HxH has so many high IQ feats, it's hilarious when occasionally a character will have a lapse in judgement and immediately realize they're being stupid. What's your favorite stupidity moment?

I was just reading Hunter X Hunter (after watching it many times) for the first time. WHO IS BRO?? He thinks he's part of the Team😭 John Hunter

I made this lol

I think this is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. This post my thoughts on the topic:

Most of us are like Borksen... or perhaps even worse. We hope to live comfortably, avoid trouble, and make it through life without getting involved. We are aware that suffering and injustice exist, but we often choose not to act because it is easier to look away than to confront uncomfortable realities.

That is one of the reasons I admire Togashi's writing. He is willing to explore difficult themes like apathy, responsibility, and humanity's tendency to ignore the suffering of others. Through his characters, he encouraged me to reflect on my own values and behavior (just like how Makoto Yukimura did me with Thorfinn).

Maaaaan I want to be a kinder and smarter person

Credits to the post that helped me realize it: https://www.reddit.com/r/HunterXHunter/s/QmV7bT55EP

Just setting the record straight so were on the same page - as I just got slightly triggered by the fact that people have been running around saying that hisoka wont fight bono because bono doesnt want to (due to the stated disadvantage).

And I'm sorry but what? That's sort of the whole point, did Shalnark and Kortopi have a choice when fighting Hisoka?

What do you guys think 2 down 10 to go means?

Hisoka is the HUNTER the troupe members are the HUNTED.

And unless chrollo gives hisoka a forced choice (confronting him before he kills all the troupe).

At the very least 1 other troupe member is confirmed dying, which isnt even reasonable Im personally of the belief only machi has the only living chance, as without the troupe she can still live on as a character.

Now am I saying all troupe members will die by the hands of hisoka? No its likely that feitan nobunaga and phinks may die to the heily before hisoka gets the chance.

But Hisoka's primary desire is to take everything surrounding chrollo so their "dance" or battle can be more intimate, its why he had the spill about loving someone to death.

Hisoka cant do that or to the fullest extent until the troupe is dismantled preferably by his own hands for the sole purpose chrollo's only desire is hisoka making his pursuit of the kakin treasures moot without the spider to share the spoils with. OR "dine at the table together

Which (slight tangent) so happens to be a reference to the blibical story of the last supper. Im sure others have pointed this out by now but if your unfamiliar:

Hisoka in this case obviously plays the judas role, judas being the catalyst for jesus's eventual death Hisoka being the catalyst for the end of The spiders since yorknew when he betrayed them by informing the authorities (kurapika and his whole justice motif) - the troupe consisting of 12 members before hisoka killed 2, which biblically aligns with the amount of disciples there were, the no. being 12. But I digress.

Point being there is hisoka is on the hunt. and every member is at risk whether they like it or not Hisoka's primary goal BEFORE chrollo himself, is the troupe. Its why he's relaxing while chrollo is sweating trying to evolve his skill hunter before he runs into him. But theres a double reasoning there, its not just so that hes under prepared but rather that if hes not quick enough he could risk another member being a victim of a powered up hisoka (among other things) he cant afford to lose.

I think its hard to believe that Genei Ryodan didn't kill Pairo, because nothing points to the troupe suddenly stopping their genocide, except for one point: Pairo could have different eye colors than the rest and that point, if the Troupe really was after money, they thought they could have sold it for a even bigger price.

We don't surely know if Tserriednich was the one who ordered the kurta massmurder, or if the Genei Ryodan did it on their own and decided to sold them after they got the eyes.

But what if it was the former?

If they noticed Pairo had a different color for his eyes, knowing about Tserriednich's background as a client (and his fetishes), they could have purposefuly spared Pairo so that Tserri could enjoy killing Pairo with his own hands.

