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These were my thoughts precisely reading the new chapter. It just keeps getting better and Idk how he does it. This kind of consistency and finesse is so uncommon. The glaze is heavily deserved.
@@griffy6759 Yeah but he also takes ages to release new chapters so he has alot of time to plan and think while other mangakas are way more consistent
Hunter x Hunter has a very sophisticated thesis of “hierarchical society is both only enabled through and constantly mortally threatened with the consequences of its abuse mechanisms” but it also has cool fights with cool magic powers, and that is why it is the greatest work of art of our times.
@@mattitude4464 yeah thath is true tbf, but it still had an preety ligthhearted felling and didint go into super heavy themes, atelast not to the same extent as this arc (or the chimera ant arc before)
@@joelhillbomexcept for Hisoka. I’d say the yorknew city arc is where togashi really started to show what he wanted the stories themes to go, chimera ant arc made it even more clear with the mass child killing happening by the ants, hell one of the first deaths we see with the ants is a kid and his sister, and if you don’t consider that dark just remember how taboo killing (YOUNG)kids is in anime/manga these days, last real example I can think of is the old Devil Man Crybaby where the kid catches a crossbow to the head. And HxH is on shonen, the same publishing company that puts hells paradise on the website because it’s rated “M”.
@@Erodent yeah it def was in those 2 arcs aswell, i was mainly talking about evrything up to heavens arena or so wich aside from some dark moments felt like a pretty fun shonen adventure story, where as this arc fells so much darker and complex by comparison wich i perosnaly like alot more
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd Fake Morena be like, "I CAN HANDLE BEING DP'D BY UGLY MAFIA DUDES, BUT I DRAW THE LINE AT SOMEONE SAYING MELODUSSY. THIS DEGENERACY IS A SIGN THAT THE WORLD SHOULD BE DESTROYED."
Morena is an expertly made character and a great example of a character whose motivations and developed abilities make complete sense to what they’ve gone through. I’m very happy (writing wise although it’s depressing and depraved) that Morena’s reasoning for a goal such as human extinction isn’t brought about by psychotic delusion or some shallow reasoning, but by genuinely seeing the purest utmost depths of human depravity and brutality. I genuinely was just expecting her to be crazy or a figure to incite more action but she’s made herself completely sympathetic probably as a manipulative ploy but also just by hearing her genuine story. The way her ability works makes a lot more sense now given what she’s gone through. The card game feels like the unknown inconsistent consent she’s felt her whole life. With there technically being choices and outs (such as laws in place and hierarchies that don’t outwardly support non-consent) but that like how your cards are randomized, the way the Kakin’s hierarchy is set up you don’t know when they can take that away making up any sort of excuses and bending the law they own to tear away your humanity. An ability based on both love and seeing others as just meat and flesh is very blatant irony. She’s both perpetuating and breaking a cycle now viewing anyone not in her “family” as mere tools probably how the Kakin did, while also doing it like this in the first place to free herself from the cycle of being used as tools. The way her ability has her learn and get intimate with those in her new family and theories I saw of this ability filling a void of being able to have her own family due to the abuse she faced, makes it feel like she carved a little love out of the hopelessness. That she’s broken the cycle of abuse in some ways, and is perpetuating it in others. It’s very human to have such complex multi-layered flaws while also it being from circumstances completely out of her control. I think most people would become someone like this under these circumstances. Her first chance to actual be somebody and despite her goal being to extinct humanity her will makes her cling onto life she’s extremely knowledgeable about nen, the world, the human psyche, anything to make her goals come to fruition. The fact the depravity she faced which might drive others to insanity or blind rage, she was able to take and will her resistance against everything forced into her is probably empowering in its own way. It’s a nice pace to see such a deeply complex and symbolic character from a trope that’s typically just “psycho likes hurting people” as I was expecting her to be what we currently think of Tserrdnich and I was pleasently wrong. Peak
@@griffy6759 Did Salé-Salé do anything other than just eat and party with bimbos? From what I remember, he was just a pretty chill dude and didn't do anything overtly evil.
I love that Morenna explained that specialist abilities can also fall outside the 5 categories and my first immediate thought was wish granting with Nanika
And i still think the influence of the Ai is unclear. Is Nanika and her powers both the Ai. Perhaps Alluka's ability was to befriend the Ai and thus Nanika was born? So many questions
I think Togashi sees nen as this great equalizer, where anyone with enough conviction can change the world even if they have no other advantages. It doesn't mater how oppressed or powerless a group of people are once someone in that group develops a really strong hatsu, the power will inevitably shift. With that in mind it's not surprising that Morena can mas-awaken powerless people to it as a sort of revolutionary. People cant leave things like festival orphans and meteor city unchecked forever because eventually a specialist with a vendetta will come for them.
I did notice one interesting thing in the chapter, Morena describes her own goal of "destroying the Kakin Empire" as a "small" goal. Suddenly the fact that the deal card requires you to fulfil a "small" request has a lot more weight, especially since the game can let you discover what is classified as small. I wonder how many players used the deal card to get their desired answer and are now helping Morena's small request. Also if the comments about how she can give Nen to people who share her goal (of killing people in general), and the card game forces you to say yes, does this mean if you didn't share that goal originally you are forced to develop a similar goal to meet the requirement?
Kakin is being set up to be the biggest evil in Hunter X Hunter. They are involved in the creation of the phantom troupe and now we have Morena's disturbing backstory. I am starting to realize that Tserriednich isn't an anomaly, his mindset is something to be expected for a Kakin royal. Morena needs to be stopped but damn her motives ard understandable. She should redirect her fury towards the royal family only rather than involving the poor people who are also living in that hellhole
Yeah, but knowing HxH, it’s never that simple. Togashi thrives on blurring the lines, good vs evil isn’t really a thing so far. Togashi loves making us question everyone’s motives 💙
I don't think they made the phantom troupe. It was just some dark web guys patrolling the outskirts of a city. The kakin thing is literally a whole selection process using an entire village as the population pool. Both are terrible, but what kakin does is truly fucked
@@dmajorray6154 they were doing more than patrolling every once in a while, it was the mafia's hunting grounds, they could steal hundreds of children per year for whatever reason, that's fucked up in its own way. you could say meteor city was the victim of the underworld while people like morena were victims of the upper
@@dmajorray6154the kidnappers are connected to the Heily and the tattoo artist works with Tserri. It's highly unlikely that the troupe were not made as a result of kakins actions
She chooses to destroy humanity...therefore I don't think she is an Avenger, but rather accept of her past: if she is treated as a meat, then she will also treat others as meat too.
