Hunter x Hunter (2011) Episode 116 Discussion

judals said:


She's ugly, those knees, that retro hair... what a hag

ISubZeroI said:
I feels almost as pissed off as Gon due to the lack of action we're getting.

judals said:
I'm not even gonna start on the fact that she might be a he, but even snot-less Komugi lying there looks better.

MCAL said:
As the saying goes, if you've come to Hunter x Hunter for fights, you've come to the wrong place.

xmaikokoro said:


I'm probably wrong but this is my interpretation: Kite is something who Gon deeply respected (and hoped to become); meanwhile, Killua/Kurapika/Leorio/etc. are just his friends. This statement might be different for all people but I think Gon is someone who takes it personally if someone he respects is disrespected or insulted. Kite was not just killed, he was turned into a robot-like person, controlled by the enemy, so utterly insulted by Pitou who only considered Kite to be a play toy (not a human) that I believe Gon feels so much rage that he no longer cares about the people around him being harmed.

MCAL said:
As the saying goes, if you've come to Hunter x Hunter for fights, you've come to the wrong place.

pkKodama said:

And regardless of that. Bullying a cute girl is enough for him to deserve death.

kcaco said:


argh this comes off so annoying and condescending.
It just reeks of creepy nerdy obsession with 'cute girls' and putting ideas of 'cute girls' up at some creepy pedestal.

Worst, this reading of Pitou as a some 'poor cute girl' (let alone his gender was never confirmed), instead of a character on its own right where gender doesn't matter, and turn it into some judgement show against Gon because 'how dare he raise his voice on such pretty delicate little flower?" It's reduction and dumbing down at worst. Like if Pitou were an unattractive man beast then Gon's rage is ok? ( i don't care for an answer to that).

pumpkinmuay said:
The most annoying thing out of this episode was the actual lack of episode.

6 minutes (including the intro) and then most of the episode like several prior decided to reshow the same exact scenes again and again.

pumpkinmuay said:
The most annoying thing out of this episode was the actual lack of episode.

6 minutes (including the intro) and then most of the episode like several prior decided to reshow the same exact scenes again and again.

judals said:
To be fair, it was 5. (4:59 to be exact)

MCAL said:
As the saying goes, if you've come to Hunter x Hunter for fights, you've come to the wrong place.

pkKodama said:

Yeah, a crossdressing "he" who was born with boobs. Oh wait, should I tell you a secret? All women in the world are actually guys, some of them might have female organs, but don't be deceived, they are all men actually...it's true.

ISubZeroI said:


I get this loved the character development in this ep, but its been weeks since I seen anyone through or land a punch :/

Atleast skip the scene to knuckle and let me see him hit youpi once? maybe in a couple weeks. sigh

catsching said:
Oh my god. That was amazing.. awesome.. literally breathtaking xD


This!!


This show is just getting better and better.. I can't wait for the next ep

miskos3 said:
Actually... The debates over Pitou's gender are always fun. Not only it's not clear what it is like with Ants and genders, Pitou completely lacks any feminie traits in manga and also refers to himself/herself with masculine pronouns.

TheBigL said:
I thought Gon would be more composed. Seems out of character for him and it came off a little corny to me. I liked Killua better this ep. I feel bad for him. The best part of this show to me was their relationship. I want to see them working together again. This tension between then sucks :(

tsudecimo said:
Great episode, hadn't watched a good one since episode 108. 4/5. Killua was too perceptive again in this episode, it felt forced. But his calm demeanor through all these crazy unforeseen situations is interesting to see. He feels a bit conflicted about Gon and sincerely worried and/or he is probably have the leaving Gon thing on his mind, he seems somewhat absent minded considering the stuff that are happening around him.

Gon's character really doesn't make sense to me, at all. His rage, mentally un-stability and explosion of emotions in this episode left me baffled and puzzled. He feels like a different character all together or a bi-polar character. I can't gasp his thought process through this arc. Why is Kite that important to him? I never saw him rage that much regarding other people that are close to him. His fixation on Kite doesn't really make sense, unless I'm forgetting something regarding their relationship.

Not gonna raise my expectations but I hope the show keeps getting better from here.

pkKodama said:

Can't you recognize a female body? She has boobs. Just how dumb can people be about character genders...

miskos3 said:
http://hunterxhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Neferpitou#Pitou_is_male_published_according_to_HXH_official_Databook Feel free to read on.

pkKodama said:

Do you really think I care about stupid databook? I can read the manga myself and get my own conclusions and she clearly has boobs.

miskos3 said:
Lol ok. Whatever flies your way.

peeyaj said:
Gon made Killua upset. Great episode! I feel sorry for Pitou. :(

MCAL said:
What about when those hunters threatened Zushi or when he purposely got his arm blown off just to land one hit on Genthru or when Nobunaga cried for Uvogin's death in front of him or when Pitou first attacked him, Kaitou and Killua and Killua had to knock him out just to get away alive or... Well I suppose you get the point now.

sweetangie said:


How sad that this episode sort of made Gon like a villain at first while Pitou is like the victim ( I didn't like that): it's the other way around. Gon really showed to Pitou that he has a heart that he'll let Pitou heal Komugi after Killua convinced him to wait while Killua was upset in the process unlike Pitou killed Kite without hesitation ( especially that Kite done anything wrong to be killed like that: just because she sensed a powerful aura coming from Kite). It's the good thing that Killua is with Gon: he managed to control Gon to ease his rage ( his rage blind Gon to see his surrounding) and the sad part is that Gon made Killua upset ( even so I'm glad that Killua was there with Gon).

