Board 8 > Watching Hunter X Hunter for the first time. Holy crap episode 5.

(+) Yeah! (+)

CoolCly posted...

if you saw the squiggly finger paintings many of us had to interpret the arc from....

It's high art you wouldn't get it
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Also yeah I'm done here before this gets ugly
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We're using spoiler bars it's fiiiiine
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No need to get ugly, seeing your points I can understand your stance whether I agree with it or not.

pjbasis posted...

CoolCly posted...

if you saw the squiggly finger paintings many of us had to interpret the arc from....

It's high art you wouldn't get it

No joke when I first saw some of the manga art for HxH around that time I thought it was some kind of /a/ meme.
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CoolCly posted...

pjbasis posted...

I guess some people just want every villain to be freeza.

I guess Perfect Cell wasn't good enough

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oof its my literal favorite show, have fun

chimera ant is a genre-defining masterpiece
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Mac Arrowny posted...

I prefer the pre-Meruem half of the arc. Has this incredible horror atmosphere to it that I've never seen in a shounen anime before.

there's a good horror premise in there, but it all evaporates when you start introducing characters like surfer dude lion and kindly librarian penguin
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Avoiding all the spoilers in here.

A dudes heart just got ripped out.

Got damn
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Only arc I legit disliked was Yorkshin

Holy **** I dont give a damn about these villains and Crapica, I just wanted it to be over

And maybe the new chairman election thingy

Anyway, enjoy.

I should start rereading this thing, stopped before they started the latest arc
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INCEPTlON posted...

Avoiding all the spoilers in here.

A dudes heart just got ripped out.

Got damn

You really should just ignore all of them, yeah. People are spoiling whole arcs.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Honestly really shocked we've got HxH naysayers. Never happened before! Not saying you don't have a right or anything, just haven't ever seen anybody talk bad about it that's actually seen it before, lol.

And to clarify, the newer anime over the older one....it's a total invalidation. There's nothing to go back to the old one for, unless you REALLY wish Hisoka still had blue hair like me.

Yeah, I know I'm a minority opinion, but I just have no patience for what HxH tries to do with the level of execution it has. It has very unsatisfying fight endings outside of a single arc Greed Island, it's very grimderp in a way that feels pointlessly edgy instead of actually going somewhere with its darker tone, and I really, really don't like how much people fawn over Gon being omg so speshul when he does nothing interesting or awesome across the entire run except for the one arc I spoilered. On top of this, the only serious personal quality of his that I like is that he's very stubborn and determined, and I otherwise find him to be an extremely unlikable little sociopath. Couple that with a lot of botched plot resolutions and yeah, I really hated most of my watchthrough. It felt like I was wasting hours I would never get back on an unworthy work. I will give it this, though: the anime really manages to have an excellent ending, in spite of failing to get things right a lot of the time otherwise. So if you like the rest, the conclusion has gotta be outstandingly satisfying.

EDIT: It also didn't help that a lot of people sold it to me as an anime with amazing fight scenes and lots of 'clever' combat where the smarter, not stronger character won (in the style of JJBA, for example) and...that isn't really how it works in practice a lot of the time. It's a really frustrating anime for me because it feels like it wants to do something great and fresh but it doesn't know how to do it, and comes off as extremely indecisive and lame as a result. It ends up working out to be the case that when it hews closest to generic shonen archetypes and tropes, it ends up much more entertaining, because it works within that framework with practiced ease that stands in a very stark contrast with the grimderp stuff people praise.
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Def agree that it's trying to be edgy for being edginess sake at times

KanzarisKelshen posted...

EDIT: It also didn't help that a lot of people sold it to me as an anime with amazing fight scenes and lots of 'clever' combat where the smarter, not stronger character won (in the style of JJBA, for example)

And the fanbase genuinely believes this too, but... I don't think it's true. Because Killua tore out a heart once or because Kurapika supposedly has restrictions on his power, even though he doesn't it's apparently clever.
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I....very much disagree with it being edgy for edginess sake. That's selling Togashi super short. The man ended Yu Yu Hakusho because he said it wasn't good enough, he has high standards for himself outside of his art.
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I cant believe they started the final exam with Gon securing his spot as a hunter.

If they are giving that to me now, whats about to go down?
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Just because you have high standards doesn't mean you can deliver on them. There's moments where something dark happens and it's definitely planned and clever, but I can think of a bunch of villains who are just a bunch of edgelords and not particularly nuanced in how they work their violence/other disturbing actions. I watched/read YYH from start to finish, so trust me when I say I know Togashi can do better than HxH.
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I enjoy YYH, but I place HxH MUCH higher on the totem pole.
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yeah, it seems most people feel that way. I just don't. Maybe it's because I have no patience for juvenilia? HxH is like...it's in that ASOIAF vein where a lot of the time, it confuses edge for maturity, and it pisses me off. It takes way more effort and artistry to do mature things without resorting to shock value and apathy-inducing darkness and I dock it a ton of points for going for hamfisted approaches over something actually nuanced and subtle. Nothing in HxH really comes close to the moment where the reveal about how Chapter White is meant to be watched alongside Chapter Black is explained, IMO, as far as depth goes.
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wew
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It's just a matter of thinking hxh goes for that or not I guess.

I understand your sentiment because I've watched akame ga kill, but hxh is clearly successful at being nuanced and dark to me.
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Killuas father was awesome for his short role.
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Killua's father might have been my least favorite part of the anime. Really didn't like that arc :/
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We going Daddy hunting! Ging reveal was cool.
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