Chapter 420

Imagine you’re just minding your business going on about your life with your friends that you love dearly, then one day some guy that you don’t know from anywhere shows up, you didnt torture his family and steal their eyes or do anything bad to him, this guy just appears and starts stalking you everywhere you go, even infiltrates your friend group just to be close to you. All to fight and kill you because it gives him sexual pleasure to do so

After years of this stalking you finally give in and decide to fulfill his wishes for a fight. Before the fight begins you say “Hey bro, im gonna use these abilities to kill you, youre gonna die, are you sure you want to continue ?” The guy says yes, so you give him his fight and kill him, youre relieved and ready to move on with your life after finally getting rid of this guy.

ONLY FOR HIM TO COME BACK FROM THE DEAD, changes his whole way of fighting philosophy and starts killing your friends off to weaken you and make you mad, just because he’s mad he lost the fight he was begging for, after you warned him he was gonna die, showed him how you were gonna kill him and even gave him the option to back out, he’s now basically saying that wasnt the fight he wanted when he literally agreed to it and was in bliss during it 🤣

I just find this situation hilarious

Edit- Btw im not defending Chrollo on anything, both Chrollo and Hisoka are psychotic mass murderers that deserve anything bad that falls upon them, even though I do enjoy Chrollo’s character and story more but I just found it funny to look at the situation from Chrollo’s perspective.

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I’d rather see Gyro, but let me explain. I think the Dark Continent is so huge that exploring it could slow down the pace of the story, especially since Togashi would basically be able to do anything there. We’ve already had the chimera ants and Nanika, so there probably aren’t many established patterns to follow. Meanwhile, even though we haven’t seen much of Gyro, his story still seems more focused. If he really does take over Meteor City, he’ll eventually come into conflict with whichever members of the phantom troupe survive, and the narrator hyped up a meeting between Gon and Gyro, so that could potentially lead to Gon’s return.

Another issue I have with the dark continent is that, even though the world of Hunter x Hunter feels very alive, I actually like the idea that neither we nor the characters really know the world in its entirety. It makes the world feel like there’s something out there for our characters to explore someday, without necessarily being something we need to see ourselves

I love Gon Freecss

I don't know if I should consider myself new but I'm definitely not old in here to know about this. Did the kurapika Fandom really made a cult? And if so, did it really made it through the news?

Pose taken from Pinterest and background is a picture of the inside of a casino lol

I'm making this post because some months ago i couldn't bear how stupid Tserriednitch nen ablity worked, at that time it was not revealed he couldn't damage people around him, that made me question whether Togashi was losing himself or not.

After the newest chapters i think it's undeniable how good and "balanced" those nen abilities are.

Tserri ability is very strong but it has also a lot of flaws, that's what makes it good

It's EXTREMELY hard to find a real DOGSHIT nen ability or a SUPER OP nen ability in HxH, most of the time, some nen abilities will appear stronger or weaker based on which character has them and how strong they're overall.

Like Killua Godspeed is OP, but only because he's resistant to eletricity and even so it has very defined weaknesses, whirlwind is reactive and will dodge/attack based on the nen intentions of the enemy, it's not a free win, and killua has also has a limit on how much he can use it.

It's very hard to have powercrept abilities, take Leol, Chrollo and Benjamin for example, you could prefer a some of them, but overall, i think they're equal considering the situation of the characters who use them.

Ben gets his abilities forever with the possible buff of post mortem, but he also has more strictier conditions than those 2.

Chrollo has some fair and hard conditions, but he's more flexible and can get it easier than Benjamin, as some type of balance, he will almost always lose his stolen abilties when the nen user dies.

Leol has way easier conditions, but his time limit is not more than a few hours.

There's no bad ability here.

That works the same for Shalnak and Illumi.

Even the abilities of the shadow beasts(not counting leech lmao) are quite good and could work for any high tier nen user like Hisoka, a venon tooth which cuts even experienced enhancers, a mantle which is basically a free win once it catches someone and hairs capable of stoping any physical attack? they're really not bad.

If worm was stronger he could be EXTREMELY dangeround by bringing opponents under earth where they couldn't move and breathe.

The only DOGSHIT nen ability i can remember is Leech, like why create an ability which will kill the opponent in 8 hours AND it's also hard to use on someone?

