Just read the first tankobon. Worldbuilding is the best I've seen in a shonen manga. Why didn't this beat out One Piece and Naruto in popularity during the 2000s?

>>280923034 (OP)
Because it's false and the characters are not marketable

because mangaka had his back broken or something i dunno

>>280923034 (OP)
because it's for high iq individuals. no avg shounen fan would be able to enjoy this masterpiece, because it requires a lot of thinking and understanding. since i'm a high iq seinen fan, i was able to enjoy it

>>280923034 (OP)
>Worldbuilding is the best I've seen in a shonen manga
read more than two manga

>>280923061
>false
every manga is false, low iq retard. what kind of cope is this?

>>280923034 (OP)
>Why didn't this beat out One Piece and Naruto in popularity during the 2000s?
Because shonenspics can't fully appreciate soft-seinen.

>>280923034 (OP)
had one of the worst powerscaling and boring ass power system. No hype whatsoever

>>280923189
>t. low iq shounen fan
i told ya, op

>>280923034 (OP)
>Worldbuilding is the best I've seen in a shonen
AHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>280923177
this

>>280923213
your low iq brain wasn't able to comprehend it, right low iq zoomer? just admit it, it's not that hard to do

>>280923034 (OP)
Because the boring Chimera ant arc is 1/3 of the of the entire series. It has a some cool moments but has a disappointing payoff and is not even relevant to the overall story.

>>280923034 (OP)
>Couldnt even resist 12 weeks without taking a break

>>280923268
lol the ending of that arc paid off lmao.What you did not like about it?

>>280923253
>first tankobon
You don't even know how lazy, inconsistent and terrible the worldbuilding becomes.

>>280923177
>long winded up it's own ass wall of texts for hxh
Yes that meme perfectly represents why hxh never blew up like the big 3 did. A good manga bogged down by excessive, almost self indulgent text vomit for every micro interaction that happens on screen, explained and then elaborated on in a very, single, PAGE.
How did we go from yyh to this? And was togashi always a massive shotacon or did he get tricked into watching boku no pico? Seriously wtf happened.

>>280923213

>>280923345
it's worth it to argue with a low iq shounen fan such as yourself

>>280923273
Manga work schedules are inhuman. Literally no country on Earth puts their comic creators through more toil. He should release chapters when he feels like it and not kowtow to Japan's crushing work culture.

>>280923354
Yu yu hakushit is also filled with text vomit. He fills entire pages like that because he has always been lazy.

>>280923338
The whole premise was strange and came out of nowhere. Suddenly these things appear which are stronger than all the known cast. Everyone keeps tiptoeing around them for like a hundred chapters, while we are bombarded with superficial, 2deep4u attempts at humanising the ants. After all that slog, you get a cheat win which just feels stupid. Mainly, the whole bomb and poison thing completely ruined the awesome fight between Netero and Muereum. The only thing I liked about this arc were Morel (absolute chad) and Gon's character, though once again, the consequences of his actions were completely removed due to the worst deux ex machina in this series (worse than "O my Rubber nen"

>>280923389
That's a collage of Togashi shitting out random ass concepts mixed with the usual dragon quest wank and ideas for his potential short manga that were never green-lighted. Stream of consciousness is not worldbuilding. I read enough of his shit to know how unfocused, easily bored and distracted he can be.

>>280923034 (OP)
That's about as much as I read when it got dumped here a couple of years ago, and then dropped it because it felt more like Asspull x Asspull, with Gon whipping out an "Aksherally, I know about this..." at every new thing.

O

>>280923034 (OP)
Cuz ppl don't care much about world building like you

>>280923177

>>280923631
Every time

>>280923631
Dragonball z is a sequel

>HxH
>Worldbuilding
lol

>>280923711
Killua is black????!!

>>280923711
Shonen always goes with silly names. Nothing beats One Piece in this regard.

>>280923273
>[game of thrones intensifies]

>>280923520
Isn't Gon still nenless? Not that I expect that to stick.

>>280923034 (OP)
>One Piece and Naruto
Both have more appealing character designs, especially when it comes to side characters. One piece is very exaggerated, zany and cartoony. While Naruto looks /fa/, grounded and "serious". Making both more palatable to the average reader. Both are based on cool, popular cliches: "pirates" and "ninjas". HxH kinda exists in between of their art styles. A "Hunter" isn't a very precise pop culture term, and they definitely don't seem as cool.

