HxH - Hunter X Hunter

Gon is a Hunter Hunter.
He's clearly lost his nen as a result of completing his life's goal of finally finding his father, and to rediscover it he needs a new purpose.

What likely candidates will he hunt next and where will this take him?

>Don Freecs
Logical extension of his father hunting quest. He hunts down his great-great-etc-grand-father. This brings him to the Dark Continent and places him in direct competition with his own father, Ging, potentially creating a narrative parallel between Beyond and his father, Netero, and their unknown relationship.
>Beyond Netero
Beyond escapes the grasp of the Hunter Association who enlists Gon to track him down. This brings him to the Dark Continent and places him in indirect competition with his own father, Ging, potentially creating a narrative parallel between Beyond and his father, Netero, and their unknown relationship.
>Kurapika
Inspired by his friendship with Kurapika he elects to track down Kurapika and stop him from risking his life in the pursuit of revenge as he is personally witness to the true costs this can have. This only brings him to the Dark Continent incidentally.

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if gon gets his nen back I drop hxh

this, it would outweigh all asspulls in the series

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Fuck off you fucking failure

It's not an asspull though.

It's a direct reflection of the nature nen.
You make a pact, sacrificing yourself in pursuit of a greater goal, and are given power in that pursuit relative to its severity.

This is why learning nen is a part of being a hunter, because specializing oneself demands sacrifice.

Also, Gon's nen only completely disappears after meeting Ging, it then dramatically fades, and then goes away altogether after finally getting his heart-to-heart with the man.
Not after his ressurection.

RUBBER

Devil fruit

I don't get why people call Gon's transformation and Hisoka's Nen asspulls, but Kurapika's "I can instantly kill you with my psychic chain with no downsides" is perfectly fine.

>B-Buh, he only can use it on the troupe

That's ALL he wants to use it on. Imagine mastering Nen for decades only to be easily killed by some spiteful teenager who literally learned Nen a few months ago?

read the manga

I didn't even care about the whole 'reverse super sayan' ordeal or Nanika, as long as Togashi creates new inner conflicts for Gon of the 116 ep magnitude I will just go jizzing along with his asspulls

On top of this he has mary sue eyes that let him have full nen capacity in all categories.

And we only conveniently discover the cost of the eyes, dramatic loss of lifespan, in an arc where they're searching for magic rice that gives immortality.

Are you speed reading or something? Every time he uses any chain ability, it dramatically shortens his lifespan. He probably won't even live to see the end of the series.

His story is over. You should be hoping for Kurapika or Leorio to have that kind of development instead.

Remember that crater Uvo created? KuRapika blocked the same power punch unscathed LoL

I am perfectly okay with that too.

thats for Dons lifespan not kurapika. togashi already confirm that kurapika and the spiders will both die

>in an arc where they're searching for magic rice that gives immortality.
We aren't in that arc yet, the rice isn't on the boat.

Gon is out of the picture for awhile. The focus now is on Kurapika and the Zodiac.

Anyone got a guess for when the anime might return?

It won't.

Would be a real shame but makes sense. If DC arc is roughly as long CA the anime wouldn't have anything to adapt for a while. But I doubt madhouse would drop a series like this

The producer did it as his final project for Madhouse. He probably won't return to it.

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Damn that's fucking depressing

O MY CHEATING NEN

He should hunt Killua's ass next.

is it weird that i think Togashi wanted to kill Gon after the CA arc but his editors forced him to bring him back?

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Yes, because it's headcanon

Why would he be hunting killua

>Every time he uses any chain ability, it dramatically shortens his lifespan.
Can people just fuck off with this stupid asspull? it makes zero sense, when facing an enemy THAT CAN STRAIGHT UP KILL YOU pulling an ability that shortens an unknown life span has literally no downside nor meaning to the story, we know he's not dying any time soon and every character that does this ends up outliving every enemy that could've killed him.
I do enjoy HxH but god this shitty troupe get my gears going

It also causes him to collapse from exhaustion pretty quickly.
If he's not in a 1v1 he's going to get fucked up.

