@@lunerblade13good point his prayers were of gratitude for fighting. So his version of heaven would be a place full of the worst and most dangerous people for him to eternally fight. Therefore he’d rather go to hell
"These were not the words of a beaten and broken old man awaiting the icy grip of death, but one glance at the resolve written across his face made it clear he meant Every. _Single._ *_Word."_* God DAMN! Someone give the narrator a raise!
I also love that it wasn't the explosion that killed but the radiation left from it, it shows why his philosophy about brute force being the biggest strength was wrong.
To be fair the explosion left him on the brink, a carbonized, limbless torso barely clinging to consciousness, If his royal guards had not found him he would have been done for. Which of course makes it even better when he is revived, gets this massive Dragon Ball Z-esque power up...and then drops dead anyways due to the poison.
Malice to me sounds better and more representative of the evil inherent in humanity, the crux that gave creation to atomic weaponry. Plus this was the first episode I saw of the show as it aired on Toonami, lol.
I love the visual symbolism of Netero's eyes going black and empty, like those of an ant to mirror how blurred the line between man and ant had become in that moment.
There's honestly a whole lot more meaning to it than you can really even say or type. It really comes down to what he said "you really know nothing of the bottomless mallas within the human heart" We humans being the only ones experiencing free will; and the endless pain, suffering, intense emotions, the trillions of us who have ever died with unanswered questions we spent our whole lives trying to find, putting blood sweat and tears into desires, strength, love, hate, failures and success. Free will; something incomprehensible to an ant but brand new to this one. In that instant Netero showed him everything of what truly comes with the gift of free will and how we're billions of years experienced, truly how far and powerful we've come since the beginning of time. Showing him in that instant truly how far the gap is between them not as individuals but species, and Mureum realized he truly was an ant to a man, and that he truly was only born yesterday. Or maybe it was just straight up a "In that moment he realized, he had fucked up." Kind of thing and I just think too much
@@deadboy3646 funny thing, we apparently haven't even reached a trillion humans yet, I think the total number of humans, at least in recorded history, only spans a little over 100 billion.
A different translation (I found on the interwebs) is: You know nothing of the infinite human potential for malice. Togashi has written such a masterpiece!
@@shereefmohammed6596 That was the intimidation of humanities total and distilled malice that only comes after ever escalating centuries of cruel seizures and Hatred-fueled retaliation. Cycled over and over: evolving our capabilities each and every time until we destroyed the very foundations of reality the atom… whatever it took to win, to make them pay for all they’ve done, to make anyone else who dared to think twice before sending more of our people to die or threaten my life my wealth! And the sick but addictive Catharsis of being successful at it. Dominance either for selfish conquest or to defend and make way for a selfless nation it didn’t matter; it was all aimed at one insignificant bug. It’s unfair that we had such a head start but you know life isn’t fair unless we decide and at that moments we decided to make life as hellish as possible for that idiot who threatened our everything. All or nothing was the term the king set the game too. Not our fault he Lost. Humanities done it all before and honed itself against its self for centuries. The torture to get the needed Intel, the enslaved to feed the war machines, the conniving of engineers and generals and politicians, multiplied by both sides hating the other enough to want to do even more to their enemies. Whatever moral side one claimed, few if any could honestly say they didn’t HATE those who stood in their way or threatened their loved ones. Their results spoke for themselves. After we get violated it’s only natural to want see the abuser in total agony. We suffered all of that to make this much progress and now some new kid on the block wants to rip that all away? All of that Hate was what I think was being focused at Marowin. By Marowin threatening the species as a whole, he earned ire of the selfish and selfless alike multiplied by the millions by the nen of all of our ingrained living propensity for it and our ancestor’s cursing his name for daring to destroy everything they worked and suffered and died to achieve. That was what made the king feel fear. That incarnate was what ultimately killed him. That weather we like it or not was what ultimately saved us from extinction.
@@susie1175 That turned out to be true too, as it was not just a bomb it was also a poison which made sure to kill the survivors and also the people who come in contact with them… The ants were never that evil. In reality too humans have produced a lot of such weapons and most of them are banned
@@pck85 I mean, I think it's pretty obvious that the ants were more evil. They were all on board with trying to enslave the entire human population lol. The problem was that Meruem underestimated the POTENTIAL for how malicious human beings can be. He was ignorant to the fact we've already been murdering each other for tens of thousands of years, to the point we're now capable of killing milliions of people in seconds. In terms of physical prowess the ants were clearly superior, but in terms of hate and malice and desire for revenge they were outmatched. Humans will find a way to kill you even if it means killing themselves - think Gon.
