The date is confirmed: 时光代理人 III — Link Click Season 3 Part One premieres on 14 August 2026, arriving earlier than its previously expected autumn 2026 window. The acclaimed Chinese mystery donghua returns for its most consequential arc yet, with international streaming on Crunchyroll expected from day one.
Premiere Date, Episode Count, and Where to Watch
Part One debuts at 11:00 on 14 August — streaming exclusively on Bilibili in China. Since Singapore Standard Time and China Standard Time are both UTC+8, Singapore viewers are watching at the same local time. Crunchyroll is expected to simulcast internationally, including Singapore, with the Bilibili premiere.
Season 3 is structured in two parts. Part One runs 12 episodes. Part Two, completing a planned 24-episode season, follows in 2027. The season tagline is “Past or Future, Let Them Be” — deliberately cryptic, and completely in keeping with the series.
What Is Link Click? (The Non-Spoiler Version)
For newcomers: Link Click (时光代理人) follows Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang, two men who run a small photography studio with an extraordinary shared ability — they can step inside photographs, experiencing the exact moment a picture was taken from the perspective of the person who shot it. Each episode gives them a new client, a new photograph, and a new life to briefly inhabit.
It reads as a gentle premise. It is not. The series is a tightly constructed supernatural thriller that rewards careful watching — layered foreshadowing, unreliable timelines, and real emotional stakes that build across seasons. Season 2’s finale landed with a revelation that recontextualises everything before it.
What the Season 3 Trailers Show
The official promotional videos from the Bilibili animation channel give little away — deliberately. Lu Guang appears in a charged nighttime scene under the 时光代理人 III title card, carrying an intensity that carries over from where Season 2 left off. Cheng Xiaoshi is shown in what reads as a moment of crisis — a sharp contrast with his more expressive, impulsive earlier seasons.
The tagline “Past or Future, Let Them Be” positions Season 3 as the season where the consequences of manipulating memory and time finally catch up — and where neither character can keep holding the line between what they want and what they are doing to the people around them.
Why Singapore Fans Should Watch from Episode One
Link Click earned its international reputation through quality of storytelling rather than volume — and Singapore’s anime-watching community, which has followed Crunchyroll simulcasts and Chinese animation alongside Japanese titles for years, found the series exactly through that path.
Season 3 Part One’s premiere window is finite: 12 episodes, one at a time, starting 14 August. For the full watch-along experience — before the season’s key reveals hit every group chat and Reddit thread — catching Episode 1 at or near premiere is how you stay ahead of the discussion.
Watch Link Click Season 3 on Crunchyroll (international streaming expected) or on Bilibili for Chinese viewers. For more anime and donghua coverage, check our Manga & Anime section.