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Where were you, when you learn that the Phatom Troupe is called like that because they were a dub/THEATER TROUPE?!
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is koritopi gonna end up as some resurrected Frankenstein of sarasa
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Nov 25, 2022 13:22
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We are about to get hurt real badly in our souls
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Nov 25, 2022 15:21
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The Phantom Troupe getting their backstory makes me worried about their chances against Hisoka 
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Nov 25, 2022 16:26
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i forget. can you willingly leave the spiders if you so choose or os it ia life of death thing?
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Nov 25, 2022 17:15
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Jose posted:i forget. can you willingly leave the spiders if you so choose or os it ia life of death thing? Hisoka left, at least. Also possibly Omokage, but I’m not sure how canon he is. But I assume that in theory it’s not the kind of group you just quit.
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Nov 25, 2022 17:21
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im gonna cry by the end of this arc arent I
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Nov 25, 2022 18:51
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Jose posted:i forget. can you willingly leave the spiders if you so choose or os it ia life of death thing? I recall that it's actually pretty casual. Back in Yorknew that was the first time the whole group had gotten together in a few years.
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MonsterEnvy posted:I recall that it's actually pretty casual. Back in Yorknew that was the first time the whole group had gotten together in a few years. My guess is that it almost never comes up. If you're an internationally wanted criminal, you probably don't want to leave your most powerful allies--possibly your only allies, if you aren't from Meteor City--behind.
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Nov 25, 2022 20:07
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Silver2195 posted:Hisoka left, at least. Also possibly Omokage, but I’m not sure how canon he is. But I assume that in theory it’s not the kind of group you just quit. Yea, Hisoka even made a big deal of showing he never actually tattooed himself, just to show he never considered himself a part of it I guess.
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Reread the Hisoka Chrollo fight and I think the complexity of everything is meant to show how difficult it is to really fight Chrollo. I tried putting myself there, listening to the explanation, and no way could i figure it out. Maybe I'm just not cut out to be a Hunter!
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Nov 26, 2022 10:39
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I don’t think any sane person, or even most insane people (re: Hunters) would choose to fight a guy whose ability is “everything I coerced/despoiled/borrowed from other people” while also saying “pick the time and place” to the Skill Hunter guy. Hisoka is unique both in that he’s loving insane and a fight junkie who couldn’t imagine himself losing one-on-one to anyone.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:04
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Viz version https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1015128
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AtomikKrab posted:Togashi is winding up the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.
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Nov 27, 2022 18:07
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Ah, the phantom troupe, a group of innocent kids twisted by the evil of dubs. This is why all anime must be subbed.
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Nov 27, 2022 18:32
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Togashi has been sitting on this flashback for a long time, I was re-reading Yorknew on a whim and saw this page from chapter 102. I wonder how much of the backstory he had fleshed out at the time and how many revisions he did during all these years.
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Nov 27, 2022 20:44
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 according to this interview he already thought it up by ‘06
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Nov 27, 2022 21:46
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It might be for the best that things turned out this way, honestly. Including the Phantom Troupe's backstory would've made them a little too sympathetic, and an extended flashback sequence would've hampered the dizzyingly fast pacing that people remember the latter half of Yorknew for
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Nov 27, 2022 21:54
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I mean, real talk, it's hampering the pacing of the current arc as is. It's like we can only get 4 continuous chapters of one thing at a time, and then it rotates between Kurapika, Tserrednich, other Princes, the Mafia, the Hunter Association.
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Nov 27, 2022 22:09
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Oh God Silva's confrontation with the troupe might have been him just killing a theatre kid.
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Nov 27, 2022 22:38
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My big hope that it seems togashi is using assistants now is that the series could keep the current chapter length but become monthly when the current run ends
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Nov 27, 2022 23:27
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oh jay posted:I mean, real talk, it's hampering the pacing of the current arc as is. Google maps continuously rerouting us to different fireworks factories.
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Nov 27, 2022 23:38
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oh jay posted:I mean, real talk, it's hampering the pacing of the current arc as is. I imagine that this volume will wind up being mostly mafia/troupe stuff and we know that Kurapika will appear in the last chapter according to the twitter manuscripts. Which doesn't bother me too much since the lower deck stuff was the least developed of the current plotlines and the story is still finding ways to tie things back up top so it's not just isolated from the succession war.
