I would like to remind you that no matter how popular your favorite shonen is, how big it is on social media, how hype it makes 9 year olds, it will never compare to Hunter x Hunter.
Hunter x Hunter is the best battle shonen ever made. No chapters? No one cares. The original Hunter x Hunter story ended. The unfinished arc was just a cherry on top, a spin off from a masterpiece under the same name as the original.
In fact, I hope HxH never gets another chapter. You do not deserve to read it.
Nearly there OP
>christian imagery that only existed to drag out a dragged out arc even further is supposedly good
And hunterfags wonder why everyone laughs at them
HxH is pretty good series no doubt
One piece is the same rinse and repeat shonen and naruto is just well naruto, only faggots watch it.
other shonen series are for people even worse than faggots.
so yeah HxH comes on top
no wonder these troon anime watchers seethe at us so bad.
I used to think like you, I truly did.
But you have to let go eventually, it's not good for you.
Everything that’s considered deep or deconstructional of the shonen genre in HxH can be already found in Dragon Ball.
>dragon ball
kek, you sure never passed 2nd grade did you nigger or have your motor fuctions stopped working.
The worst thing is that I basically just stopped reading manga since a long time now, but I still cannot get Hunter x Hunter out of my mind.
>trace some art
>midwits: ITS LE DEEP
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Hunter X Hunter. The drama is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Philosophy and Psychology's most important thesis, most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Hisoka's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of each character's arcs, to realize that they're not just impactful- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Hunter X Hunter truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the signficance in Gon's existencial catchphrase "I will find my father," which itself is a reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Togashi's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Hunter X Hunter tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
>ad hominem
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Dressrosa is a masterpiece. No one in the modern age can write a story arc that takes place in a single day with dozens of factions and characters at play, focusing on hundreds of plot points, building up a big climax while also delivering emotional payoff to every single of those plot-points. There's not a single plot point that does not have a resolution in Dressrosa. It manages to do all of that while also tackling thought provoking themes and introducing characters that are infinitely more morally interesting than any other arc that came before it.
Dressrosa is the type of story you would see in ancient religious and fantasy epics like The Divine Comedy, Odyssey or Mahabharata that are hundreds of years old. No modern authors can replicate a story arc as masterful as Dressrosa.
Kishimoto is just realistic. Mass murderers are charismatic and have a huge following. Gifted children (not "gifted" children) are more intelligent than adults no matter how many years worth of experience they have. Sociopathic criminals get away with everything just because their skills and abilities are convenient to people. By sugarcoating your words, you can manipulate everyone and even make them kill themselves. The world is fucked up, and if you are gifted with power and lineage, people will be drawn to you.
Sorry dude. Real life does not work the way you think it does. Hokage are not geniuses. Most of them attained that position through favors and connections. Kishimoto is a true genius, laying the world bare in front of our eyes as it is in its true form.
Chad piece
Soul Society & Hueco Mundo : Kubo's Perfect Narrative Inversion
One of the most common criticism Bleach has received during it's run is that both the Soul Society arc and Hueco Mundo arc are one and the same. This is not only a very surface level observation of the story but a lack of understanding as to why Kubo decided to give these two arc similarities in the first place.
The underlying theme of both of these arcs is very different from the one another. The Soul Society arc is mainly about questioning a flawed system and their sense of Justice, gaining powers and changing their view. Where as the Hueco Mundo arc has "understanding one's self" ,the struggle with one's inner demon and coming to realize the consequences of failing to control them while also accepting those demons(The latter comes into the narrative during the Fake Karakura Town arc but since it's connected I thought it should be mentioned).
Human reasoning plays a pivotal part in the conflict associated with the Soul Society arc where as the animal instinct within oneself is an important aspect when it comes to the Hueco Mundo arc as the conflict with one's inner demon is based on them(White's speech to Ichigo during the Vizord training)
To have the characters in these two arcs play along these themes, Kubo differenciates the espadas from the shinigami since their origins by associating them with different animals/insects. Like Grimmjow with Panther, Harribel with Shark, Nnoitora with Mantis, Nel as horse/goat, Ulquiorra with a mixture of Bat and mammel(since his resurrection also has a tail), Stark's ceros being in the forms of wolves and so on.
