Thread 282933296

Next release probably before the end of the year.

>>282933296 (OP)
hunter x hunter is not over.

Hunter x Hunter is dead

>>282918598
Do they have a picture of someone wearing these? I'm curious how it looks irl.

Hunter x hunter is over

how far will he reach until he croaks?

>>282933296 (OP)
OUR GIRL

>>282933668
I wonder how in all hells is she's going to use Kurapika as research partner for her ability. She seems to be into chemistry and Kurapika is a nigga from the woods.

>>282933422
I recall there also being a picture of a woman wearing these, but I couldn’t find it.

Tserriednich's King Crimson is framed as reactive defensive ability, but its actually proactively offensive.

>>282934353
Couldn't it be used as both?

>>282933675
Who did he ask to talk to?

>>282934418
As a defensive ability its pretty weak.
There's a whole slew of abilities and strategies that exist in territory out of the ephemeral 10 seconds.

It makes more sense that its primary function is ambushing or setting up a trap within the initial 10 seconds it allows, after seeking out the opponent and confirming theyre in range.

Hunter x hunter is over.

>>282934490
I really don't see how getting to see the next ten seconds of nen combat and forcing the guy you are fighting to target a ghost instead of you, all for the cost of going into zetsu for an instant, is weak defensively.
You can easily avoid most attacks by just changing your position from the vision you saw and if there's an attack you can't avoid so easily you now know it's coming and can ready your defenses accordingly.

This year two people I have never met IRL but formed attachments to have died and they were much younger than Togashi. Crazy world.
I've never met Togashi but I have an attachment to him. I'm glad he's still kicking desu.

>>282934604
It's difficult to reactivate in the middle of battle.
Realistically you're only getting the first 10 seconds.
And you're also sacrificing an initial second or two in response time, if you went on the offensive afterward.

Nen combat is so volatile that 10 seconds on a relatively ungaurded user is almost certainly fatal.
That's way better spent proactively harming the opponent, than dodging an attack.

And again critically, there are plenty of tactics and strategies that exist outside the scope of the ephemeral 10 seconds.
It should be used offensively.

I feel like the last batch had more weak chapters than usual. The card game stuff didn’t help, but Zhang Lei and Melody’s plotlines weren’t exactly riveting either. The Beyond and Hisoka/Bono/Mafia stuff was quite good though. I really hope this next batch is a banger.

>>282934790
Someone I knew from school died in their mid 20’s recently. Hadn’t talked to the guy in years, and it’s not like we talked much if ever before anyway, but it’s still affected me more than I’d think. Don’t know exactly how he died, but it’s very sobering for that sort of thing to happen.

>>282934915
Well yea, last batch upper tier was pretty much
>beyond kid reveal
>Melody spazzing out about Luzurus
> Kurapika helping Zhang kei with his coins
>Halkenburg vs Benjamin

And then we spent 3.5 chapters in the card game. Compared to the other batches it’s arguably the weakest, but big picture I think the card game will be amazing to look back on if Morena and Borks characters deliver

>>282934915
Melody's are fine, theres some actual interesting psychological tactic in selective information sharing with different princes.

The Zhang Lei stuff is hopefully setting up something with his ability since he's the only Prince who escaped Tier 1, and Xi-Yu is the coolest and least-fucked Mafia family.
I hope he interacts directly with Hienrigh.

>>282934915
The PT flashback was the worst

>>282935001
kys

>>282934857
>It's difficult to reactivate in the middle of battle.
Ko leaves almost the entire body in a state of unprotected zetsu and nen users manage to use it in the heat of battle, so I don't see why this would be that difficult.
>That's way better spent proactively harming the opponent, than dodging an attack.
Well good thing you literally get to see exactly what they are about to do and can decide if offense or defense is the best course of action depending on it.
>And again critically, there are plenty of tactics and strategies that exist outside the scope of the ephemeral 10 seconds.
If there's some attack after the ten seconds are over, who cares? You only need to not get cocky and simply base your decisions on the fact you only know ten seconds. Knowing a small amount of future events is still better than not knowing anything. This same logic would also apply offensively too. If you saw ten seconds, thought you were safe, and committed to an attack and one of these vague bad abilities you're thinking of happened you'd still be dead, it makes no difference.

>>282935001
PT flashback was based because it confirmed Chrollo as a dark mirror to Pika and Chrollo x Paku

>>282935001
True. I really didn't need a tragic backstory for these guys. Adds nothing to them as characters.

>>282935001
Yes it’s the worst 3 chapter stretch in the arc. But it’s loved because no matter how “le smart and critical ” this fanbase acts, they bow down for shitty fan service for their favorite dumpster tribe
The only saving grace for the flashback is if it has actual plot relevance.

>>282935053
>If you saw ten seconds, thought you were safe, and committed to an attack and one of these vague bad abilities you're thinking of happened you'd still be dead, it makes no difference.
The point is not using the future sight to determine when to attack.
It's determining to attack, setting it up, and then using the King Crimson.

It's way more effective at maximizing offensive capacity, than at being a strong but relatively narrow defensive ability.

>>282935095
To me Togashi just needs to realize some villains are better off without flashbacks/exposed pasts . The mystery surrounding certain characters can influence how interesting they are.
He seems to realize this with Hisoka but not with the troupe.
We didn’t need to know about their past. Anyone with basic comprehension could tell meteor city was a dangerous dumpster dive that they bonded together in, just from yorknew and chimera ant arc. But so shoddily revealing the origin of the troupe, what the fuck Togashi.
All this just to focus on the mirror between Kurapik and Chrollo? We didn’t need a flashback to handle that.

>>282935155
>than at being a strong but relatively narrow defensive ability.
How is it narrow when it let's you know exactly what your opponent's next move is? What more could you want to know? You get a literal play-by-play of what's about to happen and get to decide how you react in advance. I have no idea why you're so obsessed with forcing his ability into only being good at attacking when it's good regardless of the situation as long as you can get it off. Seeing the future is just plain helpful.

>>282935184
We do, because the trope didn't kill the kurta and their motivation is almost the same as kurapika, playing the bad guys to get the bad guys and ultimately Kurapika's revenge is pointless.

>>282935256
>why you're so obsessed with forcing his ability into only being good at attacking
Okay, well if we're not discussing in good faith and just making up shit, then cool.

>>282935291
There it is. Stop it with this schizophrenic garbage. The troupe killed the Kurt’s for their eyes. Your theory would legitimately ruin the manga. Literally Naruto tier theory.

>>282935333
You can't explain the note.

>>282935309
You literally said that using it defensively was bad because it's weak here
>>282934490
>As a defensive ability its pretty weak.
and "narrow" here, whatever that means.
>>282935155
>than at being a strong but relatively narrow defensive ability
I don't know if you think this makes it come off that you think it isn't bad defensively and shouldn't be used that way, but it does.
Here's another in >>282934857 where you say blatantly.
>It should be used offensively.
What am I supposed to think reading this?
And when I made some counter points that proved your perspective to be wrong and dumb you gave up the argument and cried about how I was being unfair. Don't be a fucking idiot next time and actually read what you type.

The rumbling happens whenever Halkenburg shoots an arrow, so who did he shoot when Sumidori (inside Shikaku) killed himself?

>>282935473
The note is so everyone could know the troupe killed them, to build up their and meteor cities reputation.

>>282935475
You'll work it through in your head someday.

>>282935184
The Hisoka flashback is coming, anon, and u can't stop it

>>282935524
By killing a small tribe who was hiding?

>>282935615
Is the circus prequel thing non-canon?

>>282935630
They weren’t just a small tribe that no one gave a shit about. People knew the Kurta were devils, remember the Kurapika flashback. And also the eyes. It’s 2 birds with one stone. Get the eyes, and raise your reputation by genociding the red eyes Christian devils

>>282934353
How can it be defeated? Araki needed to pull GER out of his ass to do it in his manga.

Maybe having such a overwhelming nen offense/defense that it doesn't matter if Tse can see the future, but then again, maybe only the Royal Guards and top 5 humans might be able to get to that level.

I want to see how this plays out but Togashi is lazy, this back pain shit doesn't fly no more, he could draw on his bed with proper equipment if he actually felt like it.

>>282935779
You’ve never had chronic back pain you piece of entitled shit

>>282935630
Chrollo's ability gets powered up by stealing precious mystical things.

>>282935481
the luzurus guard that was on the phone

>>282935733
>>282935801
Except no one refers to them like this, even in the action they pretty much only know the kurata as a clan with red eyes and nothing else, the ryodan or meteor city didn't need to genocide a village for recognition and leave what obvious is a revenge note. Someone was framing meteor city and the ryodan just took the credit.

I would even argue considering what happened with their friend, the ryodan would not low themselves as stealing organs.

>>282935879
He would have fell unconscious iirc

>>282935966
Chrollo says in the flashback.
paraphrasing: "I'm going to become an evil fucking person and kill lots of people in order to get revenge, even knowing that that is morally wrong and Sarasa herself would never understand or approve."

>>282935676
The Ishida manga is not canon, unless the actual manga does a reference to it at some point laterr

>>282935016
Wish I hadn't read it.

>>282935966
>except no one refers to them like this

>>282936028
It's just a role, all of them are playing roles, same thing as they were doing as kids, they didn't kill anyone who didn't deserve it.

>>282936070
>An old woman
>Meanwhile the fucking guy doing the action don't think this narrative would sell better than "murdered clan".

holy kek

is the game really this unbalanced?

>>282936120
>they didn't kill anyone who didn't deserve it.
They explicitly do so in panel/on screen.
They are directly confronted by Gon, the main fucking character, for doing so.

>>282936120
>except no one refers to them like this
You were wrong about this, it ruins the rest of the argument in my opinion. The flashback makes it clear multiple times that the Kurta have been known as agents of the devil for hundreds of years, and only avoided discrimination because they’ve constantly changed locations and went into hiding.

Tbh I've never read Kurpika's flashback and I don't feel like I've missed anything

>>282936299
It's almost certainly going to be relevant to the worldbuilding.
Pretty good chance the Kurta are related to Dark Continent Guardians peoples, or whatever ancient history.

I want to buy these cards

>>282933296 (OP)
>before the end of the decade

Fixed for you delusional huntertranny LMAO

The only cool thing about PT flashback was to see Machi's nen teacher -_-

>>282936461
falseflagging bleachtard

>>282936434
This shit was real silly.
Two chapters spent explaining contrived scenario rules where the character gets to interrogate the villain.
We're never gonna see this card game again.

>>282936018
The guard did fall over and got right back up. Looks to be the same timing as when Shikaku was shot as well.

>>282936018
>>282936563

>>282935481
It could just be the effect releasing or undoing.

If the succession war isn’t actually close to being finished after 50 more chapters, will fans turn on Togashi ?

Will Tserriednich and Kurapika get a fight eventually? If so, do you think Kurapika will lose to King Crimson?

>>282937507
I don’t think they’ll fight. I think they’ll work together. Tserriendich gives Kurapika the eyes and promises he won’t attack woble in exchange for Kurapika’s support

2 more weeks for real

>>282937535
Nah. Kurapika will go ballistic seeing Pairo’s head

>>282937777
Checked

>>282935797
Fuck you. I used to work night shifts in McDonald's and my back got absolutely busted because I was the guy that carried all the heavy stuff, I have scoliosis and to this day need to be very careful with my posture and back muscle strength, even then at least once a year I get bedridden for a few days because I carried a trash bag wrong or played with my dog, and guess what, I still get work done because I can work from my bed.

Togashi probably has a more severe case, sure, but he can massively improve his output if he actually felt like it, from drawing in bed to hiring a artist, he can do it.

