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Nonexistence posted:RIP like half the hunter exam contestants in the forest who got clown murder hoboed Yeah, Hisoka does his share of random-ish killing. He's just less indiscriminate about it that the Phantom Troupe, who in turn are less indiscriminate about it than the Heil-Ly Mafia.
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Nonexistence posted:RIP like half the hunter exam contestants in the forest who got clown murder hoboed He wanted to thin down the heard of unworthy Hunters cause he felt the first exam was too easy, and also find out if their was some people with good potential in the groups he attacked.
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Nov 4, 2022 20:54
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Nov 4, 2022 21:07
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   Posters ITT be like murder clown who gets tracked by butterflies smelling the blood of his victims is actually quite prudent and judicious lmao
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Nov 4, 2022 21:32
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Hisoka loves murder, he just lets people live if he thinks he'll orgasm harder by murdering them later. If he doesn't think you'll make his murderboner harder later then you die.
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Nonexistence posted:
They all bumped into him. They should've apologized.
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I wonder if Togashi will have someone on the Hei-Ly mafia turbo level by killing the other members. It's a simple way to thin their numbers for the story, and also to mirror the situation with the princes.
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Scallop Eyes posted:I wonder if Togashi will have someone on the Hei-Ly mafia turbo level by killing the other members. It's a simple way to thin their numbers for the story, and also to mirror the situation with the princes. It's my hope that quantity is its own quality, in the sense that one or two of the random people getting powers will luck out in something really useful. Maybe one is specialization with a weird power. Although it seems the Hei-ly subplot could end soon? if the room they discovered goes directly to their lair where Morena and the rest are. No time for sub level 20 people getting new powers.
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Wonder what happens if an already strong nen user gets a smooch from morena, if hisoka steals a kiss will he be able to get supercharged
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Scallop Eyes posted:I wonder if Togashi will have someone on the Hei-Ly mafia turbo level by killing the other members. It's a simple way to thin their numbers for the story, and also to mirror the situation with the princes. Since some are aware that it will be harder to get civilian kills and we don't know how much more pressure the combined forces of the Cha-R and Xi-Yu families will present, they will absolutely implode on each other at some point.
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Turin Turambar posted:Speaking of, what Togashi is doing in general in HxH, is reinterpreting lots of known supernatural events as 'actually, in this setting is nen!' Oh yeah Nen is 100% a cryptid/paranormal catch-all applied to the Shonen artform. It's "What if punchmans was real, but engineers knew it and used it and everyone was still pretty much as miserable, anyway?" It's a zero-sum game. HxH is Fullmetal Alchemist but it started earlier and also takes longer (This is not a bad thing. FMA and HxH both rule).
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hisoka doesn't usually go on random killing sprees because he usually has better things to do. hisoka was bored and mildly pissed off about having to follow directions from the exam proctors, most of whom were weaker than him. then some pathetically weak dudes crossed his path during this pathetically easy test and off he went.
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I also like how this chapter confirms that most if not all of Morena's people are on the same mental level as Cheetu. The two that didn't die to pigeons are so fixated on just that one expression they haven't even considered that Hinrigh's power is more complex and will absolutely die to some other animal in the future because they either hyper focus on any birds or fail to see them and assume the coast is clear. So like how Cheetu tried to emulate Knuckle's ability and it backfired, these guys are going to have some hatsu born from reacting to the changing landscape and fail spectacularly. I suspect only 1 or two of them will actually be a legitimate threat in the end and the rest will be honest dumb luck if they get a significant kill. The pro gamer having some kind of HUD power that lets her see someone's health or whatnot might actually be a good though. It's a shame Morena isn't more involved with her groups development for nen. Her power is just Pouf's own nen acceleration power on steroids and she clearly has the basics of nen theory down herself. But her crew are pissing in the wind and not united on what their goals actually are since everyone is a deranged killer with their own ideas and fetishes for murder.
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It's a very interesting shotgun approach where almost all of the pellets are rubber bullets that'll kill someone unarmored and equipped but utterly worthless against anyone with actual natural/cultivated skill and honestly I'm certain this is just leading up to the one or two competent people just murdering the rest for points
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I cant figure out what the Heil-Ly people having random rear end jobs is supposed to mean, how did they even get recruited into this deadly rear end mafia, a loving Gamestop employee?
