turns around and the face looks exactly like that of Jiang Shuo. Tears stream down Jiang Shuo’s face while Liu Zhi has a creepy Smile. Roll those opening credits! After the credits
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The episode starts off with a bunch of people dropping one drop of blood into a bowl of water. When the camera pans out we can see that it’s the children. They then pass the bowl to each other to drink (gross!) Once the last child has drank from the bowl, he passes it to an adult. The children yell
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The episode starts off with Wan Jin Rong and Wan Shu Xuan (Mu Qing’s Aunt and Uncle) sharing a bunch of cute couple moments.. with the sad music. Roll those opening credits! At the police station Mu Qing tells the others that police officers investigated near the boathouse but found no suspicious people. Mu Qing herself checked Ms. Sakurako’s room
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The episode starts off with a man entering the room addressing another man in a hood as Liu Zhi. The man does wear the six fingered glove piece so maybe it’s him (but at this point who knows?) The man asks Liu Zhi how he is. Liu Zhi is more concerned with how the cargo is. The man says that
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Dr. Shen arrives home to check out the files that she’s taken from Old Master Qin when she hears a noise. She hides the files under the bed, then goes to check it out. She opens the window to find that it was just a cat knocking over a bottle outside. Relieved she closes the window shutters only to have
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This episode starts off with Yi Heng going into his brother’s room to find him out of bed. Yi Heng asks him how come he’s out of bed. His brother just says that he did something, then asks Yi Heng to forgive him. He says that he did it for the Qin family, Yi Heng asks him what did he
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This episode starts off with a man walking in what appears to be an abandoned house. There’s writing on the windows in red saying a life for a life. The next window reads that kindness begets no kindness. The man continues walking. A woman appears at the entranceway of another room after the doors swing open. The man asks who
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This episode starts off with Mr. Sun attacking Jiang Shuo and Yi Heng in the Psych with measuring tape. He manages to make them fly in the air before using red string to drag them off into a room. Roll those opening credits! After the credits we see that Jiang Shuo and Yi Heng have just arrived in the Psych.
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The episode starts off with our trio walking into a building and out of the rain. Once they are inside they find a book with blood on it, a sheathed dagger and a wrist bangle and sequinned purse all with blood on it. Jiang Shuo uncovers what appear to be memorial tablets hidden under a cloth. He then goes to
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This episode starts off with Mr. Qin in the hospital bed and the nurse coming in to find out that he’s still awake. She tell him that it’s not healthy for him to stay up so late, so she gives him a newspaper to read to help him relax. After she leaves, Mr. Qin reads the newspaper to find out
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This episode starts off with a couple getting a letter from Wu Meng who is supposed to be dead saying that he wants his life back. The woman says that it’s impossible that the letter could have come from him. The man leaves the room to investigate a noise they heard outside after telling the woman to look after Ying’er.
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This episode starts off with s man carrying a woman into some kind of lab. The man puts the struggling woman down on the floor, and we can see that she has a red string on her wrist. Roll those opening credits! After the credits we’re back at the Earthly Inn where the Chief is toasting to the fact they
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This episode starts off with the main trio leaving the police station. Jiang Shuo wonders if since they solved the Zhao Ling clue, is that the end of their clues. Yi Heng says that since the case of Zhao Ling is considered solved, Jiang Shuo is the only survivor. Jiang Shuo reminds Qin’er that he told Jiang Shuo not to
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The episode starts off with a host asking an actress to stop onto the stage. Only to have the dead catty actress show up. Obviously the host is confused because she’s supposed to be dead. So like a Casper cartoon, he yells ghost and runs away. Shang Yu asks the actress if she’s dead. The catty actress agrees that she’s
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This episode starts off with an old time movie look. It looks like there is a fight and the bad guys kill somebody. The leader then comes down and marks the body with Liu Zhi’s symbol (maybe he’s the movie’s Liu Zhi?) Now roll those opening credits! Now we go back to where we left off in the previous episode
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This episode starts off at the club where Mu Qing and her father are watching the dancers perform. When the performance finishes the host of the club says that there is a special surprise tonight. The anonymous dancer Shang Yu will perform tonight without her veil. Mu Qing is very excited as she is a big fan of Shang Yu.
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This episodes starts off with General Yuan talking to one of the guests from the banquet apologizing for the delay. The guest doesn’t mind since Mr. Zhang is now dead and that’s well worth it. Just then the platform balcony drops, and a body that looks like Dr. Qin falls onto the nearby car. The soldiers, and the General see
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This episode starts with what appears to be a party. Jiang Shuo still disguised as the Yuan Mansion’s driver asks Qin’er who he thinks is Liu Zhi among the guests. We can see that General Yuan is at the table as well as Wan Jin Rong among others. Yi Heng says that he’s observed everyone for a whole day and
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This episode starts off with a car driving down a forest like road. The man in the backseat is feeling up a woman in the back seat. The driver peeks into the back set only to get told off by the young master. The car suddenly stops interrupting the man in the back, irritated he asks what happened. The driver
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The episode starts with Jiang Shuo shackled to a chair. He tells Liu Zhi that he’s mad, fate should be determined by themselves. Liu Zhi says that when Jiang Shuo was his disciple, he knew Jiang Shuo was a hypocrite. Liu Zhi says that Jiang Shuo is a sinner, he thinks he’s saving people when he’s actually harming them. Liu
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The episode starts with a bunch of wooden dolls strung up in a pretty dead looking tree with the names of the people on the island attached to the dolls. One of the dolls is on fire. Roll the opening credits! Ms. Yan Hong opens the door to the room she was hiding in. Mr. Feng asks what happened to
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The episode starts with flashes of the painting and the sins it depicts. Then we get flashes of the cast, ending with a view of the villa’s entrance. Roll those opening credits Takeuchi shoves Jiang Shuo into a room where Jiang Shuo pauses as another memory surfaces. In the memory it’s Yi Heng’s father that’s tied up in this room.
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We start off the episode with looking at Yi Heng’s conspiracy map. Then the camera shows us a house door opening leading to the creepy dining room where a bunch of people look on edge around the dining room table. Then the clock sounds and we see a bunch of dead bodies followed by the calendar saying it’s October 14th.
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This episode starts with Jiang Shuo waking up in a chair. A voice tells him that someone once said that they wold only see hell after death. Light appears and we see it’s Liu Zhi in his creepy mask. He tells Jiang Shuo that others say that hell is just a fiction. There are paintings behind that him that briefly
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This episode start off with Jiang Shuo getting his picture taken in some fancy looking clothes. While he was alone when the flash went off, the picture taken shows him sitting next to Mu Qing. Jiang Shuo smiles at the photo and then goes to another room. Apparently the photos were marriage photos because when he enters the room there
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The episode starts off with Ms. Yuan walking through the festival not looking like her usual cheerful self. Jiang Shuo has managed to get out of the water and is following behind her. Ms. Yuan accidentally kicks over a beggar bowl with some bread in it and doesn’t even stop. Jiang Shuo picks up the bread and places it back
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This episode starts off with a creaky door opening and a black cat entering the room. The cat is meowing like someone forgot to give him wet food. The cat approaches the bed and manages to wake up Zhao Meng. Zhao Meng comments that she thought the cat was lost. She picks up the cat and asks where it has
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