(Hunter x Hunter) Watching the Chimera Ant arc for the first time :picard: UPDATE: finished #136

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I've been posting my reactions to each episode in another thread. Just finished Episode 101 so I'll be posting my reactions to each ep as I go along.
So far this is definitely up there with the likes of the Dark Tournament (Yu Yu Hakusho), Jojo's parts 2-4, and Enies Lobby (One Piece) one of the GOAT arcs in anime.

I messed up by sleeping on Hunter x Hunter for as long as I did. Haven't had this feeling since watching Jojo's Part 4 for the first time :wow:

My reactions to the previous episodes, copied from that other thread...
Just finished episode 77...

When those little kids got eaten by the chimera ants :picard:
I've got an ugly feeling that this is only the beginning, too :to:
Just finished Episode 83.

I can see why this arc is considered one of the GOATs. I can't believe how wild this storyline is getting.
These Chimera Ants are vicious, some of the most savage villains I've seen in an anime so far. They're just carrying people off by the hundreds and feeding them to the queen like it's nothing:huhldup:
They ain't have to do old girl Ponzu like THAT :merchant: :mjcry: :picard:
Getting one in the dome right in the middle of her plan to get help, and getting bloodily devoured :wow:

These chimera ant fights are brutal though. The way that centaur looking dude came in with two butt naked dudes ( :dame: ) with leashes on being his dogs and casually stomping them to death :whoa:

These kills are next-level :whew:
Killua snapping that mosquito lady's neck and ripping her head clean off :mjlit:
Gon slicing that centipede guy in half with a new rock-paper-scissors technique :krs:
Kite casually sonning that centaur and later murking that whole forest full of ants with his scythe attack :salute:

Just now Gon crushed that armadillo chimera ant while he was balled up :obama:
Then you had Killua ripping old dude's heart out like Kano in Mortal Kombat. Fatalities everywhere in this story arc :ohlawd:

And the worst part is that the ants are starting to figure out nen. Once they all learn it, it's looking like it's a wrap :lupe:

I don't think Pokkle's going to make it, y'all :sadbron:
I ain't built for this, breh :mjcry:

EPISODE 84 SPOILERS:

Imagine you're out exploring a new country with your girl. You and your crew get ambushed by a bunch of demonic monsters way stronger than any human.
Your girl goes to get help, and she gets several bullets through the dome from one of those demons before she's brutally ripped to shreds and eaten.
You wake up in the demon's lair, and you're stuck hiding butt booty nekkid in a pile of human corpses, waiting for your chance to escape. Just when you think you have a chance...
an even stronger is born that minute that's 100x stronger than the rest, and they sense your presence immediately.

You get dragged out of the pile of corpses, still butt-naked, and you get lobotomized. The monsters open up your skull, pick your brain with chopsticks for everything you know forcing you to snitch on the human race. You're fully aware of everything that's happening, and there's nothing you can do to save yourself.

When they're finished, some Pigma-Dengar looking dude comes through with a butcher knife and brutally hacks you to pieces. Your rotting corpse is fed to the queen of the monsters. None of your homies from the previous arcs came to save you. They don't even remember you. No one will ever remember you.

I never pictured ANY anime character having a worse life than YAMCHA :wow:
That's EASILY a top 2 most brutal hoeing of any fictional character I've ever seen:gag::gag::gag:
They couldn't let him keep his draws on? :picard:

EPISODE 85 SPOILERS:

THIS FOOL KITE HAD ALL THE SAUCE AND PITOU STRAIGHT ICED HIM OUT LIKE HE WASN'T JACK :damn::damn::damn:

THESE CHIMERA ANTS KNOW NEN AND EVERYTHING:whoa:

How are Gon and Killua going to get strong enough to beat these dudes?:lupe::lupe::lupe:

I don't know how much more of this Game of Thrones x Hunter I can take... I gotta see how this ends, y'all :lupe:

Ninja, these ants have ME shook. Just finished Episode 87, and these Chimera Ants are a top 2 most demonic anime villain clique of all time (beaten only the Godhead in Berserk) IMO.

It's cool seeing Bisky back on the scene, and to see Gon and Killua making progress with their ren training.
Bisky staring at all them magazines full of dudes like :shaq: at while Gon and Killua were practicing their nen techniques :mjlol:
Every anime has to have that old master who's a total perv :lolbron:

Neterou and the goons out here making moves :bustback:
:sadcam: @ Pitou being even stronger than him, though.

:dead: at palm switching between wanting to kill Gon and Killua and randomly falling in love out of nowhere :russ:
When she was pouring the whole cup of sugar into her tea and Gon and Killua were looking at her with the :dahell: face :pachaha:

What really burns slow is the way Gon and Killua are still set on rescuing Kite not knowing what's already happened to him. :mjcry:


This ant queen is so nasty.:snoop:
Over here swole up like Jabba the Hutt. I can't believe the rest of those ants aren't scust to even be around her, especially that dude Colt with the wings.
He'll be out here like... "Look, why don't you go up the street and get something to eat, I know you hungry" :whoa:
CA Queen: "Nuh-uh cause see I ate twice before I came." :flabbynsick:
Colt: :why:
Speaking of the chimera ants, why are they always keeping all their prisoners booty-butt naked? It's so demonic, friend. :sitdown:

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Some thoughts...