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frajaq posted:I cant figure out what the Heil-Ly people having random rear end jobs is supposed to mean, how did they even get recruited into this deadly rear end mafia, a loving Gamestop employee? By murdering other people in the org
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frajaq posted:I cant figure out what the Heil-Ly people having random rear end jobs is supposed to mean, how did they even get recruited into this deadly rear end mafia, a loving Gamestop employee? From a writing perspective it gives us an easy way to guess and then correlate their nen ability to who they are since these guys are as shallow as a puddle. In-universe this is probably just what they did before Morena convinced them that a purge was a good idea and all we know is that these people were willing to sign up with her extremely suicidal murder spree on a boat in the middle of nowhere. Like MonsterEnvy says, I think these guys killed their way into the mafia or at least weren't the respectable members of the Hei-Ly group before Morena took over.
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I like the mob guy who's just like "wow, the troupe is sick. I gotta get their autographs"  lolwild that hxh is back and it feels like togashi hasn't missed a step at all. just as good as it ever was. still bursting with fresh ideas all the time.
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What’s most surprising (concerning?) is that the art is extremely good. You’d think he’d be taking it easier but nope.
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Yeah the art has been phenomenal, I'm rereading the rest of hxh currently and it's really impressive at times, and that seems to be back.
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lih posted:i think he's relying on his assistants more than he used to, and recently hired more too I'm pretty sure, yep. Son of Rodney posted:Yeah the art has been phenomenal, I'm rereading the rest of hxh currently and it's really impressive at times, and that seems to be back. Rereading the first four volumes can get a bit surprising. In comparison they look a bit cheap (backgrounds, what's that?). It was his shortcut to have a weekly release (and that's being decades younger and not having the current health issues)     (literally 0 backgrounds in the last one, despite being a full page) I could put more but you get the idea. And not only the backgrounds, the characters and ink work are also more detailed:  edit: fun comparison  vs  Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Nov 5, 2022 |
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Yeah just reading the entire York shin arc you notice how it gets more detailed as it goes on, for example feitan looks very simple at the beginning and gets closer to the current look as it goes on. Similar with the backgrounds.
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I’m reading Yorknew as an anime watcher (who jumped into the manga at the Chrollo/Hisoka fight) and I can’t really articulate it, but the way Togashi draws is really striking sometimes, like Chrollo’s face in some panels perfectly conveys the “I’ll kill a tribe for their cool sharingan eyes without batting an eye and sell them a month later” brand of amoral psycho he is better than the anime did, and also sells the lowkey sorrow Chrollo felt at Uvogin’s death. Conversely, the anime really did Uvo’s requiem justice, not that the manga was bad or even mediocre in that regard but still. Also, man, “chain dude” is a really, really stupid thing to call Kurapika, lol.
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Last Celebration posted:I’m reading Yorknew as an anime watcher (who jumped into the manga at the Chrollo/Hisoka fight) and I can’t really articulate it, but the way Togashi draws is really striking sometimes, like Chrollo’s face in some panels perfectly conveys the “I’ll kill a tribe for their cool sharingan eyes without batting an eye and sell them a month later” brand of amoral psycho he is better than the anime did, and also sells the lowkey sorrow Chrollo felt at Uvogin’s death. Conversely, the anime really did Uvo’s requiem justice, not that the manga was bad or even mediocre in that regard but still. You should post some panels of Chrollo's face for us anime watchers who only read the manga from after the anime cuts off onward
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I would but as a mobile user idk how the gently caress to go about that,
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I have some stupid hope that we're going to get regular releases for the forseeable future. Seems like Togashi has changed things up enough to allow a normal production schedule. Why hire more assistants for just 10 chapters?
