It’s funny how Meruem always says that he won’t repeat himself but actually ends up repeating himself many times throughout the story especially during the scene when he succumbed to the effects of the Rose.
Chimera Ant is such a robust and tight bundle of themes and symbols. All these years later, the depth of it still blows my mind. Thanks for yet another wonderful tribute to one of the most resplendent and complete stories out there.
was expecting someone to explain something and instead got one of the best hxh videos/edits ive ever seen, i didnt think the gungi had this much symbolism for the story. great job
I actually shed a tear. No joke. This has to be one of the best gems I've ever seen, and it kinda sucks that it's not higher on views. At first, I actually thought it was goinf to be a brief explanation, but then I was shocked by this masterpiece instead
nice vid. I really liked the "Dont make me repeat myself / I'll repeat it as many times as needed" part and the scene with the wolf leading into the "bliss". thx!
Oh gosh yeah, I was making this and all of a sudden I saw a yt short that explained that one and I just had to find a way to incorporate it. Thank you :D
Holy crap dude you are so amazing I always thought that gungi was just to show the relationship of meruem and komugi but it actually had some lore oh my goodness you are so amazing with your editing skills
Togashi is a next-level writer. I think he nurtured a 'Fledgling Artist' card from Greed Island. I mean seriously. He made his own alphabet, a complex card game, and then he just goes and makes 3d shogi then relates it to the events of the latter half of the arc. We may never see another like him.
Not to say something hyperbolic, but I swear this video has changed how I view stories straight up. I like to pick up on narrative or thematic resonances in a story and this video visualizes that resonance in an evoking way. I was re-watching Kaguya-Sama after having finished reading the manga and I swear I started to get flashes of future and past scenes in my head like they show up in this video lolol
Damn, that's high praise!! Thank you so much! It's hard to look at stories that way and even harder to write them o.o But I'm very humbled to hear that this had such an effect on you! Thanks :D
This is genuinely one of the best thing I've ever watched. Your choice of montage for "she reversed my reversal?" in 6:01-6:03 was pure genius and I never thought those kanji could be broken down like that. Thank you for making and uploading this!
You're welcome! A lot of these really came together in the edit! It also kept getting longer and longer the more I worked on it. It was supposed to be 4 minutes at first conception XD Hope you like my newest one too!
This is so insane I can't believe it only has 20k views. You have hit the nail on the head for so many through lines in this arc, making the gungi scenes far more impactful than I ever thought they were. I always assumed it was just a plot device to change merum and introduce komugi, but little did I know there was meaning to each match the whole time.
Yeah the views are slow on this one, but I made another video comparing Gon and Meruem too that's doing even less, but I'm not less proud of that one! Thank you for the compliments :D
such poetry. beautifully put together edit: wow, I was like " this reminds me of the visual poetry in eva video" and I checked your channel and you are indeed the same person lmao
This is an amazing summary of the arc! I especially loved how at the end you showed the chinese characters and that they differ only by human / insect radicals! Overlaying the last conversation between Meruem and Komugi over that was insane, loved the execution of the video. This should blow up more for real.
Thank you so much :D the whole Chinese character part really felt like the embodiment of what the arc was about, so for me there was no other place where that could to go, but the end :b
genuinely and without exaggeration one of the best videos ive ever fucking seen dude, the way this is edited feels like it could be a blu ray extra or some shit. feels like it has a similar level of passion towards hxh asa the anime adaptation itself. it truly feels like it could not be any better, thank you so much for this I love the gon and meruem one you more recently uploaded too
Thank you so much!! :D I really appreciate that! I do have another video called "Parallel Lines Never Meet ~ Gon & Meruem" that delves deeper into the similarities between the ants and the humans, that the algorithm doesn't like as much as this one haha. I'm equally proud of that one!
this is one of the most beautifully put together videos I've ever seen on this website. your ability to say so much without needing to add one word of explanation is so truly impressive. thank you.
