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I know manga stuff is happening, but wanted to chime in to say the anime is getting really great. I'm ready for this gungi stuff to be over, but the fact that the enemy's aura made knov go crazy is actually really scary.
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Kingtheninja posted:I know manga stuff is happening, but wanted to chime in to say the anime is getting really great. I'm ready for this gungi stuff to be over, but the fact that the enemy's aura made knov go crazy is actually really scary. While I like Knov it's kind of ironic that he scolded Killua for being scared of Neferpitou's aura during his first appearance saying that Killua thought Pitou was unbeatable because Pitou was just an unknown factor, and that he panicked and overestimated Pitou because of that. Then during his first (and not even direct) encounter with the Royal guards breaks his mind. And he is left wondering how Gon and Killua after seeing Pitou up close can even hope to go on fighting.
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Apr 19, 2016 02:40
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Having watched most of the anime I am really surprised by how the Chimera Ant arc ended. For a story that was easily the darkest that HunterxHunter has been so far to actually have a relatively happy ending caught me off guard.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:10
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Hunt11 posted:Having watched most of the anime I am really surprised by how the Chimera Ant arc ended. For a story that was easily the darkest that HunterxHunter has been so far to actually have a relatively happy ending caught me off guard. Tell that to Pokkle and Ponzu.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:12
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Hunt11 posted:Having watched most of the anime I am really surprised by how the Chimera Ant arc ended. For a story that was easily the darkest that HunterxHunter has been so far to actually have a relatively happy ending caught me off guard. Uhhh How was it a happy ending. Everything turned out horribly.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:13
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Holy poo poo giant gold dragon? Holy poo poo killua's grandad and the chairman?! 
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Apr 19, 2016 03:34
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MonsterEnvy posted:Uhhh How was it a happy ending. Everything turned out horribly. I am talking about the ending with the village in the NGL and the fact that it seems as though Kite has reincarnated or something like that. Considering just how much hosed up stuff happened during said arc the fact that anything remotely happy came out it was a surprise.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:38
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Hunt11 posted:I am talking about the ending with the village in the NGL and the fact that it seems as though Kite has reincarnated or something like that. Considering just how much hosed up stuff happened during said arc the fact that anything remotely happy came out it was a surprise. A fuckton of people died because Pufu got them sick with his radiation-tainted scales, utterly loving up one of the group's major goals - to reduce harm to the public. Pokkle and Ponzu are food. A ton of people were eaten. Or just straight up killed. The mom got her daughter back but she's never getting her son back. Chairman's dead.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:42
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Holy poo poo netero just beam spammed pitou. I can't even handle how awesome this is. Fake edit: netero backstory
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Apr 19, 2016 03:43
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A fuckton of people died because Pufu got them sick with his radiation-tainted scales, utterly loving up one of the group's major goals - to reduce harm to the public. Not entirely true; unless I'm forgetting something there's no reason Colt can't head home now that Kite's revealed to be, well, Kite and not his sister. I don't know if that's what will happen, assuming Togashi even cares to follow up on that, but there's theoretically a happy ending for him.
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Apr 19, 2016 03:49
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Roland Jones posted:Not entirely true; unless I'm forgetting something there's no reason Colt can't head home now that Kite's revealed to be, well, Kite and not his sister. I don't know if that's what will happen, assuming Togashi even cares to follow up on that, but there's theoretically a happy ending for him. I don't think Colt remembers his past all too well. He just remembers his brotherly instinct, but I'm sorta unsure if he could ever return to his previous life the way Reina or Lobster Dude did.
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Well I picked an intense cliffhanger to leave for the night. Them coming out the exit face first with youpi is so crazy. This arc is super long but it looks like every episode from here is going to be unbelievable.
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Apr 19, 2016 04:11
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Gungi is great because the King is AlphaGo except without the part where it beats a human. E: the word you're looking to describe the ending to Chimera Ants is bittersweet.
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:A fuckton of people died because Pufu got them sick with his radiation-tainted scales, utterly loving up one of the group's major goals - to reduce harm to the public. Also Gon was utterly crippled and the King and Komugi died despite how sympathetic he had become.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Also Gon was utterly crippled and the King and Komugi died despite how sympathetic he had become. I call that justice for being a lovely friend.
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Kingtheninja posted:Well I picked an intense cliffhanger to leave for the night. Them coming out the exit face first with youpi is so crazy. This arc is super long but it looks like every episode from here is going to be unbelievable. you don't even know
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Apr 19, 2016 06:48
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Stairmaster posted:you don't even know Wasn't that basically where one of the hiatuses occurred? Imagine having to wait almost a year for that cliffhanger to be resolved.
