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The 27th anniversary of Hunter x Hunter's first chapter has passed by recently, and I thought it might be a fun idea to stream the 1999 anime series.
Stream link:
https://cytu.be/r/GreedIslandThe stream will officially begin on March 13th, 20:00 UTC. See you there!
No.8620
>>8614Hunter x Hunter suffers from having too many characters to juggle around, each with their own subplots and character arcs, which can screw with the pacing of the entire piece as a whole. The Chimera Ant arc feels like a bunch of filler mixed in with half baked ideas and wanting to play with your new pawns (characters) a bit too much.
I really didn’t like the theme of evil in that arc at all: the belief that there is a supreme evil that requires human unity to eradicate. This is a real world political belief that’s had very disturbing implications. If you genuinely believe that you fight in the name of humanity, then your opponent is anti-human and this justifies absolutely anything, from nuking Japanese civilians to gassing Jews or pounding Arab cities to the Stone Age. Innocent blood can be shed as collateral, an unfortunate price that must be paid to destroy an existential “evil” threat to humanity. I’m really not sure what Togashi’s angle was here. On the one hand, he humanizes (heh) some of the ants (Meruem, Welfin etc) but most are irredeemably evil and must be eradicated. You can’t really tell if he’s trying to explore war in a nuanced way or if he genuinely believes in crusading against evil. The whole thing is just a mess and it’s a stark contrast to the earlier arcs which weren’t so political and always had a positive theme running through them no matter how dark it got. Once his cured of his priapism and learns about Kite’s gender transition, Gon just seems to go back to being the happy go lucky kid he was in the very beginning, as if he’d not witnessed this brutal war and dismembered a catboy. Maybe he’s psychopathic or something?
There are other problems too. The inability to retain tension, the fairly predictable soundtrack despite the budget increase, too many characters for a single non-autistic human to keep track of, and the overreliance on exposition through character monologues and narrator-san makes the whole thing feel like a radio play or an audiobook. 2011 seemed very spectacle driven, just shove as much cool shit in as possible too. It’s like they decided to take everything that 1999 did well and throw it out.
Anyway there’s my brain dead r*ddit quality take on this clusterfuck.
No.8747
>>8746結果オーライ as they say.
Thanks for the stream!
No.8756
>>8753you WILL watch 3d actors
No.8757
>>8750I'm sad but mostly disappointed that, having suffered through watching a film about a cop who wasn't sure where he was and another about a guy that came from the subway to stab people, the only solace I'm allowed is a makeup stream at such an inconvenient time. Although I'm glad to know I'm not alone in my appreciation of the movies shown in the previous, out-of-notice replacement stream (and I recall some insightful musings about the meta-thematic structure of the turn of the century new wave of Japanese cinema, met by an empty apathy of other streamgoers who were clearly not on the intellectual level of this critic), I'm afraid I won't be able to be part of this makeup stream, hence making my sadness and disappointment doubled.
It boggles the mind how the host of this stream is so jarringly oblivious to the concept of an apology. Not once has the blame for a disastrous stream day been properly addressed. As a regular poster in this space, I deserve better.
No.8760
>>8757oh yeah that reminds me I got too busy hisokamaxxing I forgot to say that I won't be at the makeup stream either sorry
No.8761
>>8757We're owed an apology for all the stage plays and unnecessary backtracking.
>>8760Have fun wearing clown makeup and preying on kids.
>>8750I'll see you in a couple hours.
No.8763
>>8757>>8761Gomen, it's been a very hectic past few weeks for me. We're going back to anime and consistent programming once I'm done with all of my business
No.8859
>>8857Damn, I don't join stream but I've heard good things about this film. Maybe I will watch it and join cytube in spirit. Enjoy.
No.8860
>>8857memories of murder is a great film holy shit
No.8865
>>8864damn fuck sunday i guess
No.8867
suck funday
No.8869
>>8867I mean… if you want me to……
No.8872
>>8871am i having a stroke right now
No.8873
>>8871What about leap years?