My favorite part was the montage of Gon's group winning and the king saying checkmate each time. Something about the way you edited it really tickled my brain
Yeah that one really came during the making of this. Technically the times Meruem lost at Gungi can also be compared to Gon's losing to Knuckle (I made a video with that in it on my channel too, called "Parallel Lines Never Meet" which is something I'm equally proud of :b
Duuuude what the actual hell I legit looove this and I also HATE how it hasn't blown up yet 4.4k is such a sad crime you're honestly a brilliant visionary. This was an absolute pleasure to watch it was both lovely to witness and blew my mind a lil so thank you for this ❤️
I'm still left wondering if there's any significance to the pieces used beyond marshal (king). Does spy represent Kumogi? Do they perchance move in a way that's similar to her? Also my Japanese knowledge is limited but aren't shinobis ninjas? I just finished episode 135 and I knew there had to be some symbolism in there since the writing in this story was brilliant and they allotted a substantial amount of screen time for these moves, so it just left me with this curiousity which you've most graciously fullfilled. Now all that's lingering is the names of the pieces 🫠
@@AAAEA010 The Spy definitely represents Komugi. That's what the cuts at 5:04 are about. Welfin says "Komugi" and you see the Spy chess piece (which I translated on screen for clarity ;) ). The 'spy' translation comes either from the manga source I read or the anime source I watched, not 100% sure. But the idea is that she wiggled her way into the battle and defeated his ant side and embraced his human side. Shinobi apparently literally means 'one who sneaks'. But I guess Spy could've been an Americanization to make it more clear? Not sure :o Also the part where "The Spy has done nothing this entire game and now controls the board" was taken from an earlier episode, but it's definitely linking to the fact that Komugi has been doing nothing but play board games, and all of a sudden she has taken the King's heart and basically 'defeated' him, while not having any offensive powers at all. The names of the other pieces are also kind of interesting, but the links aren't that clear. For example there is a New Bow/New Archer used in the same episode that gives Cheetuh a a crossbow. Probably intentional, but I most of these aren't one to one, and I doubt it needs to be. Just like how Gon and Meruem have extremely similar sitting poses it isn't in our face, because we RARELY get the same camera angle of them sitting (I think that's the same in the manga). Most of these symbolic meanings aren't pushed in our face and are really kinda obfuscated. It's a little imperfect, but I guess that gives more room for more interesting interpretations. Thanks though!! It's also hard to break through with videos XD At least my Palace Invasion in Real Time blows up every once in a while :b
@@Dougurasufilm yeah I had an inkling that she was being referred to as the spy but it just felt weird and a word that doesn't fit her innocence I guess y'know? I agree that not everything needs to be a one-to-one comparison but once again the way you've explained the spy really put things in perspective for me for the second time, I like you 🤚
Dude I can’t help but notice how professional-like the clips were put up, along with the hxh ost this really felt like a scene from the anime itself or an official extra/blooper
i am in awe that i have never seen this before. genuinely bawled my eyes out at this. what a phenomenal, phenomenal tribute to one of the greatest works of fiction. absolutely incredible work
I knew that Meruem isolating himself was parallelled with kokoriko, but there were so many foreshadowings that I didn't even pick up. thank you so much for making this, you've changed my life
What makes your AMVs a step up from all others I've seen is the way they give viewers further insight and understanding for their respective series. You never ever miss.
That really is my leading mission o.o There is so much information out there that is conveyed in just someone talking over images of the anime in question. But it's way more interesting to let someone watch something and make the connection themselves. Of course with my edits I'm making the connections more obvious, but the realisation how some things were set up in the anime do come from the viewer. And also I like people to engage with the video on a meta level. Like stop and rewind, go through things frame by frame, make them active watchers instead of passive ones.
I loved the previous title, ngl but man, I still come back to this video every month. Much love, bro, and I'm going to recommend this video to everyone I can ❤
@@randomname1234-n6k oh just Premiere? I didn't really do anything super fancy :o In this video the shot at 3:40 I made using Blender and After Effects to explicitely show Meruem changing color for his games against Komugi after recovering his memories. I did the text changing in the end in After Effects.
I'm crying once again after so many times for this arc :) Thank you so much for your amazing work. I knew that Gungi related to fighting strategy but it was too difficult for me to understand until this video showed up. Thanks a lottt!!!!
