End of Chimera Ant > Beginning of Chimera Ant > Hunter Exam > Greed Island >>>> Yorknew City > Heaven Arena...

End of Chimera Ant > Beginning of Chimera Ant > Hunter Exam > Greed Island >>>> Yorknew City > Heaven Arena >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Middle of Chimera Ant

Why do you hate the middle of the Chimera Ant arc so much

1. This is most certainly bait (and this is coming from someone who very much liked the CA arc)

2. Even if it is, why are you counting the CA arc 3 times?

Because it's an animeonlyfag.

99 Yorknew> 2011 Yorknew>Chimera>Heaven's Arena>Rest of the 99 series>Hunter's Exam>>>>>>>>>>Greed Island

>dat pic
>mfw HxH collab never comes to NA

Because it's longer than three arcs and because it has many amazing ideas and emotional moments, but the middle is a fucking slog written by faggots.

I'll never understand the love for Yorknew, it's just edgy gross shit with only one good fight. On the other hand Greed Island has two fucking amazing fights.

Length has fuck all to do with something's status as an individual arc. You cannot reasonably argue that the plots of the 3 acts of the CA are as separate from one another as Yorkshin and Greed Island.

The CA arc's second act may have been the weakest act, but it was absolutely necessary.

>Yorknew

This

So how long do you think they'll be on the boat? any bets?

Let's just hope it's faster than the boats in Berserk.

>Greed Island over anything
this is how you can detect an HxH shitposter

I'd put the entire CA arc at the end. It has some good moments, but besides that it was an edgy trudge and figuring out the whole operation was pointless was just a slap in the face. I'm kinda glad the series went on infinite hiatus because I was gonna drop this shit after that anyways.

But this boat ride is something to look forward to considering the shit that's about to go down.

If Togashi writes the boat ride to be like 40 or 50 chapters, the boat ride will probably stop after 6 years or so. Granted it won't be AS bad as Berserk's boat ride, because there will be actual action happening on this boat ride. The only eventful thing that came out of the Berserk boat was the Sea God fight.

>pad hxh art

You did it on purpose didn't you?

>Edgy
wew
>whole operation was pointless
lad

im more upset we wont ever get that event, or that One Piece doesnt have a collab but fucking Bleach does

This.
The concept and rules of the game are kinda autistic, but it makes for a good story with no glaring problems.

>End of Chimera Ant
Nigga only the last 2 episodes and Netero's fight were great. The rest varied between boring as fuck to somewhat interesting.

>Greed Island >>>>Yorknew City
Kek I actually wanna here this explanation.

>Yorknew that low

Killua is cute. CUTE!

>Hisoka teams up with killua and gon in a volley ball competition

that and the clever use of the cards made it one of the most enjoyable to watch. Im not sure how good the 90s adaptation was though

Someone who likes training, Gon fights and/or Razor

Or maybe someone with an obscenely large Biscuit folder

>explanation
It's just edgelord shit. The Phantom Troupe just mass murders people while a bunch of characters are introduced and job to them. The only exciting fight is between McEdgeMan and Uvo and it is super one sided.

On the other hand Greed Island is more lighthearted and just makes you feel good, dodgeball and the Genthru fight are fucking awesome, and there are some really clever moments like the training monsters, the Nen exorsist, and how they go about finding Ging at the end.

I thought it looked pretty nice. It apparently was split up though so there are some slight alterations to the art as it goes on.

Hisoka's voice is hilarious but fitting in it's own way

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what is this image from? HXH DOKKAN BATTLE?!?!?

Literal Trash > End of Chimera Ant > Beginning of Chimera Ant > Hunter Exam > Greed Island >>>> Yorknew City > Heaven Arena >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Middle of Chimera Ant

dude it's kind of like how lotr requires the first movie for the rest to be good af.

hunter x hunter will never be completed.

Someone explain Pariston motivation for having all those chimera eggs.

This was his initial plan, but at this point I think he's just saving them for a rainy day or some grander scheme.

4 teh lulz

It's just a prank, bro.

