>>72175

I'm pretty sure they're separated, bro.

>>72177
>citation needed

So...how exactly does Kaito's "Like Hell I'm gonna die" ability factor into all this? I don't think it is responsible for Kaito remembering who he was before being killed. We've already seen that all of the human based hybrids retained varying amounts of their memories from before their transformation. And if it was related to his "number slot" ability he would have had to disengage his club (slot 4 I think) before getting a chance to use that one. I was under the impression that Pitou killed him rather quickly.

>>72167
The illness is hay-fever. So basically he's just a lazy bastard.

>>72175
His wife WAS an assistant for a while. I don't know why she stopped, although I have to admit the series looks better with the more simplified look.

>let's go looking for HxH fanart!
>porn of 12 year olds
>more porn of 12 year olds
>oh god so much porn of 12 year olds

fujoshi

why

I mean, Prince of Tennis, sure, okay, I can buy that, none of them actually look believably 12-14. But Gon and Killua do look 12. If you're going to make porn of them can't you at least age them up like other fandoms do?

>>72297
Because of shotacons.

>>72297
Considering how fucked up the series can be, it's not much of a surprise that the fandom is very loose in the moral aspect. Gon not being innocent probably didn't help.

>2012
>whining about shota

>>72302
Why did you even make that post?

>>72303
Why does anyone make any post?

>>72297

You know, compared to some other fandoms, there's actually not much shota of HxH. Also, most of the doujins are Gon/Hisoka... which is just terrible and I don't like it. I was expecting a load more new stuff since the new anime started (since they stepped up the Moe-factor on Gon and Killua considerably compared to the old anime) but so far very little. I am disappoint.

>>72305
Maybe we're looking in different places? I went through the recent stuff on the pixiv tag and it just kept on popping up.

>>72307
Though now that I think of it, the recent occurrence of Valentine's day probably flooded it somewhat.

>>72307

I've never been on pixiv, so that probably has something to do with it. Here's a nice thread with tons of (clean) fanart: http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=601877

The rest of the subforum is a nice discussion place for HxH in general, also.

OK that outside world reveal was badass

http://www.mangareader.net/hunter-x-hunter/338

Woah! A lot of things just happened.

Thoughts:

Though I'm sad to see Killua go, because he's one of my faves, I can see why it's necessary as of now. He's not going to leave Alluka, and as long as he's with her any challenge that can be thrown at them is instantly solved. Also, not hanging out with Gon doesn't mean complete exclusion from the story - just look at Kurapika.

I actually liked how casual their goodbyes were. They both know they'll be back.

For all that the outside world reveal is enough plot fodder for the rest of the series, I wonder if we're going to get an internet-focused arc at some point. Yeah, Greed Island already kinda went there, but we've got enough of an online hunter community to get a completely apathetic Ickshonpay into the running, and Gin himself is revealing to be quite the netizen.

Is the outside world completely a world of beasts? The ant queen came from the outside world, and she didn't know what nen was, right? (Well, beyond that is was delicious)

I seem to remember HxH having satellite tech. How would they not know how large the world is? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning here?

>>72358
They know how large the world is. They've created a false atlas to hide its size.

From what I could glean, apparently most adults do know of the outside world, but keep its existence from their children, presumably until they're ready for the news.

>>72359

>From what I could glean, apparently most adults do know of the outside world, but keep its existence from their children, presumably until they're ready for the news.

Thaaaaaaat's retarded.

>>72354
Chimera Ants aren't supposed to be thinking humanoid beings in the first place.

>>72361
I got the impression that only a select minority knew the actual truth about the world. It makes sense that someone working in a government funded NASA program would be informed that their planet was 100x what they saw on the map. But the average parent would still be under the illusion that their planet was only so big. Even if we assume that the entire Hunters Association is in on this conspiracy that constitutes only 500+ people if memory serves. Compared to the "world" population that's a really small number.