Episode 88

Now we're seeing the real G's in action. This dude Neterou is catching all the bodies :whoo:
ANOTHER ROYAL GUARD has hatched :sadcam: :sadcam: :sadcam:
How is Gon gonna beat this dude Knuckle though? :dwillhuh:

Episode 89

Shoot... is a coward. They're really bringing this clown to fight the Chimera ants? :mjlol:
You KNOW he's going to get his behind tore up...
Watch them physically rip that mess off and hand it to him like "Oh I'm sorry, the queen don't even like this part. My bad :hubie: "
Gon's coming through with the paper technique though! :krs:
...but he ran out of gas in the middle of the fight. I've got a bad feeling. If Gon and Killua are having this much trouble getting the tokens from these dudes, then how are they going to stand up the chimera ants? Bisky gave my dude Killua the beats, too. Out here looking like a Jojo's character :pachaha:
Illumi really messed Killua up mentally... :mjcry:

The series has been slowing down with the darkness and the :picard: moments lately. I'm fine with it to be honest, I don't know how much more my heart could have taken :to:

Episode 90

These dudes Knuckle and Shoot really are OP! :dwillhuh:
How are they going to beat these guys?

Even I was sitting there like :leon: when Knuckle was explaining all that math.

Episode 91

Now I'm back to making the :picard: all throughout the episodes again... :gag:
Even the sight of the King busting out of the queen had me making the :mindblown: face!!!
This King was out here ripping heads off his own people at ten seconds old. When that penguin ran up and caught the business out of NOWHERE :ooh::ooh::ooh:
I was watching like :damn: when that tortiose was coming forward with a handkerchief to wipe off the King's tail. Predicably, he got insta-murked. :snoop:
Out her eating little kids' brains out...:sadbron:

:aicmon: Gon and Killua really caught that L in the end... things can't possibly get any worse. Or can they? :lupe:

Episode 92

Colt is the only reasonable member of the crew. He still remembers his old life :mjcry:

Episode 93

Palm :sitdown:

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EVERYTHING about this arc is savage on another level...
The characters are more savage.
The kills are savage.
The plot twists are savage.
Even the soundtrack is savage :picard:

 
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Episode 92 (more thoughts)

Colt protecting that little baby after the queen died :to:

It's crazy to see how far the ants have come. In the beginning they were feeding on bushmeat and snatching fish out of the river, until they got a taste of human.

Now they want that hickory-smoked homo sapien cooked medium rare :merchant:
You had the queen out here fiending for that soylent green 6-piece with a large fries and a cherry coke :picard:
Out here turning human beings into McBeef en masse :lupe:

Episode 93 (more thoughts)

Meruem is SAVAGE on another level :mindblown:
Who just casually strolls into the palace of a ruthless dictator and bodies EVERYONE?
This dude Meruem was out here feasting on that guard leader's intestines like :mjlit:and everything!
This dude Meruem looking like a two-year old eating spaghetti for the first time with all that gore on his face :gag::gag::gag:


Kim Jong was still fronting him off in the palace :pachaha: Dude didn't know who he was messing with.
I felt bad for those dancers though, especially when Meruem was fronting them off.
"Do you ever listen to the pleas of the cows and pigs you slaughter for food? :Demonic:

:whew:

...

On a lighter note... Gon is definitely not your typical simp. This dude was talking about going on dates and how cougars would "teach him things" ( :sitdown: )
Then you had Palm all over him on their date ( :sitdown: :sitdown: :sitdown: )
When she was cutting up all those voodoo dolls :wtf:

Oh snap, this is bad. Rammot is back. Killua has to body this dude or else it's a wrap since Gon has no powers right now...

Episode 94

My DUDE Killua came through with another fatality on Rammot.
GOOD. I'm still messed up after what happened to Pokkle... I want to see some justice y'all :mjcry:
Now they need to murk Pitou and that blue thing that ate Ponzu.

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When he pulled that needle out of his own head though...:why:
Illumi really messed him up!

I love how Palm is all obsessed with Knov now. Over here creeping in the background like Where's Waldo in every shot :heh:

How are they going to beat that fool Cheetu though? :dwillhuh:
Over here styling on everyone like Quicksilver in X-men and stuff...

