*Dino, you're wrong. ITS IN THE ENTIRE ANIME*

+shadow YOU'RE RIGHT YOU'RE RIGHT

I love you

+Rhymestyle OMFG RHYMESTYLE YOUR HERE LMAO

I feel like I'm the only one who thinks that the writing is extremely basic ._.

Togashi is just above everyone else. That guy is more than a genius.

@@louayker4249 💯

Gon ended his battle weaker than before, losing his nen but at least surviving while Meruem ended his battle being stronger than before but ultimately dying.

Losing/breaking an arm is like the go to symbolism for self sacrifice and stubborn recklessness

Close but not really

@@williamthekiller7219 wdym?

@@sciki5533 on the surface what you say might make sense...but it's not simple as that

@@williamthekiller7219 bc it does make sense, the ed hyori ittai basically said humans and monsters are two sides of the same coin. Togashi conveyed this message pretty well in the arc

@@sciki5533 @sciki I do not disagree with you there But the parallel argument between Gon and Meruem just doesn't sit well with me.... I agree with some of the contrasting comparisons you make between them since it was designed that way... Meruem as a villain....how it came to be was questionable It was not his sin the queen and her soldiers killed and consumed those humans Meruem was searching for his identity...like netero said he's wavering between his ant side and human side Probably the best reason why Gon can't meet him because even with Kite dead....he won't be able to find a reason to fight him... And Meruem won't fight unless provoke All these build up just to see them discussing their ideology if it was Gon who was there instead of netero And Gon might be a kid and he doesn't fully know the depths of evil I disagree with you.... He's fully aware if he's doing bad things... That's the source of his naivete after all

O fuck

Ever made-up youre own cool Hatsu?

Ever made-up youre own cool Hatsu?

​@@slevinchannel7589I love making my own hatsu's

@@thetruekingofwaffles Then do it! And feel free to use many logivcal conclusions I and barely anyone else has figured out: just ssk me for somme 'Nen-Secrets'

@@thetruekingofwaffles I love helping people with their development-processs; but also just have them take into acount things i discovered

@@thetruekingofwaffles Thetruekingofwaffles?

99% of people who criticize this arc are either ignorants or haters.

​@@louayker4249"Ignorants or haters" this is what an ignorant would say, blind to any critism and labeling other people is dumb as fuck I love the Kimera ant arc but it has problem like the pacing, too many time the narrator disrupt a fight to say the things everyone know. Dumbing down the audience intelligent is a low point in writing for me I don't read the manga so i think its only purpose was to drag out the run time because there is almost none at the end of the arc

Currently writing a script about this very subject. Stay tuned.

Tales of Nerdia okay, I’ll be sure to watch the video!

hey ariah its me

🤯🤯🤯🤯

Sunshine N Smiles gon didn't thought of killua for a single second

Somtochukwu Ekenyem i knew that, just mentioned killua also has white hair

DaRk DrAgoN 17 omg twin

Neraz lol

+DaRk DrAgoN 17 If you knew he was talking about Kite, why bring up Killua? xD I call bullshit on that.

Imagine mito-san doe

Why not both

Imagine togashi dead

@@xl_hatake1075 JAILLLLL

Kilua fanboy detected 😁😁😁

The theory, which I didn't state too clearly looking back, was supposed to be that all of these similar and contrasting scenes where absolutely the intention of the author. That's why I pose the question at the end if you guys thought it was intentional or some were just coincidence.

TalesOfNerdia It's much more just an analysis. An interpretation and dissection of what the show presents. If you titled it as such you would also get more people who are looking for this type of video and as such more viewers. I just think it was badly titled. Great video though.

I'm always trying to improve my tags, titles, thumbnails, etc so I definitely appreciate the feedback. I'll consider these more carefully for future vids. Glad you like the content :)

TalesOfNerdia I hadn't really thought about this until this video. I haven't ever had a need to truly analyse HxH and I have so many things to do I didn't think I could take the time to do it simply for my own enjoyment and for a better understanding. However, I will watch any video on the topic if I see it in my subscriptions or recommended page.

Excellent.

It's just that the issue with HxH hiatuses is that Togashi (the mangaka) is kinda old to be drawing weekly manga and he has had tons of health issues, mostly with his back. I can understand the hype, but I'd rather he be alive to finish it than dead and other people writing it for him, or worse, leaving it unfinished (which is unlikely since he already left a rough plan about how he wants it).

He is certainly not old, but 51 years is old enough to make drawing manga a harsh task. If you understand at least a bit of how difficult it can be for some mangaka to keep a weekly serialization, you know how taxing it must be for a 51yo with serious back issues. I'm not sure how you interpreted my statement ojf him being too old to draw weekly manga, but I meant it as in it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with a job like that as you age (as in many other jobs).