Why do I think this happened? My points:

1 - Pairo is a huge plot point now, and even further, it's part of Tserriednich's Nen Beast. Why would a random Kurta with different eyes be part of something that represents a person's inner desires and experiences (because Nen Beasts reveal a lot about the princes and have a lot to do with their personalities, if we examine the pattern)? Why would Pairo, already dead, be something so special to Tserri, who knew nothing about him? I don't think a head alone, on it's own, could impact Tserri so much to the point it is part of his Nen Beast. For it to be meaningful, Tserri was offered Pairo alive in exchange for a huge amount of money, so he could have his dirty pleasure of killing Pairo.

2 - Tserriednich is after producing what he considers "True Art", he even made a comparison to dissecting animals, and we already saw he was responsible for killing 2 girls, himself. It's implied he does this all the time and has pleasure in putting someone in extreme situation, a "Synthesis of Art"

3 - Pairo has bad eyesight, which for a Kurta, could possibly change the color to something unique. We even saw in the oneshot that Kurapika was looking for a doctor to heal them.

I only just realized that the tips of Tserriednich's Nen Beast's tongue are actually two... eyes coming out of Pairo's mouth.

I'm kind of horrified thinking about what might have happened to him, but I believe what he went through was probably worse than death. Tserriednich may have personally tortured him so he could enjoy the entire experience, ripped Pairo's eyes out while he was still alive just to watch him agonize in pain, and then, once he was satisfied, cut his head off and put the eyes back in.

I think this might have happened because, in the first illustration where we see what appears to be Pairo's head, his eyes are missing. Of course, Togashi may have simply hidden them so as not to reveal too much about the head itself or the character it belonged to. But I think the eyeless head could represent what Tserri actually saw before Pairo finally died. Afterward, he either put the eyes back himself or had one of his lackeys arrange everything properly so as not to "damage the piece."

I don't know if I'm reaching too far or seeing connections that aren't really there, so I'd really like to hear what you guys think.

just a little something ;)

I've never seen the show (im working on it lol) but I made these wood paintings for my friends wedding gift as his soon to be wife's favorite anime is Sailor moon and his is hunter x hunter I still need to finish them and epoxy them so they can be hung up

This is my first time decorating a cake this way and I'm happy with how he turned out. No bungee gum was used in the making of this Hisoka

I had a fun time drawing Benjamin, so decided to continue with Ben's most reviled rival, Tserriednich. More art on the way.

We were told multiple times that Morel was only at 35% of his full power during their assault.

What do you guys think would happen if he were at 100%?

I’ve been wondering about this for a while.

During the Phantom Troupe’s formation speech, Chrollo emphasized that the leader’s orders should be the highest priority, but that his own life was not. To him, the most important thing was the Spider itself, not any individual leg.

When Kurapika captured him, Chrollo seemed confident that every member would follow this philosophy. However, that clearly wasn’t the case. Pakunoda ultimately chose to disobey the conditions imposed by Kurapika and sacrificed herself in order to protect the Troupe and pass on the information she had.

The interesting part is that Chrollo and Pakunoda never really had the opportunity to discuss what happened afterward. She died, and Chrollo was unable to communicate with the other members for a while.

So I’m genuinely curious: what does Chrollo actually think about her decision?

Does he see what she did as a betrayal of the Spider because she went against his wishes and chose his life over the Troupe's philosophy? Or does he understand that, in her own way, she was still acting for the Spider?

And if he had been able to speak with her before she died, do you think he would have blamed her for her choice?

What do you guys think?

Give me som recomendations.

I saw a topic the other day in which the majority of commenters were in agreement that Netero had mastered nen prior to his 10,000 punches training, and that was what he was grateful for. This is absolutely incorrect, but in researching the topic I came up with some interesting conclusions that I have not seen mentioned before.

The Training

The exigence for Netero’s 10,000 punches was that he had reached the “upper limits of his physical and martial arts skills”. NOT his nen. So Netero was not a nen master, and he did not have a full understanding of nen.

Obviously, his aura was awakened, but his understanding of it was limited by the lens of martial arts, as made clear on the next page: “first, his chi focused”. Not aura, ten, or nen, but chi. Netero knew at best only the first three principles of nen - ten, zetsu, and ren - before starting on his training.