"This is going to detonate the second your heart stops beating" Geez, imagine if Netero was just lying around at the Hunters Association HQ and has a heart attack. The city would be gone.
That's a common error : the bomb wasnt in Netero's body (heart). Only the detonator was in his body and would activate when his heart stops. The bomb was in the site they went to. That place was already known for mass destruction weapons tests.
@@louayker4249 The bomb actually was surgically implanted into him. They make the point that the bomb is so small that it's possible to do that. He took Meureum to the testing site to ensure there would be no other casualties.
I love how the King acts like he's still playing Gungi and he got checkmated but Netero killing himself to blow up the nuke is the equivalent of someone realizing they are about to lose so they flip the board
Not really , I think the existence of the king itself is a cheat in a way or another, the ants ( esp the king ) only evolved thanks to the countless humans they've consumed . Also , the king gets stronger every time he consumes someone , he steals their power. Hence , I believe humans had every right to play dirty , it's a war not a boxing ring. The final moments of old man Netero was everything I could ask for, the portrayal of the extents humans will go to out of malice / hatred , and the candle of hope that stays strong no matter what it faces , that is just beautiful .
The problem for the king is that he learned chess but he didnt have the chance to eat Einstein or another scientist to know you never bring nen to a nuke fight lmao
@@CallMeX881 Well, he probably knew about nukes but naturally did not expect anyone he faced to have one inside his or her body. Who would ever expect that?
@@ninjanamedbob2407 the subbed line was some potential of humanity potential of evolution like we haven't heard that shit a billion fucking times and the dub line fits way more with the artwork and just cause I want to be petty 276 likes vs none Ratio+im petty
@Jordanne Shirley there is a logic to that though. Netero said it was like 50+ years since he was in his prime, and while he does have bodhisattva which is really powerful, he also straight up said "not good, that one looks stronger than me" in reference to pitou, which Adult Gon literally turned to paste in one swing when he got serious.
A really nice detail I like is that at 0:25 mark we can see Meruem's pupils dilating, which is a sign of fight or flight instinct or an adrenaline rush.
After re-watching this, I realized that Netero could have infused his Nen with the bombs poison to create a stronger, and longer lasting effect. That skull and the Nen emanating from the coldest line in history, could be Netero's postmortem Nen condition being met.
"Good" is extremely relative in Hunter x Hunter, one could contest Meruem was good by the end of this arc whereas the humans were the monsters. A loootttttt of the hunters for example have extremely ambiguous morality. Netero used his power to cast down the weak and promoted strength out of selfish desire to find an opponent. He also promoted Pariston to VP sheerly for a fun adversary, under which 10 times as many hunters went missing.
Viral-_-Army for real, I loved Netero, he seemed like such a nice, awesome old dude, but when I saw how he declined Meruem’s offer to chat just for a CHALLENGE (!?!?) and then THIS. It f’d me up on my view of Netero tbh. Then again, someone (I can’t recall) said some of the best hunters are terrible people or something along the lines.
Nah, it's the morality, Who replaced with self-preservation instinct, use to Wish the worse evilness thing to their follow men like extincion, believing gods. Humans with have empathy and compassion with other species, but with their similar, they are cruel and evil.
And the king learned that day that no matter how strong the ants evolved, in the end humanity would always survive, because humans are the most ruthless f...ed up species ever, with infinite potential for evolution and equal potential for malice.
To be fair this wasn’t a man trying to avoid the suffering of life but instead wished to indulge in the chaos of combat. For all of his devotion and dedication he worshiped the art of violence.
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All of the build up to Meruem realizing what’s happening as the brass instruments swell in the background and he calmly says “from the very beginning checkmate was yours”…this whole scene gives me chills
If you have to pick one or the other, Malice is the right way to go. They could have done a combination like, "Ant king, did you know humanity's evolution is infinite when motivated by malice?" or "Ant king, did you know the malice that lives within humans is why we evolve?". Something along those lines. Given the double meaning, a translation that used both evolution and malice would have captured Togashi's intent better imo.