>>282937829
me when I'm lying

my wife

>>282938147
She was raped by hundreds of men. You still want her after that? She’s impure

>>282938064
Cope, when it comes to backpain, I actually know what I'm talking about, just pay attention how Togashi is never clear about what the problem is, is it sciatic nerve damage? Lumbago? Scoliosis? No it's just generic back pain.

I hope to see my wife soon!!

>>282936550
We are definitely going to see the card game again and someone will “win” against Morena.

What prince will die next?

>>282936143
It’s lore accurate. Uvogin is the strongest

>>282940384
Some princess were already offscreened last chapter. Now we will find out which. Probably the boring ones.

>>282940631
Tyson so kawaii

>>282940631
"I came up with the idea known as manga" vibes from that tweet

>>282940384
tyson seems a likely candidate to get sale-sale'd (by which i mean everyone thinks they might do something then they just die)
marayam if togashi wants to be edgy
maybe tubeppa she doesn't have much going on either

>>282940631
Loli done right

>>282940631
Why did he draw her so well?

>>282935779
Tserriednich makes himself vulnerable by using his ability, Diavolo didn't. Nen users also have superhuman physiques, Stand users don't. In a real fight, Tserriednich will have trouble seriously injuring an active opponent. King Crimson also lets Diavolo just phase through bullets, but Tserriednich's doesn't. His ability is better for running away.

>>282935801
That's a new condition, he didn't have it during the Kurta massacre. The omniscient narrator told us how Skill Hunter works back in Yorknew and that was not a condition.

>>282937829
Being a mangaka is slavery. Imagine if you only had 3 hours a week of free time.

>>282940631
Are these end chapter sketches?

>>282936120
Phinks and Feitan killed delivery people (not mafia) for Greed Island, then went inside and competed to see who could kill more people, knowing full well they were players and would die irl. Chrollo also killed dozens of people in his fight with Hisoka and he specifically chose the location so he had access to people he could sacrifice. You also can't defend them killing hunters-for-hire working for the mob, because even if you reason mobsters are criminals, no one in the entire world is so righteous as to consider their bodyguards guilty by association. Consider who those bodyguards are: Kurapika and Melody. Later on, Kurapika becomes the underboss which now implicates Gon, Leorio and Biscuit. Are these five worth killing? If so, everyone in the world is, and there's no such thing as good, meaning the Troupe aren't either and I can classify them however I want: they're evil.

>>282937083
It starts rumbling before he shoots himself. Does the ability have precognition?

>>282937829
I think the pain is real but it's probably also years of overwork + japanese medical retardation. Remember that mangaka die to colds all the time, their health in general sucks

I want to wait for chapter about Machi

togashi forgot

>>282934915
the last batch was kino except the shitty card game stuff

>>282933296 (OP)
two more weeks

>>282941907
no. CROLO

>>282940631
shr kind of look like chris chan ahahahahahahahahahahahahahshshshhhaahhahahaha if he was a midget

I am pwning togashi brain with crolo imagery

I used bunge suprise texture to insert my favorite character crolo into every panel

>>282938147
she is like Ash brown or blonde Lol and thorns are brown ahhaahhaha who colored that idiot also she is awhite

>>282934857
>It's difficult to reactivate in the middle of battle.
Not really, unless the opponent is constantly outputting some AoE attack, you can just do
>Zetsu->10 seconds foresight
>do whatever you want for 9 seconds
>go into Zetsu again while undetectable, gain another 10 seconds of foresight
>repeat

>>282935630
Well, it worked, didn't it? People know that the troupe massacred the mythical red eyed tribe, especially since the red eyes were confirmed as real once the Troupe released them to the market.

>>282933668
"Kurapika I need you inside me(research lab)"

>>282934976
is it really? I've had close young friends die and I didn't feel naything at all lol.

>>282936143
leorio somehow being one of the strongest characters, leaps ahead of gon killua and kurapika, is pure comedy

>>282940631
threadly reminder that the japanese text implies he is a tranny

>>282935779
>How can it be defeated?
The only types of abilities I can see hard countering it, from someone who doesn't know how Tse's ability works and is fighting blind, are homing attacks that don't rely on the user's sight and automatically follow Tse regardless, even then these attacks would have to be so strong that he couldn't just tank them. And if you have a never miss attack that can't be tanked, you have an insanely OP ability.
The only hatsu that fits this description is Welfin's, which even then he would most likely have to activate it before Tse uses the ability so it doesn't misfire. This is hardly a knock against Tse's ability as Missileman is one of the single most broken hatsu in the whole series and is SSS-tier.
The other option is a self manipulator who activates their ability before Tse activates his. We have seen some self manipulators in the series and none of them constantly manipulate themselves or pull it out immediately, so even this seems very limited as a counter.

>>282943195
It's still questionable how exactly the illusion part of it works.
My assumption is it manipulates living beings in the area, which means things like automatic turrets would still detect Tse.

>>282943094
Tyson will probably die horribly for being an ugly tranny

>>282943215
As long as they don't rely on the user's perception those would also work fine yeah.

>>282935779
if you think as tserried as a king in a chess match you just need to put him in a position where every move the king does leads to a check. Kurapika can't do this alone, but someone like CHrollo can definitley do so. Like imagine putting Tserried in Hisoka's place in the hisoka vs chrollo match. His ability won't allow him to escape a hundred exploding clones.

>>282943261
Setting up such a scenario is still really tough to do. It really is a great ability.

is there any WSJ serie ending soon ?

It doesn't seem so bad this time

>>282943494
sakamoto days and elsuive samurai are both on their final arcs. There's also a few newgen axe slop that could end at any point like otr of the flame.

>>282943215
I wonder if nen beasts would be manipulated by it too. Like if you had a beast that acted independently and wasn't controlled by you so it wasn't already under manipulation.

>>282943052
It was for me, despite the family deaths I’ve experienced.

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LEAVE BEHDIND YUOR COCK AND CASST AWAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYSYYYYU
JUT ANOTHR SYMPTOM OFF TOODSAAAAYYYYYYYYYY
RATER BE THE PEDO THAN TH PRRRREEEEEEERRRRYYYY
https://youtu.be/opCBDnCf7oQ?si=_rnxxZYruJnlyA71

>>282940739
Tyson has 2 hunters in her security team. And the Benjamin's guard assgned to her doesn't looks like an assassin.

Does a series have to end before HxH can get its spot in the magazine? Can they not simply print with more pages?

>>282940384
Luzurus or Tubeppa

>>282940739
I think Tyson is safe until we see what breaking the taboo in her book looks like.

Did the number of guards carrying Halkenburg’s casket line up with the fact that two of them should be out of commission from possessing Vict and Rhys? I have no idea how the Rhys possession is going to pay off because I suspect martial law is going to be Halkenburg’s last hurrah (if Benjamin didn’t just kill him right after he was poisoned).

>>282944101
yeah they only want to have a certain number of series runing at the same time. They'd probbaly be willing to make an exception for hxh but I guess they rather wait a few months and let one of their series naturally end or cut early one of the series nobody is reading (u19 club).

>>282944448
Yeah true, probably a bit too much buildup.

>>282941907
Next batch trust the plan
Or the next batch after the next batch
Or the next batch after the next batch after the next batch

>>282943094
Source?

>>282945210
https://www.reddit.com/r/HunterXHunter/comments/1ji1zxn/6th_prince_tyson_is_likely_biologically_male_lost/
inb4 >reddit

>>282945352
>reddit

>>282944745
She could die offscreen, and then we meet someone who had already broken the taboo, showing us what the consequences are even though she's dead.
I'd be surprised if she died easily though, her GSB has been collecting aura for something and is an emitter. I'm guessing it would defend with a big nen blast if she was in danger.

>>282945352
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of awkward dialogue in Hunter x Hunter that people just nod along with without actually understanding and assume someone will explain it to them later if it's important and that happens a few times with Taithon. If this is why, that'd make perfect sense.

Ging did nothing wrong

>>282945352
I wouldn't be surprised if Tyson turned out to be trans, but I don't think we have enough clues yet. It's just for now:
>A joke about anal sex
>Her mother says she doesn't expect her to have children
Until there’s something more blatant, I wouldn’t call it “implied,” but I can see where the theory comes from.

>>282946323
>side sleeper
Togashi you cunt

Momoze deserved to die.

>>282946883
>A child deserved to die
Psychopath

>>282946963
Holy shit, is Luzurus black coded?

>>282946963
>"I have completed the specifics for 10 chapters. I will continue working on the manuscript."

>>282946963
Wtf I'm BBCpilled now

>>282946995
Does that mean he’ll still be posting?

Imagine being Nasubi's ancestor and having to watch your dumbass descendant get tricked by Beyond from the afterlife after you created a winning formula for the country through the Succession War.

>>282947033
You think Nasubi is being tricked? He’s the one playing 4d chess here. He let Beyond NTR him . In fact, he watched in the closet (very large closet to fit his boddy) while he had sex with the queen

>>282946963
Weedman will win.

>>282947060
Based

>>282940631
this is strangely very well drawn.

>>282946963
My nigga Luzurus

Halkenburg chads... what are our expectations?

>>282946963
Is Brocco his dad? They have the same hair type and style

>>282946963
bix nood moffugin Kakin empire nigga

>>282947302
das rite

>>282946963
10話分の指定が完了しました。引き続き原稿を進めていきます。
My translation: I’ve finished the designation (referring to direction for assistants) for 10 chapters. I’ll keep working on the manuscripts from here.
T.N. manuscript (原稿) here is the inking process for characters (ペン入れ), so he should be working on chapter 425 onward (he finished 421-424 inking of characters already). It's still unlikely we will get more than 10 chapters, seeing how long the designation process is taking. Still shouldn't take longer than a year for batch 421-430.

Also fuck me, Togashi's handwriting is fucking breathtaking.

>>282946963
>420
So the chapters are completed?

>>282947215
Probably.

>>282947215
Did we know what makes certain royal children illegitimate and others not?

>>282947327
>Togashi's handwriting is fucking breathtaking
Isn't it just? The 行きます at the end looks like a printed font, it's so nice.

>>282946963
Innocent drug dealer mafia boss needs to be protected against two evil little girls

>>282941595
>Tserriednich will have trouble seriously injuring an active opponent
That was true before Togashi's retcon that even Enhancers have trouble defending against bullets even while using Ken or even Ko.

>>282947508
Being born from an official wife of the king I think, but its speculated that some of the princes arent event from the king

>>282946963
Starting to thing that Togashi might be good at art.

>>282947771
least obvious 2011fag

>>282947508
His facial scar means he's a product of the Kakin carnivals.

>>282947763
I wonder if there's some specific thing a wife needs to have to be official. Maybe it's just a natural talent for nen.

>>282937507
How does he go from this to this >>282936070
Does back pain make you a shittier artist?

>>282947866
Obviously you will perform worse if you're in pain

>>282947742
His nen beast is going to take control of Melody by conjuring what she thinks is the Dark Sonata. Trust the plan.

>>282947866
Togashi realized that there’s 0 reason to go full autists about chapter art like Miura or Murarata when it’s a lot more extra work for little payoff. When you’re a weekly mangaka it’s way smarter to take leeway on your art to save health/effort.
Togashi isn’t the first mangaka to do this but he’s probably one of the most prominent examples

.

>>282947761
Depends on the person and the caliber. Bill still tanked a bullet, and so did Benjamin and his men when Camilla went BPD on them.

>>282947839
>I wonder if there's some specific thing a wife needs to have to be official
Marry the king. Marriage is officialized with a ceremony and paperwork and shit.

