is the chimera ant arc too slow?
| ive seen people say "the chimera ant arc is painfully slow and overrated" a few times when discussing unpopular opinions. is it really an unpopular opinion? personally, i loved it. SPOILER WARNINGS FOR CHIMERA ANT ARC(?) (this is the first topic ive created so im not entirely sure if i need to make spoiler warnings like that. i feel like it should be obvious, but better safe than sorry. if i did something wrong let me know so that i can learn) |
| No I feel like it's perfectly paced. The hunter exam arc on the other hand is boring garbage and the worst way to open a show and it can go to hell. |
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| It's less about the arc being slow, but more about it being slow compared to the rest of the arcs. The pacing isn't spectacular or anything, but compared to other Shounens it's still pretty decent with the amount of content that arc has. Also the Chimera Ant arc being slow might not really be an unpopular opinion, but the arc being overrated is still very much an unpopular opinion, people love the hell out of that arc. |
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| It was slow, at least in my opinion. There was no need for it too last 60 episodes when it had just one interesting theme (Komugi and Meruems relationship) and one epic fight (Meruem vs Netero). |
| What makes it slow is the narrator. There are episodes that are entirely slowed down because they kept the dude explaining each movement or thought the characters had. When it works, it's brilliant, when it does not, it feels dragged out. A good example of this is the scene of the old dudes descending from heaven. That scene is majestic. A bad example is when Killua is looking at his grandpa. It's almost two episodes of Killua just looking at Zeno, that's it. For me the arc is perfect in terms of pacing up until the palace's invasion. When the raid commences, everything slows down a lot. |
| the only thing i find annoying in that arc was the narrator, he's a pain in the ass. |
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| I think much like the rest of the series the pacing isn't consistent so it's hard to say. Given the amount of build up for example the ending felt incredibly rushed and sudden which I would say is a trait shared with other arcs like Yorknew and Greed Island. But there are notable standout sections where the pacing slowed to a crawl, like that episode where they spent almost the entire time narrating the characters running up a flight of stairs. It often falls into a trap of tell not show for many of the action sequences in particular. Also the side note that they shifted an entire setting mid-arc. Essentially meaning they had to not only establish the new setting but a transition as well as a bunch of other side content which really messes up the pacing when focusing on a single arc. |
| Nah it's damn near perfect, my favorite arc from the show. And the narrator is good too. If he wasn't there people would have complained why the characters are doing all the exposition themselves while they fight, which is something people always criticize. So one way or the others haters would be hating is what I think. |
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| Yeah, the arc didn't really live up to the hype, too. |
| No. For me, it's all good. I don't even know which part of the chimera ant arc is slow and boring. It's perfectly paced tbh. I enjoy the whole arc from the beginning till the end. If you watch it on weekly basis when it aired.... well it might be slow. But since i binged the whole thing in days. I didn't feel that it's slow or anything. |
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Theo1899 said: No I feel like it's perfectly paced. The hunter exam arc on the other hand is boring garbage and the worst way to open a show and it can go to hell. I actually liked the hunter exam,i found it quite entertaining.The heavens arena arc on the other hand is the one that feels much more boring to me.In the hunter exam there were tons of other participants,while the heavens arena arc is pretty much exclusively focused on Gon and Killua. |
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| The first time I watched the Chimera Arc, I thought it was boring, the only reason why I more or less finished it was beacuse I wanted to see Gon as a grown up as someone had showed me a few pictures of him. But, yes. It was really slow vs the another arcs. The second time I watched HxH i droppet it around the time when the teleport guy started to lose his hair. The third time, I watch it, I enjoyed it far more. Greed Island and Chimera ant arc woud be my favorites arc's from HxH now. But it did take me 3x times before I started to enjoy the last arc, but it might be beacuse my taste have changed through the years. |
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| 23 to 21. i didnt expect it to be this close |
| Yes it was that slow. Actually I wouldn't mind it being slow if only the arc wasn't atrociously boring and stupid. |
| Is the CAA slow? Yes. I mean, just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjiHClo2rmc that's the entire palace invasion all at once and it's less than 5 minutes, for what takes several episodes. However, the slow pace is PERFECT for what it's trying to do. It's slow, but not TOO slow. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and was never bored once. |
| About half a dozen episodes too slow. |
| Idk if it's only me, but as I was rewatching the series it doesn't felt slow really. Sure there were parts that felt dragged, but overall the pacing was decent. I binged it so there's that. The slow take really helped the arc develop further imo. The writing's such a gold mine. |
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| Yes it is extremely slow at times and the annoying narrator makes some episodes hard to watch. |
| Nope IMO it has great pacing it's just that the monsters part was a little slow and boring and the final battle were amazing the only thing bad was the narration it felt like the show was trying to make the show longer but other than that everything was nicely paced |
| It took a series that I was sort of liking (especially loved the Yorknew portion a lot) and made it extremely painful and frustrating to watch. This might be the most frustrated I have been with watching an arc in anime besides maybe the Bount arc in Bleach. There were one or two aspects of this that I liked but overall, it was nowhere near enough to redeem the arc for me. A huge part of why I much prefer the original anime over the 2011 one is mainly because of not dealing with the crap that the Chimera Ant arc had (plus I preferred the direction and style of the original one too). Didn't help that the characters were not that interesting or fun for me either with the exception of Meruem and Komugi's interactions from time to time. I did rewatch the 2011 anime a few years later and still felt the same way. The extra narration only made me more and more frustrated and almost raging with this. |
| There are times that it is slow, but some of them are just perfectly balanced. |
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It took a series that I was sort of liking (especially loved the Yorknew portion a lot) and made it extremely painful and frustrating to watch. This might be the most frustrated I have been with watching an arc in anime besides maybe the Bount arc in Bleach. There were one or two aspects of this that I liked but overall, it was nowhere near enough to redeem the arc for me. A huge part of why I much prefer the original anime over the 2011 one is mainly because of not dealing with the crap that the Chimera Ant arc had (plus I preferred the direction and style of the original one too). Didn't help that the characters were not that interesting or fun for me either with the exception of Meruem and Komugi's interactions from time to time. I did rewatch the 2011 anime a few years later and still felt the same way. The extra narration only made me more and more frustrated and almost raging with this.
| @animejas I pretty much agree with what you said I loved 99 especially how each arc had its unique atmosphere and 2011 kinda made me angry especially with a narrator slowing everything down. I remember that one episode of the invasion where the whole episode was about sneaking up the staircase and 90% of the episode was the narrator speaking. |
| 60 episodes, 40% of HxH was wasted on an arc about insects with no Kurapika or Hisoka in it. Yes it was really slow, we didn't need this excesive narration, we didn't need all these episodes of random low level insects being introduced just to be killed, we didn't need that fking dog who wanted to be "king behind the scenes" be given any more than five minutes of screen time. If you take out most of the battles against the random low level insects and keep just a few for the sake of introducing us to the arc, and if you take out all the narration you could get a CAA with just 30 episodes. You don't need narration at all, look at Bleach tybw, no narration & fast paced battles makes it more intense and enjoyable because it's over shortly after it starts so you don't get bored of it. If Bleach tybw had the same pacing as the CAA then those first 7 episodes would have been drawn out to at least 20 with this fking narrator eplaining every little detail. |
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