Why would Uvo think that Kurapika's chains were real, if he saw and felt them literaly increase in size?
Isn't that something that only a conjured object would be able to do? Or can you take a regular knife, infuse it with nen and make the blade grow longer and stronger?
I don't think that's the case. Am I trippin?
It's been a long time since I read a manga that I enjoyed. I'm looking for recommendations. Something like HxH, well written, three-dimensional characters, where the action/battle is based on strategy, rather than who punches the hardest.
I remember finding Kekkaishi to be the manga most similar to Hxh, both in terms of style and quality. But it doesn't have to be a shonen. Something like Bokko or the Yagyu Ninja Scrolls would be right up my alley.
Please, I'm desperate.
It's been a long time since I read a manga that I enjoyed. I'm looking for recommendations. Something like HxH, well written, three-dimensional characters, where the action/battle is based on strategy, rather than who punches the hardest.
I remember finding Kekkaishi to be the manga most similar to Hxh, both in terms of style and quality. But it doesn't have to be a shonen. Something like Bokko or the Yagyu Ninja Scrolls would be right up my alley.
Please, I'm desperate.
Gon will most likely learn nen again, but I wonder what this "price that he'll have to pay" will be. I'm hoping Togashi doesn't make it some bullshit, fake obstacle that can be easily cleared. Like Ging said, Gon sacrificed everything to go beast mode. Realistacally, he should be all shriveled up in a hospital bed right now, eating through a tube. So him just easily re-learning nen would diminish the sacrifice that he made.
My idea is that Gon will re-learn his old techniques, but in order to use them he will have to make a tremendous sacrifice. What is it that Gon considers valuable enough that losing them would count as a worthy sacrifice? I can think of 4 things:
1-His family. Yet I don't see Gon pulling a Griffith and sacrificing Mito-san and his grandma, just to use nen again (no matter the circumstances).
2-His friends. In this case, I could see a situation where Gon would sacrifice, not his friends themselves, but the precious memories that he has of them, in order to gain the power necessary to protect them.
3-His life. Just like Kurapika loses years of his life while using emperor time, and Luffy, while using gear 3rd, Gon's nen usage would now come with a heavy taxation on his lifespan. This sapping of his life-force could work both as a condition for Gon to use nen again, but also as a limitation that makes his old abilities even more powerful than before, given the strong resolve needed to use them now.
4-His humanity. This would be kind of similar to the sacrifice he made to become "adult Gon", but in reverse.
While Gon didn't openly specify what he was offering, when he said "I don't care what happens to me", since the power-up only affected his body, and only his body was left ravaged afterward, one can assume that, when Gon was making the contract, he subconsciously did specify that only the body was being offered up. "I don't care if I ever walk again" is probably what was going through his mind.
I can see a situation where, if the threat is big enough, and there is no other choice, Gon will this time offer up his mind/soul, to gain the power needed to protect those he cares about. This time, instead of being left with a mind trapped inside a helpless body, Gon would be left as a vegetable, his body alive, his mind gone — a fate worse than death, in my opinion. Which is why I think it would be a heavier sacrifice than him just offering up his life, and dying afterward.
I've been playing youtube videos on the background of my android phones for years now. All of a sudden, a few months ago, it just stopped working. The bizarre thing is, both firefox and brave stopped letting me do this at the exact same time — same afternoon, same hour, same moment. I remember trying a bunch of fixes but nothing worked. Eventually I just gave up. But some time later, out of the blue, Brave began letting me play youtube videos in the background again. Firefox, on the other hand, has never let me do this again.
I've searched everywhere for solutions but the only ones I've found are to install extensions. I don't wanna do that. I wanna go back to the way things were before.
When someone on Halkenburg's side takes over a victim's body, do they they get access to the victim's memories? Because that's the only way I see Halkenburg being able to fool Benjamin and his guards. Because just taking over Balsamilco's body isn't enough, if the way Halkenburg speaks, the way he walks, the way he acts is completely different. Benjamin's guards, as inteligent and well trained as they are, would see through the deception right away. And if not, then surely Benjamin himself would, as he had already anticipated the possibility of Balsamilco falling victim to some sort of coercion/possession type nen abillity from Halkenburg's side.