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It is kind of frustrating sometimes when it jumps away from a part I’m enjoying, but all of it has been really great so far so I can’t complain too much. I’m hoping the rumor we’re getting 20 chapters this time is true.
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Nov 27, 2022 23:51
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So like, theoretically, what is the ending of hxh?
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Jose posted:So like, theoretically, what is the ending of hxh? Ging finally meets up with his father and returns his hunter license.
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Nov 28, 2022 00:23
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Jose posted:So like, theoretically, what is the ending of hxh? That depends on what you think the overall story is
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kinda surprised the TLs went with 'clean up rangers' or 'power cleaners' instead of just calling them 'scour rangers'
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Nov 28, 2022 00:45
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the timing of the phantom troupe origin flashback is a bit awkward, but this is probably the last chance. even in the unlikely event of subsequent arcs, the troupe will be out of the picture unless they decide to tag along to the dark continent.
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Nov 28, 2022 00:52
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looking forward to looping back to Team Ging after this flashback
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Nov 28, 2022 00:58
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I think people probably wouldn't feel so antsy about these chapters if another hiatus wasn't looming over the horizon, since Togashi only has like, what, 10 chapters in the wings? In an ideal world where Togashi wasn't in physical pain every waking hour, we got these chapters like 4 years ago and loved the gently caress out of them. As it is, in this current world, where Togashi is suffering, we got these chapters now and they're loving great and compelling but I also know it ain't gonna last.
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i like the flashback being now. i like togashi leaning into what is easily the most complicated manga arc i've ever seen written. i've reread the succession war chapters at least 4 times now and i still feel like i'm not keeping up with it well
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I was following the wars (both Mafia and Succession) pretty well until the Fourth Prince's soldiers showed up, which mostly took me on a swerve due to the sheer amount of text in that one chapter. I think I sorta got the hang of it now, by reading posts in this thread + Reddit. Anyways I don't think there's been a bad chapter in the Kakin arc so far, even the one with the page that gets constantly meme'd on.
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Jose posted:So like, theoretically, what is the ending of hxh? Aside from the zillion-sided conflict on the Black Whale and whatever adventures will be happening on the Dark Continent, the obvious loose plot threads are Gyro (who still hasn’t met Gon yet) and the remaining members of the Zoaldyck family (who I assume various Blacklist Hunters will be going after now that Illumi, Killua, Alluka, and Kalluto are all away). If Togashi/Takeuchi/their kids/their grandkids are looking for excuses to continue HxH into the 22nd century or so, they can also shift the focus to Melody’s quest for the Dark Sonata and Hanzo’s quest for the Hermit’s Scroll. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:I was following the wars (both Mafia and Succession) pretty well until the Fourth Prince's soldiers showed up, which mostly took me on a swerve due to the sheer amount of text in that one chapter. Ehh... the meme page is pretty indicative of the worst parts of this saga imo. The Kurapika/Woble scenes are pretty focused. The mafia scenes are pretty focused. The Tserredinich scenes are pretty focused. But everything involving the greater succession war and Benjamin's guards are just overly talky and terrible.
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hxh ended with gon and ging in the world tree, everything since then has just been gravy
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skipmyseashells posted:
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the timing of the phantom troupe origin flashback is a bit awkward, but this is probably the last chance. even in the unlikely event of subsequent arcs, the troupe will be out of the picture unless they decide to tag along to the dark continent. In hindsight, it should have been placed after the Hisoka fight and before the boat starts its journey. Here it's affecting the pace of the succession fight, yes. Then again, it's better to do it now than to wait until the Troupe find Kurapica or Hisoka.
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tbp posted:i like the flashback being now. i like togashi leaning into what is easily the most complicated manga arc i've ever seen written. i've reread the succession war chapters at least 4 times now and i still feel like i'm not keeping up with it well I’m treating it like Yorknew and Greed Island where Togashi is introducing a bunch of characters, make you think they’re gonna be be important and then just absolutely slaughter each of them unceremoniously
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this arc is the best hxh has ever been and togashi is free to divert the plot however he wants
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