@@FffFff-qr9xs Togashi used both 悪意, which is literally malice, and an accompanying 進化, which is evolution, seen in the manga. What is said in the original Japanese is "shinka", the pronunciation of "evolution", but he ties both terms together. Humanity evolves quickly to propel forward, like with scientific advancement and the Industrial Revolution. With those also comes the creation of technologies meant to kill massive numbers of people in the quickest amount of time. As humanity evolves further and quicker, they also gain new modes to inflict pain and suffering (malice) on everything around them that's perceived as a threat.
That was the intimidation of humanities total and distilled malice that only comes after ever escalating centuries of cruel seizures and Hatred-fueled retaliation. Cycled over and over: evolving our capabilities each and every time until we destroyed the very foundations of reality the atom… whatever it took to win, to make them pay for all they’ve done, to make anyone else who dared to think twice before sending more of our people to die or threaten my life my wealth! And the sick but addictive Catharsis of being successful at it. Dominance either for selfish conquest or to defend and make way for a selfless nation it didn’t matter; it was all aimed at one insignificant bug. It’s unfair that we had such a head start but you know life isn’t fair unless we decide and at that moments we decided to make life as hellish as possible for that idiot who threatened everyone. All or nothing was the term the king set the game too. Not our fault he Lost. Humanities done it all before and honed itself against its self for centuries. The torture to get the needed Intel, the enslaved to feed the war machines, the conniving of engineers and generals and politicians, multiplied by both sides hating the other enough to want to do even more to their enemies. Whatever moral side one claimed, few if any could honestly say they didn’t HATE those who stood in their way or threatened their loved ones. Their results spoke for themselves. After we get violated it’s only natural to want see the abuser in total agony. We suffered all of that to make this much progress and now some new kid on the block wants to rip that all away? All of that Hate was what I think was being focused at Marowin. By Marowin threatening the species as a whole, he earned ire of the selfish and selfless alike multiplied by the millions by the nen of all of our ingrained living propensity for it and our ancestor’s cursing his name for daring to destroy everything they worked and suffered and died to achieve. That was what made the king feel fear. That incarnate was what ultimately killed him. That weather we like it or not was what ultimately saved us from extinction. Well that arms race and the love and desires to want to defend it and to work together when it truly counted (against a common enemy).
Other animes/mangas would have some long speech as the old man thought about his past and his pupils and the people he loved, talking about how he was sacrificing himself for them while dying with a gentle smile and sad music playing. Then there's Hunter X Hunter. A monster disguised as an old man, whose only interest is defeating his opponent by any means. His death isn't a noble sacrifice. His death is just something that feels so easy to him because his years of devoting himself to this kind of thing has made him indifferent to his own death. And it's not through skill or the power of love or friendship or courage that wins the battle, but the unending malice and destructive potential of humans.
The fact that Netero mentioned the malice of the human heart while having a miniature nuke inside of his is both poetic as it is ironic. Reminded me of a D&D post I read a long time ago. DM: Ok your attack is going to take out this guy, this guy, this guy, that guy, aaaaand...Yourself. Player: Yup. DM: Any particular reason why you're ok with that? Player: SPITE.
It's crazy how as soon as Netero came into contact with Meruem he had already won, all the rest was him trying to take the less human lives along with him
Jo guys, I just wanna mention the spiritual content Togashi is showing here. We know already the many buddhist "easter eggs" that togashi puts all over HxH. He wants to show netero as a Enlightement beeing here. Siddharta Gautama or the Buddha thaught that you can't find a I, that everything changes and that everything you are right now will change completly ( at least when you die) Thats why the one who is Enlightement is in a state of complete selflessness (the word itslef literaly explains it) and compassion. Netero goes to a battle where He knows he will die fights as long as he can than sacrifices himself literally saying i meet you in hell if there is one that means he doesn't give a fuck about his fate.
“I’ll see you in hell, if there is one.”
- The guy who used to pray 10,000 times daily
The same guy prayed for violence.
@@lunerblade13good point his prayers were of gratitude for fighting. So his version of heaven would be a place full of the worst and most dangerous people for him to eternally fight. Therefore he’d rather go to hell
The use of Little Rose, which killed millions horribly painfully, offset all of those prayers
"These were not the words of a beaten and broken old man awaiting the icy grip of death, but one glance at the resolve written across his face made it clear he meant Every. _Single._ *_Word."_*
God DAMN! Someone give the narrator a raise!
