>>214970665
Shame the writer is too lazy to finish this series, bro is pushing 60 now

>>214970665
Mu problem with this is how boring it got. The protagonists take a back seat, a bunch of other characters take over fighting the bad guys and even they fail so a plot device is used in the end. Excitement?

>>214971065
its because its not the end of the series, its just another arc. One that exposes Gon and Killua as low tier scrubs. They thought they were goated because they beat heavens arena and some silly video game but the truth is real powerful Hunters arent grinding scrubs in heavens arena. So confronted with their weakness, we need to see other powerful characters to see how much growth is left for them

>>214970665
Go back to /a/

>>214971105
Sure, imagine if they had made a whole season of Star Trek TNG between 3 and 4 where things happen in a different ship with a whole different cast of characters before going back to the original format, and defend it by saying "it's okay because it's not the end of the story". People would live that.

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>anime is retarded
damn, that's crazy

>>214971065
The real MVP is the narrator.

>>214971105
Problem is its basically the climax of the entire show. After this is an election arc that again focuses on a bunch of new people. The only interesting thing semi-related to the main characters in the final arc is Gon meeting his dad, who doesn't really give him any answers and turns out to just be some boring asshole.
>but le manga
Is dead, the story ends with Gon meeting his dad and setting off for a life of adventure of his own. Problem is we spend the last 1/3 of the series following a bunch of random side characters

>>214971105
gon and killua are like a tier below the absolute best hunters in the world, they are top tier already not to mention in the next arc they arent in it at all, author just got sick of them

>>214970665
Damn, it's kind of like foreign intervention in nascent states or something
Fucking brainlet, you didn't watch the series

>>214971237
The election arc is all about Killua and his story you fucking retard

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>>214971065
>Mu problem with this is how boring it got. The protagonists take a back seat, a bunch of other characters take over fighting the bad guys and even they fail so a plot device is used in the end. Excitement?
this is based

>>214971268
You mean the state that was entirely conquered by evil genocidal bugmen that wanted to exterminate all of humanity and put the survivors into zoos? The isolationist country being intervened isn't really a plot point, just background decoration so they can blow lots of stuff up

Time to epic slowmo walk into battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF5RedxgHKA

>>214971284
Half of it is, and his story is just
>Remember when we visited his house? Actually there's this secret tranny kid that grants wishes that Killua never talked about
>Killua actually expressed his inner heart of gold all the time with the tranny kid, all the development you saw him undergo was stuff he already experienced
It was shit

>>214970665
CA is the most overrated arc in shonen history

>>214970665
>the season was, explicitly, about taking control and choosing your own destiny independently of the expectations others place on you
>they even when so far as to have a Kim Jong Un stand-in read you a poem at the end about how you don’t have to pursuit greatness and do what you want with your life
>highest IQ (around 105) /a/ posters: “wow it’s saying that human were the REAL bad guys!”

>>214970665
>>Monster appears and tries to genocide your entire race
>>Use a nuke to kill him, because literally nothing else works
>
>NOOOOOOO, that's not fair! You can't use a nuke to save your species, that's cheating!! Humans are the real bad guys!

Nigga missed the whole point of the Netero nuke. THe King was so bewildered by the sacrifice and barbarity of the deed that even with all his might he is powerless against a single arm and single leg enemy who he taught was an honorable opponent kek.

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hxh new chapter when

>>214970665
Nukes are so lazy. Why wouldnt Nen block that?

>>214971362
Did you miss the climactic nuclear blast with big text that says "HUMANITY IS.....LE EVIL...." which was the heart of the arc as a whole?

>>214971374
it does by the fact that he survived the explosion just to die by the poison or whatever radiation analog they invented

>>214971374
>Nen abilies can be made up on the fly with little to no rules or regulation
>The king is the smartest nen user EVAR
>Doesn't make an anti-poison ability to save himself
Feels like the author made a problem so insurmountable he just handwaved it away

>>214971065
What are you talking about? That's the best part. A shonen show where the main characters get fucked up constantly and are basically mid tier in a world of monsters. It's what is intriguing since arcs are actually interesting at how they will end and who will get fucked up.

