Red eyes Kurapika is op af. He isn't supposed to be this strong under normal circumstances. Like, greed Island killua is stronger than Kurapika for sure, but if Killua was a member of the Phantom Troup then hot damn I think Kurapika would win.
@@dwad8710 that technically true, but only if he wanted some special properties into the conjured object. But conjuring ordinary objects without special properties can be done easily, demonstrated by that phantom troupe member.
I think the Japanese culture has a love-hate relationship with the idea of revenge, characters who seek revenge are cool and powerful and usually achieve it but also suffer the consequences and have some form of regret.
Can Giray İçel revenge is a purely selfish motivation that one derives pleasure from. Justice is an organized punishment (usually by committee) for committing an act that goes against whatever rules one is supposed to follow in their given circumstances. If someone steals a vehicle from you you may get revenge by smashing their hands with a hammer so they can’t steal anymore, but a court would issue justice by imprisoning them for some set amount of time.
Excuse me... The phantom troupe tortured CHILDREN before killing them in front of their parents!!! I know it's a dark arc for Kurapika and he is losing himself and all of that, but don't expect me to feel what he is doing to the spiders is unjustified or even "too much"... Oh no...
Liam says that all kurapika gained was a corpse but in actuality he probably saved many lives just by killing uvogin, and kurapika doesnt see that nor does he recognise it so he’ll eventually fall further and further until theres nothing left of him
@@water_5288 Actually Kurapika didn't achieve much considering that the troupe is still alive. Hell, his murder of Uvogin is what sparked the Phantom Troupe to stay behind and the massacre that followed. Also, Kurapika is very aware of how self-destructive his own mission is, otherwise he wouldn't be aware of the risks of using Emperor Time
Exactly thank you. I don't care what those fuckers would need to die. Everyone that was part of the massacre needs to die. It's obvious the death penalty. That is why I enjoy it when the Phantom Troupe members start getting killed and they deserve to die.
And that was Kurapika's first kill ever. For those who don't remember, during the hunter exam he states he has never killed, when he refuses to kill that fake spider blue skin guy.
I actually love the 1999 version of the York New Arc. The scene where Kurapika is trying to develop his nen abilities and he gets enveloped with chains is absolutely beautiful and really shows the audience how much nen is a manifestation of our own psychology, desires and ideals. Some of the filler added to the '99 adaptation really impressed me and actually helped flesh out the world in a way the 2011 series didn't. So even if it's not "canon", it usually demonstrates some facet of the world that is absolutely true to Togashi's intentions.
Yep.. Kurapika set a contract that Uvogin must subscribe to NewWorldReview which would have resulted in regular HxH content in his youtube feed or else he'd die.. It was such a winwin for Uvogin yet he still refused to do it. Guess he was just a dumb brute after all.
@@fusion3401 because that comment is overused, and people in comment section mostly milking that comment. Just like "Hisoka's bungee gum has the prop of..." Blah blah blah.
I think people give WAY too much credit to the Phantom Troupe as "not really that bad". Just because Togashi draws them with more relaxed expressions befitting a main character, and that they have loyalty within their ranks, doesnt make them noble or "good". Kurapika, while a bit savage in his approach, was totally justified in doing what he did to Uvo. Whether Uvo felt he was in the right or not doesnt change that, he deserved getting the shit kicked at him. It's crazy to me this video tries to paint Kurapika as "wrong" for trying to dominate Uvo mentally as well as physically. So do these standards just not work with Uvo when hes thoughtlessly massacrreing a village of innocents? Did he win the emotional battle there too? Like come on dude
Finally! A comment I agree on here. Not to shit on fans of HXH but all the time I here statements like “Now Chrollo/Hisoka/Beyond/whoever is the villain of this arc, if you can even call anyone a villain in this world” like yes they’re obviously the villains of this story just because they have depth and character development doesn’t change the fact that they are still appalling human beings.
@@user-ey8mj4tv2p he literally punch him with full power only able to break 1 hand and healed immediately after because emperor time also allowed kurapika to be a full fledge enhancer
Kurapika: Do you remember the people you've killed? The Kurta. Uvogin: Never heard of them. Kurapika: A small clan, with scarlet eyes, that lived in the Lukso Province. Uvogin: Oh yeah, now I remember. I stole this Scarlet Subscribe Button from them, now I get regular HxH content delivered straight into my UA-cam feed!
And mind you, Uvo was a Grandmaster Enhancer. Among the strongest Experienced Nen users around in terms of brute force alone. Emperor Eyes are way too hax
@@mohamedab9033 Empreror Time isn't the same as Kurapika's Scarlet Eyes - he just needs for them to be scarlet first before he can use it. And Emperor Time really isn't that broken when you know the immense price Kurapika pays for using it.
Nah even allowing for the Prices he pays on it and how Circumstance-Specific it is, its still pretty broken. Like come on you have essentially a Novice nen user able to Toy with a World Class Enhancer with decades of experience. Thats a ridiculous power up. The nice thing about the nen System is that it was balanced so that even really gifted Nen users couldn’t be masters of all categories, Time emperor is Literally the Nen Equivalent of the Avatar State. Chrollo is the only one with a chance in hell of fighting Kurapika evenly in this state and thats only with a shitload of prep, in a random encounter he stomps every single spider 1 on 1 he could probably take 2-3 of them on at once mid-Difficulty. The fact that a second in that form shaves an hour off his life means 5 minutes is 12 and a half days. Lets round that up to two weeks. He could settle any fight with a troupe member in less then 5 minutes. 13 members. That gives him 2 chances to take down every troupe member 1v1 before he loses a full year of his life. And he can’t use it against anyone who’s not a spider, like ok fine he can still use regular Nen abilities and they’re his main goal. Despite the “ Drawbacks” it seems to me like he has exactly the tool he needs to do what he wants and the Spiders really can’t do shit but run and hide from him
@@agentchaos9332 Your estimates of how easily Kurapika could take out members of the Troupe grossly overestimate his own capabilities and sell the Spiders short. You're not taking into account that Pakunoda gave them the information she gleaned from Gon and Killua's memories, and Kurapika told that pair a lot of important info about his abilities - meaning that is info the Troupe now has on him. There's also the fact that Kurapika doesn't know several of the Spiders' abilities, the fact that they're almost all monsters in their own unique craft, and much of the credit to Kurapika's victory over Uvo is owed to how much the latter didn't know about him - an advantage he no longer has. So to take more than one of them on at a time is even more out of the question than it was before. That's also not accounting for Kurapika's mental state, the arduous processes it would take just to get even one member in a compromising situation for him to exploit or the amount of time he would have to be in Emperor Time in service to even that goal. Or compromising situations Kurapika may himself be in, like the current Succession War. (Hell, he's already pissed away five years of his life on the Black Whale alone, not counting however much time he lost in the fight with Uvogin, or all the times he used Emperor Time offscreen in between the Yorknew and Succession War Arcs.) It's like Morel said, the second you start trying to predict who will win in a battle of Nen, you're already wrong, it's just too many variables to know before it all actually shakes out. Hunter X Hunter isn't the kind of manga/anime that you can just churn out a prediction like that and just presume to know what you're talking about.