>>72370

What's the point of keeping it a secret, though? I mean, who benefits?

>>72372

It's for their own safety, presumably. Nobody should go to the "outside" because it's apparantly filled with all manner of terrible creatures that will easily kill weak, nen-less humans just like the Chimera Ants could. Humans are thrill-seekers, though, and if you don't keep it a secret that "Hey, there's a whole other half of the world filled with monsters right across the sea!" a bunch of people will happily go off to their deaths.

Also, there's the matter of keeping the secret once it's been made. A population would become very distrusting of it's government if they found out it was hiding the truth like this, enough so it might cause a revolution. The big wigs are acting in their own interest, also, by keeping the wool over everyone's eyes.

Honestly last week I was considering dropping the manga, didn't seem to have much left in it for me and the whole Alluka nonsense was/is bugging me. But this week's reveal changed my mind completely. Also is that the Godhand I see in the distance or just another World Tree

>>72374

Well let's not forget that the Chimera ants were only really dangerous as a result of the freak occurrence of eating a Nen user and so absorbing their abilities.

>>72383

They were still already 5-6 feet tall and had superhuman strength and claws, plus the ability to incorperate traits of consumed animals. Even considering they didn't eat humans at all (and instead maybe lions or bears or whichever HxH brand of magical-beast) they would gain strength and bodily weapons well in excess of the average human's ability to take care of. They wouldn't be able to threaten, say, a military with firearms the way the nen-infused ones were, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't be dangerous at all.

However, seeing how the Queen Chimera Ant was essentially humanoid and certainly had mammal-like traits (such as having a live birth rather than laying eggs) as well as obviously being intelligent/sentient, it seems probable that a previous generation had already consumed humans who had been in the Outside World.


In fact, that might be another reason the Association (or whoever else) wanted people to stay out of there. The fact that there was a species that could gain attributes from its prey, sneaking around out there; should it consume a human and gain sentience, it would be a major threat to humanity simply by being BETTER in every conceivable evolutionary sense. They might have been attempting to prevent that from happening (possibly as a result of Ging and his buddies — wouldn't that be ironic? "Sorry, Gon. It's all my fault this Ant thing got started when one of my friends got eaten...") or else prevent it from getting any worse. I think the Queen's arrival had something to do with human contact, from the beginning. Perhaps she had been captured by scientists who wanted to dissect her, and was being transported secretly by ship to the human world, when she escaped and dove overboard. Perhaps she was an experiment in genetic engineering and was deliberately released (possibly by Pariston).

But I get the impression that the border between the human world and the Outside World is a vast, violent sea with windstorms that make air travel impossible. This makes it very unusual for a denizen of one world to end up at the next; and I especially don't think the Queen could have made the entire trip all on her own. Somehow, it almost feels like the ENTIRE Ant arc was an introduction of sorts to the kind of insane creatures that are in the Outside, and possibly — if my predictions are correct — a cautionary tale of what might happen if humans go there and act carelessly.

Still, I do think it's almost a cop-out, considering just about ANY supernatural phenomena can now be attributed to the Outside World. Hisoka is weird because he's from there. Ging is weird because he's from there. Nen came from there. Nanika, a demon that possessed Alluka, came from there. Of course, the magical beasts we've seen obviously came from there. It almost gives him free liscense to write whatever thinkable, and I always thought that the best part of HxH was it's strict limitations and rules about how the world works. I don't want to see that totally broken.

Chimera Ants were kept in quarantine, and the Ant Queen was a HUGE aberration in that she'd clearly eaten a human. That is not normally supposed to happen, they stated so.

Also HxH is all about revealing new things that might as well have been utterly impossibly under old rules: a large part of HxH isn't that there are strict limitations on how fantasy has to act, but rather how these big concepts and fantastical things can interact with the real world and ITS limitations and rules. Greed Island had a ton of rules, but everything about it is impossible. Nen had no indication of existing before the heroes started learning it. With Nanika we STILL have no idea what the hell it's supposed to be.

