The vid dropped 9 mins ago but the comment is posted 9 hours ago. HOW?

This is a very subtle thing Gradline but I like how you slotted the AD in the video. The way you re capped the last 2-3 seconds before the break, subtle but Amazing!

7:45 don't know why this made me laugh.

Not sure if this title works, he is exactly what we think he is.

I absolute despise ants but thank you for your offer

This is what you call a perfect comment

He’s the guy

I think he's 14 but yeah

Hes14

😂

I thought it was slightly off how certain Ging was that gon wasn't going to die without seeing him, when Pariston brought it up during the initial zodiac council.. in the moment it kind of plays off like confidence in his son.. but come on I mean he doesn't know gon. Perhaps he knows something else we don't ?!

@@EmoStyleSadBangsJutsu the greed island arc should have showed you that ging knows something about gonna that no one else knows with the simple line between him and razor when he tells razor go ahead and try but he is my son don't forget that and we still have yet to see gings actual power

I agree with you but I also think kids are bad, so, yeah

Literally. Just because he and Killua are the same age doesn’t mean they have the same level of maturity in the same ways. You guys in the comments saying something good about Gon, you’re the best you know that?

​@@Amanda-cm4fcyes we know Gon is the 🐐

This is on point. I think hes one of the most realistic protagonists especially for his age. And the characters that surround him compliment him and his evolution very well. Even with killua being there. Being someone who has killed and seen death his entire life, hes naturally gonna have a much cooler head and better disposition in these scenarios. Like he said gon is an open canvas and it shows in how he deals with so much in such a short time.

The reason he did that is because he wants to meet his father's expectations like he was overcompensating when he really shouldn't have and he will not accept small victories

You know who else blamed himself for not being strong enough? Luffy and he trained for 2 years! Now he is getting his butt whoops by Kaido but he will turn the table soon.

@@dawnstartheanimeman exactly! He probably saw his entire journey to find his dad as "if you're not strong enough, you're not worthy of finding Ging" because Ging made it seem that way when it really wasn't. That's why he's always risking his life to train time and time again (heavens arena, greed island etc) so as to be able to make progress in gaining that strength. But in reality it just wasn't the case. Of course Ging tested Gon but it wasn't as much as Gon had expected it to be because they literally met during an election in the most normal way possible without Gon having to do some crazy stuff which proves that all his actions in the past were kinda meaningless when it comes to finding Ging. This really shows his trauma when it comes to abandonment because he feels like he needs to be good enough to meet his father. Gon seems like a simple character on the surface but he's actually a pretty complex one and that's why I love his character so much

@@emmyrxse It is not true that gon didnt need to be strong enough to meet ging, as he wouldnt have met him without becoming a hunter first. Also ging didnt make it seem like gon needed to be stronger than he actually needed to be to meet him.

WHY cant i feel like an Ant-King while playing an Ant-Game WITH REAL CHIMERA-aNTS. Why are HxH-Mods, let alone Games, so Stunted?!

Finally, someone who didn't forget this scene.

Love that scene and i get sad when people miss it.

togashi is just the goat of manga writing

So meruem was a complete opposite of Gon

I hate how people hate gon for how he acts, im pretty sure if you were a 12 year old hunter who sees blood every day it would change you dramatically as well...just my take

@@CUEWEEM Yeah, he's neutral at worst. Even if you don't like his moral ambiguity or selfishness, you have to agree there are equally positive traits too like curiosity and honesty.

WHY cant i feel like an Ant-King while playing an Ant-Game WITH REAL CHIMERA-ANTS. Why are HxH-Mods, let alone Games, so Stunted?!

@@CUEWEEM thank you, I’m literally so tired of people calling him selfish and evil, makes you wonder if they ever even saw the show

Nah if someone was like, "Yo I know you just saw me murder this random guy but if I pay you money you won't let other people know right?" I think most mature people would not be bribed like this. Sure it helps you (money), but there's something more serious going on than just helping you.

Diamonds in the rough

But Gon’s pimp hand is strong. He’s Mr. Bitches.