>>280923843
>Both have more appealing character designs
That's the biggest reason why I can't get into HxH, the cast look like OCs cobbled together who don't follow any theme or style, meanwhile in One Piece every group has it's distinct motiph and style making them recognizable

>>280923631
I thought this was just shitposting before I finished the anime and grabbed the manga.
For the past 20 chapters it has been nothing but Kurapika blabbing and blabbing to no end.

>>280923177
>Soft-TOTALLY-NOT-SHONEN
Imagine being so insecure about watching cartoons for children you cope this by calling them cartoons for almost manchildren

>>280923034 (OP)
>Why didn't this beat out One Piece and Naruto in popularity during the 2000s?
In Japan, Hunter x Hunter was popular.
Its core issue was the number of hiatuses just not making it a consistent seller, since rather than the 4-6 volumes that OP and Naruto would release annually, it'd get 2 or 3 (and then later 1 or 2, and now just 1 or 0).
If you mean why wasn't it popular globally, that's far simpler to explain.
One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach all got their anime brought over around about the same time. Their peaks of popularity happened, people shifted to their respective manga and caught up to that en masse around 2007, and from 2008-2010 was their respective peaks of interest (Marineford, Pain Invasion, the ending of Arrancar).

You may notice a certain thing happening their- they got their anime brought over. Obviously all of them were several years late compared to when they started broadcasting in Japan, but do you want to know how long it took to get Hunter x Hunter's anime brought over? 9 years. It started in 1999 and only started getting released on DVD in 2008, and it didn't even broadcast on American TV until like 2009.
By that point, it not only looked dated but people were already invested in the late stretches of the aforementioned "Big Three".

Honestly, had the Hunter x Hunter anime been brought over in 2004, I think it would've done well and the Big Three would've been the Big Four, because during 2008-2010, that big peak in popularity, HxH was in the middle of the Chimera Ant arc, and it would end in 2011. Even at the time as well, HxH was the highest rated anime and OVA(s) on MAL, a western site, and the 2011 anime took that spot from the 1999 series (which has since fallen off in scoring).
>>280923354
>>280924569
You guys are falling for like decade old bait.

>>280923034 (OP)
OH MY WORLDBUILDING

>>280924712
Solid analysis here.

>>280923034 (OP)
It just lacks cohesion. Nen is just bullshit that can do whatever.

>>280924712
By the time Naruto ended the HxH anime came to a conclusion too. I find tgat interesting

>>280924712
>Honestly, had the Hunter x Hunter anime been brought over in 2004, I think it would've done well and the Big Three would've been the Big Four
the characters are too weird and the battles are boring. what do hunters even do?

>>280925535
They find treasure and kill monsters.

>>280925535
>what do hunters even do?
Whatever they want. Their entire world operates on "might makes right".

>>280925735
>>280925791
so why would anyone want to become a hunter? ninjas, shinigami, pirates are cool... hunter is lame

280925535
doesn't even deserve a (You), get better bait

280925535
is a low IQ faggot

>>280926291
>>280926393
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDyon3z1KP8
can you watch this scene with a normie?

>>280923034 (OP)
Is it possible to like HxH if you don't like Gon
I never understood why I was supposed to care if he lived or died

>>280926571
Whether I can or not, what does a 20 second scene with no context from mid story even prove? What would showing !Kakyoin licking the cherry scene accomplish if shown with no context?

>>280926630
>20 second scene with no context from mid story even prove?
even in his fight against Gon he shows that gross behaviour. licking a cherry scene is funny but that shit? getting horny because you fight a boy? Jiraiya at least was telling Naruto to transform into a sexy jutsu but it was never that explicit. we are talking about normie mainstream appeal here not some comparison with Jojo

>>280924712
Nen Impact releasing in the state it is in also strikes me as a sign of the IP’s value. Bushiroad wanted something that wasn’t under the immediate ownership of Bandai Namco, but could only manage HxH, a series that has some fame overseas, but not that much of an actively ravenous fanbase. Most of the bigger series tend to capture multiple markets at once, but HxH’s anime is about 11 years old, its manga releases chapters infrequently, and its most recent game is overpriced, underfunded, and nonfunctional online. Bushiroad was expecting the brand recognition to propel it, but the conditions are nowhere near the same as a Bleach or Naruto.

