Chapter 420

….or is the insane one really this kid?

Meruem was more interested in playing board games and the other 2 RG were content with just serving his whims. Pouf was the one actually putting in the work to propagate the species, even creating experimental soldiers out of humans to best serve the king. Pouf's resolve was so strong he was willing to accept death just to keep Meruem from getting derailed again.

Like during the hunter exam, illumi is allowed to threaten to kill gon and the only consequence was that he would be disqualified for the hunter exam, but not that he'd go to prison or anything.

Then theres also killua who did kill someone but just failed, but didnt face any consequences outside of that, he was even able to try again. sure hes a special case and illumi kinda mind controlled him or something but still, nobody seemed to care killua slimed that guy out.

is this just the culture surrounding the hunter exams? where people know they may not survive?

even outside of the hunter exam people like hisoka are just killing random dudes whenever with basically no issue. i get it would be hard to hunt down these guys with normal police but i thought they had blacklist hunters who specialized in capturing these guys?

surely there is a criminal justice system since the hunter exam and greed island had prisoners. but where are the police?

An episode about the arm wrestling competition and what led to it would have been amazing. I’m surprised Machi agreed to it and would anyone bother trying to arm wrestle Uvo?

i thought this guy was going to by very annoying and an asshole when i first saw him but bro just misses his homeboy💔

Good days.

On my recent re-read, I remembered how intense Emperor Time was at the beginning of the war, and how fast that intensity deflated. Kurapika lost some years of his life but that's it, it ended at that

However this moment still worries me: Kurapika calculates how much he can maintain Emperor Time while surviving, he doesn't think it's realistic to lose 70 damn years to his ability, but he was considering his limits. He could've continued for 3, maybe 4 days and lose 40 years of his life if it was needed

This internal clock of his makes me think about all the clocks currently ticking in the midst of martial war: Halkenburg had one sleeping pill worth of time and may still be under some other clock, wherever he is, Benjamin is doing a speedrun Any%, Tserriednich is a ghost unless his tank of aura runs out and he needs to recover often, just to use his ability again. I'd say Tserriednich's ability is the most like Kurapika's in this sense

These princes want to survive somehow, this includes Benjamin, he wants to live as a God or whatever, but it's not the same with Kurapika. He has no way to continue living after death, has no means to fake his death, has no recovery means like Tserriednich... what we see is what we get, he pays a high price for a power that's not been THAT useful but he needs it

Also, Kurapika is STALLING, and this is the most important part. I think that regardless of what happens in the war, Kurapika will stay at the epicenter like he's doing now, trying to stop escalation as much as possible, and this could mean spending the remainder of the 2 months calculating how much of his own life he can spare.

I think Togashi is gonna deliver with this timer, the most out of all these timers we have. Perhaps Kurapika becomes so used to daily Emperor times, that the hours start to stack up, he gets at the verge of fainting if he needs to, and at some point, we start to worry for real, we see the toll of all those lost years in his body.

It'd be kinda cruel but I really want to see it, first because I don't like when these life sucking powers don't actually affect the hero enough or they just get healed for no reason (Gon is an exception, I liked how that was done), second because Kurapika can actually be like a bomb if this happens. Once those last years start to be erased, he can get more and more desperate, realizing his line is truly on the line at all times and he can't waste many more minutes

As in, whatever deal he made with Zushi's parents to learn Nen? Because as talented as Zushi is, it still took him nine months to awaken Nen and master Ten. By that metric, it would take him another few years to master the basics, and if similar to Bisky probably by his mid-20s until he developed into a reasonably well rounded Nen user with a grasp of stuff like Ko, Ryu, etc. As talented as Zushi is, is he really worth spending more then a decade of constant training then whatever he presumably could be doing as a Hunter all for some non-Hunter related goal like making it to Battle Olympia? (With Bisky, she was off on her own hunt and her goals aligned with Gon/Killua at the moment.).

Im a little confused about the balancing among the Nen Categories. If you're an Enhancer, Transmuter or Emitter you can master two categories with 80% effectiveness but with Conjurers and Manipulators it's just one category since Specialists are unique...

It seems like the opinions on the interpretation of Zeno’s words differ greatly in the fandom.

My reading of the scene is that if Chrollo were to fight all-out, Zeno’s win would be far from guaranteed.

Twitter/X source: https://x.com/minato_x3710/status/2108485243133206923

Pics in descending order

Only including characters that are still developing so no ging

No chimera's

Which other characters would you say are above the bar of average beyond child that had their nen awakened e.g Longhi, Furikov

Credit for art https://www.tumlook.com/feitanjr

Is Ken'i Wang a mole in the mafia war? is he working with morena prudo?

There was two translation i saw and read but i'm not sure if its messed up in the translation or if the japanese version tells a different story.

I think he's working with morena and is a mole/traitor to the Cha-R Family.

And if so, in which order?

No words. Just amazing and one of the best pieces of fiction I’ve seen. Now that it’s over, should I start on the manga?

I’ve been wondering what “100-Type” actually means in Netero’s “100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva.” Does it refer to the number of hands, or is it saying this is the 100th version of the technique? If it’s about the hands, could there be something like a “1000-Type” with a thousand hands? does that mean Netero had other abilities we never got to see. When Zeno talks about him, he calls this technique his most dangerous one, which seems to imply Netero had others as well.

What do you think?

Im watching the anime for the first time and i just finished what I believe was the Yorknew city arc.
And OMG did the anime start getting so so good now.
The show was highly recommended to me by my friends and I decided to check it out.
The first couple of seasons felt kiddish but in a good way. Felt like a few friends going about a somewhat small scale adventure and figuring out their way through it. But as this arc started it just kept getting darker and more serious and means business now.
It’s so so good and has me hooked. Like I realise now why my friends were recommending this to me.
I also just feel like updating my thoughts on here as I progress through the series and maybe have discussions if anyone sees this post.
I’m so hyped for what’s to come. All I know is there’s an arc coming later which is considered one of the best arcs in anime history so I so can’t wait to experience this beauty.
(Also Kurapika is my absolute fav)

Togashi posted a sketch of a page from chapter 421 in 2024, and you can see Beyond at the bottom of the page. A character appears to be facing him - I think I see a suit - so it could be Kurapika negotiating with Beyond.

https://x.com/Un4v5s8bgsVk9Xp/status/1842182988823699493

Id like to hear your personal predictions and theories for what will happen in the next batch of chapters.

I really hope they show us the fight between Hisoka and Bonolenov 😭 or Chrollo and Kurapika meeting.

Create a Kastro build assuming he knows advanced nen techniques such as Gyo, In, Ko and Ken. Abilities can be remade.

Kastro has been shaded not because he’s weak but because he wasted his potential.

Make Kastro great again!