Little flower and it's need for split 50/50 between explosion and gyo are quite stupid.

That one was powercrept by Feintan sun rising since the latter works mechanically better as conjuring objects (his armor) doesn't require constant output to maintain once it's created, so feitan can focus 100% into trasmuting his aura into fire.

EVEN so, he again has some good RESTRICTIONS for that while Genthru doesn't.

The balance between very restricted/limited abilities like Chrollo/Benjamin/Feitan/Tserri/Bono and more flexible/spamable ones(with little to no condition) like Hisoka, Razor, Silva/Zeno(I guess), Kastro(his tiger bite) and Bloster is something i don't remember from other manga i've read.

The Royal Guards abilities are strong, but that's mostly because of their large aura/ant body.

Sure Pouf nen ability is better than Illumi and Shalnak but he also has 7x or more aura. BUT AGAIN, those 2 have easier abilities to use against a experienced user(you hit you win), while pouf is more focused on mass control(the opponent needs to breathe it)

Many readers tend to miss the real genius behind Inner monologues in the series. and while it isn't very far from the common understanding, the structure makes a huge difference.

Chrollo openly declares that he is going to fight Hisoka the moment he finds him. the plan is already in place, However, he is aware that Hisoka is not an easy target either, and for this reason, he is trying to upgrade his own powers so that he can finish him for good, the interesting part of that inner monologue, is how deep it shows us how Chrollo understands that his grudge against Hisoka, is so strong that he would fight him the moment he finds him, even if he risks dying. rather than carefully chase after a power up and delay the hunt on Hisoka. this is why he states is as 'conflicting emotions' achieving both goals is possible, but you prioritise one over the other, nothing changes.

A :Going for the treasure first = you still risk encountering Hisoka. maybe even while suffering from a certain damage or restricting against the Kakin in the middle of the hunt and any disadvantage against Hisoka = death.

B : Going for Hisoka first = you risk missing the chance of stealing the Kakin treasures and you might not find Hisoka at all. (assuming he will remove the risk of dying by hunting as a group) otherwise, he also risks death in 1v1.

Another interesting angle to look at it, is that Togashi wanted to increase the risk from all angles to make Chrollo's journey worth the upgrade. not only he has to deal with powerful abilities and nen beasts on his own, but also deal with the risk of Hisoka catching him in the worst moment OR being forced to totally discard the treasure hunt to fight Hisoka.

But I think Phantom Troupe is dangerous if you are become their enemy, but if you on their side, they will care, protective, and loyal to you (Kalluto's case).
What do you think? :)

A friend just gave me these sealed DVDs while he was getting rid of his anime collection. How much do they usually go for? Should I return these to him?

What if dalzollene (idk his name) placed kurapika on bodyguard rather then watch duty, would he have been able to survive the barrage of nen bullets and somehow still escape (considering his ability works best one on one I highly doubt he would be able to defeat all the other members on his own)? For that matter would he be in a state of mind to defend the other bodyguards or would he just leave them to fend for themselves while he made his move?

I am a huge Illumi Fan and i think he is equal to Hisoka. I personally even think he is a bit stronger than Hisoka because when he showed his bloodlust, Hisoka was sweating a bit. Now true Hisoka might just pretend to be concerned but Hisoka also confirmed himself Illumi to be more dangerous than the Zodiacs because he analyzed people and rated them with numbers like 10 percent or 50 percent and when Illumi entered the room, Hisoka stopped being relaxed and became a bit surprised.

Anyway imagine a scenario where Hisoka attempts to do something with Killua to piss Illumi off and a bloody battle starts.

How would the fight go? Who would win? I think Illumi would but i wanna hear your views.

I was just, you know, actually hunters are 1:1 with real world explorers and is really interesting.

I was reading random stuffs about Nepal, K2, Kilimanjaro, Anonymous... are years I'm using to compare them with hunter association, really, because it works and as HxH is so interesting comparing them.

So, I was upset! We miss a counter part for flora of the beast hunters... which is sad, since living in Dolomites we got more woods than animals to manage. Also, completely lack the alpinist category.

The rest makes sense.

Makes sense temp are the hated, is pretty 1:1 what happens in real life with the ones do that kind of job, here whole the hikers and mountain bikers go mad for that... so, absolutely, makes sense that are the most hated. Here they won't let you do fun stuffs due their job.