Saying that when they reach a level 100 they'll go off and start their own families. It's very similar to in the Chimera ant ark where they said that every Queen will have a king and then move on to another colony creating another king and so on and so forth.
I thought about something while reading chapter 408. Hear me out…. Dogman has an ability that allows him to sniff out the affinity of a nen user. If he keeps leveling up would he be able to even smell nen abilities ? With that in mind……. Chrollo is hunting for an ability that allows him to kill Hisoka. His treasure hunting are new abilities. Stealing Dogman ability will make Chrollo very dangerous as he can start hunting certain targets knowing what nen type they’re. Potentially making it easier for him to select targets . Definitely feels like Chrollo and Morena may be due for a conversation
@@alemore1146 well dogman just spotted Chrollo, so an encounter is likely, that being the case I suspect Chrollo will theorize they have detector type Nen that can track powers more efficiently than his love phone, in fact I think we were shown him using it to plant the seed Chrollo uses and needs detection Nen.
@@darkpuppetlordful ok it makes sense. I misunderstood, for some reason I thought @cartielsilver was saying that Chrollo knew already about Dogman's ability
Yeah... and this channel says 'Smell' and 'Sniff' again... ...is Togashi not gonna explain how you can enhance something that isnt there i nthe first plac,e like a 'smell-abiity to sense Aura'? Morena should really have used the word sense or even outright clarified for us all: Yedah, EVERYONE has a Sixth Sense to sense Aura, Dogman Enhances THAT. Obviously Aura doesnt have a Smell that's too feint to usually pick-up, that would be very silly.
@@slevinchannel7589 hmm, well what I wrote is just speculation technically, it’s also possible that aura always had a scent but only a talented enhancer could ever hope to pick up on it. You’re right that it’s vague, but I think he, like any author, expects us to come up with our own logic for these things. He has to focus on narrative and he only has so many pages, so he can’t really explain everything.
The moment a “festival” was mentioned I just got all the Chapter Black flashbacks. I’d like to make some pithy joke about Togashi being hung up on this idea but the damming reality is that little has changed and so this continues to be relevant
It's like if Togashi had picked it up where he left from the Chapter Black arc of Yu Yu Hakusho in terms of tone and slowly started to crank it up but he camouflaged it pretty well to the point in which one can find oneself in the middle of the Yorknew arc and wonder at which point the story became so bleak and realize it always has been that way; the process was gradual, in the sense of always being incremental, but of inconsistent speed.
I think this arc has been incapsulating a lot of what an imperialist nation/empire looks like the vile shit that happens behind the ppl’s back and the horrors done by humans towards others just for being a different class of ppl is genuinely disgusting and happens in real life too. Togashi is a genuis for tackling such a fucked up topic without making it overbearing for his readers “including me”
@@kapsi ngl I 100% can see why she walked the path she has. I think togashi made her very relatable as well as the spiders in this arc. Showing the depravity they had to endure to turn the way they did. Obviously they could have chosen a different path “both morena and the spiders” but I empathise with their pain more now.
@issaosama4937 sympathising with the antagonist is always so easy in hxh. Togashi has got me backing Morena and everything, 100% - even if it's all pretty immoral. Morena was tryna pull some stockholm syndrome nonsense with Borksen - and lowkey, it probably would've worked on me 😂🙂↕️
She becomes even more sympathetic when you realize that this attitude isn't limited to imperialists either. Since pre-history, humans have abused each other, some cultures even regularly sacrificing their own children. Usually, the only thing that suffers victim and perpetrator is opportunity, not any kind of virtue. And the rest of life is no different. Animals treat each other just as badly as humans do; just look up the behaviors of dolphins, chimpanzees, and ants if you need convincing. All that separates the evils of humanity from those of the rest of nature is the fact that sometimes we feel bad about the actions we take, even if they're only natural. It doesn't take much of an imagination to see life as a curse upon an otherwise serene universe.
@@HSuper_Lee Chimpanzees and Ants only really act by instinct. Dolphins are the second most intelligent species that lives without a proper moral compass, so there's an explanation for that. Yet Human acts of evil and depravity are not 'only natural'. The last sentence is NOT what you learn from Hunter X Hunter.
Togashi is a mad lad man. There is just way too much happening in this manga from the mafia war, the succession contest, hisoka vs the phantom troupe, and not to mention the stuff happening with Beyond's group.
Morena is even more intresting of a character than I thought (charismatic, being a specialist in nen, nightmarish up bringing, her sincerely caring about her comrade ) now I have no doubt she will be as important of a character in this arc as merum was in his chimera arc. Her back story was so atrocious and you can only feel simpathy towards her and her motivation makes a lot of sense and she turns out to be at her core a person with a very good heart. Morena is badically casca and guts into 1 persone and that's badass.
While her abuse is horrible, and her hatred for the royalty and even country is more than justified, she wants to kill every man, woman, and child. She is not at her core a good person, or rather Togashi needs to pull a miracle to redeem her, and frankly Kakin society.
A very good heart? Who has started a murder game? And wants to wipe out humanity? Shes certainly more sympathetic but certainly nothing approaching good.
This chapter was incredible, love how the card game works for Morena I was getting nervous for Borksen with each card flip once I understood how it was really played
I think Morenna is hellbell, it makes so much sense. We know where some of the other calamities are but we have never heard about hellbell. She is a being that induces others to kill indiscriminately to earn levels, I think it’s the perfect fit
@ where was this? Because didn’t chapter 405 imply it was that guy with the wart on his nose. Seeing as he was also in the chapter serasa was kidnapped.
@@cianbarrett6443 In Chapter 394 we can see the soldiers/friends of tserriednich talk about his tattoo artist. on the last page of chapter 395 you can see a frame with the tattoo artist during the meteor city flash back.