For instance, Hisoka is supposed to be pretty strong. That guy would get fucked up by most of the characters in the bug arc. It jumps around with it and honestly it's refreshing.

>>214971429
This, except the opposite and this poster is a retard.

>>214971065
>protagonists take a back seat, a bunch of other characters
This is one of the best parts. Your main character syndrome isn't how the real world works and it's refreshing when media takes a break from it, too. Writing is top notch when this is done and it doesn't feel like a disjointed mess, like later LOST seasons.

>>214970665
hxh was only ok through kil's house
everything after that was fucking boring and gay

>>214971183
kinda like how they made TNG in between the films about the real Star Trek cast

>>214971394
Did you miss the entire episode of the koala ant bemoaning his lack of agency afterwards? Or Killua literally removing his free-will-prevention chip from his forehead? Or Gon throwing away his future potential because he felt he failed his obligations? Or Meruem looking at the camera and saying “I’m forsaking my genetic destiny, I want to play checkers instead”

>>214970665
Greed Island was so terrible I dropped HxH before I saw this arc.

>>214971394
it is legitimately an important distinction that the theme was not "man is the most evil thing in creation", but "man has the greatest capacity for evil in creation"

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>>214971619
based and completely understandable. greed island was just a slog and added nothing to the overall story, it was the equivalent of a training montage except it was a season long. and the ant arc only had a few good moments like when gon loses his it and is willing to sacrifice all his life force just to beat up a cat

>>214971479
Except nothing like it because it's a different show, not an arc of the same show.

why the fuck did palm even have to go into that place what the fuck did she accomplish

>>214971469
Main character in a story should be the main character. This is not life, it's a piece of media. If you don't understand this, you're just a moron.

>>214971704
have you considered that this argument relies on a very autistic view of the world? all it takes to satisfy you would be if togashi had said "uh, this next arc is ackchually a spin-off de gozaimasu" and left everything else the same. hollow categories, ignorant of substance

>>214971619
>>214971698
I liked GI much more than ant slop. At least the characters there have motivation, instead of just existing to be enemies.

>>214971755
No, what it would take to satisfy me is for him to write a good alstory, which he didn't.

>>214971771
you probably should have said that then instead of going off on some tangent about how furious you were that the protagonists played second fiddle for one arc

>>214971727
Gon was the main character for 3 arcs, I think we had enough of him and he's already way too fleshed out, the title isn't GonXGon for a reason you nigger, you just got filtered but the unconventional story telling.

>>214971719
If she saw one of the royal guards she would be able to spy on them with her abilities + she is sexier as an ant tbqh.

>>214971811
to be fair, gon was very obviously the viewpoint character for pretty much the entire story up until chimera ant, it was not really doing an ensemble cast thing. the one exception to that is, what, york new city? even that's like 1/3 gon

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>>214971811
this succession arc is my favorite arc by far and i dont know if togashi can top himself after they touch down in the dark continent

>>214971719
To become hotter

>>214971843
>>214971881
men of exquisite taste

>>214971727
Orthodox and boring. A million shitty anime like this. Enjoy your MHA slop.

hunter license arc was the only good part of this entire thing

heavens arena is okay but nen is waaay over explained and feels autistic

greed island sucked (besides razor of course, razor is based)

york new was gon and killua being used as bait for fucking ever, hostage trading arc basically, i guess the uvo fight is cool but thats about it

chimera ant arc has to be one of the most overrated arcs in manga/anime history. i was told it was going to be some crazy massive battle arc with insane highs and lows and ethical/moral quandaries galore etc etc, but then you experience it and its hamfisted humans are the real monsters shit with no nuance, youpi and morel fighting in a fucking crater for a year, palm is there for some reason, gon sits brooding for a fucking eternity over a guy he knew for like 2 seconds dying, and the complete tonal destruction of nettero's character then offing him (im okay with him having his all-out roshi moments, but the arc clearly paints him as some monstrous america-nuke analogy, sleeping demon being awakened and all, it felt very forced). ikalgo was the only good part of the chimera ant arc

politican arc is basically non-existent though it does give us much needed leorio moments

