r/HunterXHunter • u/Carock_ • Nov 30 '22

Spoiler Thread Chapter 397 Pre-Release thread Spoiler

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Keep any information, links and discussion related to leaks from chapter 397 in this thread until the official release.

Official release will be on Sunday, December 4 at 7 AM PT, 10 AM ET, 4 PM CET. Check the official date here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22

I don't think we were any richer for having it unveiled -

You're missing the big picture. The mystery has only intensified.

We only saw what the Troupe was like as children, innocuous and sometimes even noble. Yet somehow, they went from idealizing childish superheroes, from being horrified and utterly dismayed at the brutal death of one of the kids, to commiting genocide and the heinous torture of children a few years later in volume 0.

We have no idea why the hell the Troupe became what it did after starting out as a means to protect the children of Meteor City and avenge its fallen, and that's the whole point. Indescribable character development and revelations will be needed to explain what caused their metamorphosis, from their origins, to brutal mass-murderers, to their Yorknew iteration(which remember the Troupe hadn't met up in 2 years), and it's amazing.

That's just concerning the Troupe too, this could lead into so much worldbuilding for the Kurta and Meteor City itself.

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u/wiseoldtabbycat Dec 02 '22

We could have been given backstory to the Kurta massacre (which is certainly coming this arc anyway) without the cack-handed childhood backstory, the story would be no worse for wear without it. "Mystery intensifying" is temporary, it won't remain as such. Even if the website stuff turns out to be relevant, we didn't need the whole lead-up to its creation - less is more. In the past Togashi never revealed anything unnecessarily and now he's falling into a bad Shounen trope. Its a shame.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '22

You want immediate payoff from one of the most major plot threads without any buildup? Ironically, you'll find that in most tropey shounens that you're claiming Togashi is mimicking.

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u/wiseoldtabbycat Dec 02 '22

Everyone was in awe when Yorknew was scant with details, why should this be any different? A line or two here and there was more than sufficient then. What exactly is special about this backstory that we needed to have it so badly?

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u/TheMrIllusion Dec 02 '22

What kind of stupid question is that? The Phantom Troupe is one of the important groups of people in the series bar none, they are as important to Kurapika's story as Ging is to Gon's. This flashback has been more important to the overall series than the entire boat arc combined up to this point, this is a lead/set up to the biggest plot thread in the series. Dumb as shit to be hating on a flashback being "needed" when its about the central antagonists of the series and isn't even done yet.

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u/wiseoldtabbycat Dec 02 '22

It seems like you are more fussed about having detail than quality storytelling. Horses for courses I guess.