Which would be somewhat reminiscent of the Chimera Ant arc at best. To me, that would demonstrate that Gon took away nothing from his fight with Pitou, from encountering the Ants or from Kite's transformation. Look, I know he can be a bit thick headed, but his getting excited at the prospect of the DC is only going to show some serious character regression. It should have taught him to seek out people, not beasts or things that don't belong in his world.
I read that character very different than you. I don't think Gon wen tthrough character developement about not wanting to fight monsters and explore the wild.
Gon would be totally fine with doing that and even dying while doing that. He just got mad because Kite was so important to him and he felt guilt about being the reason Kite died.
If Gon takes his buddy Killuah and they go on their own into the wild to explore, that is always an exciting thing for him he loves to do, and i dont think that changed much.
He simply cannot do it now because he has no nen. I can see him joining kite's group (which are also no fighters) and go explore with them.
I always felt like exploring was even more fun to him than fighting. The time gon was the happiest in the manga in my opinion was when he won greed island and when he brought killuah home.
There were stronger opponents waiting for him in heaven's arena, but his appeal was to see what is at the top. When Gon and killuah were told what's at the top, they simply stopped caring. That is a strong indication for me that gon seeks mystery and unknown more than fighting.
Now his interest lies in protecting his sibling. Both from his own family, and from other threats. Although we don't know exactly what Zzygg's interactions were with the DC, it's fairly safe to assume that Alluka's powers stem from one of the calamities there, probably because Zzygg either knowingly or unknowingly brought part of the dark continent back with him. Killua is not done dealing with his family by a long shot, and seeking out anything in the DC would only be a means of protecting Alluka. It doesn't change the fact that Illumi is not going to stop chasing him, or that his mother and father will keep trying to bring him back into the fold too. Then you also have the method his other brother is using to try to bring him home- going through the spiders. The DC may represent equal parts escape and discovery, but unless Togashi decides to have the entire Zoldyeck family challenge Killua there, he'll be back in his own world to face them down. And if he can set the time and place, as well as the traps, Battle Olympia would be the place to do it- they're sort of expecting things to get blown to hell and back, anyway.
I don't see Killuah wanting to fight his family in serious fights, except maybe his brother Illumi. And the Zoldyeks are not exactly the type of guys who agree to time and date.
If they want to kill alluka, they do it the second they know killuah's whereabouts. They do it while killuah is fighting and then abandon the fight. They do it after they stages a fight which killuah wins and trail him when he returns to alluka. They do it any way they can.
Going high profile against assassins is never a very good idea in my book.
I disagree. He seems to be somewhat affectionate and/or fond of Leorio. We see him holding Woble, and his world begins to change. He hasn't forgotten his past, but he's learning what it means to have some depth of humanity. He isn't going to get that in the Dark Continent.
I phrased it wrongly. He does care for his friends and other people, but as far as lifegoals go, he abandons everything else for this.
Yes, he saved gon and killuah when he could have killed chrollo, but he also didnt go to help gon when he was in the hospital and his inner monologue tells us that he does not think he can lead a normal life with friends before he settled his business.
The only way kurapika would fight in battle olympia would be to either kill a spider or to get a chrimson eye pair.
He didn't develop that warp punch out of nowhere. He hit Ging from across an entire auditorium, and can even use his abilities to locate hidden blockages, obstructions, etc. inside a human body. We saw Ging demonstrate what can be done with that kind of talent. Sure, he started out in the wrong style.... but look how it evolved after that. If he continues with the secondary talent, he could well start manipulating an opponent's insides- cause an aneurysm, a heart attack, etc, from across a room without the victim even being aware of what was happening to them. Which would put him on par with the Battle Olympia vets, at least. He might even find a teacher, if Ging gets fed up with the way Cheadle is guiding him.
I didnt want to say that leorio cannot fight. He is simply not interested in it. Studying under cheadle is exactly the best he can do to further his lifegoal.
There is no reason not to do it as long as he can.
Money is only the thing he wanted to BECOME a doctor.
There could be a plotline about him needing more money and fighting in heaven's arena, but why would he go to battle olympia? For a usual doctor's purpose, the fights leading up to the nenbattles should be enough.
Everytime he trains his fighting skills is a time in which he does not train to be a better doctor.
I'm more of the opinion that Togashi doesn't write things into the actual story without reason.
It has a reason. The reason is to show us that gon and killuah are not interested in it, to characterize them.
It was the reason why they left heaven's arena. Without it, they would not have left but tried going higher.
If he goes to the DC as a support character, that means Togashi will kill him. Which is an interesting twist, but he wanted a boring mc to showcase his other characters better (in his own words). The spotlight was on Gon in Chimera Ant, it's moving more towards Leorio and Kurapika now. And as neither of them are really all that boring... where does that leave Gon?