>>282948058
>Marry the king. Marriage is officialized with a ceremony and paperwork and shit.
What I meant was that I wonder why Nasubi picks certain woman as wives and not others. It could just be that he thought they were a good lay or it could be something deeper.

looking for rpg or jrpg like HxH. Meaning not some dumb shit like Dragon Quest with toodler writing about killing the demon king.

>>282948058
Tse can just use his ability and shoot literally anyone in the eye. Nen won't do shit at that point.

>>282948142
Final fantasy tactics

>>282948156
>>282948142
Also fuck you for talking shit about dragon quest you fucking piece of trash

>>282948151
Aura covers your entire body including your eye.

>>282948156
ugh pixel shit looks so fucking bad. Anything else that is not outdated?
>>282948185
I just think Dragon Quest stories are pretty uninteresting. If you want me to pay/invest my time and energy into something it's gotta be at the very least intriguing

I like the arc overall but I'm not going to pretend I enjoy the parts like the one in the last bach with the card game between that rando and Morena. I know Togashi likes this stuff and I'm sure it's enjoyable to some people, but I find it very hard to care about this literally who and her literally who little group.

>>282948225
It’s not ugly at all nor is it outdated. It got remastered like a month ago so it’s even more polished now.
Maybe monster hunter series or metal gear V

>>282948438
ugh forget what I asked. Video games suck. Let's just talk about HxH.

>>282948465
Video games are great. I’m just saying there aren’t much games that are “like” HunterxHunter. There are games that share certain aspects but if you’re not a true gamer it’s hard to recommend because it means you’re probably very picky with what games you play.

>>282948403
She told us about the Nen type distribution and explained Specialization better than anyone had before, so for general Hunter x Hunter fans there was at least a few pages of good content. These threads mostly liked the chapters when they were coming out because Bork's cute and Morena acts cute despite both of them also obviously being dead serious, literally. It was also fun to see what Bork would do. Was it a little longer? Yes, but so was the PT flashback, and so was the notorious Rihan/Kanjido/Basho inner monologues. This isn't new.

I don't get why you're calling Morena a literally who, though. She was on a volume cover and is controlling the conflict on the lower decks. The only characters more important than her are Kurapika and Tserriednich.

>>282948142
>>282948225
Paper Mario 64 is fun
If you're looking for a le deep storyline just read a book

>>282948658
Not him but the problem is we only have so many chapters before Togashi goes on break. We can't afford to spend that precious page space on anything that isn't Kurapika, the Troupe and the princes.

>>282948805
That's you creating some imaginary priority list. It's Togashi's story, he's the one who decides what's important.

Also, the story ending isn't important. I don't get this plot resolution faggotry. A story isn't good when it ends, it's good when it's happening. It doesn't have to end.

Is theta irrelevant now in the grand scheme of things? Bork already seems to have more plot importance than her

>>282933621
>60 years old in notably bad health throughout his midlife
>there can be years between batches
I think we should assume every batch could be the last at this point

>>282949128
No. Tserriednich finds her cute and she's primed for the third and final scratch. He won't just leave her alone.

Canon shota Hisoka when

>>282949128
it's more like the arc is so big that togashi hadn't finished setting everything in place.
the proclamation of martial law seems to be the official start of the next segment of the succession contest, now every chapter could feature a timer, how long has it been since the announcement and how much time does benjamin have left

>>282949268
I mean, everyone except
>TOGASHI WILL FINISH AND IF YOU DONT AGREE YOURE A DOOMER
People recognize that. Weee just happy because the past 2 years he’s been pretty active.
Even if he did 10 chapters a year consistently it would still take maybe a decade minimum (100 chapters) to step foot on the DC, and by then Togashi will be 69. Heh.

>>282949405
That hiatus from 2018-2022 killed so much hope man. 4 years without chapters is a shit ton of time.

>>282949033
I thought you Togashi cocksuckers all left /a/ after the previous hiatus.

>>282949532
Nta but Don’t call me a cocksucker. I prefer asswiper as Togashi can’t wipe his own ass anymore.
But these days we leave during hiatus and come back when Togashi remembers his Twitter password.

>>282946963
looks like he just got accused of trying to murder his sister

>>282949532
I'm not a cocksucker, I just like Hunter x Hunter and I don't have this mental illness where I can't enjoy a manga until it ends.

Togashi wants to come right when JJK comes back. Coward.

>>282949447
It definitely was some bullshit, after like 30 chapters in a year and a half we got a 4 years hiatus.
The last one was pretty awful too, you'd think the chapters would come out earlier but we got another 2 years.
It may sound insane but it's been 7 years already since that batch with Kacho death, Tserri's King Crimson and Rihan's infamous page.

>>282949752
I think Togashi can’t go on another year+ long hiatus. If we can get 10 chapters a year from now on we’ll be good. We won’t finish the story, but we’ll see the succession war fully.

>>282948658
>so was the PT flashback, and so was the notorious Rihan/Kanjido/Basho inner monologues.
Inner monologues are one or two pages long. And they are part of the numerous plots of the current arc. PT flashback was 3 chapters long that had nothing to see with the SW.

>>282949343
Nah, this is not the next segment nor the chimera ant equivalent of the palace invasion.
This will be one batch long or maybe somewhere on the next one after and it will be the end of this segment.
Then we'll get another 3 batches or so of build up with some action here and there and then we'll get the climax when the boat starts sinking and Morena's crew attack the first tier for another 50 or 60 chapters.

>>282949128
Morena stated that Borksen was important but replaceable. On the other hand Theta is more important for Tserriednich since nen users that can teach nen are not common.

>>282949702
It's more like I can't enjoy a manga that's constantly on hiatus.

>>282949982
>Implying the Kakin mafia, specially the Heil-ly , weren't involved in Meteor's city trafficking and what happened to Sarasa.

>>282948658
>so was the PT flashback, and so was the notorious Rihan/Kanjido/Basho inner monologues.
Inner monologues are around one or two pages long. And they are part of the numerous plots of the current arc. PT flashback was 3 chapters long and had nothing to do with the SW.

>>282950042
Martial Law = King was just born

>>282950156
How come, dude?

>>282950042
I’ve been seeing a lot of theories like the whale will sink or Morena will destroy the water supply. I don’t think they’ll happen/ it would take too long to resolve that

>>282950215
>How come, dude
Because... I can't read it. It's not being released. There's nothing to read.

>>282936143
TOTAL ENHANCERCHIMP VICTORY

>>282950263
But I'm obviously talking about when it IS being released, right?

>>282950168
Kakin mafias are the only mafias on the planet ? As if Kakin mafias had a monopoly on all human trafficking on the world.

>>282950297
Ok, and when it IS being released, we're getting chapters and pages about things we don't care about, instead of about pages and chapters about things we do care about. Togashi is obviously drawing only what he can and he's choosing to draw things we don't want to see, instead of things we do want to see.

Do you understand my frustration yet?

>>282950352
Nope, they aren’t. But knowing how contrived Togashi’s writing can be sometimes I also wouldn’t be shocked if they killed Sarasa. Why else would Mole guys death anniversary be broadcasted on kakins boat? He was probably in tight with the Kakin mafia

>>282946963
melodysisters our response?

>>282950381
I'm sorry you don't want to see the gamer girl and her murder buddies show off their new Nen abilities or whatever. Maybe this arc just isn't for you. You can stop reading it.

>>282950495
Is this sarcasm ?

>>282950518
No it's me being polite because your contributions to the thread are a waste of space, faggot.

>>282950495
>You can stop reading it
But I'm already doing that. In fact so are you. 10 months of the year, every year.

>>282950543
How about Togashi just release more chapters or only release chapters about Kurapika, the princes and the Phantom Troupe?

>>282950352
Sure, but it's how it's going to come all together, there's a reason why he's dumping this information now, it's how writing works.
The phantom troupe, meteor city's trafficking, the mafia, Morena saying the Heil-ly managed a human trafficking ring, the Kurta, Tserrie and all the eyes he has plus Pairo's head, the tatoo guy who mysteriously gets mentioned as the only one left from the old family...It's all linked my guy. The orphan guy was most likely working with the previous boss or was part of the Heil-ly mafia himself at some point.

>>282950598
I'm sure you'll convince him to do just that by bitching on a site no one he knows reads.

>>282950598
Togashi isn't going to listen to some random nobody about what he should write about.

>>282950223
It will happen, there's a reason why the design is a whale in the first place and there's another boat just on the breathing point.
And there's a reason why Togashi introduced the lifeboats too.

>>282950711
you ain't shit, and your gay little faggot manga is essentially over.
he's never going to finish it. his only chance of finishing it would have been not wasting all the time he did introducing new characters and spewing verbal diarrhea and shit that doesn't matter and nobody cares about.
he's a very stupid little bugman and his series is wasted potential.

Luzurus design is what I assumed Gyro looked like as a human

>>282951116
What animal do you think he got mixed with?

>>282951133
A cockroach

>>282951052
It doesn't have to end and old characters aren't more important than new characters.

>>282951217
>copium

>>282951217
>doesn’t have to end
Holy shit you’re buck broken kek. Or maybe back.
Backbroken kek

>>282946963
uhh why he look like tserriednich but cooler bros
did tserriednich get shafted bwos...

>>282951271
lol
convenient that it doesn't have to end.
cause it isn't going to

I have doujins to keep me satisfied during hiatuses

>>282951217
Uohh Bisky-chan!

>>282951366
they also help me deal with the fact that it all went to shit after sneed Island

>>282951429
sne ed island was the worst fucking arc evernext to the ant arc. this one whatevers hapening right now? leagues better than everyhting else. The past of the manga just feels like sokme easy profit shonen slop

>>282951733
niger the first volumes awere literally like an RPG like dungeon and dragon U fap to D&D storywriting

>Tyson and Luzurus get a sketch with 15 times the detail
Start buying their coins before it's too late bros.

>>282951271
Stories aren't good when they end, they're good when they're going. You're the same as the retards who enter One Piece threads asking, "HE STILL HASN'T FOUND THE ONE PIECE YET?" No and he's not going to until it ends, dipshit. Why the FUCK are you waiting for the story to END?

>>282948142
linda cube or last armageddon

>>282951831
Tyson isn't that more detailed than Zhang. And she looks well. She's not dying anytime soon.

On the other hand Luzurus is the most detailed, holding a gun and looks dizzy as if he had been poisoned. He's the next to die.

>>282951924
I think you’re missing the point. It’s not about the ending exactly. It’s about the fact that we barely get chapters so we barely get to experience the story .
If we were getting 10 chapters a year consistently but an ending was still 200 chapters away, I don’t think these people would care. Because they’d be getting the story still.

>>282933793
I’m more concerned with her strategy for clearing morena’s stupid card game, since togashi seems to think that’s the only thing that matters now

>>282952232
This.
You will get nothing and be happy.

>>282952232
So instead of just moving on with your life and reading the chapters whenever they come out, and getting more Hunter x Hunter, you'd rather Togashi just end the manga right now.

Why, yes. That does totally sound like a sensible thing for a Hunter x Hunter fan to want. What color is your skin, again?

>>282952454
I'd rather that you kill yourself, polshart.

>>282952454
What are you talking about retard, when did I say I want the manga to end.

This is why those other retards called you a retard. Because you’re genuinely a retard. Kill yourself

>>282952496
>>282952606

>>282952652
>no response
Wait, you’re actually gonna kys? Nice

>>282952652
Will she fuck Vergei?

>>282952669
Only after he learns to enhance his pelvis.

>>282951052
>absolute meltdown

>>282952652
>>282952695
Bisky owes me sex

>>282952856
a page written in the past year just flew over my house

>>282952901
Are you a young, hot bishie?

>>282952856
You’ll get nothing , Togashi will die, and you’ll say “but but who cares about the ending. We got 20 chapters in 10 years! Rejoice!”

