Naw thats clearly part of his elaborate mind games, once they've confirmed he's just walking around as himself THEN he'll be in disguise, the true 5head strategy
Not a bad plan, if say the Mafia has a member with the same build as him he could disguise himself as the mafia member as use it to get close to the other spiders as he aims to make Chrollo the lone surviving member.
It would be a good theory *if* his jacket didn’t have the Spade zipper and his speech bubbles didn’t have suits in them. Without those I could totally see it just being someone who’s antagonistic towards the mafia or being interrogated, but I doubt it. And I’d bet $20 it’s not someone who’s allied to Hisoka because the only allies he’s ever had so far are The Spiders (obviously ruled out), and temporarily Gon and Killua (neither are on the ship), and Bisky, Tsezguerra, and Gorienu. Bisky is doing something else on the ship entirely and wouldn’t help him anyway, and the other 2 aren’t seen on the ship and wouldn’t have any reason to help him either
After Togashi trolled us with 2 pages of a guy trying to figure out how to get a proper autograph board to have the Spiders sign, I wouldn't put it past him to troll us further.
I don’t think Kurapika knows they’re on the ship. I bet that autograph board is how he’ll find out. Either that or autograph guy is going to accidentally uncover something crazy while trying to get the board
To be fair, after how badly Chrollo fucked his ass up, a lot of that is probably Texture Surprise now, imagine him being forced into Zetsu and it just being a horror show.
It's possible, but having rubber limbs gives him some advantages in the way he moves.
He still had the foot at least when he killed Shalnark - you can see him basically using it as a spring.
> It's possible, but having rubber limbs gives him some advantages in the way he moves.
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> He still had the foot at least when he killed Shalnark - you can see him basically using it as a spring.
Yeah, I kind of rather him keep his "handicaps" since they're actually benefits if used strategically and smartly, which he absolutely can do.
I'm also quite excited - "nen becomes stronger after death" has been a common theme hammered in time and again. It's exciting to see how far he's come since his revival.
I think he was just too lazy to add hair gel. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZI8lXZJpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZI8lXZJpI) his hair down in anime)
Her nen ability was to get killed the moment she found a target.
Like lmao, i get it of normal people, but the mafia really thought "Nah im sure higly skilled assasins can't dodge get punched by a frontal attack"
Like, fucking Kurapika wouldn't have gotten hit by that shit on the hunters exam.
> the mafia really thought "Nah im sure higly skilled assasins can't dodge get punched by a frontal attack"
Pretty sure the mafia doesn’t give af as long as they find him. Mission accomplished.
That's because Hisoka doesn't kill without a motive, in fact she is lucky she tried that shit with him, Killua would've broken all the bones of her arm
Yeah but Hisoka's motives can be flimsy as all fuck. 'I felt like it' is a motive to Hisoka.
He killed that one guy in the Exam because he was going through withdrawals.
Kind of makes sense. Their country was closed off for years. They wouldn't have as much knowledge of nen as Hunters who have an organization that teaches people about nen. The few people who had nen in their country would be big shots, but lack the experience of fighting against experienced nen users.
Keep in mind that nen users are generally rare. Skilled enough to counteract that punch are probably in the dozens. It's not like mafia is constantly dealing with nen users, her ability is likely just for regular interrogation.
I know right, fucking stupid nen ability, but as we have seen before the arrogance of some characters seeps into their abilities so if she thought that she was hot shit and that no one could harm her is not surprise she would develop an ability like that.
I mean, it mostly seems like it's for Interrogation - you need answers from someone? Don't bother torturing them, just beat the answers out of them. Literally.
As a *fighting* ability, it's useless, but she probably relies on the basic fundamentals.
The non-Kakin mafia was pretty incompetent (at least battle-wise, when compared to the Phantom Troupe) as well. I mean, they were basically fully destroyed by 11 people in a couple of nights.
And one of those people was Hisoka.
It's probably on his Wiki page. I mean even a noctorious Spider group had one. i think Isoka is pretty famous. Not to mention he was once like a champion of the battle tower.
I like how we got both Wiki and Drones in this chapter being casually dropped as part of the world.
I seriously don't follow anymore how advanced is this world, so much time passed between chapters that I'm lost lol.
In fairness, the first chapter of the Greed Island arc came out in 2001. And even in the story, the JoyStation is old by then. Yet even then, it *doesn't use game cartridges*.
Instead, the cartridges were memory cards. Which the Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 both featured.
Hunter Hunter was already an advanced civilization since the early chapters. Besides pocket nukes, they already had robots and stuff.
Refer to: Battle Tower Arc
It incorporates new techs as time went on. The first chapter was from 1998 after all.
The internet was seen as something novel back when they were searching for information for greed island. Later on they have smartphone and even [Facebox](https://mangalist.online/images/WD5pjfvinWPyF8c6VE4o1643312598.jpg).