@@cianbarrett6443 Remember in the chapter Serasa was killed, that there's this guy who had a full-sleeve tattoo? This guy is the same that works as Tseri's tattoo artist. He is also ex Heil-Ly. Yes, the one who orchestrated Serasa's death was that long-dead "philanthropist" as the TV said - but that was just who said "do it cause I like it". He wasn't the one who actually murdered her, that was tattoo guy and the other goons.
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i like this explanation style of videos WAY more than the theory videos. sometimes hxh can be a hard read so having it explained is very helpful and in the theory videos sometimes it can be very unclear wether you are talking about things that actually happened, or stuff you think might happen. the theory videos are fun but confusing as sometimes it is not clear what you’re talking about. you’re one of my fav channels to listen to so just wanted to say that lol keep up the awesome videos :)
I think the only person that has done anything close to what Miranda has done with combining all nen affinities is Karapica. He as a specialist allows himself access to all nen Affinities
kkkkk "No longer a desapointment" caught me off guard. Hello from brazil with a exclusive HxH RPG system!!! Always following your material for deeper analysis
I was going to say this, and I was going to add Chrollo to the list. Chrollo might need to have a high level of efficiency in all Nen types to use the Skills he's stolen since it wouldn't just be enough to "steal" the ability if he isn't able to use it efficiently.
I'm still curious about how Beyond Netorare's plans in the Cuckin' Kingdom would jam up everyone else's plans. His influence kind of seems lacking in the recent chapters.
I think his plan is somehow to sacrifice the kakin royals/the black whale to avoid dealing with the gatekeeper and being inflicted with a calamity (I think the failed voyages were destined to fail because the gatekeepers interceded)
On a little bit more of a serious note…the thought of Hisoka screwing up the card game with texture surprise has been stuck in my head…though a leveled 100 Hisoka woth his natural strength is a scary thought
I made a comment on a previous video that I thought Togashi might be using Morena to explore the same ideas he was going to with Gyro, and I am more convinced of that than ever now
I felt like his wife helped in this chapter drawing since some panels have different drawing style and morena look very different, some with huge 90's manga girl's eyes lol
@@avibrar2000 you do know he was married to the author of sailor moon right? Given his decline in health, it is not unreasonable to see his wife lending a hand to help.
That makes sense, I thought the same. I guess it's very possible especially considering Togashi's note on ch 401 saying many people helped him into publishing hxh again.
There's a very interesting dichotomy at work here with the way Togashi sees the world. On the one hand, it can be seen as extremely dark, cynical, even hateful, because he focuses so much on the evil's of society, the worst of humanity, the most disgusting horrors imaginable, and many which were not until he tells you. But on the other hand, realize that the two people in the series so far, who have truly wanted to destroy the world in their own unique ways, are both products of these evils and horrors. Togashi is stating a bright hopefulness about humanity, that only someone who was screwed over _this much_ by the world would become this way. Anyone else will still have enough love and goodness and humanity to stop short, like Meruem. In short, the world is a dark and terrible place, but despite that almost everyone still manages to be good and kind.
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Man I really really hope we get through 420 at least.. I am not ready for another 2 year break. I saw something the other day about the prince's height as a chart and it was made 7 years ago and then looked into it and it blew my mind that the succession contest stated in 2014..
Morena, Pariston and Gyro are such enticing villains. Togashi just knows how to capture our attention, and I also can't help but think that with these three (and also the troupe) and their tragic backstories, Togashi is just showing a lot of pessimism and criticism of humanity, even more than in the CA arc. It might be an overused saying, but I really think he is big on the "hurt people hurt people" narrative, and I'm all for it.
Morena is what Gyro will be, except on a larger scale. He's a *Chimera Ant* filled with nothing but the conviction that he will hurt Humanity. An endgame threat, most definitely.
This chapter showed why the older siblings were/are stoked to end each other; they’ve seen all the good, bad, habits, and kinks of each other. If Morena is not Morena than damn. We learned that non-recognized nobility have to be heads of the three mafia groups. This means an average person who was deeply wronged by this country made a plan, developed a nen ability for said plan, and thus far has had the grit to carry on with the plan. Just wow. #ThatCountryBlows #SinkThatShip
The Succession War arc before 401 was already so complex with so many moving parts in place I was certain the new batch of chapters would start to resolve things. But instead every new chapter adds another bombshell complexity to the mix.
The one page on this chapter where it discusses Specialist Nen Users was interesting bc it was always known that the Specialist category was an ability that didn't fit other category but when Morena discussed this category she also said, "OR its a Nen-user who is multitalented to other nen types and just unknowingly believes he or she is only proficient in 1 category"... so this leads me to believe Ging Freecs is a Specialist due to his talent in Nen
Togashis GRAVE MISTAKE was nor t to keepp track of how many he featured of every Nen-Type. I cant believe the error of accidentally making Transmuters the Rarest Type became a WHOLE Plot-Point. Oh my god. He even put specific percent-numbers to it. 1 in 3000 is a Specialist. Yeah, i wondered and discussed with HxH-Fans for Years but this is Confirmation: He doesnt know he made Transmuters the Rarest. I cant believe its so far from 1/6. A bit would be ok but 3000? Oh god, Togashi has completly gotten it backwards even: We have seen most be Manipulators and Conjurers and he put those specifically as the Second-Rarest right after... Specialization.
@ transmuters aren’t the rarest though? The manga panel gad transmuters at 19% and conjurers & manipulators equally at 15%? Edit: this is also Morena’s “guess” based on her own “research”. So whatever Togashi said could still be the truth.
@@KiteSkies Yes, i literally am commenting on that. My issue IS with what Togashi said here. My comment starts with TOGASHIS MISTAKE. Plz actually read a comment before rerplying to it, thx Go count yourself if necesary: its a non-secret we have most people be Conjurers or Manipulators
@@KiteSkies I am chill. You just have respodned to me in a really silly way, making it really look like you didnt even read. Wanna blameshift this onto me? I mean, sure seems like that's your plan, seeing how you even play the 'i pretend your angry and thus unreasonable'-card
Did you guys know that it’s catholic canon that in the garden of gethsemane Jesus Christ saw every sin committed by human beings, which means that he watched Liam say melodussy and still decided to sacrifice himself for humanity. Absolute legend
Interesting how (in Morena's observation) the five other five nen affinities aren't evenly distributed. I would have assumed there would be a more even split between them, but according to her, Enhancers are almost twice as common as Manipulators and Conjurers.
