imagine being blind and falling in love with someone assuming they were a human because they could talk and you were never given reason to assume otherwise and then at the end when youre dying in each others arms you gently run your hands over their face and youre just like “what the fuck is this a ninja turtle”
okay, i just realized that Illumi was posing as Hisoka at the same time Killua was being held hostage by the Spiders during the Yorkshin arc. and like, he didn’t have any kind of visible reaction during the entire time Killua was sitting right there in the same room as him, after being kidnapped by the fricking Phantom Troupe!!!
I mean, I understand he couldn’t exactly grab Killua and high-tail it out of there with the entire Troupe watching and on guard, but I suddenly find it so weird that it wasn’t even mentioned, even with just a panel of Illumi thinking “What the hell are you doing here Kil?” Did Hisoka mention it? How did that conversation even go? “Hey Illumi, can you do me a huge favor? Okay great! Also, you should know your precious little brother has been taken hostage by the Phantom Troupe. See ya soon, bye! <3″
I just can’t imagine him being calm about this situation, even though that’s apparently exactly what happened. And I didn’t even notice until just this moment. Anyone else find this turn of events weird all of the sudden? Or is it just me?
I think it is a somewhat accurate assesment but also I read Gon’s unyielding optimism and sort of….faulty moral systems to be partly due to age and partly a defense mechanism/coping tool for his trauma on whale island. So in a way I could say I think it’s people sort of failing to recognize Gon’s more pathological trains of thought for what they are.
That said, that’s really very much my reading of Gon, and not something that I think the show intended to do? So with the text itself:
With regards to Wing I think he was referring to Gon’s talent and potential more than anything, but with Meleoron it’s pretty obvious it’s not just about that: Gon has an inherent sort of schism where if people violate certain boundaries in his head it’s entirely fair game for him to, well, pretty much End Them.
In general I think the narrative touts it as a ‘Good thing’ about Gon but, while that’s applicable in some scenarios (Like with Zepile) theres others where it comes off as really….weird, tone-wise? Like Morel saying “you go crazy with the best of them”. It’s almost like HxH sets up emotional instability and pathological intensity of feeling as the True Path to Power sometimes, to be honest, or at least it does so in the chimera ant arc a lot.
Was that the answer you were looking for, anon, or is there something else you’d like to me to add?
you know what i think about? razor called gon a monster. meleoron told gon he felt something inhuman in him. and i think to myself, “i wonder if that’s foreshadowing that gon is a tiny little humanoid abomination. 50% dark continent being, 50% gremlin”
So I’ve been thinking about HxH (because duh. I always am). Specifically the Dark Continent arc. And I just can’t get the unnerving feeling out of head that someone is gonna die. And by someone I mean Kurapika. This kid seems to have gotten it into his head that he has nothing and no one and is dead set on getting those eyes back.
So when you combine his unhealthy emotional state and the fact that it looks like the Spiders will be on the boat soon AND you add the remaining eyes owned by Prince Bateman (plus that Pairo’s head theory) I just can’t help but feel like tragedy is soon to strike.
And the worst part is is that I’m less scared of Kurapika’s fate. And more scared of how his death could effect Leorio (he’s my favorite, I can’t help but think about him).
This dude is still blaming himself for the death of his best friend from when he was like 10 years old. He’s dedicated his entire life to becoming a doctor to make up for it.
Imagine if he lost his new best friend. Another best friend that he couldn’t save. And you know he would blame himself forever.
“I could have done something. I should have been there. I could have gotten him to stop. During the Hunter’s Exam. Or Yorknew. I could have saved him. I failed again!”
I honestly don’t think he’s recover from that. I think it would brake the poor boy.
Togahsi, please don’t kill Kurapika. Or Leorio for that matter. They clearly need each other.
Although Kurapika would never admit it. He cares a lot about Leorio. That’s why he’s avoided him for so long. So he doesn’t get dragged into danger. If Leorio died I think Kurapika would honestly fall into such a great rage he’d probably get himself killed anyway.
Okay, I gotta comment on this video, because it is freaking cool. Because it shows that, while the Spiders are pretty powerful separately, when they work together they are pretty much neigh unbeatable monsters. Wow.
Also, the 2011 anime shows more scenes of the Troupe fighting with the mafia, while the 1999 anime focuses a bit more on Chrollo conducting alone by himself. Both of them are badass, gorgeously animated, and downright awesome, just in different ways! I love them both!!! Yesssss!!!!!
I wanna take a moment to recommend timemachineyeah’s awesome liveblog of Hunter x Hunter 2011. She offers a lot of insightful commentary every episode she’s done so far (for example, i don’t think i’ve seen anyone comment on the treatment of the prisoners during the Trick Tower portion of the Hunter Exam? so i enjoyed that segment quite a bit). If you enjoy liveblogs of the series, please check it out!
Gon fights enemies he can’t beat all the time. He often puts his life in danger, one day he’ll get himself killed, and he loses as often as he wins.
But whether it’s the Hunter Exam where he tracked Hisoka who was more powerful than him to get his badge, or the Hunter Exam where he refused to surrender to someone stronger than him even as he faced having his own leg sliced off, or earlier today still trying his best every time against a guy who beat him in arm wrestling so many times in a row his hand was bleeding.
Gon is a dumbass. He is also, to Killua, the paragon of virtue and goodness. In Killua’s mental dictionary the definition of “Good” is “Gon”. Who Gon is, what Gon is, that is what goodness is.
Gon is everything Killua wants to protect and also everything he feels undeserving of and everything he feels incapable of being.
He froze as commanded to when his life was in mortal danger, and it was the right call, but because Gon was also in danger, and because Gon in his head might have made a different call, and because his family groomed him to believe he was incapable of virtue and undeserving of friendship, he reads his own actions as proof that he’s selfish where no other person in the world, especially Gon, would.
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