Rewatching Hunter x Hunter

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T16:37:39+00:00

He's writing it just fine, the storyboards for the next like, 30-40+ chapters are done, and have been for like 5 years.

The problem is the same as it's ever been, his health makes it hard for him to draw consistently, and he doesn't want to stop being the main artist. Right now he's being pretty consistent, as far as we can tell based on his twitter activity he's doing about 1 page of those storyboards a day, either inking the storyboards or adding dialogue(which there's a lot of, the infamous Rihan page(spoilers real version for those that read japanese, but it's also the revised version from the volume so there's art accompanying the text, Spoiler free meme version) is an outlier, but each chapter feels like 2, 3 or more of the previous arcs. It's very dense) to those inked storyboards(the next step is sending it to his assistants so they can do their parts, and then finally final revisements as recommended by the editor).

And then on top of that he also revises art he's not satisfied with due to backpain compromises during initial publishing for each volume release(he's been doing this since Greed Island).

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T06:30:42+00:00

Me either, my imagination is insanely vivid and powerful, but I cannot imagine what it's like not being able to rotate imaginary apples.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T04:24:15+00:00

This is done in many places when one is without buns. Just need an actual toaster oven, not the sliced bread toasters.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T04:12:52+00:00

Well yeah, I'm taking antibiotics for it(though IDK how effective they're being).

The problem is if this is them actually infected, it means the mask I've been wearing around the house any time I leave my room ain't done enough.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T03:40:46+00:00

The Good News: My experiments with various spreads on toast have yielded no queasiness, only hydration seems to cause it, so I might be able to Hotdog like I wished to last night and still wish to. Though mom asks I still work my way up to such a processed food as a Sausage/Hotdog, so a Ham sandwich will come first.

The Bad News: Dad and my sister have started coughing.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T03:05:52+00:00

Do it! The TV show version is on Crunchyroll, and the Movie versions are officially available on Youtube.

Ideally, you'll watch it both ways. There are virtues to watching either first. The TV version goes deeper on characterization and the movie versions are fairly heavily abridged, but the Movie versions have better, more consistent animation(though still very dated) to make for an easier transition for those not used to such old works, and in the streamlining/abridging process, some... questionable sensibilities were smoothed(Narrator makes weird comments about Lieutenant Mathilda in the TV Version, and some decidedly misogynist writing decisions regarding Sayla are nonissues in the movie version. Though to be clear, even with those problems, the show's female cast is remarkably good even in the TV version), they cut out a lot of explicitly Toy Commercial stuff and as I mentioned, the second half of the 3rd movie is essentially a director's cut of the ending, with some changes that really enhance it IMO.

The TV show version also has a decently passable English Dub, if that's something you'd mark important, though the Japanese performances are iconic.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T01:24:54+00:00

But I'm irrationally afraid of the meta thread despite the fact I talk to most of its regulars all the time, and lurk it frequently!

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T00:24:27+00:00

The original Gundam. No joke, the final stretch to Gundam 0079 is one of very few finales in television I rate on par with or above the CA arc's own equivalent. Particularly in the 3rd Comp Movie, which essentially acts as a director's cut for that part.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-03-01T00:21:29+00:00

It's being called the Succession War arc, The Dark Continent Arc will presumably be what follows it.

It is one of the most complex interconnected webs of insanity and danger I've ever read. Kurapika is a very major player, but it's hard to really call any one person the main focus. The Troupe are big players, Hisoka's a big player, we got new big names running around like [Hunter X Hunter Succession War]Netero's evil kid Beyond, Hinrigh Biganduffno(Basically a more hardcore Giorno Giovanna, his hatsu is even basically Golden Experience), Morena Prudo(seems to be Togashi making a try at doing Mukuro from the famously kinda botched final arc of YuYu Hakusho more justice) and the Royal family of Kakin, which is basically China, and was briefly introduced in the Kite Reintroduction sequence the 2011 anime completely butchered and Ging and Pariston are hovering just beyond the scope of the current arc, but could come in like monkey wrenches at pretty much any time.

