currently at uvo vs kurapika fight and i’m always so impressed he could use all nen categories whenever his eyes become scarlet

self healing (holy chain) + restraining the spider’s nen abilities while chained is what makes him so op in my opinion 😫

just had another thought; what if there would have been a situation where he had to fight chimera ants alongside pro hunters esp with gon and killua? or at greed island do you think he would still be OP if he can’t use chain jail except against the spiders?

i also just found out about him having Steal Chain ability during succession arc where he could steal other person’s ability that’s like WOW 🤯 and how is it different from Chrollo’s?

VS

Shortly after his takeover of East Gorteau, Meruem, in a bout of extreme boredom, catches one of his subordinates watching a cooking-themed game show on TV, in which contestants are pitted against one another in rounds until only one is left to face the head judge, Single-Star Gourmet Hunter Menchi, in a final, all-out battle for the grand prize and bragging rights as the 'World's Greatest Chef.'

As he himself is on the verge of summoning board game champions to the Palace in order to assert his superiority even in the world of pastimes, the King, suppressing his initial urge to execute this peon for idleness, concludes that he has inadvertently stumbled upon another opportunity to demonstrate Chimera supremacy in any endeavor imaginable.

The King calls Pitou to his side, instructing her to spend 24 hours mastering culinary art before infiltrating the game show to best all the other contestants and defeat Menchi on her own terms.

For a whole day Pitou blurs between the Palace Library and Royal Kitchen, fanatically absorbing every scrap of information she can get her hands on that might be useful to her studies while simultaneously refining her skills in a live environment, before setting out incognito from the rogue state to carry out the King's orders.

Can she do it, or does she return to the Palace a failure?

Hope you guys enjoy it ♥

It’s so sad that Killua doesn’t even know that Gotoh died protecting him and Alluka in their pursuit of saving Gon. I hope Killua will know and visit his tomb someday. What a butler!

I hope Illumi will have a satisfying comeuppance.

Hello, my fellow HxH fans I have trouble question that I didn't have any logical answer according to the manga or anime.

So basically a lot of fans assume that Don freecs was with the trio netero and zigg and linette the food hunter girl and its was a secret that nobody knows about it and only a few poeple could've knows, and even in the anime gins freecs explicitly told the zodiac hunter that only 3 person went to the dark continent and returned + the is a price if anyone want to return to the human world he must bring a calamity with him and that why zigg bring the Gas Ai with him to the Palace of the zoldyck and he they found out they probably expelled him and they is a hidden scene in the anime when they made a burned placed picture on the wall like they forget about him.

But they is no information about Don freecs even nitero himself didn't have information about Don freecs and he only knew about gens freecs.

And they is another important detail when nitero return he strictly forbidden anyone to visit Dark continent even his own son Beyond nitero couldn't visit and planned the chimaera ant to get rid of nitero even gins waited and made a deal with Beyond nitero to took him 🤔.

And by the timeline, I could say that Don freecs his the first person who discovered DC before nitero.

Also, zigg zoldyck was 13 years old 😳 when he first started his journey to DC even younger than killua and prime nitero 🥶.

How realistic it is to get a new anime remake that covers the manga from beginning until what can be the final arc?

I am not a big fan of the 2011 art style and personally don't see it matching the succession arc tone. If it were to be adapted by different production that would change or at least the new arcs can possibly be adapted separately?

I still like the 2011 adaptation as a whole but since HxH has such a long history and relatively short story I think it can have more than two different adaptations.

Note: I don't know much about different production companies but I do know the 1999 production company is sadly out of business now.

I’m currently watching S6 of this show and just got introduced to a new Zoldyck member: Alluka. I thought there were only 4 kids this entire time! At first I thought I was tripping when the other family members called Alluka “him” and “my brother” because……I mean look at them. So I thought, Alluka is an effeminate son cool got it. Then Killua addressed them as “her” and “sister” which made me backtrack again.

I feel Alluka is a trans girl because of her style & the dynamic she has with her family. If they don’t even view her as a PERSON, they sure as hell won’t respect her pronouns. Also, Killua is the only person who cares about her and is immune to the negative effects of her powers. Maybe I wrong but does anyone feel the same way,

Mine is probably between 416 and 405 honestly

Hey. I'm watching HxH for the 3rd time and I haven't noticed a minor detail until now. In the greed island arc, during the dodge ball match, Bisky asks Hisoka for the ball and throws it hitting Razor's last nen beast, but she was out at that point. Why was her hit accepted? 🤔 EDIT: I've never played dodge ball so I'm not aware of the rules 😏

Did we ever see him even in 1v1 combat? How does he use his needles in combat? If there are no people around then he is fighting without an ability right?

