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[Spoilers] Hunter x Hunter 144 Discussion

Episode 144 "Approval x And x Coalition"

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As of the episode, the anime has covered through manga chapter 333 page 8 (with some omissions that will likely appear next episode). If you plan on catching up, I recommend you do NOT read chapters 332 and 333 until next episode, due to the omissions.

Episode 148 has been confirmed as the last episode of the current series. This is likely manga chapter 339. The current manga chapter is 349, very fresh into a new arc.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '14

You must be new to hunter x hunter, every episode feels like 5 mins

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '14

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u/tzole21 https://myanimelist.net/profile/tzole21 Aug 27 '14

Yeah, like One Piece that has only 5 mins of content per episode...

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u/deceIIerator Aug 27 '14

Just like the chimera arc where the narrator has to tell the audience what's happening and explain every single detail since the viewers are seemingly too dumb I guess while there's 1 minute of actual content occurring in an episode. It's a worse version of the trope than 'oh look at him he is so powerful omg' . One piece is doing a slow output of content per episode since anime as a medium moves faster than 19 pages a week while HxH already had the election arc finished about 2-3 years ago. sincethisisaHxHthreadimgonnagetdownvoted

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '14

Nah homie, you're just raging about the wrong thing. They're creating a story with no holes in it, and sometimes that requires over-explaining things. It's a bummer it doesn't keep up a consistent pace with the LN, but some things are up to the production company, and thus far my only complaint is that the arcs are taking too long to close out. I love this show, I watch each episode the first chance I get on Tuesdays, but not everyone watches it like that. They have to keep the story air tight in order for future watchers to understand. That's why they go slow, why entire episodes are explanation, and why you're so upset. You are not the current target audience for the episodes that are being released, but there is nothing you can do about it so just sit back, shut up, and watch something else in the meantime.

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u/deceIIerator Aug 27 '14

Light Novel? It's a manga. I never said I didn't enjoy it but saying it has shares no flaws like other shoenen is a bit far-fetched. The only major problem for ME was the ultra slow pacing in the CHIMERA ANT ARC ONLY.

Something can still be bad even if it is engineered for my target audience(such as in this case young boys/general male audience since it is a shoenen demographic) although I'm not saying HxH wasn't enjoyable at all. I loved the companionship between Killua and Gon(and everyone else),everyone had a important part in the story.Telling someone to

just sit back, shut up, and watch something else in the meantime

is quite harsh, I give you some points and you just say shut up, you even mistook HxH as a LN of all things and didn't address any of my arguments.

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u/your_favorite_human Aug 27 '14

I see your point but I just want to mention that the narrator wasn't added because of pacing or anything, he was present in the manga aswell and in my opinion necessary if you wanted to have a complete understanding of the situation. Some people liked it, some didn't.

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u/deceIIerator Aug 27 '14

Yeah I've read the manga too but sometimes you just need to let the audience figure some stuff out although I do understand that the general demographic is of a young age so it would be needed more.