I’ve thought about Karapika’s character act recently. Honestly it’s not the outcome of revenge that’s so dangerous. It’s the fact that revenge will turn you into a completely different person, who was not purpose for existing once they’ve accomplished the goal. Kurapika is becoming someone else beyond recognition. Probably the person he hated most.
What does that even mean? GON did more fucked up things looking for revenge, and he didnt even go through with anything, he just threatened to. Kurapika did nothing wrong, unironically, no cap.
@@user-ey8mj4tv2p gon vs pitou has some cool stuff in it it was a cool "clip" but the fight itself wasn't good at all. It was just gon completely and utterly destroying pitou
I agree with a lot of what you said in regards to Kurapika and his quest for revenge. However, during his fight with uvogin I think he presses him for 3 reasons. 1. He wants to get as much info about the members and their abilities beyond the ones hisoka has given him 2. He wants test his nen abilities and put them to the test on someone as confident as uvogin in their nen abilities. 3. He wanted to test his ability quickly be cause EMPEROR TIME takes a part of his life away depending on how long he uses it.
Kuripika has 2 of the best quotes in the series. “The not fearing death” and the “ chained to hell” kuripikas too real! Those quotes perfectly summarize his characters drive. Best character in HxH
I remember when I watched Hunter x Hunter for the first time and I was so worried about Kurapika fighting Uvogin due to the raw strength he depicted during his fight with the shadow beasts. I was thinking Kurapika made a mistake picking the strongest one first. After watching Kurapika dominate Uvogin in the match my jaw dropped and since then I've never been worried about Kurapika in a fight, only the other party. Man has my respect. Wish it didn't take such a huge toll on him though but hey that's good writing, one has to lose something heavy to gain that much power.
Kurapika has little patience with nonsense regarding the Phantom Troupe, that has been pretty consistent in all of their interactions. His taunts could just be his way of saying 'stop wasting my time' (literally, with Emperor Time). Since he's a strategist with everything else, we could perhaps even argue that he was trying to distract Uvogin as much as possible while hiding his chains. He built his entire plan around Uvogin being an enhancer, who do have a more straightforward approach to things. But okay, that's speculation. There's also the chance that this was just a spun of Togashi, disregarding the standard shounen troupe of "this isn't even my final form" type of battle and we're all reading too much into this.
When I first heard about this fight I though "Oh this must be where a lot of the new angsty vengeful anime antiheroes got all there inspiration." Then I actually saw the fight and was like ".......Oh God. All the others are doing it wrong. That was...tragically beautiful. And hard to watch even though it was so cool."
This fight made me truly enjoy Kurapika. That and his friendship with Melody. He's horribly dynamic and sees that decisions can change. He's hurt, determined and very powerful. But the poor thing can't survive on revenge alone. Especially with the troupe. The comparison with Kill Bill is great. But for the Bride, she was a member not just a victim. It hit closer and her interactions with everyone carried more weight. Its hard to get revenge when to the people you're after saw their actions as just another day.
It's interesting to think that chrollo and kurapika abilities are so powerful in theory because of the fact they don't value themselves and so are willing to put these harsh restrictions on themselves while having the confidence on making them work. The biggest weakness for both is that they are willing to die.
Kurapkika reminds me of Alucard from Hellsing in this fight: Alucard fights with the sole idea of breaking his enemy physically and mentally before he kills them (he did this to Luke Valentine, Rip Van Winkle and was definitely going to do it towards Walter but was unable to see it through due to an outside influence).
The only downside to this fight was that we didn’t get to see the full extent of uvogins nen ability’s. I get that he was a necessary sacrifice to display the depths of kurapikas hatred but it seems like such a waste.
Togashi always have a point to make from start and make story accordingly. Uvogins powers are unnecessary and doesn't contribute much to what togashi wanted to do. So just see what writer wanted to show you
I feel like Gon v Hanzo followed the same pattern. In that fight, Gon was more willing to *die* , than Hanzo was to simply retake the Hunter Exam. Hanzo dominated physically, but Gon won the mental battle.
@@thabokgwele5268 Yes, it was stated by Killua to Hanzo you could have done something to force Gon to give up but why did you not Hanzo stated basically he just liked Gon since he had no hatred for Hanzo even with all the pain.
This is what art criticism is supposed to do; you have saved me a lot of time by summing up my thoughts and expressing an almost burdensome appreciation for this series. I don't have to try to express myself because you did it better than I would have. Thanks
I'm unsure if you will see this Liam but just want to say I found your channel at the start of this year and you've been a huge inspiration to me just love the way you dissect the topic and explain it all to the viewers I'm starting my own Review series next month and I genuinely don't think I would have without you so thanks a lot man!
I would say Uvo's death did still align with Kurapika's goal of making the spiders suffer. Uvo didn't WANT to die. He just was left with no choice. Plus his death caused the other members a great deal of suffering.