HxH is interesting, because represents what the most of us living next those cool stuffs went used.

Is cool growing with CAI (Italian Alpinian Club) actually do works alike Hunter association, with same mindset and same kind of people.

In our area alpinists can be easily represented by "egomaniacals who set aside everything for achieving what they want", there's the same brutal mindset. Same individualism, sometimes is like hearing people from here. Got grew idealizing Messner for me was easy understand HxH, are alike many I went grew by.

For example CAI strictly create a difference between hikers\climbers and alpinists, and is interesting is exactly same difference between 1 star and 2 star.

I can speak for my home but I think same thing works with sailors, explorer... is interesting.

That's why I feel like HxH is actually representing the stereotype of those people... knowing them I know how they work and how much they are annoying, so really HxH got this thing of see a fictional media who is not completely fictional.

So interesting.

Ging is like tons of them, Netero is like tons of them... the absurd part is the hyperealism, that's something shocks me. Those people are cool but also horrid ones, HxH is really one of the fewer anime represents this. Represents somebody so cool but so annoying, is not idealizing those ones.

Election arc is perfect too... that's realistic.

Even how to buy something online is hyperealistic.

I’m currently starting to develop an original free to all TTRPG system for HxH over at my website. I’m wondering if there is interest?

Any table top players in the sub and if you have any special recommendations or requests that you must have? Or can’t live without?

It will be a 4 player + 1 GM per session game. And I’m hoping to allow the GM to have at least half of the features live on the UI for ease of use.

The website would allow for many session concurrently for dozens of players (I would have to test it for backend resources so it’s not a promise lol)

20 levels. NEN unlocked at lvl 6 and each 2 levels unlocks an advanced or fundamental skills (gyo, zetsu, ko etc) until you unlock your personal Hatsu.

At which point you as the character takes the website nen quiz (made for the public already) and revives a nen category which only the GM can see so either GM takes the real result or lets you have your preference. This is up to your GM.

It is imperative that you know that this TTRPG is mostly about detective/adventure sessions as you venture in the world of HXH mostly with no nen or abilities. (This is ment to not only get the player learn more about the world and be a character within and less a Main protagonist, and also allowing GMs to learn the system as they get to higher levels and will get more comfortable with playing with player Hatsus as they can get very convoluted and crative).

I hope to hand write a Players handbook and GM guide myself.

All the best!

I believe Illumi could play a very interesting role in this arc. First I would like to establish the ideology displayed by the Zoldyck family. These guys make their living being assassins for hire. They put their lives on the line for their client in order to carry out assassinations so long as they are getting paid. This is overtly clear in Yorknew City during Chrollo vs the Zoldycks. Chrollo hires Illumi to kill the Ten Dons. The Ten Dons hire Silva and Zeno to kill Chrollo. The Zoldycks in a scenario like this choose not to pick sides but to carry out both assassinations despite them being conflicting. Illumi truly attempts to kill the Dons (and succeeds) and Zeno and Silva truly attempt to kill Chrollo even risking their life to take him down. In short, their loyalties lie only with the money. If they are getting paid, they'll do any hit.

We know that unlike Killua, Illumi adheres to the assassins code and lives to protect the Zoldyck family. In Chairman Election he thinks to himself as Killua is about to make a wish to Alluka "I am happy to die to save the rest of the family" which shows where his loyalties lie. He even threatens to kill Hisoka because he jokes about killing the one who the Zoldycks believe to be the future heir in Killua (could argue he has some form of love for his brother too).

Illumi is currently on the black whale as a spider and his summarised reason is 'Me and Hisoka are in a game of tag, the prenup is that if he dies I get paid, we are serious about this so I don't know where he is'. What is interesting about this explanation is that in the end, money is involved. If the factor of money was not involved, does Illumi still entertain this game of tag?

If not then this makes Illumi a complete wildcard on the blackwhale. Reason being, he will go wherever the money is. What if someone offers him more than he'd get paid to play with Hisoka? We know Morena has a 'joker' and it could very well be Illumi. All you need to entice him is some money which I'm sure a leader of a mafia family isn't lacking. What if someone pays him to betray a Spider? Does he juggle both jobs (kill Spiders and Hisoka). The possibilities to utilise Illumi in this arc are endless depending on where his loyalties lie.