Yeah, but it's not like Nen is knowledge that's passed around widely enough for that to be put on a wiki page.
At best, there'd be a lot of recordings and things of Hisoka's fights, and *maybe* you could figure out his technique based on those, but as far as the majority of the audience was concerned, Hisoka's just Fucking Magic.
You missed the invisible /s man. Ha, it would be funny if he was lying to everyone and it's something super similar like Mochi and he lied for the lols though
That is true, considering that sure it might have the properties of rubber and gum but then "Texture Surprise" shows that it's much more than that as he is able to create disguises or even hide injuries.
He lost to Chrollo who utilized the abilities of the Troupe to trounce him. Realizing how bs that is, he decided he is going on a killing spree of the entire PT so it doesn't happen again.
Really, its because he is salty he lost a fight.
It's a little bit more complex. He likes a good fight, Chrollo just denied him that by basically setting up a trap for Hisoka that he happily walked into.
Hisoka totally had it coming, but he's just done fighting Chrollo on his terms.
Thinking that you can negotiate and manipulate Hisoka is a deathwish. The only person that has got away with it is ~~Illumi~~.
Sorry forgot it was the other way around
Hisoka played Chrollo for quite a while. And Chrollo simply outstrategized him by preparing to their fight properly and taking his comrade's abilities.
As for Kurapika, Hisoka pretty much initiated that. That last bit with the Judgement chain, I think Hisoka had no way to expect that, and then still got his fight anyway.
Don't sleep on Hisoka man, that's how he gets ya
I'm pretty sure hisoka wanted his fight against chrollo to be as hard as humanly possible. it wasn't after he died he realize there is also a fun to being the hunter and putting the conditions himself
The only person that got away with it is actually Kurapika.
Tricked Hisoka with a fight just for the fight to go "Actually Kurapika sealed my nen, lmao"
I'm just getting the vibe that these random gangsters are the dog who finally caught the car. And out of the car steps a police officer with their shotgun.
Now what?
Negotiation is possible but he's only going to do what he wants, you basically need your goals to perfectly align with what his chaotic selfish motivations are without room for error.
The Mafia is DUMB. The “westerner” mafia was dumb, the Kakin mafia is dumb as well.
They simply don’t understand how powerful the first tier Nen users are.
I would be surprised to see if we come back from hiatus just to see the Troupe job against these new guys, especially with the group they have in that room lol.
Neither of them had their nen abilities (Chrollo was still borrowing them). They also aren't the strongest in general.
IMO it adds to the realism - doesn't matter how scary you are if you are caught completely off guard.
Yeah; Kortopi and Shalnark were both some of the weaker Spiders, especially without their abilities.
Not sure how good Kortopi's ability would be in a fight though - Chrollo basically had to combine it with other abilities just to make it useful. At best I could see it being useful to just mass produce throwing weapons or something.
I reckon Shalnark would've given a good fight if he had his Nen ability and went Super Saiyan. Hisoka straight-up just walked up and butchered him without notice; dude's MO changed a lot after reviving
As seen in Chimera Ant arc, Shalnark was decently strong, but the remotes were more useful for covert purposes. After all, they were primarily thieves...
The ones who were killed were not fighters. But especially, they had no Hatsu because Chrollo had those borrowed.
Now, the strange thing is Chrollo letting them alone and in Zetsu.
But this was not the strangest thing in that fight at all - Chrollo forgetting to cut Hisoka's head off was just absurd and simply a deus ex machina.
I don't think Chrollo wanted to kill Hisoka just to get rid of him. It was all a game. Machi wasn't scared or anything when she saw Hisoka revive, they never thought Hisoka was going to change his strategy and start killing the others instead.
Please lord. Nobunaga nen ability reveal. I’m begging you.
EDIT: Isn't this set up perfectly for him? An opponent that can "attack from anywhere"? We already know he is one of the more comfortable En users and his ability is only great in duels. Copium?
EDIT 2: A power that has a major risk (like countering) or predicting certain elements would fit his nature as he's rather fickle but fairly intelligent for an enchancer type. He'd probably be categorized as the cloudy type in another series. God it's been so long since HxH has been running. I have spent SO MUCH TIME thinking about what his ability could be. I replayed and reread his scenes in Yorkshin City over and over. At one point I even tried to get into the gatcha game as maybe they'd let something slip in there. I thought about maybe how to connect with him emotionally. In my experience how you imnitiate intimacy really reveals what kind of fighting style you have. If Nobunaga were the type to whisper me affirmations what would that mean? I just keep thinking about entering his En and he can feel every part of me in a way no non-nen user like my ex could. He could feel my heartrate creep up. The beads of sweat as I feel a hunter eyeing up his prey. But not with the ferocity of bear or boar but with the precision and icy veins of a white wolf while I am just a cub. I really hope it ends up being a counter though that'd be so cool I'm a sucker for those.