>>282953143
I would say that.
>I CAN'T TELL YOU IF THIS STORY IS ENJOYABLE OR NOT UNTIL I GET TO THE EEEEEEEND!
What are you, down syndrome?

>>282953143
>Togashi will die, and you’ll say “but but who cares about the ending
>who cares about the ending
I already said that. The ending doesn't matter. You seem like you shouldn't be reading unfinished stories, it obviously upsets you. There's plenty of completed manga out there that you could be reading instead, so why are you here? Is it because you want to talk to us? We don't want to talk to you lol

>>282953273
Gas mask guy is ok. Everyone else is bad to awful.

>>282953336
You still replied retard, your thread would be dead otherwise. Now keep begging for 10 chapters.

>>282946404
idgi

>>282953356
who the fuck is begging kek

>>282953356
>comes to thread to bait
>gets mad himself instead
>throws a fit
This is beyond pathetic.

>>282954208
>>282953935
You guys Still replied because the thread was gonna die and you just had to necrobump kek. Continue begging for 10 chapters , only thing keeping your series (and your threads) alive

>>282954624
Fully AI manga when

>>282954624
>we could have weekly chapters if Togashi used ai

>>282953273
the whitewashing of Yakub is insane

>>282954624
my main man Nobuluzureidnich

>>282954624
>AI
You’re a disgusting criminal who deserves an ass raping in jail

>>282949322
>Canon shota Hisoka when
When Togashi deems it finally time to deploy a 12/10 shota upon thy unworthy readership

>>282954624
>Caught you lacking lil prince

>>282954624
>cross necklace
>long hair down shoulders

otherwise p gud

>>282954624
AIEEEEEEEEEE NO THE HECKIN AI

>>282954624
I thought Ludacris was a funny rapper, all good fun and acting in movies, was it a lie?

You know, something no one's talked about is how Basho will react to Kacho's assassination plan. Melody and Basho are supposed to be working together. They are technically working for Kurapika, as well as being friends with him, and he wants to force a stalemate and for hopefully no more people to die. Basho also likely has some kind of loyalty to Luzurus since he has also paid for his services as a bodyguard and they've bonded over the past few weeks (or longer). Would Basho really be cool with Melody assassinating him? Did she tell him?

It's hard to believe Melody herself is cool with this plan, which is why so many fans think they're actually rusing Kaiser. Kaiser is the one who first told them that he wanted to assassinate the upper princes for Fugetsu's sake and Melody couldn't believe he openly said something like that. Them now coming to him with an assassination plan feels like an act.

>>282954817
Imagine the schwing

>>282955148
It is rather poorly thought out and impulsive.

Melody is probably manipulated or rusing Kaiser.
Notably they switch into this aggressive gear after she's made the efficacy of her flute visible all princes and guards.

There's also maybe a proactive coalition within the supposedly neutral judicial.

>>282954896
That AI is so bad. He looks twice his age, thick black beard when he has only facial stubble, and his skin is not that light. Daylight coming from the window when suites don't have windows. And the colors are oversaturated.

>>282933621
going by contrarian writing logic, he is very likely to live

>>282954624
>putting Togashi's name on AI
world is a fuck

>>282954812
That AI is so bad. He looks twice his age, grey hairs, the dizzy expression of the OG art is gone, thick black beard when he has only facial stubble, his skin is not that light. It looks like a totally different person.,Daylight coming from the window when suites don't have windows. And the colors are bad.

>>282943052
same, you just dont see them anymore and thats it. nothing you can do

>>282956033
I mean we weren’t even friends, it’s just the fact someone my age died, well before he should have

>>282946963
Goes hard as fuck

>>282956033
>>282956717
Soulless

>>282946963
chrollobros...

>>282946963
SOUL

>>282943052
Are those even friends at that point? I'd manage, but there's no way a friend's death wouldn't seriously rattle me for a bit.

>>282938993
It's not a contest man, everyone deals with pain different. And there is always gonna be someone who has it worse than you ever will.

>>282946963
So weird how Luzurus is the only prince to get a full body sketch while also giving off a diffferent aura than we’ve seen in the story.

Either Luzurus is Beyond’s kid or he’s a much more relevant prince than we thought

>>282935779
Or even better, make it a LN and do the drawings later.

People who call this the potential greatest Shonen arc..what exactly are you seeing?

>>282957756
Remember the greatest Shonen arc? Aka Chimera Ant arc. Same manga btw, if u weren't aware

>>282946963
>420 manuscript
>luzurus
hue hue hue

>>282957286
Luzurus has three plots collapsing on top of him: Kaiser is planning on assassinating him, Benjamin is planning on assassinating him and none of the Nen users on the lower tiers are actually his allies (Troupe want his money, Ei-i want him dead for the EXP, Shu-u are considering backstabbing the the Sha-a due to Lynch's death and Wang is a double agent for Morena). I think this is Togashi saying Luzurus isn't going out without a fight.

>>282957756
Lots of people call the Chimera Ant Arc the greatest arc in shounen and this is a similar arc. The Chimera Ant Arc is so praised for two reasons: the development multiple major characters go through during it (Gon, Killua) and the Palace Invasion being like watching a chain reaction of characters falling into each other in ways that were unforeseeable. This arc involves even more major characters, with Kurapika being on his last eyes and the Troupe and Hisoka determined to kill each other for good. This arc is also like a soft Palace Invasion from the beginning, as the contest began a chapter after they got on board and the Troupe got wrapped up in mafia drama a chapter after they were revealed on board. So compared to the Chimera Ant Arc, there's like 60% more plotlines, which means an even bigger chain reaction being set up, and there's less of a lull like the Chimera Ant Arc. Also, Yorknew is the second most popular arc, and this is basically Yorknew 2.0, being told by a post-CA Togashi, so it's like the two best arcs combined.

I fucking love this arc, its like discover autism in a video game, there is always something new to find

>>282958335
>>282958335
>watching a chain reaction of characters falling into each other in ways that were unforeseeable
what a kino description, why isnt there any other media, be in novels, manga, or films that are like this

>>282958335
>Luzurus has three plots collapsing on top of him:
Four if you consider there's a Halkenburg soldier also in his room.

>>282958335
The palace invasion also had some of the best paneling in Togashi's entire career and manga history, the visual storytelling alone elevates it enormously.

>>282958422
>>282958335
This. The arc is EASILY Togashi’s most ambitious , maybe only beat by a hypothetical DC arc.
People say this arc is yorknew 2.0, but it feels like the best parts of yorknew (mind games, plans, the darkness in human conflict) combined with the best parts of the Ca arc (emotional plot lines, shonen flair, gigantic conflict, philosophical undertones)

Except the succession war has 10x the mind games of the Yorknew arc and 10x the lit level undertones of the chimera ant arc.

>>282958585
Welfin's final sequence is art.

>>282957756
Deep complexity
Huge cast of realized characters with coherently distinct personalities, strategies, unique abilities, all behaving competently and tactically as they come into conflict with each other.

>>282958821
It's a cool moment, but I think he's super overrated in general.

>>282959121
What does overrated mean for a character ? In strength or like nen ability?

>>282959465
I think people overemphasize his cool moment, in an already really fascinating story.

He himself is not that interesting to me.
He's one of a dozen ants that conspire or imagine themselves conspiring to become "king" when they clearly aren't capable.
His ability is really absurd and random, and isnt used in any sort of creative or interesting ways.
The whole Ikalgo subplot during the palace invasion is really boring, and doesn't pay off, and is probably the weakest.

Welfin's critical role, courageously reminding Meruem of Komugi in the face of his own annihilation, is fungible.
A number of other characters could have done the same thing narratively.

>>282958952
I also think this arc will go “deeper” than the chimera ant arc ever went. People like to simplify the arc too just nen hijinks in a political setting but there’s seeds for massive massive writing depth. Of course , it all depends on what Togashi wants.

Reminder that Morena and the Heil-Ly are in cahoots with the Justice Department (Kaiser, Cleapatro, Silent Majority User) and Nasubi himself

>>282959817
That’s the best prevailing theory so far for Kaizer. The second is that he’s pretty much V5 trying to influence Kakin politics to set up a puppet government

>>282959768
The emotional beats of this arc are just straight up BETTER. Kurapika having to deal with protecting woble while potentially seeing Pairos head , Tserrienich, Chrollo, etc is much more interesting than Gons vengeance for Kite and Killua’s emotional sadness (and I love those aspects). Meanwhile that’s literally one plotline of the arc.
I’d take half of the succession war side characters over any of the non Royal ants minus cheetuh , Welfin , and maybe Leol

>>282958469
Dynasty Tactics, but that's a video game.

>>282958541
Togashi hasn't explicitly told us about that, though, and a lot of anons don't believe it. It'd be funny if he managed to dodge all of these enemies only for fucking Rice or whoever to blast him.

>>282950711
>>282950710
Lmao the absolute seethe because your favourite mangaka got criticised. Hating on Togashi for being a lazy faggot is /a/ core.

>>282960785
Nta, but being delusional schizos is part of /a/, sure, that doesn't stop it from being stupid. Togashi has put out as many volumes as Toriyama and more than most mangaka, all without a full production team until the 2010's. Miura was lazier with a full 6+ production team throughout his entire career, but doesn't get this shit.

>>282958952
I wouldn't describe it that way yet, but I'd like to think it'll get there eventually. Most of the characters are background fodder or one-note. It's been cool to see characters like Longhi and Borksen gain an identity, but then you also have all the people who cry not to add anymore characters. If I compare it to A Song of Ice and Fire, which I think was probably one of the things that inspired the arc, there's still not enough active characters. Each prince has like half a dozen bodyguards we haven't even seen in a panel and that includes hunters.

>>282959727
Ikalugo not murdering Brovuda and Welfin is what allowed that moment to happen, as well as Reina reuniting with her mother, so it was Togashi showing the power is Ikalugo's mercy, which he himself mistook for cowardice. It completes Gon and Killua's narratives. What Gon did was wrong, but he was saved by his past good deeds. He showed Killua the "light" and he in turn showed it to Ikalugo; Killua removed his needle for Gon's sake, which allowed him to remember Alluka. So it was one massive domino effect stemming from Gon being such a good person throughout the story. It also set up Gyro, which will be Gon's final opponent.

>>282960922
>Miura
I don't read his manga so idk about him. I do criticise George R R Martin just as much though, if that makes you feel any better. Oda was also getting a TON of flak during the Egghead Island Vegapunk speech because of the constant hiatus weeks.

>Benjamin
>Cammy
>Zhang
>Tser
>Tubepa
>Tyson
>Luzurus
Which prince will be the cover?
Halk
Nencho/Fuu
Marayam
Oito/Woble

>>282960922
You have to remember a large part of the reason for giving Togashi shit is his inability to simply admit he's got writer's block and instead just blame his back problems all the time. Yes, yes, we get it, Japanese pride and le "it doesn't feel like it's my own manga unless I personally drew it" autism.

Still makes it stupid.

>>282960785
I do hate on Togashi for being a lazy faggot, but why would that make me want him to end his manga? Those are two unrelated things. Crying about it also doesn't do anything.

The problem is some people have these strange irrational complexes. For example, this complex that a story isn't good or bad, but instead exists in some quantum state, until the author officially declares it over. That's just retarded. The ending doesn't complete a story, it's just its final state, but stories are constantly fluctuating through their state, and those fluctuations themselves are what people find entertaining and interesting, and the state is what determines the message, so the conclusion is just the final message, what you might call the "true" message since it's final, but why would I care about that above everything else? I might disagree with the message or dislike how it got there. I've dropped dozens of anime and manga right at the ending, simply because it stopped being entertaining and I didn't care what message the author was trying to peddle to me. It's not a big deal.

