I watched Chainsaw Man (TV-MA) before Hunter x Hunter (TV-14), so I was surprised this episode was rated that even with that level of violence.

Well Nen is really inspired from occultism so we had that since the beginning. What I notice here is that the style of certain characters (female butlers) and expressions are very inspired from Junji Ito's works. Not the first time though, look at Palm.

to be fair, his ideas are standard japanese supernatural elements (alluka is a fusion of that + original near east concept of djinn, the one with rules not the fairy tale version in movies). he just add personality to them and make them full characters, this is where his brilliance as a writer is. also alluka is homage by togashi to dragonball shenlong, as he is a big fan of toriyama. only way these ideas are "crazy" is if someone is unfamiliar with all of that.

@@Afreshio nen is not inspired by "occultism". is inspired by chi / ki system, where aura is strengthened / embodied into specific abilities. also with strong elements of eastern spirituality, as you see with netero's nen bodhisattva.

Bro once meruem downs Tonpas juice it all over

Probably the only ability where the requirements and restrictions are more focused on in the story than the ability itself.

I don’t even consider it an ability. It’s more like a plot device and a lore enhancer than anything else

No, it's a being from Dark continent

@@cronos5957then you should cos there’s more of these mfs with black eyes

It’s broken because it’s not even an ability. Alluka somehow has been bound with an entity from the dark continent. We’ll learn exactly how later

it might be possible, but maybe not, if nanika work in a similar way than shenron in dbz, it mean she can't kill someone stronger, we know nanika and meruem both came from the dark continent, maybe species from the dark continent are immune to this kind of magic. well nothing hint that way, but nothing hint the other way either, so with the information availble, we can't know

@@gizel4376 has nothing to do with strength level. a wish is a wish. but the cost of a wish that big would be extremely problematic as per nanika's rules xD

@@gizel4376 nanika has a higher rating the the entire royal guard combined in fact the royal guard plus meruem are only like A levels nanika is S class

@@houseofaction that's not what i meant, the threat level doesn't reflect the power level and my point was that they didn't talked a lot about the limitation of it, so we could think it's limitless, but they devellop on the healing part and we know it's not

Maybe not Post-Rose Meruem, but before the Rose explosion? Yes, I think so.

No point in starting to read, will never be finish 😂

The current arc is probably gonna be finished. The DC arc that has not yet started is another song...@@0cidd0

GRRM will release the two final books of ASOIAF before togashi gets on consisntlet

@@Afreshio no point in finishing the arc after succession.

SPOILER FROM MANGA Yeah I kinda agree with your reasoning but in HxH inmortality exist in the form of a calamity brought in one of the DC expeditions. The inmortal is being kept in a bunker quarantined, constantly studied and observed. Because it's a disease, the Zobae Disease. I'd suppose Nanina can telport that poor guy and infect the wishmaker to fulfill the wish. It's doable. @@AnimeCritical

no its not vague, the wishers wish is granted NO MATTER WHAT. your belief that it is vague is objectively wrong@@AnimeCritical

This is actually incorrect. And before you try: Pitou is female.

@@monolithsoft_guy It was confirmed by the author though. And for Pitou while I agree that the anime gave them more feminine features in the manga they are drawn in a more androgynous fashion and since the japonese language doesn't really use gendered pronouns we actually have no idea what gender Pitou is supposed to be.

This confusion is actually a translation error. in the original Japanese nobody but killua uses gendered language at all for alluka. The family doesn’t view her as human and so doesn’t assign her any pronouns. They’re actually using the word Kyoudai which means siblings. The translators chose to call her male based on the 2004 data book which lists all the zoldyck children as male. But here’s the problem. Those data books are notoriously unreliable. They’ve been known to differ and outright contradict the manga on multiple issue. On top of which togashi loves retroactive continuity. He may have just changed his mind like with Pitou. So inconclusion alluka may or mY not be transgender. It may be a translation error or Togashi may have forgot or changed his mind about what he set up. I don't think she's actually transgender based on two pieces of evidence. First of all, killua never says anything about it which I feel like he would have. The family disrespecting allukas gender would be on his list of gripes with them. But it doesn’t seem to be. Second is killuas conversation with morel. Morel refers to Alluka as killuas brother. And killua doesn’t correct him. But killua told morel about alluka and would have referred to her as his sister. Morel would have no reason to think that Alluka was biologically male. But killua just accepts his statement. This leads me to believe the intent was altered from the original meaning.

​@@SzaposJogdan2733 here a 22 page dissertation on why alluka is trans docs.google.com/document/d/12cblaTBjkjWdqTd9NTzUeSR_1vhj2mnl_4Lh7K3oJ_I/edit?usp=drivesdk

@@SzaposJogdan2733 Killua actually told Goto that Aluka is a girl. Also when Silva and his wife talking about Alluka in flashback did they dont use any pronounce for her here too? It would be strange cause at this point they was considering her as part of the family

I agree. Junji Ito's style is so iconic. And it's not the first time Togashi draws inspiration from his work.

@@Afreshio わかるw ヒソカの淵さんも、アニメは薄くなってたけど好きだな～(°ω°)ﾉｼ

as killua says later alluka is a girl

She's a girl. Fandom is in denial lol

It's a heavily debated topic. There's a mixture of translation and other such issues that muddle the waters.

heres a dissertation on why alluka is trans docs.google.com/document/d/12cblaTBjkjWdqTd9NTzUeSR_1vhj2mnl_4Lh7K3oJ_I/edit?usp=drivesdk

probably not. More like headcanon from fans based on dubious interpretation from the og japanese text. the translators got confused big time or just pushed this translation for their own agendas. We would never know.

it's not a fact lmao, just fan headcanon

​​​@@xRakanishuit's more a theory than a headcannon since the ambiguity of alluka's gender is there, it just comes to interpretation of the reader.