I couldn't believe how this masterpiece would be greater and you just did it. What a piece of art ur editing skills. NGL, you made an excellent work worthy of Grammy. Sir, absolutely flawless. This is art!
beautiful video! I miss meruem and komugi story! I wish that I could go back in time when I first saw the entire Chimera Ant Arc. have to rewatch again because of your video. feels man! I shed a tear😢
it turns out oh it turns out the whole fight has been explained through gungi Your video is amazing bro, how can you understand it, I didn't even realize it myself
Well not gonna lie, when I watched it for the first time I only like... scraped the iceberg. I was like some of that could be... metaphorical. But didn't really pay that much attention to it, until I saw other videos about that. So at some point I just found as much videos about this as possible, of people finding this stuff, and some of the symbolism I realized myself (like the beginning with the heroes beating so many of the ants or Netero asking the King's name and Komugi's hesitation and then striking). So in short, lotta research on other people's findings, adding some of my own and then in the end trying to think of a way for this all to make sense visually in one edit :)
@@Dougurasufilm Wow remarkable Thank you bro for helping explain other interesting things about H x H. You research by combining everything in 1 edit is awesome and reveals another side of this anime that not everyone is aware of
"the spy has done nothing this entire match... But suddernly, it controls the board." what if i cried? what if i broke down screaming and crying and it was all this stupid shows fault?
It was rewatching the series that I realized about this. They show you a game that it's about creating a strategy to defeat the king. It's a beautiful metaphor
What an insane video… It boggles my mind how one single man can come up with a story like this. I now know why Togashi suffers from back pain… it’s because his spine got worn out by carrying this enormous brain every day
Thank you! I'm always critical of myself, so i feel like some things could've been done better. Like the first shot that compares Gon's and Meruem's sitting pose, I feel like that could've been done better, but I couldn't figure out how. As for Gon-Pitou... no, I mean not really. I really would like to make something about Attack on Titan and how everytime Eren breaks out of a cage there's a whole new cage until he finally finds out he's in the biggest cage of them all, fate and time itself, a future that he cannot change. But they really need to finish AoT for that o.o And I need to rewatch all of it. I think there are many levels of cages present in his life that he breaks through and I think that would be an interesting video... but we'll have to see.
@@Dougurasufilm Being critical of yourself is what allows you to make videos like these (better than other people's). The fact that they sit the same way is interesting but I think the strange thing is the fact that Gon no longer appears before or after; it seems out of place. Regarding Gon-Pitou, in the manga there is a scene that made me think of symbolism ie: At the beginning of the story Gon enters the forest and the mother bear, in order to defend the cub, attacks him but Kite kills the mother bear by cutting off her head and wants to kill the cub too, but Gon intervenes and makes sure that the cub is saved (he feels sorry for him). If Kite and Gon are considered as one person, it could be compared to Pitou, then: the mother bear (Kite) to defend the cub (Gon) fights with Kite (Pitou), but Kite (Pitou) cuts off his head. Kite (Pitou's rational part) would like to kill Gon to defend the king but at the same time Gon (Pitou's sentimental part) is sorry. This symbolism is strange but I like it because it originates at the beginning of the story. However, I'm sure the one on AoT will be good too.
@@robbe1534 that sounds like not a lot to base a video on though. Also I think the similarities between Gon and Meruem are bigger. They are sitting the same way so the audience knows to compare them. Meruem for example is turning more like a person near the end while Gon descends into darkness and becomes perhaps more like an ant (or at lesat more evil and callous). When Netero says "He's wavering" in my video he's talking about both Meruem and Gon. Meruem's change of side or change in alignment is also signaled by him beginning the story using black Gungi pieces and after his revival using white Gungi pieces (which I tried to make clear halfway the video with the piece that turns from black to white, immediately followed by a close up of Meruem using a white piece). Anyway. I might one day come back to Hunter x Hunter, but I don't think Pitou-Gon has enough meat on the bone to make a video about.
@@Dougurasufilm I agree about the similarities between Gon and Meruem, but I still think that in the video of Komugi and Meruem are a bit out of place (Gon is stopped by Killua otherwise he would not have wavered with Komugi and Pitou). It's also true that there isn't much about Gon and Pitou. Honestly, I don't like AoT but maybe with your video I will appreciate it more.
@@robbe1534 what do you mean you still think? :o you started off saying you didn't know how it could've been done better? I was the one saying I wasn't completely happy with it XD But the comparison is still relevant I think. While Gon is descending, Meruem is rising and that is a big theme of the whole arc. Who are actually the bad guys etc? I felt that parallel was important to this video.