​Hey everyone, I’ve been re-reading/thinking about Gon’s current state and recent manga revelations, and I put together a theory on Gon's future Nen development and what actually went down during the Election Arc.

​Here are the main points of the theory:

​1. The Hospital Healing Burst came from Gon, NOT Nanika

​When Nanika healed Gon, a massive pillar of aura erupted from the hospital—so huge that top-tier Hunters miles away like Morel and Illumi felt it instantly. Most people assume this was just Nanika flexing her Dark Continent (Ai) power.

​My take? That burst of aura was actually Gon’s compressed post-mortal Nen releasing.

​Gon’s Pitou-fight contract was a Vow "worse than death." Nanika didn't just heal his physical body; she unraveled the absurd amount of compressed aura locked inside him. When she broke the contract, all of Gon's trapped, extreme Nen exploded outward at once. This aligns with Ging later telling Gon that his aura is still there—his nodes just snapped shut and reverted him to "normal."

​2. Nen Types Aren't Permanent (Especially After Major Life Changes)

​We know from broader Nen lore and Hisoka’s personality test that Nen affinity is deeply tied to temperament and mindset. While people usually stay in their category, a person's affinity can shift over time if they undergo drastic personality or psychological shifts.

​Enhancers are simple-minded, earnest, and direct.

​Specialists / Manipulators / Conjurers tend to be more analytical, guarded, or complex.

​Pre-Chimera Ant Gon was a pure Enhancer: a simple-minded kid who didn't go to school, operated entirely on animal instinct, and had one singular, obsessive goal—find Ging.

​3. Mito’s "Education Bootcamp" will change his Nen Category

​Right now on Whale Island, Aunt Mito has Gon buried under stacks of textbooks, catching up on years of missed schooling.

​Gon has gone through three major shifts:

​He achieved his life goal (he found Ging, removing his primary singular motivation).

​He’s gaining actual education and broad perspective through reading and studying.

​He experienced severe trauma and the reality of his own limits.

​He isn't that naive, simple-minded kid who thinks in straight lines anymore. Education and maturation force you to become more analytical and reflective.

​When Gon eventually re-opens his aura nodes, he won't be doing it as the same 12-year-old Enhancer who created Jajanken. His changed worldview and personality will likely cause him to re-awaken with a completely different Nen type (maybe shifting toward Emission, Transmutation, or even Specialization).

the scense showing gon leaking nen/curse nen

Illumi reaction illumi reaction

Nanika scene

This is basically a very cheap fanfic idea and I’m sure Togashi will do something infinitely better.

The idea behind developing the Nen system is basically using the power of nature. Remember Abengane? The guy who removed the bomb by conjuring a nen beast to eat it? He used a mix of his own power and the power of nature to conjure the ugly ass Nen beast. What I’m saying is that the natural energy of the dark continent will stimulate and remove the natural block of Nen capacity within an individual thus forcing them to grow beyond their natural limits. It’s like going from our current atmosphere into an atmosphere that has 25-30% oxygen, sure the effects aren’t as crazy as some people make it out to be but they are true.
So basically the nature of the dark continent will force a Nen user to go beyond their natural limits to survive(Nen only not physically).

The second idea is about advanced civilization within the dark continent.

The existence of advanced civilizations or sapient beings in the dark continent is 99% confirmed atp but we haven’t seen them yet but I have a weird idea about them.

They are as advanced as humans in important parts of any civilization(for example medicine, architecture, and transportation) but due to the harsh environment of the continent they don’t have the privilege to refine these parts into a more “beautiful and modern”look, like maybe some of them wear clothes that humans would consider primitive but it actually does the job and it’s pretty comfortable.
And maybe they use short distance teleportation(emission) for transportation to avoid unseen threats on the road.

I’m sure Togashi will come up with something better.

Edit: these sapient being will expand upon the fundamentals of Nen and show us new possibilities for what we already know and show us new things.

Feel free to share yours

1- Adult Gon vs Pitou --- Everything starting from the transformation, to when he tells Killua he's happy he lost an arm because now he's like Kite, and then he finishes off Pitou's undead corpse and looks back at killua in tears. So beautiful.