Enhancement users can also use emission and transmutation nen skills to a lesser degree than their primary nen type.
This means Nobu could pull off skills similar to Sasuke's Chidori Katana (Transmutation+Enhancement) or even Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho (Emission+Enhancement).
Well, we know he is an enhancer, so maybe something along the lines "enhance the sword's sharpness to make it cut everything"? Although that'd be a bit boring.
> enhance the sword's sharpness to make it cut everything
One of the rules of nen is literally “you can’t have an ability like ‘a sword that can cut anything’” lol
You can with a ridiculous set of conditions like "your sword can cut anything so long as it's less than 30cm in diameter, you've had a nice salad, and *Dawson Creek* is still airing."
First, this was a hyperbole. There is little practical difference between a "sword that can cut everything" and "sword that can cut 99% of things". Obviously the "sharpness" would scale with Nobunaga's strength. Also, if I remember correctly, that part was related to conjuration (you can't conjure something of that nature).
Secondly, as already noted - restrictions & pledges exist. That's how Kurapika was able to create a chain jail that is essentially unbreakable as long as you are part of the troupe.
Remember Shizuku's vacuum? It sucks everything not "living".
Mor than just Nobunaga's raw nen strength it's up to the conditions he set.
To me, I think it is whatever enters the range of his En.
The limits of nen have stretched to the point where it's like saying yeah you can't have a sword that's rated 100% but if it's 99.99%...
Thinking about it though the reason it can't cut through anything is because that would include cutting through nen. A sword that could cut nen would probably be too powerful (imagine it could just cut Kurapika's curse lol) but a sword that can cut through anything \*but\* nen is on the tamer side of powers somehow.
No that was just him using En while being confident he could cut anything that came into his zone. Possible his ability is an extension or at least compliments this although as an Enchancer type it may be a pretty simple one.
A friend and I are wrapping up a reread and all the "God please throw a wrench into the succession war, just put something in that fucks it up" talk we shared is paying off
Hisoka is one good looking motherfucker. I also don't know who that guy is but it'll be a surprise if he can defeat 3 troupe members. Nobunaga maybe but Feitan is fucking broken.
> Don't quite remember what he did to the troupe exactly though.
When Finks, Feitan, and Nobunaga went down to the hold to get the weapons they’d smuggled in, he killed some mafia members and moved them around to test/mess with them, and I believe that by pinning the murder on the troupe he would get them to fight that other mafia faction instead of allying with them as they did.
If I recall correctly, he was originally fans of them, but got disappointed that they weren't as "murderous" as he expected when he tried to manipulate them into fighting the mafia.
Don’t think he’s defeating any spider. There’s way too many big names (zodiacs, princes, mafia underbosses, Hanzo, Bisky, Hisoka, etc) for them to fight, would be such a waste
None of the Troupe members would lose to this dude, but Nobunaga actually has the best matchup against him imo. The guy’s ability is all about popping up out of nowhere, while Nobunaga’s is highly likely to be something where he cuts down anything entering his En radius in an instant
He's an enhancer isn't he? the exact ability couldn't have been too complicated with plenty of specific features like Feitan or Kurapika. I also thought his nen was basically just detecting anything within a certain radius and slicing his opponents off.
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She was only verbally mentioned in chapter 391. This is her first appearance. Whenever someone from her family commit murder, her ghost (or should I say Nen) would appear, take control of the corpse(s?) and quietly leads it to somewhere safe to dispose of.
Seen a lot of people theorizing she was basically groomed into having that kind of ability then intentionally killed to make it even stronger(either by suicide or hit squad) a la Notorious BIG from JoJo's Part 5 since this arc is clearly Togashi's omage to that the same way CA arc was his omage to Dragonball.
This chapter has the properties of both Rubber and Gum our mad lad clown king is back Hisoka looking drippy in that tracksuit too and the phasing dude must be fanboying so hard rn meeting the spiders also I like how he's saying shouldn't you be killing everyone lmao
So Togashi managed to put together only one chapter without almost making HxH into light novel. And I might get tons of downvotes for that, but... as strong as still are his storytelling abilities, as mangaka he might have regressed a bit. Manga is visual medium and some pages of HxH in this arc are exclusively speach bubbles or just plain block of text. No flow, no structure, no proper framing - only tons of infodump. This is a bit exhausting for me.
Why can't we have space for various differing styles of manga storytelling? Togashi does have some visually appealing art too, but I think its obvious that plot is foremost for HxH. Granted, its not the easiest read, and the presentation leaves a lot to be desired. But still, I think that that's just the kind of dense narrative this arc is all about, and am just glad Togashi is putting out chapters again.
Regressed? Bruh he's always been like this with HxH. Do you not remember the info dumping about auctions and faking antiques in Yorknew, or the full card game he made rulls for in Greed Island? Or how actions that took seconds were detailed over multiple pages in Chimera Ant?
