Hunter X Hunter

I'm not insulting you. Unless saying someone sounds biased is an insult, in which case you're guilty of it just as much as me.

You also seem a lot more hostile about this, when all I said was that the impression I got was that this was a special circumstance because the old man was strongly against Kurapika passing.

edited 14th Dec '12 12:37:21 AM by Saiga

Well, maybe it was a special circumstance, but it's certainly not cheating. You called it a "plan to foil" when if anything it was just a "plan to make the test more accurate." Pairo cheated, and if the clan hadn't died off then Kurapica would've made a terrible ambassador of it because he has trouble controlling his emotions. The test exists for a reason. Rooting for Kurapica to pass the test through blatant cheating strikes me as missing the point entirely.

The point being that the out-of-control enraged kid Kurapica was the seed for the revenge-obsessed cold-blooded killer Kurapica. He was like that before the massacre, it just pushed him over the edge. Which honestly makes his choice at the end of the Yorkshin arc even more meaningful, because rather than "reverting to his original peaceful self" he was "overcoming the lesson he failed to learn as a kid".

edited 14th Dec '12 12:44:26 AM by Clarste

It's most certainly cheating if it's not meant to be part of the test, because it's unfair to be harder on Kurapika.

Pairo only cheated after hearing the old man talking to the outsiders and realized something was up, he was being careful.

The test is to see if you can go outside without turning your eyes red. No more and no less. First of all, it was never implied that this only happened for Kurapica. In fact, the opposite was implied since the partner was supposed to know what would happen and Kurapica was given the freedom to pick any partner (although presumably it was supposed to be an adult). Which means everyone in the entire village was in on it. Which to me implies that it's something they all went through themselves, although I suppose it's also possible that they all hate Kurapica.

Second of all, it doesn't make it "harder" so much as it makes it a test at all. If they were just supposed to go shopping normally... why in the world would they have any obstacle to overcome? 9 times out of 10 the test would be meaningless because the test-taker got lucky and didn't encounter anything noteworthy. It's only a test in the first place if something happens. So it's only reasonable to set up a situation without telling the participant. To do anything else would be kinda... stupid. Like, super stupid. I don't think we're meant to see the elder as stupid. Excessively stubborn, sure, but not stupid. Nor cruel. Just stubborn.

Honestly, I am being hostile towards you because your interpretation seriously makes no sense at all to me unless we just assume that everyone's completely out of character and does things that make no sense or that you have some bizarre bias towards Kurapica and want him to succeed in all things just because he's the main character of this little segment rather than because he deserves to succeed. I suppose it would also be acceptable to question the rules of the village themselves, but to blame this on the elder... In the end, Kurapica's the one who got mad.

edited 14th Dec '12 12:59:54 AM by Clarste

That last paragraph right there is why I think you're being biased. It's just plain insulting and there's no need to be hostile in the first place over something so minor.

edited 14th Dec '12 1:27:15 AM by Saiga

Been almost a month... oh well.

Just wanted to mention that the anime has started the Greed Island arc. Looking good so far.

hmm.so Hx H still ranks in the top 10 without a single chap this year.

wonder what the japanese fans think.

Hunter Should be way more popular here. The anime is fantastic right now.

Okay a late Wikipedia edit now says that the manga has ended permanently with the reason stated "its never coming gback." The same editor also made an earlier edit of the final date of the original run being April 1 2014(why?) with the reason "its over deal with it." So this is just an unreliable editor right? Or is there any official source to support this?

Super unreliable.

Yeah, unreliable. It's just hiatusing as usual.

And now reverted. (Not by me.) Judging by the poor proofreading, I'd guess someone with an ax to grind.

The Anime being dubbed and put on Toonami would be a big boon for the series in america, I bet.

Same with Toriko.

Just announced, manga is coming back in June.

Oh, sweet. Just in the knick of time, with the anime about to catch up.

Anime will probably have to stop anyway though. Plus it probably won't be too long until it goes on hiatus again.

It's amazing how well "kingdom of the predators" makes the earlier, horrible scenes of the chimaera ant take over look naive in the face of what humans can do...

I am having loads of fun with Yu Yu Hakusho; how does Hunter X Hunter stack up?

I find it hard to compare them. They're very different series, instead of comparing them I'll probably just tell you what I think of it.

It's worth reading but turns to shit later.

well,if it can stay in thebtop 10 while releasing no chaps,its probably rather good

just stacks up kinda sloooowly.and the art can be a bit painfull at times.

I don't agree.

I find it gets even better as it goes on with the longest arc the chimera ant arc being the best.

A lot of people hated that arc at the time (you can see it in this thread), but I think it stands up better on a reread. The frequent hiatuses made things more confusing than they were supposed to be.

Annnnnnd we have a new chapter. Don't know if I will be keeping up with the series at this point, but I'll give the first few new chapters a try at least.

(So many Toriko comparisons if not straight rip-offs...)

I'm actually super confused over what actually happened, might just be too late at night for me to be reading manga.

The translation I read was horrible, but...did they capture a zombie?