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| This episode was slow as hell. I think it was necessary but still... It s my least favorite part of the ant arc. Things will pick up eventually though. |
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_Legna_ said: Kyzen said: WOW this is so lame, i hate to say this but HxH is becoming like One piece so many bullshit crap making things longer and longer. definitely a score of 1 for me. almost fall asleep watching this episode, 7 days of w8ting again...... if the next episodes is like this again, imma vote For 0 seriously.. .. Like in One Piece ? Please, Rufy would ignore Killua and Shoot to try and actually saving all the citizen because in One Piece no one can die ( except really few cases for plot development ). By the contrast here finally someone has to agree to sacrifice so many people for the greater good You cant really blame him, right now were at the portion of the story where its really stalemate in terms of plot, its really character development in this part of the arc. |
Kyzen said: WOW this is so lame, i hate to say this but HxH is becoming like One piece so many bullshit crap making things longer and longer. definitely a score of 1 for me. almost fall asleep watching this episode, 7 days of w8ting again...... if the next episodes is like this again, imma vote For 0 seriously.. .. Do you know what "Development" and "Set-up episodes" is? |
| Aaaaand we are back to running through forests... -.- I am fine with a slower episode. We need to get explained how they are planning to stop the ants. But do we really need to get to see gon fight some random ants? We just got teased with gon und killua fighting pitou (and all the other nice matchups) and now it seems like a million episodes away again. It also would have been nice to see some other hunters / assassins that try to help defeat the ants. I mean I doubt it will only be the small group we saw so far. Or just cut the episode from last week in half and the one this week and we atlest would have 2 balanced episodes instead of the shit we got this week. Every time I think this arc is going to get really good I get punched in the face the next episode. And it doesn´t seem like hxh is getting anywhere near the exciting fights everyone is waiting for pretty much from the start of this arc. |
confused_ImakuniSep 29, 2013 8:25 PM
| Waiting for them to reach the Chimera Ant base will take long. Can't wait when Meleoron faces Gon. |
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| Good episode. |
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| Not the most exciting episode so far, but it's getting somewhere. . |
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| I think the set-up this episode was fine. Didn't even feel it was boring at all unlike many people here. |
Vogue- said: Who IS this Diego character, I wonder. *Strokes chin* The Kim Jong-Il parody dictator of East Gorteau. |
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GuiltyKing said: What's with all the random complaints, complaining about problems not even present. You don't like things being explained so the story makes sense? You don't like seeing the main chars doing something other than fight? You only care about fights and get bored by this?! Well, two things for you, then. 1. Fuck you. 2. Go watch a boxing match. You sure as fuck won't be getting any of the 'boring' stuff there. It's unbelievable what some people are like. That, or we have 8 to 9-year-old users browsing these forums, but I choose to believe that we haven't reached such a low yet. Nobody is complaining about "explanations". We know very well that this series is a lot more story based than other fighting shonens. The yorknew city arc is pretty much my favourite fighting shonen arc because of that. There were only a few fights all of which were creative. The thing about yorknew was that you never knew where exactly it was going. This arc however is very straight forward. We have been waiting for the king + royal guards to fight against the hunters for such a long time now. Yorknew was just infinately more interesting. Gon und killua walking through the forest and talking about what their plan is on how to stop the ants just isn´t interesting at all. And this literally is half of the episode. You could for example just expalin it while they are actually already are working on the plan. Or if the plan succeeds (which I doubt) you can explain what the plan was after it is done. |
| It's funny how a guy like Knuckle can be so good at math. ^_^ |
| Too much information in the beginning and few actions in the end. Didn't like it that much. |
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confused_Imakuni said: This arc goes in quite a bunch of different directions. In fact, the series in general approaches a bit of a different direction from this point on (saga, really. We're only a third of the way through it as of now). It may be for the best to tell you right away.GuiltyKing said: What's with all the random complaints, complaining about problems not even present. You don't like things being explained so the story makes sense? You don't like seeing the main chars doing something other than fight? You only care about fights and get bored by this?! Well, two things for you, then. 1. Fuck you. 2. Go watch a boxing match. You sure as fuck won't be getting any of the 'boring' stuff there. It's unbelievable what some people are like. That, or we have 8 to 9-year-old users browsing these forums, but I choose to believe that we haven't reached such a low yet. Nobody is complaining about "explanations". We know very well that this series is a lot more story based than other fighting shonens. The yorknew city arc is pretty much my favourite fighting shonen arc because of that. There were only a few fights all of which were creative. The thing about yorknew was that you never knew where exactly it was going. This arc however is very straight forward. We have been waiting for the king + royal guards to fight against the hunters for such a long time now. Yorknew was just infinately more interesting. Gon und killua walking through the forest and talking about what their plan is on how to stop the ants just isn´t interesting at all. And this literally is half of the episode. You could for example just expalin it while they are actually already are working on the plan. Or if the plan succeeds (which I doubt) you can explain what the plan was after it is done. The Phantom Troupe arc was a lot more straightforward, in reality. |