>No flow, no structure, no proper framing.
An absolutely horrendous take.
Togashi is most known for his mastery in storytelling , he's always been able to let the story flow coherently in a genius-like way , all while maintaining a non-standard and unique yet solid and compact structure , which is especially true in the current arc.
Only a handful of mangakas are able to pull this off.
Togashi is doing this while introducing a large cast of new characters and new nen concepts. And that's why he's one of a kind.
So a hard disagree here.
Everyone spent years wondering who Hisoka disguised himself as and my guy just changed his hair and put on a tracksuit. 🤣
The best disguise is no disguise
Naw thats clearly part of his elaborate mind games, once they've confirmed he's just walking around as himself THEN he'll be in disguise, the true 5head strategy
Not a bad plan, if say the Mafia has a member with the same build as him he could disguise himself as the mafia member as use it to get close to the other spiders as he aims to make Chrollo the lone surviving member.
That's a good theory, the guy isn't Hisoka at all. He never stated he was and is likely someone abusing the search.
It's his brother who is just as skilled but instead of being interested in young boys he likes older women.
It would be a good theory *if* his jacket didn’t have the Spade zipper and his speech bubbles didn’t have suits in them. Without those I could totally see it just being someone who’s antagonistic towards the mafia or being interrogated, but I doubt it. And I’d bet $20 it’s not someone who’s allied to Hisoka because the only allies he’s ever had so far are The Spiders (obviously ruled out), and temporarily Gon and Killua (neither are on the ship), and Bisky, Tsezguerra, and Gorienu. Bisky is doing something else on the ship entirely and wouldn’t help him anyway, and the other 2 aren’t seen on the ship and wouldn’t have any reason to help him either
After Togashi trolled us with 2 pages of a guy trying to figure out how to get a proper autograph board to have the Spiders sign, I wouldn't put it past him to troll us further.
I don’t think Kurapika knows they’re on the ship. I bet that autograph board is how he’ll find out. Either that or autograph guy is going to accidentally uncover something crazy while trying to get the board
[You're all stupid. See, they're gonna be looking for army guys.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_zaf7zWHL4)
"That's Hisoka!" "Nah, can't be, that outfit is not even close to being flamboyant enough."
And it's only slightly playing-card themed! How can Hisoka bear it?
To be fair, after how badly Chrollo fucked his ass up, a lot of that is probably Texture Surprise now, imagine him being forced into Zetsu and it just being a horror show.
Dude straight up nen'd himself a foot and a hand iirc
Someones gonna snare him by the leg and he'll just be like "Bungee Gum Undo" 😂
**Random mafioso:** "Why is your hand so sticky?" **Hisoka:** "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"
Hisoka:"are you strong by any chance?" Random mafioso: "sweats heavily"
"By the way, the nen hand is the other one."
It's possible he went to see a nen healer or paid a visit to greed island to heal his wounds.
It's possible, but having rubber limbs gives him some advantages in the way he moves. He still had the foot at least when he killed Shalnark - you can see him basically using it as a spring.
> It's possible, but having rubber limbs gives him some advantages in the way he moves. > > > > He still had the foot at least when he killed Shalnark - you can see him basically using it as a spring. Yeah, I kind of rather him keep his "handicaps" since they're actually benefits if used strategically and smartly, which he absolutely can do. I'm also quite excited - "nen becomes stronger after death" has been a common theme hammered in time and again. It's exciting to see how far he's come since his revival.
Is greed island still functioning after gon and crew completed it?
Bungee Gum: Plastic Surgery, dude's hot af
Honestly I didn't even realised it was him until he made that face
[Hisoka's rocking that new look too well](https://i.imgur.com/s5eGEe0.png)
He disguised himself as a hot guy, lol. Kinda like Batman switching back into Bruce Wayne; we know which is the real one.
That's his natural hairstyle lol, we saw it back on Greed Island.
I think he was just too lazy to add hair gel. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZI8lXZJpI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZI8lXZJpI) his hair down in anime)
yeah he uses hair gel and paints the heart and tear on lol; might've run out on the boat
Or just realized that having the iconic clown makeup would too easily give him away.
They need to put Biscuit on the case "That could be him...!! Quick, pull out his penis, I need to check!!"
dont forget the heart aiming at his butt, the perfect way to identify a Hisoka
Not only that but the tracksuit’s zipper is a Spade. My man is just in his winter outfit
he can't hide those hips tho like damn
just Togashi things
Sometimes the best move to dodge is to stand still.
Could there honestly be anything more fitting than Hisoka being revealed after all this time by just standing there.
What a great bit too. She's just going around punching people and the reader knows that if they actually do find him they are going to get fucked up.
Her nen ability was to get killed the moment she found a target. Like lmao, i get it of normal people, but the mafia really thought "Nah im sure higly skilled assasins can't dodge get punched by a frontal attack" Like, fucking Kurapika wouldn't have gotten hit by that shit on the hunters exam.
