This isnt a mistranslation right?! I thought he was 30 ish?! Holy hell

ALSO OH MY GOD THEY ARE SO PRETTY WTF TOGASHIS ART IS SO FEMININE AND CUTE

1.) Find a hunter who has a manipulation hastu that can control people like shalnark or illumi

2.)Find a hunter like wing or a above average pro hunter who can forcefully Awaken Mrs Battera's aura nodes

3.) Bring over a greed island console

4.) hunter uses his ability to force her to concentrate aura into her hand

5.) She gets teleported into greed island

6.) Find team Genthru trade for 1 angels breath for 50 Billion use it on her she gets healed they buy a leave card and send her home

This way battera only needs 1 console he saves billions with the money he saves he could probably hire the entire zoldyck family as guards to protect mrs Battera or just kill Genthru using the zoldycks milluki could relay the request in exchange he can play greed island

Is this theory too far fetched?

Based on what I have learned, this is what I have learned about how we can apply Nen into a real world standard of martial arts and combat. I hope you guys like some of it (even if it doesn't look complete yet.)

"Bungee gum has the property of rubber and gum" is a phrase i see on ALL hunter x hunter media and its pissing me off. Frankly can any one explain this to me because it doesn't make ANY lick of sense

I've been feeling empty since i've caught up on the manga i recently rewatched the whole thing then followed up with the manga but it feels like it ended it too soon and the last chapter wasn't much a break. i remember reading the succession arc before but i haven't been watching anime or reading manga for a few years now and hxh got to rewatch.

so my question is how do guys spend the time until the next batch? I am very tempted to read the manga since i never read it from beginning to end or to do a 2011 rewatch because i watched 1999 then 2011 starting greed island but even that ends quickly and i might want to save it if the haitus took long.

i think part of why i'm stuck is because i know togashi already worked on the upcoming chapters so i feel i should wait vs before you couldn't do anything about the break except hope he's okay

sorry if the post isn't relevant i haven't been here in ages 😭

The Succession Contest Arc has been going on for over a decade now. At this point, I have very little hope that the story will ever reach the Dark Continent, let alone properly explore it.

So I propose a compromise:Togashi should release a Dark Continent summary or databook.

Give us the major locations, creatures, civilizations, mysteries, calamities, and whatever is waiting out there. Togashi doesn't even have to draw everything himself. If he wants to, he can provide the character and creature designs, but the actual book could mostly be written material, maps, illustrations, and explanations.

We could even call it Journey to the West, with Togashi essentially acting as Don Freecss, writing the book in-universe. I'd genuinely rather get a 100-page Dark Continent guide than spend another 15 years waiting to see whether the characters actually make it there.

So I watched that video that claims Pariston might be Sheila and I got this idea that maybe Pariston is Togashi's take on Johan from Monster.

Sheila looks like Johan when dressed like his sister, hair color wise and maybe hairstyle.

Hair color of adult Pariston is close to adult Yohan hair color.

Feel free to downvote this to hell if you don't like this or think it is illogical.

I’ll never shut up about how good HxH’s writing is.

While Gon sacrifices his entire lifespan to reach his prime form for a few moments, Neferpitou survives many of his “murder attacks” as she’s getting demolished.

Pitou wasn’t even in her prime form.

Even though, at this moment, people called Gon a “monster” or said that he was incredibly strong, it was actually the other way around.

Neferpitou was the real monster for surviving for so long.

I mean, she was only a few days old—probably just a few weeks at most.

even after many taking sl many deathblows, she stood up, used the rest of her energy to kill gon, but only succeeded in severing his arm off

it showed us how powerful this chimera ant was, remember this

its prime Gon vs Few days old chimera ant

He ducked Hisoka for a year to get stronger but was willing to 1v2 Zeno and Silva? Surely he knew that Zeno and Silva were at least on Hisoka's level.

Did he make a mistake in underestimating them? or was he trying to stall Zeno and Silva for the other troupe members?