Faaaacts
Oo0mmg thank god I'm not the only one who notice that. 👏👏👏👏👏
True
Yes
Yeee
Meruem: It's just a game.
Netero: It's just a game is such a weak mindset to me...
Ok Woolie
do you not get the joke?
Meruem : checkmate bro
Netero : hold my nuke
netero cheated
UP,UP,DOWN,DOWN, LEFT,RIGHT,LEFT,RIGHT,B,A,START!!!!!!!!!
I love how they made Meruem out to be this insane strong character and the creators just said "eh nuke him"
I also love that it wasn't the explosion that killed but the radiation left from it, it shows why his philosophy about brute force being the biggest strength was wrong.
To be fair the explosion left him on the brink, a carbonized, limbless torso barely clinging to consciousness, If his royal guards had not found him he would have been done for. Which of course makes it even better when he is revived, gets this massive Dragon Ball Z-esque power up...and then drops dead anyways due to the poison.
Creators? You mean Yoshihiro Togashi?
Especially with the fake-out, you think he survived stronger than ever, but nope. He's poisoned by radiation and just dies.
@@ncala He barely even got to use his new power lmao. Buuuut there probably was barely anyone who could have handled him
I'm so glad they used the word "Malice" . Since the Japanese word had a double meaning, Malice was more fitting, I think.
There's a pic of skull behind him, clearly it was malice
@@ripper3052 as a person that has almost no idea about japanese,it wasn't *that* clear
@@hitomidiaconchuk5149 in manga Togashi wrote Malice and evolution in furigana part which is basically guide to read kanji
@@ripper3052 ohhh now I see where does it come from. My bad,didn't read the manga.
Malice to me sounds better and more representative of the evil inherent in humanity, the crux that gave creation to atomic weaponry. Plus this was the first episode I saw of the show as it aired on Toonami, lol.
I love the visual symbolism of Netero's eyes going black and empty, like those of an ant to mirror how blurred the line between man and ant had become in that moment.
And it represents How truly old netero was and how he was inside if it wasn't for enn
@@gibbyfraustro2509 enn?
@@kingmeruem8821 his arua
There's honestly a whole lot more meaning to it than you can really even say or type. It really comes down to what he said "you really know nothing of the bottomless mallas within the human heart" We humans being the only ones experiencing free will; and the endless pain, suffering, intense emotions, the trillions of us who have ever died with unanswered questions we spent our whole lives trying to find, putting blood sweat and tears into desires, strength, love, hate, failures and success. Free will; something incomprehensible to an ant but brand new to this one. In that instant Netero showed him everything of what truly comes with the gift of free will and how we're billions of years experienced, truly how far and powerful we've come since the beginning of time. Showing him in that instant truly how far the gap is between them not as individuals but species, and Mureum realized he truly was an ant to a man, and that he truly was only born yesterday.
Or maybe it was just straight up a "In that moment he realized, he had fucked up." Kind of thing and I just think too much
@@deadboy3646 funny thing, we apparently haven't even reached a trillion humans yet, I think the total number of humans, at least in recorded history, only spans a little over 100 billion.
Netero: You know nothing of the bottomless malice within the human heart.
Meruem: 😨
A different translation (I found on the interwebs) is:
You know nothing of the infinite human potential for malice.
Togashi has written such a masterpiece!
Nezuko-Chan It essentially means that humans have the potential to be evil, much worse than what the ants could’ve done
@@shereefmohammed6596 That was the intimidation of humanities total and distilled malice that only comes after ever escalating centuries of cruel seizures and Hatred-fueled retaliation. Cycled over and over: evolving our capabilities each and every time until we destroyed the very foundations of reality the atom… whatever it took to win, to make them pay for all they’ve done, to make anyone else who dared to think twice before sending more of our people to die or threaten my life my wealth! And the sick but addictive Catharsis of being successful at it. Dominance either for selfish conquest or to defend and make way for a selfless nation it didn’t matter; it was all aimed at one insignificant bug. It’s unfair that we had such a head start but you know life isn’t fair unless we decide and at that moments we decided to make life as hellish as possible for that idiot who threatened our everything. All or nothing was the term the king set the game too. Not our fault he Lost. Humanities done it all before and honed itself against its self for centuries. The torture to get the needed Intel, the enslaved to feed the war machines, the conniving of engineers and generals and politicians, multiplied by both sides hating the other enough to want to do even more to their enemies. Whatever moral side one claimed, few if any could honestly say they didn’t HATE those who stood in their way or threatened their loved ones. Their results spoke for themselves. After we get violated it’s only natural to want see the abuser in total agony. We suffered all of that to make this much progress and now some new kid on the block wants to rip that all away? All of that Hate was what I think was being focused at Marowin. By Marowin threatening the species as a whole, he earned ire of the selfish and selfless alike multiplied by the millions by the nen of all of our ingrained living propensity for it and our ancestor’s cursing his name for daring to destroy everything they worked and suffered and died to achieve. That was what made the king feel fear. That incarnate was what ultimately killed him. That weather we like it or not was what ultimately saved us from extinction.
