Although chapter was all about progression, it was done quite well. Comical, and we learned a few things along the way.
Ging character is developing rather nicely in this chapter. Hes wasnt the cold and carefree person I once thought 2 chapters ago. Powerful, and extremely intelligent.
Hooray for Hisoka finally making his appearance again. Too bad we dont know what happened with him and Kuroro. And his rating system, it seems like Ging is > all Zodiak members.
The election is getting more and more interesting. It seems that Ging is pushing the election towards a 1v1 between Vice president and another person (could be Ging).
I like where this whole thing is going. The art got nicer too.
Hunter x Hunter doesnt disappointttttt
How much can we expect in the next two chapters before weâre deprived of HxH again? Multiple elections in a single chapter? Plus the whole estranged-Zoldyck-brother-must-die thing.
That brother thing has been foreshadowed since the beginning. Glad that we are getting into it now.
(Oh good. The thread was being bumped and I just wasnât getting alerts.)
I too was skeptical of all the black spaces at the end of the Meruem affair, as depressing & fitting as it arguably was. However, I can see why he sped it along, which is of why I find it so funny that people are also kvetching about that. However, this election arc is turning out quite interesting already.
I have to wonder where all of Gingâs smarts went if Gon isâŚlike he is, age aside. I also have to wonder why Kurapika didnât vote. Nice to see quite a few older faces regardless, especially after a lot of old side-characters got killed off at the beginning of the ant arcâpoor, poor Pokkle.
I also just realized that almost no one knows (adult) Kaito is dead. This greatly saddens me for some reason.
Indeed. Like Pariston does have a rather large following despite (or maybe because of) being a passive-aggressive asshole.
Yep. Itâs rather nice to see a hedonist that isnât a complete asshole or monster. Speaking of which.
I donât think anything happened between him in Kuroro yet; I highly doubt that it wouldnât be shown. Illumi may just be referring to what happened with Hisoka infiltrating the Spidersâand then getting inadvertently cockblocked by Kurapikaâand venturing into the game world to help find him a cure, which Iâm not even sure if Hisoka knows theyâve found now that I think about it.
I highly doubt thatâs what Ging wants and he ended up surprisingly low anyway. It might end up that way anyway just because his renown, though.
Yeah. Iâm kinda surprised that weâre getting it âso soonâ relatively speaking considering that I thought it would get its own arc or something. Then again, I was expecting Killua to go and try to find Leorio rather than going back home to see Silva, who passively hates Gon on principle.
Paritison or whatever isnât supported because he is popular, he is supported because he did some radical change with the hunter association. I think his part was in pushing for lower standards during the exam which allows for more people to pass so heâd have more influence over them directly.
Gon isnât dumb, he is ignorant. He grew up on a tiny island with little contact with the rest of the world. He does some pretty calculated shit too. Look at how he played Palm, or his schemes in fighting.
Kaito being dead shouldnât be a surprise to anyone. I mean, he wasnât exactly alive when they found him.
Hopefully weâll get chapters more often. I donât see Togashi killing himself with wonderful art with these chapters, not putzing around with an election at least.
Also, the King was a fucking monster.
(Iâm assuming weâre talking âmonsterâ in terms of power, correct?)
Yeah, Iâm kinda want Togashi to take it easy on that art if thatâs whatâs been prompting him to take such extended breaks in past years. Then again, Iâm trying not even think about him going on break again.
HmmâŚI suppose that makes sense given what was implied. Lower standards would perhaps make more sense as to why more people were disappearing and he has so many backers, but I was figuring something more nefarious than that given how fucked up and cynicalâjust like the real worldâthe world of Hunter x Hunter seems.
Oh, I never said he was outright dumb, but pretty much all his schemes, like versus Gensuru and what not, have been related to fighting and at great detriment to him and heâs been blown like half the time in a fight anyway, so⌠Also, I canât really say he âplayedâ Palm since she dumped him after he essentially just said that he needed to get stronger to help Kaito and then Killua arguably had to save his ass from her psycho, knife-wielding mode.
Unless Iâm forgetting something else.
I meant that it seems like none of the Zodiac knows he is dead, at all. Or that anything even happened to him, arguably. Since one of them mentioned him like he was still alive or something.
I canât make sense of the translations that mangareader keeps putting up. I read that, sort of understand, then wait for the mangastream one for me to go âoooooooooh.â
These chapters are more talky-talky and less arty, so I wonder if theyâll keep going for longer than the releases in the past?