Candor said:
The "Pitou: Male or Female" thing started again.

Pitou says "boku" when referring to herself, a personal pronoun that indicates the speaker is a male, a tomboy, or an uncivilized creature, so it's vague. It's probably that the translator thought "boku" was indicating that Pitou is a male from the beginning, and just went on with it.

And btw, CR referred to Pitou in this episode as it at some points, which made me chuckle a bit.

LunarMoon said:


The page you linked to says that Pitou may be male in the manga, and female in the anime .That seems to be the most logical conclusion, since, as mentioned, Anime Pitou can't even be called androgynous (bust x hour glass figure).

sweetangie said:


How sad that this episode sort of made Gon like a villain at first while Pitou is like the victim ( I didn't like that): it's the other way around. Gon really showed to Pitou that he has a heart that he'll let Pitou heal Komugi after Killua convinced him to wait while Killua was upset in the process unlike Pitou killed Kite without hesitation ( especially that Kite done anything wrong to be killed like that: just because she sensed a powerful aura coming from Kite). It's the good thing that Killua is with Gon: he managed to control Gon to ease his rage ( his rage blind Gon to see his surrounding) and the sad part is that Gon made Killua upset ( even so I'm glad that Killua was there with Gon).

pkKodama said:


You must be really blind if you can't see her boobs there.

MrAM said:
The sheer brilliance of this episode is astounding. So much emotional depth...I'd take this over a fight any day.

Gon was like another person here. Gone (pun not intended) is the cheerful, happy kid we saw in the beginning of the series. Gon has become something of a monster, from totally human emotions.

The role reversal here is incredible: instead of the conventional evil villain threatening the hero, we have the 'villain' in a helpless state and begging the hero to let her save someone, and the hero being the one who desires violence. The role reversal extends to the beginning of this arc as well: Pitou started off as the alien, inhumane monster, slaughtering Kite mercilessly and scaring Gon and Killua out of their minds. Now Pitou is the human one; she wants nothing more than to save a life for the sake of someone she cares about, while Gon is the one who looks like a monstrous psycho. Brilliant.

Look at the part when Pitou tells Gon she's trying to save Komugi. He keeps repeating her words over and over, with dead eyes. He can't comprehend it, can't grasp the idea that the person who he harbors so much hate for, that he thinks is a terrible killer, is trying to save a life. He can't understand Pitou; his whole world view is shattered. This is no simple situation, and Gon tends to looks at things simply. The purity of his personality is a bug factor as to why he reacts the way he does. In Gon's mind, if he likes you, and you've done nothing bad to him and his friends, you are good. Otherwise, you are evil. Pitou fits in the latter category, and now he discovers that she's trying to do something honorable, something noble. If he kills her now, he'd be the real villain.

It drives him insane. His suppressed emotions have no outlet, and the small, rational side of him knows he can't attack Pitou now. As he says, it isn't fair. Look at the way he lashes out at Killua- he tells him that it most be nice to be so composed because this has nothing to do with him. It's a childish attack, really, born out of a desperation to let out his feelings in some way. Despite his rage, Gon is very much a kid. That's what makes him so dangerous.

All of HunterxHunter has been about this, has been building up to this; Gon's loss of innocence. He was the sole main character who hadn't suffered any major loss, before all this took place. Leorio's friend died when he was a kid, Kurapika lost his clan as a kid, and Killua was raised an assassin. They all experienced something traumatic that forced them to grow up- all except Gon. It's his turn now. This whole series is a coming of age story, but it's a twisted one. Instead of the usual story of a character growing up to become a brave, great man or woman, this is about the transition from childhood to adulthood, and the most important aspect of that transition: a loss of innocence. Throughout his journey, the grim reality of the world that Gon lives in became clear to him. It's not a coincidence that all of his opponents are always adults, that adults are always the ones behind the greatest evils in the HxH world.

The parallel in this arc becomes obvious when you think about it. The King, the one who is supposed to be the Big Bad, has become more human, while Gon, the supposedly cheerful, optimistic hero, has become more inhumane. It's not only a fantastic twisting of shonen tropes, but also an excellent tie-in into the arc's overall theme of the nature of humanity.

Great episode.

Yami-Asami said:
I think I can die in peace now.

kcaco said:


No I and many people really do not see 'boob'.

Pitou is Pitou, a frightening royal guard. Not some 'cute girl' where you insisted in your pink bubble and attribute annoying creepy gender stereotypes and attitude.

Cryptical said:
Also, but this is my personal preference, I don't like how Gon suddenly is sinister and has a dangerous aura. Killua should be the cold blooded assassin, not Gon. Not to mention it is hard to take a kid like that seriously when his trousers don't even reach his knees.

I really didn't enjoy this episode. I don't get the relevance of this arc to begin with, apart from the whole bullshit with Kite, so I hope the serie is almost done with it.