True enough.
He was based on Cell's design, and Cell looked like a roach, so close enough?
True enough.
He was based on Cell's design, and Cell looked like a roach, so close enough?
Peace.
I think it's safe to say he's much closer to a human than some uber radiation resistant bug. Not that even bugs would be fine after the radiation from a closeby nuclear explosion. It's just that from our perspective it might affect a bug's life less because they don't live long in any case. It's like saying a human would be okay after a high dose of radiation because they would live for half a year before dying and not dying immediately.
Sure, but if all it's going to do is give him radiation poisoning that will kill him in, like, a month, there's gotta be, like, dozens of ways for Nen to cure that before it actually kills him. For all we know, Pitou can do it.
That's part of the problem with trying to combat magic with technology. Magic can do anything.
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Man, I had no idea it was that kind of a world. When you think about the beginning of the show, there were few indications. I guess during Kurapika's arc one might have started to guess something to this direction, but not the extent. Spamming nuclear weapon attacks and terrorism everywhere. No wonder the Zoldyck family will never run out of work in that sort of a place.
The King looked pretty dead. If he can revive from that, he's not an ant but a dracula.
Gon's eyes and attitude were still of pure ice. Very promising.
Maybe I've missed something, but I can't find anywhere that the bombs are nuclear...
I can't imagine the king recovering from this anytime soon...if at all. It would be a bit anticlimactic, but the arc was never really about the king, but about Gon and Pitou.
The thing with Komugi being held hostage was kind of predictable, as it would've been the surefire way to force Pitou to obey Gon. Unless she learns of the kings death and decides not to care anymore about Komugi.
Indeed he does.Originally Posted by Kraco
I wonder if Pouf and Youpi are going to take up the role of arc villains now. Killua still hasn't really done much this arc. And I'd really like to see Pouf die.
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Why the hell were Pouf and Youpi making ahegao faces in the preview???
Peace.
Not sure, but it seems like they were trying to revive the King or something. Magical healing tears? Manly seeds of love?
I like Palm a lot more now that she's not a psycho-bitch, even if she's less "interesting" in a sense. That calm demeanour would actually have gone well with the old Knov, but now he's a scared old man. Funny how neither can be normal at the same time.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
It's true that now that we know those cheap-efficient bombs were used a lot, I doubt they are nuclear ones.
I mean, is it that interresting to wipe cities clean if you can't reclaim the freed space?
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Oh man, such a great episode. Even though no fighting happened.
Since I happened to watch the preview, this is a warning:
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Man, it´d suck incredibly if the king recovers from that. But the preview kinda implies exactly that, with Pouf and Youpi being so full of joy :/
But damn, Gon is sooo fantastic. You say it was predictable, but I don´t think that´s true. THAT Gon threatening to kill a weak girl? Taking her hostage? Nah, that´s incredibly character development. I also loved how Komugi didnt understand a thing, and was basically left to think of our heroes as villains.
Best scene: When Gon calls Pitou just that. Not "Neferpitou", just Pitou. Sure, they used abbreviations before, but not this "in your face". It felt like an insult, like a slap in her face, that she could not return that moment.
Last but not least: When Pitou was standing there behind Gon, her figure was super-sexy. @anonymous neg-repper: I´d have infinite numbers of butt sex with her if she really had a dick. That´s how much it doesnt matter lol
Still, I hope the king truly is dead. Would make this anime/manga even better than it already is. Seriously, a shounen series where the main villain is off-ed not by one of the main characters? Would be so refreshing and unique. Also, there´s the little problem about what the heck Knuckle, Killua and Co. would do if the king returns. Seriously, they´d be utterly screwed haha. They´ll have enough to handle with just Youpi, let alone Pouf.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Come on, people. They are small enough to fit in a suitcase, not the size of a huge truck. The metallic cylinder attached to the bomb (implosion device) was like straight out of a James Bond movie. The detonation itself: the blinding light, the blast blowing first out, then the air coming back in, and lastly the mushroom cloud. They are all textbook nuclear weapon descriptions. We even had a lake of lava as a bonus... We saw the whatever international assembly scene trying to ban the weapons. Whenever would nations try to ban ordinary explosives? Not that there would be ordinary weapons able to destroy a whole town.