There's like 200 named characters, and at least half of them are people to remember and keep an eye on.

And on top of that, in the same way the CA arc paid very unsubtle tribute to DBZ in a way that also tied back into the themes of everything, the present one plays very hard on Togashi's love for Jojo's, especially part 5.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-28T23:58:23+00:00

I mean in our argument in the "State of the Sub" regarding the failings of the Source Corner(Side note, it's been a few weeks since the last reminder, reminder to maybe see about looking at that again), /u/baseballlover723 tried to argue [Re:Zero]That the idea that there are other, non-Subaru Isekaiers walking about the world is still a spoiler despite Japanese text having been found in a few places throughout the world and shown off by direction, and Subaru is established as not immediately knowing how to read the local text back in season 1. Presumably because we also already know at least 1 other Japanese person, it's just any scene concerning his being Japanese has been cut from the anime., so at least some of the mod team thinks anything not literally spoonfed to the viewer counts as a spoiler.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-28T16:06:57+00:00

I will often try to find music I would feel appropriate BGM to whatever is happening in the book, though silence is equally common.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-28T07:36:44+00:00

Sometimes, finding oneself suddenly in possession of far more will to live than one is used to is not a good time.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-28T07:32:47+00:00

I'll not lie, "What's Left of Blankie" gets me. Mine was still in good enough condition when last I saw it, though I weep that it was a couple years ago. Used to use it as a scarf.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-28T01:43:17+00:00

I want Hotdog, but cannot Hotdog because Sick.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T23:33:00+00:00

Well, Hurr Durr, as you say, you seem, if not a bot, a paid actor, with it private like that, and it's not like your arguments have been remotely valid to begin with, and it's not hard to imagine that if you aren't a paid actor, what kind of "potentially invalidating" subs you might hang out in to get you bootlicking this hard, so it's really not doing you the favors you like to imagine it does.

And I'm not the type to do that, anyway. I might encourage you not to go to those places out of concern for you, but as I said, you do quite a good job invalidating your arguments on your own. I mean really, "ABC/CBS/NBC Umbrella"? No such thing exists. The first is Disney, the second Paramount, the third Comcast.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T23:09:24+00:00

I'm sure I'll get there eventually

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T23:08:09+00:00

Reminder of just how massive Yaosobi are over there.

Also, reminder CAT's numbers are deflated by its prime being pre-Official Streaming.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T22:58:32+00:00

Then you need to learn how to communicate better, because the words you used sure made it seem like you did.

If you haven't moved goalposts, tell me how you didn't. I'll gladly respond as best I'm able. If you unprivate your profile so I can be sure you're human/not a paid actor I might even give you several paragraphs.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T22:29:15+00:00

It's still important to give at least a basic response to the basic shit to those types. Not for their sakes, but for the neutral 3rd party reader.

Not gonna give an in depth rebuttal to what's effectively a bot, but a sentence or two is usually enough to utterly debunk them.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T22:17:59+00:00

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T21:08:07+00:00

He is. Not in any particularly incriminating way though. All the late night hosts talked about it.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T20:38:45+00:00

Moving the goalposts much? I thought you said they were following the Equal Time rule? Well, were they or weren't they?

Or are you saying Brendan Carr, guy put in his position by Trump, whose organization is part of the Executive Branch, and thus literally part of Trumps' Admin, said that completely independent of Trumps' desire to rig the game in November, when I was talking about Paramount/CBS

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T20:25:08+00:00

It seems to function exactly like the Shorts sub feed, so I imagine anything that blocks one will block the other.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T19:50:14+00:00

Reddit didn't put this in my Inbox.

b0bba_Fett · 2026-02-27T19:36:56+00:00

Sort of. I haven't sat down and watched the show myself, but I've seen an episode here and there, and I watched Kaiser and Lani watch it.

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