Anime Hunter X Hunter New Anime Discussion

[SHINOBI-03]

I think Kurapika and Hisoka weren't the least who impressed Netero, their fight was the second fight after Gon vs. Hanzo, and they even had 4 chances to win, the ones who impressed Netero the lest must be Leorio and Bodoro.

Okay, maybe I was wrong a bit, but the fact remains that Gon & Hanzo were first and Kurapika & Hisoka were the second in the manga and the 1999 version switched them around.

 

[Crude]

I actually kind of like the fight even though it essentially boils down to fan-fiction. Hisoka losing it was pretty disturbing though. And you really can see how much Kurapika favouritism is prevalent in the old anime. I like Kurapika a lot, but reducing the actual protagonist's screentime is just wrong.

 

[Refraction]

Okay, maybe I was wrong a bit, but the fact remains that Gon & Hanzo were first and Kurapika & Hisoka were the second in the manga and the 1999 version switched them around.

I reckon it was to do with illustrating the passing of time in those episodes.

Gon and Hanzo's fight lasted over three hours--and that was enough to pull the day into the evening in the 1999 adaptation. To make this perhaps more convincing, Kurapika and Hisoka going first helped pass a certain amount of time earlier on in the day to make the duration of Gon vs. Hanzo progress more believably into the evening time. This'd be unusual if the days were longer, but after the gang recover Killua, it's mentioned that September 1st is more than six months away; and factoring in the time it took to save Killua after the Hunter Exam, it's probably not too much of a stretch to say the exam was taking place during the winter time or early spring. I think that's confirmed on Greed Island. Like the northern hemisphere in the real world, shorter days are the knock-on consequence. In other words, since Gon and Hanzo fight for three hours, changing the day from afternoon to evening--something facilitated by having Hisoka and Kurapika eat up the morning slot--helped illustrate the feeling of the lengthy passing of time in the Hanzo fight--and it's something that's believable if you consider the time of the year. It was also conducive to making Illumi appear that bit spookier in the red glare of the evening, helping to communicate his fairly dark presence and the mood of the moment.

I reckon that's why Kurapika and Hisoka were made to fight first. I think it was the writers reading into the silences of the manga a bit to get a bit more out of what they had to work with.

 

[chei]

Wow that's really odd that they would censored the shower scene, when they let us a glimpse of his flesh XD first in the preview. Maybe it's more of an art direction change...

Ah the Kurapika vs Hisoka fight was generic and cringeworthy in my opinion. Why would Hisoka lose it like that though, to pre-nen learning Kurapika? Felt OOC to me.... :\ Definitely a case of the Kurapika-loving director Kazuhiro's own mary-sue projection. So glad the new series kept it simple and painless.

 

[mrsticky005]

Is anyone else besides me excited to see Killua vs Riehvelt?
I hope they do justice to the part where Killua catches the whips.

I think Madhouse's "quick animation" style (think Gotoh coin flip animation) will fit nicely with Riehvelt swinging the whips around.

Plus I've no doubt that the shocking scene will look fantastic.

I'm not expecting the overall animation to be TOO amazing given Hisoka vs Gon is right around the corner.
But I hope they at least give quality to the key moments: Like Kilua catching the whips. Or Gon
flipping over the stone tile with his fishing rod in his rematch against Gido.

 

[Beans]

Did Hisoka use his Bungee Gum and Texture Surprise to cover up his wounds in here?

 

[Uriel]

You'll never know. Most likely He attended that wound and used it, but it could be always that it healed.

 

[Beans]

^But it would take time if it was healed, it's either he covered it up, or Togashi forgot about it.

 

[Uriel]

It's not a deep wound, and Zetsu is known to make yourself heal faster. And He's not that far from Intensification anyway.

 

[ZonikStrike]

He could even use Reinforcement to heal faster.

 

[Beans]

^You both might be right, I totally forgot about those healing abilities.

 

[Diivil]

Also, this has been talked about many times.There isn't much blood to begin when Hisoka's arm was severed in the manga .Also , due to his aura surrounding his severed arm,there wasn't much blood flowing out from the wound.Only when he remove the aura from there,it will bleed.

and also i think why there was no blood when Hisoka removed his Aura from his arm for machi to stitch it back in the anime was because, they reversed the order of how it was done

In the manga Machi ask Hisoka to remove his Aura and then she proceeds to stop the bleeding.

