Discussion Who's going to win the election?

[Goral]

Who's Teradin?

I'm voting again on Chidl since currently she's the only viable candidate that has a chance of winning. Biscuit was never a good candidate IMO, she might be a good teacher but a chairman? Not really. Leorio probably wouldn't be the best chairman if only for the fact he's too much of a good guy and to lead people you sometimes need to be a prick. Kurapica though, who is mysteriously missing could become a real black horse.

 

[Phantron]

Chidol is the only person who would make a good chairman based on (political) ability not including Pariston. I really got the feeling the next chairman is just going to be someone with a good vision but otherwise spends time partying in his office with girls or something like that, while someone like Chidol does all the grunt work.

 

[Uriel]

Who's Teradin?

No one we know, but I like his name.

 

[THM Nindo]

I had to think for a long time before finally picking my choice.
I finally picked Morau.

The reason why is that he seems to be a great leader and he's already somewhat important in the story.

I also kinda eliminated everyone for various reasons:
- Parriston is clearly the bad guy here; we know he's most likely the cause of those hunters disappearing
- Cheadle just doesn't cut it for me... She's totally boring and that won't work for a chairman... she could be a great vice-chairman, though...
- Leorio winning would be funny and awesome, but really I can't see how that would happen. He's just not cut for the job and I don't see him behind a desk for the rest of the manga...
- None of the other zodiacs strike me as a potential winner... Maybe the Dragon guy a bit, because he seems to have a lot of experience, but really, I don't think one of them will win...
- I cannot see someone that wasn't introduced yet as the winner (ex: Ickshonpay or Teradin). Unless they are introduce next chapter, there's no way that a nobody will win.
- Biscuit would be a funny choice as well. It would be hilarious and she could somewhat do the job, I think... But, still very unlikely.
- Ging could potentially win, but I don't thin he will, simply because he would be too easy to find if he's the chairman. He needs to be hard to fin otherwise Gon will go straight to him and his "search" will be over too soon... And he doesn't look like he wants the job anyway...

 

[Goral]

I was thinking that maybe Kurapica was using a fake name so that Genei Ryodan wouldn't know he was one of the candidates but that wouldn't make sense for various reasons. Firstly, because no one would know him he wouldn't get much votes besides hunters that would vote randomly. Secondly because I believe a candidate must use his real name. Thirdly, because I doubt he would even want to twin and attract attention. Still there is a very small chance that:

• these two will turn out to be people we know - hopefully not because Togashi would be making a plot-twist for the sake of plot-twists and it wouldn't make sense (see: Code Geass for example)
• these two will turn out to be people we heard before or are connected to the story some other way by being affiliated with main characters - that could work I think, there must be someone who was mentioned but we haven't seen or some Zoldyck living outside of the mountain or maybe Netero's/Hisoka's brother/sister/son/daughter

 

[kkck]

Dunno but for me botosai seems like the best choice. He is the only one that has a presidential feel to him IMO. He is the only one that seems to have seniority among the zodiac given what pariston said.

Gin does not want the job, he merely wants things to go his way. He does not want to influence the result by cheating the election as far as we know but he is willing to take action so that things do go his way. Can't be sure on whether he planned the leorio thing though.

 

[Phantron]

Dunno but for me botosai seems like the best choice. He is the only one that has a presidential feel to him IMO. He is the only one that seems to have seniority among the zodiac given what pariston said.

Gin does not want the job, he merely wants things to go his way. He does not want to influence the result by cheating the election as far as we know but he is willing to take action so that things do go his way. Can't be sure on whether he planned the leorio thing though.

There can only be one person in any group of people that have the most seniorty. Botosai sure looks like he has seen a lot, and not counting Pariston, he looks like a pretty strong candidate.

 

[THM Nindo]

@Uriel

Still voting for Teradin?

 

[Uriel]

Absolutely. He's NEUTRAL and He's a Head Hunter. It's an old man and searches for talented people. More appropriate is almost impossible :P

 

[THM Nindo]

I had some time to waste, so I thought of doing a post presenting every one of the 16 candidates for the Chairman position...

1st Position
Pariston

2nd position
Cheadle

3rd position
Leorio

4th position
Botobai

5th position
Mizaistom

6th position
Ickshonpay

7th position
Teradin

8th position
Morau

9th position
Saccho

10th position
Biscuit

11th position
St.Bika

11th position
Rinne

13th position
Lupe

13th position
Bushidora

15th position
Cutie

16th position
Ging

 

[Host Samurai]

I bet my money on Morau too. He really is a suitable candidate of becoming Chairman, who gets the job done like he said last chapter. And his students probably don't need his guidance anymore. Since he survived mankinds biggest threat, while he wasn't in a perfect condition. I'm pretty sure that he'll overcome the issues of being the Chairman of Hunter Association.