The other complex is the idea that "waiting" costs something. It doesn't. While I'm "waiting" for the next batch, I'm also "waiting" for The Winds of Winter and "waiting" for the next Souls game and "waiting" for the next Deltarune chapter and "waiting" for a hundred other things. How do I find the time for all this WAITING, anon? Because it's literally fucking nothing. Do you read one manga and that's it, that's your fucking life or something? The world is full of cool shit, why would I sit here staring at my monitor waiting for updates? Do you not find that mentally ill?

This isn't even the only thread I'm in and I'm also watching Pekora play FFVII.

>>282961072
What I want: any of benjamin, tserri, halkenberg, hinrigh, chrollo
What I expect: killua solo, gon & killua, hunter exam characters collage, another morena wank cover, tserri jobber friends

Will the whale sinking happen during or after martial law? .

>>282961086
It's not writer's block, it's drawing limitations. I agree that he should let someone else be the main artist, but ultimately it's a trade off he's decided not to do. It's not strictly Japanese pride, Kishi's Squid 8 would have benefited from Kishi's art. Weebs downplay Togashi's art, but it comes from a more personal indie sphere(Garo) which made the medium what it is today. The composition, including the drawings themselves, are a part of HxH's personality.

I'll have to disagree that it's even an actual point, it's logical and would make perfect sense if it was like this from the beginning, but the reality is this stems entirely from MALshitter culture being the driving force with big three+third rate console-warring, now it's just a moving of goalposts. It's a fair personal gripe though.

I just realized something. Togashi said he will go back to inking manuscripts. Normally he'd do volume corrections first, or the color page for the 1st chapter of the batch, or the volume cover. So it's either he finished those things already and the return is very very soon, or that he DIDN'T and doesn't intend to return right now at 10 chapters which is even better news as it implies he is going for 20 chapters this time. Either case it's a win win, return very soon or 20 chapters.

>>282936143
OH WOW

>>282934511
Thanks for the info.
I was searching around, but couldn't get anything definitive on the status of it.
I was hoping it was still going, but oh well.

>>282962152
Morena will attempt to sink the ship and fail, only for Beyond to reveal it was his plan to sink it to facilitate his escape.

Ging and Pariston are on a submarine following the boat.

>>282936143
ENHANCERS WON KEK

>>282960708
>Togashi hasn't explicitly told us about that, though,
It's a very safe bet as Halkenburg was still testing out his power to mine more info, the rooms all have the same entryway layouts, and the rumbling is always an indication they are getting ready to shoot. It's easy to see that they used "Shikaku's" suicide as a signal that someone had answered the door to 1007.

>a lot of anons don't believe it
I can see why they might argue against it. Especially because in the last batch Halkenburg does not make any mention of an experiment between Shikaku and Vict which is where Rice theoretically would have been possessed. But the question still remains, why were the Halkencrew juicing up aura when "Shikaku" went for his play?

>only for fucking Rice or whoever to blast him.
It would actually make sense. We can get a flashback to see how Luzurus got away from Benjamin and his worm GSB helped by laying traps to get the normal soldiers coming after Luzurus under manipulation. Only for "Rice" to later get the kill because First-come, First-Served means the traps can't work on him. But at the same time, maybe Luzurus's creature is smart and conjures a trap in such a way that L or Basho can realize something isn't right with "rice".

There's just a lot of story potential for this possession which is why I still think it happened.

>>282963018
Does the number of guards carrying Halkenburg’s casket line up with the fact he should be down two men right now because they’re possessing Vict and Rhys?

>>282963018
>why were the Halkencrew juicing up aura when "Shikaku" went for his play?
It could easily be just a "release" of the swapping effect.

>>282962467
I presume he's going to hold off on the magazine run until early-ish next year to ink the remaining 6(?) chapters he intended have done in 2024.

>>282963233
The rumbling happened before he shot himself, though.

>>282963018
I don’t get this plotline at all. I might have to reread

>>282963191 (me)
I went and checked. There were 12 guards carrying Halkenburg’s casket. According to the character sheet Togashi posted last year, Halkenburg has 14 personal guards, so that lines up with guards currently possessing both Vict AND Rhys.

>>282963018
I don't believe the rumbling was directed to room 1007 and that Rice got hit by Halkenburg's attack. He would have had to blindly aim through several walls. The rumbling was probably Halkenburg testing his ability.

>>282963191
It's 12 guards which is a big point against the Rice conspiracy as Halkenburg only has 14 personal guards. It's possible they have a stand-in but Benjamin would probably have someone confirm it's really Halk's crew with the casket. I'm willing to be wrong on this one.

>>282963516
It wouldn't be blind firing. Room 1009 and 1007 are next to each other and their front doors are in the same spot. We already saw Halkenburg fire through a wall to hit Balsamilco by using references, this shot would be much easier.

>>282963566
>>282963516
I have a hard time believing Togashi is keeping up with all these mini plotlines and that they’ll all get payoff. Tubeppa’s flash drive, the guy who wants the autographs, Tserriednich henchman needing a “gift” after the Kurapika class, etc. there’s like 50 little things like this. Is Togashi gonna deliver on all of them?

>>282963566
Would 12 guards carrying the casket be in support of the Rhys conspiracy? Halkenburg has 14 personal guards, but one is currently possessing Vict, so the other missing guard would be possessing Rhys, right? Unless your point is that Sumidori wouldn’t be a viable candidate to help carry the casket, since his consciousness is switching between his own and Shikaku’s right now.

>>282963679
No, I was just about to reply that the math still works because I neglected that they can just put Shikaku "asleep" in Sumidori's body and that gives us 12 guards and 2 actively possessing other bodies.

>>282963566
>We already saw Halkenburg fire through a wall to hit Balsamilco by using references, this shot would be much easier.
For the Balsamilco's shot they had to have him in sight by one of them and communicate with hand gestures his exact placement, even though they were separated by a single wall.
A blind shot to another room seems unrealistic.

>>282963751
>A blind shot to another room seems unrealistic.
It's really not, it's the simplest shot of the two.

>Have Sumidori to to the front door or 1007
>ring the bell
>wait for someone to answer
>this means they have someone in front of the video screen
>the same screen in the exact same location as every other room
>Sumidori pulls the trigger indicating someone is there
>shoot

Given the blueprints the video phone seems to be at the doors connecting the living area to the entryway. The phone in Kurapika's room is in the same place and on the same side of the doors. That means Halkenburg knows where to aim and has very reasonable odds of hitting whoever answered the comms, or anyone else that might have been standing in the way. In either case it's a sure shot.

>>282963516
It wasn't blind. They know the layout and "Shikaku" yelled after Rice answered him. The yell would've been him confirming for Halkenburg that a target was positioned at the door. This might not be the case, but Balsamilco and Kanjidol thought something was done in the room.

>>282963566
>>282963679
For clarification:

Sumidori is dead. Dead dead. Halkenburg doesn't say this outright, but he says that Shikaku was in his body, and in the event that the target's body dies first (which is what happened when Sumidori-in-Shikaku shot himself) and then he trails off and explains that sacrifices must be made. So if he shoots someone to put his guy in their body, then they kill the body, Halk's buddy is gone and his enemy gets to keep their body.

Vict has both Vict and one of the guards in him. Vict has control when awake. This is the same arrangement Halk has in Balsamilco's body, that's how he knows how it works.

So if Halkenburg also put a plant in 1007, he shouldn't have 12 guards.

Unless they're following his orders. Rice is Duazul's guard. Since Halkenburg being Unma's son isn't public knowledge and Duazul has always taken credit as his mother regardless, Rice might be perfectly willing to help Halkenburg in this situation. He might also feel forced to since he has very little agency in his current situation. He's only awake when his body sleeps, at the mercy of Halk's other guards, and the authorities aren't going to believe he's in the wrong body due to magic bullshit. So what can he realistically do? It doesn't benefit Halk to kill him either (yet). The only problem is that they'd have to rely on Rice's body going to bed and staying asleep during the procession, but maybe a phone call to Duazul would settle that.

I don't get what putting a dude in Luzurus's room does, though. Also, wouldn't the hunters notice he just suddenly awakened? That'd at least make them watch him like a hawk.

Who will be the next prince to die besides Benjamin and maybe Halkenburg? Benjamin can’t go out in marital law without offing at least one prince. Luzurus seems to have the least plot relevance and was already a target of Melody. Tyson and Tubeppa still have plot threads. Maryam has nothing but he is protected by Bisky, Hanzo, and multiple guards. I don’t see Fugetsu dying when we’re still in the thick of the ghost Kacho storyline. We haven’t even seen Camilla’s seed beast ability and her curse users haven’t done shit yet. Zhangs abiltiy and character implies he’ll be here for a long while.

I genuinely can’t tell who it’ll be. My guess is luzurus because he looks pissed in Togashi’s drawing

>>282964009
>Sumidori is dead. Dead dead.
Sumidori's body is now host to both Shikaku and himself. Halkenburg's ability ties two minds together in the swap and favors his side for priority when activated and alternates who controls whose bodies initially. In the case either body dies the victim is granted priority in the swap and will re-awaken either in their own body or the other.

This is why Halkenburg took sleeping pills in Balsamilco's body before his death. So that he'll have about 10 more hours of being in control before Balsamilco "wakes up" and takes control. Otherwise he would just have died and that's the end of him as his ability works the same for everyone.

>I don't get what putting a dude in Luzurus's room does, though
Further testing for one. Luzurus is also an older prince so Halk can probably rationalize this decision as working towards taking out the competition. I doubt he knows about Luzurus' mafia connection as Halk knows nothing about Tserriednich's activities but he's not going to target a younger prince as room 1011 is Fuugetsu's room.

>wouldn't the hunters notice he just suddenly awakened?
It depends on how obvious the aura signature is. Kurapika could tell the two halk guards in his class were awakened but couldn't tell that Loberry was also under the influence of an ability. Babimyna also couldn't tell that Oito was awakened thanks to Stealth Dolphin. Melody only has her hearing to rely on for Kaiser being manipulated because otherwise he's completely normal as a person by appearances.

>>282940870
>loli
Tyson's probably 25+ years old

>>282964258
>Halkenburg's ability ties two minds together
After either a body dies does the soul of the dead body cohabit with the other in a single body forever ? That would be weird.

>This is why Halkenburg took sleeping pills in Balsamilco's body before his death. So that he'll have about 10 more hours of being in control before Balsamilco "wakes up" and takes control. Otherwise he would just have died and that's the end of him as his ability works the same for everyone.
What do you mean by "the end of him" ? The end of his physical body ?

*SMACK*

Zazan had the perfect body and didn't deserve to die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDaKPPmDSIE

This is what Togashi creams to? They can't even sing or dance

>>282966024
The Indian rapefugees will save Japan's music scene

>>282940384
Definitely not Tubeppa since Kurapika just made a contract with her.

>>282940384
I can't fathom the people who keep saying how Halkenburg will die, aka be out of the contest. His physical body literally just died, and that's Togashi's way of screaming how he already did the worst he could for him and how from now on Halkenburg is practically untouchable, it would absolutely make no sense for Togashi to infodump on his ability and hype him up for 2 chapters last batch just to make him definitely die. I suggest the no autopsy thing and the fact that his soul is still alive will play a huge part when he wins, as it will be related to the ritual chamber. Everything is setting up for his victory, with several younger princes staying alive. But no, it would make absolutely no sense in narration to kill him once again, and would be such a waste. Halkenburg will not only take Benjamin down (or at least play a part in it), but will also confront Tserriednich in a way or another because of how Togashi keeps pairing those two together.

https://x.com/Un4v5s8bgsVk9Xp/status/1977311373991522504
>I can't find the manuscript for No.424
Huntersissies...?