While in the anime she stops the bleeding first and then ask him to remove aura, preventing blood from flowing out.

not really a big deal but this in my opinion was a creative way to censor the blood in this scene.


Oh and for the people saying the bathroom scene was "censored" It was not actually it was the same thing as in the manga.

 

[Beans]

Requiem Aranea Variation from OST 2

---------- Post added at 09:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:30 AM ----------

In this site you can hear 45 second of every theme.
Here

 

[shareme]

and also i think why there was no blood when Hisoka removed his Aura from his arm for machi to stitch it back in the anime was because, they reversed the order of how it was done

In the manga Machi ask Hisoka to remove his Aura and then she proceeds to stop the bleeding.

Spoiler

While in the anime she stops the bleeding first and then ask him to remove aura, preventing blood from flowing out.

Spoiler

not really a big deal but this in my opinion was a creative way to censor the blood in this scene.

Thanks for pointing this out! Madhouse use of censorship highly amuses me and quite telling that they respect the HxH fans and our supposed intelligence, especially the old ones.

As of now, their censorship is:
1) personalized; tailored to fit that character's personality (see: Hisokas' pink flowers and "fairy" dust; Killua's mockingly giving the heart back).
2) changing a more gruesome scene to a less one and still leaving no doubt on what happened on the scene (Killua's panned out killing of two applicants, Hisoka beheading Togari, panned out blood gushing from the sword guy's neck, Hisoka laundering Geretta's dead body instead of just the head)
3) and now, changing the order of scenes as a way to explain the lack of blood.

I'm actually waiting for what kind of personalized censorship we'll see next.

 

[fanatik]

Oh and for the people saying the bathroom scene was "censored" It was not actually it was the same thing as in the manga.

Hey, if you read carefully, you'll see that I meant it was censored in comparison with the preview of that scene in the previous ep, not the manga. And the opinion futurefrog gave on the issue seemed probable, so I dropped the issue long ago.


Anyway, is there any info on when Galneryus releases their 'Hunting for your dream' single? I still long to hear the full version of the song, and the 2nd ost includes only a TV sized one... Ah, and another thing: judging by the 2nd ost it looks like we're stuck with 'Departure 2nd ver.' as the opening for Yorkshin...? The ost is great but this sucks...

 

[Beans]

^I don't think that having Departure 2nd version in the 2nd OST means that it will be the opening of Yorkshin.
I think they'll change it once we get to there, It won't make any since having a cheerful song as an opening for an arc like Yorkshin.

 

[Diivil]

^^I think the reason we got a second version of departure is because the heaven arena arc is relatively short, so i'm guessing that they did want to make a completely different opening for this arc and then make another completely different one again for YorkShin and i'm guessing that they did not want to use a Yorkshin opening for this arc because it would spoiled. SO instead they edited departure with some new scene that are related to heaven arena arc.

 

[Salce]

^^I think the reason we got a second version of departure is because the heaven arena arc is relatively short, so i'm guessing that they did want to make a completely different opening for this arc and then make another completely different one again for YorkShin and i'm guessing that they did not want to use a Yorkshin opening for this arc because it would spoiled. SO instead they edited departure with some new scene that are related to heaven arena arc.

I woud think that, but Departure v2 already has pictures of York Shin arc.

 

[TheAmericandream]

I think I'd be okay with Departure 2 if they removed the Hunter Exam stuff at the end of it, and replaced it with actual Yorknew city visuals.

 

[mrsticky005]

Here's how I imagine the openings/endings going...

Departure/Just Awake

Episodes 1-26: Which covers about Volumes 1-6

Departure 2/Hunting for your Dream

Episodes 27-52: Should cover Volumes 6-11

3rd Opening/Ending. Will likely have Yorknew/Greed Island

Episodes: 53-79: Should cover Volumes 11-16

4th Opening/Ending: Will probably be Greed Island/Early Chimera Ant Arc (Before Meryem)

Episodes 80-106: Should cover Volumes 16-21

5th Opening/Ending: Chimera Ant Palace Invasion

Episodes: 107-133: Should cover Volumes 21-26

6th Opening Ending: Conclusion of the Chimera Ant Arc/Election/Alluka

Episodes: 134-160: Should cover Volumes 26-30


Of course this is probably not exact but I think it be something like this.