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logger posted:Wasn't that basically where one of the hiatuses occurred? Imagine having to wait almost a year for that cliffhanger to be resolved. That hiatus occurred during a chapter where Netero finally comes face to face with the King thank you forreadingunspecifiedhiatusbrbxo. It was a painful year-long wait.
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Artelier posted:That hiatus occurred during a chapter where Netero finally comes face to face with the King thank you forreadingunspecifiedhiatusbrbxo.  I'm immeasurably goddamn glad that I finished watching the anime the very day the latest hiatus was announced to be ending.
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Apr 19, 2016 09:29
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Oh, don't worry, you'll get your chance to wait. We all wait down here.
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Apr 19, 2016 11:12
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Kingtheninja posted:Fake edit: netero backstory One of my favorite scenes.
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Artelier posted:That hiatus occurred during a chapter where Netero finally comes face to face with the King thank you forreadingunspecifiedhiatusbrbxo. I read up to the end of Yorkshin arc and stopped because reasons. Coincidentally the time I picked it back up was Right After this hiatus. I had no words for how happy I was that I missed it. But that was then.
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Man Gon can barely keep it together. I want him to punch pitou so drat hard. I feel bad though, he's like scary angry and I'm afraid he's going to end up hating killua. Fake edit : wtf did killua ditch him?!
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Apr 20, 2016 03:32
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I hope you get punched instead
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Kingtheninja posted:Fake edit: netero backstory
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Apr 20, 2016 04:02
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Meruem could have well had some sort of psychometry power or ability as well it really doesn't matter exactly how it happened, especially when it was so cool
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Apr 20, 2016 04:09
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Any excuse to show Netero's backstory would have been fine.
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Bad Seafood posted:My personal interpretation of that flashback has always been that Netero's hits were so strong, Meruem just innately understood upon impact what he must've done to obtain that level of power. I mean that's kind of explicitly what happens, Meruem even having thoughts and dialogue to the effect of "I have no idea what he did but it must have been some literally crazy poo poo to get this powerful." The actual flashback just being for the viewers' benefit.
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NecroMonster posted:Meruem could have well had some sort of psychometry power or ability as well Serious Frolicking posted:Any excuse to show Netero's backstory would have been fine. Genocyber posted:I mean that's kind of explicitly what happens, Meruem even having thoughts and dialogue to the effect of "I have no idea what he did but it must have been some literally crazy poo poo to get this powerful." The actual flashback just being for the viewers' benefit.
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Apr 20, 2016 05:22
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The flashback to grandpa zoldyck does establish punch-based telepathy
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Would be nice if we could get a gaiden that showed the original trio's exploration of the Dark Continent but of course that will never happen, or if it did, it would never end.
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Kingtheninja posted:Man Gon can barely keep it together. I want him to punch pitou so drat hard. I feel bad though, he's like scary angry and I'm afraid he's going to end up hating killua. Why do you want him to punch Pitou when she is the one in the right in their current situation.
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Apr 20, 2016 07:10
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Because pitou killed kite
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Apr 20, 2016 07:57
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because gently caress the ants
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MonsterEnvy posted:Why do you want him to punch Pitou when she is the one in the right in their current situation. Stupid ants pretty much deserved their demise. Gon did the right thing. Gyro and all the NGL ants deserved to survive, royal guard and meruem literally had to die for world peace
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At best, Meruem considered that maybe not all humans should be killed and eaten. It isn't like he had a complete change of heart, and then there was Pouf who would never have agreed to equal coexistence with humans. loving Pouf, man.
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The king's hubris was extraordinary. Netero indulged him in single combat, but the price for their crimes and non-humanity was always going to be death. I love the part when meruem just goes "oh yeah your battle was not in vain... old man, you did good scratching me", and netero just tells him to gently caress off and then blows him up  posting this page again
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I am not the biggest fan of the King or the Chimera Arc as a whole, but yeah, that ending was pretty great. There are not many stories that dwell on the fundamental differences between human and animals as their climax.
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Yeah, after so many shounen stuff where weapons prove to be utterly inefficient against the villain, having the King go out via a bomb was so novel. Even after Meurem came back the poisoning from the bomb still did him in. Like, the part where the narrative talks about how cheap and affordable the bomb is... that was really something. Something destructive enough to defeat the most powerful creature that we've seen up until now in the manga... and it can be mass produced by dictators.
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