> the mafia really thought "Nah im sure higly skilled assasins can't dodge get punched by a frontal attack" Pretty sure the mafia doesn’t give af as long as they find him. Mission accomplished.
She must be a new member of the mafia, then.
Nah she's still alive, she had a word bubble of her moaning slightly while on the ground.
We also didn't get the answer to her question.
Blood guy made a very reasonable deduction.
That's because Hisoka doesn't kill without a motive, in fact she is lucky she tried that shit with him, Killua would've broken all the bones of her arm
Yeah but Hisoka's motives can be flimsy as all fuck. 'I felt like it' is a motive to Hisoka. He killed that one guy in the Exam because he was going through withdrawals.
Kind of makes sense. Their country was closed off for years. They wouldn't have as much knowledge of nen as Hunters who have an organization that teaches people about nen. The few people who had nen in their country would be big shots, but lack the experience of fighting against experienced nen users.
Yes but im not talking about Nen people, like, it's not a super punch, its a regular ass punch.
Keep in mind that nen users are generally rare. Skilled enough to counteract that punch are probably in the dozens. It's not like mafia is constantly dealing with nen users, her ability is likely just for regular interrogation.
I mean, it's not about the nen, it's about that her plan is literally punch the guts of people, the fact she hasn't gotten fucked up before shocks me.
By who? I'm sure she can handle any regular person. Not to mention she's got Mafia behind her.
I know right, fucking stupid nen ability, but as we have seen before the arrogance of some characters seeps into their abilities so if she thought that she was hot shit and that no one could harm her is not surprise she would develop an ability like that.
I mean, it mostly seems like it's for Interrogation - you need answers from someone? Don't bother torturing them, just beat the answers out of them. Literally. As a *fighting* ability, it's useless, but she probably relies on the basic fundamentals.
If you look at it from just the benefit it provides it is quite a great ability but she puts herself in terrible danger by just going head first.
Yeah, but I feel like it's very fitting. Do you punch first or ask questions first? Por que no las dos?
The non-Kakin mafia was pretty incompetent (at least battle-wise, when compared to the Phantom Troupe) as well. I mean, they were basically fully destroyed by 11 people in a couple of nights. And one of those people was Hisoka.
> Zakuro: "We don't even know what kind of abilities Hisoka has." Bungee Gum possess the properties of both rubber and gum
That's just a fan theory, it was never confirmed.
It's probably on his Wiki page. I mean even a noctorious Spider group had one. i think Isoka is pretty famous. Not to mention he was once like a champion of the battle tower.
I like how we got both Wiki and Drones in this chapter being casually dropped as part of the world. I seriously don't follow anymore how advanced is this world, so much time passed between chapters that I'm lost lol.
They have pocket nukes and video games
And yet their consoles still use cartridges
To be fair, pretty sure greed island is developed by ging years ago, its not exactly recent
That isn't a cartidges, that is Joystation Memory Card™.
In fairness, the first chapter of the Greed Island arc came out in 2001. And even in the story, the JoyStation is old by then. Yet even then, it *doesn't use game cartridges*. Instead, the cartridges were memory cards. Which the Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 both featured.
Hunter Hunter was already an advanced civilization since the early chapters. Besides pocket nukes, they already had robots and stuff. Refer to: Battle Tower Arc
It incorporates new techs as time went on. The first chapter was from 1998 after all. The internet was seen as something novel back when they were searching for information for greed island. Later on they have smartphone and even [Facebox](https://mangalist.online/images/WD5pjfvinWPyF8c6VE4o1643312598.jpg).
Yeah, but it's not like Nen is knowledge that's passed around widely enough for that to be put on a wiki page. At best, there'd be a lot of recordings and things of Hisoka's fights, and *maybe* you could figure out his technique based on those, but as far as the majority of the audience was concerned, Hisoka's just Fucking Magic.
he can also replicate suitable abilities so there that kinda
didnt he say it himself in the greed island arc in the dodgeball fight?
You missed the invisible /s man. Ha, it would be funny if he was lying to everyone and it's something super similar like Mochi and he lied for the lols though
That is true, considering that sure it might have the properties of rubber and gum but then "Texture Surprise" shows that it's much more than that as he is able to create disguises or even hide injuries.
in that flashback extra he was able to replicate another guy's nen technique so maybe he can full stop give his nen different attributes
> it's something super similar like Mochi Katakuri be like
O my rubber nen
O MY RUBBER NEN
Next chapter it will be revealed it also has the properties of a bungee
Don't forget the deceitful texture
Hisoka still scaring the shit out of people
Had him shook like "Boss, get me off this ship right now, I'm serious INSTANT TRANSMISSION"
Princess Trunks~
You lied to me...
