Hunter x Hunter 2011

[Buffalobiian]

Your ability is what you make of it,

What are you trying to say? You can choose, or you can't? I'm saying that you can choose your ability, and the closer it matches your natural affinity the easier/more powerful it will be.

You obviously choose the ability.

My point was, if you choose your ability to be "I purge other people's nen" then you have an ability that has almost no combat applications.

Given that most Hunters choose their abilities for fighting, it's not at all surprising to me that Nen purging is rare.

The whole idea of a nen-purging ability isn't to make it good for combat. It's to make the other person suck. You give yourself a nen-purging ability while training your own fighting ability without Nen. If Killua had Nen-purging as his ability, he'd turn other people into normal folks while he remains a top assassin. Imagine Rock Lee with an ability that seals Ninjutsu/Genjutsu.

It's not useful against non-Nen beings (say, physically strong chimera ants), but it specifically makes you a Nen-user assassin. In the regular human world, strong nen users are likely to be the strong people around.

Gon and Killua are, however, one in a million people. If they just forgot the diagram and pushed forward, they'd probably discover there's nothing holding them back and find out Gon's old man is waiting for them beyond such doctrines. In the first place, there's no single technique to purge foreign nen. You can already reject, to a degree, some nen attacks simply by concentrating your own nen to the part of the body getting hit. For all we know, there might be some very simple guru technique of purifying your body from all nen, be it your own or someone else's. Mainstream dogmatic people just would never realise such a thing, being bound by their own rules. It would probably take someone as eccentric as Ging to discover the whole truth.

I'm sure the system was discovered by some Nen Sage of the past and not some mainstream Hunter Administration Hotline. The categories are designed to tell you what you should do to maximise your potential. You're right that Killua and Gon are 1-in-a-million progidees and can do different things. If Gon went to become a specialist instead of an enhancer though, he might as well be a normal specialist instead of being a 1-in-a-million Enhancer.

As for the "specialist" thing, specialists are people who don't fit into the aforementioned categories. You use the water divination technique to find out. They're the outliers. As far as we know, while Gon and Killua are good they aren't these "outliers" who do weird and wonderful things. They're good - but a specific type of good.

[DarthEnderX]

We have already seen two specialists whose abilities allow them to use techniques from any category (Kurapika in her spider hunter mode and Chrollo the technique thief).

Because they're Specialists. And Specialist abilities don't have to follow the rules.

The whole idea of a nen-purging ability isn't to make it good for combat. It's to make the other person suck. You give yourself a nen-purging ability while training your own fighting ability without Nen. If Killua had Nen-purging as his ability, he'd turn other people into normal folks while he remains a top assassin. Imagine Rock Lee with an ability that seals Ninjutsu/Genjutsu.

We've only seen one Nen-purger so far in the series, and his abilities are completely unusable in combat.

If increased limitations = increased power, given how complicated the limitations on his ability are, I think it's safe to say that Nen-purging is considered an incredibly powerful ability. And creating one that you could actually use mid-battle would probably make the limitations on it ridiculous.

[enkoujin]

Episode 92 is out!

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The ongoing dramatic irony of Gon still believing that Kite is still alive is pretty gloomy...

[MFauli]

The ongoing dramatic irony of Gon still believing that Kite is still alive is pretty gloomy...

the moment i watched gon going on about kite still being alive, it went back to super depressing again

but damn, this anime is so fantastic, and ill repeat this as many times as i need to. i want a hxh-fighting game, an action-adventure game, and then an mmorpg. such a fantastic world/setting.

btw. isnt it all over now? chimera ants are spreading all over the planet now.

next week gives the impression of being filler.

[Kraco]

No matter how I look at this, the Hunters utterly failed in their operation. Although I'm not even sure anymore what their operation was. Apparently it wasn't to stop the chimera ants. But then again, it's nothing but a single private association, so it's not like it would have had any particular duty to stop the ants. I guess it's now up to each country's armed forces to stop the invasions, as would be natural. But then again, considering how DB the King looks like, I guess armed forces would be nothing but fodder and this King will rule the world unopposed until somebody comes with a can of Raid.

[David75]

Since the King is homage to DBZ's cell, coult it be that powerless little baby is meant to be some kind of Goku?

Just saying, from how Goku was so weak at birth compared to Brolly (I think)

Enough with DBZ.

So the association really teams up with Colt.
Netero too weak to fight the King... and calling some mysterious acquaintance.
Somehow that ep was a little weak. It happens once in a while

[MFauli]

Btw. I´d gladly accept Scorpion girl as my queen :>

[shinta|hikari]

Based on anime plot patterns, Netero will do something incredible before this arc is over, so yeah, I am not worried about the world at all.

