Hangout Hunter x Hunter Hangout Thread [02]

[shionoro]

Togashi is a real Diva in a way. He knows how to make an entrance. Just some scribbles and everyone is hyped up, after 3 and a half years lol.

 

[Aeneas]

 

[shionoro]

If togashi keeps mostly doing two pages, he will be done in ab out a month.

 

[Aeneas]

Edit: most likely Nobunaga and his sword.

 

[Erinyes]

Sorry for the art spamming, but this guy coloring are just so perfect, they capture so well HxH essence and we all need some dose of HxH greatness after being deprived for years

Art credits : @Reef_Color

from another atist :

credits : @IReallyLoveJJK

 

[Uriel]

If togashi keeps mostly doing two pages, he will be done in ab out a month.

He's inspired :O
I bet He now knows what to do with this arc.

 

[shionoro]

He's inspired :O
I bet He now knows what to do with this arc.

My personal view is that togashi wrote this arc already and usually only keeps going when he knows everything that is going to happen, down to what exactly happens in each individual chapter. From that point on, you can start detailing out the chapters.

If he would not proceed that way, i do not think he could move forward well in a huge arc like this.

 

[Uriel]

My personal view is that togashi wrote this arc already and usually only keeps going when he knows everything that is going to happen, down to what exactly happens in each individual chapter. From that point on, you can start detailing out the chapters.

If he would not proceed that way, i do not think he could move forward well in a huge arc like this.

I'm genuinely curious about Togashi planning process for each arc. I think He's an outliner but who knows, maybe He discovery-writes those crazy nen techniques XD

 

[Aeneas]

I'm genuinely curious about Togashi planning process for each arc. I think He's an outliner but who knows, maybe He discovery-writes those crazy nen techniques XD

The two excerpts that come to mind are both from his interview with Kishimoto in 2016:

 

[Uriel]

Definitely an outliner then. I wish I had the talent He has to retain that complex information in his brain.

 

[Aeneas]

 

[Copy Panda]

theres too much detail for him not to be an outliner

and even if he wasn't an outline before, a discovery writer wouldn't be able to write this kind of arc i think

 

[shionoro]

Yes. As a writer (not anything fancy but at least good enough to have a grasp of what is possible for one person and what is not), my estimation goes as folows with reasonsings:

I am pretty sure Togashi planned gon's and kil's complete storyarc before starting that manga. As in: I doubt he knew about chimera ant arcs or gyro when he wrote the hunter exam. But I am pretty sure he knew that gon's story would conclude by him leading to kite's death and going berserk with killua saving him via rebelling against his family.
The character arcs are very smooth and they make thematic sense, so i doubt he suddenly got the idea to let gon go berserk. One evidence of that is that he deliberately showed every zoldyek except alluka, even tho alluka would be the key to resolve both gon's and kil's plot. He knew he'd be using her and he'd better keep her a secret until then.

But that does not tell us how far he plans ahead in arcs. As i said, knowing gon will lead to kite's death and go berserk does not mean he planned meruem's story yet.

My estimate is that Togashi plans an arc completely (as in, a complete outline of all relevant plots of the arc) before writing it and thoroughly writes the ten chapters he does (or 20 or 30) before releasing them.
He plans the broadstrokes of a character arc before including it. As with gon and kil, i am pretty sure togashi already knows how kurapika's and leorio's journey will end. That does not mean things cannot change (we know he wanted to do another spider arc first after yorkshin), but he has a general gameplan what the resolution of their conflict will be.

To talk about this arc, my estimate is that this arc has 30 chaps left and will end when they reach the refuel platform. Then the story will shift to the zodiac on the boat in a new arc. I do believe togashi has planned most of the next arc already, at least in medium strokes and knows exactly how they get off the boat and how the succession war concludes, and so on.

 

[Copy Panda]

i agree that it's probably not an unreasonable assumption that the first part of the story (until gon finds his dad atop of the world tree) was more or less planned in broad strokes yeah

 

[shionoro]

At least you'd have to be both talented and lucky as a writer for things to fall in place like that.
One evidence of that is the CA arc, too. Its roughly 130 chapters long, longer than deathnote.
Yet all these moving parts, kite's death, meruem's story arc, the invasion group, the individual ant storylines, they all fell in place.
That does not happen if you didnt plan all these plotlines out to know at least all relevant plotpoints and their resolutions pretty exactly.

Maybe togashi did not know about the ortho twins before starting, but he sure as hell knew killua would be in that forest and meet ikalgo before he started writing that arc.

 

[Copy Panda]

tbh theres lots of symmetry that arc so even if it wasnt ortho twins specifically, he did know he had to give killua a moment to develop the beginnings of godspeed and befriend an ant yeah

 

[Aeneas]

 

[shionoro]

I wonder what Meruem is doing there!
Jk, its clearly just action lines.. Nice carpet tho.

 

[Aeneas]

 

[shionoro]

Its so good to know togashi will return soon.