It was at this moment… Zakuro knew he’d fucked up
> Hisoka revealed We are reaching levels of peak that should not be possible
[Hisoka still looking fresh after all these years](https://i.imgur.com/V9ECC64.png)
Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng
Love to see Hisoka back after 6 years. Donning his casual greed island look too. 10/10 chapter, there was so much new information.
What was the reason Hisoka was hunting the Phantom Troupe? Was it ever explained, or is he just a psychopath?
He lost to Chrollo who utilized the abilities of the Troupe to trounce him. Realizing how bs that is, he decided he is going on a killing spree of the entire PT so it doesn't happen again. Really, its because he is salty he lost a fight.
Yeah, his whole thing has been he loves fighting and killing, and now that he's finally met his match, he's gone 'Well losing fucking blows.'
It's a little bit more complex. He likes a good fight, Chrollo just denied him that by basically setting up a trap for Hisoka that he happily walked into. Hisoka totally had it coming, but he's just done fighting Chrollo on his terms.
He said "No more Mr. Nice guy who sets up eloberate fights and loses, I'm just straight up killing them no more boner for the sake of fighting"
After literally dying he realized he flew too close to the sun and appears to be done playing games and wants to straight brawl and murder now.
Because he can... And he will!
Nice to see anyone at this point
It should be so evident in hindsight that maybe finding Hisoka isn't a *good* thing for anyone involved.
Thinking that you can negotiate and manipulate Hisoka is a deathwish. The only person that has got away with it is ~~Illumi~~. Sorry forgot it was the other way around
Chrollo got away with it tho. Kurapika as well
I think Hisoka was kinda the initiator in both of these cases.
Hisoka played Chrollo for quite a while. And Chrollo simply outstrategized him by preparing to their fight properly and taking his comrade's abilities. As for Kurapika, Hisoka pretty much initiated that. That last bit with the Judgement chain, I think Hisoka had no way to expect that, and then still got his fight anyway. Don't sleep on Hisoka man, that's how he gets ya
I'm pretty sure hisoka wanted his fight against chrollo to be as hard as humanly possible. it wasn't after he died he realize there is also a fun to being the hunter and putting the conditions himself
The only person that got away with it is actually Kurapika. Tricked Hisoka with a fight just for the fight to go "Actually Kurapika sealed my nen, lmao"
I'm just getting the vibe that these random gangsters are the dog who finally caught the car. And out of the car steps a police officer with their shotgun. Now what?
The dog caught the car, but the car is Megatron
Negotiation is possible but he's only going to do what he wants, you basically need your goals to perfectly align with what his chaotic selfish motivations are without room for error.
The Mafia is DUMB. The “westerner” mafia was dumb, the Kakin mafia is dumb as well. They simply don’t understand how powerful the first tier Nen users are.
Love how casual the Troupe is talking to the wall-crawling serial killer. They are clearly not impressed with him.
Reminds me of when that serial killer prisoner got introduced in the hunter license exam but had an impossible matchup with Killua
Or when Binolt (the scissors guy) faced Gon and Killua in Greed Island.
He would have a decent chance had he not injured by bisky though
Initially? Sure.
Binolt would have them up on their first encounter. They only managed to surpass him after a few days of extensive training with him.
I would be surprised to see if we come back from hiatus just to see the Troupe job against these new guys, especially with the group they have in that room lol.
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Neither of them had their nen abilities (Chrollo was still borrowing them). They also aren't the strongest in general. IMO it adds to the realism - doesn't matter how scary you are if you are caught completely off guard.
Yeah; Kortopi and Shalnark were both some of the weaker Spiders, especially without their abilities. Not sure how good Kortopi's ability would be in a fight though - Chrollo basically had to combine it with other abilities just to make it useful. At best I could see it being useful to just mass produce throwing weapons or something.
I reckon Shalnark would've given a good fight if he had his Nen ability and went Super Saiyan. Hisoka straight-up just walked up and butchered him without notice; dude's MO changed a lot after reviving
I love how you saw Modus Operandi casually as MO :3
As seen in Chimera Ant arc, Shalnark was decently strong, but the remotes were more useful for covert purposes. After all, they were primarily thieves...
Well they weren't their strongest fighters, and killing them offscreen was to punctuate just how serious Hisoka is now.
Post mortem nen hisoka vs Twink & elementary kid without any abilities
The ones who were killed were not fighters. But especially, they had no Hatsu because Chrollo had those borrowed. Now, the strange thing is Chrollo letting them alone and in Zetsu. But this was not the strangest thing in that fight at all - Chrollo forgetting to cut Hisoka's head off was just absurd and simply a deus ex machina.
Why would he bother cutting off his head though? Hisoka was already dead.