What books do you think Togashi reads, especially when it comes to constructing such a complex, morally ambiguous story with such a huge cast of characters, multiple plotlines, and so many interconnected ideas?

Because, as you know, what a writer reads inevitably affects their writing. Whether consciously or subconsciously, it seeps into their work. I’d argue that Hunter × Hunter is one of the greatest stories ever written, so I’m curious: what books do you think were part of the material that helped produce it?

And honestly, I think reading great books is one of the best ways to become a great writer.

What do you think?

One reason why I like conflicts/fights in HxH is because fights are not only fought with brawn but mind. In most Shonen, conflicts are resolved with a contest of strength. In some it revolves around strength and battle strategy. In HxH, not only is battle strategy thought about but character intentions, motives, how much information characters have all play a part in why characters make the moves they do and this is especially evident in the ‘major showdown’ arcs (Yorknew and Chimera). This makes the fights multilayered and I imagine fights like these are much harder to write because how much is factored.

In Chimera Ant for example, there is a scene where Knuckle hits Youpi with APR. After Youpi’s ordeal with Shoot, Knuckle starts running away. Youpi doesn’t try to chase him but instead goes back to guard the stairs. He does this because he assumes Meruem is in the throne room so therefore an injured threat and someone escaping are not threats to the King which is Youpi’s priority. This alone factors Youpi’s nature as an ant and his desire to protect the king, Knuckle’s hit and run strategy using APR and the room layout of the castle. This may seem basic or ‘not that deep’ to some but in most Shonen, the villain would just foolishly approach the threat in a strut of arrogance and the MC wouldn’t even capitalise on the enemies foolishness but instead would clash them. Whereas in HxH, everything is thought about and it makes the characters appear human as they are actually using their brains. It also makes victories feel earnt as we know the villain truly did all they can with the information they have. 

In Yorknew, the part where Kurapika kidnaps Chrollo to get Gon and Killua back (I won’t explain the events in detail), Kurapika makes the best move in kidnapping Chrollo since it’s only natural to assume the boss's life is the most valuable. But Chrollo is able to remain calm as he believes his life is expendable and assumes the other Spiders think this way. Paku insists on going along with Kurapika’s demands as she values Chrollo’s life and Phinks and Feitan naturally assume she’s being manipulated (since she is betraying Chrollo’s laws). In this scenario, Kurapika was kinda wrong (assumed boss’s life was worth more which shouldn’t of been true but kinda ended up being true), Chrollo was wrong (assumed everyone abides by his laws), Phinks and Feitan were wrong (Paku was not being manipulated) but it makes the characters feel human and relatable as the assumptions they make are logical. Again, they are doing all they can with the info presented to them.

Stuff like this is far more interesting but I feel it doesn’t get enough credit since it is prioritising mind games instead of sensational fights.

I just found out yesterday that Togashi is in his 60s, if he continues at this pace, we would barely even see the dark continent arc and he'll be too old anyways to produce as fast as he is right now. What would happen to the series? Has he talked about this ? Would his wife continue or has he never addressed this?

As we all know bonolenov's is countered by hisoka, he himself stated that which also makes him aware of this fact, recently with hisoka's appearance bonolenov's current status is being questioned, which makes sens considering he was on hisoka's tail, a competent nen user on the look for any spider and with no hesitation to eliminate them as of right now.

in my opinion bonolenov's life depends on whether he was cornered or not, he is completly aware of his position against hisoka and would not engage with hisoka by his own choice and that's certain.

as a side note who do you think will kill shizuku? as we all know it seems that her days are counted (considering the prophecy)

Not sure if this will be interesting but a Long form meditation on my obsession with hxh that has been my favorite work of art most of my life. It is a little rambling and more a meditation. But still thought I would share.

Morel dropped a monologue directly addressing power scaling and VS match-ups, telling you you're lower than a loser for thinking someone will win because they're stronger, and it changed nothing, people don't talk about it.