The sheer fact Kurapika, a new nen user, was able to make his chains invisible AND enforce zetsu is nuts. But we all know Kurapika won because of his conditions. As Uvogin said, he had an unreal amount of nen in his chains and abilities because he was fighting a spider. Well that and his mental game was better than Uvo, played him.
he had an unreal amount of nen in his chains due to Emperor Time. it spiked his aura output, as his teacher noted. Kurapika didn’t use a Chain with conditions imposed until the end of the fight, when he activated Chain Jail to force Uvogin into Zetsu.
Pretty sure Kurapika's taunts were just to try to get Uvo to use his full strength. Not for pride and not to try to crush Uvo's spirit but to see if he could take him at his max. Sure, this doesn't matter once chain jail is activated but I'm pretty sure he'd like to know if he could withstand the full might of one of the members *before* he's able to activate it in case he has to fight one of them without getting the jump on 'em. At least that's how I interpreted it.
Poor Kurapika ☹️ hopefully that implicit “decision not to kill anyone anymore for revenge” is what redeems him and saves his life in the end of the story 😔
I don’t think the troupe viewed uvo as hero for how he died, I think they loved and valued him as a friend too much to see his death as anything less than a tragic loss of life. Regardless of “heroics”. At the end of the day kurapika may have gained nothing but the troupe lost a lot.
Am I the only one who actually cried at Uvogin's death? I mean, when he kissed Shalnark's cheek before he left...I KNEW something bad was gonna happen... :,(
@Gustavo Vasconcelos You can love someone who is a complete monster. Its called "Cognitive Dissonance". Like seeing your cute cat torture a mouse before eating it.
Kurapika used his secret technique against Uvongin, he activated his scarlet Subscribe button which provides regular HxH content straight to your UA-cam feed
Just one thing. When Kurapika was testing the jail chain, the point was that the chain has the same strength of real steel and he Uvogin wasn't only the strongest with NEM, he was also the strongest in terms of muscles. Kurapika wanted to test if the un-enhanced muscles of the strongest spider was able to break steel chains.
It took a super long time to learn how to conjure something as simple as a chain, so I doubt he went through the same training just for a shovel for this one purpose
@@sappling2p well yes. You have a point. But remember that chain ain't your ordinary chain, it could immobilized even the physically strongest spider, now an ordinary shovel... That's a different ball game.
@@bryghian still, even conjuring a simple shovel takes a lot of time and it feels very impractical to conjure a simple one. Could just buy one. So there is not point into learning how to conjure a simple shovel.
@@bryghian conjurors cant just conjure anything basic whenever they want whenever they want. Kite, shizuku, knov they’ve special things they conjure. Only Kortopi with his gallery fake is able to create copies (there must be an original for him to touch before he conjures it) And like Kurapikas master said. Its useless conjuring something you can buy. So why would he potentially waste nen on a mere shovel?
Now that you mention it, it’s kinda fucked that kurapika basically wanted uvogin to show any semblance of humanity so that he could take more pleasure in killing him.
Yeah kurapikas main motive did change from firstly retrieving his clan members eyes to killing and taking revenge on phantom troupe which even he realized when gon told him after phantom troupe were presumed to be dead
It took Kurapika a heavy vow and condition in order to beat Uvo. Uvo is actually mega strong. Kurapika made it look easy but the price he paid is not light at all.
Like other people said I feel like this vid gives Uvogin way too much credit. Considering the way he behaved before and during the fight he was in no way “Noble”. Does he have sympathetic qualities? Sure. Is this a gray-and-gray world? Sure. But he is still a mass murderer and the idea that he somehow comes out of this as a corpse with the moral high ground is such a strange concept. Like yeah Kurapika was overly brutal, more than he needed to be, but that’s it. That says nothing about Uvo’s moral standing, all that means is that Kurapika is a lighter shade of gray than the guy who kills and pillages for funsies.
Great insight into this fight. I never really looked at kurapika as the true loser in this. Very nice! Watching this gave me an idea to request. You do alot of top 5 or top 10s on GLR. You think one day you could do your top 5 or 10 Overall fights (Action, Psychology, Art etc) across the many titles of anime you watch. I would be really interested to hear it.
Uvo "getting excited" when he remembered the kurta being pretty strong was short lived. He still thought he could break his chains, and that's why uvo wasn't scared/etc.
By your logic, an evil person wins the emotional battle by remaining evil. You can commit horrible atrocities but as long as you have pride in your life then you had a noble death?
If the manga ever comes off hiatus, maybe we will find out just how tragic Kurapika’s story really is, obviously pretty friggin tragic already, but with terror sandwich in the mix it definitely has the potential to be more so.
Yeah I loved this fight as it wasn't so simple as the royal guard dying and nobody aside the king cared. We get the fight ealry in the arc and then see More on uvogan as it goes on and before it we see him actually hang out with the "villain" group. After rereading the story I love York new the most in hxh with every little piece moving perfectly especially kurapika becoming my favorite after the reread. Also it's weird how so many see code Geass as following the main "villain" while hxh kurapika played it like one perfectly having the trope almost betray each other. Kill a member and even take out the leader and have a "member" in hisoka feed him information. It's all perfect
This is awesome! Thank you! This is probably my second favorite fight in all of Hunter x Hunter because of how dramatic and important it is to Kurapika's character development. The only fight that I think is better is Netero vs. Meruem because of how symbolic it is and the amazing music that plays in the background, and even then that fight is just barely better than this one. Would you please cover all of the symbolism in that fight? Thank you.
If Nen was involved in enhancing his scream, which it probably was, then I would guess nothing would've happened as Kurapika's chain jail prevented the use of nen. Also Kurapika already saw him use it against the Shadow Beasts, so doubt he would've fallen for it if Uvogin tried it.