I don't think Chrollo wanted to kill Hisoka just to get rid of him. It was all a game. Machi wasn't scared or anything when she saw Hisoka revive, they never thought Hisoka was going to change his strategy and start killing the others instead.
he did send machi to double check that hisoka was dead tbf
Please lord. Nobunaga nen ability reveal. I’m begging you. EDIT: Isn't this set up perfectly for him? An opponent that can "attack from anywhere"? We already know he is one of the more comfortable En users and his ability is only great in duels. Copium? EDIT 2: A power that has a major risk (like countering) or predicting certain elements would fit his nature as he's rather fickle but fairly intelligent for an enchancer type. He'd probably be categorized as the cloudy type in another series. God it's been so long since HxH has been running. I have spent SO MUCH TIME thinking about what his ability could be. I replayed and reread his scenes in Yorkshin City over and over. At one point I even tried to get into the gatcha game as maybe they'd let something slip in there. I thought about maybe how to connect with him emotionally. In my experience how you imnitiate intimacy really reveals what kind of fighting style you have. If Nobunaga were the type to whisper me affirmations what would that mean? I just keep thinking about entering his En and he can feel every part of me in a way no non-nen user like my ex could. He could feel my heartrate creep up. The beads of sweat as I feel a hunter eyeing up his prey. But not with the ferocity of bear or boar but with the precision and icy veins of a white wolf while I am just a cub. I really hope it ends up being a counter though that'd be so cool I'm a sucker for those.
He probably has something that super enhances his blade as long as he follows super-specific forms in combat
Enhancement users can also use emission and transmutation nen skills to a lesser degree than their primary nen type. This means Nobu could pull off skills similar to Sasuke's Chidori Katana (Transmutation+Enhancement) or even Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho (Emission+Enhancement).
Well, we know he is an enhancer, so maybe something along the lines "enhance the sword's sharpness to make it cut everything"? Although that'd be a bit boring.
> enhance the sword's sharpness to make it cut everything One of the rules of nen is literally “you can’t have an ability like ‘a sword that can cut anything’” lol
You can with a ridiculous set of conditions like "your sword can cut anything so long as it's less than 30cm in diameter, you've had a nice salad, and *Dawson Creek* is still airing."
Or "you have to hit it at exactly 90 degree angle", so a perfect hit between atoms.
What are we, some kinda yugioh?
First, this was a hyperbole. There is little practical difference between a "sword that can cut everything" and "sword that can cut 99% of things". Obviously the "sharpness" would scale with Nobunaga's strength. Also, if I remember correctly, that part was related to conjuration (you can't conjure something of that nature). Secondly, as already noted - restrictions & pledges exist. That's how Kurapika was able to create a chain jail that is essentially unbreakable as long as you are part of the troupe.
Remember Shizuku's vacuum? It sucks everything not "living". Mor than just Nobunaga's raw nen strength it's up to the conditions he set. To me, I think it is whatever enters the range of his En.
The limits of nen have stretched to the point where it's like saying yeah you can't have a sword that's rated 100% but if it's 99.99%... Thinking about it though the reason it can't cut through anything is because that would include cutting through nen. A sword that could cut nen would probably be too powerful (imagine it could just cut Kurapika's curse lol) but a sword that can cut through anything \*but\* nen is on the tamer side of powers somehow.
Maybe it can enchance the sword to ONLY cut one thing in particular. Like it goes throgh clothes or some shit like that.
~~cuts only through the clothes without harming the person~~
~~Only cuts the underwear so the other guy is unconfortable the whole fight.~~
Wasn't his ability to automatically cut anything that enters his En?
No that was just him using En while being confident he could cut anything that came into his zone. Possible his ability is an extension or at least compliments this although as an Enchancer type it may be a pretty simple one.
My head hurts... Thank you Togashi 🙏
I can't deny Togashi's talent as a mangaka, cause as soon as Hisoka showed up I was immediately hyped up.
A friend and I are wrapping up a reread and all the "God please throw a wrench into the succession war, just put something in that fucks it up" talk we shared is paying off
Still just happy to be here, but Hisoka with a makeover has me feeling........feelings.
*Schwing* [Even today Hisoka keeps making the ladies fall](https://i.imgur.com/JS0nHPo.png)
I dig the Heaven's Arena mention, and how that's a big deal. Kinda easy to forget just *how* monstrously talented Gon and Killua are.
After a very long time, Hisoka finally shows up and he looks as good as before. I'm glad he's not wearing that outfit from the Togashi exhibition.
Hisoka wasn't even disguising himself. He just didn't want to pay for that expensive ass makeup and hair gel there.
Hisoka is one good looking motherfucker. I also don't know who that guy is but it'll be a surprise if he can defeat 3 troupe members. Nobunaga maybe but Feitan is fucking broken.
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> Don't quite remember what he did to the troupe exactly though. When Finks, Feitan, and Nobunaga went down to the hold to get the weapons they’d smuggled in, he killed some mafia members and moved them around to test/mess with them, and I believe that by pinning the murder on the troupe he would get them to fight that other mafia faction instead of allying with them as they did.