The most important theme in the chimera ant arc, in my opinion, was "what is humanity and what makes someone a monster?" With every step, Meruem and Gon slowly cross the line in oopposite directions over the course of the arc. This of course makes the arc a bit of a palindrome with the two biggest tragedies in the arc happening at the beginning and end of the arc. Those being the death of Kite and Meruem. I can't help but wonder what Meruem would have become and been able to do for the world if his humanity and sympaty had been allowed to fully blossom, but unfortunately, this was the best possible ending thematically. This question will have to be answered through the survivng chimera ants.
Does anyone remember which episode was she said "I came up with that move kokoriko" (amazing exlanation btw. at first time I watch the anime, I didn't connect dots. My eye opener was Gon/Meruem and Killua/Pitou paralels.You nailed this video)
i hope you never think that you don't have an extremely special talent for this
Damn, thank you! :ooo
The "Do not make me repeat myself" into "I will say it as many times as needed" hit different.
@@ORHDYT yeahhh finding that out hit like a ton of bricks
It’s funny how Meruem always says that he won’t repeat himself but actually ends up repeating himself many times throughout the story especially during the scene when he succumbed to the effects of the Rose.
@@unknown.1043 Yeah, I think that's very intentional :o
Chimera Ant is such a robust and tight bundle of themes and symbols. All these years later, the depth of it still blows my mind. Thanks for yet another wonderful tribute to one of the most resplendent and complete stories out there.
Agreed! Togashi almost never disappoints :D
@@Dougurasufilmthe only disappointment is the breaks! Can't be helped with his health though
You didn't record a word yourself and yet this is one of the best video essays on this site
was expecting someone to explain something and instead got one of the best hxh videos/edits ive ever seen, i didnt think the gungi had this much symbolism for the story. great job
@@jaw9095 yeah I like it if the shows talk for themselves rather than explaining things ;)
I actually shed a tear. No joke. This has to be one of the best gems I've ever seen, and it kinda sucks that it's not higher on views. At first, I actually thought it was goinf to be a brief explanation, but then I was shocked by this masterpiece instead
Haha that's how I lull everyone into a false sense of security ;) No but holy shit, thank you so much! Thankful to be able to move people like this!
nice vid. I really liked the "Dont make me repeat myself / I'll repeat it as many times as needed" part and the scene with the wolf leading into the "bliss". thx!
Oh gosh yeah, I was making this and all of a sudden I saw a yt short that explained that one and I just had to find a way to incorporate it. Thank you :D
Holy crap dude you are so amazing I always thought that gungi was just to show the relationship of meruem and komugi but it actually had some lore oh my goodness you are so amazing with your editing skills
Thank you so much :D always glad to be able to enrich someone's world c:
Togashi is a next-level writer. I think he nurtured a 'Fledgling Artist' card from Greed Island. I mean seriously. He made his own alphabet, a complex card game, and then he just goes and makes 3d shogi then relates it to the events of the latter half of the arc. We may never see another like him.
That was amazing, incredible how you managed to reframe this arc through the lens of gungi so well.
Thank you! :D
Not to say something hyperbolic, but I swear this video has changed how I view stories straight up. I like to pick up on narrative or thematic resonances in a story and this video visualizes that resonance in an evoking way. I was re-watching Kaguya-Sama after having finished reading the manga and I swear I started to get flashes of future and past scenes in my head like they show up in this video lolol
Damn, that's high praise!! Thank you so much! It's hard to look at stories that way and even harder to write them o.o But I'm very humbled to hear that this had such an effect on you! Thanks :D
Thanks for this incredible video man. I have gained a whole new appreciation for his incredible series.
Thank you :D the show is full of things like this :o but Togashi has made it pretty difficult to find it :D
A chess game can feel as real as life and death. These two shared many lifetimes of divine experiences with eachother
This is genuinely one of the best thing I've ever watched. Your choice of montage for "she reversed my reversal?" in 6:01-6:03 was pure genius and I never thought those kanji could be broken down like that. Thank you for making and uploading this!
You're welcome! A lot of these really came together in the edit! It also kept getting longer and longer the more I worked on it. It was supposed to be 4 minutes at first conception XD Hope you like my newest one too!
I teared up while watching this.
Great stuff man.
Awww thanks man!