Considering Morenas backstory I think if she can get Chrollo to hear her out its very likely he would help her. The Troupe have just as much reason to want to see the Kakin empire fall. This could also be the way he acquires the new ability he is looking for.
Love that there is chapter there is a panel in page 3 in which Morena is drawing in Sailor Moon style then it goes back to normal like nothing happened !
There was a very similar, if not exactly referential, Chinese concept that you might be able to use in the future to reference the evils of the Kakin party: a pond of wine and a forest of meat.
Wow interesting stuff, I just listened to the story you spoke of. There is a strong analogue here with the Kakin empire and the real story of King Zhou Xin.
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cotangents postmortem nen will rival the seed urn
bro please breakdown this ability because does she have 2 hatsu or is the negotiation a prerequisite to cotangent someone
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Honestly every Single day we waited for a hxh chapter was worth it. Togashi is a mastermind
These were my thoughts precisely reading the new chapter. It just keeps getting better and Idk how he does it. This kind of consistency and finesse is so uncommon. The glaze is heavily deserved.
He really is
@@griffy6759 Yeah but he also takes ages to release new chapters so he has alot of time to plan and think while other mangakas are way more consistent
@ yeah I’m not talking about release consistency at all…
Facts Fam Togashi is always thrilling to see. Sharing his masterpiece with us.
With this context about Morena's backstory i can see her nen ability being a metaphor for STDs
Omg that's genius
The stringer
She can't be a parent irl due to her years of abuse, so she made nen ability of becoming a "parent"
uh oh… Someone made a theory that morena wasn’t morena. Everyone called him a stupid theorist. He might have been right…
yeah right i just realized it now also😅
Diddy partys in HxH was NOT on my 2024 bingo card
Ain't no party like a kakin party
😂@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd
NO diddy
You gotta tell him no😂😂😂
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xdDiddy's voice won't stop
Lol that sponsor and wife drop was hilarious
Haha honestly it’s so cute
It was so perfectly included i forgot he was talking about hunter haha
Who remembers the "wife reviews hxh"? I loved it so much.
ikr lmao.
The biggest 'dark' secret of HxH so far.
Hunter x Hunter has a very sophisticated thesis of “hierarchical society is both only enabled through and constantly mortally threatened with the consequences of its abuse mechanisms” but it also has cool fights with cool magic powers, and that is why it is the greatest work of art of our times.
Hands Down 🙌 the best fiction that could be related to reality
Hunter x Hunter is the fist of the north star and berserk for Shonen being on par with seinen this generation.
@@mrnukes797hxh is above them all
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hxh in its early arcs: fun adventure story with some dark stuff here and there, but i still prety ligth hearted
hxh now: we live in a society
both togashi and oda trying to wake us sheeple up...
It was pretty dark early on. The Hunter exam killed people casually
@@mattitude4464 yeah thath is true tbf, but it still had an preety ligthhearted felling and didint go into super heavy themes, atelast not to the same extent as this arc (or the chimera ant arc before)
@@joelhillbomexcept for Hisoka. I’d say the yorknew city arc is where togashi really started to show what he wanted the stories themes to go, chimera ant arc made it even more clear with the mass child killing happening by the ants, hell one of the first deaths we see with the ants is a kid and his sister, and if you don’t consider that dark just remember how taboo killing (YOUNG)kids is in anime/manga these days, last real example I can think of is the old Devil Man Crybaby where the kid catches a crossbow to the head. And HxH is on shonen, the same publishing company that puts hells paradise on the website because it’s rated “M”.
@@Erodent yeah it def was in those 2 arcs aswell, i was mainly talking about evrything up to heavens arena or so wich aside from some dark moments felt like a pretty fun shonen adventure story, where as this arc fells so much darker and complex by comparison wich i perosnaly like alot more
U know my theory is that the final straw for morenna wanting to destroy the world was liam saying melodussy
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd Fake Morena be like, "I CAN HANDLE BEING DP'D BY UGLY MAFIA DUDES, BUT I DRAW THE LINE AT SOMEONE SAYING MELODUSSY. THIS DEGENERACY IS A SIGN THAT THE WORLD SHOULD BE DESTROYED."
Lmfao I think I’m going crazy what video does he say this in?
You cant stop me from getting that melodussy
@@skelitonking117 His video on 402.
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Your vids have saved me from reading each chapter 5 times to understand them. Now I only read twice and rush over to your reviews
“My husband is no longer a disappointment” is diabolical 😂😂
You spelled "cringe" wrong
You're bound to end up with a Tserriednich or two when you raise kids on these values
the rizzler...
Suddenly the kakin king nen beast makes a lot of sense
The nen Beast Is a true reflection of them...
how so?
@@weebo2328 it looks like an arachnid made out of tits and have a vagina of a face.
Benjamin's looks like a monster penis 😅.
It always made sense though?
@@weebo2328 The kings are women's organs while Benjamin's is men's.