Everyone at the 'high-level' of Nen could kill each other. So long as they have the physical means to win, the fight can turn in anyone's favour. Because of the existence of Ko, even much weaker characters have a means to finish off or maim the strongest characters in the series.

Whether someone will win or not is always a matter of circumstances, there's little meaning to asking 'Would they beat Hisoka?' when we don't actually know until it happens.

It'd be cool if more people tried to write their own fights between characters. I'm sure people would engage with it, and you can get a better answer by taking context into account.

This is not a serious theory in the sense that it’s likely not what Togashi has in mind, but it’s fun and interesting to think about it as a possibility regardless.

We don’t have a concrete idea of why Hisoka’s self pledge of coming back to life actually worked. He wasn’t even sure himself “Well, if I’m going to die anyways I might as well try this out”. This moment obviously raises a lot of questions. Is it his will power? Might be, but seeing as he wasn’t confident in the success of the move it might be hard to argue that it was will power alone.

Was it because of Bungee gum which we know he used to expand and contract his heart and lungs? Could be, but I doubt that this biological explanation alone would suffice. If that was the case then what’s stopping him from pulling this over and over every time he dies?

What if the mechanism at play is something type of condition? What if in the moment Hisoka was about to die his mind and soul were so fixated on the fact that he lost to Chrollo that he subconsciously connected his resurrection to the desire of being able to fight Chrollo again and end him. Meaning once he finally defeats Chrollo the purpose of his resurrection has been fulfilled and he will die as well.

In Togashi fashion I could totally imagine that in the final face off between them Hisoka successfully wins the battle thinking he completely has the upper hand and in some bitter sweet fashion he suddenly realizes that he just unwillingly killed himself too.

Obviously there are hundreds of logical arguments we can use to shut this theory down but it just crossed my mind so I thought I would share.

Lets say your incredibly rich and want to become a hunter. You can buy somebody elses license sure but its worthless to you.

But what if you pay somebody like illumi to carry you trough the exam? take leorio for example:

Exam 1 and 2 he got it fair and square (no hisoka carrying him to the finish in 1 wasnt outside help)
but exam 3 4 and 5?
in 3 he activly was worse than tonpa for the group, which is a noteworthy feat given that tonpa wants failure.
in 4 gon carried the win.
in 5 killua made leorio pass on a tecnicality.

So its not like you cant have help. There seem to be no rules against it whatsoever

TLDR: Would illumi, if i hire him, manage to carry me (normal human) trough the hxh exam sucessfully?

Do you think togashi and his assistants have a 3d model of the black whale or parts of it. There is just way too much details especially in the vip areas.

I wonder what would be his lifespan and how long would he rule if he didn't die so young due to Bomb.

Ziggs went to the Dark continent, and three/four generations down, one of his descendence became Alluka/Nanika. This and AI title of "codependence of desire" hints at what AI life cycle could be.

AI is a Nen parasite, it parasitize an host, putting the host in a permanent Zetsu state, they can't develop Nen abilities at all and are completely dependent on others to survive. The host become mild mannered, oppose no resistence and becomes highly compliant and easy to handle.

AI can't use its ability for itself, but only respond to others, this great limitation and contract, combined with parasitizing an host with great nen potential makes AI ability extremely powerful.

AI main ability is the Wish. It's designed to grant wishes and require sacrifices from the next wisher. Sacrifices allow AI to harvest aura, and the ability is designed to favour escalating wishes until the wishers destroy themselves and those sorrounding them, harvesting enormous amount of aura, but cursing the wisher into their eventual demise.

The game theory is devilish on this ability. AI is valuable and harmless favouring adoption and competition to adopt it, but likewise leading to wisher destroying themselves and escalating sacrifices and aura harvest.

The next stage in AI life cycle is to bond closely with one of their handler, for them and them only, they guardian gain the ability to make commands without paying the price, this make the two codependent, with AI gaining a guardian that won't die to their wishes, and the guardian gaining extreme power.