This is so insane I can't believe it only has 20k views. You have hit the nail on the head for so many through lines in this arc, making the gungi scenes far more impactful than I ever thought they were. I always assumed it was just a plot device to change merum and introduce komugi, but little did I know there was meaning to each match the whole time.
Yeah the views are slow on this one, but I made another video comparing Gon and Meruem too that's doing even less, but I'm not less proud of that one! Thank you for the compliments :D
such poetry. beautifully put together
edit: wow, I was like " this reminds me of the visual poetry in eva video" and I checked your channel and you are indeed the same person lmao
Haha wow, that’s kinda funny :b indeed, it’s the kind of video I like to make :b
I cried so hard at the end of this arc years ago and I never fully understood why at the time. Now having watched this, I finally get it! Thank you!!!
Awww thank you su much 🙏
This is an amazing summary of the arc! I especially loved how at the end you showed the chinese characters and that they differ only by human / insect radicals! Overlaying the last conversation between Meruem and Komugi over that was insane, loved the execution of the video. This should blow up more for real.
Thank you so much :D the whole Chinese character part really felt like the embodiment of what the arc was about, so for me there was no other place where that could to go, but the end :b
Genuinely the best analysis I’ve ever seen of this arc. Your editing made me tear up dude.
Thank you so much! I'm honoured to hear that!
genuinely and without exaggeration one of the best videos ive ever fucking seen dude, the way this is edited feels like it could be a blu ray extra or some shit. feels like it has a similar level of passion towards hxh asa the anime adaptation itself. it truly feels like it could not be any better, thank you so much for this
I love the gon and meruem one you more recently uploaded too
Thank you so much!! :D I really appreciate that! I do have another video called "Parallel Lines Never Meet ~ Gon & Meruem" that delves deeper into the similarities between the ants and the humans, that the algorithm doesn't like as much as this one haha. I'm equally proud of that one!
Came from reddit, this was GOOD SHIT
Thank you :D :D
This is like... godly levels of editing
I am humbled!
this is one of the most beautifully put together videos I've ever seen on this website. your ability to say so much without needing to add one word of explanation is so truly impressive. thank you.
Thank you! It does help that so many people have said so much on this topic. This for sure is a product of many people's research.
My favorite part was the montage of Gon's group winning and the king saying checkmate each time. Something about the way you edited it really tickled my brain
Yeah that one really came during the making of this. Technically the times Meruem lost at Gungi can also be compared to Gon's losing to Knuckle (I made a video with that in it on my channel too, called "Parallel Lines Never Meet" which is something I'm equally proud of :b
Dougurasufilm knocks it out of the park once again! These videos are gifts. ✊🏼
Thank you!! ❤
This is absolutely INSANE work. I'm actually tearing up. Wonderfully made
Aww thank you so much!!
Duuuude what the actual hell I legit looove this and I also HATE how it hasn't blown up yet 4.4k is such a sad crime you're honestly a brilliant visionary. This was an absolute pleasure to watch it was both lovely to witness and blew my mind a lil so thank you for this ❤️
I'm still left wondering if there's any significance to the pieces used beyond marshal (king). Does spy represent Kumogi? Do they perchance move in a way that's similar to her? Also my Japanese knowledge is limited but aren't shinobis ninjas? I just finished episode 135 and I knew there had to be some symbolism in there since the writing in this story was brilliant and they allotted a substantial amount of screen time for these moves, so it just left me with this curiousity which you've most graciously fullfilled. Now all that's lingering is the names of the pieces 🫠
@@AAAEA010 The Spy definitely represents Komugi. That's what the cuts at 5:04 are about. Welfin says "Komugi" and you see the Spy chess piece (which I translated on screen for clarity ;) ). The 'spy' translation comes either from the manga source I read or the anime source I watched, not 100% sure. But the idea is that she wiggled her way into the battle and defeated his ant side and embraced his human side. Shinobi apparently literally means 'one who sneaks'. But I guess Spy could've been an Americanization to make it more clear? Not sure :o Also the part where "The Spy has done nothing this entire game and now controls the board" was taken from an earlier episode, but it's definitely linking to the fact that Komugi has been doing nothing but play board games, and all of a sudden she has taken the King's heart and basically 'defeated' him, while not having any offensive powers at all.