So, unless HxH has a new branch of physics in addition to the nen powers, this was a nuclear weapon of the simple linear implosion kind since it was called cheap.
The only time nukes have been used in a war in our world certainly showed the user is not interested in reclaiming the freed space. A terrorist also wouldn't be interested in it, since a terrorist is only interested in generating terror in their enemies, like the name implies.
I'm with Kraco on this one. The Little Flower shows all of the tropes of being a nuclear bomb.
That said, we still don't know if radiation even effects the ants. If it does though, Pouf and Youpi would also be pretty much done for at this point. Crawling around inside a nuke's molten crater is pretty much a death sentence.
Also, at this point, I feel like they've kind of defused the climactic battle between Gon and Pitou. Because Pitou simply isn't going to fight Gon now that they've taken Komugi hostage.
My assumption is that Pitou is going to somehow find out the King is dead and go berserk. Then we'll get our climactic battle.
About the bomb: The flashback about this kind of bomb made it seem like a nuke, but nukes don´t turn the ground into lava, right? So I´m leaning towads no, the little rose is not a nuclear weapon.
Well, ants communicate by telepathy, right?
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
So, it's something even more terrible than a nuclear weapon in your opinion, huh?
The lake of lava was just artistic lisence by the author. A nuke does melt the surface of the ground and for example turn suitable silicon containing sand into glass like substance when it cools down. I reckon Togashi (assuming this was in the manga as well) wanted to create a more dramatic effect for the King's downfall. To create such a lake in the first place, I think one would need a sustained energy source, not one lasting a second, or possibly something humongous.
Depends. As you said, this little rose-bomb must have had sustained power, something more focused, to the point. A nuke goes of an bursts away everything, makes it crumble. This little rose, however, kept heating its environment until stone was turned to lava. Now, this is a dumb comparison, because a nuke would easily blow off as much of an area as this little rosa AND have the effect of deadly radiation. So even when I´m saying that yes, the little rose is in ways superior to a nuke, a nuke is still more destructive.
Where I´d see the advantage for the little rose is against an enemy that might regenerate. Basically, I´d use it against someone like Cell or Majin Buu. Goku´s genkidama basically was a sustained force, as opposed to the usual hit-and-explode-attacks like a kamehameha.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Nah, all the explosions we saw in the episode were those identical to nukes. That's why the lake of lava is in fact impossible unless there was an underground reservoir of something that started to burn really hot, ignited by the nuke. Or if the area was volcanic naturally and the nuke in fact caused a mantle plume to rupture, allowing magma to form a lake of true lava.
But I'd still place my bets on it just being artistic lisence taken to make the King's fate more terrible. I wouldn't expect this to have any deeper meaningfulness in the story afterwards, unless Youpi manages to mutate himself into some salamander monster using the lake.
Salamander monster? Argh, memories of Voyager.
"After all, I am strangely colored."
Supposedly the King and the Royal guard can't. Because they're the most human.
Pretty sure anything that burns at thousands of degrees(which a nuclear explosion does) will turn the ground into lava.
Not a salamander. A Salamander.
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Yeah, but the specific heat of rock matters. There's only so much heat a rock can absorb in a short amount of time.
http://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trin...clear-history/
That said, Chernobyl's accident melted lots of concrete and rocks.
"After all, I am strangely colored."
Power plant accidents can last for years like in Japan currently. Explosions aren't of nuclear type per se, rather just pressure from boiling coolant and such. Also, a power plant reactor would have hundreds of times more fuel than a nuke, whose core might only be the size of a tennis ball.
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