>muh fights
>has literally no downside
Read the manga. Kurapika already lost 10+ years and collapsed just from using it outside of combat.

lost 10+ years out of how much exactly? If he would normally live as long as Netero then dying 10years sooner isn't that much of a deal, better than dying instantly in the fight, not to mention safety nets that can fix him

>If he would normally live as long as Netero
Netero was like 110 and he's an exceptional individual.
There's like only 2 other people who are as old as him, Maha Zoldyck and Linne Hors-d'oeuvre.

Not every hunter is going to be like that.

Even if it's 5 or 10 years out of 90, that is still a big price for a temporary power up. And it gets worse the more you use it.

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Why tf isn't this series more mainstream. At worst it can be considered one of the best shonen yet it still doesn't get the recognition it deserves

I know it's supposed to be pitous VA singing the song but I don't hear it at all

>Imagine mastering Nen for decades
I know looks can be deceiving like with Bisky, but most of the Spiders look to be in their 20's, with a few in their mid 30's at the oldest.

I do understand that i'ts a serious case of main character fuckery though.

I've seen a lot of complaints that it looks too childish and that people don't want to watch a kids show with kiddy main characters, kind of ironic really

Pitou's voice direction was shit.

It's understandable even if they give it a chance. The hunter exam does come off as typical shonen but even among casual anime fans a lot of the ones i know haven's seen hxh

Why do I like Pitou so much? She got maybe half the screen time Pouf, Youpi and Meruem did. I also think her characterization was less pronounced and explicit than theirs, though it was definitely there only more subtle.

Pitou had a wider breadth of character than pouf or youpi so I don't know what you mean about the characterization. Development is another thing entirely.
But basically you're just here to jerk off.

been a long time since I've seen you in one of these threads.

Pitou has more impact because she's the first one who sets everything in motion. She gets plenty screentime of her own. Also because cute.

>implying he missed my heart

No way Bill is going to survive the arc.

Can you tell me why you think it deserves so much praise when there's only been one great arc? I would like to know.

That single great arc should be enough, considering there are other far more popular series with 0 good arcs.

Sure he has

He may not survive, but he will always live on in my heart.

Do you think Greed Island stayed open after Gon won it? I could see them retooling it as a basic MMORPG now that the initial purpose has been cleared.

Also, if you have to use Nen to enter the game, that implies some competency. Why were all the players just fodder?

I believe that the nen system alone warrants praise. It is by far the most technical and well thought out battle power mechanic of any shounen I've seen.

Totally agree with Gon's transformation being reasonable (nanika on the other hand... now THAT's an asspull of gargantuan proportions).

You're wrong about Gon's nen having disappeared though. He still has the nen he was when he met Ging, it's just that he can't sense/manifest it himself.

When he inevitably recovers his nen abilities- that will probably be the 2nd biggest asspull of the series.

Also, I'm totally ready for Ging to become the main character of the story.

>Why were all the players just fodder?

pretty much the same reason gon and killua were just fodder before bisky came along

What arc are you referring to? I liked them all equally (except for maybe the beginning of Chimera Ants which is pretty slow)

do you think Togashi is losing "it"?

he is most likely referring to the Ant arc.

I'm with you though all the arcs are pretty good.

Q4. What will end up happening to Kurapika and the Phantom Troupe?

T: "They will all die."

"they all die" is just something that writers say when they don't want to reveal any information

no idea, curious to see where this is all headed though since Kurapica was a character that was built in the late 90s and an archetype that's been done to death at this point. Might be time for some of that famous trope subversion we keep hearing about

Which arc are you talking about? I would personally say 2 great arcs and other arcs may be overshadowed but are still very good in comparison to other anime.

A complex, mostly balanced power system which enables creative powers without being convoluted.