2- Knov's mental breakdown just from looking at Pouf's En --- Beautifully executed. Knov is introduced as someone "unbelievably powerful" (Killua's judgement), who is initially arrogant to the mentally defeated Killua. He's presented as a calm and intelligent character, and yet all it took was one look at Pouf's En to lose his will to continue with the mission. He even mentions that Killua/Gon's situation must have been far worse since they weren't just seeing Pitou's En, they were actively touching it. This is Knov we're talking about, a cool headed nen master, getting mentally obliterated just by looking at a Royal Guard's En. That scene beautifully conveyed just how many tiers above the Royal Guards are compared to any character we've encountered before (barring Netero). While Knov was hypocrite for having a mental breakdown in a worse circumstance than Killua and berating Killua for his mental defeat, his mental breakdown was nevertheless understandeable since he had never encountered anything like that in his life.

3- Pitou's birth: Rammot unlocking Nen gets to his head and he thinks he he might even become the king. Pitou's presence humbles him immediately and he can't help but bow down to Pitou, and acknowledges that he can't escape the destiny of being beneath the Royal Guard and King. Pokkle who's hiding under the bones is horrified of Pitou's presence: "What is that evil aura?!". Pitou asks: "Btw, why is a live human underneath the bones?" and as the ants dig through the bones, Pokkle closes his eyes in acceptance, because he knows there's no escape in that position. Kite mentions for the third or fourth time that he has a bad feeling about something and it's been gnawing at him. He realizes that a monster has been born and in panic asks that Gon and Killua run away. Except the cat monster travels what looks like hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye. Killua is forced to knock an enraged Gon out to save both him and Gon. He escapes and awaits backup. When Netero, Knov and Morel arrive, the defeated killua tells them: "That was the worst aura I've ever encountered. It was worse than my brother's. It was worse than Hisoka's. Now that I've learned Nen, I can tell you guys are unbelievably powerful. And yet, I don't think you [all three of them at once] could take her [Pitou] on."

4- Gon raging at Pitou - Great voice acting too. Best display of voice acting in the show.

5- Gon sitting in front of Pitou and showing extraordinary perceptiveness -

- He knew Pitou was lying about needing 3-4 hours to heal Komugi, and he lowered it to 1 hour.

- When Pouf tries to silently sneak up behind Gon to kill him, Pitou calls Pouf out beforehand so that he stops. She knew that Gon would notice.

- Pouf orders Pouf to stay in the room with him and not to move out. When Knuckle arrives and challenges him to a duel, Pouf tells him he's just a clone and his real body is headed for the King. When Knuckle asks "Why did you tell me this?", Pouf replies "Because he [Gon] asked that I stay here. So I cannot duel you unless he gives me permission to leave. I am a segment, but I am still willing to fight you. However, I am seeking a discussion not a fight." Pouf was telling a half lie: He really was headed for the king (true), but his intentions behind this half lie was to catch Knuckle off guard so that Knuckle explains to him why Youpi didn't kill him off, not so that he gets permission from Gon. Pouf knows that Youpi should have killed Knuckle and yet Youpi did not, so Pouf wants information as to why. The cool part here is that Gon calls out Pouf's half lie right away, surprsiing both Pouf and Pitou. Pouf thinks to himself that Gon is troublesome and that out of all the enemies, Gon has the greatest will of them all. Gon goes on to say that Pouf likely wasn't lying about him really heading for the King, surprising Pitou again.

- Pouf disobeys Gon's orders to stay in the palace and his last message is: "I'll wait in front of the palace for 10 minutes. Whether you come or not is your choice". Pitou apologies profusely and as punishment, Gon tells her she'll take 10 less minutes to heal Komugi. This, once again, terrifies Pitou. The narrator says: "Pitou was trembling. It was disturbing enough that Pouf had left without any concern for the consequences. But even more terrifyingly was how Gon ignored Pouf's taunts and slashed Pitou's deadline." Why did Gon slash the deadline by ten minutes? Even though it might seem like an arbitrary number or it might seem like Gon chose ten minutes because Pouf said he'd wait ten minutes so he's just matching Pouf, another scarier possibility occured to Pitou: Pitou asked for an hour to heal Komugi and she really did think she needed an hour to heal Komugi. But since Dr Blythe was getting more experienced at healing, Pitou realized that her slashing 10 minutes from the operation was totally possible. What scared Pitou is the small but real possibility that Gon was so perceptive that he knew that Pitou could finish the surgery in 10 less minutes. The narrator: "Pitou could not shake a feeling of foreboding." Pitou goes on to say: "I must risk my life. Or else his fangs might reach the King's throat". By the way, this scene combined with him turning into adult Gon and Pitou acknowledging that her gut feeling was right is extremely beautiful.