I think I also dislike a lot of the characters in this whole thing. I feel like I can count all characters who arent either psychotic or emotionally retarded one one hand, and the best one of those (leorio) is missing for 90% of whats been adapted

i dunno the whole thing just kinda sucks and i think its mainly just shotabait for fujoshis who want to see gon and killua kiss (two psychotic emotional retards btw)

>>214971854
>Gon was very obviously the viewpoint character for pretty much the entire story
and now he isn't, and I'm glad he isn't because there are way too many characters that are more interesting than him, imagine if Naruto adapted the story telling of HxH, think of how good that series could become, Naruto is way too fucking boring for a main character.

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>>214971183
there was a Jean Luc Picard reference in the hxh1999 anime

>>214971912
>forgets the second arc
>no explanation for greed island, clear lack of respect for context of the era
>york new is arguably the best arc of all, I should stop reading this retard here
>listened to anime fans who only know hype rather than appreciating a nuanced performance that gives several characters room to emote and follow their motivations logically, relentless plotfagging reaction

>>214971909
What's an MHA

>>214971790
If the protagonists aren't the protagonists, it's bad storytelling.

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>>214971758
GI is an acquired taste but I think it's the arc with the dullest side characters, including the main villains friends. Yorkshin and GI are easy to rewatch but CA is rough because it's so long and while I think it's really good it's not a 10 / 10 at all moments

>>214972133
My Hero Academia, all animation no writing

>>214971790
That's why I loved The Witcher on Netflix because Geralt wasn't the main character.

>>214972133
Gay weeping

>>214972176
Just like HxH then.

>>214972133
something not worth watching or mentioning, the girls are hot though and that is the only positive

>>214972164
OCD ass need for rigid structure

>>214971854
Gon did not do anything during Yorkshin except get captured by Machi like 3 times

>>214972189
it would have been bad even if he had been the one driving the story, the problem is not the designated protagonist but that the writers can't tell a compelling story about any protagonist

>>214972211
Weak bait, Togashi's writing is lauded

>>214972164
>it's bad storytelling
millions of anime watchers will disagree with you.
millions of manga readers will disagree with you.

>>214970665

2011 was mid but HxH 1999 had some cinematographic value.

>>214972235
sure, but he's still the viewpoint character a lot of the time. it's not abnormal in any story for someone other than the audience's designated window into the world to take the steering wheel and drive for a bit

i like HxH and I think the new arc has potential to be the best if it ever gets finished but I also can't help but feel amused at how deathly slow its progress is and how insanely long some of the hiatuses can be, its not my favorite manga but if it was life would be suffering

>>214971854
jew york city which is probably the best arc

>>214972164
if the protagonists aren't the protagonists, they aren't the protagonists, so i'm not sure what the issue is

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>>214972278
yes, but whoever thought that adding that ninja chick who was never in the manga and whoever thought the movies were a good idea are retarded and need to be lobotomized

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>>214972278
>1999 had some cinematographic value
and cool nen noises

>>214972340
>jew york city which is probably the best arc
based

>>214972340
yorknew is fun for hisoka's scheming, but the rest of it is pretty forgettable

>>214971065
the buildup to them going to the castle or compound whatever was completely ruined when the narrator wouldn't shut the fuck up for many episodes and everything was in slow motion

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>>214971909
cgdct is the only anime worth watching

>>214971065
Kurapika is the better character anyway. I’m so glad he cucked Gon out of being the main character.