>>280926713
>takes one of the most weird scenes in the series
>lmao what it would be like if you showed just this to a normie
You are retarded, show them Uvogin vs the mafia if you want to get them hooked, retard.

>>280926780
is Hisoka not a major character in the show?

>Tried to make a logical power system in anime
>has specialists
Hiatusfags...

>>280926825
Isn't Light a major character in Death Note? Would you show the scene he eats a chip to get a normie in to Death Note?

>>280926879
Imagine a kid watching HXH on TV, and then his parents sitting there and then the scene with Hisoka having an erection looking at Gon's ass comes on the screen. what do you think they will feel about this?

>>280926930
A little more weirded out that most degen nip "humour" scenes.

>>280926955
but Hisoka being a major character makes it a lot more unbearable for the mainstream. people buy merch of that guy, they see him all the time, they recently even released a fighting game, right? it's not just "a weird scene"

>>280924712
>One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach all got their anime brought over around about the same time
Worth mentioning Yu Yu Hakusho was popular overseas before any of those 3 or hxh came into popularity. Yu Yu never gets enough credit in these HxH vs big 3 discussions

Hunter x hunter is over.

HxH is for midwits thinking they are smart

>>280927433
YYH directly influenced Naruto and Bleach, it deserves much more credit

Who cares. When will we get new chapters?

>>280928217
Togashi was already an older guy for shonen manga starting hxh in like is mid 30s but the other big 3 mangaka were all fresh talent who dedicated their 20s and parts of their 30s to their big hit series. It's neat that Togashi had a big series like that already with Yu Yu but still managed to go on and make an even bigger series later

>>280928428
A fully realized 3 kings arc (and partially chapter black) without jumps bullshit would’ve probably been better than any peak Hunter reached.

>>280923034 (OP)
for me the worldbuilding is a bit inconsistent (the mafia stop hunting the troupe to avoid fighting meteor city, wthat exist because it's useful to the mafia and people avoid attacking it becausethe phantom troupe is scary, only that their connection is secret) Gon is never challenged in his ideals, many arcs have an underwhelming end and it's annoying the effort that Togashi put in to make them be underdogs(they pass the hunter exam, but a random apprentice butler of the zoldyck family is stronger to the poit they need a training arc to open the gates, but after that they are nothing against nen users, after they learn it and Gon manges to hit hisoka and they damage and escape the troupe they go in the game where after another training arc they are barely qualified to enter to the point binolt, he himself very weak was much stronger, they surpass him and have another training arc and after that Genthru was still so much stronger that they couldn't try to fight him even with an alliance, after they surpassed him and tsezguerra a first star hunter and winning first a game among all the experienced hunter who played it we reach the next arc where they are barely stronger than random mook ants and meet for the first time a real hunter) all this while Kurapika is always considered a match for veterans nen users, created many abilities and with restrictions can defeat a membeer of the troupe despite never having been considered a genius like them. despite all of this I like it but are a bit frustraing

>>280923034 (OP)
world building? lol

>>280923034 (OP)
bump

>>280923034 (OP)
>Worldbuilding is the best I've seen in a shonen manga
So it's the only one you've read?

While early Hunter has elements of generic shonen I think it’s aged pretty well. On first watch if you’re tired of or burnt out on shonen , you’ll probably only be engrossed once Yorknew starts, which is the common “ now I know I was watching a great series” arc. But on rewatch the same elements that make CA, Yorknew, SW great are in the earlier arcs.
Heavens arena is still mediocre but it’s short so it’s all good. Greed island and Hunter exam are great on reread.

On the succession war. I think it’s different enough that (just like CA), there’ll be a loud minority who despise it. It’s not rare to see a “too much text and over explanation” take.
However. I think if Togashi finishes strong SW will be rated higher. Elitists love political settings and drama, and shonentards love superpower melting pots.

>>280926930
Hisoka being gross is a non issue because it would have been censored like every other anime that was broadcasted in America.