The names of the other pieces are also kind of interesting, but the links aren't that clear. For example there is a New Bow/New Archer used in the same episode that gives Cheetuh a a crossbow. Probably intentional, but I most of these aren't one to one, and I doubt it needs to be. Just like how Gon and Meruem have extremely similar sitting poses it isn't in our face, because we RARELY get the same camera angle of them sitting (I think that's the same in the manga). Most of these symbolic meanings aren't pushed in our face and are really kinda obfuscated. It's a little imperfect, but I guess that gives more room for more interesting interpretations.
Thanks though!! It's also hard to break through with videos XD At least my Palace Invasion in Real Time blows up every once in a while :b
@@Dougurasufilm yeah I had an inkling that she was being referred to as the spy but it just felt weird and a word that doesn't fit her innocence I guess y'know? I agree that not everything needs to be a one-to-one comparison but once again the way you've explained the spy really put things in perspective for me for the second time, I like you 🤚
@@AAAEA010 no prob :D
Ooooh my God!!!! What the F?????....this is PERFECT!!!! Thank you so much!! You brought that HxH thrill to me I missed it so much..really thank you!!!
No problem :D :D thank you for liking it!
Dude I can’t help but notice how professional-like the clips were put up, along with the hxh ost this really felt like a scene from the anime itself or an official extra/blooper
Haha, it helps that I AM a professional editor ;) Thank you very much :D
Mate this video is a hidden gem , i need to send this to all my friends and family and obligated then to watch.
@@mexlilaofoda8864 thank you :D
i am in awe that i have never seen this before. genuinely bawled my eyes out at this. what a phenomenal, phenomenal tribute to one of the greatest works of fiction. absolutely incredible work
@@turquoise7817 Thank you so much! I also have a newer video that is as much a gutpunch as this one is touching.
This video is a genuine work of art thank you
@@BSizzle26 absolutely no problem, thank you!
I knew that Meruem isolating himself was parallelled with kokoriko, but there were so many foreshadowings that I didn't even pick up. thank you so much for making this, you've changed my life
Wow, changed your life even :ooo thanks :D
Amazing video. I cried a little in the end. I didn't know the japanese spelling difference between Gungi and Ant is so simbolic.
What makes your AMVs a step up from all others I've seen is the way they give viewers further insight and understanding for their respective series. You never ever miss.
That really is my leading mission o.o There is so much information out there that is conveyed in just someone talking over images of the anime in question. But it's way more interesting to let someone watch something and make the connection themselves. Of course with my edits I'm making the connections more obvious, but the realisation how some things were set up in the anime do come from the viewer.
And also I like people to engage with the video on a meta level. Like stop and rewind, go through things frame by frame, make them active watchers instead of passive ones.
I loved the previous title, ngl but man, I still come back to this video every month. Much love, bro, and I'm going to recommend this video to everyone I can ❤
Thank you so much :D
This was incredible, damn
The part where he says don’t make me repeat myself also give me goosebumps
Haha thanks :D
You're the best editor in the history of editors 😭
@@darkinit that’s goshdarn high praise! Hopefully my next video is worthy od that title :D
One of the best videos ive ever seen, thank you for making this for one of my favourite arcs ever❤
Oh no problem! Loved working on this one! Did you check my other one comparing Gon and Meruem too?
@@Dougurasufilm i did now yes, im also wondering what editing software you use to create amazing stuff like this?
@@randomname1234-n6k oh just Premiere? I didn't really do anything super fancy :o In this video the shot at 3:40 I made using Blender and After Effects to explicitely show Meruem changing color for his games against Komugi after recovering his memories. I did the text changing in the end in After Effects.
I'm crying once again after so many times for this arc :) Thank you so much for your amazing work. I knew that Gungi related to fighting strategy but it was too difficult for me to understand until this video showed up. Thanks a lottt!!!!
Aww, you’re welcome :D
This needs to blow up
It is slowly I’m happy to say :)
This is phenomenal. What a shame it didn't make it to the finals, let alone first place. I love your style of showcasing motifs.
It's a shame it was disqualified for not being an AMV. But I do understand that decision. Thank you!
Wow, u did a masterpiece. Really grateful to had found ur video ❤
Thank you! Please check the newer video I made of HxH too! Put a lot of love and effort in that one as well.
First, so that nobody has to do this.
Nice video bro, I understood a lot of subtle things present in this arc, simply incredible
OMG IT IS THE MOST PERFECT VIDEO I EVER SAW, you are so incredible with u work of art love it
Amazing. You just summed It so well. It's beautiful.