>he lost the manuscript
Kek

>>282967705
>>282967709
Bruh

>>282967696
The biggest issue would be how Halkenburg didn't immediately get killed by Benjamin after he poisoned him.

>>282967756
That's the part we will see (hopefully) in the next batch, but from experience, Halkenburg is way, way smarter than his fellow siblings let alone Benjamin so there's no way he didn't have a plan beforehand. Halkenburg had always planned accordingly and surprised us so I doubt he didn't have something up his sleeves when he planned to poison Benjamin. He explicitly said how he already had a plan to be the winner, so I'm sure it goes way beyond merely poisoning Benjamin for now.

>>282967821
I'm excited to see how he pulled it off.

>>282947763
The fact that the succession war has a cuckoldry loophole is hilarious.
And what's even more hilarious is that it might not even be a loophole, but intentional.

>>282964842
>That would be weird.
That is what is happening right now anon. Balsamilco and Halkenburg are sharing a single body as we speak.

>What do you mean by "the end of him" ?
As in him being dead and gone forever. You said Sumidori was "dead dead" and that Shikaku was the only one inside Sumidori's body.

Halkenburg's current plan hinges on the fact that even if his body is gone his soul will persist past that.

>>282967705
It's fucking over

>>282967705
AIEEEEE

>>282967705
His assistant mistook it for toilet paper. It happens.

>>282964258
You are assuming that when the attacker's side dies on the victim's body, the attacker goes back. Ex: Sumidori kills himself in Shikaku's body, then Sumidori's soul goes back to his body and shares his body with Shikaku's soul.
But Halkenburg never confirms that, he says that the result is obvious or something like that while talking about sacrifices.
So it's a sacrifice based ability, and most likely, when Sumidori killed himself using Shikaku's body, only Shikaku's soul woke up inside Sumidori's body. Sumidori's soul died with Shikaku's body when he shot himself.
It's an ability harsh on the attacker's side because it's OP and they are ready to sacrifice themselves.

>>282967705
That's an extra 2 year wait for the next batch.

>>282967705
Pathetic

>>282970112
>You are assuming
I'm re-stating what Halkenburg already knows. After Sumidori committed suicide it was Shikaku that woke up first. And then when the "Body" went to sleep Sumidori woke up next. Why else do you think Halkenburg made sure to knock Balsamilco's body out before his real body died?

>he says that the result is obvious or something like that while talking about sacrifices.
He was specifically referencing
1) What happens to the one inhabiting the target's body if they die first dies first

and

2) what happens when their current body dies next and the target's mind doesn't have a place to return too.

It's obvious that if both bodies die then both souls are permanently lost. And this is relevant to himself because his real body just died so if he dies in Balsamilco's body it's game over.

Being willing to put their life on the line is what gives them initial priority. And unless this ability can be shut off after use it means that each arrow will permanently share a relationship with whoever they were fired into.

>>282967705
>Uhhhhh yeah guys... I casually forgot where I put the script for chapter 424...
>Well... I won't be able to publish 2 consecutive volumes, you'll have to wait another year or two until I find it... or something
>Sorry guys tee hee
Wew lad

>>282970529
You are right.

>>282967705
Huh, so I guess this confirms Togashi doesn’t work on manuscripts during hiatus. 424 was where he left off prior to his last disappearance

>>282970558
500 IQ Togashi. I make the same excuses for skipping work too

>>282970593
Wasn't it obvious?
If he is not tweeting assume he didn't advance anything, at best he did some storyboards and adjusted some things here and there.

So good to see a Hunter x Hunter thread. I would never admit irl that I'm a fan of it, but I'm happy that a discussion exists online like this

>>282970638
I’m just kind of shocked he doesn’t get any urge to work on it. Even a page every 2 days would be almost a chapter a month

What is Benjamin going to do once he reincarnates into his baby? Will he even be able to order his men around in that state?

I want Pitou to snort catnip and then fuck her.

>>282970761
>Benjamin Button died as a baby, though his chronological age was 85, after living his entire life in reverse. In the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, his death occurred in 2003, in the arms of his life-long love, Daisy, who was by then an elderly woman. The film ends with Benjamin physically appearing as an infant, while his mind had developed normally for his age.

>>282948142
magica: lord of the magic books

Togashi a week from now
>I still have not found chapter 424

>>282964258
As for Halkenburg's ability, you have it wrong. The ability is not symmetrical. Halkenburg explains in Chapter 404 how they tested his current scenario on Vict already, but then he says this:
>Therefore what we needed to test were the two following scenarios. One, if the body of the targeted dies first!! What happens to the soul inside it?
So when Sumidori-in-Shikaku killed himself, where does Sumidor's soul go?
>As for Scenario 1… it’s not a big problem if we focus only on achieving our goal without considering my own reservations…! Being a soul who is not afraid of self-sacrifice for the greater good must be the requirement for participating in my Ability… And therefore, the results are obvious with no need for proof!!
He's saying his men can only help him if they're willing to sacrifice themselves, even though this goes against his own scruples. Do you understand what this means? It means when Sumidori-in-Shikaku shot himself in the head, Sumidori sacrificed himself. He's dead. The logic behind the ability is that Halkenburg's followers are given control over other people's bodies, so they're now responsible for that body, so if they destroy it they pay the price for it and the abducted gets to keep their body as compensation.

However, he does point out that he never tested this. When Sumidori's body woke up after the gunshot, Shikaku was inside, and it sounds like they didn't bother testing to see if Sumidori would take over when he slept. They must've killed Shikaku-in-Sumidori shortly after he gave them his ID number.

>>282968551
>Balsamilco and Halkenburg are sharing a single body as we speak.
That doesn't mean it will last forever. I don't think it has been been confirmed but I personnaly think one of the two souls will end up dying after a while.
>You said Sumidori was "dead dead" and that Shikaku was the only one inside Sumidori's body.
I'm another anon. I wouldn't say that Sumidori is dead because it has never been confirmed. We don't even know who woke up in his physical body after the death of Shikaku. And we don't know the whereabouts of Shikaku's soul.

Might have to reread Halkenburg's inner monologue about how a conqueror has to get along with the idea of sacrifice but I remember it was unclear on a first read.

>>282971266
>When Sumidori's body woke up after the gunshot, Shikaku was inside
IIRC it has never been confirmed who woke up in Sumidori's body after the death of Shikaku. There might have more rules that we don't know about or it might even be random.

>>282970761
I have a feeling it's going to be the other way around: Benjamin's soul will die and his son will get his body, and it'll be like when D4C changes which Valentine it's following. Benjamin has been pitted as the opposite of Halkenburg and Halkenburg just explained how the succession contest requires both body and soul to be gone in order for a prince to drop out. Since Halkenburg sacrifices his body, it makes sense Benjamin would sacrifice his soul, but his body will still be in the contest.

>>282971327
>We don't even know who woke up in his physical body after the death of Shikaku
Halkenburg said Sumidori used Shikaku's ID after waking up. This could be referring to every single time he woke up, since they had swapped bodies for a couple days, but Halkenburg didn't seem to be confused about that. They already tested this. And Writing 101 says you don't show us a scene of Halkenburg going, "Give us your deets," then later have him use those same words to reference shit that happened offscreen but NOT the one scene you showed us.
>And we don't know the whereabouts of Shikaku's soul.
He's dead, Benjamin has his ability.

It's confusing because so many words can have more than meaning and it needs to be specified, but if you go over his monologue carefully it becomes mostly clear.

>>282971544
We know it was Shikaku through process of elimination: Halkenburg says they didn't test where the soul of the follower goes if the target's body dies first. Why would he say that if Sumidori woke up and identified himself as Sumidori? His soul's right there.

THINK, Rihan!

>>282971629
We just literally don't know.
He has intentionally not confirmed to us, for narrative tension.

>>282971602
>He's dead, Benjamin has his ability.
Ok but that doesn't mean Sumidori hasn't reintegrated his own physical body and that Balsamilco's soul won't reintegrate his body after the death of Halkenburg's soul.

Halkenburg is jumping into Tseri's body.

>>282971602
>Halkenburg just explained how the succession contest requires both body and soul to be gone in order for a prince to drop out
that’s his interpretation of the rules.
shows that he’s too far gone now.

>>282970529
No, you are not right, I read it again with context and other translations.
By being shot there he is talking about the arrow, not the gun.
After they used the ability, Sumidori was in Shikaku's body, and then when it went to sleep Shikaku inside Sumidor swoke up and Sumidori inside Shikaku wouldn't wake up no matter what.
What happens to the ally's soul in the target's body when the target's body dies is not explicitly said by Halkenburg, but he says that the result is obvious because of the sacrifice and all of that.
So yeah, like said, the ally's soul most likely dies with target's body and does not return to his original body, the victim keeps it for themselves.

>>282971790
You mean after some arbitrary amount of time passes? I guess you're right, we have no way of knowing that. We have no idea if whether everyone will be resurrected in 20 years with no lasting harm to them. We just don't know. :^)

As far as Halkenburg is aware, Sumidori's dead. Shikaku's dead, because Benjamin has his ability. Halkenburg tells us when Sumidori woke up he gave Shikaku's number. Halkenburg does not think Sumidori was hiding in there, though he says they didn't test it. This means Sumidori woke up, said he was Shikaku, so they killed him. They didn't give him time to fall asleep and see if Sumidori controlled the body. But Halkenburg simply doesn't think that's how it works, despite fans for some reason thinking it does.

For Togashi to have a pacifist who loves his followers accept their death without absolutely confirming it, to me, says it's a continuity decision. If Benjamin didn't get Shikaku's ability until 24 hours after he shot himself in the head, that'd be weird, and Benjamin would be thrown even more onto the track of how Halkenburg's ability works. Togashi didn't want that, so he just had Halkenburg intuit that his followers die for good in that scenario.

But it also makes sense when you consider the lopsided nature of the ability. Nen is all about balance. It's ridiculous for Halkenburg to have this unblockable arrow, but it's balanced by it not actually being lethal, BUT if they can just wake up and sudoku themselves, then it really is just an unblockable shot. Letting the follower return to their body after they just took over some other person's body and offed it feels unfair.

It's still technically possible because he didn't test it, but sometimes characters say wild shit because it's simply true and Togashi doesn't want to waste the reader's time. This happens a lot in Hunter x Hunter.

>>282970783
Fucking Pitou raw

>>282971912
Those two sharing the same body would be nuts

>>282971984
>the ally's soul most likely dies with target's body and does not return to his original body, the victim keeps it for themselves.
The fact that Halkenburg knows that Balsamilco's soul is gonna awake in Balsamilco's body after the death of Halk's physical body means that rules are different when the ally's physical body dies.

>>282972278
It doesn't sound like it's possible because Halkenburg's ability requires the GSB and the GSBs won't attack the princes. Balsamilco explained this to Kanjidol, he doesn't think Halkenburg can shoot princes. People want Tserriednich to be shot, though, because he has King Crimson and Diavolo has a split personality with Doppio, so they want him to get one, too. I just don't see it happening unless a crazy sequence of events leads to it. I think at some point Chrollo and/or Hisoka will end up getting tangled up with the soul swapping.

>>282972315
Yes. If the rules were the same, it wouldn't have needed such a long-winded explanation that jumps all over the place.