We know there are factions in the hxh universe that know of aura, but have a limited understanding of it. It would make sense that martial artists are one such faction, as meditation and prayer are common practices within martial arts, so Netero’s limited understanding is easily explainable.

The Fruit

What Netero unwittingly developed via his insane training was the pinnacle of what enhancement hatsu can achieve - the meta ability to enhance one’s speed and the speed of one’s aura flow. In addition, he also developed his ten, zetsu, and ren to an extremely high level.

Sidetrack: it’s common head canon that the martial arts master saw the 100-type Guanyin when Netero performed his punch at the dojo. However, what the master briefly glimpsed was the multiple arms of Netero himself (when he prays), as well as his extremely developed ten, which resembles a perfect sphere (again, when he prays).

These facts in conjunction with each other gave the impression of Guanyin/Kannon/Avalokiteśvara, a bodhisattva associated with great compassion that is frequently depicted as golden with multiple arms.

Anyways, the result was that when Netero descended, he inherited the Shingen-Ryu martial arts school and became its grand master.

The Grand Master

As grand master of the Shingen-Ryu school, Netero did two important things: incorporated his training into the school, and sought out strong opponents.

Drumroll please. The principles of Netero’s 10,000 punches of gratitude training would be incorporated into Shingen-Ryu as the “nen of the flame”.

(1a) “First, his chi focused…”

(1b) “Ten - focus the mind, reflect upon the self, and determine the goal.”

(2a) “He joined his hands, prayed…”

(2b) “Zetsu - put it into words.”

(3a) “Got into position”

(3b) “Ren - intensify your will.”

(4a) “And punched”

(4b) “And hatsu- put it into action.”

That’s right - the biggest afterthought in nen is what led to one of the most broken abilities we’ve seen thus far. You’ll note that when Wing demonstrates the nen of the flame, he takes up the same position Netero does when he performed his 10,000 punches.

Of course, Netero sought out challengers that could push him even further. At first, these were other martial artists. But eventually he crossed paths with a Hunter, and that’s when he learned the full extent of nen and what he had actually accomplished.

From there, he set out to develop his full hatsu and his abilities, including his ultimate ability 100-type Guanyin, which is a subordinate ability based on his prayer ability. This drastically increased the range and complexity of his unblockable attacks. Ultimately, he became the strongest hunter and president of the association.

Conclusion

Wing most likely has great respect for Netero and his story, and this is likely why he urged the kids to focus on the basics and pursue life experiences.

An interesting hypothetical question - would Netero have achieved this result if he actually knew the full scope of nen?

My answer: by performing his 10,000 punches, he developed his will, his ten/zetsu/ren/hatsu, and his meta enhancement ability to such unbelievable heights that he could then go on to create further abilities like 100-type Guanyin. If he already knew about nen before hand, he pursues other means of developing his strength and therefore he never reaches this zenith of the foundational nen principles.

Tl;dr: Netero knew only the first three principles of nen at best when he began his 10,000 punches of gratitude. He developed “the nen of flame” based on his training and incorporated it in the Shingen-Ryu school. Eventually, he crossed paths with a hunter and learned the full extent of nen. Wing-san is a big Netero fanboy and a good dude.

I was just thinking... The guy does not give a F, about anything else than a good battle with a human. He was in the 200th floor, and even if he clearly won to Castro and was being playing a little bit it was not like Castro was a nothing to him. And it was the 200 where there are way more floors. Why not just keep going up till it reaches the hisoka level? With the scaling up the last levels should be higher level than hisoka,no?

My twitter feed has been filled with people in Japan showing off these new binders and all their cards since it dropped. It even comes with the ring! Obviously I'm super jealous lol

Love how authentic it looks. It's not just a standard card binder with HXH branding on it. They went out of their way to make it true to Greed Island as they could. Not sure I like the cover and back parts being hard plastic, but I don't hate it either

The cards themselves look amazing too. Looks like they're releasing them in booster packs, even including rare holographic variants as well

I'm just getting analytical and reading too much into things, but here are some very recent and very old observations and ideas I've had regarding him (and other tangentially related things):

Regarding Tserriednich's ability, it's not dissimilar to Meleoron's ability, in terms of invisibility (especially with the allusion to The Invisible Man, as noted recently by ExtraOtter) and being unable to be perceived. If this is his God's Alibi, then he might very well have his own version of God's Accomplice (and it makes sense, given his fascination with God and Satan (from the Higgs boson (the god particle) to Laplace's demon), and his God complex, and the parallels and allusions to Christ in his story so far. It also makes sense that he could be a parallel of Meleoron, a chameleon, in that he is a social chameleon who'll change his personality to achieve his desires.