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>>214972453
this page effectively filtered millions of ESLs

>>214972463
the only anime i watch are publicly funded character studies of the daily lives of married adults

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>>214972340
It seems incredibly over at the moment when you think about only 20 chapters have come out in the past 7 years, though that will likely change to 30 chapters in the past 8 years soon

>>214972463
If you’re transitioning into a female, yes.

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>>214972610
we would get more chapters if togashi didnt blow out his back taking a shit (a togashit) or his wife riding him until his spine snapped

>>214972649
she doesn't depict herself as a rabbit for nothing

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>>214972328
>but he's still the viewpoint character
It's a package deal, Killua is on equal footing as the "viewpoint character" for all those arcs that they're involved in. Looking back Killua probably gets more screen focus and internal thinking scenes in Yorkshin than Gon does, so much so Gon almost looks like the side character

>>214972710
richest woman in japan married to the kino machine with a spine made of dry pasta

>>214970822
the concept of long running stories by the same author is generally flawed. it should be customary that people pass the torch after a few years

why do all manga authors have back problems?

>>214972782
bad chair posture 24/7

>>214972714
moreso the later into the series you get. Gon was created as an ignorant hick at least partially so that there was a reason for the other characters to explain the world to the audience. killua starts to take on some of that as the parts of the world they interact with becomes more hidden. yorknew probably is the turning point, where togashi just feels too constrained by Gon's inability to scheme, and switches to using him primarily as a battering ram for when the other characters' constant machinations make the plot stall out

>>214972782
because they spend 18 hours a day hunched over a drawing pad and never, ever, ever exercise

>>214972782
easy excuse not to work, but togashi needs to just buy a titanium spine already. all that sailor moon money is just sitting around

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>>214970822
The series ended with Gon meeting his father on top of the tree. All this stuff afterwards is just gravy. HxH is over, you're just reading a long, autistic epilogue. You can stop at any time.

>>214971183
What a retarded fucking thing to say. TNG isn't even a serialized show, it's episodic and there are very few continuing storylines across its seasons you retard.

>>214972896
yeah, but think how infuriating it would be if there were episodes where picard wasn't the protagonist

>>214972844
>have back problems
>go to doctor
>they recommend surgery
>crippled for the rest of your life, back hurts worse than ever
>kill yourself
back pain can't be fixed

>>214972368

True. I mostly mean stuff like composition, pacing, atmosphere, tone, lens distortion, lighting and color management for emotional impact. Which is to say observable technical/ artistic stuff that affect HOW the story is conveyed.

>>214971394
The problem is you're ESL and have difficulty grasping what's being said.

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>>214972918
kek I laughed, good one anon

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>>214972782
Reading about weekly mangaka work/sleep schedules made me feel sick

>>214972412
it does the same premise of the villains being so far above the protags like Chimera Ant but in a much more satisfying well written fashion

>>214972941
if the surgery never worked doctors wouldn't recommend it, they aren't getting kickbacks from the surgeons who actually get paid for it. lifting weights to strengthen your back also seems like it has a pretty decent success rate, and plenty of people seem to get relief from chiropractors. there's obviously not gonna be a universal panacea for it, since pain is just a generic error message, but there are definitely ways to fix it

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How does Japan shake the "your life is over once you graduate college and enter the workforce, you are now a slave and must work yourself to death" mentality that seems so ingrained in its culture?

Why are they like this?
Nobody else has this whole dynamic going on.

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>>214972830
>Machi nation

>>214973033
its not, some of these mangaka are retards who got lucky like the dragon ball author who accidentally became a billionaire all because he drew comics for cigarette money

>>214972112
i included heavens arena i said it was good, but the nen tism was unnecessary. there are much better ways to do power system reveals in a story, ways that dont involve having a guy LITERALLY write out every single power and mechanic on a FUCKING WHITE BOARD for an entire chapter. Leave some fucking mystery there, have us have to piece some things together or discover bits and pieces as the story goes on, anything, jesus

greed island is a togashi having an rpg tism moment without having a good main villain. Genthru sucked and Razor should have been the overall arc villain. Their screen-time should have been reversed.

and like i said, york news only good aspect was uvo and kurapika

>>214973033
desu, i think it's exaggerated. if they actually worked like slaves their entire adult life it'd show up in their economic stats. the truth is that the vast majority of them are slackers who keep up this facade of being oppressed wageslaves so they can go drinking with their buddies after work every night and tell their wives they don't have a choice in the matter

>>214972869
And yet the prevailing theory is that ging isn't his father but his older brother and that's why he was such a deadbeat.