>>280932307
Why do people have a problem with Hisoka in the first place? He’s a villain doing villain things. He’s supposed to be uncomfortable. Togashi doesn’t portray it as a good thing. And it isn’t done horribly like rape villains in seinen. Hisoka’s battle just is sexually coded.
Do people expect characters to go “Hisoka’s a pedo! Let’s kill him” when Hisoka is the strongest character and hasn’t done Any straight up rape as far as we can tell….

>>280932385
Nuance like that is missed among fans. I used to see lots of Hisoka stickers on cars during HxH's surge in popularity. Even though he's villainous and gross people still think he's cool.

>>280932501
I don’t get the people who come out the woodworks doing “well actually Hisoka isn’t a pedo because battle blah blah blah he looked at their ass because Gyo” garbage.
I also don’t like the people who lose their minds that a villain exist in a series who isn’t just a generic murderer and try to imply Togashi is okay with weird pedo shit.
They’re two sides of the same coin to me.

>>280932501
He is a cool pedo.

Anyone thinks Togashi is stockpiling chapters this time around? 411-420 was already 75%+ done by the time the last batch finished, based off his Twitter posts. Unless he stopped working the second he stopped posting on Twitter, another batch should be ready by now.

>>280932743
>>280932619
It's just Hiei 2.0 where Togashi overwrote him as a villain on his initial introduction but once he realized he had a long term plan for the character he reigned in his more despicable traits back and wrote him as a cool anti hero with goals that parallel the protagonists.

>>280928638
It maybe could have been better, I'm satisfied with having both series though, it's cool how different both series end up being from each other. I think Yu Yu would have benefited from having at least 1 more big arc after Chapter Black because as it is Yu Yu is pretty much only remembered for 2 arcs, Dark Tourney and Chapter Black, while HxH basically has 4 full length arcs and is currently on the 5th and probably biggest arc he's ever done if it ever finished.

>>280923034 (OP)
Bad art and endless hiatuses

>>280933073
Is Togashi’s art any worse than One’s?

>>280923760
Alluka healed him. His nen is currently coming back.

>>280933147
Of course not, but One was publishing a webcomic and Togashi was in WSJ. Different standards. Togashi used to be really good when his back wasn't hurt though

>>280932846
I feel like anyone calling Hisoka a "cool anti-hero" doesn't actually get Hisoka.
He is purely driven by self-interest, and Gon is lucky that Hisoka's self-interest happens to align with Hisoka's goals, but you see his true character with his other interactions.
He expertly uses Kurapika in Yorkshin, and is basically willing to discard him and everything he worked to achieve so long as he gets that fight with Chrollo. When he does get that fight with Chrollo, he doesn't give a shit about anything beyond it and lets hundreds if not thousands die in the fight.
And after the fight, he decides to challenge the spiders to a fight to the death, as well as the only guy you could consider Hisoka's friend.

In short, he is not a Hieilike.

>>280932945
what is that thing behind them?

>>280933246
I wish Togashi would let another artist carry him. Togashi has enough respect in the industry to get whoever he wants to work on Hunter. Any ongoing mangaka outside of maybe Oda and Araraki would help Togashi out of Hunter chapters if he asked.
Why does he out himself through physical torture just to say “yep, I drew it!”.
Writer and artist working together have even a thing since the start. Not every mangaka needs to do both.

I appreciate how Togashi makes plots in HxH where fighting is generally 'necessary' to some degree, but often isn't the only part necessary when it comes to solving the problem. The closest would probably be Greed Island, I feel.

>>280933381
I’d say the Ant arc is the closest. It’s a love letter to DBZ when you think about it. Well they did bomb the ants but they had to fight still.

>>280933320
There's something called "having pride in your work", something I imagine a 4chan shitposter wouldn't have.
Beyond that- art and writing go hand in hand for manga. Having the artist be solely subservient to the will of the writer makes for a bad manga, and giving the artist the free reign to inject their own flavor detracts from what Togashi even wants to do.

>>280923034 (OP)
I think it would have been more popular if the author didn't get buckbroken
Also, is Togashi dead? Not even one tweet in 7 months

>>280933405
But there are plenty of iconic, well-loved manga with writer-arist duos.
>Lone Wolf and Cub (and literally everything else Kazuo Koike ever wrote)
>Fist of the North Star
>Death Note
>Bakuman
>Master Keaton

>>280933545
Yeah, and those are the second relationship I described, where the artist is injecting just as much of themselves as the writer is. Because the art is the majority of the work, not the literal words on paper and a vague conceptualization of a series of events.
That is not what Togashi wants to do with Hunter x Hunter. It's his work.

