One of my favorite tidbits of HxH is the fact that Gon and Killua became friends because Gon talked to him during the exam and just “Hey we’re the same age! That’s a good reason to be friends let’s do that! :D”
And since Gon came from a small island and is friendly to a fault, it kinda makes sense for him to suggest it. I bet on Whale Island people more or less just made friends with those close in age due to limited options.
But what cracks me up is Killua. Killua “raised from age 2 to commit cold-blooded murder, extensively trained in the art of throat-slitting, shamed out of emotion and friendship despite his desire for human connection” Zoldyck was just like “:)??? :D?????”
The Zoldycks tried.
actually, i think it’s better than this because killua was the one who approached gon first!
hxh 1999 reversed it and made gon the one who introduced himself first (and then made killua refuse to introduce himself in return… wtf) …. which is a change i really don’t like and think mischaracterized killua a whole lot. like, this kid is desperate for a friend!! he is trying really hard to make a friend!! let him make a friend, you cowards!!
My memory is bad but this addition is good.
Killua-serial-introducing-himself-to-everyone but he got it right the very first time with Gon
okay, i know this isn’t a YYH blog, but the most recent post i reblogged just really made me want to watch Yu Yu Hakusho again??? it was my favorite anime when i was 12-15 years old and it’s celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, so i might as well spread the love! i’m planning on streaming the first five episodes this Friday, August 11th, at 12:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada).
i’m planning on watching the dub since it’s the version i grew up with, and, besides a few bumps, i think it still hold up very well. I’ll reblog a reminder the day before and also link to the streaming room about 15 minutes before showtime. anyone is welcome to join as long as they don’t cause any trouble. it’s my first time streaming and i hope everyone enjoys themselves! 😀
It’s amazing how the villains in yu yu hakusho actually get what they want and they were right. Misguided in the way they went about it and what would come of it but definitely got what they wanted
And this is why I say “Togashi is for villain people”. That and the villains are actually written like people for the most part.
togashi writes villains as embodiments of worldviews and I think it’s fascinating. because he has a lot of doubts about humanity in general (chapter black and the chimera ant arc are a theme and variation on this, on a personal and war-scale level). so he writes his villains to fit and embody these issues, and it makes their rationales and purposes all the more real. toguro failed in the past and never wants to fail again, but he failed himself in the process and wants to lose to get something of himself back. sensui wanted what he got on every single level. mereum lost his because he got too close to being human. chrollo is agonising over the deaths of his friends. and who knows what tserriednich is planning but it’s gonna hurt.
so the protagonists have to fit this mold to an extent as well. if togashi has doubts about humanity he believes in people. yusuke is probably the most explicit protag about this (kuwabara even moreso, he is almost a literal embodiment of hope, and he steps away from fighting to go to school). yusuke also loses when he wins: loses genkai at the dark tournament, loses to sensui on every level, and loses the demon tournament. but toguro finds peace, sensui finds peace, and demon world finds peace.
and gon loses kite or loses to knuckle, but since he’s not in a position he can do anything it only reinforces his need to win (kinda like toguro, if on a different level). so gon wins his fight with pitou but loses himself and everything he’d gained. killua loses his best friend and never really wins or loses a fight except with his brother’s control, and that win (one founded fundamentally on his relationship with said bff) lets him save gon. no one really wins in chimera ant and everyone wins in yyh because humanity sucks but people can be brilliant.
Killua being hypnotized into thinking he’s a cat seems fun in theory but he’d probably be the kind of asshole cat that jumps up on the counter and knocks stuff over
like Gon would be sitting there, on the couch, enjoying a glass of chocolate milk, then Killua slinks into the room, this human boy who thinks he’s a cat, and he jumps up on the table, lands light as a feather, miraculously avoids knocking the still very full glass of chocolate milk over, and then, with the utmost grace, extends his arm, gently touches the back of his hand against the glass, and with the most disinterested expression, slowly tips the glass over and spills the chocolate milk on Gon’s feet, then looks up at Gon’s face as though saying “well? what are you gonna do about it?”
My mom just called me because Deep Purple was playing on the TV, and while I knew the band and their songs, I’ve never seen the faces of the bandmembers.
And I was like, lowkey laughing because I was thinking about Morel from hxh and how he loved rock so much that he named one of his technique Deep Purple
And then I paid attention to the bandmembers, and
That explains a few things
one of the tags on this post reminded me one of the most popular sing by deep purple was “smoke on the water” and Morel is legit a sea hunter using smoke and i want to yell even more.
Chrollo: *is heartbroken over members of the Phantom Troupe dying*
Kurapika: mhh!! Can’t imagine what that feels like. Really can’t even pretend to understand what you’re going through. Sucks to be you man!! 🙂
Gon: Telling us these secrets could put your life in danger Kurapika. Why did you tell us?
Kurapika: I guess…
Kurapika: it’s because
Kurapika: you’re my friends.
Gon: 😀
Leorio: 🙂
Killua: …
Killua: …
Killua: if we get captured and tortured your secrets are fucked.
Looking at the beginning of the Dark Continent arc, I’m now deeply conviced HxH is built like a Möbius ribbon, and we are now, and we’re starting, more than a new arc, a new cycle.
Look at the main four. They at the exact place they started. But their situations and motivations have turned, just like they have reached again the starting point on a cycle, but on the other “side” of the ribbon.
Gon is nenless and back at Mito’s house, just like at the beginning. But at the contrary of the beginning, he’s no longer in a situation of control and power, where he had decided his fate. He was the driving force. Now he’s helpless toward his situation, weak compared to his peers, and he can’t keep up with them.
Killua has already passed again the events before we meet him :
defied his family, threatened his mother, and ran away from home, followed by illumi.
He lives for his family again – but he chose his place and role : Alluka’s protector. He’s no longer the little boy trying to find himself, struggling with inner conflicts. He’s found his balance.
Kurapika and Leorio are where we first see them : on a boat sailing to a mysterious place. Kurapika was willing to get stronger, to avenge death. Now he relies on self-destrucive techniques, to protect a life. Leorio was driven by ambition and money. Even if it was – and still is – for selfless purpose, he now put aside his personal projects for a an extremly cheap reward.
At the beginning of the York Shin arc, the Phantom Troupe was chased down by a unknown person for a massacre they committed. Now they’re chased down by someone they know way too well, who had killed first. Chrollo seems to be eaten away by guilt and revenge, on the exact opposite of his calm and prudence in the York Shin arc.
Hisoka was driven by his own amusement, searching for the strongest ooponents. Now he’s motivated by revenge, to weaken his main target.
The Battle Royale is a mirror of the Hunter Exam arc : a deadly competition, where the protagonists confront new powers and new rules.
Now we can speculate:
The New Continent can be a mirror of Greed Island. They are both islands, and are both meant to be illusions of another world, when they are still settled in the known one.
The Dark Continent itself can be the mirror of the Chimera Ants arc, a confrontation between different sentient species, where the humans take the role of the first Chimeras, the invadors trying to survive.
The known world stands in the middle of the Moebius lake. There is a lot to take off the choice of this name – but I think it is, among other things, a hint from Togashi that a new cycle is beginning.
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