Morena is an expertly made character and a great example of a character whose motivations and developed abilities make complete sense to what they’ve gone through. I’m very happy (writing wise although it’s depressing and depraved) that Morena’s reasoning for a goal such as human extinction isn’t brought about by psychotic delusion or some shallow reasoning, but by genuinely seeing the purest utmost depths of human depravity and brutality. I genuinely was just expecting her to be crazy or a figure to incite more action but she’s made herself completely sympathetic probably as a manipulative ploy but also just by hearing her genuine story. The way her ability works makes a lot more sense now given what she’s gone through. The card game feels like the unknown inconsistent consent she’s felt her whole life. With there technically being choices and outs (such as laws in place and hierarchies that don’t outwardly support non-consent) but that like how your cards are randomized, the way the Kakin’s hierarchy is set up you don’t know when they can take that away making up any sort of excuses and bending the law they own to tear away your humanity. An ability based on both love and seeing others as just meat and flesh is very blatant irony. She’s both perpetuating and breaking a cycle now viewing anyone not in her “family” as mere tools probably how the Kakin did, while also doing it like this in the first place to free herself from the cycle of being used as tools. The way her ability has her learn and get intimate with those in her new family and theories I saw of this ability filling a void of being able to have her own family due to the abuse she faced, makes it feel like she carved a little love out of the hopelessness. That she’s broken the cycle of abuse in some ways, and is perpetuating it in others. It’s very human to have such complex multi-layered flaws while also it being from circumstances completely out of her control. I think most people would become someone like this under these circumstances. Her first chance to actual be somebody and despite her goal being to extinct humanity her will makes her cling onto life she’s extremely knowledgeable about nen, the world, the human psyche, anything to make her goals come to fruition. The fact the depravity she faced which might drive others to insanity or blind rage, she was able to take and will her resistance against everything forced into her is probably empowering in its own way. It’s a nice pace to see such a deeply complex and symbolic character from a trope that’s typically just “psycho likes hurting people” as I was expecting her to be what we currently think of Tserrdnich and I was pleasently wrong. Peak
The “Morena” close up looks like she hasn’t slept in YEARS.
Undead do that
@@katza831 🤯
Squirt of lemon 🍋@@katza831
I can't imagine Morena sleeping considering all that's happened to her and all the hate she harbors
Morena la tengo.
This chapter was a gut punch.... Kakin royalty is fucking disgusting.
Well if Tserreidnich, King Nasubi, and Prince Salle Salle were any indication…
@@griffy6759
Def but things took a whole other turn with 408
@@griffy6759 Did Salé-Salé do anything other than just eat and party with bimbos? From what I remember, he was just a pretty chill dude and didn't do anything overtly evil.
Depends on who attend those "festivals" @@j-rey-
@@griffy6759Salle Salle just catching flak for having hunnies
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I laugh every single time!
"Morena" needs a hug...
I genuinely thought that while reading the chapter.
She won't get it since there will be nobody left...
Dude, you can't fix her... Don't
@shaka89xx You can't change our minds. We are delusional and must suffer the consequences
Its too late for a hug. Thus hag needs to be dispatched asap.
@@shaka89xx but still, i think i can fix her. lemme
''my husband is no longer a disappoint'' got me lol
I love that Morenna explained that specialist abilities can also fall outside the 5 categories and my first immediate thought was wish granting with Nanika
And i still think the influence of the Ai is unclear. Is Nanika and her powers both the Ai. Perhaps Alluka's ability was to befriend the Ai and thus Nanika was born? So many questions
you could say the same about neon, she was a nen talent who wished to predict the future and got it, just like tseri
Neon and Pakunoda also don’t fit in others categories. Same can be said about stealing others’s nen abilities
@@knightcommander5694Emperor Time, too. 100% efficiency in all categories fits Morena's definition of Specialists perfectly.
I think Togashi sees nen as this great equalizer, where anyone with enough conviction can change the world even if they have no other advantages. It doesn't mater how oppressed or powerless a group of people are once someone in that group develops a really strong hatsu, the power will inevitably shift. With that in mind it's not surprising that Morena can mas-awaken powerless people to it as a sort of revolutionary. People cant leave things like festival orphans and meteor city unchecked forever because eventually a specialist with a vendetta will come for them.
Man i can't wait for the next video
It is so incredible that we can enjoy hxh on a weekly basis
I did notice one interesting thing in the chapter, Morena describes her own goal of "destroying the Kakin Empire" as a "small" goal. Suddenly the fact that the deal card requires you to fulfil a "small" request has a lot more weight, especially since the game can let you discover what is classified as small. I wonder how many players used the deal card to get their desired answer and are now helping Morena's small request.
Also if the comments about how she can give Nen to people who share her goal (of killing people in general), and the card game forces you to say yes, does this mean if you didn't share that goal originally you are forced to develop a similar goal to meet the requirement?
Bro your editor is super talented. 🔥🔥
Visual representations of what you're talking about is really impressive.
Kakin is being set up to be the biggest evil in Hunter X Hunter. They are involved in the creation of the phantom troupe and now we have Morena's disturbing backstory. I am starting to realize that Tserriednich isn't an anomaly, his mindset is something to be expected for a Kakin royal. Morena needs to be stopped but damn her motives ard understandable. She should redirect her fury towards the royal family only rather than involving the poor people who are also living in that hellhole
Yeah, but knowing HxH, it’s never that simple. Togashi thrives on blurring the lines, good vs evil isn’t really a thing so far. Togashi loves making us question everyone’s motives 💙
I don't think they made the phantom troupe. It was just some dark web guys patrolling the outskirts of a city. The kakin thing is literally a whole selection process using an entire village as the population pool. Both are terrible, but what kakin does is truly fucked
@@dmajorray6154 they were doing more than patrolling every once in a while, it was the mafia's hunting grounds, they could steal hundreds of children per year for whatever reason, that's fucked up in its own way. you could say meteor city was the victim of the underworld while people like morena were victims of the upper
@@dmajorray6154the kidnappers are connected to the Heily and the tattoo artist works with Tserri. It's highly unlikely that the troupe were not made as a result of kakins actions
She chooses to destroy humanity...therefore I don't think she is an Avenger, but rather accept of her past: if she is treated as a meat, then she will also treat others as meat too.
Saying that when they reach a level 100 they'll go off and start their own families. It's very similar to in the Chimera ant ark where they said that every Queen will have a king and then move on to another colony creating another king and so on and so forth.
I thought about something while reading chapter 408.
Hear me out….
Dogman has an ability that allows him to sniff out the affinity of a nen user. If he keeps leveling up would he be able to even smell nen abilities ?
With that in mind…….
Chrollo is hunting for an ability that allows him to kill Hisoka. His treasure hunting are new abilities. Stealing Dogman ability will make Chrollo very dangerous as he can start hunting certain targets knowing what nen type they’re. Potentially making it easier for him to select targets .
Definitely feels like Chrollo and Morena may be due for a conversation
Dogman acquired his ability recently, how is it possible for Chrollo to know that?
