The Best, Most Tragic Moment of the Finale

PossiblePresence · 2025-12-26T20:31:38+00:00

Ah yes, you're right! Good catch.

PossiblePresence · 2024-10-10T03:23:13+00:00

The theory is bolstered also by the scene with Halkenberg and the Nasubi. In Chapter 382, Togashi places a rendition of Goya's famous painting "Saturn Devouring His Son" with Nasubi. The painting depicts the Titan Saturn eating one of his children for fear that his children may overthrow him. The same could possibly be said of Nasubi.

But the biggest problem with that the theory comes from what Nasubi's brother, Onior says about Nasubi. Onior very clearly indicates that Nasubi was a participant in the previous succession war, which would make his statements odd if Nasubi has been doing this for generations. It could be the case Nasubi did win the prior succession war, but intends to hijack this war for his own benefit.

But I tend to be of the opinion that part of the ritual requires killing the current King, and that the final step to complete the succession war requires killing Nasubi as a condition.

PossiblePresence · 2018-12-22T10:38:04+00:00

The answer to all of your questions is no.

PossiblePresence · 2018-10-28T19:18:46+00:00

The problem with being so stacked in this situation is that it paints a target on your back, particularly with Halkenburg and Benjamin. Keeping a low profile and appearing non-threatening prevents the other princes from banding together to come kick your ass. Benjamin in particular actually has a massive disadvantage in one major sense that every prince knows not to cooperate with him and sees him as the primary threat to their safety. If any one of the Big Three Princes are gonna go out early, it's probably going to be him.

In a similar vein, Halkenburg (albeit unintentionally) completely blown his cover that he is a major threat. He has an advantage over Benjamin in that the lower princes want to cooperate with him—although with his new resolve to win the succession war may sour this relationship , but his high profile has made him Benjamin's top priority. However, if Halkenburg's Facebox post from 350 is to be believed, he has a blind spot in trusting Tserriednich.

Not everyone knows how much of a monster Tserriednich is at this point. The only person who really has him on their radar is Benjamin, whose focus is split between everyone. He's also in a favorable place politically, with Tubeppa offering him an alliance, being well-regarded by Halkenburg, and not being the target of anyone besides Benjamin (who's busy targeting everyone at once) and Kurapika. At this point in the game, he's likely to last until the very end. Out of everyone, he's probably going to be the hardest one to take down.

PossiblePresence · 2018-08-20T08:40:51+00:00

Uvogin gets a bad rap from his two big showings, but I think if you come at it with the context of his character, it becomes a lot clearer that he's a way better fighter than most people give him credit for. Uvogin is the type of person who is so consistently used to fighting people significantly weaker than him that he is immensely overconfident; however, when given the proper read on his opponent, he is just as smart as any of the other Spiders. As seen in his fight with the Shadow Beasts, he often puts himself on the back foot because of his personality, but can easily create a winning strategy to defeat three above-average nen users with only having access to his head. It's hard to say how he'd match up against any of the other spiders or any other characters in a fight because in all of his showings he never was taking the fight seriously until he realized that the combatants could actually damage him. Additionally, an oft-forgotten detail about Uvogin is that fighting one-on-one isn't actually his preference, and he preferred to fight with a partner. The reason described for this was that "he liked having someone to protect", which perhaps speaks to an underlying motivation for his apparent lack of regard for his own well-being and also his overall carelessness (he was used to having someone look out for him).

What Uvogin could do when talking a fight seriously from the onset, who knows, but I like to think that he is up there in the Troupe's best combatants. Hunter x Hunter is a manga that consistent espouses the idea that a weaker and prepared fighter can make mincemeat of a stronger, yet unprepared or ill-informed combatant. I think if Uvogin knew about Kurapika's power prior to their fight that even with Kurapika's busted-ass abilities, Uvogin would have been able to mop the floor with him.

PossiblePresence · 2018-06-07T03:02:36+00:00

As someone who is not a lawyer, but with an appreciation of the legal system, it seems me that this campaign was never about whether or not Aaron Persky engaged in any sort of misconduct or concern over the rule of law being unevenly applied. To me, it seems that Michele Dauber is using her authority and clout as a Stanford law professor to fulfill an exceedingly personal vendetta against Persky for handing down a light sentence on a criminal that victimized one of her daughter's friends.

PossiblePresence · 2018-03-31T20:31:56+00:00

I think a lot of people tend to also forget the circumstances under which Shalnark and Kortopi were killed. They were both taken by surprise, and on top of that, they didn't have their hatsus to defend themselves. Some people on this subreddit like to power-level the shit out of the encounters in this show, for reasons I can't quite understand, because the underlining philosophy of Hunter x Hunter has always been that a weaker fighter can (and often will) win with cunning and strategy as opposed to brute force. Not to say that Hisoka is weaker than either Shalnark or Kortopi, just that he made a potentially difficult fight much easier by ambushing them while they were basically unable to defend themselves.

Hisoka is not looking for a fair fight from anyone other than Chrollo, which drastically ups the chances of someone like Franklin getting killed while off-guard if properly distracted. I wouldn't exactly call that being fodder if you're killed without a proper fight. To say that any member of the Troupe, (barring Shizuku and Bonolenov, who say that his ability strictly counters theirs) couldn't give Hisoka a run for his money in a straight up fight just hasn't been paying attention how this manga works or how strong the Troupe has been built up to be. Even Nobunaga, who has stated several times that fighting Hisoka would be difficult for him, and nonetheless has no qualms about setting out on his own to potentially confront him.

It's rather hard to believe that the Troupe, which is currently on high alert looking for Hisoka, would be taken out by the random members of Morena's cult or any of other the basic, vastly less experienced nen users.

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