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B-Dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
On Break
Oct 25, 2017
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It's probably like over 1/2 if not 3/4 of relevant character in the series. Who's actually left that's been involved in the last two arcs? It's pretty much just the Chimera Ant invasion crew: Ikalgo, Palm, Shoot, Knuckle, Melereon, Gon and Killua. Which is fine, they all got to be a part of that incredible arc. And besides, Gon has mountains of homework and deciding what he wants to do with his life and Killua's on the run from his crazy family, they're both kinda busy at the moment.
Jairo isn't here either.
 

edo_kid

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm thinking the Mafia this time might actually be a threat, since they got destroyed so badly in Yorknew City. Them Kakin boys don't play. I'm hoping they have some powerful Nen users who can actually push the Troupe.

I don't know, the Ten Dons were the leaders of the best mafia families from all over the world, so they had at least a Kakin boss in there and yet they were still taken out.
To be fair Maha was in there, but still it looked like it was Illumi that did all the dirty work without breaking a sweat. At this point i don't expect much from them.
 
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I don't know, the Ten Dons were the leaders of the best mafia families from all over the world, so they had at least a Kakin boss in there and yet they were still taken out.
To be fair Maha was in there, but still it looked like it was Illumi that did all the dirty work without breaking a sweat. At this point i don't expect much from them.
Would Illumi be that much weaker than a Troupe member though?
 

woopWOOP

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Oct 26, 2017
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I figured Pariston and co are hiding on the boat somewhere since Bill said one of the escape plans involved Pariston.

Also I like that Sakata guy. Constant deadpan face, blasting nen snakes to kingdom come like it's nothing. Hope he makes it through all the way.
 

edo_kid

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Daingurse

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I don't know, the Ten Dons were the leaders of the best mafia families from all over the world, so they had at least a Kakin boss in there and yet they were still taken out.
To be fair Maha was in there, but still it looked like it was Illumi that did all the dirty work without breaking a sweat. At this point i don't expect much from them.

I'm hoping they can do something. It would be kinda boring to see the Troupe roll the mafia again lol. I just hope that the enforcers for the the Kakin mafia families are made of sterner stuff than the Shadow Beasts.

Yep, Illumi should no be underestimated.
The Needlemen were all I needed to see. Illumi is scary.
 

Ultra

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Oct 30, 2017
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To be fair, Illumi could be stronger than Hisoka for all we know. We don't really know how strong Illumi is at all but a vague "ranking" by Hisoka. The thing is, these mental evaluations aren't always accurate, for example he himself mentioned that his Nen personality test isn't always reliable. The guy wanted a go at Netero.

At the very least, even if Illumi is at Hisoka's level or even slightly below right now, he's probably going to surpass him at some point.
 

edo_kid

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To be fair, Illumi could be stronger than Hisoka for all we know. We don't really know how strong Illumi is at all but a vague "ranking" by Hisoka. The thing is, these mental evaluations aren't always accurate, for example he himself mentioned that his Nen personality test isn't always reliable. The guy wanted a go at Netero.

At the very least, even if Illumi is at Hisoka's level or even slightly below right now, he's probably going to surpass him at some point.

You right, the thing with Hisoka evaluation is that it seems to be based on sensing the aura, and theres no way he can take in account hatsu's, so is flawed. But still it gives us an overall threat level of the user, and that scene was clearly used to hype up the Zodiacs and Illumi.

I don't think Hisoka in his wildest dreams ever thought that Netero would have a hatsu so crazy, he can literally kill the whole spider group in less than 1min (lol i would even say less than 10sec). It probably don't help that Netero aura is very quiet, it's probably misleading.
 
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Oct 25, 2017
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So this chapter...

The dialogue from Phinks re finding everyone over 6"3 on the boat- I didn't think about his when Hisoka blew his own face off but now that he's generating his face using texture surprise he can probably change his appearance to whatever he wants, furthering his creepiness by basically turning him into the Thing but powered by nen. Togashi still going full horror this arc
 
Oct 25, 2017
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So this chapter...

The dialogue from Phinks re finding everyone over 6"3 on the boat- I didn't think about his when Hisoka blew his own face off but now that he's generating his face using texture surprise he can probably change his appearance to whatever he wants, furthering his creepiness by basically turning him into the Thing but powered by nen. Togashi still going full horror this arc
If this is the case Hisoka is Clayface from batman. And probably bound to lose control over it.
 

Philippo

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Oct 28, 2017
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So this chapter...

The dialogue from Phinks re finding everyone over 6"3 on the boat- I didn't think about his when Hisoka blew his own face off but now that he's generating his face using texture surprise he can probably change his appearance to whatever he wants, furthering his creepiness by basically turning him into the Thing but powered by nen. Togashi still going full horror this arc

I didnt even thought about that, what if he killed one of the Princes bodyguards, took his face and sneaked into the upper levels?
 

edo_kid

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Hisoka still can't change is overall body or face shape, he would have to find someone similiar if he want to take its place.
So far only Illumi has shown actual shapeshifting, and its still only temporary.

