Nen in HxH really isn’t that complex or insanely well written.Basically: everyone can generate aura and move it through their body, hide it, or make it visible. There are different personality types that affect how people manipulate this energy. In itself, it’s pretty similar to DQ magic systems.The problem is the series never truly explores it deeply. Kurapika is a specialist, meaning he can basically do whatever Togashi wants. Losing lifespan is presented as a huge cost but barely matters narratively. Killua just gets electricity powers. Gon mostly punches hard, and when he needs more power he can just sacrifice everything. The sacrifice mechanic is the most interesting part, but it’s still pretty basic.The abilities are sometimes creative, but they’re rarely tightly connected to the actual Nen system. With the Chimera ants especially, they can basically do whatever they want with nen. Then we meet more hunters with “creative” powers, but the system itself never gains much value despite all the exposition dumps.Togashi also constantly adds new rules or exceptions. Nanika is literally just whatever the plot wants. So in the end Nen feels like a pretty standard power system with a background that sounds hyper-organized, but doesn’t actually matter that much in practice
>>288090287I don't read HxH so I don't care
>>288090287I do read HxH and op is right
>>288090287OP is clearly an animeonly and hasn't seen Nen past the world tree
>>288090287Do it's basically xianxia?
>if I oversimplify the explanation that means it's not complexclassic low iq take
>>288090398Hisoka vs Chrollo introduces new rules conveniently, then Hisoka survives conveniently too. Chrollo is a specialist, so he can basically do whatever Togashi wants.Succession war introduces even more new nen rules, yet characters still just do whatever they want anyway. Kurapika is also a specialist.At this point there barely even is a real system. It’s just Togashi creating weird abilities case by case. Nen is basically a narrative power system disguised as a hard magic system.
Holy midwit
>>288090414just like every People Fight
>>288090416>>288090460hxhfags seething because op is right
変:strange強:strong放:shoot操:fidelity特:special具:tool発:emission
A lot of people mistake how well detailed and explored each aspect of Nen is for it being well put together and mechanically interestingIts job as a power system is to facilitate interesting situations and make characters that can do cool stuffFor the amount of in depth explanation and elaboration on every minute detail Nen demands, it really isn't doing all that muchSystems like that should provide ways for things to interact with each other in interesting ways that reward understanding and problem solving skills in the characters and give the author many kinds of problems to have the characters solveBut for Nen, mostly it's just the explanation for why things work and has almost nothing to do with the way things are used
>>288090612君、アイス屋で働く
>>288091251>You work at an ice cream shopWhat
Nen has to be the most boring power system in shonen.
Typical midwit take, you overcomplicate even your attempt to simplify.Nen isn't complex because it's just a pretext for Togashi to have whatever superpowers he wants in his story. He can work backward from literally any powers he thinks is cool to come up with some "explanation" for what kind of Nen it is and only has to go into specific detail if he feels like it. More than half the abilities in HxH are never explained in detail how they work because he thinks of the power first, then figures out what kind of Nen it is. Most of them are just labeled as one type or a combination of types, or his favorite: "special" for when he can't be assed.
>>288091327Did you "enjoy" making this post? Would you say "you" feel "better" or "worse" than you did before you saw this thread?
>>288091346I actually enjoy HxH, you can put he tissue down and stop crying.
>>288090441in what way was it ever disguised as hard magic
>>288091352"You" are evading the question "."
>>288091327You’re just wrong on the “no system” part. nen clearly has core rules (aura, categories, conditions, risk 4 power) that are applied consistently in major fights.What is true is that Togashi often designs abilities first and then fits them into nen afterwards, and specialist can work as a flexible catch-all when needed.So it’s not “no system”, it’s a semi-structured system that’s strict in its fundamentals but loose in its execution for narrative freedom. All the nen dumps were, mostly, unnecesary
>>288091363It’s disguised because it’s presented like a rule-heavy system, not because it actually behaves like one
>>288090287it's pretty dumb. enhancement and manipulation don't need to be separate categories. both are just "you shove your nen into things to alter their properties"likewise conjuration and emission are just "your nen becomes something else." there's no fundamental difference between using nen to create a fireball, a cannonball, or an air bulletand then transmutation basically always falls into one of those two groups anyway.There's basically only three categories. "Make stuff with Nen", "Change stuff with Nen", and "Calvinball with Nen"
>>288090287>shonenslop isn't complex or well writtenwew unbelievable
>>288091429but it never was lol
>>288091429By>presented like a rule-heavy systemyou mean>told the viewer there is some vague categorization of magical effects and an inherent affinity people have with one of these?
Hunter x hunter is over.