@@susie1175 That turned out to be true too, as it was not just a bomb it was also a poison which made sure to kill the survivors and also the people who come in contact with them… The ants were never that evil. In reality too humans have produced a lot of such weapons and most of them are banned
@@pck85 I mean, I think it's pretty obvious that the ants were more evil. They were all on board with trying to enslave the entire human population lol. The problem was that Meruem underestimated the POTENTIAL for how malicious human beings can be. He was ignorant to the fact we've already been murdering each other for tens of thousands of years, to the point we're now capable of killing milliions of people in seconds. In terms of physical prowess the ants were clearly superior, but in terms of hate and malice and desire for revenge they were outmatched. Humans will find a way to kill you even if it means killing themselves - think Gon.
Humans are always like : "fuck there is no solution for this problem"
Someone "okay just nuke it then"
That only sounds like Americans
@@RyukaKaji as an American i can confirm
@@ungabung05 it takes one to know the rest of them
@@RyukaKaji indeed
They said that about Heroshima rofl
"This is going to detonate the second your heart stops beating" Geez, imagine if Netero was just lying around at the Hunters Association HQ and has a heart attack. The city would be gone.
That’s the entire point
Omg then everyone is fucked
That's a common error : the bomb wasnt in Netero's body (heart). Only the detonator was in his body and would activate when his heart stops. The bomb was in the site they went to. That place was already known for mass destruction weapons tests.
@@louayker4249 nah
@@louayker4249 The bomb actually was surgically implanted into him. They make the point that the bomb is so small that it's possible to do that.
He took Meureum to the testing site to ensure there would be no other casualties.
The way Meruem's VA said "Checkmate was yours." actually gave me chills.
IKR!!!
You’re tweaking, shit was so desdpanned
@@thesnipingspider3852 fr he read it like a school play🤣🤣
ok weirdo
@@rafaelmontoya1454 👉👈 i thought it was cool
I love how the King acts like he's still playing Gungi and he got checkmated but Netero killing himself to blow up the nuke is the equivalent of someone realizing they are about to lose so they flip the board
Shits actually hilarious
Um ackhtually 🤓 Humanity didn't flip the board. It simply promoted it's pawn into a frucking mini nuke.
Not really , I think the existence of the king itself is a cheat in a way or another, the ants ( esp the king ) only evolved thanks to the countless humans they've consumed . Also , the king gets stronger every time he consumes someone , he steals their power. Hence , I believe humans had every right to play dirty , it's a war not a boxing ring.
The final moments of old man Netero was everything I could ask for, the portrayal of the extents humans will go to out of malice / hatred , and the candle of hope that stays strong no matter what it faces , that is just beautiful .
@@reno8494 it's not a boxing match, it's a war.
Thats a really good analogy
“I see it now, from the very beginning checkmate was yours” 🥺
EPIC!!!
The problem for the king is that he learned chess but he didnt have the chance to eat Einstein or another scientist to know you never bring nen to a nuke fight lmao
@@CallMeX881 Well, he probably knew about nukes but naturally did not expect anyone he faced to have one inside his or her body. Who would ever expect that?
i love how the peak of nen is nothing compared to a nuke
Nanika
I don't thinks nanika is nen
@@odearodear6390it is confirmed to be nen in the Manga somewhere
if they could survive a nuke then they could probably destroy the sun.
No nen ain't gonna be able to do that.