I didnt even thought about that, what if he killed one of the Princes bodyguards, took his face and sneaked into the upper levels?

I don't think Hisoka wants to go to the upper levels, his prey it's down there.
 
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HStallion

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hisoka still can't change is overall body or face shape, he would have to find someone similiar if he want to take its place.
So far only Illumi has shown actual shapeshifting, and its still only temporary.



I don't think Hisoka wants to go to the upper levels, his prey it's down there.

Till he saw a Nen Beast and nearly got a priapism
 

HStallion

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Oct 25, 2017
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Speaking of Hisoka being on the ship I found this on reddit:

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edo_kid

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HStallion That's very good, even the hair is similar except longer. The heart at the end sentence is very well spotted.

The H on the suit would be a total troll move. Everyone just thinks it's the Hunter symbol like the other people have.
 
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Euphony

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Oct 25, 2017
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Speaking of Hisoka being on the ship I found this on reddit:

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Oooo spooky. I disagree with the combat experience points as proof because he is a bodyguard that uses Nen, therefore it's safe to assume he also has combat experience with it. The heart at the end is possible, but aren't all of Hisoka's suit symbols colored in and not white?
 

Kirblar

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Oct 25, 2017
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re: image
Makes sense that he'd run to the one guy who might actually back him up in this fight.
 

Ultra

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B-Dubs

what's the policy on spoilers for new chapters? Do we spoiler tag scans/information [obviously scans without a watermark] until the official Viz release or?
 
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Euphony

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Oct 25, 2017
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B-Dubs

what's the policy on spoilers for new chapters? Do we spoiler tag scans/information [obviously scans without a watermark] until the official Viz release or?
From what I've seen and followed, spoiler tags are used for when spoilers leak and for the first day or so when a fan translation is released, which is usually on Thursdays or Fridays.
 

B-Dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
On Break
Oct 25, 2017
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B-Dubs

what's the policy on spoilers for new chapters? Do we spoiler tag scans/information [obviously scans without a watermark] until the official Viz release or?
Spoiler tags are mandatory until the first English scans hit, no matter where they come from. Once that happens no spoilers are needed. That's universal across all manga threads.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Hisoka still can't change is overall body or face shape, he would have to find someone similiar if he want to take its place.
So far only Illumi has shown actual shapeshifting, and its still only temporary.
What about Bisky? same nen type too.

Kurapika and him do text right? He called everyone else in his phone book... Hahaha if Togashi has done this it'd be the dopest reveal
 

edo_kid

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What about Bisky? same nen type too.

Oh yeah forgot about Bisky, but her stuff is complicated the body change is not transmutation and her massage hatsu have like 3 nen types. Hisoka keeps it simpler, gum with transmutation and texture with conjuration.

Her massage hatsu is especially impressive because it uses manipulation (60%) and emisson (40%), the hardest for a transmuter to learn. Her nen mastery is no joke, lets hope we see more of her this arc.
 
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Oct 25, 2017
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What about Bisky? same nen type too.

Kurapika and him do text right? He called everyone else in his phone book... Hahaha if Togashi has done this it'd be the dopest reveal
Kurapika and Hisoka never seemed chummy enough to randomly text each other. That seems more like an Illumi and Hisoka thing to me. Hisoka and Kurapika I would assume only really spoke to fuck over Chrollo.
 

Ultra

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Oh yeah forgot about Bisky, but her stuff is complicated the body change is not transmutation and her massage hatsu have like 3 nen types. Hisoka keeps it simpler, gum with transmutation and texture with conjuration.

Her massage hatsu is especially impressive because it uses manipulation (60%) and emisson (40%), the hardest for a transmuter to learn. Her nen mastery is no joke, lets hope we see more of her this arc.

Pretty sure a Transmuters mastery peak for Manipulation and Emission is the other way around with Emission at 60 percent.

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Which still makes it just as impressive because the Hatsu uses both anyway.
 

edo_kid

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Ultra lol i actually saw that image to confirm the percentages before posting but somehow my brain still change them up :)
 

Ultra

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HxH Wiki has her as a Transmuter, i'm sure this was brought up in the manga and anime as well.

To add to this, when Killua is like "Hisoka was lying!" about using spell cards Bisky's like: Killua, there's liars who only lie when there's a reason to, and there are liars who do so without a reason. You and I are the former. He's the latter. And we know by Hisoka's Nen Personality test [even if it's not always accurate] that Transmuters are generally whimsical liars.
 

HStallion

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Oct 25, 2017
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So if anyone wanted an easy way to remember the basics of the Succession War I saw this one reddit:

https://imgur.com/a/P8n91

Seems like a pretty good breakdown on the different princes, their bodyguards and the status of them so far. Even includes their Nen Beasts.