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bees x1000 posted:I have some stupid hope that we're going to get regular releases for the forseeable future. Seems like Togashi has changed things up enough to allow a normal production schedule. Why hire more assistants for just 10 chapters? I have the stupid hope of the next hiatus being short (3-4 months?) and they will continue doing chapters after that. Brought To You By posted:I also like how this chapter confirms that most if not all of Morena's people are on the same mental level as Cheetu. The two that didn't die to pigeons are so fixated on just that one expression they haven't even considered that Hinrigh's power is more complex and will absolutely die to some other animal in the future because they either hyper focus on any birds or fail to see them and assume the coast is clear. So like how Cheetu tried to emulate Knuckle's ability and it backfired, these guys are going to have some hatsu born from reacting to the changing landscape and fail spectacularly. I suspect only 1 or two of them will actually be a legitimate threat in the end and the rest will be honest dumb luck if they get a significant kill. Morena's people aren't good, as expected of some randos who has been given hatsu without proper previous nen training, nor have experience with nen combat. But at least they were collaborating, with Luini using his ability to abduct people and make the others level up safely. That's already above what I expected, I thought it was more a 'everyone for themselves' situation where each member was going to go into individual killing all over the boat to try to reach level 21. However it seems they weren't actively controlling who get the kill each time so now they have a bunch of level 17-20, while the threshold to gain the ability is level 21. That's their big mistake. Because it would have been much better for them to have already 3 more nen users than have 6 people close to the threshold.
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Hisoka was so chaotic before he was about to be ended by Netero by his own wishes.
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I'm not sure if there's a good word for it, but there's a difference between someone who will kill you for almost any reason and someone who'll kill you for no reason. I was just thinking the other day that Zenos Finalfantasy XIV, in spite of being renowned as a completely batshit murderhobo who thinks only of killing, is actually a pretty safe person to be standing next to if you have no desire to fight him, because he only wants to fight things that might be interesting, and is actually willing to put up with a surprising level of bullshit from other people because even someone deliberately trying to wind him up doesn't irritate him any more than his own ennui does.
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm not sure if there's a good word for it, but there's a difference between someone who will kill you for almost any reason and someone who'll kill you for no reason.   
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm not sure if there's a good word for it, but there's a difference between someone who will kill you for almost any reason and someone who'll kill you for no reason. Specifically, Hisoka will kill you for almost any reason, but seemingly only if you’ve “assumed the risk” to some degree (Hunter Exam examinees, Heaven’s Arena fighters, Blacklist Hunters, etc.). The Phantom Troupe will kill you for almost any reason, even if you’re a civilian. The Heil-Ly Mafia will kill you for no reason.
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Those mafia guys would kill you if they think they could get away with it. The Phantom Troupe and Hisoka know they can get away with it so they barely bother.
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bees x1000 posted:I have some stupid hope that we're going to get regular releases for the forseeable future. Seems like Togashi has changed things up enough to allow a normal production schedule. Why hire more assistants for just 10 chapters? he's aiming for at least 20 chapters this time, whether we get more is just going to depend on his health. also remember he started working on this batch way earlier in the year, so it's not exactly any sort of normal production schedule and he'll catch up to his backlog before too long. but i'd certainly hope that his health doesn't get any worse and having more assistants means the process goes quicker or at least is possible to maintain lih fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Turin Turambar posted:I have the stupid hope of the next hiatus being short (3-4 months?) and they will continue doing chapters after that. Four years of sitting on the Cha-R statements that their own family had lost something like 300 workers. And Luini's initial killings being very meticulous given he disguised himself like a soldier, killed quickly, and then raised the alarm himself with Cashew as his "witness". And finally the haphazard but still sensical attempt to pit the Cha-R and Troupe against each other gave me the impression that while some of her people would be whimsical and potentially too unhinged to function, they would be at least more individually competent when it came to killing. Had we gotten a normal release schedule, Luini would have tipped his hand at being too much of a fanatic and died like a chump and Morena's faction being far more unskilled and prepped for this kind of warfare than I'd previously assumed. And this is by no means a bad thing to see what they actually are, because we'll get to see some really desperate serial killers start figuring things out and coordinating more effectively and eventually a couple standouts will arise from the ranks. The real terror of Morena's power is three-fold in my mind now. One is that any of these guys makes it off the boat as without a doubt this power will remain even if Morena dies. Two is that Morena has been likened to a game master multiple times and she has levels herself which can mean a number of things. And three is that if one of these guys makes it to level 100 then it all will start over again with the rubber shotgun effect. I also just really enjoy how refreshingly amateur these guys are. They are fun in how they interact with each other.
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A few random things that I’ve been noticing in my reread (now on the Yorknew arc):
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(Yorknew) God, either I never noticed or the anime missed it but lol at Chrollo running on the side of a building with his hands in his pockets.
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Official release https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1015130
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So the real question i have: What kind of movie is hisoka watching?
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