I disagree with you on the statements around 8 minute mark. Sure, Kurapika was engulfed by rage and uvogin was calm, but Kurapika wishes his rage never leaves him until his goal is done and his goal is to kill the phantom troupe and get his clans eyes. Sure he didn't get any information about the other phantom troupe but he killed one member, I would say that is enough for him to be pleased with the encounter. He also has Hisoka to tell him about the troupe anyway. Imagine thinking Kurapika was depressed because uvogin didn't tell him anything about his comrades or that he was sad because uvogin didn't feel remorse. Who cares what uvogin felt in his last moments? That fucker is dead, Kurapika killed him Edit: His goal of killing the troupe being moral or not isn't that important at all, this is hunter x hunter we are talking about where the moral line is so grey you don't see it anyway. "incredibly self-destructing path" is a bit overkill too, don't you think? If the writer thinks this way too then I feel sorry for you guys. Imagine spending 20 years to create a 400 chapter manga
I think the 1999 adaptation depicted this scene far better than the 2011 version. THis goes for a lot of the Yorknew arc. I think the overall tone was sorta missed in the 2011 adaptation.
you forgot the flex kurapika did bringing a shovel prior to the fight
Especially since he could easily use Nen to do the whole thing by smashing a place and then shoving the dirt on top.
maybe he conjured it 😁
@@tafhimulhossain no, conjuring an item takes immense focus and study. He wouldn’t waste time on being able to conjure a shovel
The absolute goddamn disrespect
THEY SHOWED UP TOGETHER, UVOGIN KNEW THE MADLAD HAD THE SHOVEL
Let´s be realistic guys... the only reason uvogin lost is that his nen had neither the properties of rubber nor gum
.......thx man.....was waiting fer this comment to come out again........ xD
How would kurapika do against hisoka
@Cole McNickle saaaame
I swear to god If I hear one more thing ab the properties of rubber and gum
@@ugo6620 so... does that meann you don't want to hear about how Bungee Gum works...
... because it's both elastic and sticky.
waiting for THE SHOVEL comments
I’m here, he brought the shovel in his car😡😡
I sincerely wish i was as confident as kurapika
pichon electro just bring a shovel to your next fight, guaranteed confidence
@@eduardobarboza7030 im just imaging uvogin and kurapika together driving to the desert xD would be really awkward
I always thought that he used his nen abilities to manifest a shovel
Uvogin smashing his fist breaking Kurapika's arm was so great just for him to be like classic Uvo reverse
Uvo reverse*
DustinGrimm Magic I was about to comment the same thing lol
@@dustingrimmmagic1067 good call lol
HAHAHAHAHA. thanks man. i needed the laugh.
Red eyes Kurapika is op af. He isn't supposed to be this strong under normal circumstances. Like, greed Island killua is stronger than Kurapika for sure, but if Killua was a member of the Phantom Troup then hot damn I think Kurapika would win.
The fight Kurapika established himself as a certified badass slaughterer.
Whats badass about cheating
@@gdulheflljasduhdzccvm9926 how did he cheat?
@@kaichen3830 kurapika cheat because he bring shovel to the fight
Kurapika: conjurer
Conjured shovel
@@dwad8710 that technically true, but only if he wanted some special properties into the conjured object. But conjuring ordinary objects without special properties can be done easily, demonstrated by that phantom troupe member.
I think the Japanese culture has a love-hate relationship with the idea of revenge, characters who seek revenge are cool and powerful and usually achieve it but also suffer the consequences and have some form of regret.
Those in seek of revenge shall dig 2 graves 1 to bury their enemies and one to bury themselves
@@jaythaprofit_ Lame quote.
@@jaythaprofit_ shallow quote seems like edgy when you first hear it.
Whats exactly the difference between justice and revenge tho? They overlap most of the time.
Can Giray İçel revenge is a purely selfish motivation that one derives pleasure from. Justice is an organized punishment (usually by committee) for committing an act that goes against whatever rules one is supposed to follow in their given circumstances. If someone steals a vehicle from you you may get revenge by smashing their hands with a hammer so they can’t steal anymore, but a court would issue justice by imprisoning them for some set amount of time.
Excuse me... The phantom troupe tortured CHILDREN before killing them in front of their parents!!! I know it's a dark arc for Kurapika and he is losing himself and all of that, but don't expect me to feel what he is doing to the spiders is unjustified or even "too much"... Oh no...
Liam says that all kurapika gained was a corpse but in actuality he probably saved many lives just by killing uvogin, and kurapika doesnt see that nor does he recognise it so he’ll eventually fall further and further until theres nothing left of him
@@water_5288 Actually Kurapika didn't achieve much considering that the troupe is still alive. Hell, his murder of Uvogin is what sparked the Phantom Troupe to stay behind and the massacre that followed.
Also, Kurapika is very aware of how self-destructive his own mission is, otherwise he wouldn't be aware of the risks of using Emperor Time
@@d-skullgaming696 wrong, the phantom troupe stayed behind only because of hisoka
@@water_5288 That was after Chrollo use Neon's Lovely Ghostwriter ability, which he stole during the massacre. Uvogin's requiem.
Exactly thank you. I don't care what those fuckers would need to die. Everyone that was part of the massacre needs to die. It's obvious the death penalty. That is why I enjoy it when the Phantom Troupe members start getting killed and they deserve to die.
And that was Kurapika's first kill ever. For those who don't remember, during the hunter exam he states he has never killed, when he refuses to kill that fake spider blue skin guy.
I actually love the 1999 version of the York New Arc. The scene where Kurapika is trying to develop his nen abilities and he gets enveloped with chains is absolutely beautiful and really shows the audience how much nen is a manifestation of our own psychology, desires and ideals. Some of the filler added to the '99 adaptation really impressed me and actually helped flesh out the world in a way the 2011 series didn't. So even if it's not "canon", it usually demonstrates some facet of the world that is absolutely true to Togashi's intentions.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Personally I don't understand the bullshit the 99 version gets from the Fandom. It's a great adaptation to the story
Why did uvogin lose?
Because he didn't click the subscribe button to receive direct HxH video updates directly into his Nen feed.
Yep.. Kurapika set a contract that Uvogin must subscribe to NewWorldReview which would have resulted in regular HxH content in his youtube feed or else he'd die..
It was such a winwin for Uvogin yet he still refused to do it. Guess he was just a dumb brute after all.
how did NewWorldReview not think about this?