There's no indication hat the Outside World is going to explain everything. Hisoka is weird because he's a crazy bastard, which is nothing that unusual in Hunter x Hunter. Ging is weird because he's Ging. Nen is just nen, there's nothing saying the Outside World is supposed to be the source of all things fantastical. Why would you even assume that?

>>72388
The chimera ants could also indicate that the outer world is inhabited by creatures that are fully sentient without the need to assimilate new traits.There could be creatures that are masters of the outer world in the same sense that humans are the masters of our own. These creatures might also view humanity as just another thing to be dominated and come after us in full force should we make ourselves known.

So the people that originally explored the outer world realized that humanity as a whole was no match for the hostile conditions of the outer world and decided to retreat back to the safety of their safe world and make sure that no one else could compromise the safety of humanity.

>>72388
You're jumping the gun here a bit, it's possible that he uses it as an excuse of sorts (narratively it fits with Nanika) but that doesn't mean every single thing ties back to being from outside.

I could definitely see Kuroro's journey leading him there though.

Did I imagine it, or has it been brought up before that there's a race of demon people living off the map, too?

Who the hell is this guy

>>72632

Apparently it's supposed to be Kurapika but it doesn't look a single thing like him and there's really no reason for him top be looking so moody at this point so who the fuck knows

>>72633
I recognized him right away.

>>72632
Why is his hand and/or ass going bbb?

>>72633
He's been collecting eyes. Can't blame the guy for being a bit down while looking at the eyes of all his dead loved ones.

>>72636
That's his phone on silent because he won't fucking answer his calls

>>72639
By the looks of it he has been able to recover 5 pairs. Did Togashi ever give us an official head cound of Kurapika's clan?

>>72651

It would have to be quite a few. Just Kurapica's own family would be a half-dozen or so. In order to even qualify as a "clan" (especially if they only mated inside the clan), there would probably need to be at least ten families. Then again, their eyes are supposed to be a rare collecter's item, so not THAT many.

(To note is the fact that the eyes only turn red when the person becomes very upset. If any of them were killed by the Ryodan quickly, like perhaps the children, their eyes would not have changed. Perhaps most of them died without having their eyes taken?)

So somewhere around 100 I'd say. Perhaps there are only a dozen pairs of eyes scattered about, however.

(Sorry for the double-post.) While re-reading the manga, I found this page:

So, there are 36 pairs, for a total of 72 eyes, in total.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2012-03-14/hunter-x-hunter-manga-longest-uninterrupted-run-to-end
Fucking Togashit

>>72844
>MFW hiatus

http://www.mangareader.net/207/hunter-x-hunter.html
So last chapter, some interesting developments. A bit too much coincidence for me but I like the end result

>>72892
Netero knew this shit was going to happen.

Togashi this is the most interesting page you've drawn in years, how dare you drop out now?

That said I still think the "outside world" concept is kind of fucking ridiculous.

>>72844
Goddamnit Togashi you're lucky that we love you so much.

>>72917
What the fuck, that big shiny thing at the back is a character?

Okay, I pretty much pride myself at knowing everything there is to know about HunterXHunter... but this one has got me scratching my head.

This is a screenshot from early in the latest episode (23) showing sillhouettes of the Zoldyck family. I labled everyone for convenience, but what I want to know is: who the heck is the guy(?) indicated by the question marks?

The only one I can reach for is Zeno's father (Maha is his grandfather) who was only vaguely referenced once during the ant arc. But his hairstyle didn't look like that. So... am I missing someone? Or is this some kind of stealth-reference by Togashi, for a character that has yet to make an appearance in the manga? I wouldn't put it past them. They've already put in sillhouettes of hunters who won't show up for a very long time (Knuckle and Morel), after all.

>>72986

(forgot the pic ><)

>>72987
Just by how the sillhouette looks I'm guessing it's the grandmother, but I don't think we've seen her before.