This is what Halk says
>Therefore what we needed to test were the two following scenarios. One, if the body of the targeted dies first!! What happens to the soul inside it? And Two, if the soul of the targeted no longer has a body to return to, and also loses the body it currently inhabits, what happens…? For Scenario Two, the answer is obvious if you consider the fact that this Ability is manifested with help from a Guardian Spirit Beast who is working to win the Succession Contest, and the aforementioned necessary condition.)
>(As for Scenario 1… it’s not a big problem if we focus only on achieving our goal without considering my own reservations…! Being a soul who is not afraid of self-sacrifice for the greater good must be the requirement for participating in my Ability… And therefore, the results are obvious with no need for proof!!)
It's scenario 1 and he's clearly saying that in the case of target's body dying first, it's obvious that the soul there dies too, they are sacrificing themselves. When Shikaku woke up in Sumidori's body after Sumidori shot himself in Shikaku's body, Halk knew Sumidori's soul was completely gone and killed Shikaku, which made him pass his ability to Benjamin.

Is this a philosophical question? Are you your own subject? and how do you know?

>>282971984
>and other translations.
>>282972851
Yeah I was wrong then.

What's stopping Halkenburg from killing Balsamilco's physical body before his soul awakens ?

I'm guessing that the GSB follows Halkenburg's soul then because I don't believe it would take an action that leads to it's own death given how proactive and intelligent it is.

>>282971984
>By being shot there he is talking about the arrow, not the gun.
No, after Shikaku was shot with the arrow, Sumidori's body fell to the ground and Sumidori was controlling Shikaku's body. There was no service number recital.
It was after Sumidori shoots himself in Shikaku's body, that Sumidori's body wakes up and Halk asks for his service number.

I haven't been involved in this discussion, but it seems to me that the point of contention is what happens when the victim wakes up in the ally's body.
1. The victim soul takes over the ally body forever, the ally soul dies (sacrifice theory)
2. The victim and target soul alternate forever (symmetry theory)

I agree now that it's heavily implied >>282972851 that it's 1.
I got some things cleared up myself by following your conversation, thank you everyone.

Since we're talking about Halkenburg's hatsu, why do everybody keep saying how if he misses his target he dies? That's pure headcanon and never implied anywhere in the manga unless someone can show me wrong.

>>282974571
That seems to be the risk of death involved that powers it up in exchange for risking lives.

>>282973719
Well, if he did that he would die, and he wants to poison Benjamin first so...
>>282973443
She's saying she's answering from the pov of her being the subject.
It's the negative question dilemma, when you answer, what do you exactly mean?, well, we generally tend to avoid them for that reason, but usually work in one way which is different between the west and east.
>You won't cheat right?
>No (I won't, west, we are our own subject)
>No (You are not correct, east, I'm not the subject which means I will cheat)
So Morena is saying that she will indeed not cheat.
>>282974144
There was, off screen. The ID thing he talks about there is not the one we saw after the gun shot, he made the same question to Sumidori after Sumidori inside Shikaku's body went to sleep.
The explanation you share was proving the current situation with Halk inside Balsamilco and Balsamilco inside of Halk like he is saying, which is what they tested inside the quarters, not what happens to the soul inside the target's body after dying. It's very clear if you read it again, otherwise Halkenburg wouldn't be "wondering" about what happens in that exact scenario and conclude that the answer is obvious because they are ready to self sacrifice.

>>282948403
bro?
that "rando" is Theta's friend and her group are Tserriednich's friends.
Moerena took her to spy on Tserri. they'll play a role in the main plot.

>>282973884
>the GSB follows Halkenburg's soul
Yes, chimera ants and Kite already suggested to us that nen follows the soul rather than the body.

>>282934976
People from my HS class are dropping like flies. At least 10 or so out of my class of maybe 200. >>282936434
I was in a study group with 2 other people in 2004 history class and both have since died. I’m the only one left that remembers the study group our generation is so unhealthy and defective

>>282974672
>Well, if he did that he would die, and he wants to poison Benjamin first so...
I meant after doing all that.

>>282974820
>Yes, chimera ants and Kite already suggested to us that nen follows the soul rather than the body.
When?

What is Halkenburgs master plan he’s so sure about ? Is it just to let Benjamin kill all the other princes in metal law then just murder Benjamin? Maybe even taking his child hostage?

>>282972851
>Being a soul who is not afraid of self-sacrifice for the greater good must be the requirement for participating in my Ability
I want to highlight this line because it has a potentially interesting double meaning.

For one, it's another similarity to Benjamin as Benjamin Baton requires undying loyalty to activate. But the other is that this doesn't mean every arrow marked follower is eligible to be fired. We didn't get a narrator's box but obviously someone has to be loyal to Halkenburg to retain their marks. But Grimmel might only draw on those who have a higher degree of determination, meaning Halkenburg can use normal people who just agree with him as fuel, and a small cabal of loyalists (including himself) as the ammunition.

I don't doubt that the people on Tier 2 he recruited had a those willing to die for the cause. But I think this might explain why he got shot instead of the group as it might not have contained enough people with die-hard loyalty.

>>282974820
I don't think those specifically support the idea that hatsu transfers with the soul. Kite is currently nen-less and none of the ants were stated to have nen abilities prior to reincarnation.

>>282936550
I wish the card game had more of a back and forth. I know it's intentionally supposed to be in Morena's favor, but there's still far too few decisions the player can actually make to be interesting.
Making Bork cheat was one way to spice it up a bit, but wasn't really enough to save it for me.

>>282975093
>that hatsu transfers with the soul.
*or the Parasite

>>282975132
The card game was literally just a way for Togashi to info dump without characters just sitting and straight up talking for 3 chapters . If the card game gets used again I’ll be shocked, I feel like it can’t get more interesting than it was, and it wasn’t that interesting to begin with

>>282967705
He'd find it if he cleaned his room

>>282975040
>>282975093
>Kite is currently nen-less
You're right, I take it back.

>>282975025
Wouldn't be surprised if he did, If Benjamin and company didn't shot him down right after releasing the poison right beside him that is.
>>282975078
Considering he said he was about to end it in like a day, his plan is most likely just forcing Benjamin to do what he is doing now.
The princes die, he dies, Benjamin dies, and the next king is Benjamin's son, making their mother the ruler.
People seem under the impression that he has something crazy under his sleeve but he doesn't, the moment he was chosen by the arrow and changed with Balsamilco it was game over for Halkenburg. If Balsa wakes up inside his original body he's fucked, and if they both share it, he's on a time limit before Balsa wakes up, reports it to Benjamin and kills himself. His last option is taking advantage of the poison and make a kamikaze attempt.
>>282975093
For sure, it wasn't bad luck, I'm 100% convinced the arrow choose him because most of the common people don't have the resolve he and his guards have, otherwise the arrow would have chosen a guard. In this case he was the only one ready to die there.

>Random?
Togashi foreshadowing that the arrow is NOT random?

>>282976085
It would still be random. But the pool % depends on the composition of those in proximity to him. When they fired on Shikaku everyone had a 1/15 percent chance in being the arrow. But on Tier 2 the odds were probably 100% for Halkenburg alone. If he had even one of his guards with him it would have been a 50/50.

>>282976177
It could be weighted by the amount of aura someone has, but uniform random is likely.

>>282957756
>>>>>>Shonen
it's the greatest manga arc period

>>282973884
Maybe it has a way of following both, but regardless, wasting his body didn't "kill" him so it didn't intervene. Halkenburg reasons that both body and soul must die for a prince to be out, so it could be the GSBs work on a similar logic. The very existence of Nencho proves it isn't so black and white.

>>282975025
>>282975658
Halkenburg wants to win. Killing Benjamin doesn't win him the throne. His plan is to become king first and then disband the monarchy. I don't know why you're so confident in a plan that doesn't get him what he wants.

>>282961072
Cammy since the cober is usually irrelevance

>>282976435
Halkenburgs plan is probably to have Benjamin kill everyone, THINK he’s killed Halkenburg, only for haleknbrug to have soul swapped with Benjamin’s kid.
The problem with haleknrbug currently is that he’ll always have to share a body with someone which will be a massive pain in the ass.

Unma is clearly on his side “I’m so proud o you my son Halkenburg”, and has Benjamin’s child.

She’ll let Halkenburg soul swapped with Benjamin’s child.

THE ONLY problem with this is that
>halk still can’t choose who takes over the opponents body
>Halkenbrug will become a baby , but at least the monarchy will be dead

>>282976435
>Maybe it has a way of following both
It would be interesting if the lingering marks on people like Worio were the result of the GSB having it's own post mortem nen activation. But I think it's safe to assume the creature is still alive. Especially if Halkenburg's next phase of the plan involves firing himself into another target after he assassinates Benjamin. It's just that this kind of transfer is unprecedented in the story and it can still go either way.

This still begs the question about what his plan would have been if he hadn't been the arrow. He would have had to had the means of faking his death and vitals, but reviving afterwards.

>The very existence of Nencho proves it isn't so black and white.
I think Nencho just builds off of Sale-Sale's logic. Not all nen beasts are on the same level of awareness and autonomy. Maybe Kacho's beast tried to warn her before the hands appeared but it had no body to do so at the time. So the best it can do is it's original function which is provide a container for the soul of either sister. Or at least a convincing simulacrum of the sibling. We're still not sure if that's really her or not but as you said it's not black and white. The beast only made moves to protect Halkenburg so it could accept it's own death as the cost to continue the mission.

>>282976435
Obviously that wasn't his original plan, but now that the arrow chose him, he's out of options.
I mean, what else is he going to do? Magically escape from Benjamin after poisoning him, and while a martial law is going on and he has barely any time left, gather his guards or some other people somehow, make them believe he is Halkenburg, get into his mother quarters somehow, and then throw arrows until he switches with the baby with which he will have to share the body through his whole life unless they keep Balsa body with the baby's soul alive somehow for years and years until it ends up dying anyways?
That's extremely contrived and pretty much impossible to make happen.
He's done, he said so himself
>Being a soul who is not afraid of self-sacrifice for the greater good must be the requirement for participating in my Ability
He's ready to die, this was always Halkenburg's biggest weakness, to think the king must be on the same level as anyone else. He's to nice for his own good and doesn't understand what being a king is, the king is not on the same level as his subordinates or the people, the king is above all.

>>282977178
Thank you. I’m shocked there’s people who have t realized Halk is fucked either way. People think he’s gonna spam arrows until he is the one who switched to someone else?

>>282977178
>He's ready to die, this was always Halkenburg's biggest weakness, to think the king must be on the same level as anyone else. He's to nice for his own good and doesn't understand what being a king is, the king is not on the same level as his subordinates or the people, the king is above all.
Yeah. Halkenburg was ready to kill himself when he realized he couldn't force Nasubi's hand. His mindset is dangerous and even Zhang's guards clocked that after a single conversation that the best way to beat him was to pit his ideals against his goals. Right now Halkenburg is going scorched earth on the whole system.

And it's why Benjamin will be king because his GSB will download him into his own child. All he has to do is wait a couple decades and if Kakin is still around he can re-unite the pieces.

>>282977321
>>282977249
>>282977178
I think Halkenbrug and Benjamin want the same thing. For the baby to win. Haleknrbug knows it’s over. He can never live a normal life again even if he survives and Benjamin is guaranteed to die.
Benjamin’s baby led by Unma could be the future

>>282977178
He says he already planned for what to do if he shot himself into Balsamilco and, from the moment he did so, he's had over 22 hours to figure out what to do next. The funeral was held on Tier 3 and he's been surrounded by his supporters. Don't you think it's a little retarded for his plan to be
>Okay, look: I'm gonna' go kill myself. Good luck, boys!
Yeah, he tried to shoot himself in the head, but when he realized that wouldn't work he gained the resolve to win, that's how he awakened his Nen ability. He's no longer fucking around.

>>282977321
OH MY GOD, AND THEN THE ARC WILL BE OVER AND WE CAN GO TO THE DARK CONTINENT!?

Anon, stop.