@@fusion3401 because that comment is overused, and people in comment section mostly milking that comment. Just like "Hisoka's bungee gum has the prop of..." Blah blah blah.
Dylan Kudaibergenov what about Hisokas bungee gum? I’d like to know what it has the prop of
@Lionard Kirsch did he say anything was wrong with that? No. Stop trying to start unnecessary arguements.
I think people give WAY too much credit to the Phantom Troupe as "not really that bad". Just because Togashi draws them with more relaxed expressions befitting a main character, and that they have loyalty within their ranks, doesnt make them noble or "good". Kurapika, while a bit savage in his approach, was totally justified in doing what he did to Uvo. Whether Uvo felt he was in the right or not doesnt change that, he deserved getting the shit kicked at him. It's crazy to me this video tries to paint Kurapika as "wrong" for trying to dominate Uvo mentally as well as physically. So do these standards just not work with Uvo when hes thoughtlessly massacrreing a village of innocents? Did he win the emotional battle there too? Like come on dude
exactly. The Phantom Troupe are pretty bad dudes and it was weird seeing people call them noble and even sympathetic
@@alfa01spotivo Yeah pretty crazy. Dont get that
@@alfa01spotivo Question, how many people do you think Alucard from Hellsing has killed.
Finally! A comment I agree on here. Not to shit on fans of HXH but all the time I here statements like “Now Chrollo/Hisoka/Beyond/whoever is the villain of this arc, if you can even call anyone a villain in this world” like yes they’re obviously the villains of this story just because they have depth and character development doesn’t change the fact that they are still appalling human beings.
@@damiannova5207 I feel you bro. I feel you. Just speaking the truth.
Kurapika used emperor time to conjure the like button, so not even the strongest of enhancers were able to destroy it.
And imagine Uvogin used full power of big bang impact on kurapika and big bang impact was enough powerful like a explosion
@@user-ey8mj4tv2p kurapika would have loss
@@user-ey8mj4tv2p he literally punch him with full power only able to break 1 hand and healed immediately after because emperor time also allowed kurapika to be a full fledge enhancer
Kurapika vs Uvogin was more like a slaughter than a fight
Technically was a fight because they both hit eachother and all that.
Kai Chen yea however Kurapika just heals himself so in turn it’s a slaughter
Gon vs Pitou was a slaughter... This was a good fight.
@@tamim9266 yep.
@@tamim9266 gon smacked that bitch lmao I just rewatched it and laughed
Kurapika: Do you remember the people you've killed? The Kurta.
Uvogin: Never heard of them.
Kurapika: A small clan, with scarlet eyes, that lived in the Lukso Province.
Uvogin: Oh yeah, now I remember. I stole this Scarlet Subscribe Button from them, now I get regular HxH content delivered straight into my UA-cam feed!
I never really thought about to hard but Kurapika went from knowing nothing about Nen, to killing Uvo. In just 6 months.
Revenge is a hell of a drug
And mind you, Uvo was a Grandmaster Enhancer. Among the strongest Experienced Nen users around in terms of brute force alone.
Emperor Eyes are way too hax
@@mohamedab9033 Empreror Time isn't the same as Kurapika's Scarlet Eyes - he just needs for them to be scarlet first before he can use it. And Emperor Time really isn't that broken when you know the immense price Kurapika pays for using it.
Nah even allowing for the Prices he pays on it and how Circumstance-Specific it is, its still pretty broken. Like come on you have essentially a Novice nen user able to Toy with a World Class Enhancer with decades of experience. Thats a ridiculous power up. The nice thing about the nen System is that it was balanced so that even really gifted Nen users couldn’t be masters of all categories, Time emperor is Literally the Nen Equivalent of the Avatar State. Chrollo is the only one with a chance in hell of fighting Kurapika evenly in this state and thats only with a shitload of prep, in a random encounter he stomps every single spider 1 on 1 he could probably take 2-3 of them on at once mid-Difficulty. The fact that a second in that form shaves an hour off his life means 5 minutes is 12 and a half days. Lets round that up to two weeks. He could settle any fight with a troupe member in less then 5 minutes. 13 members. That gives him 2 chances to take down every troupe member 1v1 before he loses a full year of his life. And he can’t use it against anyone who’s not a spider, like ok fine he can still use regular Nen abilities and they’re his main goal. Despite the “ Drawbacks” it seems to me like he has exactly the tool he needs to do what he wants and the Spiders really can’t do shit but run and hide from him
I should get me some
@@agentchaos9332 Your estimates of how easily Kurapika could take out members of the Troupe grossly overestimate his own capabilities and sell the Spiders short. You're not taking into account that Pakunoda gave them the information she gleaned from Gon and Killua's memories, and Kurapika told that pair a lot of important info about his abilities - meaning that is info the Troupe now has on him. There's also the fact that Kurapika doesn't know several of the Spiders' abilities, the fact that they're almost all monsters in their own unique craft, and much of the credit to Kurapika's victory over Uvo is owed to how much the latter didn't know about him - an advantage he no longer has. So to take more than one of them on at a time is even more out of the question than it was before. That's also not accounting for Kurapika's mental state, the arduous processes it would take just to get even one member in a compromising situation for him to exploit or the amount of time he would have to be in Emperor Time in service to even that goal. Or compromising situations Kurapika may himself be in, like the current Succession War. (Hell, he's already pissed away five years of his life on the Black Whale alone, not counting however much time he lost in the fight with Uvogin, or all the times he used Emperor Time offscreen in between the Yorknew and Succession War Arcs.)
It's like Morel said, the second you start trying to predict who will win in a battle of Nen, you're already wrong, it's just too many variables to know before it all actually shakes out. Hunter X Hunter isn't the kind of manga/anime that you can just churn out a prediction like that and just presume to know what you're talking about.
I’ve thought about Karapika’s character act recently. Honestly it’s not the outcome of revenge that’s so dangerous. It’s the fact that revenge will turn you into a completely different person, who was not purpose for existing once they’ve accomplished the goal. Kurapika is becoming someone else beyond recognition. Probably the person he hated most.