>Greed Island over anything
dodgeball fight was good but the rest of it was complete and utter fucking garbage, the entire concept of them going into a card game MMO was fucking retarded, the characters in the arc absolutely sucked, fuck that arc.

This is a 2011 anime arc rating.
The manga and original anime had a much better greed island arc but a lot of the good parts were axed or moved into the chimera ant arc because of how horrendously bad it was.
Also Yorknew and Heaven arena were among the best arcs since they had the best combat scenes and training montages.

Greed island>Yorknew>Exam>Heavens Arena>Killua Mansion>>>Gon Island>Chimera ant

>Yorkshin is edgelord shit
>meanwhile Chimera Ant is fine

nigga Chimera Ant has more child murder than Now and Then Here and There.
let alone the nasty body horror shit, brain surgery, characters dying all the time, Gon going completely out of character and becoming a merciless motherfucker who takes a defenseless blind girl hostage.

What the fuck are you on that you think Yorkshin is any more edgy than that? The arc ends with Gon and Killua stopping Kurapika from killing because friendship for fuck's sake.

I'm actually curious on what gons stance on killing is. I mean if kurapika actually did kill people then gon would still be his friend he would just be mad for a bit. i know killua is going along with the not killing just because of gon.

Normal Gon is against it and is happy go lucky.

at the end of Chimera Ant where he goes full schizophrenic for no apparent reason because shit writing he's willing to kill Komugi though.

Greed Island OVAs are better than MadHouse version

No

>full schizophrenic for no apparent reason

that doesn't make any sense, how is Gon being schizophrenic?
You come up with shitty metaphors and claim things have shit writing?

And for your information, throughout the arc he was repressing his anger and waiting for them to explode on the actual ants fight when he found out Kite died.
Even Morel sensed a dark killing aura when Gon and him were sparring for a bit and knew he was going to have that rage eventually come out one way or another

How is that shit writing?

The idea that Gon could be so happy go lucky and then immediately on a dime want to kill a defenseless blind human girl he knows nothing about is ridiculous, that's the type of merciless evil you expect from the Phantom Troupe.

>Gon going completely out of character
>at the end of Chimera Ant where he goes full schizophrenic for no apparent reason

Jesus Christ. Why is everyone so intent on short selling Gon's character as if he's some trite Kid Goku rip off and can amount to nothing beyond that? Gon is intensely selfish, unyielding, and hypocritical. All of this was established well before the Chimera Ant arc. All the Chimera Ant arc did was deliver on all that build up. I don't know what CA shitters' obsession is with Gon not being able to be anything but a shallow character, but it's ridiculous. I swear you people only see what you want to see in this series and any detail you don't like is automatically chalked up to Togashi being a hack. I am genuinely convinced that half the reason these HxH threads are always shit is because 50% of the people in them have the reading comprehension skills of a fucking toddler.

>York New below any of the shitty HXH arcs

it wasnt immediately after kites death he stopped being happy go lucky. and during the invasion he was basically walking a fine line morally speaking. he was conflicted when he saw that pitou could care for another person because he thought that pitou was evil. if pitou would try to attack gon then the quickest way to hurt her is to take something she cares about away. we know that pitou doesn't care for komugi at all and was just following the kings orders. but if komugi dies that death would still mean something because the king gave her that responsibility.

I haven't seen either anime adaptation so this is based purely on the manga.

Chimera Ant > Yorkshin > Greed Island > Hunter Exam > Heaven's Arena > Chairman Election

Black Whale and Dark Continent have potential to be top tier.

Jojo really feels ahead of it's time with it's parody like EXPLAINING WHAT WE ARE SEEING ON SCREEN exposition.

It's like it was making fun of the garbage seen in HxH years before it was even written.

Togashi was inspired by Araki and I'm pretty sure Araki likes Togashi's work too. Don't be a faggot and try to start shit for no reason.

Because it was the first to do it, he wasn't parodying anything Araki just thought Speedwagon narrating everything would be funny and a lot of other mangaka seemed to think it was funny too.

