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He's not that beloved but he's still like one of the best hunters ever because he didn't get tied down raising an ugly child.
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EmmyOk posted:He's not that beloved but he's still like one of the best hunters ever because he didn't get tied down raising an ugly child. gon gets all the milfs i don't think he's ugly m8
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Feb 6, 2017 23:32
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wasnt ging planning on dragging gon around with him? then mito was like "no, thats loving crazy, leave the baby here and back away slowly".
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Feb 6, 2017 23:36
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ImpAtom posted:HxH is genuinely good about making characters have actual flaws and not the flaw of I'm Too Nice or whatever. The characters are all largely hosed up weirdos and the probably morally strongest guy in the show is Leorio of all people. I love how it introduced him as All About Money but actually he's a very good guy who just thinks money is useful for helping people
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Feb 6, 2017 23:38
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Law Cheetah posted:wasnt ging planning on dragging gon around with him? then mito was like "no, thats loving crazy, leave the baby here and back away slowly". nah, he dropped off gon with mito but it was implied that he planned on visiting whenever he felt like it, entirely on his own terms. mito wasn't having none of that so she sued to get sole custody on the basis of ging being an irresponsible adventure hobo who had no intention of raising his own kid. whether he ever would have visited gon or not is unclear.
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Feb 6, 2017 23:47
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God but the loving ant arc is brutal
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Feb 7, 2017 01:55
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Shugojin posted:God but the loving ant arc is brutal It's episode 123 and I'm starting to think it may never end. Its glacial
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Feb 7, 2017 02:10
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Eh I mean I endured the literal sudden stops during it so uhhhhh despite the pacing anime binging has nothing on that
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Feb 7, 2017 02:13
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Namtab posted:It's episode 123 and I'm starting to think it may never end. Its glacial it gets better once they go to north korea
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TriffTshngo posted:It portrays it as a positive trait until you actually meet the guy and a lecture hall full of hunters start jeering him and telling him to stop being such a shitheel and go talk to his kid. I mean when Gon is talking with him on the tree and stuff, they portray Ging's motivations in a generally positive way, even if it was still irresponsible.
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Feb 7, 2017 02:20
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Stairmaster posted:it gets better once they go to north korea It didn't. I'm loving this anime, it's one of the better shounens I've seen, but the pacing in chimera ant is dire.
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Feb 7, 2017 02:19
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Ytlaya posted:I mean when Gon is talking with him on the tree and stuff, they portray Ging's motivations in a generally positive way, even if it was still irresponsible. everyone gon spoke to about ging tried to make him seem like less of a jerk because they weren't jerks themselves. "hey kid you know the father you've never met that you are searching for? no one likes that rear end in a top hat."
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Feb 7, 2017 02:23
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Namtab posted:It didn't. no not them, the other them
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Feb 7, 2017 04:01
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Who else loves Ikalgo
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Feb 7, 2017 04:29
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Blackheart posted:Who else loves Ikalgo everyone with taste
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Feb 7, 2017 05:08
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Blackheart posted:Who else loves Ikalgo Ikalgo's good but I prefer Meleoron 
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"To Ging the hunter I take off my hat; to Ging the man I put it back on again." For real though, like a lot of people (I imagine), I like how Togashi bucks the trend of having the protagonist's absentee dad have a secretly good or important reason for being unavailable, instead making him an unapologetic deadbeat. He's accomplished great things, sure, but he's still a terrible parent and doesn't even try to pretend he's anything else. EDIT: Also, yeah, the pacing of the Chimera Ant arc is weird. Could've easily cut its length by a good third.
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Feb 7, 2017 06:19
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Ging and Jecht are the best anime dads because they are actually the worst dads
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Feb 7, 2017 06:36
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Bad Seafood posted:"To Ging the hunter I take off my hat; to Ging the man I put it back on again." Yeah, I really dislike the (not exclusively to Japan but certainly common there) 'noble absentee dad' thing and I was glad HxH just went "yep, nah, he's an rear end in a top hat."