My guess is Kurapika plans not to return after the Troupe has been dealt with.
What does that even mean?
GON did more fucked up things looking for revenge, and he didnt even go through with anything, he just threatened to. Kurapika did nothing wrong, unironically, no cap.
Definitely one of the best fights in the entire HXH timeline.
For me it's 3rd best after Netero vs chairman and gonna vs pitou
@@user-ey8mj4tv2p Netero vs chairman? So he was fighting himself? XD
@@user-ey8mj4tv2p gon vs pitou has some cool stuff in it it was a cool "clip" but the fight itself wasn't good at all. It was just gon completely and utterly destroying pitou
@@aakashshukla2848 sorry I meant mereum vs netero
@@freezy9487 yeah, but the transformation gave me chills
A fight? That was a straight up a beatdown
It technically was a fight. They both did took damage to each other and Uvogin still tried to attack. I count that.
Hunter hunting his prey.
@@kaichen3830 OMG NOO ITS YOU, THE GUY WHO SAID HISOKA DOESNT WANT GONS CHILD CHEEKS TO GO AWAY OMGG ITS GIVING ME NIGHTMARES 😭😭😭
@@blooxylips 😈😈😈
@@blooxylips Wait Did you say Doesn’t or did you mean Does cuase if you meant doesn’t wtf
Crazy, just watched this fight yesterday during a chill thunderstorm in Chicago.
Sounds relaxing
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I agree with a lot of what you said in regards to Kurapika and his quest for revenge.
However, during his fight with uvogin I think he presses him for 3 reasons.
1. He wants to get as much info about the members and their abilities beyond the ones hisoka has given him
2. He wants test his nen abilities and put them to the test on someone as confident as uvogin in their nen abilities.
3. He wanted to test his ability quickly be cause EMPEROR TIME takes a part of his life away depending on how long he uses it.
Kuripika has 2 of the best quotes in the series. “The not fearing death” and the “ chained to hell” kuripikas too real! Those quotes perfectly summarize his characters drive. Best character in HxH
I’m even more amazed that he still uploads hunter X hunter contents straight into my UA-cam feed
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shame hes seem to have stopped with jojos though
@@alfa01spotivo 💙
I remember when I watched Hunter x Hunter for the first time and I was so worried about Kurapika fighting Uvogin due to the raw strength he depicted during his fight with the shadow beasts. I was thinking Kurapika made a mistake picking the strongest one first.
After watching Kurapika dominate Uvogin in the match my jaw dropped and since then I've never been worried about Kurapika in a fight, only the other party. Man has my respect.
Wish it didn't take such a huge toll on him though but hey that's good writing, one has to lose something heavy to gain that much power.
Kurapika is OP at assassinating people also. He can just use judgement chain on his target and the condition is:
-don't move or you die.
Honestly same, and considering they killed several characters I really didn't think they would, I thought it was gonna be Kurapikas last fight
Kurapika is so badass that he bring a shovel to this fight.
He was so confident that almost looks like he had proprieties of both rubber and gum.
Let's not forget that Kurapika brought a shovel to this fight...a true badass
Coldest moment in this show
Kurapika has little patience with nonsense regarding the Phantom Troupe, that has been pretty consistent in all of their interactions. His taunts could just be his way of saying 'stop wasting my time' (literally, with Emperor Time). Since he's a strategist with everything else, we could perhaps even argue that he was trying to distract Uvogin as much as possible while hiding his chains. He built his entire plan around Uvogin being an enhancer, who do have a more straightforward approach to things. But okay, that's speculation. There's also the chance that this was just a spun of Togashi, disregarding the standard shounen troupe of "this isn't even my final form" type of battle and we're all reading too much into this.
When I first heard about this fight I though "Oh this must be where a lot of the new angsty vengeful anime antiheroes got all there inspiration." Then I actually saw the fight and was like ".......Oh God. All the others are doing it wrong. That was...tragically beautiful. And hard to watch even though it was so cool."
The fact that I clicked as fast as Killua's Godspeed is fascinating for me
Did anyone else think he was a girl.
You know
Uvogin
He is best girl
@@Bad-Jeans I think you mean she.
This fight made me truly enjoy Kurapika. That and his friendship with Melody. He's horribly dynamic and sees that decisions can change. He's hurt, determined and very powerful. But the poor thing can't survive on revenge alone. Especially with the troupe. The comparison with Kill Bill is great. But for the Bride, she was a member not just a victim. It hit closer and her interactions with everyone carried more weight. Its hard to get revenge when to the people you're after saw their actions as just another day.
It's interesting to think that chrollo and kurapika abilities are so powerful in theory because of the fact they don't value themselves and so are willing to put these harsh restrictions on themselves while having the confidence on making them work. The biggest weakness for both is that they are willing to die.
Kurapkika reminds me of Alucard from Hellsing in this fight: Alucard fights with the sole idea of breaking his enemy physically and mentally before he kills them (he did this to Luke Valentine, Rip Van Winkle and was definitely going to do it towards Walter but was unable to see it through due to an outside influence).
it gives me comfort knowing there's a small bunch of us here on the internet waiting for good ol Togashi. c'mon sensei, the world is ending.
The only downside to this fight was that we didn’t get to see the full extent of uvogins nen ability’s. I get that he was a necessary sacrifice to display the depths of kurapikas hatred but it seems like such a waste.
Togashi always have a point to make from start and make story accordingly. Uvogins powers are unnecessary and doesn't contribute much to what togashi wanted to do. So just see what writer wanted to show you
Dude, if that's all you want, you're better off going to DBZ. Here, character and story trump flashy powers.
Uvogin used his full power on kurapika though, so uvogin used his full extent
@I Am The One Who Knocks exactly,and we know how powerful the big bang impact is
Uvo was a pretty simple guy. Other than hitting something even harder, I don't see where he could go. Maybe some kind of "armor" to beef endurance?