Thank you!
My mouth was agape the entire video from 1:52 and so forth, holy heck, amazing job!
Thanks :D
The best video I've seen in recent years on Hunter and anime. Thanks for your hard work!
Thank you so much :D
I couldn't believe how this masterpiece would be greater and you just did it. What a piece of art ur editing skills. NGL, you made an excellent work worthy of Grammy. Sir, absolutely flawless. This is art!
Thanks so much :D
You're a smart fella, dear god that such was a good video, no words needed
Thanks, but it's also a collection from other people who did a lot of research! Please check the end credits for my sources!
Damn so beautiful.. am speechless rn... great work!!
Thank you!! :D
actually insane. amazing job man
beautiful video! I miss meruem and komugi story! I wish that I could go back in time when I first saw the entire Chimera Ant Arc. have to rewatch again because of your video. feels man! I shed a tear😢
Just rewatched hxh and I can say that by far the Chimera Ant Arc is and will always be my favorite. This video displays exactly why I feel that way
Awesome! I recently made another videoe about the Chimera Ant Arc if you liked this one :D
this was actually super beatifull congrations my firend
Thank you :D :D
thanks for the amazing video imma watch this again because why not
I watch this video every day
@@brunogabrielaraujosilva9410 thank you for the views 🙏 i don’t monetize tho 😅
This needs more views broooo
@@logandorn5973 thank you! 🙏
you have both helped me understand something i didn't and make me cry at the same time
very well done
that was truly spectacular and im overjoyed to have watched it
Thank you! :D
What a beautiful video! Thank you for this!
My god who are you and where did you come from 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 this is invaluable and priceless. Thank you 🎉
it turns out oh it turns out the whole fight has been explained through gungi Your video is amazing bro, how can you understand it, I didn't even realize it myself
Well not gonna lie, when I watched it for the first time I only like... scraped the iceberg. I was like some of that could be... metaphorical. But didn't really pay that much attention to it, until I saw other videos about that. So at some point I just found as much videos about this as possible, of people finding this stuff, and some of the symbolism I realized myself (like the beginning with the heroes beating so many of the ants or Netero asking the King's name and Komugi's hesitation and then striking).
So in short, lotta research on other people's findings, adding some of my own and then in the end trying to think of a way for this all to make sense visually in one edit :)
@@Dougurasufilm
Wow remarkable
Thank you bro for helping explain other interesting things about H x H.
You research by combining everything in 1 edit is awesome and reveals another side of this anime that not everyone is aware of
didnt expect to cry wtf
You're welcome c:
Yeah I cried. This is amazing. Love ya
@@Turahk thank you!
This video is beautiful
Phenomenal as always
Thank you! ❤
I gotta watch hxh again
A masterpiece
"the spy has done nothing this entire match... But suddernly, it controls the board."
what if i cried?
what if i broke down screaming and crying and it was all this stupid shows fault?
Amazing video.
@@Aiseru_ thank you! I also just made another one for HxH!
This is soo amazing!!! 😭😭
Oh wow! I'm not a hunter x hunter anime fan but this was beautiful. This is so underrated.
I can't believe I just saw this... Am I allowed to be so happy??
4.8k views? Just fucking how? this needs 4.8 million views.
Wow, effin masterful edit
Why thank you :D
It was rewatching the series that I realized about this. They show you a game that it's about creating a strategy to defeat the king. It's a beautiful metaphor
What an insane video…
It boggles my mind how one single man can come up with a story like this.
I now know why Togashi suffers from back pain… it’s because his spine got worn out by carrying this enormous brain every day
This is not even half of the symbolism in this arc :o it has many themes and arcs interwoven into one amazing, beautiful story.
Good editing, I don't know how it could have been done better.
Do you happen to have a video in mind about Gon-Pitou as well?
Thank you! I'm always critical of myself, so i feel like some things could've been done better. Like the first shot that compares Gon's and Meruem's sitting pose, I feel like that could've been done better, but I couldn't figure out how.
As for Gon-Pitou... no, I mean not really. I really would like to make something about Attack on Titan and how everytime Eren breaks out of a cage there's a whole new cage until he finally finds out he's in the biggest cage of them all, fate and time itself, a future that he cannot change. But they really need to finish AoT for that o.o And I need to rewatch all of it.