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Feb 7, 2017 06:45
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ImpAtom posted:Yeah, I really dislike the (not exclusively to Japan but certainly common there) 'noble absentee dad' thing and I was glad HxH just went "yep, nah, he's an rear end in a top hat." The dude told an ex-con it would be fine if he tried to kill his son. No amount of "You wouldn't be able to anyway, he's my son after all." could make up for how much of an rear end in a top hat that makes him.
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Related to that, not only did he accurately predict that his son would indeed come after him, but he arranged for such a thing to be sabotaged if his son tried to bring someone with him. He knew his son would go through all of that trouble just to meet him, and deliberately made it a waste of time should he bring a friend because he's a goony gently caress like that.
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ImpAtom posted:Yeah, I really dislike the (not exclusively to Japan but certainly common there) 'noble absentee dad' thing and I was glad HxH just went "yep, nah, he's an rear end in a top hat."
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Feb 7, 2017 07:28
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Eej posted:Ging and Jecht are the best anime dads because they are actually the worst dads No, Naruto is the worst dad because he managed to make his kid feel neglected despite the ability to perfectly clone himself to spend time with the little guy
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Feb 7, 2017 14:34
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Ging, the dad, driving force of the entire series, turning up for the plot in basically a roll-call scene was fantastic, as was immediately proceeding to gently caress with the hunter election for fun. The same chapter also gave us Pariston so...best chapter?
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Having no fanfar for Ging's first appearance was really good and cool. Pariston is wonderful too and I'm really looking forward to his and Ging's interactions.
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Feb 7, 2017 15:56
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Also Jecht was a great dad and it turned out Tidus had a lovely mother who hated him.
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Feb 7, 2017 16:01
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If your son was Tidus, you'd check out too.
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Feb 7, 2017 16:16
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It ain't called Song of Tidus that's for fuckin sure.
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jecht wasn't an abandoner, he was just a drunkard who gave tidus poo poo all the time. jecht was like tidus's rear end in a top hat stepdad except he was his actual dad. its not jechts fault he got worldnapped and had to turn into a monster
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Feb 7, 2017 18:27
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Jecht is the best, which he confirms himself multiple times in the game.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:If your son was Tidus, you'd check out too. Tidus gets an unfairly bad rap in my opinion. I think he's perfectly fine and had a damned good excuse for being unhappy/angsty.
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As a dad, it's your job to be an rear end in a top hat to your son. That makes him more powerful. The sons job (only life goal) is to destroy their father.. this means the more powerful and jerkish the father, the stronger the son must become to face him. The absentee father becomes ever more powerful as things which are imagined are always scarier than things which are known. This is the "boy named sue" theory of parenting, and we can see that only through Jechts taunting of a 9 year old boy was Tidus able to gain the strength to destroy the "spiral of death" and create a new future for spiria.
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Work Friend Keven posted:As a dad, it's your job to be an rear end in a top hat to your son. That makes him more powerful. The sons job (only life goal) is to destroy their father.. this means the more powerful and jerkish the father, the stronger the son must become to face him. The absentee father becomes ever more powerful as things which are imagined are always scarier than things which are known. This is the "boy named sue" theory of parenting, and we can see that only through Jechts taunting of a 9 year old boy was Tidus able to gain the strength to destroy the "spiral of death" and create a new future for spiria. Extremely correct.
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I forgot how great the King's story arc of struggling frantically to sort the world from inside his turbospergy objectivist nonsense is 
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Work Friend Keven posted:The sons job (only life goal) is to destroy their father. Hey, worked for Full Metal Alchemist
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Feb 9, 2017 03:21
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Gon has spent about 30 episodes glaring at the cat ant
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the payoff for that is really good but yeah it's annoying as hell
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Namtab posted:Gon has spent about 30 episodes glaring at the cat ant he's powering up
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