Well Gon is not a human in a classical sense. There is a very good theory with so many proves that Ging is the Mother of Gon. He was conceived by Nen and Ging. How? If you read some cards of the Greed Island Game you can see how. For example Card 7 is the so called Pregnancy Stone (if you bear the stone for 1 month with you, you will get pregnent even if you are a male, also you can decide what gender your baby will have based on the fact if you bear the "female" or "male" pregnancy stone). Gon was on Greed island as a baby so it would make sense if Ging used the stone to get pregnent, he got gon who was born on greed island. Gon has much Nen that would explain why. Also there is Card Nr.99 the Panda Maid (This Panda is very good with kids/babies and cares for them), Gon probably give Gon as a Baby to the Panda and after a while to Mito. This would also explain why Gon is so good with animals. We know that Ging is a hustler so if he would have had inpregnated a Woman he probably would never knew that she was pregnant, i cant imagine that Ging would stay by a Woman for 9 months. Why would Ging use this? Well Ging is a curious guy he probably just wanted to test things out. Also there is Card Nr.33 The Hormone Cookie (a cookie which changes your gender for 24h, this card contains 10boxes with 20 cookies each ).

he isnt naive or morally grey , he is just not pathetic like you , he won't hate murderers just bec society said murder is bad , he think for himself he isnt a sheep letting people think for him 8:43 / 12:55 he have confidence bec he knows how to fight he was never in danger .

Deadpool???

And doesn’t have to use a lot of memes to get through it. Seen so many anime KZfaqr that I can even get past 30seconds of their video

Seem like he’s covering an anime he made himself every time

@@vorutouzamaki2635 thats more of a you issue then

His type of humour is def my favorite among anime KZfaqrs. He cracks me up everytime

Absolutely agree🎉🎉!! I’m genuinely happy when he drops a video

Why'd netero hate everybody?

@@mandem2362 trying to figure that out too I need to rewatch it 😅

@@mandem2362 Netero didnt hate everybody, I don't even think he hated a single person. Pretty sure all he did his whole life was to find someone stronger than him and he achieved his goal. The fact that he even accepted to have a bomb inside of him in case he hailed to kill the king is proof enough he was still fighting to save the human race, let's be honest here who could have placed a fcking bomb inside him without his consent lol?

He didn’t really ‘hate’ everyone, Netero despised weakness in others and only truly respects strength. His entire arc during the series is pretty much trying to find someone who can challenge him, & that’s why we also see him as coy as he is during the blimp game versus Gon and Killua. Even that rare act of kindness of Netero slowing down the blimp so Gon could finally get rest was only after he succeeded in making him use his other hand, of which Netero truly respected. He’s neutral to most people-as at the end of the day his purpose and calling in life is finding someone who can give him a challenge, and 99% of the world can’t do that. That’s why he’s so alive during the ant king fight, and also why he does a mental note that he had to hurry up & fight Meurem or he may end up agreeing with him. His ultimately selfish desire for a challenge overpowers his morality, and that sums up his character pretty much

Top comment right here

they woulf probably say innocent ppl

If you remember a few episodes before he got pissed at nobunaga because he cried about uvogin but didn't give two shits about killing people. I don't think he was asking because he was curious but because he didn't agree with it. Maybe even anger, but I dont remember, haven't seen it it ages.

to be fair thats like every shonen protag

that sentence also implies that you can kill people who have something to do with u which many shonen characters are not capable of. one thing l like about hxh is characters die, it sounds creepy though, other shounen series hesitates to kill even the most irrelevant characters.

You’re so right. The people in the comments sort of standing up for our lil buddy are helping me so much right now. I had no idea Gon was hated until today and I started feeling super sad

Lol

​@@gangstagummybear3432 He's a realistic 12 year old protagonist.

I love his video, sometimes i play it on background when im sleeping because of his butter voice.

Agree! I wanna see time-skip teen Gon when he lived a few years without nen and honed his hunter skills. This has been my head-canon for a while now!