>>282977825
So how do you expect Halkenburg to live? The second balslamico wakes up, he’s dead
>just transfer soul again
Halk can’t choose which group member gets soul transferred. He could shoot 10+ arrows and he could still be balsamico

>>282977825
His plan is to poison Benjamin like he already did and have him kill all princes under martial law.
Then the kid will be the king and his mother will rule in his place and teach him good.
It will obviously fail but that's the plan, that's why he said the succession war would end the next day.

Can't wait til 2050 when The Dark Continent gets animated

>>282977825
>AND THEN THE ARC WILL BE OVER AND WE CAN GO TO THE DARK CONTINENT!?
You silly fool. Benjamin hasn't yet killed all the princes and anyone's whose GSB hasn't done anything yet is almost guaranteed to be bulletproof. All this is doing is removing the strongest two princes from the succession war and moving the others around so the plot can be even more chaotic.

Bend over and get ready for 50+ more chapters and hiatuses this arc. Hope you didn't plan on dying for the rest of the decade.

>>282933296 (OP)
Anon-san, have you seen manuscript?

>>282978309
I don't think Benjamin has killed a single prince yet. He'll go through with it once he gets his hands on them all.

>>282978382
His only kill was Chad-Chad. The princes he rounded up are more than likely still alive so he can keep up appearances and the second he gets that letter of succession from Nasubi he'll purge the rest. Granted, the letter would never come and two princes are MIA as it is.

Benjamin is shitting himself to death as we speak

>>282967867
It's intentional, you cant type NeTeRo without NTR.

>>282977948
He was on Tier 3 with his supporters for an entire day and the best plan he could come up with is killing himself to poison Benjamin? And they thought that sounded like a good idea?

>>282978111
That does not line up with Halkenburg's goals. He has to rule himself. As far as he knows, the only person who can win is a prince. Not only that, but he has no reason to believe Unma or Benjamin's child will dismantle the monarchy after he's gone. Certainly his followers have no reason to trust them. He also has no reason to believe Benjamin can kill all the princes. They have GSBs and are swarming with hunters. Halkenburg isn't retarded.

>>282978309
No. The boat ride is two months long and several characters are embroiled in activities which take days or weeks to see through. The succession can't end in a 12 hour stretch on the 13th day.

This is a problem anons have had since this arc began. You guys see where you are, see the end goal, and then draw a straight line from one to the other and go, "Yup, that's how it'll play out!" That's why you keep getting dumbfounded by flashbacks and card games and Beyond bastards. This arc has barely begun.

>>282978543
I Jokingly said Benjamin would be king after a couple decades of aging up in an infants body. What made you think I even implied things would wrap up quickly?

>>282978543
Yes, it sounded like a good idea because it's a great excuse to put armed soldiers into everyone's quarters and shot down the hell out of everyone.
You seem under the idea the he had to switch with someone else but it's completely unfounded.
Not only they would notice him activating the power and that he is alive, throwing away the whole charade away, but with hundreds if not thousands of followers, he could throw a thousand arrows and still not switch with anybody else.
And on top of that, we know that he poisoned Benjamin, so he must gone back to Ben's room under Balsamilco and release the poison right at his side, it's the only way he could have done that.

What is the arrow thing Halkenburgs beast ability or is own ability? Because Camilla, Benjamin, and Tsen each have their own ability alongside their GSB

If Halkenburg has another ability then he might survive this

I love Halkenburg so much. I wish I could bear his children

>>282979361
His own but it synergizes with his beasts ability. Think about how Golem summons a gun but the aura is provided by the ride-along partner. Halkenburg makes the gun and the beast draws the aura from the followers.

>>282979361
The arrow is his own ability. Made OP by his beast cause his beast grants him a huge amount of aura. I don't think he can use his own ability without his beast and his followers.

>>282975658
>the moment he was chosen by the arrow and changed with Balsamilco it was game over for Halkenburg
Wasnt it already over because of the poison?

>>282979543
He chose to poison himself after switching bodies.

>>282978954
ESL-kun, Halkenburg didn't kill himself just so he could poison Benjamin. This is one of the smartest characters in the series, his IQ isn't double digits like yours.

>>282979543
He already had a plan for the arrow choosing him.

>>282979401
Hi Halksister

>>282980099
How are my fellow Halkensisters doing

>>282979932
>He already had a plan for the arrow choosing him.
makes me wonder what he would have done if someone else had been shot into Balsamilco.

Page ten x Page ten is over.

Will the Silent Majority user be revealed this batch

>>282984544
>he hasn't figured it out yet

>>282984544
It's obviously me bitch.

>>282933621
as long as he releases his notes for Dark Continent (if they exist), I'll be satisfied. Better would be hiring an artist to finish but I don't see that happening.

>>282937829
I think it's not just the back pain, you have to be somewhat insane to stick to a regular publication schedule for years and years. Most of the ones that finish a long-ish series don't come back to publication for a few years, if they come back at all. As much frustration that I have with HxH, I get it.

>>282985488
It’s pretty bad but nowadays it isn’t as bad as it was in Togashi’s time. Digital art + assistants doing digital art can cut down on time spent working. It isn’t any worse than any other wage slave working 10 hours a day. There’s even mangaka working a relatively normal schedule nowadays

What will be the big shock/surprise of this batch?

>>282986488
Mafia/Spider conflict will finally overlap with the succession.
Zhang Lei fleeing downward towards the protection of Heinrigh.
Morena begins making big moves somehow despite Borksin's reluctance and unknown specialty.
Spiders have found Hisoka in T1 and will make a play at stealing the succession ritual treasures.
Kurapika.

I think Halkenburg’s fate will be that he will shoot his soul into Benjamin’s baby, but then Benjamin will obviously fail at killing all the princes, effectively eliminating Halkenburg from the contest. This arc is Togashi’s thesis on what it means to live, so there are going to be characters that won’t die but instead suffer ironic consequences that end their lives’ ambitions. That’s why I think Benjamin will survive here but end up arrested instead.

Pitou sex

>>282970761
I'm sorry, when he does what now? I haven't been following the theorycrafting very closely, so where the hell did this idea come from?

>>282989323
His GSB hasn't done anything so people think it might be able to save him from the poison somehow. His Nen ability is a pun on Benjamin Button, the story about a guy who ages backwards. The GSB's design references him having a baby (one very large mouth and one very small mouth). So some people are speculating his GSB's ability actually involves some kind of soul swapping with his baby. The fact it perches on him like Halkenburg's does and the two have been juxtaposed as opposites by Togashi leads some credence to it having an ability something like that.

Personally I think that'd be kind of silly, but I think something similar to it will happen.

>>282953273
The nigga looks like he came from a NES punch out game.

>>282933296 (OP)
Reminder that Gon/Killua will always be cute and canon and no yuricuck hag like Naoko attempting to sink the ship will ever change that!

>>282990904
boys are gay

>>282990904
>>282991087
Gon bottoms btw

Noko

>>282933296 (OP)
The 1999 anime is so much better than 2011 zoomer shit. Switched to 2011 for greed island and it's a bore.

>>282991087
It really baffles my mind how evil people can see two happy kids with a strong friendship and think they must be engaging in anal violence with eachother.

>>282986488
one of these fucks will be revealed

>>282988392
Pitou is a man or at best sexless and they are trying to retcon it into a woman due to tranny propaganda.

This story went to shit when he started copying one piece and making horrible character designs.

The zodiacs look stupid. Togashi is a hack.

Can someone please explain why Matchi refused to have sex with Hisoka? It doesn't make any sense. He's attractive, strong and homicidal. Why wouldn't she have sex with him? He asked her twice. I don't get it.

>>282989640
>>282989323
There’s also this page where Togashi ends Nasubi's succession war monologue with a shot of Benjamin and his beast as he declares that only a “single blessed child” will be left at the end. The term translated as "blessed child" in japanese is 御子 (miko), which literally means "honorable child" or "divine child". It’s the same word used in expressions like 神の御子 (Kami no Miko) ("the Son of God" referring to Jesus) and 天皇の御子 (Tennou no Miko) ("the Emperor’s child"). This further reinforces the reincarnation aspect of the theory.

>>282991801
Shut the fuck up Naoko

>>282991890
Playing hard to get

>>282991896
WHAT A NICE COCK BENJAMIN

>>282991890
she is a lesbian, and also knows he's gay anyways and only asked as a joke, he only likes big (nen) cocks

When will /ourant/, the Glutton King, return?

>>282933296 (OP)
Is there anything to talk about anymore?
Even if they, one day in the far future, get off the boat full of people there was never any reason to care about... how could the dark continent possibly live up to the hype?
I think it's probably better to say it ended with Gon's healing. The kakin succession shit, Beyond's hunt, Kurapika's asspull life sacrifice powers and his hunger for pickled eyeballs, mafia nonsense, troupe and clown interplay... it's the realm of fanfiction now.
Let it go, bros.

>>282992686
Why are the worst posters usually Gon/killua fags? Is it something about being obsessed with kids?

>>282992982
Gon and Killua being cute kids is the best part of the show. It's weird that they are 12 though, they should really only be like 7 considering how they act.

>>282992982
Mental illness plus IQ below 100

>>282992686
>Gon/killua fags
no such thing, we just call them 2011trannies. they would be the first to praise this arc to high heavens if it ever gets adapted. animeonly fags in general are incapable of critical thinking and like to follow "trends". the chimera ant arc was the last true hxh trend in normalfagsphere, and gon and killua were big there so they simply can't move on from them, no matter how good or well written the post anime material is, it doesn't and won't matter. the manga for them is simply seen as "not trendy" therefore not "exciting" or "interesting". plus they probably also can't read it anyway. i say just ignore them. there's no point in wasting energy or trying to have a discussion with morons.

>>282993474
>>282992982

>>282991803
>>282986488
One of the princes is a brion.

>>282986488
>hisoka kills another spider
>another prince dies (not benjamin or halkenburg)
>tyson gets revealed to be a daughter of beyond
>kurapika gets the contract ability already
>woble's nen beast gets finally shown by smoking the silent majority user.

>>282993689
>hisoka kills another spider
The Spiders are far from reaching Tier 2. Kuroro is gonna make his way up soon but I don't think he will meet Hisoka yet. IIRC Bonorenof has been asked by Kuroro to hide or change Tier.

>>282993474
I’m not as extreme in my opinion of them, but yea, this feels like a true thing for anime focused or only group for any manga. It’s so weird.
I’m guessing it’s because , at least in the west, way more people watch media than read, which means by default you’re gonna attract more normies (no negative connotation when I use it)

>>282993689
Hisoka vs the spiders haven’t not started yet is crazy. I’m sure we’ll get the Bono fight but I don’t see how Togashi can properly resolve Hisoka, Kurapika, Chrollo, Tserrienich, Morena’s, haleknburg, Benjamin, Kacho:Fugetsu, etcs arcs all in 50 chapters. Not to mention shit like longhi and beyond’s kids, Nasubi, Kaizer.


If 50 chapters is all we have left for this arc , Togashi must utilize the greatest pacing in manga history

>>282993939
>If 50 chapters is all we have left for this arc
we don't know how many chapters the whole arc is going to have, for all we know, in 50 chapters we could still be in the boat, but have arrived at the refuel station, before entering real dark waters, where certain characters will probably abandon the ship and return to the v6, while others will board it to conclude the succession contest and maybe even start the preparations for expedition arc at that point or something like that.
The departure of the black whale was in chapter 359, it has been 51 chapters to basically cover just two weeks so far from a two month trip to the new continent, tho, we can expect a much faster pacing now that it seems all the important characters have been set up.

500th for Alluka!

The smile that demolished cishet chuds.

No. 424, found in a gap in a cardboard box.