>>280933540
He participated in the Watsuki tribute so no, he's not dead

>>280933545
None of those will ever be as fondly remembered as the works of Togashi.

>>280933618
>Fist of the North Star won't be as fondly remembered
Are you going to lock your answer?

>>280933404
The bomb is why I didn’t really consider CA. I guess though, I should’ve specified ‘winning’ fights. Everyone lost their fights against the RG/King except Gon, but they all died anyway. Whereas in GI, if they didn’t win their fights, it would mean they failed.

>>280933641
Considering the absolute state of North Star projects since the film series, yeah.

>>280923034 (OP)
The first anime never released outside of Japan and was instead relegated to a 2008 DVD set.
Say what you want about Naruto, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, whatever, they released on national televisions so of course they're famous.

>>280932087
I think the Hunter’s Exam makes some great first impressions, like Leorio coming off as purely in it for the money before revealing his reasons. You can see Togashi’s strong character writing at that first glance, and I can imagine most people starting off would naturally be intrigued by the world. Succession Arc I’m still trying to catch up on, but its sheer thickness and scope make it a bit hard to fully appreciate when the end is so up in the air. How I’ll feel when this manga theoretically ends will vary greatly, but these hiatuses will not help. I’ll be fine with a volume every year, but I have plenty of other things to keep me busy in the meantime.

>>280923631
Main reason why I’m so hesitant to pick up the manga

>>280933641
Nobody actually cares about HnK beyond memes. The actual impact the series had is nothing compared to YYH.

>>280924712
Who animated this gif it’s so good

>>280933968
There's like 10 pages like that in the entire manga

>>280933968
As a first time reader, it’s not like that all the time, but the latest arc is like that for most of it. The arcs feel so divorced from each other that you might as well stop after Chimera Ant and wait for more chapters.

>>280923034 (OP)
>Worldbuilding is the best I've seen in a shonen manga
Read more manga, dumb oomer

>>280933999
Now, I also don't think HnK will be as fondly remembered, but to say it had no impact is retarded.
Like, Kenshiro being a big masculine manly man who cries was HUGE at the time. That was a major contribution to battle manga of the time, that these protagonist figures could show deeper emotions and still maintain the cold badass look.
And outside of that, it obviously inspired a lot of the direction Jump would take given how much it drew on Chinese films and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Dragon Ball probably wasn't directly inspired (in regards to Toriyama), I imagine its Monkey King connection is purely Toriyama's, but it diverting into muscular martial arts fights against evil emperors?
Hell, Yu Yu Hakusho's structure fairly clearly takes as much from HnK as it does from Kinnikuman. The episodic experimentation at the start is Kinnikuman through and through, but its concluding arc? Hokuto no Ken inspired (and that's not entirely positive, as YYH purposefully ended in a way to make it seem like it got cancelled... which HnK was).
>>280934016
I can't recall. Pretty sure it was made in flipnote, back on DS?

>>280934122
Name 5 shounen manga with better worldbuilding

>>280934016
>>280934158
Actually, found it
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=player_%28nyu%29&z=1
Only things saved to his name are the two I posted. It was actually on easytoon, not flipnote.

>>280933618
Death Note is infinitely more famous than HxH, kys.

>>280933968
Sometimes I wonder if the arc could function with Togashi’s text amount, and I think not. At least not for his goals. He wants every character to be a player, so we get every characters thoughts, but since there’s so much players, each player has to analyze every situation and option. And because this is about assassination and potlucks intrigue, most text is internal thoughts instead of dialogue between characters.
There’s so much shit that wouldn’t make sense without the characters internal thoughts, so I don’t hate it.

>>280934338
Without Togashi’s text amounf*

>>280934122
>tranny shit avatar
Out.

>>280923034 (OP)
>SHARTxTRANNY
>worldbuilding

>>280933968
>>280934050
>>280934071
Nope, there's dozens of pages in that vein from the very first arc and it's a good thing. Everyone knows HxH is the most dialogue heavy manga series ever made, fitting of course for high literature as HxH is just that.