Episode 95

That was smart how Knuckle stuck him with that little nen-creature that charges interest :ohhh:


Kite... what did they DO to you? :mjcry:
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Is Gon really out for revenge like that though? Gon is normally such a happy-go-lucky character. He was looking unusually demonic after he powered up against that big dude with the sunglasses (Morel?) though.
He was really looking like Tupac in Juice for a minute there :lupe:

It's cool to see Gon and Killua getting more respect as Hunters though, especially after that big dude was trash-talking them like crazy earlier. I'm surprised that big dude is still alive at this point. After talking all that smack I was SURE the ants would murk him in NGL. I was expecting them to literally hand that dude his own behind like "Oh I'm sorry, the Queen don't even eat that part, my bad (:hubie:):

Episode 96

Get eaten while trying to interview a Chimera Ant on live TV, brehettes :francis:
The Phantom Troupe is back :banderas:
Oh man, Zazan looks... different. Out here turning Metro City into Babylon :patrice:

It's tight to see this mummy looking dude finally getting some shine thoug--Wait, they put holes all in this dude at THREE YEARS OLD? :mjtf:

YES! That blue ant who ate Ponzu FINALLY got murked! :blessed:
That mummy (Bonolenov?) brought the whole planet of Jupier down on him like something out of Final Fantasy 7...
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I really thought Shalnark was done when that giant bug got him, but he went Super Saiyan out of nowhere. I'm down with it :upsetfavre:

Then you have Phinks punching that one Ant into oblivion like Donkey Kong in Super Smash Bros :bryan: :mjlol:
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Feitan at the end of the ep :whoo:

(I just realized that the main characters weren't in this ep at all :jbhmm:)

Episode 97

Shizuku did WORK in this episode. She might be a contender for best girl at this point. So glad she murked that one Spider-looking Ant (Pike?) Everything about that thing put me off, brehs.
All those close-ups on his bootyhole when he was shooting his webs :dame:
I love how Shizuku points out ( :ufdup:) that he could have used his webs to close his wounds before getting his blood drained.


Killua is Kalluto's brother? :leon: (I must have forgotten since it's been so long since seeing most of their family).
I legit thought that Kalluto was a girl until looking online at the wiki. Dude did work though, killing that one ant with all those paper-cuts. :obama:

FEITAN is on another level though. :blessed:
When he summoned a SUN to burn Zazan to death on some Terminator 2 stuff :ohlawd:
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How the heck are Gon, Kurapika, etc. supposed to get strong enough to fight HIM?

Speaking of Zazan, doesn't she remind y'all of Zarbon from DBZ?
 
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Episode 98

We've got Gon and Killua making Metal GOAT Solid moves. I love Killua's explanation of the country's corrupt politics.
This show stays ethering North Korea :pachaha:

I'm just trying to understand the Chimera ants' selection process. So are they punching everyone with Nen to see which humans they can use as food? And 490,000 people have already died in that process?

The GOONS are coming for Gon now, though...

Episode 99

This is bad... if Gon doesn't figure out something quick he's done for.
Oh, hey. That was smart how he got both Ants on one side and used that tree trunk to his advantage to knock them both out.

I'm still worried though. These ants are straight savages, and Gon is still playing nice and giving people chances. I hope that doesn't get him in serious trouble...

Meanwhile Killua is working on his side of the plan, which is taking out as many mind-controlled soldiers as possible so that the people can escape and warn nearby countries about the ants. Pitou's sending the goons for him though...

I still have no idea how Knuckle and Shoot can really beat Chettu. Dude seems too OP with his insane speed.

Episode 100

We've got my mans Killua Wick killing Chimera Ants left and right in this episode. They weren't ready for him!

This sniper has me dying. Dude stays singing all the time for NO reason!

My fleas are very special...
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They have a 200 meter vertical leap
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They some bad muthas
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Okaaayyyy...
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It's too bad they killed him off so soon. I love how Killua kills him with his middle finger just to add to the "screw you" factor :pacspit:

Hey, that chameleon dude (Meleoron?) is apparently looking to make deals with Gon.
Can we really trust this dude? I know Colt is cool, but a lot of these other Chimera Ants are on some other stuff:wtb:

Episode 101

This dude Ikalgo reminds me of Ultros from Final Fantasy VI...
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I wasn't expecting him to be a parasite though. He seems like such a goofy character to be a vicious chimera ant...

The Ortho Siblings weren't playing though.
:merchant: @ how badly Killua got messed up fighting against them.
GULLIEST 12 year old of ALL time.
What blows my mind is how Killua knew all the rules to darts all along and planned around it. That was some Jojo-tier strategizing right there :whoo:

:myman: @ Ikalgo coming through to save Killua in the end. Between this and Meleroron switching sides, it turns out that we've actually got a few decent chimera ants who are pretty cool people.

:ohhh: Killua is becoming more like Gon lowkey, while Gon is starting to show a demonic side... I see you with that role reversal Toghashi :wow:
 
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1. Chimera Ant

2. Chunin Exams

3. Namek

Interesting list... Yeah, I can see why people like this arc for sure. I slept HARD on Hunter x Hunter :wow:

Naruto peaked with the Chuniin Exams IMO. Lee vs. Gaara >>>>>>

Namek is legendary, but the Frieza fight took too long. The first Goku vs Vegeta fight was lowkey better than the Frieza Fight IMO.


For me, I would say...

1. Namek (warts and all), just for it's influence.

2. Water 7/Enies Lobby (One Piece)

3. The second season of Jojo's Part 3 (after they get to Egypt)

4. Dark Tournament (Yu Yu Hakusho)

I don't want to rank the Chimera Ant Arc for sure until I've finished it. It's definitely top 5 already either way.
I can see the Wano storyline in One Piece ranking pretty high once that's done too.
 
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