[ SECRET POST #3140 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3140 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's an argument to be made that he's also interested in deconstructing shounen plots and stereotypes. The Chimera Ant arc is kind of a good example of this. We have the ultimate life form, the one that evolves and absorbs powers, facing off against the most powerful fighter in the world, an aged mentor figure who wonders if he can really beat it. This, in most stories of its type, would mean the mentor figure fights the ultimate boss and gets defeated, giving the hero the motivation to power up and defeat the ultimate life form.

Instead, Gon only even *sees* the King once, and never fights him. He instead fights the King's lieutenant, and has to resort to a dangerous forbidden technique to win -- and unlike every other 'dangerous forbidden technique' in the history of the genre, this one actually does cripple him in an incredibly gruesome way, and he spends the entirety of the next arc in a hospital bed, slowly dying. Meanwhile, the King does manage to kill the mentor figure -- who then just nukes him. Literally detonates a powerful bomb that's the fantasy equivalent of a nuclear weapon. The King never loses a fight -- he just dies quietly of radiation poisoning in the arc's epilogue.

You can see a lot of things like this in the other arcs, too, if you're looking for them. Hunter x Hunter's one of my favorite shounen manga out there for just that reason, and I really wish Togashi could recover from his health issues and/or laziness (whichever is the real reason) and keep it going...