Of course HxH is going to have much, much more dialogue than shonenshit, that's one of the ways it remains high IQ.

It's not possible for shonenshit to craft complex dialogue and witty, organic banter like great series do ala HxH, The Wire, GoT up til Season 4. Hunterchads understand this and take pride in the walls of text since these manchildren whining JUST GOT FILTERED.

Even worse this idiot with the chart was basing HxH is much more wordy than shonenshit, as it should be. Hell it's even more wordy than Monogatari's manga.

>>280933968
There's just as many completely textless pages to balance out the text heavy ones

>>280934436
Remember when they put a gold chain around Luffys neck the last time an HxH batch released

>>280923034 (OP)
I dunno. Maybe all those hiatuses killed the momentum...?

>>280935204
>holy shit all this dialogue must be so high IQ
>OH MY RUBBER NEN, BRING ME BACK TO LIFE, RESTART MY HEART AND LUNGS, BANKAI

>>280934436
>still fighting the war when the entire other team left

>>280935984
Naoko's only contributions to HxH were on colour pages retard.

>>280936003
I see I triggered you with a JOKE.
Too easy.

>>280936030
>Merely pretending

>>280936041
I didn't even have to TRY to rustle your jimmies, my dude.
Again, too easy.

>>280923034 (OP)

>>280934158
>>280924712
Do you have the Hisoka one where he ganks Shalnark?

>>280936064
>merely pretending

>>280936082
It's pretty funny how every fanbase that shit on HxH back in the day have all had their own mini apocalypses
>Kengan went to shit
>One Piece threads are now /vg/ tier generals where everyone hates the current manga
>Attack on Titan went to shit
>Hero Academia went to shit
>Dragon Ball Super will be on hiatus for at least another year, no new series in sight
No other notable groups beyond those ones from back in the 2018 days.

>>280936166
And HxH STILL gets no new chapters
Even Berserk still gets new chapters, and Miura is DEAD.

>>280936166
Why did Hunter get shit anyways? It’s rated extremely high on most anime sites, Togashi is respected in Japan (and in the states for Yu Yu Hakusho), and the current arc is prime for more acclaim.

Literally the only thing “holding” the series back discourse wise is that it’s a shonen (and therefore some pretentious people will ignore it or treat it like auto shit) and that it’s constantly on hiatus.

>>280936166
>One Piece threads are [headcanon] where everyone [headcanon]
Done.

>>280936166
How can a fanbase be so insanely delusional and make shit up to make themselves feel good about a manga and an author who cant even wash his ass? What causes this level of mental illness?

>>280936223
Mostly just return fire at a HxH schizo or discord that shitposted heavily in the late 2010s.

>>280923119
name 2 manga with better world building. yea you won't and if u do you'll say something retarded.

>>280936364
magi
boruto

>>280936219
>And HxH STILL gets no new chapters
It has had more new chapters in the past year than Dragon Ball Super actually.
>>280936223
>Why did Hunter get shit anyways?
Retarded general wars back in the day.
/hxh/ just had the ire of everyone since, for whatever reason, it had the highest crossover of readers between all the generals I just mentioned.
People talk about "HxH schizos", but the exchanges between generals always came down to this
>that Hisoka thrusting gif or that picture of him looking at Gon would get posted outside /hxh/
>immediately a "counter-raid" would ensue on /hxh/
All the groups I mentioned outside of /dbs/ all had their own genre of images specifically for raiding /hxh/ threads, whereas /hxh/ itself only had a few edited /lit/ shitposts and that one OP pic for that.
>>280936264
Everything I said was true though. I know because I read all of those manga and go to all of those threads.
Some of what I mentioned is just undeniable, like DBS being on hiatus for that long. It already got confirmed that there won't be any new chapters this year, which means the last (real) new chapter will have been April of last year.

>>280923034 (OP)
>Worldbuilding is the best I've seen in a shonen manga.
There's almost nothing in the first volume.
>Why didn't this beat out One Piece and Naruto in popularity during the 2000s?
Because OP and Naruto have better emotional scenes. Plus, no hiatus.

