Did Chrollo not have a massive fucking advantage AND picked a location where he could use the abilities he gained from his troupe to the fullest? Of course.
Hisoka wants a rematch. He just doesn’t want that nigga to have all them extra abilities next time. And he’s certainly never having Chrollo pick the location ever again. The rest of the spiders are in the way, simply because they helped that nigga.
And the sole reason he didn’t kill Machi is because Machi didn’t help that nigga. Hisoka is petty yes, but he’s only being petty to those that caused his direct defeat.
Pretty sure Hisoka is killing the Spiders off to get a fair one against Chrollo so they can’t lend him their Hatsu abilites anymore
Not really pettyness on his part since he got his as beat at somewhat of a disadvantage, he’s just leveling the playing field (and feeding his bloodlust at the same time)
Plus, I heard there was only like 2-3 arcs left after the Chimera Ant arc, so Togashi definitely needs to start tying up these lose ends now, Voyage/Dark Continent feels like the finale (may not be tho)
For the record, I was calling him petty for wanting a rematch literally right after he lost more than anything else though, especially when he legitimately might not have been targeted against given Chrollo’s caprice.
That said, yeah, Togashi obviously wants to end the series and I’d rather it end relatively soon, without characters being compromised or murdered en masse, than go on hiatus for years yet again.
Since we have 10 that means there is 1 more we don’t know about. Machi isn’t dead by Hisoka’s count, but there IS a spider we don’t know of yet that is a replacement.
I like the theory Kalluto is going to die by Hisoka which will draw the Zoldycks into the Dark Continent Arc. We now have every main group headed there except Gon and the Zoldycks at the moment. We have Hisoka going there if he follows the spiders.
He’s been “FIGHTME FIGHTME FIGHTME FIGHTME FIGHTME” for years, gets RUINED after everyone was like “…he’s gonna fuck you up, Hisoka” and now he’s like “bullshit throws are CHEAP”
Fuuuuuuuuuck that. Chrollo didn’t jump him or surprise him, that shit was an arranged floor master battle at heaven’s arena. It had a fucking announcer! Hisoka also knew about those abilities beforehand because he was a member of the spiders, and the ones he didn’t know Chrollo explained during the fight!
Togashi did say there were only a few arcs left, but uh Jairo hasn’t even been introduced as a character, and one of those arcs can be as long or longer than the chimera ants.
Damned you were right about not reading Toriko. Toriko is a mistake. The best possible ending for that shitshow is the mangka getting arrested again.
(Ha. The “throws are cheap” comparison is super apt for why this is bugging me.)
Yeah, it’s rather ambiguous now as to whether she died or not since we know what the current Spiders look outside of what was revealed this chapter. At best, besides Kalluto, the only person who have joined that we know of is the black exorcist from Greed Island, Abengane.
I guess we’ll find out next chapter unless Togashi jumps back to Kurapika and comapny.
Dare I ask what happened? My main reason for not reading it was just because it revolved around food and I generally do care about, on top of it seeming silly even by shonen standards. I’m guessing it went overboard on the silly aspect?
Are we still speculating whether Machi died? Wasn’t it 100% obvious that she didn’t when Hisoka told her to pass on the message to the rest of the Spider Troupe? Korotopi is the only one confirmed dead but I think there’s a slight possibility Shalnark may still be alive but severly injured (yes I’m just a little bit in denial). Maybe they can revive him somehow.
As I was reading Korotopi’s wiki profile I was upset when it said, “(it is uncertain whether or not he was a child)” and “He was the weakest member in the Troupe when it came to physical strength,”… Even weaker than that girl with the Vacuum cleaner. He seemed so vulnerable but I guess he deserved it IF he took part in the Kurta clan massacre.
I predict that Gon, Killua and Leorio are the only characters not going to the Dark Continent probably because they wont survive if they do, instead they’ll have Gyro to deal with.
Alluka is likely a Calamity. One of the ‘Ai’ notice how she always says ‘Aye’ and demands attention. Also the manga showed corpses that were really similar to the ones Alluka creates when requests fail that they attributed to the ‘Ai’.
I think Killua is going to try to return Something to the Dark Continent. Unsure if Gon will go, but I find it hard to believe Killua won’t end up going given he is likely to have some motivation to do so.
Gon … we don’t really know what is up with him. Is he permanently incapable of using Nen? Without an asspull or me misremembering I’m not sure HOW he could go to the Dark Continent.
After the haitus I completely forgot about that, lol. Yes you’re right. In that case it’s just Gon and Killua, and I think Leorio will die in the dark continent.
(Yeah, neither Gon nor Killua are likely to show up for the rest of this arc in any large capacity.)
No. I already explained why I was confused about the Machi thing. We just need a head-count of who is still in the Spiders at this point since the only new recruit we’ve seen is Kalluto; it’s likely that Abengane joined, but we’ve no confirmation of that.
The more I think about it, the more I don’t like the ant arc. I mean, it was pretty good in terms of quality, but it was INCREDIBLY long for something that wound up being self-contained.
Gon and Killua didn’t have much growth after the initial part, but it did change things in regards to the world— but mostly by having the pres die. The ants all died without interacting with the world-at-large, meaning their stories didn’t matter. If it was half as long then I think it wouldn’t be as much as an issue, but that took up literally almost half the series and ten years of real world time-- comparatively, look at how much we got out of the election arc, and look at the progress we’re making now wit just the start of the dark continent.
Not all of the ants died during that arc. Remember when Ging tells Cheadle that the day Netero blew himself up 100 large Hunter Organisation Airships picked up around 5,000 hybrid cocoons that the Chimera Ants left behind and every single one of them could use Nen? Ging implied that Pariston was planning to use the ants to test recruits at the next hunter exam.
Also, Gyro’s still an ant who managed to keep all of his human memories and emotions intact, in fact he’s supposedly even more powerful now because he’s no longer fully human.
On the one hand, as already stated it took a decade to finish, in part due to the Togashi’s lengthy hiatuses, and even without that was almost half of the series length up on to the time despite that it was relatively insular since outside of the main characters, almost every main character in that arc was introduced in that arc. After all, even Gon and Killua kind of get pushed the side as well after The King is born since it a decent chunk of the arc is from the point of view of him and the Royal Guards. On top of that, a bunch of people who did return ended up getting killed just because a lot of people died in that arc in general, even by Hunter x Hunter standards–Netero, of all people, is included here. That fact that Netero’s last efforts didn’t outright kill the King immediately only served to drag out the arc even more.
On the other hand, arguable nature of the arc as a whole aside, I don’t think anyone can call the arc as a bad and a complete waste of time with nothing but filler chapters. In thinking about it, it seems like it would be rather difficult to truncate any significant portion of the arc as a whole given how it either sets up a bunch of stuff in-arc or obviously is going to be used to set up a lot of stuff for the “last” arcs like this Dark Continent thing or the thing with Gyro/Jairo. You can’t even cut out (much of) the aforementioned POV changes to the King and the Royal Guards since then it utterly changes the final part of the arc as a whole by undermining his character development from a totally amoral monster to an extremely powerful entity still capable of actually caring about comparative weaklings. Finally, the main characters who were gone–Kurapika and Leorio–were both already gone for a while and would have likely outright died if they had tried to help, even with as busted as the latter’s Emperor Time is.
Honestly, at least in the sense of time it took, I’m not sure what you could really cut out of the Ant arc without detrimentally affecting it while at the same time netting significant gains of time.
Hell to the fuck no. I appreciate Togashi’s way of throwing surprising twists like Shalnark’s death, but if he kills off my boy, he’s gonna have more than just back problems to deal with I swear to god. Imma be very irate…