@@666Impulsive then when he unlocks his nen powers again he gets specialist. fuck yeah

yeah can't wait for this to happen in 2050

Hunter x hunter shippuden

Yeah since now hes ambitions and future isn't tied to ging anymore, he can now take his time to learn nen again and what he wants to do rather than meeting his dad expectations.....just to live life and appreciate the journeys.

mostly if they bring back gon it will be him helping killua with the alluka considering she is from dark contient so there is huge potential there and gyro as well

They still include him on the meet the character pages I’m sure he’ll come back

@@sathwikbs9414 Gon has a tie in with Gyro who’s kinda been built up to possibly be the final boss I think that’s how he’ll come back into the story OR Togashis probably just gonna bring him to the dark continent eventually to See Don freecs about his nen my theories

Gon will back. Ging told him that he could re-open his Nen pores and I'm sure that was added in for good reason. He still needs to meet Gyro. I'm also a firm believer that Hisoka will die by Gon's hands.

@@jwalkblue7 nah for that gon gotta be a nen expert with loads of experience cause right now hisoka is fuckin op

Leorio was willing to cut someone for not using the correct honorific

Of the four if anyone Kurapika is the one that is more selfish, and more likely to fuck up a plan than Gon. Each just has their own kind of selfishness.

Right. When people analyze Gon and his morality, sometimes they gloss over the fact has Killua has done objectively worse things. That being said, one part of Killua is that over the course of the series, he becomes a lot more compassionate and human. Killua was groomed by his family to become an infamous assassin, while Gon was raised in a somewhat normal environment (minus his interactions with feral animals, which I do believe had a big role in his naivety in the latter events), and he doesn't really develop emotionally. If anything, he regresses. I think that both Gon and Killua are very humanistic characters, just living in dark worlds.

@@rose-yd9mn, i agree. The world of HxH is clearly more dangerous and cruel than ours (due to nen, magical beasts and dark continent stuff), so i'm confused when people try to apply our world's morals to it.

Lmfaooo so true, Killua's fans are clowns😂 Gon>>Killua anyways

@@folo7595 no, they're both cool in their own ways

@@unwantedunneeded9476 certainly💯 they both has always been equally formidable/well-written, but i still fw gon more and find him more relatable, reason of why i said gon>kil, but dw i agree with you

Factual

Does Gon care about those whose close to him like killua leorio and kurapika or was he just using them for his own benefits

@@mohabalserafe3795 IMO he does genuinely care but he also doesn't see anything wrong in using them. As long as they dont get directly harmed (on in the heat of the moment even if they get directly harmed, as long as they are ok with it) he'll get a benefit from them. And tbh this is not strictly a negative thing, we all get some amount of benefit from being with our friends, but Gon doesn't even see the moral implications in, for example, Killua demolishing his hands in the dodgeball match. The opposite is also true: Gon genuinely thanks Binolt for helping them (even tho Binolt was not acting on his own will) while despising Nobunaba because Binolt was useful to him. At the same time he wont worry too much about his friends putting theyr lives on the line like he wont hesitate putting his own life on the line, like when he went to the Zoldyck's "house" or when he risked his life helping Kurapika. He's very similar to Lufy but he lacks the emotional maturity that Lufy has, because he's 12 xD

@@theduelist92 I wonder how would he reacted if killua was the one who died instead of kite

@@mohabalserafe3795 Probably in a very similar way. Kite is for Gon the first loss in his life, the first important person that died. If i think back to the first time i experienced grief as a kid i can definitely understand his tantrum. In another story Kite's death and Gon's reaction to it would've been the backstory of a villain, but luckly Gon had Killua and the experiences he made in his journey.

@@theduelist92 yeah you're right Gon and killua do complete each other that's why both of them are the best friendship in anime history but I get so sick to my stomach when I see some idiots shipping those two they need to stop doing this shit

Yeah, and I'm not sure why he thinks killua is light years ahead of him as the show constantly says they are equal,

@@higharchbishopofteatasting6217 well, that's because Killua is more mature than normal for his age due to all of the assassin training and complicated family. If you were young one day, it's as if you in middle school met someone from the beginning of high school.

pretty sure Gon isn't very high quality considering the fact that he threw his life away for a grudge and now is affected for the rest of his life.

@@peacepipe6695 but he touches grass tho'

@@afeathereddinosaur doesn't matter for combat. Gon is absolutely equal in terms of combat, it's crazy to how how much B's is spewed by this channel

lol fact. I knew some folks didn't like the boy but sheesh.