Nen itself is crazy, but it’s nothing compared to the actual insanity of a nuclear explosion
"You know nothign of the bottomless malice of the human heart" way better fucking line then the subbed
Really it's the same line, with just more focus on one of the interpreted meanings
You are so right I hated the humanity’s evolution line
@OocSNKZ n one said anything about manga
hell nah that line was lame asf. the subbed line is 10x better lmao
@@ninjanamedbob2407 the subbed line was some potential of humanity potential of evolution like we haven't heard that shit a billion fucking times and the dub line fits way more with the artwork and just cause I want to be petty 276 likes vs none Ratio+im petty
“You know nothing of the bottomless malice within the human heart.”
So hard 🔥
“I see it now...
from the very beginning, checkmate was yours.”
most badass line kills me everytime
*for the first time, the king felt true fear* this line still gives me goosebumps 😭
The bottomless malice of human kind, truly is something to fear.
It truly is sad that neither Gon or Killua will ever beat the chairman
Army Bts Adult gon isn’t smart enough to get passed the 100-Hand thingo
Prime netero would’ve been lovely to see.
@Jordanne Shirley there is a logic to that though. Netero said it was like 50+ years since he was in his prime, and while he does have bodhisattva which is really powerful, he also straight up said "not good, that one looks stronger than me" in reference to pitou, which Adult Gon literally turned to paste in one swing when he got serious.
@@Clipaz.HUZ6 ur overestimating him ;/
@@Clipaz.HUZ6 lol idk about one shot
The narrator is the real mvp
Even with Netero with all his drained nen he still pierced his own muscles with his fingers to stop his heart.
he probably put most of what was left into his fingers to pierce through, if we tried it it'd just break our fingers lol
@@Marconel100I tried it and trust me it pierced through my heart 🗿
@@sasukewithamoustache2300 your girl must love those fingers.. well, loved.
“You know nothing of the bottomless malice that lies within the human heart.” “I’ll see you in hell, if there is one.” -Netero’s last words
Meruem: I am the Devil...
Netero: Hold my beer...
Me: enjoying my life in my 2 year old Minecraft hardcore world
The random ass charged creeper:
Did meruem honestly think he could outrun a nuclear blast
He could after he gained the others ants powers
He was born like yesterday lol
A Nencular blast
Idk but he tried 😅
He probably could’ve if he didn’t trap him underground.
A really nice detail I like is that at 0:25 mark we can see Meruem's pupils dilating, which is a sign of fight or flight instinct or an adrenaline rush.
Compared to the subbed version this has so much more impact
Netero: the truth is, the game was rigged from the start
Wow, to him, heart really was everything!
Such a great fight from every perspective, reasons behind, weight, consequences, music, the fight itself
Such a well written anime I didn’t want either of them to lose I got chills watching them it was amazing.
That what make togashi a good writer he made us not side with any of them and just injoy
every mangaka is the same lmao
@@prizma45 what
@@gigabit6226 yes
@@prizma45 huh
0:24 when you realize just how cruel your opponent is.
Its not cruel, humans and ants are the same, we've just been doing it for far longer, so they lost.
After re-watching this, I realized that Netero could have infused his Nen with the bombs poison to create a stronger, and longer lasting effect. That skull and the Nen emanating from the coldest line in history, could be Netero's postmortem Nen condition being met.
If Meruem had pants, he would’ve crapped the CRAP out of them
The narrator did such a great job like man his narration had me hyped as fuck
Netero’s bloodlust even put fear to my soul 😦
0:12
Remember that this was the face of the good guy
it boggles me to think of how he was in the end he was such a smiley guy to end up being some what of a demon In my eyes it really hurt
Looks like something straight from fnaf
He actually completly sacrifices himself to hell. He just can't hold back his overwhelming desire to laugh because he trolled him like a OG
"Good" is extremely relative in Hunter x Hunter, one could contest Meruem was good by the end of this arc whereas the humans were the monsters. A loootttttt of the hunters for example have extremely ambiguous morality. Netero used his power to cast down the weak and promoted strength out of selfish desire to find an opponent. He also promoted Pariston to VP sheerly for a fun adversary, under which 10 times as many hunters went missing.
Viral-_-Army for real, I loved Netero, he seemed like such a nice, awesome old dude, but when I saw how he declined Meruem’s offer to chat just for a CHALLENGE (!?!?) and then THIS. It f’d me up on my view of Netero tbh. Then again, someone (I can’t recall) said some of the best hunters are terrible people or something along the lines.