It's great you just made this video because I rewatched this multiple times 2 days ago
It's a great fight reviewed by a great channel
Hunter x hunter is amazing and imagine if nen was real
Most of would either not know it or we would be jobbers who would die in no time.
Maybe it is..
TheDeviantWolf maybe
@@Mia_2512 I think that's transmutation, so you're good. Just be whimsical
nen is real
I feel like Gon v Hanzo followed the same pattern. In that fight, Gon was more willing to *die* , than Hanzo was to simply retake the Hunter Exam. Hanzo dominated physically, but Gon won the mental battle.
No, not really. Hanzo could have won that battle but just did not feel like it. He stated that it was annoying and he just wanted to let Gon pass.
@@faruquekhan3353 so you're saying that Gon could've been made to give up?
@@thabokgwele5268 Yes, it was stated by Killua to Hanzo you could have done something to force Gon to give up but why did you not Hanzo stated basically he just liked Gon since he had no hatred for Hanzo even with all the pain.
@@faruquekhan3353 oh yeah, now I remember the moment you're talking about. you're right, my bad
This fight was _Phenomenal_ in the 1999 Version
I recommend it so much, it was Dark
This is what art criticism is supposed to do; you have saved me a lot of time by summing up my thoughts and expressing an almost burdensome appreciation for this series. I don't have to try to express myself because you did it better than I would have. Thanks
Uvogin: Where do you wanna die? I'll humor any requests.
Also Uvogin: *gets buried 2 feet under*
Maybe Uvogin just lost because he didn't
Know that Bungee gum possess both rubber and gum.
Interesting theory, though I don't think his mind can comprehend to awesomeness of bungee gum.
I always thought this fight was so under-rated. Thank you for shedding light on it
I'm unsure if you will see this Liam but just want to say I found your channel at the start of this year and you've been a huge inspiration to me just love the way you dissect the topic and explain it all to the viewers I'm starting my own Review series next month and I genuinely don't think I would have without you so thanks a lot man!
I would say Uvo's death did still align with Kurapika's goal of making the spiders suffer. Uvo didn't WANT to die. He just was left with no choice. Plus his death caused the other members a great deal of suffering.
7:15 that , that moment there had me flying and weakened 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best part of the video
The sheer fact Kurapika, a new nen user, was able to make his chains invisible AND enforce zetsu is nuts. But we all know Kurapika won because of his conditions. As Uvogin said, he had an unreal amount of nen in his chains and abilities because he was fighting a spider. Well that and his mental game was better than Uvo, played him.
he had an unreal amount of nen in his chains due to Emperor Time. it spiked his aura output, as his teacher noted.
Kurapika didn’t use a Chain with conditions imposed until the end of the fight, when he activated Chain Jail to force Uvogin into Zetsu.
did i just hear "as much as he is mass murder, he have his comrad in mind". good god man.
The 1999 version is the first HxH anime I saw and I love how a lot of anime around that time have this level of emotional fluff
All Liam said added with the tension of the fight and the superb Nen combat and you have an A+ fight!
Kurapika: "ANSWER ME OR YOU DIE!"
Uvogin: "Haha, that's cute. I'll keep a spot for you in Hell."
Uvogin stayed true to his friends. Classic anime move.
Pretty sure Kurapika's taunts were just to try to get Uvo to use his full strength. Not for pride and not to try to crush Uvo's spirit but to see if he could take him at his max.
Sure, this doesn't matter once chain jail is activated but I'm pretty sure he'd like to know if he could withstand the full might of one of the members *before* he's able to activate it in case he has to fight one of them without getting the jump on 'em.
At least that's how I interpreted it.
Poor Kurapika ☹️ hopefully that implicit “decision not to kill anyone anymore for revenge” is what redeems him and saves his life in the end of the story 😔
He's literally training his life every time he uses emperor time
I don’t think the troupe viewed uvo as hero for how he died, I think they loved and valued him as a friend too much to see his death as anything less than a tragic loss of life. Regardless of “heroics”. At the end of the day kurapika may have gained nothing but the troupe lost a lot.
Am I the only one who actually cried at Uvogin's death? I mean, when he kissed Shalnark's cheek before he left...I KNEW something bad was gonna happen... :,(
@Gustavo Vasconcelos You can love someone who is a complete monster. Its called "Cognitive Dissonance". Like seeing your cute cat torture a mouse before eating it.
@Gustavo Vasconcelos but he was such an amazing character
@Gustavo Vasconcelos Meruem killed people
Killua killed people
Hisoka killed people
Illumi killed people
So what's your point?
i mean there not dead so he doesn’t care yet.
This is an amazing fight, but also has an extremely massive flex.
Kurapika brought A SHOVEL TO A FIGHT!!!
Kurapika used his secret technique against Uvongin, he activated his scarlet Subscribe button which provides regular HxH content straight to your UA-cam feed
Just one thing.
When Kurapika was testing the jail chain, the point was that the chain has the same strength of real steel and he Uvogin wasn't only the strongest with NEM, he was also the strongest in terms of muscles.
Kurapika wanted to test if the un-enhanced muscles of the strongest spider was able to break steel chains.
Damn.
Already was my favorite fight from HxH, but wow, your deep explanation of it makes me appreciate it much more.
Uvogin allowed his opponent to bring a shovel to their fight considering Kurapika requested Uvogin carry him to their battleground
This video in a nutshell: Kurapika is now drowning in an indescribable emptiness
Question tho:
Did he brought a shovel or conjured it after he killed Uvo?
brought it
It took a super long time to learn how to conjure something as simple as a chain, so I doubt he went through the same training just for a shovel for this one purpose
@@sappling2p well yes. You have a point. But remember that chain ain't your ordinary chain, it could immobilized even the physically strongest spider, now an ordinary shovel... That's a different ball game.
@@bryghian still, even conjuring a simple shovel takes a lot of time and it feels very impractical to conjure a simple one. Could just buy one. So there is not point into learning how to conjure a simple shovel.
@@bryghian conjurors cant just conjure anything basic whenever they want whenever they want. Kite, shizuku, knov they’ve special things they conjure. Only Kortopi with his gallery fake is able to create copies (there must be an original for him to touch before he conjures it)
And like Kurapikas master said. Its useless conjuring something you can buy. So why would he potentially waste nen on a mere shovel?
