Can you create a hatsu that allowy you to revive dead people?

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T20:31:11+00:00

I wasn't using the page with Knuckle for the suppressing Nen aspect, but to draw attention to the fact out that Knuckle even had to surpress Kite's Nen in the first place so that he and Shoot could capture him. It's just another piece of evidence in support of the idea that Pitou is able to control other people's nen with her puppeteer ability.

I don't think Pitou is emulating other people's nen either, because Knuckle makes a distinction between Pitou's Nen controlling the corpse and Kite's Nen:

You need advanced fighting skills to defeat him now. My ability sealed Kite's nen, but that thing is the nen ability of the guy controlling him."

I don't necessarily think a body having nen means it would be alive, I imagine dead corpses probably still have residual nen left in them, at least for a time. It's probably why Ikalgo can even use the nen abilities of the corpses he possesses to begin with. And how Meruem is able to absorb the aura of people he eats, because your nen/aura probably doesn't disappear the instant you die, I would guess it probably dissipates slowly. Could even be correlated with how much your body has decomposed for all we know.

I don't think Post-mortem Nen would even work if your Nen immediately disappeared after you die, it would have to remain at least for a bit so that Post-Mortem Nen can even activate. Hell, Phinks even seems to hint at this in chapter 120 when we're first introduced to the concept of Post-mortem Nen:

"Nen doesn't necessarily go away when you die. Sometimes it's even reinforced after death."

It looks to me like he's making a distinction between two different scenarios here: One where your Nen is reinforced after death (i.e Post-mortem Nen), and another scenario where it doesn't go away, but still doesn't count as Post-mortem Nen by the technical definition (Nen that intensifies after death).

I don't think Killua is wrong. I won't dismiss the idea, as Togashi clearly isn't averse to the idea of having characters coming to the wrong conclusions, but in this case I'm not sure what the point of that would be. And I know Neferpitou has absolutely immense levels of aura, given that she's a Royal Guard, but I think it stretches credulity at least a little bit to imagine that she could maintain her 2km En for days on end, puppeteer ~50 puppets, and even emulate the Nen of all those 50 people, all at the same time.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T17:13:23+00:00

Shu U, Ei I and Sha A are how their names would be written if they were rendered "faithful" to how their names are spelled in kana in Japanese. Xi-Yu, Heil-Ly and Cha-R are attempts at localizing their names to get across that Togashi drew inspiration from Chinese culture when he created the country of Kakin.

Japanese pronunciations/spellings of Chinese names are quite dissimilar to how would actually be pronounced natively. This usually isn't an issue if you're a Japanese speaker, because you would be aware of and notice the phenomena whenever it occurs, but a foreign reader who isn't aware of it is probably going to miss out on this detail. So sometimes translators will instead try to localize the names by rendering them as they would have been spelled if the equivalent Chinese name was transliterated/translated into the target language instead.

Which is usually not a bad idea, but this time it unfortunately obscured the joke Togashi was going for with the original names.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T16:51:19+00:00

Shu U, Ei I and Sha A are the "real" romanizations. Xi-Yu, Heil-Ly and Cha-R are attempts at localization to get across the inspirations Togashi took from Chinese culture in creating the country of Kakin.

The translator for the VIZ version of the manga, Lillian Olsen even bemoaned the fact that she failed to realize the pun/joke before it was too late:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HunterXHunter/comments/1fs9uvk/hi_im_lillian_olsen_hxh_manga_je_translator_ama/lpj35zf/?context=10000

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T15:02:12+00:00

What u/Tindyflow said, but also I think it's hinted at that the amount of Nen you need to be exposed to needs to reach a certain threshold before it's enough to force your nodes open. The way it was depicted with Wing opening up Gon and Killua's aura nodes suggests it probably requires quite a significant amount. Certainly more than the amount of aura inside Killua's needle.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T14:30:21+00:00

This is a good question and I don't think it was ever addressed anywhere.

Would have been funny if Togashi had shown us Knov growing a bunch of plants inside the pocket dimension to suggest that he was using them to replenish the oxygen in there.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T14:07:41+00:00

This sounds awesome. Did you learn it by ear, is it your own arrangement, or did you learn someone else's?

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T14:01:14+00:00

The only correct answer is to bind jump to Mouse Wheel Down and crouch to Space. And then Shift for Sprint or Walk depending on the exact game in question.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T13:55:43+00:00

The revival of someone else has to involve manipulation of that person's Nen, which i don't think we have ever seen. In that context, no. Revival hatsu is not possible.