You could listen to this and Madara's speech over and over again without getting bored
“I’m grateful for everything that lead me to this point and to you” ❤️
You don't understand how sad I was when this happened 😭
I think it’s an end fits a great fighter like netro he managed to defeat two of the royal guards and the king
This title made me laugh.
I'm such a bad person lmfao.
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This is how you make humans terrifying, not pollution or climate change, but the human capacity for love and hate
Nah, it's the morality, Who replaced with self-preservation instinct, use to Wish the worse evilness thing to their follow men like extincion, believing gods. Humans with have empathy and compassion with other species, but with their similar, they are cruel and evil.
1:18 was so hilarious, remind me of everything time I play chess against my old man
To think the only thing that could beat merum was a bomb and the after affects of the bomb
And the king learned that day that no matter how strong the ants evolved, in the end humanity would always survive, because humans are the most ruthless f...ed up species ever, with infinite potential for evolution and equal potential for malice.
Well, pretty much! Hahaha.
The fact that this is true says a lot about us and the writers of the show understanding this
Well the ants were not saints.
"Killing you was the point.
Living through it was just a luxury."
- Trevor Belmont, Castlevania Season 1.
"If there is a hell, I'll see you there"
-guy who uses the Buddha and prays daily
To be fair this wasn’t a man trying to avoid the suffering of life but instead wished to indulge in the chaos of combat.
For all of his devotion and dedication he worshiped the art of violence.
child : beats stage 2 cancer
*enter kevdog
moral of the story: A god can be as evil as a demon, no matter how much he smiles
Can you elaborate? you have peaked my curiosity.
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@Man of World yeeeah sure you are but NASA is not that impressive any more now that the space program got canned, and I don't have anything worth hacking so leave me alone, be respectful please
when he stabbed his own chest then the quiet guitar started playing to the beat of his heart God damn is this whole scene perfect
Thank you so very much for the dub.
Bruh I spoiled myself but I aint even mad. I’m just more hyped.
Literally old man with a children’s t-Shirt exploding
Suicide bombing to kill a single person part too
The narrator: 🗣️🗣️ 🔥🔥
Its was checkmate the second Meruem intended to dominate the human race.
Netero goes boom boom
“You know nothing of the bottomless malice within the human heart” that line was a BAR
Hunter x Hunter Powerscaling returns to reality
Normal Person
Netero fuucking detonating a nuke
Dub Meruem: *Casualy talking* Understandable, have a great day
All of the build up to Meruem realizing what’s happening as the brass instruments swell in the background and he calmly says “from the very beginning checkmate was yours”…this whole scene gives me chills
If you have to pick one or the other, Malice is the right way to go. They could have done a combination like, "Ant king, did you know humanity's evolution is infinite when motivated by malice?" or "Ant king, did you know the malice that lives within humans is why we evolve?". Something along those lines. Given the double meaning, a translation that used both evolution and malice would have captured Togashi's intent better imo.
Togashi used malice, with one or two different words that are just different words and mean the same
@@FffFff-qr9xs Togashi used both 悪意, which is literally malice, and an accompanying 進化, which is evolution, seen in the manga. What is said in the original Japanese is "shinka", the pronunciation of "evolution", but he ties both terms together. Humanity evolves quickly to propel forward, like with scientific advancement and the Industrial Revolution. With those also comes the creation of technologies meant to kill massive numbers of people in the quickest amount of time. As humanity evolves further and quicker, they also gain new modes to inflict pain and suffering (malice) on everything around them that's perceived as a threat.
