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Honestly if someone else wrote HXH, it just wouldn't be as good, not because Togashi is some kind of impossible to surpass genius but just the topics of HXH are very difficult for anyone else to handle. GI and Ants in the hand of another author would almost certainly flop. They didn't really end satisfactorily even in HXH and they're certainly way beyond the 'Shonen solution' (e.g. main character powers up and beats everyone up). Another author probably can handle Yorknew fine. It might even be better given the average author won't waste assets like Kurapika by having him disappear in the middle of the story.
To quote something I saw in a manga bashing board. While your generic hero who is supposed to be an average guy (or even way below average) ends up turning out to be super special in other manga and thus a huge breach of reader trust, at least HXH has the foresight by telling you that Gon (and Killua and really Kurapika) are all super special from the get-go so when it needs to call in a few miraculous victory favors it's somewhat covered.
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Assuming that 'someone else wrote HXH' means the story still retains roughly the same worldview (e.g. you don't expect people to randomly turn into X-tails to make up for an insurmountable difference in fighting power) the difficulty of some of the major fights, especially the Ants arc, is way beyond the ability of most authors to handle. Not even Togashi handled them satisfactorily.
Take the common Shonen Jump author, they wouldn't even be able to handle an enemy similar to Vearn's ability in Dai-no-daiboken (a character possessing the best offense, defense, magic, and is aware that all heroes must be killed immediately to prevent them from magically getting up and become 10 times stronger). That is to say it doesn't matter if you're talking about Ichigo, Luffy, Naruto, or whoever, they can't beat someone who will decapitate them as soon as they're down (and none of these guys will ever defeat anyone who is remotely powerful without being downed at least once given their characterization). Compared to this, decapititate a downed opponent is like the minimum level of combat excellence in HXH. Of course, most authors aren't really interested in writing a world with rigorous worldviews where you actually know character X will beat character Y decisively.
To even attempt to write HXH satisfactorily an author would need to show that he is capable of distinguishing the difference between 'cannot be defeated' and 'cannot be killed'. Meryem is similar to say, Dongfang Bubai in the Chinese martial arts literature. He cannot be defeated but he can definitely be killed. Of course, in most manga the main character must defeat his opponent, so there's no possible way for the average Shonen to properly resolve this, and this concept is probably beyond the ability of the average Shonen to handle.
To quote something I saw in a manga bashing board. While your generic hero who is supposed to be an average guy (or even way below average) ends up turning out to be super special in other manga and thus a huge breach of reader trust, at least HXH has the foresight by telling you that Gon (and Killua and really Kurapika) are all super special from the get-go so when it needs to call in a few miraculous victory favors it's somewhat covered.
---------- Post added at 12:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:03 AM ----------
Assuming that 'someone else wrote HXH' means the story still retains roughly the same worldview (e.g. you don't expect people to randomly turn into X-tails to make up for an insurmountable difference in fighting power) the difficulty of some of the major fights, especially the Ants arc, is way beyond the ability of most authors to handle. Not even Togashi handled them satisfactorily.
Take the common Shonen Jump author, they wouldn't even be able to handle an enemy similar to Vearn's ability in Dai-no-daiboken (a character possessing the best offense, defense, magic, and is aware that all heroes must be killed immediately to prevent them from magically getting up and become 10 times stronger). That is to say it doesn't matter if you're talking about Ichigo, Luffy, Naruto, or whoever, they can't beat someone who will decapitate them as soon as they're down (and none of these guys will ever defeat anyone who is remotely powerful without being downed at least once given their characterization). Compared to this, decapititate a downed opponent is like the minimum level of combat excellence in HXH. Of course, most authors aren't really interested in writing a world with rigorous worldviews where you actually know character X will beat character Y decisively.
To even attempt to write HXH satisfactorily an author would need to show that he is capable of distinguishing the difference between 'cannot be defeated' and 'cannot be killed'. Meryem is similar to say, Dongfang Bubai in the Chinese martial arts literature. He cannot be defeated but he can definitely be killed. Of course, in most manga the main character must defeat his opponent, so there's no possible way for the average Shonen to properly resolve this, and this concept is probably beyond the ability of the average Shonen to handle.