LiGht YaGami You do know that drawing manga is different from whatever miscellaneous task a normal salaryman has to deal with, right? You might not know if you haven't experienced it, but drawing is a much more taxing task than writing on a computer (or by hand, too). I've never made manga, but I used to draw A LOT when I was younger, and even the simple task of sitting mostly still while trying to draw as best as possible for a couple of hours or even just one hour straight can be very tiring. If just that is tiring, I can't help but shudder at the thought of having to abide by a strict deadline every week, and let's remember that manga isn't just about drawing, but writing too. I don't think there's a shonen manga as well written as HxH. The drawing quality is inconsequential; it's not like he is purposely holding back and can make better drawings if he puts more time or effort. It doesn't work like that. The amount of effort he puts in his drawings may be as big or even bigger than some other mangaka with bettter artstyles like Kubo Tite or Tosh, yet the results are as seen. I have friends who can effortlessly fork out an awesome drawing that I would have to spend hours on, or maybe not even be capable of pulling off. Well, I'm digressing, but the point is that you're seeing things in a very simplistic manner, what with equating salaryman work with mangaka work when you might have not even experienced any (I'm aware I could be wrong about that, but it's kinda telling when you talk like that). Also, I don't understand why people doubt Togashi's health issues being true, like, seriously? There's few people as dedicated to their work as him, and he even tries his hardest to fork out at least as most chapters as possible. He even (allegedly) went as far as hiring assistants (which he allegedly almost never used before) and (allegedly) letting his wife help with his work and entrusting her with it's conclusion should something happen to him. If that doesn't tell about his commitment to his work and his fans, I don't know what does.

Again, drawing manga is more demanding than playing a simple game... and yeah, I know how cancerous the HxH fanbase can be. And drawings matter, but that's completely besides the point. I merely stated that the artstyle quality is inconsequential when factoring time and effort put into the manga. But even so, HxH isn't a generic run-of-the-mill manga.

LiGht YaGami I dont disagree with you on the generic part. But damn is it impressive how well they create such original plot and interesting characters based on this "cliché." Also, you cannot simply describe your opinion on an art style with the word "bad." I dont like Gon's design and a few other ones but you need to be more descriptive and more objective when u judge art man

HAI, I sure am. I'm not going anywhere. :'(

i think im gonna take a short nap.. :(

Good Boy Milo I just finished yesterday😭

I was crying for two hours I still can’t 😭😭😭😭🥺

@@ScoobySnax. same lmao

I cried too brother. Harder than I ever have.

Anthony Turner i think everyone cried like a bitch lol

This was the only time I ever rooted for the bad guy ;(

Some Guy Meruem wasn't the bad guy tho

it was Just his responsiblitiy as the king

At this point you could be overthinking things xD. But yeah, I guess in the first instance of the ball game, it shows how tough the old man is. Then in the fight, it shows how easily he could ACTUALLY be killed

It's more likely that Togashi looked back on that and decided to make that nod, mangaka do stuff like that all the time.

Another little detail that makes this fight so well written is the details of Netero and Meruems deal. The king must force Netero to admit defeat. As in, Netero made Meruem take the final (non-hidden) Hunter test. The hunter chairman beat the ant king by using one of the oldest tricks in his book!

wing also asks himself if hes created or awoken a monster when he trains gon at heavens tower ;)

Hamza Cynic maybe thise are his strong arm and leg, and Meruem, knowing how crazy efficient he is, targeted them

Nice! I stopped the analysis at the end of the arc but guess I should have looked further. To add to your parallel, look at the panels in chapter 333 and 339 of Killua holding Gon's hand and Komugi holding Meruem's hand: 66.media.tumblr.com/13eda11d0d78345b0def603fc5a063b9/tumblr_inline_npnkawTcnT1qd8pxx_1280.png

good point

Aether Veilborne but he gets nen back

@@ogjogi4506 when

​@@noneofyourbusiness3096 alluka removed the restriction Gon placed on himself, he just has to reawaken it. I mean he is the main character

*In Fiction history

Yorknews very close there as well, which has my hopes high for the Dark Continent arc, which it seems like will be the last or the 2nd to last arc.