The problem in HxH is that it's just dull and a chore.

Fukumoto is another who has made it work.

The vast majority of the exposition in HxH is shit that isn't readily understandable (yes even in the CA arc you spergs). Togashi experiments with simulating time dilation through narration once, and you people blow the whole thing out of proportion. I've yet to see someone describe the amount of narration in the CA arc, without hyperbole, once here.

Fresh and correct opinions from someone who just reread the series:

Chimera Ant > Yorkshin > Hunter Exam > Current arc (will likely rise higher) = Greed Island > Heaven's Arena >>>>>>>>>>>> Chairmen Election

I heard a lot about it before I started reading and when I finished I thought 'was that it?'. It was like 10 chapters and a cool idea that turned out ok. If I'd been reading it as it came out then all those hiatuses would have killed me, especially as those 10 were released between two breaks and nothing else but taking the arc as a complete work in mind it wasn't that bad and I'd say a worthwhile attempt, even if it was a bit on the long side.

THIS THIS THIS

The recent Hisoka deathmatch was the best thing to come out of the manga
what an asspull though

Yorknew (fuck off, weebs) >>> CA >>>> Hunter Exam > Greed Island >> Heaven's Arena >>Election >>>>>>>>>> Dogshit >>>>>>>>>>>>> Zoldyck

>Yorknew
Do you call Hisoka "Secret" too, you irredeemably brainless pile of dogshit?

It gets a bad rap because of people who had to deal with it while it was releasing, along with people who first experienced it in the 2011 anime where it feels far more gratuitous. Reading a volume a day, the palace invasion portion of the arc goes along reasonably. Slow, but still mostly reasonable.

>asspull
Explain. And if you mention brain hypoxia once, I'm afraid there's no help for you.

explain how that wasn't an asspull

Togashi clearly planned the outcome before he started the fight which by definition makes it not an asspull, though it's still kind of stupid.

I shouldn't have to explain the logic of the burden of proof. Get explaining or gtfo.

Yorknew City>Hunter Exam>Chimera Ants>Greed Island>Heaven's Arena>Zoldyck family

Dividing the arcs is cheating. and yes I watched mainly the anime

>fuck off, weebs
Is what I said, so kindly fuck off, you weeb piece of scum.

You forgot the Election arc which should be at the bottom

I didn't watch 99 Yorknew, why is it better than 2011? Should I watch it?

Pretty sure that's why he forgot it.

>Retards actually call it "Yorknew" and not "Yorkshin" like the characters say because it's a proper noun
fucking kill yourselves

because hand-drawn is factually better than computer.

Every arc was better in the 90's show.

it was an asspull because it's unlike Chrollo to leave things unfinished.
Bubble man should not be alive, his hubris got in the way and earned him defeat in his deathmatch

Until we know what penalty or new restrictions Hisoka is paying for his new version of bungee gum, then it will be an asspull

Better lighting. Better animation for most of the fights. Better use of music. Better backgrounds. Mostly better character designs Anime only scenes that gelled beautifully with the tone and setting of the arc.

True, I forgot. It should be right below Yorknew in the second place. It just isn't the best because of Nanika appearing out of nowhere, but the election itself was God tier.

Cheadle is the best waifu.

What do you mean unfinished? He fucking killed him. He left numerous corpses in Yorkshin that he didn't both mutilating for good measure, why should he treat Hisoka any differently? Why should he have forseen what Hisoka pulled when Hisoka himself only considered it because he had nothing to lose?

>Until we know what penalty or new restrictions Hisoka is paying for his new version of bungee gum
Why should that matter? It's not like it suddenly wouldn't make it an asspull if your reasoning for it being as asspull was actually true. The idea of Chrollo leaving things unfinished and the state of Hisoka's Bungee Gum are wholly unrelated on a story writing level.

>Weeb trash getting this triggered

Before you tell anyone to kill themselves kindly point to Newshin on our world map you fucking sperg.