Allukaâs ability is pretty fucked up/amazing.
(People really need to link to things.)
I wasnât aware that chapter had actually came out yet, but thatâs because I was looking only on mangastream. Apparently itâs been out on mangareader since yesterday.
âŚHoly shit at Allukaâs power. ThatâsâŚIâŚeven knowing things are âbalancedâ, it is still both such a horrible cost and so absurdly powerful.
Originally, I thought this was the person that Illumi was going/wanted to kill, especially with the way that Silva was talking about her (I thought it was a boy since no daughter had been mentionedâI can see why now), butâŚwell, obviously not, even though it still seems like it should be considering. They probably find her to useful to just outright dispose of, which is the only reason I can think of that either havenât killed her or wished her ability away.
Ugh. Even as terrible as the reveal was, all I can think of, morbidly, is how her power works when it comes to saying ânoâ non-consecutively or just outright ignoring her if she asks anything. It probably still gets you killed.
The same for what would happen if you just left her in âblack modeâ.
That power is so fucked up. SO FUCKED UP. Like insanely so.
Looking forward to this arc though. Itâs progressing very fast, and two big things are happening at once, with the elections being the (mis)adventures of Ging in manipulating everyone and Killuaâs GET GON BACK arc
Canât wait to see what ridiculous price Gonâs revival will require
Man, I wonder what her black mode requests are going to be if she removes Gonâs oath. Watch that shit kill off a whole town or something.
Canât wait to see how long before we go back on hiatus.
Anyone else confused about Allukaâs sex? Look at the translation from Mangastream:
[http://mangastream.com/read/hunter_x_hunter/10459468/8
Letâs allude to both sexes on the same panel!](âhttp://mangastream.com/read/hunter_x_hunter/10459468/8â)
(Must you tempt fate, Stabby?)
I forgot to mention something about last chapter: I wonder who Hisoka âgradedâ at 95% before Illumi distracted him. The most obvious choices seem like theyâd be Ging or Pariston, but I donât think either of them were there at the same time as him.
Also forgot to mention how cute Kid Killua is in this chapter, how I find that the butler on page 13 looks exactly like Junji Itoâs style and how neat the little dartboard callback was. Also that we got implicit confirmation, not that we needed it, that Gon is likely the person Killua loves the most at this point. DawwwwâŚ
Gods the Mangastream translation is so much better (as always). Heh at âpesteringsâ.
Everyone seems to be confused about it, though Iâm guessing Alluka IS a boy and IS the brother that Illumi wants to eliminate because nothing really makes sense otherwise. His mother just probably dresses extremely girlishly as with Caruto/Karuto, which leads to massive confusion. I mean, considering Alluka seems to be in-between the Killua and Caruto in age, it would kinda make sense that Caruto is the âreplacementâ child in that sense when it comes to his mother dolling him up with Alluka basically in a toy vault; Alluka also is pretty damn flat-chested for a girl that age since Killuaâs basically in his young teens (IIRC) and thus Alluka should probably be at least at the start of puberty by now.
Anyway, I was lurking TVTropes forum last night after doing a bored search for this character there and reading everyoneâs reactions led to the above conclusion and another one thatâs arguably most fucked up thing about this power: Alluka probably has no ârealâ personality of his or her own beyond whatever reason she doesnât âpesterâ/ârequestâ anything from her parents.
(Holy Shit. I just realized that even that may be pure self-preservation on the powerâs part since Alluka probably loves his parents the most and/or thinks they love him the most, which would cause him to die as well if they declined his requests 4 times in a row. ThatâsâŚsad, especially knowing how Silva at least feels about him.)
I mean, if you think all the way back to York Shin Arc with that girl (Neon?) that could make accurate if unclear predictions with her fortune-telling, her power was entirely unconscious as both observed when Kuroro asked her about it and then observed her using it. She literally just blacked out whenever her power was active, which is part of the reason she couldnât understand why it was gone. Compare this to Allukaâs power, which also seems to be entirely unconscious and due to its very nature must be active all the time, andâŚyeah.
So Silva may in fact be very right about Alluka not really being a person and more being a horrible wish-granting machine.
Itâs even worse still given the fact that like Neon and Komugi it seems to be an entirely unconscious power, which means it must have been born out of some incredibly strong desire. What exactly would basic premise of wishing be? To help people. IâŚthatâsâŚjustâŚwhat the fuck, Togashi? What the fuck?
