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I've been absolutely blown away for years by Togashi's ability of conveying emotions through facial expression no matter how good/bad the art style is. Even mere scratches and chaos can give off the vibe that Togashi wants to transfer to the reader. This page, took all of that to a whole new level. Not only did he drew an extremely detailed piece of meat with a slit in the middle, but the way he drew Borksen's resigned face is just incredible. At first she held onto hope that Morena can be "fixed", but the more Morena went on in her explanation the more defeated Borksen looked. She basically knew there was no way in trying to change Morena's mind. Not to mention that smile.... that smile on Morena's face while talking. It's like a calm smile that is hiding unbelievable amounts of hatred and pain and thoughts of revenge. Probably my fav Succession War panel next to Halkenburg's awakening.

We learn in the latest chapter that the succession war involves 4 connected stages:

1- praying for prosperity.

2- sacrificing the princes.

3- converging all of the energy resulting from the princes deaths.

4- using that enormous power to administer the affairs of the state and support and maintain the GSB of the next king.

We also get another look basically just refreshing how limitations work and that they should be applied with a choice left instead of enforcing them.

Considering this, Nasubi and his children are actively strengthening the nen resulting from this war ( Nasubi by sacrificing his kids and the princes by sacrificing each other ) but here is where it gets kinda complicated.

Woble is literally an infant, which means she lacks both resolve and understanding of risk and return. Maybe that's why Kurapika said that she doesn't have the right for succession.

The same thing applies to Marayam, he is also a kid and doesn't understand all of this, doesn't that also make him out of the question?

Halkenburg was also like this before, he didn't have the resolve to participate in this war but he eventually steeled himself and went on a rampage.

I think the whole situation of having resolve and will of putting in the work and sacrificing your siblings is a crucial part of making this nen stronger and having two kids who lack both is something that might void the entire ritual. Not to mention that some princes like Tuppepa and Tyson also hate this whole conflict.

It's time to re-read this masterpiece of an arc for the 1526162th time to keep up with this thickening plot. We survived another hiatus and in a couple of days we will witness the return of the GOAT 🔥

The fact that Kurapika is so sure about this makes me think that he had already formed some kind of a 100% guaranteed plan. Among the five chains ( healing, dowsing, stealing, jail and judgement ) I don't think there is any chain that could be used so discreetly and during a handshake... Maaaaybe the steal chain? Because healing and dowsing are useless in this situation, jail is specifically designed for the spiders, judgement chain requires ET and will cause some commotion so it's either the steal chain or Kurapika is hiding something else, maybe a whole new aspect to his ability.

How does Pariston's request of changing the bylaws fall under the association becoming an interesting place? Teradein and his squad pushed for a more "peaceful" association but that would've made it boring for Pariston who is following in the same steps as Netero. It made sense why would he push for that during the elections to absorb Teradein's votes to himself but why insist on changing these rules even after resignation?

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To make it easier for him to push for his 5000 Chimera hybrids to take the exam later on? But that doesn't sit well with Pariston's character of loving a challenge.

I love how Ging's entire goofy demeanour changed and became serious the moment Gon mentioned that he should've been the one to die instead of Kite.

When one of the nen GOATs praises you like that, you know you're something. Put some respect on Leorio's name 😭

Edit: I know that "potential" here might've been referring to his potential to win the elections but I still found it interesting to be praised by someone of Ging's caliber.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in for the idea of Gyro as a final threat and I actually see him as a very interesting character despite seeing nothing from him other than a flashback of his childhood but the way his soldiers respected him gives you an idea of how charismatic he must've been to the point that Welfin blatantly stated in front of Post Rose Meruem, the strongest being ever introduced to the story at that point, that the ants are his enemies and that Gyro is the only one who he will consider as a leader.

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But the thing is, I honestly find the idea of Pariston being the final threat or the final "villain" a lot more intriguing. Pariston is a character that makes you feel threatened without even lifting a finger. His schemes and the way he uses logic in twisted ways just to create scenarios to annoy others not to mention that he has over 5000 human-ant hybrids with nen abilities to turn the world into complete chaos cause remember, these hybrids may not follow any orders. They may have a stronger ant side to them which will end up creating a disaster probably worse than the NGL one.