Yeah but they could've made it about 1.5x faster in the anime and it would've been about 300 times better. I'm okay with the slow-mo.. I'm okay with it not being OPM-crazy style of constant fights.. I can even stand most of the narrator.. but when they repeat the same shit for minutes when they switch to a different fight/character, it's just fucking LAZY. And when the narrator states what is extremely obvious it's just so fucking obnoxious. They could've done SO much better.. hell, they just have to re-edit what they have and they can make something truly amazing and rewatchable.

thats because they had to extend the anime because the manga arc was still being finished by the author.

Sayuru Elaiyakumaran only problem is a lot of episode is spent to 3 minutes

every life has it's regrets.

The one "interaction" they had was of Gon seeing him from afar

***** That wasn't really an interaction. Got didn't really think about it too much and Meruem didn't even see Gon, and that's my point

parallel

waddup with that rage

To me the ark was too long and got boring midway

The Pope Never heard that before

The Pope I had stopped for awhile after the first 2 episodes of the arc, but after about 10 episodes into the arc I binge watched it like craz.

This is my favorite arc along with the york shin city, that was something out of this world, best shounen i have watched without a doubt.

The King while it is indeed one of if not THE greatest arc in anime history, I will agree that it was too long. The narrator overdescribed everything that was going on. "AND AS YOU CAN SEE, GON IS WAITING FOR PITOU TO FINISH HEALING. HE JUST TOOK A BREATHE. HE JUST TOOK ANOTHER BREATH" I think the narrator potentially ruins it imo.

Meruem never lost anything. Netero was just strong

+The visitor101 I didn't say that Meruem lost. He did in fact live while Netero didn't. I'm just saying that instead of fighting, Meruem wanted to have an open and honest conversation.

LolerioNark about Gon, when he gained power he attacks pitou at the head

I do believe it was this anime they were saying you need to abandon your humanity or you will never beat them and what you just said made me realise when Gon lost his will to live he lost his humanity and therefore was strong enough to beat Meruem

What are you doing here, Filthy Frank?

Too bad he's bad in health and can't figure out how to write HXH without falling ill. I think he used to smoke and drink and is now an old man because this plot was written back in the 90's/early 2000s. Plus sitting for too long is bad for your health in many ways, and as an illustrator and author, he has to do that for longer much longer than normal.

The entire songs were one big foreshadow if you read the lyrics.

HOLY Shi- 💀

thats beautiful

Pretty sure dying from radiation poisoning is really painful as your body literally melts

Probably meant like died happily, or satisfied.

cicii

@@JM-po5hu I don't think radiation poisoning alone affects chimera ants let alone the King. I believed the miniature rose(the nuke) had a property of rendering its victims incapacitated slowing taking away their sight, hearing, speech and sensory organs making the body numb until the body just shuts down. If it didn't we would have seen Meruem and Komugi writhing in pain.

You're welcome, glad you liked it. I almost cut the ending short but just couldn't, it's too beautiful.

Me too. "Maybe Netero was wrong" struck a chord in me, and I felt sadness pang throughout. God damn.

What on fuck are you doing here? I watch your Naruto mod videos

almost-? BRO- I CRIED LIKE ANYTHING PLEASE ITS THE SADDEST THING EVER IM STILL CRYING WTH

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JerryHasGame i hate the part where the narrator is narrating every fucking thing

Well, i think that if it was longer it would have been dragged out.

Gon saw Meruem from a distance, and that was that

Yeah just from distance but he never focused on him

Mr Bushido as gon was looking at meruem we could already see his anger and the black aura around him. But his main "focus" was pitou

when he saw the king, he realized he can't do anything against the king

what's really nice about the two comparisons is that when Gon unleashed he full potential he was equal to Meruem in power, but he had to lose his humanity in order to do so.

I get what u mean but what Pitou did , anyone in gone place would wanna kill him

The genius of the arc is in showing that even monsterous humans (which is what most of the ants are) are still human, even the most evil person isn't one dimensional. The king killed countless people and intended to kill the majority of humanity, even at the end of the arc. He was capable of loving and caring for another, yet still commited to a horrible path. This is the dichotomy of people doing immoral things, they're still people with their own hopes and dreams. Importantly, this doesn't minimize the damage their immoral actions cause and will cause. The fact that the king and pitou didn't feel remorse for their actions is why they ultimately had to die. Take the king's death scene and amplfiy it a billion fold, and you'd get a taste of what he had in store for the world and humanity. Being a human capable of love and empathy doesn't give you leeway to take other's lives without consequence

The king also had a moment of remorse saying how if he was like this before things may have turned out diffetently.

Pitou literally planned on killing Gon. You still feel bad for her more than a child whose been through hell?

@@justsomegirlwithoutamustache It appears you have misunderstood my words. It's was not about hating one or the other. And if you really think that Pitou was evil, I suggest you watch it again. This time pay attention.