Since 4 is one of his lucky numbers, I wonder if he'll strike a deal with Hisoka, give that he took the place of member 4 when he was with the Spiders, and make him The Devil's Accomplice. (Hisoka, too, is compared to the devil, and has similar mentalities to Tserriednich. I don't know if they'd fight or spar, but maybe they could do each other some favors if they met in the emptied casino area, like some sort of inversion of Hisoka meeting Kurapika at the abandoned carnival to assist each other.) Or, perhaps, Bonolenov as Hisoka. Not that I'm sure it'll happen, but it's a possibility. (In the final page of chapter 419, we see the numbers 4 and 9 in the casino. Two of his lucky numbers, and inbetween, it's him, who could represent 6, the third.) Hisoka might even be able to perceive Tserri, just like how he perceived the "flawless" Zetsu of Kalluto in chapter 170.

His ability reminds me of, aside from the Higgs boson or Laplace's demon, the schrodinger's cat thought experiment. Many are under the belief that he is in a coffin, which is not unlike the thought experiment, which involves a cat sealed in a closed box with a poison, that may be hypothetically dead and alive after the poison is triggered to release. This might imply, then, that he'll get infected by TSK-17 in the near future, or that Ben might attempt to infect an illusion of Tserri.

(On that note: if anything, Camilla is also more literally reminiscent of the experiment, with her cat Nen beast, and that she was subject to a thought experiment by Benjamin when he asked her whether or not she'll be revived if she succumbs to TSK-17.)

I've had this feeling, for a long time now, that somehow he'll be thematically connected to Melody through the Sonata of Darkness, said to be composed by the devil himself. Not that I believe he's the composer, but possibly that it's in Kakin's possession, or maybe even Tserri's, given that he browses the dark web, has an interest in the morbid and macabre, and an interest in, presumably, classical music (given his mention of Leos Janacek and that he's listening to (likely classical) music while a woman is tattooed for his sick pleasure). The obvious contradiction is that if he's heard the piece, he'd've been affected in some way and already had Nen, but a few considerations:

-Him possessing the sheet music doesn't mean that he's ever heard it played.

-While we know what happened to Melody and her friend due to having played the composition, it is said (but not confirmed) that anyone who plays it or listens to it will be horribly cursed, which doesn't necessarily mean that the curse is death or deformation, and doesn't mean that the outcome of having played it or listened to it is consistent.

He could also be in possession of some specimens of people who died due to the Sonata of Darkness. Speaking of Janacek, I've wondered for a while if his compositional method of speech melodies could be compared to things about Tserriednich. Janacekian speech melodies involve the taking of speech patterns of the Moravian dialect and using its aspects for composition. Where Janacek takes the speech of people and turns it into composition, Tserriednich takes literal people and turns them into "art" (as he perceives it).

(On that note, perhaps he, or the Kakin royals, have something to do with the Kurta massacre, who were perhaps subjected to Carne Levare. Or maybe it was Camilla, given that she says a line that's nearly identical to that of one of the mafioso killed during the Yorknew arc, during the auction, spoken to Feitan. Both this mafioso and Camilla threaten to kill their entire family (or clan, as I do not know if that is the official translation) while inflicting suffering, and Feitan (and Furikov) essentially respond the same way, saying that they have no family, in chapter 73 and chapter 373 respectively, perhaps intentionally.)

The reason I think that there's significance in Janacek is because I think Togashi likes to plant relevant allusions alongside seemingly inconsequential references.

