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Elements of Hunter x Hunter found in Togashi's other series (Yu Yu Hakusho/Level E spoilers)

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Mar 3, 2014 6:51 PM
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After seeing Togashi's two other series, I've noticed there were a lot of elements present that were later refined in Hunter x Hunter. I thought it might be interesting if we list some of these perceived elements to see how they've evolved.

Level E:
-Greed Island resembles the RPG planet that the Colored Rangers were sent to.
-Chimera ants resemble the female ants, especially the queen female ants.
-Gon's character design resembles the blue Colored Ranger.

Yu Yu Hakusho:
-Territories seem like an early Nen prototype.
-The duality of light and darkness between Sensui and Itsuki seems reminiscent of the relationship between Gon and Killua.
-Knuckle's character design resembles Kuwabara.
-Suzuki resembles Hisoka.

Can anyone think of anything else?
Mar 4, 2014 3:31 AM
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Nen was inspired from the Ripple in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Hisoka was inspired by Dio Brando.
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Mar 4, 2014 4:38 AM
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Hisoka looks nothing like Dio,
Neither is ripple similar to nen
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Mar 4, 2014 5:04 AM
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judals said:
Hisoka looks nothing like Dio,
Neither is ripple similar to nen


hisoka most like Joker from batman
Mar 4, 2014 5:23 AM
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GuusWayne said:
Nen was inspired from the Ripple in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Hisoka was inspired by Dio Brando.


No.
Mar 4, 2014 9:31 AM
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GuusWayne said:
Hisoka was inspired by Dio Brando.

I honestly can't see the similarity here.
Mar 4, 2014 11:03 AM
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wubikro said:

Level E:
-Chimera ants resemble the female ants, especially the queen female ants.


Togashi is fan of the alternative musician Jun Togawa (in YYH In YYH, Itsuki asked Sensui to spare his live because he had to go buy her latest album, which stumped Sensui). The singer has a famous song "Mushi no Onna" (Insect Woman), which could possibly inspired his re-occuring insect/human theme.

wubikro said:

-The duality of light and darkness between Sensui and Itsuki seems reminiscent of the relationship between Gon and Killua.


Yeah except In reverse: where Killua wanted to protect and preserve Gon's purity, Itsuki wanted to see Sensui's purity corrupted.

I found similarity in Hisokia's prevert pleasure of 'green fruit' and getting off from destroying such fruit when it ripen to Itsushi's prevert thrills in getting off from Sensui's purity being destroyed.
Mar 5, 2014 12:24 AM
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It's obvious with the whole clothing style, shoes and the heart shaped marks on Dio which is similar to Hisoka's card markings. Togashi also stated to be a big fan of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
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Yu Yu hackushoo is a 9, hunter x hunter 2011 at the moment is a 7.5/10
Mar 5, 2014 1:14 AM
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Oneeyedwolf said:
Yu Yu hackushoo is a 9, hunter x hunter 2011 at the moment is a 7.5/10

Let's not derail the thread.
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Mar 5, 2014 2:18 PM

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tsudecimo said:
Does this count?
That's an easter egg, apparently Hie was in the crowd in Yorkshin in the manga. That was the girl's cell phone, you could have seen that earlier when she was in the car.
Mar 5, 2014 2:28 PM

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Prince Baka (main character Level E) was commenting on the Gon vs Hisoka fight. We had Hiei walking around in Yorknew and Milluki owns a Kurama figure. There were also people who thought that the Troupe were Konoha ninja's back in Yorknew.
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SaSa-Zoldyck said:
Prince Baka (main character Level E) was commenting on the Gon vs Hisoka fight. We had Hiei walking around in Yorknew and Milluki owns a Kurama figure. There were also people who thought that the Troupe were Konoha ninja's back in Yorknew.


Also this:
http://postimg.org/image/ylj2xbxif/

Suzaku from yu yu hakusho in Chrollo's book.
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MSV said:
SaSa-Zoldyck said:
Prince Baka (main character Level E) was commenting on the Gon vs Hisoka fight. We had Hiei walking around in Yorknew and Milluki owns a Kurama figure. There were also people who thought that the Troupe were Konoha ninja's back in Yorknew.


Also this:
http://postimg.org/image/ylj2xbxif/

Suzaku from yu yu hakusho in Chrollo's book.


I guess this means Chrollo can clone himself into 7 Chrollos with literally no drawback
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Also in Level E, there's a transgender character (body born female, gender identity as male).

In HxH, there's Alluka (which we can assume as body born male, gender identity as female)
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned this, but Bisquit seems like the Genkai of HxH
Given how their both take-no-shit trainers who can mask their age really well.
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gedata said:
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this, but Bisquit seems like the Genkai of HxH
Given how their both take-no-shit trainers who can mask their age really well.
I could see that a little. And Youpi pulled a little bit of a younger Toguro.
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Ponzu resembles Koenma, and Pokkle looks a little like Genkai.
Mar 9, 2014 8:16 AM

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Suzuki threw a card to kill someone like Hisoka

Rinku's electric yoyo
Mar 10, 2014 4:23 AM

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Just like what I said in the other thread...

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Mar 10, 2014 9:28 PM

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Didn't Killua's brother have Yu Yu hakusho figures on his shelf?

Also, Feitan is clearly one of Hiei's long lost relatives.
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Feitan is the Hiei expy the world needs
Kurapika had a Puu charm on his phone
Youpi's shape-shifting reminds me a lot of Elder Toguro
Wouldn't be surprised if the "Territories" from the Chapter Black arc inspired Nen abilities.
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Kaimon said:
Feitan is the Hiei expy the world needs
Kurapika had a Puu charm on his phone
Youpi's shape-shifting reminds me a lot of Elder Toguro
Wouldn't be surprised if the "Territories" from the Chapter Black arc inspired Nen abilities.


Also one of the pages Chrollos flipped in his book had a picture of suzaku on it. Also Genthru looks like elder toguro, Machi looks like botan, Chrollos looks like sensui, and Feitan's like a mix hiei and karasu
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Spirit energy resembles a lot to nen.For example, kuwabara is similar to a conjurer, yuske is a emitter and enhancer, and Rinku is a manipulator. Rinku also shares looks and personality to both hisoka, killua, and a little bit of Gon, only in personality tho.

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