Link Click Season 2

时光代理人II (Shiguang Dailiren II)

8.6(82,563)

MAL Score

Ranked #102

Popularity #1586

Drama
Mystery
Suspense
Adult Cast
Super Power
Time Travel

Episodes: 12
Duration: 24 min per ep
Aired: Jul 14, 2023 to Sep 22, 2023
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

The hunt for a shadowy culprit who can take over other people ends in disaster: Lu Guang is left in critical condition, and Cheng Xiaoshi is taken into custody for a crime he’s accused of committing. As the investigation tightens around Qiao Ling’s photo studio under Police Chief Li Xiao, Liu Min’s father escalates the pressure by bringing in Qian Jin, a sharp and merciless lawyer.

With the attacker’s identity still concealed, danger spreads unpredictably and lethally, leaving no one truly out of reach. Determined not to repeat past missteps, Cheng Xiaoshi is forced to move fast and make hard choices to stop the growing trail of death.

Otaku Consensus

Link Click Season 2 confirms Shiguang Dailiren as a top-tier donghua thriller: Haoling Li’s direction and LAN Studio’s sharp action staging turn the season into a tighter, more continuous crime machine than the first, while the Tenmon, Yuma Yamaguchi, Kana Inuaki, and Kent Watari score gives the twists a bruised emotional weight. Its approval is strong across fan metrics, with an 8.62 MAL score and 86/100 on AniList, but the recurring criticism is real: the mystery engineering often outruns the character writing, leaving parts of the ensemble less fully developed than the suspense around them.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Link Click Season 2 if you want a time-manipulation thriller that treats its supernatural rules like evidence in a crime scene, not a gimmick. It scratches the same itch as Steins;Gate’s consequence-driven tension and Attack on Titan’s whiplash reversals, but with an urban adult cast, police pressure, and a distinctly Chinese donghua identity. The appeal is in the escalation: LAN Studio keeps the action readable and physical, the score leans into grief rather than hype, and the season’s structure is more serialized and confrontational than a case-of-the-week mystery. If you want suspense without shounen tournament sprawl, romance padding, or soft resets, this is one of the strongest modern entries in Chinese animation.

Key Characters

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Xiaoshi Cheng(VA: Toshiyuki Toyonaga)
Xiaoshi is compelling because his empathy feels impulsive rather than heroic, making every supernatural decision carry the anxiety of a person who acts before he can emotionally protect himself.
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Guang Lu(VA: Takahiro Sakurai)
Guang functions as the series’ controlled nerve center, and fans gravitate toward the tension between his clinical precision and the rare moments when that composure visibly strains.
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Ling Qiao(VA: Aoi Koga)
Ling keeps the central partnership from becoming a closed puzzle box, grounding the show’s time-travel and crime elements in messy, present-tense human stakes.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Season 2 is produced by LAN Studio and runs 12 episodes, airing from July 14 to September 22, 2023; its compact cour format helps the story sustain a continuous thriller rhythm rather than drifting into loose side cases.
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Haoling Li is credited as both original creator and director, giving the season a unified authorial hand rather than the usual separation between source creator and adaptation staff.
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The soundtrack has an unusually broad music credit list for a single-cour thriller: Tenmon, Yuma Yamaguchi, Kana Inuaki, and Kent Watari are all credited, and viewer commentary repeatedly singled out the opening’s sadness, grief, and regret as part of the season’s identity.
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AniList’s highest-weighted tags emphasize how the show is built: Time Manipulation at 93%, Super Power at 90%, Body Swapping at 85%, and Crime at 83%, placing it closer to a supernatural procedural than a conventional time-travel adventure.
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Its reception is exceptional for a Chinese animated series on major anime databases, holding an 8.62 MAL score from over 82,000 votes, a MAL rank of #102, and 3,189 AniList favourites.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Link Click is an original Chinese anime rather than a manga or light-novel adaptation, which makes Haoling Li’s dual role as creator and director especially central to the show’s identity.
Fun fact 2: The original character designs are credited to INPLICK, while the visual environment is shaped by two art directors: Tomoya Asami and Lipiao Zhu.
Fun fact 3: Haruko Nobori is credited for color design, a notable role for a series whose AniList tags include Achromatic, reflecting its recurring interest in stark visual contrast rather than only full-color urban realism.
Fun fact 4: The Japanese voice cast for the main trio features Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Xiaoshi Cheng, Takahiro Sakurai as Guang Lu, and Aoi Koga as Ling Qiao.
Fun fact 5: Critical discussion around Season 2 repeatedly frames the show as one of Chinese animation’s standout exports, while also noting that its thriller twists are more consistently polished than its ensemble character development.