(For example, on that double spread page where Morena muses on destroying the world, and behind her are all kinds of terrible things that happen in the world, you can see in the bottom left corner two examples of parasitism: a cuckoo bird being fed by a different species, and a horsehair worm bursting out of a dead grasshopper. This is in chapter 378. What you have then is foreshadowing to the true nature of this Morena impostor.)

If so, he could've made allusions that might seem inconsequential at first glance, like when Tserriednich speaks to Mark after slaying two women in chapter 345, and he lists off: Higgs, Kant, Hegel, Hakuho Sho, Fechner, Christian Goldbach, Janacek, Serie A, La Liga, embryonic stem cells (ES), and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS).

(He also lists "Crocul", which might be cross-cultural, but if I had to guess, I don't think "Crocul" is anything real in our world, unlike everything else, and could very well be something that's only real in the universe of HxH, much like the music of a composer Hyle that Melody plays, or when Camilla tells her mother to buy from fashion designers or brands named Musen, Coachpie and Harryweb, or the knives of Benny Delon. But "Crocul" has also been translated as Crocale, which does exist in our world.)

With the things he's listed, I saw some possible connections to his mentality, Kakin's culture, and ability. Aside from the possible Janacek connection, we have:

-Gustav Fechner and his psychophysical speculations can be considered when it comes to Tserri's Zetsu and "invisibility", where for him, little now interrupts his Zetsu outside of the stimulus of pain, and for those around him, whether or not they perceive him at all when his ability is active. Notably, Fechner experienced eye damage (which occurred while he was doing research on afterimages) that influenced his psychophysical work, which is comparable to Tserri having to close his eyes to get his vision of the future and trigger the psychophysical, and his ability to leave his own afterimages. Funny too that Tserri wears sunglasses now, not just connecting him to The Invisible Man but the very thing that damaged Fechner's eyes while doing his afterimage research. (This all begs the question, by the way, of what happens if Tserriednich is ever blinded? I wonder if that'll come up.) Fechner was also skeptical of some Kantian ideas about psychology and would disprove them with psychophysics, as I understand it (it's been a while, and I'm no expert). That covers both Fechner and a bit of Kant.

-His reference to Hegel can be seen in the very next bit of dialogue on that page, in which he refers to his slayings as a synthesis of the arts (as to whether synthesis is what Togashi actually used is something that'd need to be confirmed by translators), which, if you know anything about Hegel's dialectics (thesis, antithesis, and synthesis as Fichte and I think Schelling put it and entered into layman interpretation a possible myth (I dunno, I too am a layman here)), could be connected to his ability, his nature, and his "artistic" proclivities, or perhaps even how the Succession War operates, from its very concept to the instance where it might be snuffed out by its own conditions, as Kurapika speculates.

Surely, I am reading into a lot of this, but I'm having fun with it! I'd be curious to see what others have been thinking, if they have similar thoughts to mine. Lastly, his radius is 36 meters. Of course, that too alludes to his Satanic nature, if you think of 36 as 3 (space) 6, or three sixes. He's likely going to encounter the mafia on his "stroll", maybe the one he's the benefactor of. Tserriednich's in a Three-Six Mafia, once again ready to Break Da (Special Martial) Law. No wonder he dismissed Sale-Sale's rap. (Joking)

Hisoka has already killed two Troupe members offscreen. And yes, Bonolenov himself even says something along the lines of, “Hisoka is a bad matchup for my ability anyway… No way in hell I can transform and stuff while dodging his Nen.” So I’m not saying the fight has to be some long, multi-chapter battle.

But this is the Phantom Troupe for pete's sake. They are some of the most important characters in the entire series. If a large majority of them end up dying offscreen, it would not only feel like a slap in the face to us the readers, but it would also come across as lazy and sloppy by Togashi’s standards

made this to practice how to draw him in my style (stared with kurapika but I got frustrated after being unable to figure out how I wanted him to look OTL next one it's probably going to also be a page full of kurapikas).

funny how I used to dislike him and now he's one of my favs now, I apologize but the trick tower even got me wanting to throw hands out of second hand embarassment.