>has the two biggest deus ex machinas in the series
>not automatically relegating it to the lowest spot imaginable

Do you change all the character's names to John and Nigel too you fucking nigger

what in the hell are you even on about

So it's ok that Hisoka can bypass the rules of nen, it's ok that he's a convenient outlier when it suits the plot because Togashi wants to save him up for later?
Get out of here, if Togashi wanted to save him for later, he shouldn't have put Hisoka in a situation where certain death occurred.
Chrollo overkilled him and Hisoka should not be walking.

Use your fucking brain.

Use yours faggot, what does our world map have to do with the name of the city in the cartoon? Yeah "shin" means "new" because Togashi was messing around with the names but you don't suddenly translate a fucking proper noun because it happens to have an equivalent, like they also did with Senritsu's name.

>So it's ok that Hisoka can bypass the rules of nen
Alex, I'll take "Things that never happened," for $200. Everything concerning the fight and the aftermath was well within the previously established rules of nen that Togashi wrote years ago. If you forgot them, that's your own fault.

>creates intrincate setup with a lot of interesting possible interactions between characters
>doesn't go through it

Togashi is a fucking hack I'm telling you

>doesn't go through with it
That remains to be seen. He'll probably never finish this series, but not finishing the arc is a different question.

Most characters' names don't have literal English translations, you moronic fucking retard.

Why does it matter if any do? If you met someone with an English translation to their name would you just start calling them something that isn't their fucking name?

KILL ALL WEEBS, KILL ALL WEEBS!

didn't know transmuters could tell their aura to give them a heart massage by talking to it

it was a last second desperation move becuase Togashi didn't want him to finish him off

ok, it's within the established rules of nen, but the fact that it happened is the asspull.
It's way too fucking convinient, how the hell does Hisoka even know how to manipulate his aura to massage his hearts and lungs? Oh wait, he doesn't.
And he manages to learn to manipulate and transmute the aura inside his body, for the first time in his life, in the middle of a death match, right before dying?

Get out of here with your fanboyism

So you're saying you don't call Hisoka "Secret"? Then you are, in fact, the "weeb".

amazing world building, but it takes him ages.
He's like the anti-Oda

Cheadle is smart and cute and perfect

and green

You're the dumb fucking dumb bitch who's trying invalidate a translated name because it's not japanesey enough. (You) got your attention now get the fuck my thread, you added nothing to conversation.

>invalidate a translated name because it's not japanesey enough.
No I'm invalidating it because it's a translated NAME you fucking dunce. It doesn't matter what fucking language it's from, you don't change a name because it's a fucking NAME.

Is Cherry Blossom your favorite character from Fish Cake?

Greed Island was so fucking boring. Entire arc felt like a Bleach filler arc. But friends urged me to get through it because Chimera Ant was good, only problem is it took another 20 episodes of shit pacing for it to finally take off.

Honestly I think HxH peaked with the Yorknew aka Kurapika arc. Heavens Arena was good stuff too, should have lasted longer.

Never read the manga, don't really care.

>didn't know transmuters could tell their aura to give them a heart massage by talking to it
Bungee Gum expands and contracts. That's what it naturally does. Hisoka says this almost every goddamn time he uses it. When Hisoka wrapped it around his heart and lungs it expanded and contracted around the organs, thus squeezing and making them function again. That's just how CPR works. Him talking to it was just Hisoka being dramatic (as he usually is). No magic, no powerups, no convenient ability changes. Nothing. Just Bungee Gum doing what it's always been explained to do. You're trying to make this whole thing seem much more unreasonable by complicating it, but it's simply not true. Bungee Gum didn't act in anyway that was unbefitting of itself.

>it was a last second desperation move becuase Togashi didn't want him to finish him off
You're right that Togashi probably didn't want to finish him off. But that's not proof of an asspull. Not by a long shot. All that's proof of is that Togashi doesn't want Hisoka dead yet. Until you prove that he did something unreasonable to achieve that end, you've made no progress towards your original claim.

>ok, it's within the established rules of nen, but the fact that it happened is the asspull.
This sentence is the absolute definition of being obtuse.

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