Hunter X Hunter Episodes 13 & 14
Added 2024-10-17 17:00:08 +0000 UTCComments
The first point is also weird because they jump back and forth between censoring and not censoring certain things
Carl Carlsonn
2025-01-03 06:26:01 +0000 UTCWe basically got 1 episode this week instead of two :')
Leenseoh
2024-10-22 18:21:18 +0000 UTCI don't know if someone told you already, but most Hisoka's magic tricks you've seen so far were just the anime's way of censoring his hyper-violence. For example, in the tunnel he didn't turn the guy's arms into flowers, he just cut them off. Instead of flowers, in the source material it was blood spraying everywhere. Similarly when he fought against the mob that tried to gang him up, he didn't draw a clean one-shot circle with a card like in the anime. He just kept killing them one by one. There were blood and body parts flowing everywhere. Hisoka has a habit of cutting his preys to pieces or beheading them. Actually no, the author himself loves to draw characters being beheaded. And the scene with Killua ripping the mass murderer's heart was more gruesome in the manga. There was no bag, and Killua didn't return it to the guy afterwards. The guy's heart was shown still beating and bleeding in Killua's hand, and Killua made it explode by pure strength with his hand in front of the dying dude. Pure sadism. You gotta keep in mind that Hunter x Hunter was the original "edgy" shônen manga, way before Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan or Dandadan. The idea was to write the naive fantasy premise of Dragon Ball (a pure-hearted nature's child on a mission to discover the civilized World), but to install it in a realistically(?) deceptive World full of serial killers, pedophiles, sex tourists, organized mafias, terrorists, ghetto youths, etc. In Hunter x Hunter, everything that may look cute or innocent on the surface has an hidden darker side to it. Violence and deception are everywhere. I would even say that Leolio is the only normal and the most "human" character in the story, everybody else is either crazy or psychopatic to some degree. Even Gon who, like most classic shônen protagonists, suffers from a Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. But unlike classic shônen mangas like Dragon Ball or One Piece that use "flat character arcs" with the main protagonist presented as inherently righteous from the start, Gon is not used as the moral compass of the story, therefore he is held responsible for the consequences of his own actions. When Luffy and Goku force their morality onto a secondary character with the power of their fists, their behavior is shown as heroic because they're the moral paragons of their respective stories. But Gon is shown as being his own person. Because of that, with his stubborness and unability to accept failure or rejection, he can appear quite creepy and threatening depending on the context. The idea of portraying a classic shônen protagonist in a non-idealistic setting was already a genius idea in itself, but the fact that Gon got abandoned by a selfish father and educated by a controlling aunt makes perfect sense as to why he would develop OCPD. This is the kind of details that make me think of the author as an evil genius. Keep in mind that this is the manga that forced the Shônen Jump to start regulating and censoring the violence of their mangas, after a young reader shot his own hand with his parents' gun, thinking he would be able to stop the bullet like some Hunters would. I personally grew up reading the manga, in a time where it was still niche and only real mangas readers knew about it. I kind of enjoy watching the anime, but I dislike how they watered its dark tone down to make it watchable for normies. Even to this day, no modern shônen manga has ever managed to outclass the edge of the Hunter x Hunter manga. Yoshihiro Togashi will always be the ultimate shônen edgelord, period. Funnily enough, this may surprise you, but to this day he is happily married to the author of Sailor Moon.
Didier
2024-10-18 06:25:33 +0000 UTC32:59 YALL CANNOT CONVINCE ME THAT DOESNT LOOK LIKE SOPHIE FROM HOWLS MOVING CASTLE
Gatha Naranath
2024-10-17 23:11:40 +0000 UTCIf you can, watch the first episode of the 90s anime. For some reason they didn't adapt in the 2011 anime, and its really important latter on. It's easy to find on YouTube. They put all the old anime on there. Even if you can't react to it, but for better understanding.
Sam
2024-10-17 22:28:56 +0000 UTCsame here, but its kinda fun to see how characters behaved when you first met them in comparison to now and they made it in a cute way with the letter. there can be lots of reasons for recaps like this, but i gladly take this over some random filler or stretched out training sequences like older shounen did alot.
Rockycitygirl
2024-10-17 19:45:47 +0000 UTCu dont need to watch the recap episodes
Harrison Hird
2024-10-17 18:39:54 +0000 UTCwhy did yall watch the recap lol
Marko Genter
2024-10-17 17:57:35 +0000 UTCAm not a fan of recap episodes, but if you’re watching over a long span of time they’re not too bad. I usually skip personally, but y’all made it enjoyable. (Since you were able to give thoughts on impressions thus far w/o having to concentrate too hard on what’s happening.) Having him write a letter to Mito was a cool way to do it.
The Anime Dude
2024-10-17 17:26:38 +0000 UTCThere is 1 more recap episode besides 13 that can be safely skipped without missing anything, episode 26
Josh Ashford
2024-10-17 17:01:38 +0000 UTC
