So we can all agree Gon's pops from Hunter X Hunter was a worse father than Goku right?

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It's very good but don't go expecting Naruto or your typical battle shounen.

Hunter X Hunter treats its fights pretty seriously and focuses more on world building, adventure, and character interactions. It's also pretty interesting in how the main characters are very talented but they're still relatively small fries in their world.

Fights don't really become the focus until Greed Island and you won't be even introduced to the "powers" until a fairly hefty investment into the show.

It's a slow burn but it's worth it, IMO. I also like how they make non-combat scenes very tense. They had an election (no spoilers) that managed to be as tense as some fights in other shows.
Which is exactly why Gon fighting Mereum wouldn't have made any fukking sense.
 

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I would nominate Gendo Ikari for abandoning his son, contacting him years later just to pilot a death machine infused with the soul of his dead mother while neglecting him the entire time and acting as an actual father to a doll made in the image of his dead wife.

Then obviously you have that fukker Shou Tucker

Ging is up there too and Goku behind them all because he's just really stupid and doesn't seem to know any better. Abridged plays this off well

Yusuke Urameshi's daddy wasn't there either:ohhh:

Worst thing about it is they showed him in the manga ending. He still hooks up with his mom but never says hi:mjlol:
 

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What about Ash ketchum's father I think they mentioned that nikka once about him leaving to be a pokemon master and that was that.
 

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It wasn't even that deep, it was just well constructed. You see the the evolution of ants as creatures only concerned with base desires like eating and reproducing to wanting to create societies or wanting to please. Feeling things like love, respect, anger, jealousy, etc.

And as the ants became more human and relatable, the humans started looking more racist and evil. Its not an accident that the most human looking of the Royal Guard was the most manipulative, cunning, and emotional of all the ants (Pouf).

You see Mereum, a being who had every right to feel he was superior to humanity, try to have a conversation with Netero so they could reach a compromise despite the fact that he was clearly able to kill him any second that he wanted.

Mereum, who had every reason to hate humanity and could have spent his last minutes trying to enact revenge, chose to free humans believing that their individuality had as much right to exist as they did.

He chose to die doing what he loved and with who be loved, playing a game, rather than throwing a "tantrum" like Gon and Netero did when facing their own reality.

Mereum is literally a GOAT-tier antagonist. Perfect representation and foil to the savagery/racism of humans. Look at how monstrous and demonic Netero looks at the end of his fight when compared to how human the King looks. :whoo:
That's some deep shyt breh:wow:
Too bad that scum bag author like trolling his fans with his writing schedule :beli:
 

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That's some deep shyt breh:wow:
Too bad that scum bag author like trolling his fans with his writing schedule :beli:

Dude is pretty sick, breh. He likes his Dragon Quest too but I'm not paying for it so can I really complain? :yeshrug:

But yeah, lots of powerful themes in the Chimera Ant arc. It's one of my favorite arcs since Chapter Black (Another Togashi favorite) in Yu Yu Hakusho.
 
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