And what exactly is Halkenburg's plan? Why did he kill himself? Someone here said that he took a sleeping pill. Huh? When? Why? I don't understand what's going on. I've read it like 5 times and I still don't get it.
How I missed these characters... more than I miss some members of my own family.
So I just finished the Nausicaa manga and, overall, I really liked it. There were some parts that I loved (the worldbuilding is amazing, the lore, the characters, the action) and some parts that I didn't like (plot contrivances, melodramatic dialogue, some exposition). But, in general, I enjoyed it a lot.
When I started reading the manga, I expected it to be just an expansion of the movie, but it turned out to be its own thing — a lot more violent and dark than the movie. It's also so dense and confusing, and though I absolutely loved the lore, I'm left with so many questions.
SPOILERS AHEAD (for those who are planning to read the manga)
At the end of the story, we find out that the Sea of corruption was created by a group of people from the ancient civilization, in order to cleanse the world left polluted after the Seven days of fire. They calculated that this cleansing process would take either a thousand years (according to Selm) or a lot more (according to the leader of the priests of the crypt).
This ancient group of people also created a living fortress/deity, where they stored all the knowledge of mankind (technological, historical, artistic), along with carbon data of the humans that would later re-populate the earth once it was clean.
They also created various insects, among them the Ohm, to protect these purifying forests.
So far it all makes sense.
What I don't get is why they would then create an artificial race of humans, modified to be able to survive in the polluted world, knowing full well that these people would later die, slowly, as the polluted world became purified over the years.
Not only that, these ancient people then chose to release their knowledge to selected kings of the artificial humans — in the form of sacred texts that appear on the walls of the crypt, at a pace of 2 lines per year. They do this in exchange for protection. But protection from what? Their crypt seems like an impenetrable fortress, impermeable to all weaponry known to people of that time and even to time itself. The only thing we see being able to damage the crypt is the light beam shot from the mouth of the God warrior. But the God warrior would've stayed underground if the ancient people had never created the artifical humans who unearthed them in the first place.
Theoretically, had the ancient civilization just created the crypt and the forest, they would be fine. All they would have to do is wait until the world became hospitable again, then leave the crypt and re-populate it. There wouldn't even be a need for guardian insects like the Ohm, because there would be no artificial humans to threaten the forests.
I don't get why these "humans" were created, just like I don't get why the ancient people would need to acquire protection from these humans. Maybe they knew that there was a possibility that one or more of the God warriors buried underneath the earth would surface on its own and attack the crypt, but in that case, what could the artificial humans or even the Ohm be able to do about it? I just don't see a reason for the ancient civilization to need anything, let alone protection, from these primitive, soon-to-be dead "humans." So why create them?
I wish Miyazaki would have expanded the God warriors a little bit more. Like, were they weapons, commanded by humans to obliterate each other, or sentient beings that chose to purge mankind due to our sins? The movie makes it seem like it's the former, and the manga, though leaving it ambiguous, seems to tilt us more towards the latter.
What the hell was that rock for? It was given such importance in the first few volumes, but ended up being completely useless. In the movie, it slightly accelerates the growth of the God warrior. In the manga, it just shoots some light at its eyes, and that's it. One of the most useless MacGuffins that ever MacGuffined.
In the end, Nausicaa destroys the crypt along with the remnants of the ancient civilization, but also the technology that could've guaranteed her people's survival. Just like the Ohms that sacrificed themselves to the fungi in order to create a new forest, the people of Nausicaa's world will slowly march towards extinction, becoming fodder for something new. And I can't help but feel that this is a decision that Nausicaa didn't have the right to take on her own. In fact, the more I think about it, I realize that the only hope they had was if she had sent the God warrior to burn all the forests "purifying" the air (is it really pure if it's killing me?) Instead, she destroyed not only the last hope her people had, but also the technology that would've possibly allowed them to recreate said weapon, essentially dooming everyone.
In the earlier chapters there is a scene where Nausicaa, while in tears, asserts to Yupa that she doesn't love insects more than humans, she loves them both, differently. I think the ending proves who she loved the most.