I'm two episodes from the end of the Yorknew City/Phantom Troupe arc, which is fascinating and a little depressing.
A lot of Western Superhero comics like to go on about a dark gritty take on Superheroes, but I think in an odd way, Hunter X Hunter does a better version of a world with superpowered people than most of them.
My only interaction with the Hunter x Hunter fanbase that wasn't on this forum was a guy saying he'd kill himself if it ever got dubbed because it would be "repulsive".
This is kind of irrelevant to this thread, but I think about that a lot, because what.
A great Hisoka would be crucial to any dub. You need someone who can make any line read drip with a combo of icy menace, amusement, and depraved sexual satisfaction.
But yes, what Baldanders said is the truth. This show does the dark and gritty implications of a world inhabited by superhumans better than the vast majority of Anglosphere comics trying the same thing, but I think that's partly a matter of worldbuilding and tradition as much as it is a credit to the mangaka and script writers' abilities in general. HxH builds a world from those premises outside of any assumptions about superhero traditions, at least in the West, drawing instead on Eastern heroic fables, crime sagas and spaghetti westerns, high fantasy and similarly patterned science fiction, and naturally the tropes and techniques of Japanese action comics to tell the story—all taking place, again, in a world that is not "the Real World+gritty superheroes," but "a world shaped by the existence of superpowers."
Killua kind of has a subtle cat motif going on to begin with, in the way that Gon is associated with dogs at several other points. Again, perfect foils.
Is it the octopus, the old man, or the kid with the muscles?
Baldanders is referring to Neferpitou, who won't show up for a few episodes.
But yeah, seriously, this is the most insane arc so far and probably the best already (although Yorknew City was pretty great/emotionally devastating).
They've also started to kill people we have history with in really nasty ways. This arc is going to take no prisoners.
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i would say that we would watch it next time i am there but due to length i think he'll have to watch it on his own
Watch Yorknew together maybe.
I'm two episodes from the end of the Yorknew City/Phantom Troupe arc, which is fascinating and a little depressing.
But yes, what Baldanders said is the truth. This show does the dark and gritty implications of a world inhabited by superhumans better than the vast majority of Anglosphere comics trying the same thing, but I think that's partly a matter of worldbuilding and tradition as much as it is a credit to the mangaka and script writers' abilities in general. HxH builds a world from those premises outside of any assumptions about superhero traditions, at least in the West, drawing instead on Eastern heroic fables, crime sagas and spaghetti westerns, high fantasy and similarly patterned science fiction, and naturally the tropes and techniques of Japanese action comics to tell the story—all taking place, again, in a world that is not "the Real World+gritty superheroes," but "a world shaped by the existence of superpowers."
Holy shit.
Baldanders is referring to Neferpitou, who won't show up for a few episodes.
But yeah, seriously, this is the most insane arc so far and probably the best already (although Yorknew City was pretty great/emotionally devastating).
They've also started to kill people we have history with in really nasty ways. This arc is going to take no prisoners.