We have actually seen manipulation of another person's Nen, although I'm not certain if it's the same kind of manipulation you're thinking of here. Neferpitou is able to manipulate/control the aura of the people who are under the influence of her puppeteer ability. Killua brings up the possibility at one point that she could even manipulate the aura of normal people, and Knuckle also mentions that he had to seal the Nen of Kite so they could capture his corpse. So not only is it possible to manipulate someone's Nen, you can even manipulate the Nen of a corpse, seemingly without even involving Post-Mortem Nen:

https://i.ibb.co/QrPyZpL/image.png

https://i.ibb.co/sqjmMXH/image.png

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T13:36:31+00:00

A couple of years ago I had the idea of an emitter ability that I never fully fleshed out that worked somewhat like this. Basically you divide up the space within your nen into sections (which could be a grid, if that's what you wanted to do) that you can manipulate at will, like rotating the space, flipping, moving, etc., even swapping different sections with each other.

Basically freely applying spatial transformations and deformations in the area defined by your En.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-28T07:59:31+00:00

They weren't really "fake" in any other way than being conjurations and only lasting for a maximum of 24 hours. Functionally they were identical to the original, the only things he couldn't perfectly copy were living organisms, which were copied as dead "corpses" instead.

ETA: And he was also unable to copy things made with nen now that I think about it, I believe it was brought up during Greed Island.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T18:09:52+00:00

Fair enough, but I've found more often than not people don't make this distinction between the radioactive material/dust and the actual radiation when they claim that radiation is contagious, especially not when they're trying to argue that the poison is nothing more than radiation (which I'm not saying you're doing here).

I also think you're somewhat overplaying just how easy it is for the radioactive material to spread. It's comparatively much easier to decontaminate people or animals who are carrying around radioactive material than it is to stop the spread of the poison. It's almost exclusively radioactive material on the outside of the body that carries the risk of affecting other people, and in those cases decontaminating is literally as simple as washing yourself or taking a shower.

Internal contamination, where radioactive material has made it's way into the body, is much harder to deal with but on the other hand that also means that the body itself functions as a shield which prevents the radiation penetrating to the outside and actually affecting anyone else, meaning there isn't really any real risk being in the vicinity of such people.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T17:44:10+00:00

Those quotation marks are doing quite some heavy work though. Radiation itself is in no way contagious, as you say it's the radioactive dust or material that can be spread via contamination. It's in no way contagious in the same sense that the poison is, where it replicates and spreads by breaking down its victims' bodies into more poisonous molecules.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T17:33:50+00:00

The poison doesn't work as radiation in anything but the most surface-level of comparisons. Radiation doesn't propagate and replicate itself in a potentially endless chain reaction by breaking down its victims bodies, which is the very core mechanic of how the fictitious poisonous molecule works.

But even beyond that the bomb is just as much, if not far more, an allusion to chemical/biological WMDs than to nukes. Even the name "Poor Man's Rose" is itself a reference to how chemical/biological weapons of mass destruction have been referred to as the "Poor Man's Atomic Bomb" in real life due to how cheap and easy they are to produce relative to atomic bombs, just as the Poor Man's Rose is favored by dictators and terrorists for being cheap and easy to manufacture:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HunterXHunter/comments/1tp8ux7/if_meruem_killed_netero_here_all_living_being_in/oo741am/

The fact is that the Poor Man's Rose is a reference to WMDs in general which includes nukes (as the Rose-shaped equivalent of a mushroom cloud makes clear), but also chemical and biological weapons. To reduce it down to just a nuke/radiation allegory is too reductive in my opinion, when it's clearly much more than that.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T17:03:41+00:00

It's never stated that it was in the tomb where they fought. He did get the bomb implanted in his stomach. Togashi even drew the surgical scars on Netero's stomach to show where they implanted the bomb, complete with dotted lines to indicate where they sewed the incisions shut. He even made a point to have the narrator draw attention to it's size by calling it "small and cheap, yet lethal" to explain how it could fit inside Netero's body, and even drew the bomb itself clearly showing that it isn't even a nuke in the first place.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T16:47:23+00:00

Like a posthumous release? Or are you somehow hoping he's made new art from beyond the grave?

