Hunter x Hunter 2011

[DarthEnderX]

You could tell it was gonna be some episode when the didn't even take time for the opening credits.

I was NOT expecting them to kill off Komugi. It was all very poetic, but definitely not what that character deserved.

I thought it was an interesting choice to have both Youpi and Pouf's final moments happen off-screen.

The king repeatedly asking, if Komugi was still there, was heartbreaking.

Urg! Hurts my chesticles.

[David75]

You could tell it was gonna be some episode when the didn't even take time for the opening credits.

I was NOT expecting them to kill off Komugi. It was all very poetic, but definitely not what that character deserved.

I thought it was an interesting choice to have both Youpi and Pouf's final moments happen off-screen.

Urg! Hurts my chesticles.

I expected that to happen ever since the explanation that survivors exposed were spreading a lethal poison that would incur even more victims. Something a little more potent that a nuke after all.

That last scene was very "Romeo and Juliet" like to me.

Repetitions in that last scene, and also the protagonists background making so that they should never have met, let alone entertain a relationship of anykind.

[DarthEnderX]

I expected that to happen ever since the explanation that survivors exposed were spreading a lethal poison that would incur even more victims.

I didn't think much of it because I was still thinking it was just radiation, but they were trying really hard to avoid calling it that for some reason.

If they really were, themselves, poisonous, then characters like Welfin and Palm should be dying right now too. But then they threw in that "if you stay near me too long" line, so that they can basically justify the poison ONLY killing Komugi.

[enkoujin]

I didn't think much of it because I was still thinking it was just radiation, but they were trying really hard to avoid calling it that for some reason.

Pretty sure it has to do with the atomic bombs during WW2. Explicitly talking about nuclear weapons or radiation could be seen as insensitive and could cause some controversies (like 9/11 for Americans, but much worse).

If they really were, themselves, poisonous, then characters like Welfin and Palm should be dying right now too. But then they threw in that "if you stay near me too long" line, so that they can basically justify the poison ONLY killing Komugi.

I'd have thought Knuckle and Meleoron would be more poisoned since Meruem did actually touch and knock them out.