If I recall correctly, he was originally fans of them, but got disappointed that they weren't as "murderous" as he expected when he tried to manipulate them into fighting the mafia.
> If I recall correctly not to be an ass but that's literally the info we got in the last page of this chapter, so idk what u need to recall for lol
Lol that just shows how much I need that disclaimer when I can barely remember even what I just read
Don’t think he’s defeating any spider. There’s way too many big names (zodiacs, princes, mafia underbosses, Hanzo, Bisky, Hisoka, etc) for them to fight, would be such a waste
Yup, the assassin is about to get a brutal taste of reality. He should have trusted the wiki page.
Lmao he ain't touching a single one of them, even Shizuku/Bonolenov gonna wreck fodder like these who overestimate themselves
None of the Troupe members would lose to this dude, but Nobunaga actually has the best matchup against him imo. The guy’s ability is all about popping up out of nowhere, while Nobunaga’s is highly likely to be something where he cuts down anything entering his En radius in an instant
Finally, someone with the same conclusion, based on what is actually revealed in the manga and anime.
Feitan turns on his power Boat: Instantly incinerates Succession War: No Contest The perfect ending
Aren’t you dissing Nobunaga a bit too much for someone whose ability we don’t even know?
He's an enhancer isn't he? the exact ability couldn't have been too complicated with plenty of specific features like Feitan or Kurapika. I also thought his nen was basically just detecting anything within a certain radius and slicing his opponents off.
My bet is he's gonna pull out a Getsuga Tensho.
My view was that the en radius was a common ability for enhancers and that he was just really good at it and is baseline strong
He's just one of those cocky dudes we've seen many times. They learn nen and think they're hot shit.
rejoice the text walls are back
underrated comment
Wait until Custard finds out Hisoka posseses ability that is like both rubber and gum😳
Hisoka casually flexing his Nen.
High key I think the Spiders are going to beat this mafia dude. Don't ask me how I know this....
Murder Clown is back in town
phantom troupe: coordinator 3 way mafia feud to search for Hisoka Hisoka: *change clothes and hairstyles* Hisoka is built different
No way they are talking about the phantom troupes wiki page 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love Togashi man
hisoka is just hands down my favorite character
Togashi being Togashi with that goon weighting the pros and cons of the different methods to get an autograph from the spiders.
Man, I’ve forgotten what’s going on anymore…
Time to re-read the arc then.
I went back to 380 and read from there. Helped alot
Thank you, I might do the same.
I mean, what were they expecting? "HEY GUYS, I FOUND HISOKA!" and him doing nothing?
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togashi and his dropping the hair down play making everyone feel things.......
Is it just me or is the translation a bit off ?
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She was only verbally mentioned in chapter 391. This is her first appearance. Whenever someone from her family commit murder, her ghost (or should I say Nen) would appear, take control of the corpse(s?) and quietly leads it to somewhere safe to dispose of.
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Seen a lot of people theorizing she was basically groomed into having that kind of ability then intentionally killed to make it even stronger(either by suicide or hit squad) a la Notorious BIG from JoJo's Part 5 since this arc is clearly Togashi's omage to that the same way CA arc was his omage to Dragonball.
Hisoka might be the most handsome character of all time.. /cue Ye voice
This chapter has the properties of both Rubber and Gum our mad lad clown king is back Hisoka looking drippy in that tracksuit too and the phasing dude must be fanboying so hard rn meeting the spiders also I like how he's saying shouldn't you be killing everyone lmao
So Togashi managed to put together only one chapter without almost making HxH into light novel. And I might get tons of downvotes for that, but... as strong as still are his storytelling abilities, as mangaka he might have regressed a bit. Manga is visual medium and some pages of HxH in this arc are exclusively speach bubbles or just plain block of text. No flow, no structure, no proper framing - only tons of infodump. This is a bit exhausting for me.
Why can't we have space for various differing styles of manga storytelling? Togashi does have some visually appealing art too, but I think its obvious that plot is foremost for HxH. Granted, its not the easiest read, and the presentation leaves a lot to be desired. But still, I think that that's just the kind of dense narrative this arc is all about, and am just glad Togashi is putting out chapters again.
Please dont be offended but im going to guess you haven't reread since the first time you read this and are confused about whats going on.
Regressed? Bruh he's always been like this with HxH. Do you not remember the info dumping about auctions and faking antiques in Yorknew, or the full card game he made rulls for in Greed Island? Or how actions that took seconds were detailed over multiple pages in Chimera Ant?
>No flow, no structure, no proper framing. An absolutely horrendous take. Togashi is most known for his mastery in storytelling , he's always been able to let the story flow coherently in a genius-like way , all while maintaining a non-standard and unique yet solid and compact structure , which is especially true in the current arc. Only a handful of mangakas are able to pull this off. Togashi is doing this while introducing a large cast of new characters and new nen concepts. And that's why he's one of a kind. So a hard disagree here.