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The resolution of Gon's search for his father being "He's such an unlovable prick that Leorio punching Ging in the face was enough to give Leorio a serious chance of being President of the Hunter Association" was so perfect I no longer get worked up for more HxH. It's interesting, I'd love to see what happens on the death point to horror town, but if it doesn't happen the series still managed to find the most awesome of all peaks.
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Mar 7, 2021 19:55
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hxh boat arc made me care abt manga pages that were literally just text in panel boxes, the true form of manga also mob psycho is great, opens a bit slow but I genuinely cried at every ep of s2. it's so good..
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Mulva posted:The resolution of Gon's search for his father being "He's such an unlovable prick that Leorio punching Ging in the face was enough to give Leorio a serious chance of being President of the Hunter Association" was so perfect I no longer get worked up for more HxH. It's interesting, I'd love to see what happens on the death point to horror town, but if it doesn't happen the series still managed to find the most awesome of all peaks. Much like YYH before it, I feel like the series found a perfect ending point and then just continued on even though it didn't need to. In this case, if it had stopped when Gon finally met Ging atop that big rear end tree, I would have been happy and content with this as a series.
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Mar 8, 2021 01:57
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Tbf while I’ve always been ambivalent towards the concept of Hisoka v Chrollo I’m really glad it happened after the election arc cause it makes Gotoh getting done dirty easier to swallow when you know Hisoka gets hosed aaaallllll the way up later.
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Nuebot posted:Much like YYH before it, I feel like the series found a perfect ending point and then just continued on even though it didn't need to. In this case, if it had stopped when Gon finally met Ging atop that big rear end tree, I would have been happy and content with this as a series. For YYH, was that after Dark Tournament or Chapter Black?
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Nonexistence posted:For YYH, was that after Dark Tournament or Chapter Black? No way it could end after Chapter Black, that whole arc was full of setup for the Three Kings arc. In the anime that the Three Kings arc ended pretty drat well so it works for me. The only part I think everyone can agree wasn't particularly good with that arc was the tournament.
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Nonexistence posted:For YYH, was that after Dark Tournament or Chapter Black? Chapter Black for me. I feel like that was the perfect capstone for the series, and it didn't really need to go on further and the final arc proper felt kind of weak compared to both the dark tournament and chapter black. But I also really didn't like the final resolution to everything.
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Mar 11, 2021 05:05
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Given the benefit of hindsight, I'd probably bring Chrollo vs Hisoka forward to before THE BOAT, have Hisoka straight up die in that fight and finish the series where the anime ends. Feels somewhat fitting thematically for HxH too. This is largely a series where people's goals/ambitions and dreams aren't fulfilled, or if they are, they're not all that and Hisoka getting what he wants but just getting owned would be like "yeah, that's HxH for you". The boat is shaping up interesting, but it's hard to feel like it'll ever get finished and is pretty superfluous to the existing parts of HxH prior. Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Mar 11, 2021 06:10
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Chapter Black and Three Kings both feel like HxH arcs in different ways. CB was experimenting with new kinds of powers with the human psychics that in retrospect feels like a rough draft for nen, and 3K gave Togashi experience writing anticlimaxes and unsatisfying arc conclusions. I'm kidding. Kind of.
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Mar 11, 2021 06:13
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Given the benefit of hindsight, I'd probably bring Chrollo vs Hisoka forward to before THE BOAT, have Hisoka straight up die in that fight and finish the series where the anime ends. Idk, it’s probably a better written story that way but Hisoka getting owned cause of a fight he wanted so badly he missed loving Chimera Ant got it isn’t quite complete without him looking hosed all the way up in the aftermath and going on a petulant rampage because one of his toys was done playing around with him.
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Mar 11, 2021 07:53
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Yeah Hisoka walking off into the distance reanimated out of pure petty spite and promising to murder all the Spiders is the best way to end that storyline if you had to cut it somewhere
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Mar 11, 2021 09:46
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Eej posted:Yeah Hisoka walking off into the distance reanimated out of
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Mar 11, 2021 09:54
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That's also a pretty sweet ending for him, gotta admit. My favourite anime pedo.
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Mar 11, 2021 10:36
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Josuke Higashikata posted:That's also a pretty sweet ending for him, gotta admit. Can you be a pedo when your concept of sexuality is wholly divorced from a person's physical traits?
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Mar 12, 2021 00:05
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Yes
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Mar 12, 2021 00:26
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"I was attracted to their fighting spirit, and that's why I had a visible boner at the dodgeball tournament, your honor."
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Mar 12, 2021 01:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mff0aUIwYEU&t=2006s
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Mar 12, 2021 01:54
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the pedophile defender has logged on
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Mar 12, 2021 02:50
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Actually it's Murdephillia
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AlternateNu posted:Can you be a pedo when your concept of sexuality is wholly divorced from a person's physical traits? explain him checking out gon and killua's butts, then. hisoka wasn't exclusively a pedophile but he was absolutely still a pedophile.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:explain him checking out gon and killua's butts, then. hisoka wasn't exclusively a pedophile but he was absolutely still a pedophile.  I don't recall that at all. But yeah, deffo.
