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This thread is about any top 3 lists with the topic of it ever changing.
A new topic can be brought in by anyone and i will change the topic every week or so to keep things fresh (including this opening post).
I choose to only make top three lists so we don't get ultralong lists without explanations but people actually think about what they want to pick.
The topic at the moment is: Tell us the 3 plotpoints you would want to be developed further.
This can be something that you think was not fleshed out thouroughly enough (for example the creation of greed island. We only know it is there, not really how in the world they are able to make spells that can heal people who are on the brink of death), things you are thrilled about in the future (like the dark continent or something specific on it in general) or even something you just want to see even more of (like heaven's arena, we still didn't see the top of it).
Another possible pick would be about something you feel was not explained well enough and you'd like further explanation, like hisoka's 'death' or kite's resurrection.
My picks are (in no order)
1) Hunter exams:
Now, i know it is not going to happen because Togashi will not waste his time with that, but i would probably read a manga that is just about arbitrary characters trying to get through tests with some of them failing and some winning.
I was sad that Killuah just curbstomped the opposition in the second exam he took (even if it makes a lot of sense from a narrative standpoint, it would have been plainly bad writing to flesh out the exam more).
I would love a spinoff of HxH where we see how ging, netero or biscuit took their respective exams.
It is something i just cannot get enough of, even if i know we will never see another exam arc.
2) The Calamities:
The calamities are, for me, the biggest thrill about the DC.
These threats break out of the usual powerlevel approach we got used to in HxH (even Meruem fell into it in some shape or form. It was, after all, shonen characters doing battle, just with one of them being vastly stronger than the rest).
The calamities feel like something we have just not seen before in HxH: They are a threat so big that even Meruem is classed below them, but they don't seem to have personality and they don't look like they are up for nen battles.
They are a faceless, natural threat and as such much more thrilling than any given supervillain, no matter how fun he is.
3) The History of the hunter association:
We know surprisingly little about the association and only really came into some understanding of it since the election arc.
There are some things that i find do not make sense: For example, it is said that 100 blacklist hunters came to the zoldyek mansion and silva executed them.
But if things like that seem to occur often enough (see Hisoka pwning lots of blacklist hunters, too), then in an association with under 1000 people, there won't be many left at some point.
From what we see, there are only very few people in exams who pass. 9 was already a big number in the exam arc and often noone passes, so we can assume that it is maximum 5 people per year on average.
With that number, it is hard to imagine that there are less than 5 hunter's dying per year when we see that a lot of them are too weak to even team up in waves against people like Hisoka or Illumi.
There are possible explanations to that, like the exam getting only that strict under netero because netero didn't want fodder and thus the number of the new hunter's dying got much lower.
Another explanation would be that most hunters do not do terribly dangerous work, but are rather focussing on science and exploration.
But it never got clarified and i am looking forward to see how the organization works under cheadle.
So what are your picks?
A new topic can be brought in by anyone and i will change the topic every week or so to keep things fresh (including this opening post).
I choose to only make top three lists so we don't get ultralong lists without explanations but people actually think about what they want to pick.
The topic at the moment is: Tell us the 3 plotpoints you would want to be developed further.
This can be something that you think was not fleshed out thouroughly enough (for example the creation of greed island. We only know it is there, not really how in the world they are able to make spells that can heal people who are on the brink of death), things you are thrilled about in the future (like the dark continent or something specific on it in general) or even something you just want to see even more of (like heaven's arena, we still didn't see the top of it).
Another possible pick would be about something you feel was not explained well enough and you'd like further explanation, like hisoka's 'death' or kite's resurrection.
My picks are (in no order)
1) Hunter exams:
Now, i know it is not going to happen because Togashi will not waste his time with that, but i would probably read a manga that is just about arbitrary characters trying to get through tests with some of them failing and some winning.
I was sad that Killuah just curbstomped the opposition in the second exam he took (even if it makes a lot of sense from a narrative standpoint, it would have been plainly bad writing to flesh out the exam more).
I would love a spinoff of HxH where we see how ging, netero or biscuit took their respective exams.
It is something i just cannot get enough of, even if i know we will never see another exam arc.
2) The Calamities:
The calamities are, for me, the biggest thrill about the DC.
These threats break out of the usual powerlevel approach we got used to in HxH (even Meruem fell into it in some shape or form. It was, after all, shonen characters doing battle, just with one of them being vastly stronger than the rest).
The calamities feel like something we have just not seen before in HxH: They are a threat so big that even Meruem is classed below them, but they don't seem to have personality and they don't look like they are up for nen battles.
They are a faceless, natural threat and as such much more thrilling than any given supervillain, no matter how fun he is.
3) The History of the hunter association:
We know surprisingly little about the association and only really came into some understanding of it since the election arc.
There are some things that i find do not make sense: For example, it is said that 100 blacklist hunters came to the zoldyek mansion and silva executed them.
But if things like that seem to occur often enough (see Hisoka pwning lots of blacklist hunters, too), then in an association with under 1000 people, there won't be many left at some point.
From what we see, there are only very few people in exams who pass. 9 was already a big number in the exam arc and often noone passes, so we can assume that it is maximum 5 people per year on average.
With that number, it is hard to imagine that there are less than 5 hunter's dying per year when we see that a lot of them are too weak to even team up in waves against people like Hisoka or Illumi.
There are possible explanations to that, like the exam getting only that strict under netero because netero didn't want fodder and thus the number of the new hunter's dying got much lower.
Another explanation would be that most hunters do not do terribly dangerous work, but are rather focussing on science and exploration.
But it never got clarified and i am looking forward to see how the organization works under cheadle.
So what are your picks?
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Also Hisoka's resurrection if future chapters confirm that he did completely cheat death.
