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Yorknew was the best arc because Kurapika got to kill some of the Phantom Troupe. The only bad part was that he didn't kill off more of them.
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Genocyber posted:Much like their earlier development in the Yorknew City Arc, as well as in the Greed Island Arc, I'm pretty sure that stuff is there to show that they're people and not just one-dimensional villains. That's one of the things I love about HxH. One-time villains actually do non-villain things when they're no longer the antagonists, and the main "good" organization, the Hunter Association, is shady as gently caress, what with the license being literally a license to kill and such. I can understand this, but everything surrounding the Phantom Troupe just came off as so awkward when it came to this, that I can't really enjoy them after Yorknew. It's made a lot worse because we don't see Kurapika develop after that for pretty much an eternity. Of course, I hated the Chimera Ants so much that I was actually rooting for them because they were at least something different. That's how much I hated the Chimera Ants.
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Dec 19, 2015 23:06
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Yeah, the fact that his transformation actually had gravity to it and (presumably) live-changing consequences makes me forgive the way it was solved. As long as Gon never, ever does it again.The Devil Tesla posted:I love the sudden nuke. Hunter loves to build up some big fight and then resolve it in an unexpected but strangely satisfying way, and having the biggest baddie be killed by a nuclear weapon is both unexpected and immediately understandable. It's tragic and kind of hilarious. If that was the end of the arc it would have been a bit of a let down, but there was still so much to get to after that and it all took on a different tone. Really great stuff. I would have been alright with it if it didn't take another ten episodes for any of them to loving die. That whole thing with Pouf making the contest just made me want to pull my hair out.
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Dec 21, 2015 23:16
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Alluka was a walking retcon plot device but was still good cause she was adorable, and it's not like they couldn't expand on her more later. I don't really like the idea of just blaming her power (or anything mysterious in the series) on the Dark Continent though, that seems really lazy. Also I cringed when she kept asking for the fingernails. What does she even do with those?
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Dec 22, 2015 06:17
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Roland Jones posted:The really weird thing is Kite being reborn, since the body wasn't eaten, as we saw. Pitou made him into a puppet and that was still around well after the Queen was dead. I thought they scooped his brain out and fed it to her or something.
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Dec 22, 2015 21:30
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AlternateNu posted:I think the problem was power creep. Meruem and the royal guards were all way too powerful to keep around with the possible exception of Pouf, the worst guard. (I known that isn't much of an argument coming from an anime that takes its cue from Jojo with tactics + power type being more important than power level, but stay with me here.) I've got a bunch of problems with the Chimera Ant arc, and this is one of them. Of course, after this is all over, Togashi made the exact same mistake he did with Yu Yu Hakusho and bring in a ranking system, complete with making the King a B rank.
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Dec 27, 2015 21:06
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So I watched one of the movies with a few friends (had to do with dolls and eyes and whatnot) and it was probably the most pointless thing I ever saw. Is the other one like that?
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Jan 5, 2016 03:24
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Roland Jones posted:Anyway, the clear worst nen ability was Cheetu's crossbow. The projectile was slower than he is, and the claw, while possibly having extra qualities, probably wasn't much more dangerous than his own nen-enhanced claws. It, at least for the person who had it, is possibly the most useless thing we've seen from nen.
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Jan 6, 2016 04:49
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Mikl posted:Thanks to this thread I started watching Hunter x Hunter 2011. (I've already read the manga.) I remember Gon being terrified of having to go up against Hisoka, not pumped.
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Jan 6, 2016 19:55
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Knuckle having a number-based ability is like the opposite of what his character would normally have in this sorta thing, so he is a real cool dude. Also, he's like if Josuke and Okuyasu from Jojo raised a kid together.
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Jan 8, 2016 10:14
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I figure the idea is how committed each nen user is to their limitation. If you kept switching what it was every fight, your ability would never be as strong as it could be, because you always have in the back of your mind that you'll just change your mind anyway.