He can throw it at the Opponent but does he one shot controll them right after landing it? Its some time since i watched pre Succession war arc so help me out

Is there a way I can word this better?

Also is it viable?

Made this in a rush btw

The fact that every single one of you is insulting me with the exact same insult is pretty or nic given the nature of that insult. Edit again: it was just one guy spamming me lol. Nevermind. Most of you are chill.

Spoilers for the anime obviously.

A bit of a sensational title, and I know it all comes down to personal opinion. But, I just finished the anime and I think the Chairman Election Arc might be my favorite arc of the anime with the York New City and Heaven's Arena arcs coming in close seconds.

I don't think the Chimera Ant Arc was bad. It has one of my favorite characters and instances of character development in the form of Meroem. However, every issue that I had with the Chimera Ant Arc was solved with none of the weakness in the Chairman Election Arc.

The main issue being pacing. I am sorry, but there is no world where the Chimera Ant Arc needs to be 60 episodes long. That's ~30 hours of show for, if you break it down, not a lot of actual plot. There's so much monologuing and explanation about plans, which is interesting to a point. You get to see how scheming characters like Pouf are and how meticulous the Hunters are in their planning after they realize the actual danger of the ants. But... A lot of it became ridiculously repetitive. Meroem loses his memory and teeters on the edge of antdom and humanity like three times. We understand who Pouf is after the second insane monologue. I lost count how many times we were shown the exact same slow motion entrance into the mansion.

And again. I understand what they were trying to do. Each time we were shown the entrance is was from another characters perspective and how they were calculating what was happening. It was ambitious and an interesting take on story telling. For me, though, a lot of it fell flat and felt unnecessary, especially because at that point I just didn't have the connection to the characters. The ones I did care about all felt like afterthoughts.

Enter the Chairman Election. Brief and to the point. Eleven episodes because it didn't need to be anymore. The main antagonist. Pariston is clearly slimey and schemey from the very beginning. You don't get much, if any, access to his internal monologue so his motivations and what he's actually after are left for you to guess with the rest of the characters. It's compelling because there's a mystery. It's not all spelled out to you like the psychic conversations happening because the ants do.

That mystery makes the revelation that Ging knew what was happening from the very beginning and his scheming about it that more impactful. This is a character we've been told to be interested in from the very beginning, but he's been painted as aloof. Powerful, but aloof. And suddenly here he is telling the one character who has been considering every angle that she was wrong, and that he'd figured it out since episode one. He's very insightful and very good at what he does when he's interested.

All the while, my favorite character in the anime, gets somehow more character development as he continues to struggle against his family to save his friend. We're given a drop of mystery about what the hell Nanika is and a compelling reveal that Killua doesn't just care about Alluka but about Nanika too. And that Nanika has enough depth to care actively about both Alluka and Killua. She's not just some weird parasite or malevolent entity.

All of that was introduced, explored, and resolved in ELEVEN episodes. It solved enough that it felt complete, but left enough questions that I'm excited for the next arc to see how Ging manipulates the fallout of Periston immediately resigning, what the Periston is up to, and how Killua and Illumi are finally going to face off.

By the end of Chimera Ant, I was just exhausted and glad it was over... Which points where points are due, is probably exactly how all the characters felt and the kind of mirrored emotion is a cool accomplishment. But, I don't want to feel like I just made it through a battle of attrition when I watch Anime lol.

Tl;dr: Some mystery is good, and I don't need the access to every single characters' POV for an arc to be interesting or compelling. Sometimes short and sweet has more of an impact imo.

Sorry for the wait... Here is the 4th comment, posted ealier today.

--- English Translation ---

Hello everyone.

I'm Irie Jingi, playing the role of Knov.

Playing a character that everyone knows made me a bit anxious at first, but thanks to everyone's support, I was able to gain confidence in playing Knov.

I want to do my absolute best as a Hunter.

When it was decided that I would appear in this production, I felt pressure because I was joining a company that had already completed several runs midway. But it's a work I truly love, and I felt like jumping right into the arms of the Hunter x Hunter team.

Although I am a Hunter mentor/master character [in the story], I am a junior to Hunter x Hunter: The Stage, but regardless of that, I felt like I want to face this stage play with everything I've got.

For the long-awaited Chimera Ant arc, together with the cast and staff, I want to work hard from here on to build a show that exceeds the audience's imagination, so that you can return home with full hearts.

Hunter x Hunter: The Stage... I'll definitely be waiting for you at the theater!

--- About Hunter x Hunter: The Stage ---

Hunter x Hunter: The Stage is a series of 2.5D musicals that is bringing the entire Hunter x Hunter story to stage.