The old man Don freecs in the new dark continent is allegedly both of their dads.

>>214973037
So this clown motherfucker was a pedo right?

>>214973065
honestly, i don't think you can call toriyama lucky. it's one thing to have a hit manga, it's another to create the most influential manga in the world. and then also do the art for your country's most beloved video game series as a side gig. he was too talented not to succeed

>>214973098
thanatophile i think. he's not interested in gon and killua because they're kids, he's interested in them because they have ridiculously monstrous potential and he gets off to killing strong people. he gets hard when he looks at them because he's imagining what they'll look like with more time to grow and how good it'll feel to cut open their necks

>>214973148
There may be some truth to this, but it could also be the case they're all tied to the same luck streak.

Dragon Ball Success => Get big name artist to draw the art for our videogame => The games success is gained in part because it looks like Dragon Ball which everyone has already gained a fondness for the style of.

Funnily enough, Ken Sugimori riffing off of Toriyama managed to leverage the same sense of appeal in pokemon lmao.

Yorknew was the best arc. Excellent pacing, has the best fight in the series, the Troupe’s great. Perfection. Chimera Ant is a bloated mess that you’re just grateful to be done with.

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>>214973083
I like Genthru as a classic online video game shitbag griefer, had a lot of realism in some ways.
>Razor should have been the overall arc villain
He was one of the endgame bosses of the actual video game and Genthru was the human element side quest superboss. There supposedly was another Greed Island boss like Razor but we never got to see it since the card already existed

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>>214970822
Better unfinished than wanpissed

>>214973390
the OG dark souls twinker, fucking dark bead havels

>>214973327
sure, there's a world where toriyama doesn't become the most revered mangaka of his generation, but i don't think there's a world where he isn't successful. to reach the level he did, talent isn't sufficient, but it is necessary

>>214973357
I couldn't even stand watching it and it was artistically already falling apart. Berserk HxH Bleach Naruto should all be half as long. Now even Chainsaw Man a slapstick horror manga is extending itself into this meaningless pseud phase. Just end the manga bro. Plan the story out and end it. Don't be One Piece.

>>214973420
that's a fucking sick adaptation of a pretty bland set of panels. i should really catch up, it's been too long

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>>214973459
>Chainsaw Man a slapstick horror manga
..........i would not at any point have described it that way

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>>214973357
CA really isn't that bloated it's just the pacing is kind of whack and the "bloat* is mostly just Ikalgo
I think the CA arc is exactly 60 episodes in the anime and if they really wanted to maybe they could have done it in 50-55

>>214973442
I wasn't meaning to imply he was some hack who just managed to make it by chance. Just that his parlaying of one success into another might really just be byproducts of the same single point of success.

He clearly has good intuition for what makes a charming design, and his chops at drawing action choreo and technical-mechanical things are impressive. He was always going to be fine yeah. At minimum he'd end up like Takeshi Obata, so better than most lol.

Someone like Togashi is impressive though because he not only knocked it out of the park with Yu-Yu, he does it again with a completely different world in HxH, and then Naruto riffs off him a bunch and becomes even more successful which to me indicates more unique points of success.

In any case, they're both giants lol.

>>214973506
Half of the manga is 4komas glued together it doesn't even stop during the climax I thought that was the whole appeal. The rest is worldbuilding horror and token drama to tie it together nicely. Part 2 is like the guy overdosed on glaze and tried to do something that CSM never was.