Training, learning, and trying to improve himself as he always has. The tournament is a perfect spot for him.
But at first he would have to get his nen back. And that cannot be something that just happens offscreen, it is a rather big thing.
If togashi wanted gon to train and fight and whatever, he could have easily done that by not making gon lose his nen and training in heaven's arena because 'he wants to get strong enough to protect kite next time' or some shit like that.
It could be done in a narratively smooth way. But we know that this did not happen, thus i assume that togashi wants to go somewhere with nenless gon, and i can only imagine that to be a supportative characters (which does not mean he has to die, but we will explore gon in a more powerless state than we are used to).
Judging by the argument Ging had with her, she's more of a hindrance than a help in many ways. Too many blind spots, an unwillingness to consider alternatives, and not enough connections to those around her to have been able to win the one competition we've seen her in. She just isn't on Pariston or Ging's level.
Cheadle is one of the most competent characters we know.
Cheadle is, in her field of expertise, above ging and pariston. Ging and Pariston know how to use crazy wildcards to their advantage which noone else sees coming, but cheadles strength lies on the planning side.
Cheadle has to organize the whole organization's actions on the blackwhale, which is something i doubt ging and pariston can do. They are too individualistic for those works of details. They can use other people to get their way, but i don#t think they are very capable in managing large organizations.
Be it as it will: Cheadle's expertise as a doctor is unquestioned. She does have 3 stars for a reason.
She and Sanbica are the best teachers leorio could ever wish for.
But brute force is basically all the DC is. Neterro himself didn't find the kind of intellectual challenge in it that you've just ascribed to it.
I do not think it was about intellectual challenges.
Netero didnt find the fair one on one fights he wanted to fight, but monsters and diseases, which is not his thing.
But exploring such wildlife is partially the thing of our maincharacters. Leorio can study diseases, gon can explore (which netero was never interested in).
Kiraupika and Killuah are the wildcards here because they have other goals completely.
I don't think the DC is just 'brute force'. We know that the calamities partially have other ways of being dangerous than being 'strong'.
Bear in mind that you know next to nothing about the setup in Battle Olympia. The ones at HA were already pretty much "anything goes."
Okay, but it will happen in a confined space and if it is called battle olympia, it is about people fighting each other.
I simply don#t see that as nearly as thrilling as a whole new continent with completely new challenges.
It's not like the DC arc won't have one on one fights, too.
Did you find any artificial reasoning behind the Chrollo vs. Hisoka fight, or the first fight in which Killua faced Zushi and got impacted by Zushi's ren?
Togashi uses the battle tournaments, things like the Hunter Exam, etc. in order to introduce plot elements, characters, and motivations. If you were to ask people which Arc was their favorite, I've seen Yorknew hailed the most (because Spiders and also because Chimera Ant dragged on far too long for most people). People hail the ant king learning humanity as the pinnacle story/point of that arc. And where did Meruem inherit that capability, because it wasn't in his nature initially?
His food, or diet, while he was in the womb was shifting and altering his thought processes, enabling him to make distinctions and establishing a foundation for his character development. The ants themselves were interesting because they remembered some, or all, of the person they consumed in order to be born- and it shaped their paths.
As far as strong fighters we've never heard of, there is also this little thing called the Blacklist. Those people would not be on it if they weren't strong enough to withstand those who are inside the Hunter Organization as Blacklist Hunters.The spiders may be a class A bounty. If Hisoka kills most of them and Kurapika finishes them off, Kurapika just needs to find the eyes. He flat out admitted he was turning up nothing until Miazaistorm showed up with a lead. The very first thing we see him doing after the hunter exam is looking for shadier jobs.
No, but to get a significant load of strong characters together, you need artifical reasons. Or you have a tournament without bigshots. No zodiac, no ging, not zoldyek and so on. Because most characters don't have a reason to be there.
Killuah had a reason to be there when he was. So did Chrollo and Hisoka. But none of those had a reason to go higher than they were.
We know for a fact that the strongest chars in HxH are not very interested in going to heaven's arena.
Even someone like hisoka, who seeks thrills for a living, didnt go to battle olympia and didnt even try going higher in heaven's arena (he simply forfeit matches that did not interest him). That tells me that he sees no merit in most of the contestants there.
The Blacklist exists, yes, but the people on it have a good reason to usually be in hiding. The spider for example usually hide and the only reason chrollo could fight on heaven's was because he was not actively searched anymore after the mafia pulled their issue back.
The thing is just: There are lots of characters who strive for battles and glory in HxH, but none of those who actually are strong has ever mentioned that he trains for heaven's arena or BO.
Not netero, not Uvogin, none of the fighting zodiac, not beyond netero, not hisoka.
And if they don#t think that those kind of tournaments offer a lot of entertainment and challenge, i see no reason why i should think so.
As i said, the only characters i can see going there is zuchi.