Where as in the Soul Society arc, the powers of the Shinigami have a certain grace to them and they are very much in line with the human ego rather than the animal insticts represented in the resurrection forms of the espada. Byakuya's bankai is sakura flowers representing beauty but also the fact that people are buried under the Sakura tree as well(Hisana), Tousen's Bankai rids the opponent off all their senses except for Touch just like how Tousen's blind, Komamura's bankai is a Japanese soldier clad in complete armor, just like Komamura who's face was always hidden within an armor, Yamamoto's shikai is fire showing power and strict governance over the system, Gin's bankai is a poisonous long blade snake like his nature, Aizen's shikai is pure hyponis and making illusions just like how his whole outword personality was a lie. Even though Renji's zanpakuto has the form of a Monkey/snake it's more in line with his personal arc of standing up against the nobles and the system despite being a rat on the street as shown by Kubo's doodles at the end of the chapter.
Throughout the Soul Society arc Ichigo's shown to be achieving powers through his training for becoming a Shinigami and later on achieving Bankai with his Zanpakuto(Old man) helping him in doing so. Where as in the Hueco Mundo arc those very powers(White) serve as a conflict for him to overcome, not just physically but later on by coming to an understanding with them. Uryu's fight with Mayuri is about his pride as a quincy with also a theme of fatherhood playing a bigh role. Nemu despite being abused by Mayuri has a certain level of understanding of him while Uryu is completely disconnected from Ryuuken. Both "fathers" being rather cruel but rather seen through a different perpective through their artificial and human children. Uryu even apologises to Souken saying he doesn't understand his father and still has to use the ultimate technique. Although Mayuri escapes he is defeated by Uryu who in the end is saved by Nemu who gave him the vaccine to stop the poisoning.
"shounen" is a demographic, not a genre. also theres nothing deconstructive about HxH. its still about how great friendship, hard work, and justice is.
Uryu's fight with Szayel starts as him basically assisting Renji in defeating him and despite all of his new techniques both of them fail in defeating Szayel and are ultimately saved by Mayuri who gives his famous speech on perfection and why he loates it, completely in contrast with Szayel's desire to become a perfect being. But Mayuri's very hatred of perfection later on comes to haunt him in the last arc as he also feels despair at the loss of Nemu who he came to subconsciously believe to be a perfect artifical soul with their own beliefs and desire, finally breaking the boundries with which she was created. Ultimately coming to an understanding of how much Nemu means to him. While Szayel comes to taunt him in his mind that he achieved the very pergection(creating a perfect human soul) that he loathed. Kubo shows the contradiction in Mayuri's thinking and his actions. Same with Uryu who finally understands what Ryuuken wanted to protect all along, his reasons and following the path of his father by becoming a doctor(something which he disdained after watching Ryuuken disect his mother). I went a little to far here basically towards the end of the manga but that's because this narrative of fatherhood is very much linked to Mayuri and Uryu till the end and isn't resolved until then.
Kubo masterfully inverts these arcs by showing the contradiction between the understanding of human compassion when it comes to a shinigami and a hollow aka a pure soul that was saved and a corrupted one that was left to rot consumed by his negative desires. Hanataro comes to recognize Rukia as a good individual through their conversations and the kindness she shows to him where as Loly and Menoly look at Orihime as a monster for showing them kindness and compassion. Even in the end while Hanataro actively helps Ichigo to save Rukia, Loly protecting Orihime was more about self preservation against Yami.
Ichigo's fight with Renji is more about Renji finally coming to an understanding with what he wants to do when it comes to Rukia. His fight against Ichigo serves to change his personal view on the conflict, following his heart rather than the system even if he is no match for that system. His views are changed through Ichigo's resolve. The flashback given to Renji here highlights his reason for abandoning Rukia all those years ago due to his own powerlessness in front of the system in contrast with Ichigo's resolve.
I hope your mom gets raped by a pack of feral niggers (´◡`)
Not even Togashi's best manga.
It's over user, let it go.
Ichigo's fight with Grimmjow has more to do with Ichigo finally accepting his animal instincts and overcoming his guilt of having to fight with the hollow powers that makes his eyes look like Sora's which makes Orihime fearful of him. Here Orihime's acceptance of his struggles and disregard of his method of protecting her as long as it's him is what helps him overcome Grimmjow. Here it's Grimmjow who helps Ichigo in accepting his animal instinct while it's Orihime's emotional support that finally helps him in overcoming his subconscious fear of his inner demon. The flashback given to Grimmjow also helps in highlighting the contrast in his journey compared to Ichigo. As Grimmjow was asked to eat his own comrades to keep evolving, leaving them behind and not even feeling any remorse when they were killed during his invasion of the Karakura town compared to Ichigo's resolve to save Orihime and bring all of his frinends back to their home while defeating Grimmjow, Ulquiorra and Aizen.