>>214973621
yeah, togashi also clearly earned his success, you can count the number of mangaka with two megahits on one hand

>>214973479
>fucking sick
Worse, terminally ill

>>214973675
no, the appeal is that it's an off-beat exploration of the human psyche. that fujimoto has an irrepressible sense of humor is a major virtue, but the draw is seeing denji confront the literal manifestations of human fear while he progresses through maslow's hierarchy of needs. same deal with firepunch. yeah, it's funny watching a chick frolick through the ocean playing keep away with a dude's decapitated head, but what keeps you invested is the question of why we should go on living in the face of blank eternity

>>214973602
The only thing wrong with CA pacing is how obsessed Gon is with Kite for how little time we spend with him. From what I understand, the manga gave us a little more there. Otherwise all the starts and stops for training or whatever are actually necessary for things to breath. And the extreme focus on a few seconds or minutes from many characters' perspectives is absolute kino. Like >>214971200 said, narrator is the main character, which is another way of saying the writing is the center of attention.

>>214973602
NTA, but I think the largest issue with CA arc I have is time spent with certain characters. You pointed out Ikalgo, but given all the time early arc we spend with the squad leaders it, in retrospect, feels like a waste when none of them matter much for the more impactful last 2/5ths.

Pouf gets a little obnoxious for example because, while he has ok enough thematic setup, he has so little narrative setup. Compare him to Pitou and from the moment she appears the eventual confrontation between her and Gon is massive. Every episode you're just watching this little psycho amp himself up to get his getback and you're waiting for Netero to have a god tier battle with the King, but over the course of the arc you get Pouf running around in chibi form being a little shit.

Counter intuitively, it may have been better to spend a bit more time creating expectations for the other royal guards so that when we spend time on their conflicts it doesn't feel like shit we want to just 'get through'. Welfin is cool but he also appears a little late. One thing HxH does well 90% of the time is setting good expectations.

Hisoka vs Gon was great. Kuramipka vs Ants was great. Gon vs Raptor was great. Netero vs King was great. Gon vs Pitou was great. Illumi vs Killua was great, but these all have proper setups prior. The 2 royal guards don't have any meaningful narrative conflict other than they want to protect the king lol..

still a goat'd arc though.

>>214970665
Mereum had a change of heart in the end due to Kamogie. In the end Chairman Netero and the humans were the true monsters.

>>214972277
Not really, most people who like HxH agree the Ant arc is the worst one by far.

>>214972918
Not episodes but a whole season.

>>214970665
Is that what you get from the arc? Nobody was shaming humans for using nuke. It was a fucking rose.

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>>214973479
>fucking sick
retard

>>214973995
Wrong.

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>>214973860
Gon got extra obsessed when he saw how badly Kite was disfigured/butchered, it's why he's so pissed off and sick/confused about why Pitou is healing Komugi. I think Gons reaction isn't THAT outlandish or anything

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name a cooler team

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>Hunter x Hunter, but they actually hunt stuff.

>>214973459
>don't be one piece
Sorry bro but once it clicks and you decide it's the greatest story ever told the length becomes meaningless

>>214973860
Straight up Kite is one of my least favorite characters in the series down to every design detail

>>214970665
i'm convinced no one actually likes this meandering and pointless shonenslop they just pretend they do to spite narutards

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>>214974644
i am a fan of fluidly animated scenes of supernaturally powerful men fighting against god-like forces of nature

>>214974663
Any random team in YYH dark tournament

>>214974663
Morel and Knuckle are so fucking cool, especially Morel. GOATs of the arc.

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>>214970665
>nuke an ant
>it survives
that's when I checked out

>>214974353
>most people who like HxH agree the Ant arc is the worst one by far.
Strange I heard the opposite.
It's either you post a poll or statistic or you're a lying faggot.

