I Sketched Some Gestures While Listening To “When Somebody Needs You” By Will Wood And Imagining

To Be Hero X spoilers for Episode 5 and Shang Chao's knowledge

I think people are maybe drawing some strange conclusions from Shang Chao recognizing Yang Cheng without his mask on but in the E-Soul costume. Like yes, it's meant to be surprising, but if you think about it, the episode clearly explains how he likely got that information.

Shang Chao was a judge for the actor contest. Even if, during the actual contest, he didn't have all that background information on Yang Cheng that the leader guy got, which seemingly included Yang Cheng's real name and his face, the competition runners still had the information:

Even if his name isn't on there, his face is there, and I think Shang Chao would recognize his classmate's face, especially when he knows the guy by name and is comfortable enough talking to him at school, to the point he's even alarmed Yang Cheng already has a job:

It's possible the actual public judges weren't allowed the information while judging the contest to keep it more fair, but for someone with so many connections, especially given he interned with Mighty Glory (maybe to the point he was picked as a third judge, and given he seems to have run the gamut of hero-related organizations to intern with, and may just want the info out of curiosity, especially if the third place guy is a potential up and comer to hire when Shang Chao starts his own organization), it's entirely possible for him to get that information at least after the fact.

(Yes, he was ostensibly just an intern, he likely doesn't have that wide a reach, but if he were, say, related to Mr. Shang/Shand, who knows? Maybe he was a bit more than an intern. Also who would be gathering that info in the first place? Probably the interns)

Could it be for like secretly evil reasons? Sure! Could he have been spying on Yang Cheng before? Maybe! But... there's a very obvious reason he might have that info during the contest if not afterward.

Personally, the second we were shown the info card I was like, "Oh no, Shang Chao knows Yang Cheng's secret now. Will he exploit it?" And then, at the end, there Shang Chao is. I was honestly more worried about how things would end up (maybe he'd use it to mock Yang Cheng for losing or something) and obviously pleasantly surprised by what we got.

Some links to official Ace Attorney media you might be interested in

aka how much shit I found when I was going through AA withdrawal

Let me know if any links are broken or if there is anything else that can be added. Gonna add this to my pinned post too(check it to see updates)

- Manga scans collected by Reddit user u/aascantoss. More here

-Light novels Gyakuten Aidoru /Turnabout Idol and Gyakuten Kūkō /Turnabout Airport translated by Reddit user u/SaiyamanMS. There is also a novel "Turnabout of the Time Traveler", but as far as I know it has not been translated and there is only a synopsis of several chapters by u/tanteikid on Reddit. Edit: Thanks to astrikonaou for finding a partial translation by mokochan314! And more about Turnabout Bridge (Gyakuten no Kakehashi)

-Movie with fan made subtitles

-4koma and more translated by turnaboutarchives and akechiscans

-Drama CDs playlist (there is no audio drama for AJ Trilogy in the playlist but there is more on the HikariKaitou channel)

-Ace Attorney Fanbook(found translation by livixbobbiex who also made translation of "forbidden hospital scene" and also interesting post by akoichoi and translation of Valentine’s Day pic by hikari-kaitou

-Stage plays playlist (bonus)

-Special Court Skits playlist

-The Great Ace Attorney Rundown Theatre translated by Shobrisu on YouTube

-There used to be a musical Gyakuten Saiban: The Truth Reborn with subtitles on YouTube but I can't find it now, looks like it was removed due to copyright. Let me know if you know any other way to see it

-The Gavinners-13 Years Hard Time For Love translation by makaira-art and "LOVE LOVE GUILTY (Guilty Love)" by space coyote on YouTube. Also Apollo's song original and english version

-Pachinko game playlist

-Ace Attorney Trilogy: Turnabout Tunes playlist

-If you like collecting evidence for Narumitsu, you might want to check out the comments on my old Reddit post (and this subreddit too its awesome) as there are quite a few interesting links there. Also check narumitsuarchive its awesome too

-Comics by Shu Takumi

-There is also an official concert that I love

-PLvsPW special episodes. Also for SoJ

-T&T Special Blend Mix

-In gyakutengagotoku blog you can read about the difference in translation of different versions of pw trilogy and why they were made. Also check croquis-el and turnaboutfix

and again let me know if I missed something or if something doesn't work

Edit: also it kind of sucks that as far as i remember reblogs don't update with the post

AN UPDATE ON THIS!!!

As I was searching all over the internet for this lost dub I suddenly remembered the existence of this website called Mercado Libre (an Amazon for Latin America if you will, we still use amazon tho) and with all hopes lost beacuse of my research showing no sign of these dub I searched for the movie there and...

IT ACTUALLY SHOWED UP!!! I was so excited so I took this photo which at the moment its the only proof of this existing hehe, in fact if you wanna search for the post selling this the link I saved just guides you to a suspiciously cheap phoenix nendoroid lol

I messaged the person selling this asking if they still had it and THEY DID !!! so I bought it !! It's set to arrive in a week, so expect some posts about it. I certainly will need time to search for my DVD player and see if it works but I know it'll be worth it.

And something I forgot to mention on the previous post was that this dub got a trailer which is also lost and i´m hoping is also there included in the additional content promised.

Ace Attorney movie lost Spanish dub???

i was reading thru the aa movie wiki and stumbled upon this

a spanish company named Selecta Vision released the movie fully dubbed in spanish !! and i didnt know about it !!! i havent seen anyone actually mention this spanish dub anywhere, everyone talks about the forgotten english dub lol

as a spanish speaker (not from spain tho) i would be delighted if someone had clues on where i can find this dub! i cant find anything not even on the official selecta vision website so any bit of info helps!!!

i...i just finished tgaa chronicles guys... i want more... i NEED more of iris and sholmes and susato and GINA OH GINA and ryuu and kazuma and barok and mikotoba...

vintage phone

this has been in my wips for a million years and i have finally finished it!!!! yay lawyers :)

we're all used to the phenomenon of getting older than kids media characters and going "woah they were only thirteen what the hell they shouldn't have been saving the world" but ace attorney presents a unique experience where you hit 27 and suddenly you're older than the mentor-figure character and you realize that tragically you're not on track to reshaped the entire legal system by 32

thanks babe that's so helpful

this rewatch is also for taking more photos of yang cheng. bc he's cute

chappell roan for aa7