I think there are many levels of cages present in his life that he breaks through and I think that would be an interesting video... but we'll have to see.
@@Dougurasufilm Being critical of yourself is what allows you to make videos like these (better than other people's).
The fact that they sit the same way is interesting but I think the strange thing is the fact that Gon no longer appears before or after; it seems out of place.
Regarding Gon-Pitou, in the manga there is a scene that made me think of symbolism ie:
At the beginning of the story Gon enters the forest and the mother bear, in order to defend the cub, attacks him but Kite kills the mother bear by cutting off her head and wants to kill the cub too, but Gon intervenes and makes sure that the cub is saved (he feels sorry for him).
If Kite and Gon are considered as one person, it could be compared to Pitou, then:
the mother bear (Kite) to defend the cub (Gon) fights with Kite (Pitou), but Kite (Pitou) cuts off his head. Kite (Pitou's rational part) would like to kill Gon to defend the king but at the same time Gon (Pitou's sentimental part) is sorry.
This symbolism is strange but I like it because it originates at the beginning of the story.
However, I'm sure the one on AoT will be good too.
@@robbe1534 that sounds like not a lot to base a video on though. Also I think the similarities between Gon and Meruem are bigger. They are sitting the same way so the audience knows to compare them. Meruem for example is turning more like a person near the end while Gon descends into darkness and becomes perhaps more like an ant (or at lesat more evil and callous).
When Netero says "He's wavering" in my video he's talking about both Meruem and Gon. Meruem's change of side or change in alignment is also signaled by him beginning the story using black Gungi pieces and after his revival using white Gungi pieces (which I tried to make clear halfway the video with the piece that turns from black to white, immediately followed by a close up of Meruem using a white piece).
Anyway. I might one day come back to Hunter x Hunter, but I don't think Pitou-Gon has enough meat on the bone to make a video about.
@@Dougurasufilm I agree about the similarities between Gon and Meruem, but I still think that in the video of Komugi and Meruem are a bit out of place (Gon is stopped by Killua otherwise he would not have wavered with Komugi and Pitou).
It's also true that there isn't much about Gon and Pitou.
Honestly, I don't like AoT but maybe with your video I will appreciate it more.
@@robbe1534 what do you mean you still think? :o you started off saying you didn't know how it could've been done better? I was the one saying I wasn't completely happy with it XD
But the comparison is still relevant I think. While Gon is descending, Meruem is rising and that is a big theme of the whole arc. Who are actually the bad guys etc? I felt that parallel was important to this video.
How does this not have any views Wtf
It was uploaded an hour ago, chill XD
I have no words. 😢
Videos that deserve more recognition😢
Well I wasn’t expecting to cry today
@@juansalazar3381 amazing compliment, thank you so much
The most important theme in the chimera ant arc, in my opinion, was "what is humanity and what makes someone a monster?" With every step, Meruem and Gon slowly cross the line in oopposite directions over the course of the arc. This of course makes the arc a bit of a palindrome with the two biggest tragedies in the arc happening at the beginning and end of the arc. Those being the death of Kite and Meruem. I can't help but wonder what Meruem would have become and been able to do for the world if his humanity and sympaty had been allowed to fully blossom, but unfortunately, this was the best possible ending thematically. This question will have to be answered through the survivng chimera ants.
@@Abicated oh you should definitely check my parallel lines never meet video then! That one focuses more on Gon and Meruem in the way you descibe
My mind is blown at the "イ"& "虫" word play. Not to mention "義" means justice. Togashi does not get enough credit for wonderful storytelling
@@026CSK yeah the word play is insane to me too! How do you come up with that???
Does anyone remember which episode was she said "I came up with that move kokoriko" (amazing exlanation btw. at first time I watch the anime, I didn't connect dots. My eye opener was Gon/Meruem and Killua/Pitou paralels.You nailed this video)
Yo this is sooo underrated
Bro is a fuking genius story teller wtf
Yeah, Togashi is insane!
You have amazing skills
Incredible.
Too good!! 🎉
You are underrated.
Thank you :D
Wow i missed this...
The mother voice give me goosebumps
I almost cried :')
Ohhhhh my god I'm cryingggg
WTF this is so underrated
Thank you :D