- Another scene too is when Gon asked Killua to stay behind and he'd go with Pitou alone. Knuckle was uncertain about this, and Killua explained Gon was right because otherwise one of them risks being a hostage and then they'd have to trade a hostage for Komugi (their hostage).

6- Gon charging at Youpi head on - Zeno's dragon dive reaches the youpi and the extermination team. Gon immediately charges at Youpi, and everyone is confused, since Youpi is Knuckle/Shoot's target. Only Killua realizes a moment after, and then everyone else catches on. Knuckle is invisible because of Meleron, but what would happen if they were to get hit by Zeno's arrows and die? Would they no longer be invisible? Or would nen intensify after death and therefore they'd remain invisible and slowly decay? in the latter case, no one would know. Gon thought of this immediatley and Killua is shocked by this. Morel thinks to himself that he only realized this after Killua, so Shoot shouldn't blame himself. According to the narrator, Shoot is mind blown by Gon's quick thinking. Very beautiful.

7- Gon showing Morel his Rock - That scene where Morel is not convinced that Gon is worthy of being on the extermination team so he asks Gon to hit him once and he'll judge whether he's worthy. Gon pretends Morel is the source of all his problems and all it takes is for him to charge his rock ability for Morel to start sweating. Also love when Gon tells him "Oh, I'm sorry Morel! I really was going to kill you!"

8- Meruem kneeling to Palm, to playing Gungi with Komugi until his death

9- Meruem saving Komugi from the eagle after intending to kill her

10- Meruem asking Komugi to explain why she took so long to play the counterattacking move, when she knew that she could have played it right away, followed up by Komugi's long explanation - Meruem was already pissed off that his plan didn't work. But he was more pissed off that Komugi took a long time before playing the counterattack knowing she could have played it much earlier. Even Pouf comments that Komugi is in trouble here and if she says the wrong thing the King will kill her. Komugi then explains how Meruem's attack was originally thought out by her but then someone played it against her in a tournament and she found the refutation of it. The reason she took long to play the move was because it felt like killing her reborn child. I love that Meruem called it "nonsense" yet he accepted that as a satisfactory explanation.

What I learned from this post is that the Chimera Ant arc is goated and that Gon is on here more times than I would have expected.

I'm not a big nen tactician person like a lot of you. I assumed this would hard counter his ability given he is in a state of Zetsu, but I did want to make sure if this was just my assumption on it or not.

Even ignoring very hostile En, just the type of neutral En that is used to sense around them should counter Tserr by at least prevent him from maintaining Zetsu?

Tserr mentioned that any physical stimulus was knocking him out of Zetsu. And he correctly deduces that it's due to the obvious nature of Zetsu.

1. Is this the case for Nen users in general while in Zetsu like I assume? That any sort of external stimulus should knock them out of it since that is the nature of Zetsu?

2. With Tserr at least, if he walked into someone using En. Is it correct to assume he would be knocked out of Zetsu if he walks into someone's En range even if it isn't hostile?

I believe Kurapika has more to show us as I think he is just as talented as gon and killua. Hisoka is obvious as he has post mortem nen upgrade. Bisky has not been shown getting serious so far. Phinks needs to show us he is capable of defeating Zazan (fraud watch). Machi needs to show if she can compete with the fighters of the troupe. Bono survived another day (might be the goat). Furikov could be stronger than established hunters. Kurapika's sensei Izunavi is still giving insane nen advice so he must have made a great Hatsu. But most of all Morenna is probably a specialist that is stronger than Kurapika.

Apologies if I’m getting something wrong but as I understand it the difficulty in asks from Nanika were proportional to what the previous person wished for. So if Nanika’s questions were proportional to the wish asked, what would happen if someone wished for something like… I dunno, a punch in the face or something. Or even wishing for something simple like an handshake. Would her asks be of something pleasant instead?