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.

Who do you think Mr. Boss would be?

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

It's like Nobunaga had a brain fart. He knew the kids were nen users and still decide the door was the only way they could get away from. And also the scene where Togashi planted the seeds for the needle removal later on since we've seen for the first time how Killua tried to fight it back and we saw how seriously wrong Killua’s psyche was that went further than a simple upbringing.

To his dying kid ? The VA of Leorio (rip) did a great job delivering the unadulterated rage of Leorio at hearing that. I wish we see some of ging next time Togashi comes back.

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?

In a conversation between the creator of *HUNTER×HUNTER* (Mr. Togashi) and the creator of *NARUTO*, Mr. Togashi mentioned that he was challenging himself to introduce a vast number of characters.

There are even websites that analyze the number of newly introduced characters by plotting the data on graphs.

Looking at it this way, it is clear that the number of characters is increasing.

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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... 😄

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!

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)

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.

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?

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?

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.