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Another thing is that I think Togashi had already given us the idea of someone who is going against the world in Morena. So unless there were some kind of ties between Morena and Gyro, I don't really see Togashi introducing two villains with the same exact goal. Why do I think that Morena and Gyro might be connected? Because I think that Meteor City and Kakin might've had some kind of connection. Meteor City elders developed nen abilities around the same time they started working with the mafia. They supplied personnel to the mafia ( since Meteor City residents don't have any birth certificates or any identification they will be useful in mafia operations ) so there might be some connection there. Oc it could be a completely different mafia branch than the one operating in Kakin but what made me think that there might be some connection is the fact that Chrollo knew too much about the succession, he even know about the 3 sacred treasures controlling the war.

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This is pure speculation and I could be wrong but honestly unless there was some kind of work relationship between Morena and Gyro, I would rather have Pariston as the final threat in HxH.

I honestly think what makes this scene more heartbreaking is that all of the extermination team ( probably besides Killua ), knew that Kite was already dead and they just didn't want to shatter Gon completely. It is still cruel cause that revelation pushed Gon to the edge and I could be totally wrong but I find it hard to believe that experienced hunters such as Morel, Knov, Knuckle and Shoot didn't realize that Kite was dead that whole time.

When Gon and Pitou were headed to Peijing to "help" Kite, Knuckle suggested to use APR on Pitou to keep track of his location at all times and to shield Gon from Pitou's attacks. Now we know that Knuckle's ability does negate damage, not only to him but to whoever APR is attached to. So in this case, it should protect him and Pitou, not Gon so how was Knuckle speaking about shielding Gon?

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If Hakoware can shield whoever is fighting the person that the APR is attached to, why didn't it shield Shoot who nearly died while facing Youpi despite APR being attached to Youpi at that time?

When Kurapika's eyes become scarlet, he becomes a Specialist allowing him to use his Specialist ability Emperor Time: Absolute Mastery. The question here, why is Kurapika still tied to his Conjuration chart in that case? Like I completely understand that ET only increases the output/efficiency but doesn't change levels/mastery stated in the nen chart but shouldn't it be a Specialist chart here?

If Specialist chart is bound by the same rules then Kurapika ( as a Specialist ) would have the following percentage 80% for Conjuration & Manipulation, 60% for Transmutation & Emission and 40% for Enhancement as max mastery levels while this page is still considering these limits for a Conjurer.

This is going to be long so bare with me and correct me if I'm wrong. To start this, I believe that once a nen user dies, their aura dissipates/disappear since aura is literally the life energy of living things in general ( aside from the cases of Post Mortem Nen when the dead user's nen persists after death ). The question is, is each body "compatible" with only the person's aura or can any aura power any body? I'll bring two examples for this, Pitou and Ikalgo.

Ikalgo was able to possess dead bodies and use the nen abilities of the dead user. This shouldn't be possible but this is the first case that proves that maybe Ikalgo was using his own aura to "power up" the corpse he is possessing allowing him to use the abilities. Kinda like when you use a battery to power stuff up.

Pitou on the other hand, is probably doing the same thing but using his aura to persevere the organs of the dead bodies he is controlling. Because unlike Ikalgo who focuses his aura on powering up the corpse and using the abilities, Pitou focuses the aura in preserving the body parts hence why corpses controlled by Ikalgo will start to decompose over time unlike corpses controlled by Pitou.

So, in chapter 222 when Gon and Killua met Shoot, Knuckle, Morel and Knov to see Kite, Knuckle said he had to seal Kite's aura with his IPR. So in this case, was he actually talking about Pitou's aura that was used to preserve Kite's organs? Did he mistake it for Kite's own aura thus thinking that Kite is actually alive and was just being manipulated? Because it's clear that Knuckle could identify that the aura controlling Kite wasn't his but maybe he couldn't identify the one inside his body and thought that was Kite's own? Or is this whole assumption wrong and bodies do retain some aura after death?

It's also reasonable to believe that they legit thought Kite was still alive since they didn't know how exactly Pitou's ability works and the fact that the Puppeteer doesn't show up unless you touch Kite first. So I don't think they were trying to fool Gon there but what confuses me the most is the whole aura within a dead body situation.

In Greed Island arc we learn that unlimited number of players can use the same Joystation to play the game but since you need to save and only one save file can be created per memory card then in this case the number will be limited to 8 players per Joystation. Now looking at the Joystation itself, there are 4 base memory card slots so doesn't adding 2 multitaps ( 4 slots each ) make the total number of players 12? Why was it mentioned that the limit is capped at 8?