GalekCSep 30, 2013 12:02 AM
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| It was pretty ok for an episode filled with information. |
| The Emperor's Time was used at wrong time, other than that the episode was great. The pacing isn't even slow, it's just the waiting time that makes it seem so |
| Informative episode. Now I know to expect in the next episode |
| I don't know why but I really liked this episode. I can't tell you why I did, especially since I wasn't a fan of this part in the manga but something about this episode I was really feeling. |
fearthebeard85 said: I don't know why but I really liked this episode. I can't tell you why I did, especially since I wasn't a fan of this part in the manga but something about this episode I was really feeling. hopefully this adaptation will change the way you view this arc further down the road too (read your write-up on it) |
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| just love the backsong |
Vogue- said: Slow paced episode, but the explanations were needed so I don't mind. Who IS this Diego character, I wonder. *Strokes chin* diego is the president of east goroto...the king killed him.. |
| I had to rewatch the episode to realize that xP Didn't know that guy's name, and I misinterpreted Morel's words the first time around. Made me think they were talking about some guy who Morel and Knov also worked for when he said "You mean we." Thanks anyways. |
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GuiltyKing said: confused_Imakuni said: GuiltyKing said: What's with all the random complaints, complaining about problems not even present. You don't like things being explained so the story makes sense? You don't like seeing the main chars doing something other than fight? You only care about fights and get bored by this?! Well, two things for you, then. 1. Fuck you. 2. Go watch a boxing match. You sure as fuck won't be getting any of the 'boring' stuff there. It's unbelievable what some people are like. That, or we have 8 to 9-year-old users browsing these forums, but I choose to believe that we haven't reached such a low yet. Nobody is complaining about "explanations". We know very well that this series is a lot more story based than other fighting shonens. The yorknew city arc is pretty much my favourite fighting shonen arc because of that. There were only a few fights all of which were creative. The thing about yorknew was that you never knew where exactly it was going. This arc however is very straight forward. We have been waiting for the king + royal guards to fight against the hunters for such a long time now. Yorknew was just infinately more interesting. Gon und killua walking through the forest and talking about what their plan is on how to stop the ants just isn´t interesting at all. And this literally is half of the episode. You could for example just expalin it while they are actually already are working on the plan. Or if the plan succeeds (which I doubt) you can explain what the plan was after it is done. First off, the term fighting shounen doesn't exist. There's shounen and some of the manga heavily concentrate on the fighting aspect of the story, but have a plot nonetheless. Secondly, I don't know if you've read the manga, so I'll try to keep it as safe as possible in terms of spoilers. The current arc is anything but straightforward. It's one of HxH's best arcs and mostly due to the story itself rather than the fights. What information we are getting right now is crucial for future episodes and definitely not boring or uninteresting. But you'll see for yourself once we get there. I did read the manga a very long time ago, but not the chimera ant arc, so I don´t know what is going to happen. I do understand that the information we got is probably crucial. It still doesn´t change the fact that it made the episode boring. It probably could have been done in a better way. And I know that hunter x hunter is a more story driven manga than other "fighting shonen" (if this term really does not exist I apologise for using it again. I just think it makes clear immediately what I mean) and that is one of the reasons I actually like hunter x hunter. I just feel like this arc is very slow moving and hasn´t really got far since the arc started. I can actually get an example: Gon and Killua trained a few episodes for the chance to get back into NGL. Those episodes were pretty boring for me because I thought I knew exactly what would happen. Gon and Killua train for a while and then just beat shoot and knuckle. It didn´t happen, which was pretty awesome. Gon and Killua lost. I thought that then the focus wouldn´t be on Gon and Killua that much and we would now focus on Netero and his "huntercrew" fighting ants. But we didn´t really get anything. Just more time went past without anything really happening (apart from the ants spreading out and the king taking a castle) and in the end Gon and Killua still joined Netero. So no real difference from what would have happened if they won against shoot and knuckle. I get that it hyped up knuckle and shoot a little + we got some killua char development. But we also got a looooot of episodes for so little. The problem also is that since Netero came to NGL we are being teased soooo much. He was in the proximity of the royal guards and then the king for such a long time and we really want to see him fight them. But he just never does. I get that eventually he will. But being teased so much over such a long time and then focus on gon and killua training, gon dating and so much more shit we had to get through is just killing me xD Ths isn´t meant to be a complete hatepost. I still like hunter x hunter and this arc still had a few amazing episodes and I just hope that we get a good payoff from such a long buildup :) |