@@alemore1146He could learn about it.
@@alemore1146 ? You’ll find out
@@alemore1146 well dogman just spotted Chrollo, so an encounter is likely, that being the case I suspect Chrollo will theorize they have detector type Nen that can track powers more efficiently than his love phone, in fact I think we were shown him using it to plant the seed Chrollo uses and needs detection Nen.
@@darkpuppetlordful ok it makes sense. I misunderstood, for some reason I thought @cartielsilver was saying that Chrollo knew already about Dogman's ability
Dogman smelled 3000 people looking for Bork
Yeah... and this channel says 'Smell' and 'Sniff' again...
...is Togashi not gonna explain how you can enhance something that isnt there i nthe first plac,e like a 'smell-abiity to sense Aura'?
Morena should really have used the word sense or even outright clarified for us all: Yedah, EVERYONE has a Sixth Sense to sense Aura, Dogman Enhances THAT. Obviously Aura doesnt have a Smell that's too feint to usually pick-up, that would be very silly.
get it? Bork?
Probably a lot more than that
@@slevinchannel7589 I think it’s meant to be silly, dogman’s ability gives other’s aura a scent. Otherwise there would be no scent.
@@slevinchannel7589 hmm, well what I wrote is just speculation technically, it’s also possible that aura always had a scent but only a talented enhancer could ever hope to pick up on it. You’re right that it’s vague, but I think he, like any author, expects us to come up with our own logic for these things. He has to focus on narrative and he only has so many pages, so he can’t really explain everything.
The moment a “festival” was mentioned I just got all the Chapter Black flashbacks. I’d like to make some pithy joke about Togashi being hung up on this idea but the damming reality is that little has changed and so this continues to be relevant
The clip of your Wife is absolutely hilarious, thank you for that. Just made my day
You spelled "cringe" wrong
Idc what anyone says, Morena is super cute the way Togashi draws her reactions.
We know what you are
"I can fix her!"
@@Jujublue203 "I don't want to fix her"
I know what kind of man you are.
It's like if Togashi had picked it up where he left from the Chapter Black arc of Yu Yu Hakusho in terms of tone and slowly started to crank it up but he camouflaged it pretty well to the point in which one can find oneself in the middle of the Yorknew arc and wonder at which point the story became so bleak and realize it always has been that way; the process was gradual, in the sense of always being incremental, but of inconsistent speed.
I've long been convinced a lot of latter HxH is Togashi doing things he wanted to do in YuYu but couldn't.
@@TheBleachj16 I mean, he has said so himself iirc.
I think this arc has been incapsulating a lot of what an imperialist nation/empire looks like the vile shit that happens behind the ppl’s back and the horrors done by humans towards others just for being a different class of ppl is genuinely disgusting and happens in real life too. Togashi is a genuis for tackling such a fucked up topic without making it overbearing for his readers “including me”
>and happens in real life too
That's the worst part. It's one thing to see a magical ant kill someone, and another thing to see Morena's story.
@@kapsi ngl I 100% can see why she walked the path she has. I think togashi made her very relatable as well as the spiders in this arc. Showing the depravity they had to endure to turn the way they did. Obviously they could have chosen a different path “both morena and the spiders” but I empathise with their pain more now.
@issaosama4937 sympathising with the antagonist is always so easy in hxh. Togashi has got me backing Morena and everything, 100% - even if it's all pretty immoral. Morena was tryna pull some stockholm syndrome nonsense with Borksen - and lowkey, it probably would've worked on me 😂🙂↕️
She becomes even more sympathetic when you realize that this attitude isn't limited to imperialists either. Since pre-history, humans have abused each other, some cultures even regularly sacrificing their own children. Usually, the only thing that suffers victim and perpetrator is opportunity, not any kind of virtue. And the rest of life is no different. Animals treat each other just as badly as humans do; just look up the behaviors of dolphins, chimpanzees, and ants if you need convincing. All that separates the evils of humanity from those of the rest of nature is the fact that sometimes we feel bad about the actions we take, even if they're only natural. It doesn't take much of an imagination to see life as a curse upon an otherwise serene universe.
@@HSuper_Lee Chimpanzees and Ants only really act by instinct. Dolphins are the second most intelligent species that lives without a proper moral compass, so there's an explanation for that.
Yet Human acts of evil and depravity are not 'only natural'. The last sentence is NOT what you learn from Hunter X Hunter.
Togashi is a mad lad man. There is just way too much happening in this manga from the mafia war, the succession contest, hisoka vs the phantom troupe, and not to mention the stuff happening with Beyond's group.
Man when everything comes together it is going to be crazy
Morena is even more intresting of a character than I thought (charismatic, being a specialist in nen, nightmarish up bringing, her sincerely caring about her comrade ) now I have no doubt she will be as important of a character in this arc as merum was in his chimera arc.
Her back story was so atrocious and you can only feel simpathy towards her and her motivation makes a lot of sense and she turns out to be at her core a person with a very good heart.
Morena is badically casca and guts into 1 persone and that's badass.
She will need some crazy character development to be on that level of Meruem.
While her abuse is horrible, and her hatred for the royalty and even country is more than justified, she wants to kill every man, woman, and child. She is not at her core a good person, or rather Togashi needs to pull a miracle to redeem her, and frankly Kakin society.
A very good heart? Who has started a murder game? And wants to wipe out humanity? Shes certainly more sympathetic but certainly nothing approaching good.
She stopped being good when she wanted to wipe out everyone
>wants to delete all of humanity
>has a good heart
U wot m8?
This chapter was incredible, love how the card game works for Morena I was getting nervous for Borksen with each card flip once I understood how it was really played
5:16 diddy parthy freakoffs is what you are looking for
Thanks!
Thank you so much! :D
'I havnt seen another nen ability that maximizes all the affinities like this' This is literally the exact concept of emperor time
I think Morenna is hellbell, it makes so much sense. We know where some of the other calamities are but we have never heard about hellbell. She is a being that induces others to kill indiscriminately to earn levels, I think it’s the perfect fit
Why is no one talking about the tattoo guy being heil-lot and therefore linking morena and the troope’s catalyst events?!?!