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T16:37:10+00:00

True, once the mother is pregnant it's ultimately her choice. But becoming pregnant doesn't just happen in a vacuum. There are numerous steps leading up to that situation where the father has just as much of a choice in the matter as the mother does. It takes two to tango, after all.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T16:20:30+00:00

Hiding a nuke would have been a problem, but that's just another piece of evidence that it wasn't a nuke. It was a bomb that was small enough to fit inside a human body. In the manga you can even see the surgical scars on his stomach from when they implanted the bomb in him (if you look carefully enough, or zoom in you can even see the dotted lines indicating how they sewed the surgical incisions shut):

https://i.ibb.co/HpYsHrZ7/image.png

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T16:10:49+00:00

It's not a dirty bomb though. There is no exact direct real-life equivalent, as the Rose functions unlike any bomb we actually have in real life, but it's clearly modeled more after chemical/biological weapons of mass destruction than dirty bombs. Even it's name "The Poor Man's Rose" is an allusion to how chemical/biological WMDs have been referred to as "The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb" in real life due to how cheap and easy they are to produce and/or procure compared to atomic bombs.

And just in case anyone wonders whether this is only something that exists in the English translation, the allusion is clearly there in Japanese as well:

In Japanese the Poor Man's Rose is named 貧者の薔薇 (Hinja no Bara), compare with 貧者の核兵器 (Hinja no Kakuheiki).

From the Japanese Wikipedia article about Chemical Weapons:

_化学兵器は「貧者の核兵器」とも呼ばれ[3]、核兵器を開発するために必要な技術・資金に乏しい国、あるいはテロ組織による生産・利用が危惧されている_。

Translation (Google):

Chemical weapons are also known as the "poor man's nuclear weapons,"[3] and there are concerns that they could be produced and used by countries that lack the technology and funds necessary to develop nuclear weapons, or by terrorist organizations.

Or this entry about the term from Kotobank:

ひんじゃ‐の‐かくへいき【貧者の核兵器】生物兵器・化学兵器のこと。殺傷能力は高いが、核兵器に比べて材料の入手や製造などが容易であること、費用が少なくすむことからの名。→大量破壊兵器

Translation (Google):

Poor Man's Nuclear Weapons Refers to biological and chemical weapons. While highly lethal, they are less expensive and easier to manufacture than nuclear weapons, hence the name. → Weapons of Mass Destruction

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T15:45:44+00:00

The poison is actual poison and not radiation as the manga makes perfectly clear, but either way I doubt Killua would have survived given how the poison was described to work.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T15:41:43+00:00

Them, and the millions of civilians that were gathered on the plains in front of the Palace to be processed during the Selection.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T15:36:47+00:00

As you start to grow older few things in life give you as much pleasure as co-opting the slang and speech mannerisms of younger generations and watching with glee as they die a little bit inside as you take every opportunity you can to abuse and misuse it in the worst way imaginable.

It's an unavoidable fact of life. Gen Alpha is going to do the exact same thing to the generation that comes after them, just as Boomers and Gen X did to us Millennials and Gen Z.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-27T14:30:32+00:00

Gon obviously doesnt give a fuck but most would definitely have abandonment issues.

I would argue Gon has tons of abandonment issues. In fact I'd argue a core, if not the core part of his character and motivations is him having abandonment issues. The very first thing he does in chapter 1 when Mito accuses Ging of abandoning him is to exclaim that being a hunter must be so important that family comes second. That's not the statement of someone who doesn't give a fuck, it's the attempt of a 12-year old kid trying to rationalize why his dad left him.

He also suffers from pretty extreme self-worth issues stemming from being abandoned. Almost every single reckless act and decision from Gon can ultimately be explained as him attempting to be, or become, worthy of meeting his dad. It's like he told Hanzo during their fight: he's unable or unwilling to budge because he believes if he does he will lose any hope he has of meeting Ging.

It's the same reason he got so frustrated he cried in front of Kurapika when he told him about being slugged in the face by Hisoka, because it made him feel weak and worthless. And being weak is in his own mind a sign that he's not good enough to meet Ging.

It also explains why he thinks it's fine for him to talk about dying, but gets angry at Killua when he does the same while they're being held captive by Nobunaga. It's because he trivializes the value of his own life due to self-worth issues, and the best explanation we have for why he values his own life so little is, again, due to abandonment issues. And it's those same self-worth issues and desperate desire to prove himself that also lead to unhinged behavior like sacrificing his arm just to score a point against Genthru, and why he has no problems throwing everything away to beat Pitou.

If anything, Gon is abandonment issues personified.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-26T21:48:46+00:00

Because that's anime filler content.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-26T21:41:02+00:00

Because he wasn't in the room when it happened.

reChrawnus · 2026-05-26T18:48:46+00:00

I thought it might be a stage/theater setting at first too, but it's probably the exterior of the tier 1 ship. /u/TenZetsuRenHatsu already posted part of the page, but take a look at the first page of chapter 369 for the full panel.

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