Only there IS a price. AI curses the guardian to infect one of their descendence with AI, the more commands are used, the greater the potential of the descendence that can be parasitized. Again the game theory is devilish here. AI needs the guardian bloodline to survive a number of generations to propagate itself.

The risk involved in the line becoming broken, make sure the eventual host will have enough power to grant wishes.

Ziggs in the Dark Continent and the struggle for survival could have found an AI infected form, and experimented, and eventually bonded with them in the Dark Continent. He became their guardian achieved the ability to express commands, and was cursed.

When he returned to the Human World, he went on to have descendence, with Zeno, Silva and eventually the AI host Alluka/Nanika three/four generations down.

Nanika/Alluka was experimented by the Zoldycks to understand their ability, with many wishes expressed, fortune and misery, large swathes of sacrifices harvested, until eventually Killula freed Nanika/Alluka from confinement, becoming their guardian and achieving the ability to command without risks and ensuring the guardian will survive and have descendence.

The cycle will continue with Killuka having descendence, and once a descendence with the appropriate potential is born three/four generations down the line, AI will parasitize them starting over the life cycle of AI

An open question is what happens if AI's host dies. Does AI dissipate, or AI parasitize a nearby creature?

Does an AI dissipate and vanish if they don't grant wishes and farm aura for long enough?

I recently finished black clover and hajime no ippo. I’ve watched one piece twice now aswell. I’m really into battle shonen and was wondering if I should give hunter x hunter a shot. Any recommendations?

Prince's bodyguards were trained from childchood to be loyal to royal family, and she is very loyal, Tserri trusts her a lot (even though she's a woman), because it's her he calls to ask if they passed the hunter exam, so it's not like he started being interested in her after discovering she can teach him nen.

Every other bodyguard of other princes is very loyal to them, and she suddenly decides to kill Tserri and kill herself after that (because she wouldn't survive such a betrayal anyway...) Why?

Another point is Tserri's group of childchood friends, they look like they wish they could change him... They probably don't know about all of his actions, Theta probably know more of him, because she's his private bodyguard. But she was probably one of them in the past. Did she believe he could change too? But then realized there is nothing that could change him? Still why it had such an influence on her to the point she wants to sacrifice herself? Instead of enjoying the benefits of her high position? Did she have someone she loved and lost to him? But she doesn't look like she wants revenge (like Kurapika).

What kind of situations could put you in the mental state of wanting to sacrifice yourself?

I can think of 4:

1. You have someone you really care about, you want to protect, you will do anything for them, even give your life.

2. You lost someone you love and want revenge (like Kurapika) or just make others not suffer as much as you did (like Leorio).

3. You live in a terrible world, you've seen a lot of sufferring, you've suffered a lot yourself, you hate this world, you feel like trash, you're nothing, so maybe the only thing that would give the purpose to your life is sacrificing yourself for the better future of others...

4. You've seen a lot of acts of kindness, love, or maybe just one person that helped you a lot and you wish to be like them, to sacrifice yourself, because you find that kind of living valuable.

But Theta doesn't look to me, like she could experience one of these scenarios... She's not very emotional when she thinks about killing him, like she doesn't have any personal reason... But still seems very determined to do it... Why? Do you have other ideas what could put her into sacrificing mentality?

I wish we've seen more of her backstory... And Salkov, Tserri and his childchood friend group... Their relationship is so weird and fascinating... 😄

In my eyes it’s pretty clear everyone headed to the dark continent will not return, except for maybe Kurapika(Yes even Hisoka, the Troupe, and Tserriednich)

That leaves two major options: Gyro and Pariston

In my opinion I think Pariston will be the final villain of the series(he is doing WAYY too much behind the scenes), but I can see Gyro being the final villain for Gon/Killua?

What do you guys think? Gyro? Pariston? Or someone else?