Aaaah, I didn't think of that. Thanks for pointing that out.

ficici

What was your view prior? I read it in the manga first and thanks to the hiatuses I had plenty of time to go back and read the chapters. I was nowhere near as detailed as this video, but by the time I was done with the arc the only way I could look at it was Meruem went from evil being like a innocent child and gon went from innocent child to evil unfeeling beast. I'd like to know some other outlooks though.

4 years late but facts

mid x mid buddy

@@majin903 fatherless behavior

@@confusedxander5975 dont compare you’re experiences to me you social reject 🥸

@@majin903 How is it Mid?

Woah, that's a great comparison I never thought about.

Wow! nice analysis

I also like to see this as gon not wanting to be like the ants and killing people because he felt like it, in that moment pitou redeemed her action of killing kite by saving komugis life and killing her would make gon the villain. So he wanted pitou to lie to him about being able to save kite so he could justify killing her without being morally wrong

zeno=white hair

Kite in the 1998 JUMP special OVA: blue hair Kite in the 1999 anime: brown hair Komugi in the colored manga: brunette hair Pitou in the colored manga: blonde hair

Netero has white hair

Isn't that just gray?

not in the non colored manga

I completely agree!

Could you put a link to the image of gon and meruem mirroring each other in the description or something?

Not sure why he is when he barely started to be the villain I'm not sure he is the villain when most of the dark deed was done by the queen and her soldiers... He didn't exactly plan this.... It's a situation he was forced into He is a grown up baby who was learning outside of his programming as a king of the ant but he doesn't exactly know what to do as a king Also the humans in him are more dominant than the ant

Yup besto shonen

Alexandrina I wouldn't say Gon turned into a villain

Atomic Void threatening to kill a blind and innocent person who is on the brink of death and nothing to do with you is what a villain would do to black mail the hero in other sources of entertainment.

LynxKnows Gon didn’t know if she was innocent it looked like a enemy healing there comrade

From Gon's perspective why would a monstrous ant help a human being. The one who killed Kite no less. It looked fishy as fuck to him. For all he knew, Komugi could have been have been some kinda ace up the ant's sleeve. Remember Alluka? Would explain why Pitou did everything to save her.

@@lynxknows7911 to Gon it was so unfair Why now and not back then The situation reversed on them Gon may have said those but he didn't mean it or else he would just have killed her like pitou did to Kite

Close but not really....

What do you mean 'as a guy'?

guy as in person, he wasn't trying to point out him being male.

Danen3 TRIGGERED!!!

Triggered how?

Danen3 Look at your comment. It probably wasn't your intention but you sound like a feminazi. You look like you took what he said out of context.

I almost cried to thatbut the happy music that started playing JUST AFTER THAT made me laugh

Me too, several times 😥

me too, don't be ashamed, beautifully written

it's a shame what's happening 2 it rn

SPEEDWAGOOOON!!! Thanks. I actually printed "business cards" that look like a hunter's license with all my social media accounts on it to pass out at conventions lol.

I don't see the point of that, Just fighting pitou took a lot from him

@@williamthekiller7219 they don't need to fight just have a debate or something

@@thirdplanet4471 lol... You still expect them to fight Netero and Meruem did debate and still fought And that's not Gon's goal with all the hate and anger compiling within himself And not sure what Gon would debate over except his policy of no killing... Although he killed pitou Not sure he's in the position to lecture someone

@@williamthekiller7219 no l don't expect them to fight

@@thirdplanet4471 that's you but Gon would still fight him if Kite didn't happen

this makes me so sad :( i hope you're drawing amongst the stars right now

That's the greatest compliment I've ever received. THANK YOU!!! I've cosplayed as Netero before too. It's on my twitter you just gotta scroll down 3 or 4 posts: twitter.com/Tales_of_Nerdia/media

+TalesOfNerdia Well deserved, my room mate saw me watching this and actually started watching the series as I write this reply. I never thought of it this way, but had I not known about HxH and seen your video, I would have been highly intrigued to explore the anime myself since you present it in the most inviting fashion that sparks interest in the HxH universe! Great job & keep going!

+TalesOfNerdia Let's just hope you don't meet Meruem

@Мотхер Фуцкер is that a joke?

Of course they weren't accidental, the ants represent the primal animalistic parts of a human, while gon and his comrades represent the higher levels of humanity and thinking and how these aspects interact and can change as people age. I believe it was netero who made a comment about gone saying he was scared he might have awakened a monster, as he had once been too.

Gon did watch him from afar though back when Meruem was along Killuas grandpa and Netero.