Tattoo guy?
@@cianbarrett6443 Tseri's tattoo artist was involved - and quite possibly the actual killer - with Serasa's murder.
@ where was this? Because didn’t chapter 405 imply it was that guy with the wart on his nose. Seeing as he was also in the chapter serasa was kidnapped.
@@cianbarrett6443 In Chapter 394 we can see the soldiers/friends of tserriednich talk about his tattoo artist.
on the last page of chapter 395 you can see a frame with the tattoo artist during the meteor city flash back.
@@cianbarrett6443 Remember in the chapter Serasa was killed, that there's this guy who had a full-sleeve tattoo?
This guy is the same that works as Tseri's tattoo artist.
He is also ex Heil-Ly.
Yes, the one who orchestrated Serasa's death was that long-dead "philanthropist" as the TV said - but that was just who said "do it cause I like it". He wasn't the one who actually murdered her, that was tattoo guy and the other goons.
I’ve been waiting for your review forever bro! The chapter experience is not officially complete for me until I watch your video XD. Long time fan bro keep it up! You fed us during the great hiatus drought we didn’t forget!
Internet man your preatty good at doing advertisments.
i like this explanation style of videos WAY more than the theory videos. sometimes hxh can be a hard read so having it explained is very helpful and in the theory videos sometimes it can be very unclear wether you are talking about things that actually happened, or stuff you think might happen. the theory videos are fun but confusing as sometimes it is not clear what you’re talking about. you’re one of my fav channels to listen to so just wanted to say that lol keep up the awesome videos :)
I think the only person that has done anything close to what Miranda has done with combining all nen affinities is Karapica. He as a specialist allows himself access to all nen Affinities
kkkkk "No longer a desapointment" caught me off guard.
Hello from brazil with a exclusive HxH RPG system!!!
Always following your material for deeper analysis
Morena "if I kiss you and you kill 100 people then you get a power up and the ability to power up people by kissing them"
Chrollo "Say less"
OOOHHH geez
Two Morena's is something I never would have thought of
This arc has so many characters 🤣
13:57 *cough cough Kurapika having 100% efficiency of all nen types with his specialist ability*
I was going to say this, and I was going to add Chrollo to the list. Chrollo might need to have a high level of efficiency in all Nen types to use the Skills he's stolen since it wouldn't just be enough to "steal" the ability if he isn't able to use it efficiently.
Expecting us to have significant others is a lot even for you, man on the internet
aint no party like kakin party baby
I'm still curious about how Beyond Netorare's plans in the Cuckin' Kingdom would jam up everyone else's plans.
His influence kind of seems lacking in the recent chapters.
Beyond Netero was savage Mogualan timing in these festival
Cuckin😂
I think his plan is somehow to sacrifice the kakin royals/the black whale to avoid dealing with the gatekeeper and being inflicted with a calamity (I think the failed voyages were destined to fail because the gatekeepers interceded)
On a little bit more of a serious note…the thought of Hisoka screwing up the card game with texture surprise has been stuck in my head…though a leveled 100 Hisoka woth his natural strength is a scary thought
Great video as always! Small not-so-fun fact is that it's quite common to be restrained during a c-section, even for planned and wanted births
Beautiful wife and funny too. Happy birthday to her. 🎉
I made a comment on a previous video that I thought Togashi might be using Morena to explore the same ideas he was going to with Gyro, and I am more convinced of that than ever now
Man you are eating really good with that flush of HxH updates. Good content, happy for you.
Am I the only more interested on kakin? a rising power with some weird traditions.
14:00 Emperor Time.
I was just thinking about that
The festival is a good explanation why only the queens' rightful offspring can compete for the throne.
Word bro, you love the sisters too respect fam!!!
I was not expecting morena to be the product of kakin diddy parties
The add with your wife is so adorable😂
I have no idea why I'm up so late(it's 6am) but I'm glad that i can for once catch a video early (in under an hour)
I felt like his wife helped in this chapter drawing since some panels have different drawing style and morena look very different, some with huge 90's manga girl's eyes lol
Togashi just has some characters look like that from time to time, look at Illumis eyes for example
@@avibrar2000 you do know he was married to the author of sailor moon right? Given his decline in health, it is not unreasonable to see his wife lending a hand to help.
That makes sense, I thought the same. I guess it's very possible especially considering Togashi's note on ch 401 saying many people helped him into publishing hxh again.
Gyro, the Ant King, and Morena have all shared that same ambition…Togashia really seems to include that theme often in HxH
There's a very interesting dichotomy at work here with the way Togashi sees the world. On the one hand, it can be seen as extremely dark, cynical, even hateful, because he focuses so much on the evil's of society, the worst of humanity, the most disgusting horrors imaginable, and many which were not until he tells you.
But on the other hand, realize that the two people in the series so far, who have truly wanted to destroy the world in their own unique ways, are both products of these evils and horrors. Togashi is stating a bright hopefulness about humanity, that only someone who was screwed over _this much_ by the world would become this way. Anyone else will still have enough love and goodness and humanity to stop short, like Meruem.
In short, the world is a dark and terrible place, but despite that almost everyone still manages to be good and kind.
💯💯💯
3:58 The wife is adorable and is probably as hilarious as you. Truly COMPELLING!!! 😂
She did her own reviews of HxH up to the Ant or maybe Election Arc. She’s great! They’re all on one of Liam’s playlists. 😊
Morena cannot negotiate against your upload schedule
Love your content bro. I love HxH and you keeping my love for it alive with your analysis. Sucks we'll never see it animated again
Dont say neveeeer!
Who would have guessed that "The One Piece" would remake everything assumedly properly?
There's hope! Let's enjoy the amazing content for now :)
Man I really really hope we get through 420 at least.. I am not ready for another 2 year break. I saw something the other day about the prince's height as a chart and it was made 7 years ago and then looked into it and it blew my mind that the succession contest stated in 2014..
I'm expecting a break on 410, but a shorter one.
much like in real life, a mangas life is futile and frustrating...
The advertisement reminded me of your wife’s reviews, I really enjoyed them.
Morena, Pariston and Gyro are such enticing villains.