[David75]

Btw. I´d gladly accept Scorpion girl as my queen :>

Just be careful with your a$$, unless you like it like that of course

[Buffalobiian]

The original operation was espionage and assassination. Now that the king is born, it should move to:

a) Containment, and/or
b) Search and Destroy.

Netero said that it's been ages since he was amongst the strongest Nen users. Being chairman though, I bet that even if he's not one of the strongest - he knows the strongest (ones).

That girl looks like Palm after a Bisky-makeover. Still not as good as Bisky though. I thought Killua would have had to defend Gon from Palm and prove himself that way since she's so murderous and all, but it seems that he'll have to do it against some ants instead. Perhaps it'll be against Rammot since he has a bone to pick with them.

[shinta|hikari]

Netero was being modest. He is probably at least in the top 5, if not 3.

[Buffalobiian]

Netero was being modest. He is probably at least in the top 5, if not 3.

Assuming he's not lying when he said he's currently less than half his prime strength.. you'd hope the are currently some "Prime-time Neteros" running around the planet that you can call upon to fill the top spot - and everything in between.

I have a feeling you could be right (top 3 and top 5 would correspond to having 2 generations of "Netero-class" youngsters ahead of him, along with their rivals [one each]).. but if all we've got are 2x Young Netero class, 2x Middle Netero class and 1x Old Netero class (<50% strength).. that's pretty sad.

[shinta|hikari]

He is the leader of the association, and obviously not by some political tactic. He must be right up there. Him being at half strength is also a lie. Fake modesty is something even real people do all the time.

[Kraco]

If fricking days old ants can be super strong in nen, it would be statistically utterly impossible for there not to be super hyper strong nen users among humans. All things considered, there wouldn't be any reason for them to hang around the Hunter association bureaucracy, rather they would be chasing their own ambitions and dreams wherever, like Ging, so it's natural Netero wouldn't have had them at hand when they went to hunt the ants in a hurry. Even if their raw potential wasn't as big as the monster ants have, they would have years of research, meditation, fighting, and drinking under their belts, making them far more deadly even with less hp. The King even has such a rotten personality that it will surely backfire sooner or later.

[shinta|hikari]

I agree. I think this arc is trying to show the audience that Nen aura is not enough to judge the fighting ability of a being. Netero will probably have some imba skill that will compensate for the difference in raw power. Even Knuckle's skill is incredibly annoying and effective. Just cast it then run to the ends of the earth. Eventually, the enemy will lose due to the interest and won't be able to use Nen for a month.

[MFauli]

Even Knuckle's skill is incredibly annoying and effective. Just cast it then run to the ends of the earth. Eventually, the enemy will lose due to the interest and won't be able to use Nen for a month.

unless it´s like dragonball, where boo was trapped in another dimension ... and simply used enough raw energy to blast a hole back to the original dimension

[Buffalobiian]

I agree. I think this arc is trying to show the audience that Nen aura is not enough to judge the fighting ability of a being. Netero will probably have some imba skill that will compensate for the difference in raw power. Even Knuckle's skill is incredibly annoying and effective. Just cast it then run to the ends of the earth. Eventually, the enemy will lose due to the interest and won't be able to use Nen for a month.

Except they could be physically faster than you.. and have an inhumane output that isn't bottlenecked like humans.

I'm not convinced that he's lying. The other two certainly don't think so either.

[shinta|hikari]

I was making a comparison with Netero using the Knuckle example. Knuckle is a disciple of a hunter who views Netero as "special." Needless to say, Knuckle and Netero are not even in the same dimension when it comes to ability. If even someone who faints from Gon's punch can have some cheap ability like that, it is only logical to assume that the head of the organization (along with all the shounen character build up) is going to have something much more powerful.

[DarthEnderX]

btw. isnt it all over now? chimera ants are spreading all over the planet now.

Yeah, I was totally getting the impression that this arc basically just ended, and the Chimera Ants are going to end up being a problem for some future arc now.

Or at the very least, Meurem will be a future big bad. But the other commanders will probably just be an ongoing part of the HxH world from now on.

[Buffalobiian]

Yeah, I was totally getting the impression that this arc basically just ended, and the Chimera Ants are going to end up being a problem for some future arc now.

Or at the very least, Meurem will be a future big bad. But the other commanders will probably just be an ongoing part of the HxH world from now on.

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