| All this build up is fine as long as it pays off, though to be honest I wasn't exactly engaged with this episode. |
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JacobValance said: That fact that the stakes are so high makes me wonder if it will be addressed as to why this isn't an all hands on deck situation in regards to gathering the world's strongest and most experienced Hunters to deal with this threat. If it has been addressed then I missed it. I guess they could say that many of them are busy with other high profile threats/situations or that the whereabouts of some are unknown. Because the ants reproduce by eating things, or get stronger by eating things, Netero is being very selective with who he allows on the mission. If he takes anyone that can't handle themselves, they've pretty much given the enemy a new high-powered soldier, or perhaps made the king himself even more powerful. Netero only wants people who won't compromise the mission by dying, and if he takes too many people in with him, he ups the chances of having that happen. |
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JacobValance said: However, when discussing an incredibly skilled and powerful guy like Ging he has been compared to a rare class of Hunter elite, why not grab a few of those guys? They are all too busy. The world of HxH is very big, orders of magnitude larger than Earth. Also, the Chimera King is stronger than them all. Number is useless. He's God in Nen. |
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JacobValance said: I agree that for this mission that quality is better than quantity and it's also understandable to leave some capable Hunters to deal with the ants that have spread out. However, when discussing an incredibly skilled and powerful guy like Ging he has been compared to a rare class of Hunter elite, why not grab a few of those guys? It's a threat big enough for the Chairman to get directly involved and even he has stated that it's been years since he was the strongest Hunter. Though apparently the Chairman did bring in a ringer, I'm looking forward to that reveal. okey there could be some more reasons that have already been shown in anime and am pointing out them from a anime viewers perspective without any manga spoilers firstly , if we consider the major threats then there are king and his 3 guards and that makes 4 enemies . netero will face king himself and theres a big plan reserved for him which we see is already in motion . the remaining hunters will stop 3 guards and there are exactly 6 people for that job .their job is to separate guards from king when the proper time comes. so each guard gets 2 hunters . now if we make room for even one more for each guard, there could be several problems like : - kite had 3 people group in kite vs pitou confrontation , look how that turned out. if the opponent is much stronger and you have to look out for unbalanced and out of sync team mates , it could be disadvantage instead. so you need balanced team also - 3 vs 1 match may loose excitement as it might become much easier match - you will need extra character development for additional characters - gathering trusted and synced ally is more important than random powerful guy - some characters need motive to face an enemy , gon is less powerful but he has a strong motive . though its logical that they could remove gon , killua from the field and replace them with more powerful hunters . thats upto you if you want it. also i wonder would the story be more interesting if they flooded the area with more hunters . secondly ,what happens to the other less powerful ants ?...ok , its such an covert operation which includes strategy rather direct confrontation where loss of life from hunter side has to be minimum or zero. failure is no option here or failure is out of question until at least they stop guards after finishing small fries ... gon and others are eliminating small and less powerful ants gradually and we will see what happens with the rest of them. dont forget there are one more hunter and some allied or neutral ants out there. not to mention netero , knov , morel spent entire month hunting ants and netero designed the plan considering all possible worst case scenarios. thirdly , about your question regarding ging . so far what we know he is out there somewhere and it maybe a more remote place ( dont forget that he is a Archaeological Hunter ). it could be possible that he even doesn't know about it yet or no one was able to contact him. kite said it was extremely difficult to find him .so that maybe the case with other 3 star hunters as well . |
headless_nickOct 3, 2013 11:30 PM
| I very much enjoyed the Requiem, hahaha. And also seeing Gon and Killue back in action was nice. They'd been quite passive the last few episodes. |
| It was also very interesting to see some new Ants! Nice overall change of scenery, haha. |
| I'm glad Gon defeated a Chimera Ant but man, he has to kill them.. letting them live makes no sense.. they have no future. |
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PrimeX said: I'm glad Gon defeated a Chimera Ant but man, he has to kill them.. letting them live makes no sense.. they have no future. the one ant is probably dead |
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VampireOjouChan said: ok I have a question: If 5 million people are about to die, why don't they pull out the big guns aka Ging and the Zoldycks and try to deal with it ... it's like the hunter association has accepted this as a natural sacrifice without doing their best.. or if the Zoldycks and Ging are busy with more important things.. they should at least say so.. mention it like Ging Freecss has his hands tied with that thing for now or w.e. >> well, u will get ur answers at the end of this ark |
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