Togashi just knows how to capture our attention, and I also can't help but think that with these three (and also the troupe) and their tragic backstories, Togashi is just showing a lot of pessimism and criticism of humanity, even more than in the CA arc. It might be an overused saying, but I really think he is big on the "hurt people hurt people" narrative, and I'm all for it.
Morena is what Gyro will be, except on a larger scale. He's a *Chimera Ant* filled with nothing but the conviction that he will hurt Humanity. An endgame threat, most definitely.
This chapter showed why the older siblings were/are stoked to end each other; they’ve seen all the good, bad, habits, and kinks of each other.
If Morena is not Morena than damn. We learned that non-recognized nobility have to be heads of the three mafia groups. This means an average person who was deeply wronged by this country made a plan, developed a nen ability for said plan, and thus far has had the grit to carry on with the plan. Just wow.
#ThatCountryBlows #SinkThatShip
Togashi, is this what you meant by energy ball? We are willing to give our aura just to keep you healthy to give us this novel like manga masterpiece.
I feel like no one was actually talking about how Morena isn’t even the real Morena prudo when the leaks were dropping
I swear Liam is having the time of his life with sponsors sometimes
Specialists inevitably become more and more common in HxH as their "anything goes" powerset box fits well into Togashi's preferences.
Togashi out here showing those who wield power is the real monster.
Oh happy Birthday 2 her🙏🏾❤😊😁👍🏾👏🏾
The Succession War arc before 401 was already so complex with so many moving parts in place I was certain the new batch of chapters would start to resolve things. But instead every new chapter adds another bombshell complexity to the mix.
The one page on this chapter where it discusses Specialist Nen Users was interesting bc it was always known that the Specialist category was an ability that didn't fit other category but when Morena discussed this category she also said, "OR its a Nen-user who is multitalented to other nen types and just unknowingly believes he or she is only proficient in 1 category"... so this leads me to believe Ging Freecs is a Specialist due to his talent in Nen
Cannot wait for this to be animated
Can't wait for melodussy to be animated
@@diinobambino822 NO
In like 10 years.
@@wardaddy7216 exactly 🤣🤣🤣🤣 GTA 7 before that shit
@@BlackPaulPhoenix I just hope we get to see the Dark Continent arc soon.
0:20 I think its even more crazy he was allowed to include the sarasa in a bag thing, just goes to show you how big Togashi is
A man who publicly champions his wife has Unlimited aura
If you ever told me that i would be getting more HxH drops than one piece i thought you’d be tripping… man post 2016 world is wild
MARTIAL LAW IS HERE!!! Hell yea baby, this arc is about to get wild!
Togashis GRAVE MISTAKE was nor t to keepp track of how many he featured of every Nen-Type. I cant believe the error of accidentally making Transmuters the Rarest Type became a WHOLE Plot-Point. Oh my god. He even put specific percent-numbers to it. 1 in 3000 is a Specialist. Yeah, i wondered and discussed with HxH-Fans for Years but this is
Confirmation: He doesnt know he made Transmuters the Rarest. I cant believe its so far from 1/6. A bit would be ok but 3000? Oh god, Togashi has completly gotten it backwards even: We have seen most be Manipulators and Conjurers and he put those specifically as the Second-Rarest right after... Specialization.
@ transmuters aren’t the rarest though? The manga panel gad transmuters at 19% and conjurers & manipulators equally at 15%?
Edit: this is also Morena’s “guess” based on her own “research”. So whatever Togashi said could still be the truth.
@@KiteSkies Yes, i literally am commenting on that. My issue IS with what Togashi said here. My comment starts with TOGASHIS MISTAKE.
Plz actually read a comment before rerplying to it, thx
Go count yourself if necesary: its a non-secret we have most people be Conjurers or Manipulators
@ jeez, chill. I did read your comment, you didn’t mention the manga panel which is why I did, I thought you missed it or smth.
@@KiteSkies I am chill. You just have respodned to me in a really silly way, making it really look like you didnt even read. Wanna blameshift this onto me? I mean, sure seems like that's your plan, seeing how you even play the 'i pretend your angry and thus unreasonable'-card
I cant wait till this is animated in 2030. I cant read HxH. My puny brain has neither the capacity nor the patience. Thank kami for people like you.
The most adorable ad segment I've ever seen 💖
17:20 what happened is that dogman and all the heil-il family make a disaster at Halkunberg’s funeral.
Mass masacre wide open.
im starting to think togashi might be morenas biggest fan
(Per details of the advert) Happy Early Birfday, GrandLineWaifu! Loved her HxH rundown from a while back. 🥰
I finished the chapter literally 30 seconds before this dropped
Where did you read it
Where did you read it please ? 1:34
@@ToxicFunnyNes Togashi's Troupe
@@johnthegraceofgod2086 Togashi's Troupe
Where there no tachiyomi
didnt know that NewWorldReview was valid to the point of getting invited to the bbq
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVELY WIFE 💕 🎂 🎉
Big reveal! With Chrollos new condition not specifying human or live or dead he can obtain this ability from whoever this imposter is
Did you guys know that it’s catholic canon that in the garden of gethsemane Jesus Christ saw every sin committed by human beings, which means that he watched Liam say melodussy and still decided to sacrifice himself for humanity. Absolute legend
Fkn mental
Interesting how (in Morena's observation) the five other five nen affinities aren't evenly distributed. I would have assumed there would be a more even split between them, but according to her, Enhancers are almost twice as common as Manipulators and Conjurers.
Considering Morenas backstory I think if she can get Chrollo to hear her out its very likely he would help her. The Troupe have just as much reason to want to see the Kakin empire fall. This could also be the way he acquires the new ability he is looking for.
Love that there is chapter there is a panel in page 3 in which Morena is drawing in Sailor Moon style then it goes back to normal like nothing happened !
There was a very similar, if not exactly referential, Chinese concept that you might be able to use in the future to reference the evils of the Kakin party: a pond of wine and a forest of meat.
Wow interesting stuff, I just listened to the story you spoke of. There is a strong analogue here with the Kakin empire and the real story of King Zhou Xin.
@@MK-vi2cm Explain, what is it about?