>>280923034 (OP)
Its good one good arc and one semi decent one, thats it, the rest is boring trash

>>280936223
Prime for more acclaim means it’s not acclaimed yet. It’s hard to maintain high energy when we’re at a rate of one volume per year. What are we supposed to do for the rest of it? All that can be discussed is shitposting and bait. Trying to make a HxH thread without an actual set of chapters is hollow.

>>280935984
The main problem with these pages is that even the fixed versions look like he didn't really try.

>>280936118
Hey, you're the one that got irrationally angry at a silly filename, my dude.

>>280936499
>Trying to make a HxH thread without an actual set of chapters is hollow.
That's a good thing, means there's not enough schizos to support the terrible forever generals.

>>280936566
>merely pretending

>>280936601
Yes, we know you are "pretending" to be retarded.

>>280936628
>merely pretending

>>280936630
>>280936628

>>280936643
>merely pretending

>>280936653

>>280936672
>merely pretending

>>280936499
>rest of it
Nothing. Just ignore Hunters existence until Togashi comes back

>>280936219
KEK

>>280936219

>>280923209
Kys troon

>>280936223
>Why did Hunter get shit anyways?
The war went both ways as you can tell by all the images in this thread, especially the One Piece ones.

>>280923217
Fag

>>280936223
Hiatuscucks started shit they couldn't finish.

>>280936932
Well the war went both ways about six or seven years ago.
Right now it's just some asshurt schizos still made about shitposting from half a decade ago.

>>280936995
That’s because Hunter fags we’re so cocky until hiatus beat some sense into their fucking skulls

>>280937018
Nah, it's more like Hunter x Hunter threads didn't have a high attachment rate for genuine schizophrenics.
Dragon Ball hasn't had anything new in months (really, years since nobody in the threads watched Daima), all those people are still posting there like rabid animals.
The reality is, the people who made up the bulk of /hxh/ did just move on. They're in your generals now, because dying on the hill of a specific series was always retarded parasocial behaviour done in order to feel like you're part of a "community".

>>280937018
Well sort of, indeed the hiatuses have something to do with it. You can only obsess over something with an unknown future for so long. Plus it's very risky to get so cocky when you have no idea what the writing will turn out like. For example, Hunterfags shat on One Piece for the Celestial Dragons having genocide contests only for a future HxH batch to reveal Kakin did very similar things.

>>280936110
anyone got the one where togashi dies while pooping in the shower?

>>280937179
One piece and Hunter are literally two sides of the same coin. Why haven’t the fanbases realized it.
>theyre WSJ both long running adventure Shonen that came out at a similar times (compared to series like Naruto and bleach which are more action Shonen) with clear influences from classic Shonen
>they try to have a new thing every arc, regardless of how surface level it is. One piece with its island settings themes, Hunter with its arc subgenres
>Both love ambitious arcs filled with multiple characters
>both have giant worlds with a range of characters (from goofy and colorful, to serious and regular)

The only major clash is that Togashi is always on hiatus while ODA continues to push on and on.

>>280937300
I forgot: both series may never end.

>>280937300
Most Hunterfags do read OP, that was the joke of the general, that everyone read all these "lowbrow manga".
/hxh/ style shitposting just triggered aggressive schizos, as seen in this thread. Like, if you couldn't tell it was a joke, you're probably actually retarded, there was at least three different "Guide to Reading HxH" charts with a dozen philosophy books, and then the big joke would always be that one of the books would best HxH itself. That HxH is required reading for HxH.
(even ignoring that most of them were just repurposed /lit/ copypastas and images).

Hiatus fans have little man syndrome. They think their series is better written and deeper than 99% of Shonen, but no primarily seinen or lit reader will ever take them (or Shonen) serious. So they have to try and shoot down at other Shonen.
The only Shonen that’s gotten the respect Hunter fans truly want is Avatar and AOT

>>280935984
Retard discovers rough drafts

Why was Kurapika being such a dick to Leorio?

>>280937539
Hiatus fans have high IQ syndrome. They think their series is better written and deeper than 99% of Shonen (and they're right), and most if not all primarily seinen or lit readers take them (and not other Shonen) serious. So they have to enlighten and shoot down at other inferior Shonen.
The only Shonen that’s gotten the undeserved respect Hunter fans regularly get are Avatar and AOT

>>280937971
Togashi published his "rough drafts" in WSJ and fixed them for the tankabon, dipshit.