Bringing a shovel beforehand was such a huge flex.
Loved your view on kurapikas lost cause noone else would talk about what he lost... just about how he overpowered uvogin
'The boy with wavy hair' also made a great video about this fight....
Now that you mention it, it’s kinda fucked that kurapika basically wanted uvogin to show any semblance of humanity so that he could take more pleasure in killing him.
Ive rewatched this fight dozens pf times and has not gotten any less epic.
Best channel period.! Love your vids bro also just subscribed to the other channel thanks for the content!👌
Yeah kurapikas main motive did change from firstly retrieving his clan members eyes to killing and taking revenge on phantom troupe which even he realized when gon told him after phantom troupe were presumed to be dead
Kurapika…..brought…..a….shovel…..
It took Kurapika a heavy vow and condition in order to beat Uvo. Uvo is actually mega strong. Kurapika made it look easy but the price he paid is not light at all.
Finally someome with a brain. Uvo wasn't weak at all but people just look at the shovel scene and get blinded by hype.
This was an amazing analysis!
He wanted him to go full power to make sure that the chains could hold any member of the troop
Like other people said I feel like this vid gives Uvogin way too much credit. Considering the way he behaved before and during the fight he was in no way “Noble”. Does he have sympathetic qualities? Sure. Is this a gray-and-gray world? Sure. But he is still a mass murderer and the idea that he somehow comes out of this as a corpse with the moral high ground is such a strange concept. Like yeah Kurapika was overly brutal, more than he needed to be, but that’s it. That says nothing about Uvo’s moral standing, all that means is that Kurapika is a lighter shade of gray than the guy who kills and pillages for funsies.
Great insight into this fight. I never really looked at kurapika as the true loser in this. Very nice!
Watching this gave me an idea to request. You do alot of top 5 or top 10s on GLR. You think one day you could do your top 5 or 10 Overall fights (Action, Psychology, Art etc) across the many titles of anime you watch. I would be really interested to hear it.
Uvo "getting excited" when he remembered the kurta being pretty strong was short lived. He still thought he could break his chains, and that's why uvo wasn't scared/etc.
Getting revenge for the murder of your entire clan is most definetly just and righteous.
By your logic, an evil person wins the emotional battle by remaining evil. You can commit horrible atrocities but as long as you have pride in your life then you had a noble death?
5:20 I thought he said Uvowhelming😭😂
Hahah someone should tell Nux Taku about this being a flex, like lol he brought a shovel to the fight lmfao
I knew it, I discovered that channel last week on random and I was like yall sound so much alike.
kurapika bringing a SHOVEL to a fight is one of da greatest flexes in anime
Dude so confidant he brought a shovel with him
but lets not forget that kurapika brought a shovel into the fight
This is when I fell in love with kurapika
If the manga ever comes off hiatus, maybe we will find out just how tragic Kurapika’s story really is, obviously pretty friggin tragic already, but with terror sandwich in the mix it definitely has the potential to be more so.
UVO FINALLY MET HIS MATCH AND ACCENTED DEFEAT AT THE END WHAT A WARRIOR ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR THE STRONGEST
Great analysis.
Yeah I loved this fight as it wasn't so simple as the royal guard dying and nobody aside the king cared.
We get the fight ealry in the arc and then see More on uvogan as it goes on and before it we see him actually hang out with the "villain" group.
After rereading the story I love York new the most in hxh with every little piece moving perfectly especially kurapika becoming my favorite after the reread.
Also it's weird how so many see code Geass as following the main "villain" while hxh kurapika played it like one perfectly having the trope almost betray each other. Kill a member and even take out the leader and have a "member" in hisoka feed him information. It's all perfect
This is awesome! Thank you! This is probably my second favorite fight in all of Hunter x Hunter because of how dramatic and important it is to Kurapika's character development. The only fight that I think is better is Netero vs. Meruem because of how symbolic it is and the amazing music that plays in the background, and even then that fight is just barely better than this one. Would you please cover all of the symbolism in that fight? Thank you.
The fact that he brought a shovel to the fight makes this one of the best fights ever.
I wonder if uvogin scream out loud when kurapika is near him. he could blow kurapika's ear
If Nen was involved in enhancing his scream, which it probably was, then I would guess nothing would've happened as Kurapika's chain jail prevented the use of nen. Also Kurapika already saw him use it against the Shadow Beasts, so doubt he would've fallen for it if Uvogin tried it.
I love both Kurapika and Uvogin as characters so this fight/arc was *chefs kiss*
I disagree with you on the statements around 8 minute mark. Sure, Kurapika was engulfed by rage and uvogin was calm, but Kurapika wishes his rage never leaves him until his goal is done and his goal is to kill the phantom troupe and get his clans eyes. Sure he didn't get any information about the other phantom troupe but he killed one member, I would say that is enough for him to be pleased with the encounter. He also has Hisoka to tell him about the troupe anyway. Imagine thinking Kurapika was depressed because uvogin didn't tell him anything about his comrades or that he was sad because uvogin didn't feel remorse. Who cares what uvogin felt in his last moments? That fucker is dead, Kurapika killed him
Edit: His goal of killing the troupe being moral or not isn't that important at all, this is hunter x hunter we are talking about where the moral line is so grey you don't see it anyway.
"incredibly self-destructing path" is a bit overkill too, don't you think? If the writer thinks this way too then I feel sorry for you guys. Imagine spending 20 years to create a 400 chapter manga
Neferpitou would like to know kurapikachu's location
I think the 1999 adaptation depicted this scene far better than the 2011 version. THis goes for a lot of the Yorknew arc. I think the overall tone was sorta missed in the 2011 adaptation.
1999, 2011, doesn't matter, both were great and never get old to watch
when uvo bit off leeches head was the most outrageous thing ive ever seen.
Reminds me of Game of Thrones when Oberyn Martell fights The Mountain Gregor Clegane. We all know how that turned out.