Meruem: Ah yes, I was Fucked from the very beginning (proceeds to get Nuked)
That was the intimidation of humanities total and distilled malice that only comes after ever escalating centuries of cruel seizures and Hatred-fueled retaliation. Cycled over and over: evolving our capabilities each and every time until we destroyed the very foundations of reality the atom… whatever it took to win, to make them pay for all they’ve done, to make anyone else who dared to think twice before sending more of our people to die or threaten my life my wealth! And the sick but addictive Catharsis of being successful at it. Dominance either for selfish conquest or to defend and make way for a selfless nation it didn’t matter; it was all aimed at one insignificant bug. It’s unfair that we had such a head start but you know life isn’t fair unless we decide and at that moments we decided to make life as hellish as possible for that idiot who threatened everyone. All or nothing was the term the king set the game too. Not our fault he Lost. Humanities done it all before and honed itself against its self for centuries. The torture to get the needed Intel, the enslaved to feed the war machines, the conniving of engineers and generals and politicians, multiplied by both sides hating the other enough to want to do even more to their enemies. Whatever moral side one claimed, few if any could honestly say they didn’t HATE those who stood in their way or threatened their loved ones. Their results spoke for themselves. After we get violated it’s only natural to want see the abuser in total agony. We suffered all of that to make this much progress and now some new kid on the block wants to rip that all away? All of that Hate was what I think was being focused at Marowin. By Marowin threatening the species as a whole, he earned ire of the selfish and selfless alike multiplied by the millions by the nen of all of our ingrained living propensity for it and our ancestor’s cursing his name for daring to destroy everything they worked and suffered and died to achieve. That was what made the king feel fear. That incarnate was what ultimately killed him. That weather we like it or not was what ultimately saved us from extinction. Well that arms race and the love and desires to want to defend it and to work together when it truly counted (against a common enemy).
“You know nothing of the bottomless malice within the human heart”😈
it honest about what humanity's greatest strength is
Other animes/mangas would have some long speech as the old man thought about his past and his pupils and the people he loved, talking about how he was sacrificing himself for them while dying with a gentle smile and sad music playing.
Then there's Hunter X Hunter. A monster disguised as an old man, whose only interest is defeating his opponent by any means. His death isn't a noble sacrifice. His death is just something that feels so easy to him because his years of devoting himself to this kind of thing has made him indifferent to his own death. And it's not through skill or the power of love or friendship or courage that wins the battle, but the unending malice and destructive potential of humans.
He said this in the manga, which is the source material; this is the canon one lol
The fact that Netero mentioned the malice of the human heart while having a miniature nuke inside of his is both poetic as it is ironic.
Reminded me of a D&D post I read a long time ago.
DM: Ok your attack is going to take out this guy, this guy, this guy, that guy, aaaaand...Yourself.
Player: Yup.
DM: Any particular reason why you're ok with that?
Player: SPITE.
That guitar riff. I have to learn it.
1:02
The look on Meruem’s face still makes the hair on my neck stand on end
Meruem watching as Netero stabs his own heart (he’s cooked)
@Harry-lolhunter x hunter
What elemental battle grounds be like when a fire user uses hells core be like:
*"Just then, the king felt true fear for the first time..."*
Man that narrator is a BEAST THE WAY HE HAS WITH WORDS IS UNMATCHED
It's crazy how as soon as Netero came into contact with Meruem he had already won, all the rest was him trying to take the less human lives along with him
The Narrator rocked the show
Now that's a bug bomb
oh my god finally someone has posted the full explosion
thank u
Netero is just a GOD facts PERIOD.
One moment, I’ll always remember from this anime.
0:26 POV: You dont feel your phone in your pocket
I just realized the narrators voice in the dub has to be the same narrator as the one from the game crackdown
the narrator really cooked
One of my most favourite parts in any anime this is deep af
The dub narrator is so dope
The narrator will always be the best hxh character
Such beautiful democracy
Lol, imagine he had somehow managed to defeat Meruem and then forgot to have the bomb taken out.
Would loved a plot twist of the king being in a comatose state then evolving
Kills a baby ant with an atomic bomb, while proclaiming human superiority.
Didnt even know hxh was on adult swim omg
The narrator in Dub is really good 🔥
Bro endured godlike techniques with ease, but still dies from a nuke.
All the spiritualism in the world can’t endure mans ability to be cruel.
radiation is as fast as light, he was never getting away unscathed.
That scene was just too powerfull !
Jo guys, I just wanna mention the spiritual content Togashi is showing here. We know already the many buddhist "easter eggs" that togashi puts all over HxH. He wants to show netero as a Enlightement beeing here. Siddharta Gautama or the Buddha thaught that you can't find a I, that everything changes and that everything you are right now will change completly ( at least when you die) Thats why the one who is Enlightement is in a state of complete selflessness (the word itslef literaly explains it) and compassion. Netero goes to a battle where He knows he will die fights as long as he can than sacrifices himself literally saying i meet you in hell if there is one that means he doesn't give a fuck about his fate.
Idk but netero rlly do be looking scary and like a meme both
Me : building a dirt house in Minecraft
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The dub narrator is more epic in dub ngl
The narrator kinda reminds me of the narrator from DBZ but he talks way more.