P.S. Itâs possibly made even worse still by the fact that you possibly canât even wish away this power like I suggested yesterday, at least without dying. From the same forums, someone suggested that it may just be one of the few things the power canât (or wonât) do out of sheer self-preservation or it breaking the cycle of (actually unfair) âequivalent exchangeâ since, with it gone, there would be no ârequest paybackâ. I wouldnât be surprised if Illumi secretly tried this already, especially if he just wants to straight out kill Alluka instead of manipulating him like he did Killuaâhe probably canât manipulate him due to Alluka being manipulated by his own power, though, like other controlling nen abilities.
Speaking of Neon (?), given what Kuroro saw when she activated, I am also extremely morbidly curious as to what one would see if they activated Gyo when he was granting a wish, killing someone who denied four requests or just generally in âblack modeâ. It seems like itâd probably be some Eldritch Abomination shit even beats out Yupiâs transformation to the point that makes people go insane or just outright kills them like some Nen Brown Note, which is entirely possible given Melodyâs back-story.
So much Fridge Horror in just this one characterâŚ
I think Hisoka was grading Illumi. Like he didnât realize he was there, then the 95 pinged, and he went âOhâŚ, just you again.â
Iâm getting the impression that Pari is weak. I mean it might be some plot twist later, but too much theyâve said has led him toward the weaker end of the spectrum, or at least having utility powers instead of combat.
And Iâm seeing Ging pinging at 100, since Netero called him one of the top five nen users on the planet.
Regarding this chapter, everyone that knew about the Silva siblings had been assuming that the mysterious last one was a brother. In the chapter before, Illumi said brother (at least according to mangastream) which is pretty explict. It might be like Nef, where they refer to this sibling with the different gender pronouns (watashi/boku) and the translators are keeping them intact in each instance.
On the powers, I think you might be reading too much into it. I think the requests just happen sometimes, and sometimes they donât, or that they have a trigger. I donât think they would have tried wishing away the power, since it is pretty fucking useful. But weâll see in future chapters.
I guess the King wouldnât have been that much of an issue regardless then.
And yeah, I got the Junji Ito vibes too. It was probably deliberate.
(So, has anyone been keeping up with the new anime? I havenât.)
Heh. Probably am overthinking this like always, but itâs still kinda horrifying that it could be a legitimate possibility in the first place.
Hunh. Weird. For some reason I thought the Hisoka thing happened last chapter, but it was 320.
But, anyway, yeah, thatâs a quite likely possibility since looking at those pages again it does seem to be more someone that he wasnât looking directly at despite all the grades before being visually based. Itâs difficult to tell for sure, though.
Oh, yeah, probably, but itâs difficult to tell. I doubt that heâs like âbuilding explodeâ powerful or anything like that, but even if heâs âweakâ compared to the rest of the Zodiac, itâs difficult to tell how weak that actually makes him. Probably not very.
I concur. I also had forgotten that it was explicitly stated that Ging was gone by time Hisoka had arrived. Whoops.
That doesnât make much sense, though, since even on mangastream, in the actual last chapter of 13, Killua himself calls Al(l)uka a he. Besides, they grew up together, so itâs not like Killua wouldnât know what sex Alluka was unlike Nef, whom neither Gon or Killua knew personally or even met outside of combat. So itâs not like they could ask Nef to drop trou or anything to âconfirmâ (even if I doubt that most of the ants actually had genitalia still).
Yeah, weâll see.
Wishing away someone as powerful as the King or even the entirety of the ant problem would probably literally kill a (small) countryâs worth of people though.
Yeah, probably, especially given the page just before that.
Honest, I sort of think Gon could easily be killed off and this manga wouldnât miss but a few steps. But jeez, Iâd hate to think what exactly is going to happen if he does wish Gon back to health with young girl (she looks too much like girl for me to believe otherwise yet)'s pestering.
The page of chapter 322 I previously linked was edited by the translators and now refers to Alluka as âshe/jherâ respectively, and Killua directly references Alluka as his sister here:
http://mangastream.com/read/hunter_x_hunter/10459468/4
But anyway, I wonder if you could exchange some stem cells and cloned organs for the requests.
yeah, i checked some japanese resources and they say that her gender was clarified as a she in chapter 322