r/HunterXHunter

I started watching HunterXHunter for the first time and it’s so good. I love the characters and character development. Killua is probably my favorite character but I love how Gon is such a try hard, haha it reminds me of myself. I loved the episodes with the phantom troupe and the hunter test. I’m now at the part where the queens royal guard is born. I don’t know what it is, but the whole ant episodes kinda weirded me out. I don’t know if it just gave me Epstein island vibes when the queen first ate the children. But I just felt so weird when these episodes came on. It sucks because the show was so good and it still is. Curious to know if anyone got weird vibes when starting that arc…

Maybe it just seemed a little too real, which made it creepy.

If Hisoka were an examiner for the Hunter Exam, what would his test be?

Hello, recently just rewatched hunter x hunter last week and holy shit, it immediately climbed up to my top 2 next to berserk. Do you guys have any other shows that are kind of similar to hunter x hunter? I tried JJK (which is atually the reason I got into HxH, I was into the anime years ago and the binding vows eerily reminded me of a show I used to watch on TV when I was a kid, only got up till like ep 40 something before our cable got cut off lol and I found HxH again) and I dig the fights but it's kind of losing it's magic for me as it goes on. I'm also a huge JoJo fan and i've been looking for more mangas/series with complex power systems, also Mushoku Tensei is another one I really liked.

The Question of intelligence in HxH arise here from time to time and peoples debate who this most intelligent character?

Now,The term intelligence is highly debated term in real life itself so it is hard really to define.

But I want talk about something,in HxH,when Togashi want to hype someone's intelligence,he usually do it in 3 ways:

Either hype/show his acedemic abilities/feats(Usually but not exclusively by Learning languages(Chrollo,Kurapika,Ging) ,there is also how he hyped halkenburg),or show his cunning/street smarts(like hisoka or Pariston or Beyond or Ging) or hype/show insane Nen potential/understanding/Feats...(tserriednich/Ging/Gon/Killua...).

Now about Ging,What I find impressive about Ging is that he is the only one who showed very very impressive feats in all the 3 types:

academically,even though he is self taught,he is better than a professor at Varvard,street smart?He manipulated the whole Election?and I don't think I need to talk about Nen,He is by far the best Nen User So Far.

Asking this because I’ve seen some divisive opinions. Personally I don’t think it’s that bad?

All of Killua’s development to be free from the ways of his family is still very real and most of which takes place earlier in the series and during the Election arc. The needle was just a way for the Zoldycks to absolutely make sure that he didn’t fuck around and fight someone he shouldn’t be fighting.

If anything I like it because it makes Illumi’s abuse actually physically real and not just some harsh words he says to Killua every now and again. However I could be missing something of course so I would like to hear other opinions.

I'm now at the point of the final battle between Meruem and Netero and i love how the old man says "you underestimate the malice of the human heart" and then detonates a nuclear(?) bomb, because it just shows how the human race actually is. (to me, it's most likely a reference to ww2 atomic attacks, it's disgustingly devastating effect and a representation of humanity's genocidal and hateful history) I honestly didn't catch that on my first watch years ago in middle school, and i haven't been on forums searching for explanations either.

What other scenes have you understood better on a later re-watch? i obviously had more "ahaaa" moments on my re-watch but i really liked this detail in Togashi's writing.

Since Hunter × Hunter starts in the last 90s, I started to get curious about what music they'd listen to from that time period. I think Killua would listen to Let Down by Radiohead. Also, the End of Evangelion song seems like something Komugi would listen to. I'm curious to hear a bunch of ideas!

The set up for this arc was so perfect, I can't believe how anti-climactic it became.

Killua's skills being shown early on, with his heart ripping scene. Then there came Ilumi, who was more threatening. The way Ilumi's eyes feel cold, and the way he made Killua's eyes the same, this would lead one to believe the entire family also had cold eyes and were even more threatening and dangerous, with each having their own strengths and psychopathic madman traits.

This got all set up right in the first arc. The location was also perfectly set up with the mountain as well. Slowly climbing up and reaching the mansion while fighting through all the enemies while Killua wishes to come back tearfully, this was what I thought it was leading to.

Killua himself going to the place showed a potential inner conflict that needed to be resolved. The line about the servants being very dangerous also was set up. The intro before the opening as well, we are shown the silhouette of the whole Zoldyck Family, they looked so threatening and I got so hyped up to see all of their asses get finally kicked!! The whole Killua chained up and whipped, this was perfectly leading towards a satisfying fight against psychopaths!!

What do we get? The conflict magically solving itself in the form of Killua's father setting him free.

Killua's grandfather being revealed so early on instead of us fighting through all and reaching him.

The worst is the fact that grandpa and the fat brother walk through a corridor and say that "Killua is the strongest of us in generations."

WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!!! The fat guy actually considers Killua a strong brother??!!! WHY IS HE SUDDENLY SO NORMAL BEHAVING??!!! THE WHOLE SETUP DEFLATED LIKE A BALLOON!!!! I have lost all motivation to continue the anime now. Maybe I need a few days break before I can slog through the last few episodes of this arc. All I remember right now is that Gon Team have entered the butler mansion. I am not even excited for the reunion between Killua and everyone. It doesn't feel earned. I feel like I have wasted my time and energy on this arc.

I want to continue Hunter x Hunter but this arc is making me feel depressed and unmotivated.

They knew about the existence of post-mortem nens ever since greed island arc and yet they really don't think someone as powerful as Hisoka could have something like that up his sleeves?

I'm a professional photographer, one time i was hired to shoot a concert, then after the shoot, the boss of the company i freelanced for died. still, i deliver my photos and they pay me.

my job is to shoot the concert, not to guarantee the boss's life. so i honor the contract, and they paid me.

the zoldycks should have a lawyer to write the contract that state "if the client dies during the job, it still doesn't negate the contract. they should still pay the fee, we're killers not bodyguards, your safety isn't our concern"

and if the ten dons organizations refuse to pay, well they could sue them.. or worse..

ten dons arent just 10 people, they have families, accountants, lawyers. surely someone still left behind to pay the bills.

also having chrollo died despite the 10 dons died, would still benefits the mafias. as revenge, a show of power, or safety precautions. so I'm sure the 10 dons organizations would gladly pay the bill.

so yea, i still don't get why zeno and silva don't just finish the job and collect the paycheck. especially since zeno pride himself of being a professional

except if the contract explicitly said "if we died, you aint getting a dime". hell, if I'm a billionaire professional assasin, i wouldn't take the job with that stipulation.

what do you think?

Edit: kids these days don't understand how contract and signing works, especially for a very expensive service with very dangerous people 😂

When Gon was in critical condition after the fight with Pitou, Leorio tried to call Kurapika to see if he could come visit Gon, but he didn’t answer. What was Kurapika doing during this time, and why was he the only one of Gon’s friends who didn’t come visit him? Even Goreinu came. It seemed like all Kurapika cared about was drowning in an indescribable emptiness.