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Jan 8, 2016 11:40
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I'm pretty sure it'd be the latter, otherwise that would mean neither party could hurt each other ever again until someone bust.
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Jan 9, 2016 01:53
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Silver2195 posted:Then you have Gon's mother being Mito's sister in 1999, while in the manga she's a complete mystery (not really a change for the worse so much as something that didn't really add anything). Are you sure about that? I thought Ging was Mito's brother, and that would mean...
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Jan 13, 2016 07:34
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Alder posted:btw: does this make Gon a orphan? His history is now 10x sadder if true and his dad is the worst. I don't think so. Mito was literally his mother for his entire life, she just didn't birth him.
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Jan 13, 2016 07:57
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Ytlaya posted:In retrospect those were kind of some bad fights, at least by HxH standards. That section was so weird, since the Phantom Troupe seemed to have trouble with ants that seemed weaker then the ones the main story was focused on. It made them look pretty incompetent in general.
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Jan 15, 2016 02:45
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It really goes back to the root of the problem for me, I really didn't like that the Chimera Ants used Nen like everyone else, and ended up being much better at it within days then people who spent their whole lives doing it. It really didn't lend well to the system they spent so long developing, and just turned it into power levels. Though really, it was a bigger problem that they lasted as long as they did. The exact same stuff could've happened and their downfalls could be seen as "lack of experience", but that excuse doesn't work that well when they have like, thirty episodes to dick around in.
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Jan 15, 2016 06:44
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ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:Yeah, remember that Kite alone took out a bunch of ants with one swing of his scythe. Even the Squad Captains like Leol were no match, and they were aware of that. Yeah, this is true, I just really disliked how long these characters lasted when they were so utterly uninteresting. Other than a couple, all the Chimera Ants under the royals were just about being rebellious and eating humans. It got grating after the second episode they were in, so by the time we even got to the Royals I was absolutely sick of them.
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Jan 15, 2016 07:25
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davidHalestorm posted:And also, what ultimately killed the Ant King was a nuke, not Nen or martial arts but a weapon made from human science. So, no matter how strong the Chimera Ants mastery of Nen is, they would still get annihilated if they tried to attack say, one of the V5, instead of a backwater dictatorship or a hippie commnune. I think Togashi made some sort of point there. I don't know if having the ability to nuke themselves is really the best defense. This only really worked because the King hadn't left the country yet.
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Jan 21, 2016 13:30
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Alluka's entire existence is a pretty big retcon, but since she ended up being her own character instead of just a plot device, I can mostly let it slide. Killua's backstory makes a bit less sense now because of it, but I don't think it matters that much. His character is more about his development now, and not really about his past.Serious Frolicking posted:The consequence of Gon's stupidity is that he really hosed up his relationship with Killua. Not irreparably, but they would only have a chance to patch things up if the manga continued. So, their story ended in a very bad place with no chance of it ever improving. I thought by the end they had already made up. They're going their separate ways now because Gon had a single goal that he accomplished, and Killua wants to do some soul-searching of his own.
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Jan 26, 2016 09:46
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Definitely thought the Dark Tournament arc was the best, cause it had things like Genkai beating up a clown. Some of the fights are pointless (and by most I mean the evil doctor one) but there was a bunch of great stuff happening in that arc. Sensui started off strong but lost its steam once Kuwabara got kidnapped and was cursed with never being useful ever again, and the climax (demon Yuzuke/split personalities) was the most obvious case of jumping the shark I can think of.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:27
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Ytlaya posted:Maybe the power of Morel's ability is due to the fact that using it will almost certainly give him lung cancer. I assume he can control the smoke and thus make it not do... like, bad stuff, I guess.
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I think it was the opposite, Gon was so beyond pissed that he wasn't allowing for any of her bullshit. Considering he cut her time by half an hour because of the interruption, I'm pretty sure he knew the entire time she wouldn't take the whole two hours.
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