Natural characters that are driven by their motivations rather than plot and are written out at points that make sense.

The characters also carry "weight" to them for lack of a better word, e.g. when Hisoka randomly has bloodlust you feel the fear and confusion of Gon because you have literally no idea wtf is going on or if he's in danger or not, you feel the tension of Killua and Gon when Nobunaga and Machi realise they were being followed leading to the resultant capture, you feel the authority and control Kite has over basically every situation in NGL which goes on to establish the danger of the CAs when Pitou kills him for no practical reason other than to be a dick to the strongest person she could sense, you understand Killua's level of power in the HE when he kills the serial killer guy who was literal fodder introduced halfway into the episode and it barely feels contrived because you are told what he is and have one previous showing of his capabilities on the airship when he easily fucks 2 people with a swipe of his hand etc.

That was basically me rambling some things I remember loving from the show so sorry for the lack coherency but that's why I think it deserves more praise. I probably missed some important things too

all living creatures have nen, gon never lost it, just cant control it

I really hope this manga more or less drops Gon and Killua forever, and the main cast becomes Leorio (for once can he please be a main?), Pika, Hisoka, and Ging from now on?

I'm getting more and more put off by the fact that we see Gon threatening to kill an innocent girl in the CA arc, and then Togashi completely resets his character so now he's just the same fucking character he's been for literally other arc. Even Kilua has developed a bit. I'm getting really tired of gon as MC desu

I was afraid that Kurapika was gonna be Sasuke pt 2 (the part where he threatens Mizaistom is especially cringe), but the tender panels he has with the babby make me think Togashi won't take him in that direction anymore.

Basically everything else in the series remains fantastic imo (except some of the zodiacs, but the focus mostly remains off the boring ones). Getting to see more of Ging's character is great, and Pariston looks like he could be a really cool villain.

I'm sure the series will pick up when it focuses on the Phantom troupe again.

Gon should have died after CA arc. Kilua was a cool character, but with the whole "every single one of my flaws was a needle problem" is completely 2d.

Bets on how many chapters we'll get before next hiatus? Have we been given any reason to think that, beyond all odds, Togashi will actually go strong with the series for a bit this time?

Who knows, all we can do is wait for Togashi to keep writing and pulling shit out of his ass as he goes via his "hiatuses"

>I'm getting more and more put off by the fact that we see Gon threatening to kill an innocent girl in the CA arc

Why do peoples get so riled up over this. I also don't think Gon completely reset, he's shown more insight since he got restored but you're lead into saying he's completely reset because he's had very little screentime currently

I don't have a problem with him taking that much time to write desu. As I said, my only problem would be if he had lost the handle of it

MY REPEATING DIGITS

It was him getting ridd of the control of his family. He just didn't solve every problem he had.
He went from a cocky apathethic and coward child that wasn't allowed to have emotions because his family fucked him over to a more decent, friendly, brave human that actually had some human emotions.

*And i forgot to say that happened gradually over the course of the series, thanks to everyone's influences, most particularly Gon.

I kind of hope Kurapika just drops dead while doing something inconsequential. Not even during a critical fight at the worst possible moment. I don't even have anything against him, I just want the restriction on Emperor Time to pay off big time.

Obviously Togashi is writing in a such a way that studios are encouraged to emulate FSN UBW. I imagine the quality would be around Code Geass is style though.

Would you call it a sad anime death?

Why are the mangastream scanlations so shit? It's almost like they're just typing things into google translate. the only reasons I can think of are

A. Translators' english isn't so great

B. They are total weebs who think that translations must remain as faithful as possible to the original japanese even if the results barely make any fucking sense.

Best bros

The fact that the guy had more hiatuses than chapters and still fucked up alot with the plot in the Chimaera Ant arc is bad enough. But Hunta Hunta is alright as a manga but Madhouse saved that arc from it's mediocrity.

