Hunter x Hunter (2011) Episode 51 Discussion

edl01 said:

The prophecy also seems interesting, from what is sounds the Phantom Troupe is going to be defeated and lose four members(half of its limbs and a spider has eight)

Mikasa said:
The Ryodan spider is 12-legged. So 6 members according to the prophecy

Celastias said:
the blood parts in this episode made me cringe a little bit i don't know if i can handle the 'chimera' (i think its called ?) arc because of what everyone has said..

Neon looked really cute in that dress & it was realllyy nasty to see her get manipulated like that >.<

Hybridbloodszak said:
Wow the music in this episode was really executed well. The highlights were when Chrollo was reading his fortune and then obviously the Requiem at the end. I'm not too bummed but I kinda wish they coulda somehow transitioned into Hunting for your Dream at the end somehow.

Anime only viewers also learned the name of the leader today! Chrollo has this engimatic aura around you can't help but watch. The Zoldyck's vs Chrollo next week is gonna be EPIC!!

Blacksaber said:

To not spoil anything I will put a simple comparison of violence level, this episodes is to puppies roughhousing and CA Arc is to a knife fight between two violent men...

HATUL300 said:


Damn, it's that violent?
I don't read the manga, but I've watched the old series, so I'm more interested in how Madhouse will handle Greed Island. Is Greed Island also much more violent in the manga?

fearthebeard85 said:
I think a lot of you guys overrate the Chimera Ant stuff (not on the violence of course but as an arc in general). Not to say that the arc is bad, but it gets hype like it's the defining arc of HxH in a lot of these threads. Putting my own opinions of the arc aside, I think it's too controversial (in there are a lot of people who thought it was disappointing but at the same time a lot of people loved it) to be considered the best arc.

Now that I got that out of the way, time for me to make the point I wanted to make. In my general opinion, I think this is the most well recieved arc by the majority of people (including myself) so I am extremely happy to see how Madhouse has adapted it and to see that it has been well recieved by the new fans as well. The fact that this version has captured the same feelings to new fans the way the original did for me is great to see.

I can't wait to see Greed Island because I was genuinely disappointed by how the OVAs handled them. They dropped the ball on GI and I have no doubt that Madhouse will do an amazing job with it. So to see GI done right is what I'm looking forward to here within the next couple months when it comes up. That arc was my 2nd favorite so I will be looking forward to it.

Mephz said:
Imo the chimera arc was terribly boring and bland. This arc is by far the best one.

Trafl-guy said:
That arc is the some of the best qualities a shonen can offer (along with the follow-up arc - the election)

The hate was because of the hiatuses that were along the road and weirdness of the enemies since YS offered a realistic setting so it's weird to see magical beasts after so long. People start acting as if they came out of nowhere. Compared to YS, it's really an underrated arc. A lot of hate was personal and only a few disliked it. So technically it was better received than the YS arc.

As for the OVAs, I really liked them.
The first OVA was really great, better than YS itself for me. It also felt more like New York lol.
The 2nd OVA was good and the 3rd, while some animation moments were....retarded...and it had many changes, was still a good adaptation. :)

fearthebeard85 said:


I think Mephz said it best, it can be a love or hate type of arc. I consider HxH to be my favorite series and I know that there is more than just a few who were at least disappointed by it. I'm not saying it was bad, I'm just saying that I feel Hunter x Hunter is at it's best over these next two arcs. The CA stuff was badly paced, had some wierd stalling and tons of text without visuals. I wasn't one of the people who read it during the hiatuses, and yet I still found the same problems as someone I know who read it through the 8 long years.

AceIII said:
Awesome episode ! I still dont get it why this is rated PG-13 lol

Hyoroemon said:
Yeah. Should it be PG-15 then?

Wow, didn't expect to get lots of thumbs up from Youtube comments by posting HxH :D

Trafl-guy said:
"loving it or hating it" can be said on every arc/series. That's what it means to love/hate something. There's no arc that isn't a love it or hate it :/

As for the HxH feel, the CA had more of it than the GI/YN, it brought things back to the early hunter exams, but in a much deadlier way.
I found no stalling, it was all part of the development, there's only 1 fight that wasn't that good and the rest was expanding on whichever character it was focusing on (even the bad guys)
I liked the idea of narrating things, it avoids having the characters try to explain it directly in a cheesy way.

Mephz said:


wrong, love or hate it is an expression used where the fans split in two seperate factions completely, there is no middle road. Most arcs have people that think, this was just "ok" or "alright". The chimera arc is kind of either you outright hate it and get bored to tears or you love it.

Trafl-guy said:



According to Fearthebeard, he didn't really hate it, it just wasn't as good as YN in his opinion, that's middle road enough for me.