 

[Phantron]

I bet my money on Morau too. He really is a suitable candidate of becoming Chairman, who gets the job done like he said last chapter. And his students probably don't need his guidance anymore. Since he survived mankinds biggest threat, while he wasn't in a perfect condition. I'm pretty sure that he'll overcome the issues of being the Chairman of Hunter Association.

The problem with Morel is when does he gets his triple star, since he started out as a single. I assume they didn't say 'he could become a triple star' and then the answer turn out 'oops guess that wasn't enough'. But there's still a timing issue. Right now he's still only a single star and probably don't have the fame to convince the random guys to join him. If he gets his promotion before the next round that'd help him greatly. I don't think he's well-known at this point to go deep against the field.

 

[kkck]

Well, based on the last chapter I have to go for two people. Either botobai or teradin neutral.

Botobai is the man closest to the chairman and if there is any merit to his description box he is likely the strongest hunter in the association. He has a presidential feel to him to say the least.

Teradin seems like a good candidate too. If he is any good at spotting talent them perhaps it would make sense to make him president, the association could become that much more efficient at admitting specially talented people who could lose their chance to becoming hunters for purely circumstantial reasons. If there is any merit to his box description, he is the one that could make the most good to the organization, more so that chidol and perhaps botobai.

 

[fevrier]

Off the Teradin comments, I'm definitely interested in him now we see his mini-bio about reforming the selection process... The Hunter exam always struck me as a somewhat random, not to mention unconscionably brutal. There must be some political repercussions to letting candidates murder each other without consequences, even if the Hunter organization has enough firepower no one wants to mess with it. Still, the fights and survival games have a lot of luck involved, and there's not much focus on non-combat special talents.

However, Teradin looks very Hollywood agent-esque, so I'm a little afraid his reforms might mean turning the exam into some sort of TV idol spectacle, some sort of publicity stunt that puts more emphasis on popularity. That's just speculation based on his character design, tho.

 

[THM Nindo]

Now that everyone was shown, do you think we will see them all in the manga.
It would be interesting to have some of them doing a campain, trying to get vote, etc.

Right now, it seems more likely that next week (or the one after), we will get the new results and half of them will be gone before we even got the chance to see them

I would like to see the election process, with people trying to win votes by any meaning, trash talking the others, etc...
At some point, we will have to go deeper anyway, 'cause Pariston's role in the disappearance of the hunters will certainly be revealed before the end of the elections...

 

[Reach]

I don't know about Teradin. He seems like a typical politician who promises good things during the pre-election. Then when the elections are over, his agendas radically change or fails to keep his promise.

As much as I'd like Morau or Biscuit to win, they're up against more known characters with greater political influence.

I still see Leorio as comical relief for the election.

I feel that an underdog will win nonetheless. That's just how Togashi does things ;D

 

[Uriel]

I actually see Pariston as the Politician and Teradin as the old gentleman. Don't know why, but I imagine him being the most nice and polite old man. After all discovering talents is something that you do humbly.

 

[ashher]

From the point of view of making the plot interesting, my choices would be no president or pariston or leorio.

 

[Phantron]

Teradin seems like a guy with a good idea but not necessarily how to implement them. How will you change the Hunter test to weed out people like Ilumi? He pretty much behaved throughout the contest. Is he going to run a background check on everyone? Put in a test to judge character, perhaps something like the first part of Naruto's equivalent exam? But really you think someone like Ilumi can't figure out if you've a scenario where you got to make an unreasonable sacrifice that the purpose of the contest is to see who would make that sacrifice?

I'm sure if he wins the election he'll do what he claims to do, but it's not clear to me how anything will actually change since he's basically proposing somehow knowing the true nature of everyone who's at the test.

 

[THM Nindo]

From the point of view of making the plot interesting, my choices would be no president or pariston or leorio.

Yeah, I regret not putting the choice "No chairman" in the poll.

Especially after the last chapter where it was said that Teradin, Lupe and Bushidora were are all part of a faction "for getting rid of the position of chairman".

http://www.mangareader.net/hunter-x-hunter/328/19

So, technically, if any of those three wins, they might get rid of the position of chairman...