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Mar 12, 2021 03:29
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No matter what Hisoka is everyone can agree that he is a huge creep.
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Mar 12, 2021 03:44
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A friend of mine bought me a shirt with Hisoka and the word Gon on it for my birthday a few years back. I can't bring myself to wear it and I'm bummed out because he said he decided between that one and Netero's "Heart" shirt which would have been super rad
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Mar 12, 2021 03:57
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Reiche posted:A friend of mine bought me a shirt with Hisoka and the word Gon on it for my birthday a few years back. I can't bring myself to wear it and I'm bummed out because he said he decided between that one and Netero's "Heart" shirt which would have been super rad He made the right choice.
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Mar 12, 2021 05:21
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AlternateNu posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDyon3z1KP8
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Mar 12, 2021 06:10
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Sorry thread. Didn't intend for a is he really? debate to start.
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I was reading a thread about the Chimera Ant arc ending on gaming website known for loving Naughty Dog games too much and the vast majority of the people on there think that using the bomb was a cop-out and Meruem should have died in a straight shonen fight. Another called Gon's power-up a typical shonen super saiyan move. I'm genuinely curious as to how anyone can watch/read 130 episodes of HxH/300 issues of the manga and come to those conclusions???
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Mar 22, 2021 07:47
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I wanna say I’m shocked or whatever but nah, people have shut takes sometimes, I’ve heard people say that Chimera Ant was boring/overrated cause it spent too much time away from Gon/Killua and I don’t wanna tell people they watched/read a children’s cartoon/comic book wrong, but...
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Mar 22, 2021 08:28
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I mean, I definitely watched it wrong and expected bog-standard shonen throughout. The fight and the bomb were both really great, I was just hoping for a redemption arc.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:
It's clearly inspired by the famous super saiyan Goku moment. That's kinda the point, Togashi took a shonen trope and did his own, twisted, improved version. He established before that nen depends a lot on pure feeling and psyche and he established the pledge system, so it was less of a arbitrary powerup, and he made it more dramatic and with consequences. In a way it's Togashi flexing, taking one of the most famous moments in shonen and saying 'no, this is how it is done'.
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Broadly speaking I don’t think HxH is meant to be a deconstruction of shonen so much as it’s meant to be a story where everything that happens makes sense and that’s the end result, but Gon-san is definitely a deconstruction of the idea of spontaneously evolving to kill someone using the power of rage and grief and how well that should end up working out for the MC in practice.
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It's written brilliantly, for the most part. There's parts of HxH that fall flat and it's definitely too tell, not show at times but after everything Gon's gone through to meet that piece of poo poo dad of his and he throws it all away to murder Pitou? It's just tragic really.
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Finished the wife’s watching last week, she loved all of it and is going through it again to catch things she missed. She wanted more of Kurapika and the Troupe though I explained that it’s coming, slowly, eventually, maybe. Gon’s Pitou fight was long foreshadowed, he was always a kid with more power than sense. He shouldn’t get his nen back until he’s matured, a lot, or he’ll do it again. I’m thinking there will be a time skip while the boat group gets settled on the dark continent. Leorio finishes med school, Killua explores the world with Alluka, and Gon catches up on that homework. (lol at thinking we’ll ever get that far)
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leorio has gone for the apprenticeship route rather than continuing formal education. that's probably for the best, as he could only learn to be a conventional doctor there, as opposed to a weird hunter nen doctor.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I was reading a thread about the Chimera Ant arc ending on gaming website known for loving Naughty Dog games too much and the vast majority of the people on there think that using the bomb was a cop-out and Meruem should have died in a straight shonen fight. Some were calling it a subversion for subversion sake, not understanding the themes of the arc.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:leorio has gone for the apprenticeship route rather than continuing formal education. that's probably for the best, as he could only learn to be a conventional doctor there, as opposed to a weird hunter nen doctor. I mean if Ging was correct about other things Leorio had been studying regarding Nen, he can literally punch cancer in the face so he's already a weird kind of nen doctor
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Mar 22, 2021 19:28
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he's merely a doctor who can use nen right now, not a nen doctor. that dog lady is unsettling but she has some amazing skills.
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Turin Turambar posted:It's clearly inspired by the famous super saiyan Goku moment. That's kinda the point, Togashi took a shonen trope and did his own, twisted, improved version. He established before that nen depends a lot on pure feeling and psyche and he established the pledge system, so it was less of a arbitrary powerup, and he made it more dramatic and with consequences. It also notably doesn't really accomplish anything positive. Gon isn't really protecting anyone by killing Pitou at that point.
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And Pitou is the most changed/humanized/moralized/goodinized of the royal guard at that point.
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