>>280924712
Sex with the cat

>>280925961
Hunters can be any of that retard, that's the point

>>280938541
>hunters can be whatever I want
how does that work?

>>280938473
What was his name again? Neferpeter I think

>>280923034 (OP)
Naruto has the most fleshed out, unique and interesting world building. HxH's world is a pastiche of whatever Togashi felt like in the moment. Get off your fucking pedestal, you moronic glazer.

>>280938147
mating ritual

>>280933320
>Why does he out himself through physical torture just to say “yep, I drew it!”.
Have you not seen the characters he writes?

>>280938948
Not comparing to Hunter but Naruto’s world is giant missed potential imo

>>280927826
>error: duplicate file exists

>>280933320
He's a retard and so are his fans.

>>280937429
>most hxh fags do read OP
Most other shonen fags do read OP now, its basically the only general alive on /a/.

>>280939059
>istockphoto-1194107141-612x612~2.jpg

>>280939403
Dragon ball, dandadan and Chainsawman is alive fagget

>>280939490
I wouldn't exactly call dens of shitposting and constant drama a "living" state. Moreso "living dead".

>>280939437
>butthurt autistic noises

>>280938147
Being the survivor of a genocide made him an asshole. Part of his arc is learning everyone has their own baggage and he shouldn't judge or be pompous over his own.

>>280939490
>Dragon Ball
It literally has nothing to do with Dragon Ball and its slowing down big time these days
>Chainsawman
During break weeks it hits 2 threads in the archive. Its basically become jjk back in the day where like 6 or 7 threads pop up during chapter dumps and then becomes a graveyard
>Dandadan
Its currently got 80 posts in a day and a half old thread and 2 threads in the archive

Lets be honest, opg is literally the only general currently that hits 30 to 40 threads in the archive during chapter weeks and maintains over 10 to 15 threads during break weeks.

>>280939962
Man how can anyone deny this site is slowly dying. What happened??

>>280938948
>naruto has fleshed out and interesting worldbuilding

>entire clans suddenly die, there are other 6 tailed beasts that do nothing in the story, and everything in the story is linked to one clan from a village (and they sometimes use radio and television but they live like it's 1000 BC)
kek

>>280938819
Neferpitou aka sex x cat

>>280940063
It is extremely dead because shonen generals are the only thing that kept it alive, for the last 10 years we had from Naruto to SnK to MHA to JJK to Bleach generals still going big time alongside the one piece ones. Now its unironically only one piece left that still has an active general, the rest of the board is dead as shit

>>280940063
All long running shonens with big fanbases apart from one piece are over or in eternal break hell like HxH. Once OP ends and HxH ends or Togashi dies the era of long running shonen with big fanbases will be officially over

>>280924338
Kurapika bros its over...

>>280925389
https://youtu.be/-oiZBQ7YMoo?feature=shared&t=440

>>280923034 (OP)
You should experience Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach before Hunter x Hunter so you can get familiar with shonen and its tropes. It's a bit more high class than the others and makes you appreciate it more when you see it avoids the pitfalls those series fell into and it's many subversions.

>>280923177
>Luffy only cares about food and fighting
Nice bait retard.
https://youtu.be/Tog911OMsBs

>>280940063
More /a/ dying rather than the site as a whole.
All the other boards relative to (or larger than) /a/ are maintaining their activity. /a/ itself just had all of its users leave from 2014-2018, and while covid gave it a boost, it was already on track to become a ghost town before then and nothing has actually changed.
The only real change is that 75% of the board is generals, Toonami tier anime, and dailies (which are also signs of a dying board).

>>280940063
Turns out that when you forcibly turn a place into a shithole where shitposting is encouraged and quality discussion and posts are discouraged and you do your utmost to suppress any kind of originality or site culture people just leave because there's nothing worth staying for anymore.
/a/ is the only board that went to shit not because its userbase was shit but because the people up there did their utmost to make it shit.

>>280923711
Very Conanesque

>>280941711
Shonen generals have been carrying this board for a decade bro, the only difference is that now all those shonens are over

>>280923034 (OP)
Most of the fights arent fun or just stomps