What does that even mean😭😭😭😭😭

@@eustasszay608 that gon is very selfish and only cares about the people he loves

@@Diegoloo that doesn’t even make sense. Considering the fact that Gon has morally helped people he didn’t even know through out the story but ok. Like understand the character yourself dude instead of being a yes man watching videos or listening to what other say

@@eustasszay608 bro chill

@@eustasszay608 The other way around. As long as you don't hurt the people he cares about, he doesn't particularly care what you do (to others). And if you intrigue him enough, he might even want to be your friend. He's not "selfish" as much as he is childish. The world of HxH is a lot more terrifying than our world so I can't fault a literal child for thinking this way. The problem here is the (lack of good) parenting from Mito who would literally let Gon go out and play in a forest full of dangerous animals since he could walk and talk without any adult supervision which likely made him abide to the "survival of the fittest" rule. People (like GLR/NWR) often say that Gon became more selfish past the Hunter Exam arc but that couldn't be more untrue. In that same arc, he befriended Killua who he found interesting even after he watched him rip someone's heart out, watched the climber dude get eaten by the giant bird without being scared, leave the bee girl behind in a dangerous place because she isn't his friend, etc. He was never the oh-so-innocent character people made him out to be but just another kid with his own set of values born from a traumatic/neglectful childhood. TLDR: Gon thinks very similar to the wild animals he grew up observing. If you don't disturb him, he won't "disturb" you (as long he has nothing to gain).

Meruem was still going to dominate the world though, he'd just let some humans live freely in select areas

@@babygolem2465 From what I've seen, that sounds pretty human to me.

Dont agree with any of that. You guys just have fcked up mind. Gon did the good thing. You are sll being simps to Pitou yuck

Togashi Goat 🐐

I mean that's only because his life was numbered His about to die If he didn't took on that rose bomb he'd be dominating the entire world

If he didn't know about nen Gon wouldn't have ever been able to go to greed Island so he wouldn't have been able to meet kite

Kite might have lived if he wasn't preoccupied babysitting gon

Tbh it was kurapikas fault for telling gon he can make contracts with his nen

He's realistic like Thorfinn in Vinland saga. Gon got lost in hatred and revenge.

Seinen*

@@AryanSingh-yy9mw ur mum *

BS. In reality, a child doesn’t see their parents murdered in cold blood and become a bat themed vigilante seeking revenge. Not to mention “having a dead beat dad” doesn’t lead one to be close buddies with a heartless assassin. A child doesn’t leave his family because he heard his dead beat dad is a cool guy from one stranger and then go on a perilous journey to meet him at any cost.

@@Liliquan It isn't bullshit. Those things that you have mentioned actually exist, a reality. Maybe your kind of reality is just confined in your comfortable space so you do not know that there is always a Gon, same backstory and same outcome, residing somewhere in this planet.

@@aianjimenez7574 So there’s a few sparse examples so therefore it’s how normal 12 year olds react? Get a brain and pay attention to context.

@@Liliquan Those sparse examples that you talked about has actually happened as I have come across stories like those when reading, watching, and listening to news around the world. Maybe I can't keep up with your intelligence but all the things that you keep on spewing about your kind of reality is just pure non sense. Don't just confine yourself in the social media, come out and delve deeper into the realities of this world. Also, that's how normal people react to being repeatedly deceived/ lied to or much better cheated with despite of giving multiple chances for that person to change especially in keeping his promises, you just have the urge to kill kill that person or do things that make him suffer. Come on, grow up, don't be just a troll forever!

He eventually will.

He will return. Unless the show ends after two more arcs it would be weird if he didn't return

@@mandem2362 No he won’t. Togashi is better than that.

@@melancholypuppy3595 Read the comment again.

@@Liliquan gon and gyro are fated to meet lol

Don’t lie.

@@Liliquan technically i didn't .. i just didn't go literal .. maybe you should use your brain to think a little instead of being aggresive on comments section on the internet .. that would be a lot more useful for ... "mankind" happy now ?