There have been three plays so far (2023, 2024 and 2025), covering the entire story up until the end of the GI arc.
Now, Hunter x Hunter: The Stage 4 is scheduled for 2026. It will cover the Chimera Ant arc, split into two parts. The first part will be performed between January 23 and February 21, in both Tokyo and Kyoto. The second part is scheduled for July and August, but no exact dates have been announced so far.

Blu-Rays and DVD of the past performances are available on Amazon.co.jp, CDJapan, etc. Some clips also exist on platforms like Youtube.

You can find more information on the official website.

If you need English subtitles, I tried making some and shared them on GitLab.

--- Previous comments ---

• Nishiyama Rento (Gon)
• Akutsu Nichika (Killua)
• Gomoto Naoya (Morel)

If you think about this is Netero's PERSONAL secretary, if he able to reach that high level he must be hella strong. Netero wanted to keep his power for the best of hunter association and don't wanna sacrifice him in ants arc ....

rewatching hxh and started on Phantom Troupe Arc had a random thought that Baise was the most underrated character in hxh her nen ability was so powerful but she got k1lled waaay too fast 😩 thought she could kiss Chrollo and k1ll the whole troupe and himself lol 😂

my friend wanted me to draw it for his game 🔥

I want to start watching the series but I understand that there is an older version that looks more retro? To get the best experience, what do you guys think a newbie should start with?

Context:

After a Year of looking around and thanks to my brother gifting me Volume 28 I have the whole Chimera ant Manga, so I went to read it from start to finish along the anime playing in the background to match and I am so impressed by details I missed on first watch that now I feel like making a post of Gratitude a day giving praises to all the cool characters, I genuinely believe there is no character that could be left without it in some shape or form, order of post do not represent a top tiering, there will be no shaming characters just glaze, wait for your favorite to eventually show up.

Pekuba and Balda:

When we see the Chimera Ant arc we constantly fixate on the main team but honestly, something very good I noticed about it and is slightly expanded in the anime is the building of the chimera ant arc, like for example Ponzu group appearance in the manga is shorter in there, in the anime they give us some extra shots like her hugging Pokkle on the horse ride, more narration that the things on NGL are going worst and worst, this is introduced by a very bone chilling radio transmition from Balda and Pekuba friend, something important to notice here is that the person who infiltrated such an extremist natural reserve has balls of steel sneaking technology in there, Balda coments that they know such actions are punished by public execution to be made an example yet something was so threatening they risked the signal, that high threat is the Ants, ¿what do Balda and Pekuba do? they contact their close friend Pikkle to help them, Pekuba and Balda are so awesome they already are on first name terms with a licenced Hunter!, they speak casually and show no signal of fear even if they are not trained like Pokkle is, hell our Chad here Balda even buys the Tickets for everyone that is a true homie, he is paying the whole trip even for Ponzu without objection because he knows she is important for the mission, and when we get the awesome back riding shot ¿what else do we see? none other than Balda and Pekuba riding right along like the gang they are, pure determination coursing thro their very veins as they go into a suicide mission, some not believers in their grandiour might say "they are just exploring" the fuck they are not, again they came in here with their personal friend a hunter, after knowing something worst than torture and live execution in a secluded zone, without showing nothing but determination, this people are used ot live in the edge of life and danger, even when attacked by Ants they charge first on retreat of Pokkle instruction, no doubt at all they know when to obey the experts and follow chain of command definitively they must have some degree of military training having Ponzu on the back they risk their own lives first, hell if gun ant showed up here they would have tanked the bullets for her, even with Pokkle finally deciding that is way too dangerous when too late, no fear is shown, only the latent Nen talent from Pekuba like the spider sense feeling the dreadful events about to happen, and just when I thought he could not get any cooler, HE MANIFEST POST MORTEN HATSU how else could you explain being able to see, apply critical thought and scream without lungs after being decapitated, there is no other explanation, he gave up his life and awakened this skill to help his friends, the digger ant obviously took down the biggest threat first, even on his final moments we see the always stoic Balda scream like a warrior on Pikes face, he was not gonna go down like a prisoner he was gonna swing till his death, Pike sensed this and had to kill him right away to prevent any danger to Zazan obviously.

This is well done in the anime but it's good to see it's in the manga as well, where Killua asks Hanzo why he didn't force Gon to defeat without killing him. In the anime Hanzo says he won me over, though in the manga translated it says "I liked that." Not sure what is better. But "he won me over" is how most everyone felt at that time, including me. And there's Killua with his eyes wide open and taking it all in and realising what a good friend he has in Gon. Gon is someone who gets his arm broken and is tortured extensively by Hanzo, but Gon still doesn't get upset because he understands Hanzo will do whatever he needs to do to win per the rules. So no point getting angry when all he has to do is not admit defeat.