His purpose is to marry Killua and he retires, the end

Theyre a bunch of pricks who deserve it

>Which arc are you talking about? I would personally say 2 great arcs and other arcs may be overshadowed but are still very good in comparison to other anime
The Chimera Ant arc and I would rank the arcs like this.

>Hunter Exams
>Okay

>Hunter Arena
>Decent

>Phantom Troupe
>Good

>Greed Island
>Decent

>Chimera Ant
>Great

>The rest
>Boring

>A complex, mostly balanced power system which enables creative powers without being convoluted
I find stands to be alot more creative then nen powers because the fights are pretty impressive where the choreography and tactics are concerned. Hunta Hunta barely has any fights to speak of so that puts it in a negative light already.

>Natural characters that are driven by their motivations rather than plot and are written out at points that make sense
Most of the characters are written out too fast and too long and the character interaction and development is very flawed because of it.

>The characters also carry "weight" to them for lack of a better word
Yeah for certain moments for particular characters but that rarely has any lasting impact in the first place because Togashi has DBZitis, which is when he can't leave anything alone as it is. Netero is the only main character who died and who knows if he's going to come back somehow.

>I don't have a problem with him taking that much time to write desu
>When the pacing is slower than a retarded snail and the next two arcs needs about 200 chapters apiece
This shit will never end cuz he's gonna die of fake back pain before the boat arc is even halfway over.

>that art
How do people read this garbage?

Nen mastery canonically extends the user's life span by an amount equivalent to their amount of nen.
This is why Netero was still spry and lively at 110 and probably would have lived for a few more decades after that if he hadn't died fighting the King.
It is completely fair to say that shortening your life span in a series where maximum life span is completely up in the air (but where any Nen user who doesn't die from other means could comfortably expect to live to be at least 100 years old) isn't really a downside. Kurapika could shave 50 years off his life span and still live well beyond the end of the series. It really doesn't have any effect on him beyond giving an arbitrary reason for why he doesn't use it all the time as well as artificially increasing tension.

They had nen but were shit at using it. This is precisely the reason that they were screening people to enter the game and why Bisky had to give Gon and Killua so much training in the game before they were good enough to have any chance in there by themselves.

Having Nen doesn't make you not shit at using it.

Not Machi she's cute

This is a 57 year old woman

You can be one of the top Nen users of the world, you still get old when you get old.
Nen mastery does extend your life, but using Nen to fight is literally burning your own life energy.
That's why Netero looks like a fucking mummy after the zero hand, and that's why Kurapika is on a death clock everytime he's in emperor time now. He has one week, 10 days max of emperor time for the rest of his life and we've seen with the cockroach how easy it is to waste hours of it.
I'd be surprised if he lives to the end of this 2 months long boat ride.

Good point, maybe that's how Don Freecs survived 300 years (provided he didn't find nitro rice). Could be he's strong and only uses nen to extend his life span but fights with his physical strength.

>the guy had more hiatuses than chapters
Nothing wrong with that.

He never lost his nen you dumb speed reader he just need to re-awaken it once again

HIATUS

Almost as if the ground beneath Uvogin couldn't use Nen to block the attack. And Kurapika didn't even come out unscathed, his left arm got fucked.

In what way has Gon been "reset"? And he's not even the mc anymore, that's Kurapika/Ging.

1. Gon never actually lost his nen, he lost the ability to control it, Ging specifically said that he could still see Gon's nen and that there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.
2. I actually think that Gon will come back into the series when the Dark Continent arc starts up properly. Specifically because of how the DC has been described as being about survival, not fighting ability. My theory is that Gon will go to the DC looking for Kurapika and Leorio and will manage even without nen due to his natural survival skills and instincts. Then something in the DC will give him back his ability to use nen because fuck you Dark Continent spooky bullshit "Nen Potatoes" that restore nen abilities.

Chain Jail is perfectly balanced. It's not some uber hax shit, it just forces people into Zetsu. If Uvo trained more, he could've ripped himself free. via sheer physical force