@@they-call-me-Marshall No you lied. It’s not about literal or figurative. You took something that was general and made it extremely specific. Portraying Netero as having some sort of intense faith in Gon which certainly wasn’t the case. You completely distorted the meaning that was being portrayed.

@@Liliquan are you trolling me ? if yes .. then good job you got me good .. if no .. then you should know that i was making remarks about what's said in the video about how's gon is just a child .. netero words stand true for gon as well as anybody else but that was never the point .. it's video .. it's about what liam said .. man you are indeed trolling me 😂

Part 2: 3. As for morality - Gon isn't a blank slate and he is actually very consistent with his ideals. Gon is also not 'good' or 'bad' Gon is a proud 'true neutral', Hisoka is a threat to him but Gon doesn't see him as evil, Gon doesn't want to join forces with the likes of the troupe or the bombers and certainly not binolt but he is consistent at that, he cares for circumstances. To Gon every living being is allowed to do their best to survive the way they want to and live how they wish to, Gon is an absolute anarchist and he absolutely accepts murder as reasonable and fair as long as that murder serves a purpose, a goal, a reason and isn't just done to amuse oneself. And Gon for the most part is just not beyond giving another chance. When you look at how Gon handles the troupe, they are people who would run around and kill anything that's in their way, no matter how weak for fun not for revenge not for benefits just to throw a big nice fireworks show for Uvo or to remove tiny obstacles. If they were like Hisoka which again Gon doesn't hate - simply very powerful people running around killing those who they see as a challenge, Gon wouldn't dislike them at all. To Gon humans are just animals like any other - if something threatens them or if they need food - they kill and that's ok and that's fine which is why he finds it ok that Killua kills for missions let alone Killua killing during the exam where both sides knew what they are getting themselves into. But if you just run around on a murder rampage like pitou or the troupe, what does it matter at all if you are a human or some animal? Letting binolt and the bomber squads free aligns here, Gon simply learned Binolt was an outcast and this was his misled way to find a place for himself, but Binolt promised to give himself in and turn a page, he promised that he sees a new way - Gon trusts his instincts to spot it when someone changes and that's the same thing that happened with the bombers, they lost the game, they played in a very nasty way and it failed them, defeated and on the ground given mercy by Gon they had to rethink what it is they were doing and if it was worth it in retrospect and Gon just respects that. It also builds into the conversations he had earlier with Killua of why would you steal - that's just playing the game, that's just allowed, I think Gon came to accept that as well but the reason Gon was so much anti it wasn't that stealing is wrong - it was that it's something most cannot defend and are powerless against, it becomes not the 'fair and reasonable way' but the easy way, the way that goes through destroying the weak who don't want to play that way, that's why Gon can't accept it. The troupe is just that - they hunt the weak, they destroy the weak, they steal and leave and at first it looked like they just don't even care about each even, just murder machines aimlessly shooting and 'calling each other trash'. The Komugi example is a strict opposite, first of - since unlike the troupe Gon could have been reasoned with, sure he wanted to use Komugi's life as leverage but that was to get some sort of goal that doesn't involve destroying the weak for fun. That entire conversation for Gon involved around the hypocracy Pitou presented, how could Pitou ask for time to save their friend while showing no mercy with kite or the citizens? How could Pitou sit there and beg while never even pretending to listen to anyone else's pleas? And what really threw Gon into rage is how could it be the Pitou stands there healing some random person when it simply could have been so much easier if Pitou was trying to torture and abuse Komugi's corpse instead like he did with Kite? Because that actually forces Gon into a moral dillema because Pitou while being a monster may have some spark some little inkling of humanity somewhere. And that was the point of it and the point of threatening Komugi, he wasn't threatening Komugi because he wanted to kill Komugi for his own pleasure, he was trying to TEACH PITOU A LESSON. Because to Gon Pitou was the selfish psycho who only understands when their own interests are being hurt (Komugi is Pitou's interest at that point) and cannot feel any compassion towards anyone else nor does Pitou even understand what's the point of compassion, he keeps insisting after all 'this is for the king' NOT for Komugi. And then after all that when Pitou is just like 'Well sorry guess I gotta kill you now' while Gon is on the ground crying the loss of Kite, having not 5 minutes ago been in the exact same situation with Komugi, it signals to Gon that Pitou still doesn't understand what is even the point of compassion and is simply never going to learn. This wasn't just for Kite, Gon was killing someone who he considered beyond redemption, beyond any merit, not humane. And it's likely the first time that Gon leaves a defeated opponent without them having any sort of change of heart after learning that they aren't invincible - so he snaps, how can such evil even exist? how can it be allowed to exist? how is it that unlike everyone Gon has ever met - this evil kitty has just no redeeming qualities, it goes through all this and the first thing it spits out of his mouth is 'oh well guess I'll kill you now' even Youpi wasn't this bloodthirsty and unreasonable. Yes Gon went in there bent on revenge and it absolutely didn't help his judgement but Pitou dug his own grave if he just had the decency to say 'I am sorry, I didn't know how that felt, I didn't consider that abusing corpses for my own fun and amusement is crossing every single imaginable line' there's a very very real chance that Pitou walks out of there alive. But Pitou is just evil, he doesn't understand what he did wrong, he doesn't understand that others exist that aren't the king but still matter even if they don't matter to the king himself. If it wasn't Pitou but Hisoka killing Kite in a fair and agreed upon duel - Gon wouldn't have this reaction, his reaction came solely from the collapse of his one true belief - that anyone can change and everyone deserves to be heard and judged fairly and no one is truly evil, they simply have goals that do not align with yours and that should be ok. tl;dr Gon is absolutely awesome.