>>214970665
All I got from that was that humans will do anything to survive, just like animals (ants, in this case)
The preachy le ebil humans message eluded me

>>214971105
>exposes
Gon is outclassed by most of his opponents from the beginning. He’s very impressive compared to a normal person and clearly has amazing potential but:
>Hunter exam
Utterly mogged and barely surviving
>zoldyck
Utterly mogged and barely surviving
>yorknew
Utterly mogged and barely surviving
>greed island
Utterly mogged and barely surviving
That’s part of what makes HxH interesting, seeing how a character can “win,” despite being surrounded by much stronger enemies.

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>>214974730
A like Kite a little better in the manga

Man, when pitou chopsticks the brain of that one hunter to use him as a puppet and when another ant empties a clip in a still twitching body of that cutie before eating her, that was some gnarly stuff.

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>>214971065
this Kurapika could've solo'd these ant cucks

>>214971358
True. I’ve never read the manga, so maybe it’s night and day different… but I doubt it.
The pacing is just so bad. 95% of the ants are so retarded looking, it’s hard to take them seriously.
Yeah, there are some cool moments with Meruem, but it’s like 3 good episodes worth of content lost in a sea of garbage.

>>214973420
That looks kind of cool I guess. I honestly don't give a shit about anything after the time skip but how was law and kid vs big mom in the anime? I liked that part when I was reading the one piece Manga a few months ago.

The beginning of the Chimera Ant arc is so good. I love the horror aspect of the monster ants wiping out entire communities, enslaving humans, experimenting, etc. It takes a dive after Meruem hatches imo. The training arc inbetween NGL and the palace stuff also feels like it takes forever.

>>214975306
>The training arc inbetween NGL and the palace stuff also feels like it takes forever.
It is a few episode devoted to days/months, whereas the later part of the arc has MORE number of episodes devoted to seconds/minutes.

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>>214975031
It is nice to have a series where the kid MCs consistently lose to the various side character adults who are good with the power system. It's got a good balance of the kids being better than the jobber adults but always getting roadblocked by the people who aren't shitters. Lot of time spent in this series of the boys grinding their hardest to just be able to stand with the experienced people around them (and falling short time after time). This isn't a completely unique thing to HxH but it's handled nicely here.
>>214975306
Really have to wonder what this arc could look like if it happened in a modern cityscape instead of the backwoods boonies of NGL

The end of the Hunter exam is my favorite part of the series. Especially illumi vs killua.

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>>214975453
>Illumi
For me it's Milluki

>>214975453
The payoff to this in the CA arc, ironically in the part >>214975306 is complaining about, is one of my favorite bits of the show. Definitely the most underrated. Love Kil's growth.

>>214975205
I only watch those webms heheh

>>214974913
>Strange I heard the opposite
Post a statistic or you're a lying faggot.

>>214975059
Yeah there hadn't been anything that shockingly horrific since Uvo ate. Bits of violence here and there, but HxH is so good with its sparing use of WTF moments.

>>214973420
that shit isn't even in the manga

>>214970665
I admit that it was a pretty boring conclusion.
It meant that Netero just fought for his ego, which is cool and adds character, but the answer was just ''nuke 'em''

>>214970822
He has back problems, you absolute fucking retard

>>214975801
They don’t have tylenol in Japan?

>>214971197
japan might be biased against nukes
just a thought

>>214975778
The answer was decide the fight before it began. Netero was Miyamoto Musashi-pilled.

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>>214971698
I wish Greed Island was 3x as long and had more cool card shenanigans.

>>214975874
Not anymore, leftist women ate them all

>>214975895
Yeah, but it was kind of unexpected, I would have liked at least some hints or something.
Well, I don't really care, the battle was pretty cool.

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>>214975422
>The training arc inbetween NGL and the palace stuff also feels like it takes forever.
I did not dislike that part as thematically the training still wasn't enough on its own to even compete with the guys who can barely compete with the stronger ants

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>>214971301
Yeah I like when this sort of thing happens and a story shifts gears before circling back. Makes it interesting.