YMMV / Link Click

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• Awesome Art: The backgrounds and designs for the story are clearly made with care and look amazing even in small portions of an episode. Many even applaud the animation for certain scenes, with the opening scenes catching the most attention. Link Click's season 2 opening somehow ups the studio's game with its use of reversing the song and animation of Cheng Xiaoshi falling.
• Awesome Music: The opening "Dive Back in Time" as well as the ending "Overthink" are amazing songs that get stuck in your head. Season 2's opening song "Vortex" keeps the amazing music going with it even being a reversible melody.
• Fan Nickname: The serial killer is nick-named "Red-Eye" by fans since when they possess others they give them glowing red eyes.
• I Knew It!: There were some fan speculations that Lu Guang has also traveled back in time himself, with hints of him seeing "visions" of Cheng Xiaoshi dying, as well as being the one to set up the rules of a dive. Come the season 2 finale Lu Guang, with bloodstains on his shirt, dives back into a photo in order to save the current Cheng Xioashi from dying is proven true.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Lu Guang is fatally stabbed in the season 1 finale, with his final fate being a part of the cliffhanger. Season 2 hints at him possibly dying from his wounds. Only to be a Bait-and-Switch with Liu Min dying and Lu Guang being sent to a different hospital for his safety and recovery.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: For Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang, Shiguang. Probably not a coincidence that it makes up the first part of the series name, "Shi Guang Dai Li Ren".
• Realism-Induced Horror: The disappearances of Emma and Doudou are arguably the most mundane of the tragedies displayed, but they're easily the most realistic. One moment, their parents were just talking to them and within arm's reach; the next moment, someone whisks them away with no way to contact them, several miles from home, at their captor's mercy. In Doudou's case, he's only a boy, and got drugged by something as innocuous as a ball never to return for three years.
• Spiritual Successor: The series is very similar to Quantum Leap in how the protagonist engages in Mental Time Travel to possess people in the past, along with a desire to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. It even has its own Evil Leaper who tries to sabotage things.
• The Woobie:
  • Poor Emma. The story opens with her being abused and miserable at her job, being The Scapegoat for a crime she didn't commit and she's killed off by the end of the episode. But then it appears she isn't dead, with the story only delving deeper into her regretting the decisions she's made. It also has her dwell upon the abuse she suffered under her boss at the company and wanting nothing more than to go back to her parents. Then just as Cheng Xiaoshi tries to talk her out of committing suicide, the serial killer possesses her body and forces her to jump.
  • That's to say nothing about Cheng Xiaoshi himself. As the empath of the group, he gets caught up in his clients' feelings very often and is left heartbroken when he cannot help them. He's desperate for parental affection due to Parental Abandonment, with his most emotionally draining cases being ones where the clients' parents are still involved in their lives; and he projects this desire during Emma and Chen's cases. Add a lonely childhood and the adults in his life not knowing what to do with him, and you have a deeply hurt young man covered in a goofy, laidback façade.
• Woolseyism: The English dub sometimes incorporates this when it cannot translate a joke used in the Chinese or Japanese versions. For example, In episode 1, Xiaoshi laughs at Qiao Ling when she refers to Lu Guang as "Guang Guang", which sounds like the onomatopoeia for a dog barking in both languages (wanwnan/wangwang). In English, Ling instead refers to Guang as a "Good boy", and Xiaoshi instead mockingly asks her if she's going to give him dog treats.