@@blueplayer6197 dang this is a really good analysis of gon lol

Meruem just had nothing to lose after accepting the fact that he would die anyway. Before that was some amnesia, caused by ressurection, he was about to return to his original mindset, like Pouf wanted. If not Netero's action, king would have continued his screwed deeds. Still a villain, he deserved what he got.

Yeah I agree

Understand the contrast

No it's actually the same logic you are only viewing the kings actions as worse because your being biased in favor of humans .. in reality the humans are like chickens to the ants just a source of food

@@kalenthedon8546 you must be high as fuck to think that beating one ant to death is as bad as killing and eating hundreds if not thousands of people, literally an entire kingdom.

@@kalenthedon8546 I ain't seen no human eat a duckling or a few weeks old chick...

The ant game looks tight ngl

Gon was only ever temporarily the MC.

@@Liliquan How do you know? We're you perhaps a friend of the author, an acquaintance, an intern, one of those hired people that will help him finish his work, his wife, or his confidant?

But if that is the case, he will never be able to stay with Killua or any of his friends. Because he will be a fodder to protect.

Yeah, no. That would be boring and as “deep” as you might want things to be it would be lame. Why not let gon become a heroin addict after realizing he peaked as a child and can never be a part of the wild and incredible world of hunters and nen. He can can progress into a shady thief and liar who pushes all his loved ones away and then reach new lows so we can have a show with “mature themes” that are so profound. Yeah or we can just appreciate this moment for what it was and have a normal shounen growth arc where the powers are regained with an appreciation that wasn’t there before. Who the fuck wants to watch a show where gon doesn’t do shit again.

@@cslack813 This take is truth.

@@cslack813 very true my friend. i want gon to come back and be way stronger than before. new nen powers aswell. im sure his mindest and mental strength will be very different than before. so im hoping he becomes a specialist like my boi kurapika and gin. Maybe thats why they got rid of his powers cus they realised they cant really do to much with them so theyll give him a respin. I definetly want gon to defeat hisoka someday and im sure thatll bbe towards the end of the manga. so about 5009219 years time.

@@carlososler7024 that not how friendship works lol. Otherwise Leorio wouldn't have been around in yorknew

Not really, he is easily the second worst character in the anime

Gon is...literally morally...odd.

@@lali4794 Gon is…. literally….. 12 years old

@@drought8616 mostly everything GLR has said through out this video is pure hatred and mention everythigg by without context. If you actually read and pay attention to Gon and his character. He’s easily the best character in HxH. Trust me. There’s people who actually know & understand Gon

@@drought8616 second worst character in anime is really odd of you to say😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

You didn't even have time to watch the video before commenting this...