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They aired anime once a week in the middle of Saturday nights on cable TV. A better question is what they did right.

There is no world in which I could believe Jon would forget the leader of an army of the undead could raise the dead.

You don't get it, Dane. It's just a TV show with dragons and oracles, you can't be disappointed by a decline in quality. Though I doubt it can disappoint me if I were to pick up the new season since I lost all hope at least 2 seasons ago.

I'm not even watching the new season and clicked in to see the shit Dane would be posting, but damn if that isn't a terrible point I don't know what is. If the intended outcome of a story requires twisting the characters arms to force them to do it, then it probably doesn't work in the story and should be changed. Having intended to do something doesn't make it good. Any good writer who planned ahead to come to an outcome shouldn't have to contrive a plot hole or out of character actions just to get there. All that means is your conclusion simply wasn't planned out carefully enough and having 8 years to fail at a conclusion you intended from the beginning makes it worse.

@Zenigundam we need your downvote.

I'm increasingly less and less stunned at the sheer absurdity of how terrible Toonami opinions consistently are.

Make trucks out of food. Oh, oh, oh! Or maybe you could make food out of trucks!

Even people with investment didn't watch those.

They're getting a second season but the last I saw on it was being so early in the pre-planning stages that whether or not it'll even be about Nadia or Alan isn't set in stone. I'm also not sure how much I want answers to the Maxine question. It seemed like they were suggesting something there but I did like the enigma piece of it.

Thought it was really good. The last couple episodes were a pretty awesome payoff.

You have nobody to share it with. I want the power of even worse eyesight.

I haven't read the manga outside the current arc. I do think it's shown much better in '99 but it's not completely absent in 2011. Gon explicitly tells Killua he's his first friend within an episode or two of meeting and I believe the villagers state that Gon's spends his time in the woods. The omission of Kite in 2011's beginning is outright bullshit, that's a big mistake. So I don't think it was completely absent but not done very well in the early sections for the newer adaption.

From the HxH Wikia: "Shaiapouf's name, like all of the Royal Guards, comes from the Egyptian god Shai and a character named Pouf from a French children's book series called Caroline et ses Amis."

Beat the True End on Hard. Pretty much done with WoL 'cause I'm satisfied that I've improved enough to do that.

The worst one.

The term is meaningless no matter how it's used.

No, he mostly ignored the village. The only relationships he had outside Mito were Kite [mentor] and his great-grandmother [family. None were his age since he didn't interact with the only other kid in the village, making Killua essentially his first actual friend. And being raised by a caring family doesn't negate the impact of not having a parent. Children raised by secondary family members are believed to have higher risk of emotional/mental health issues, though the research is fairly limited. Mental disorders are also found to have biological components and Ging is shown to have likely antisocial traits, even as a renowned Hunter, he's hated by most people that know about him in more detail. None of that means he can't be friendly with the villagers, to be clear, but it falls in line with what's known about psychological disorders. You have a probable biology, a lack of consistent social interaction, and a fill-in parental figure. How good of a parent Mito was [and she had her faults, such as being unable to get Gon to socialize and eventually letting him run around a dangerous forrest unattended despite not approving of it] is pretty irrelevant. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398590/ http://triggered.edina.clockss.org/ServeContent?rft_id=info:doi/10.1093/brief-treatment/mhn016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2083282/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55333/

I don't know what normal or well-adjusted must mean to you if Gon's upbringing sounds normal or well-adjusted.

Not going to bother replying to most of that since reading it is tedious snd redundant. I was pretty clearly stating that the characters, regardless of how bad of people they are, have redeeming qualities. Hisoka isn't about to go on a redemption quest like the hokey bs a show like One Piece or Bleach or DBZ would pull if a bad guy changes sides, but isn't opposed to helping someone if he can get something out of it. I'm not sure what part of Gon is confusing, what I've stated about him is consistent with the show and present from the get-go. He's not really that hard to understand just because he has more to him than Goku's dumber than a rock and wanna fight modus operandi that encompasses the entirety of his personality.

That seems like a misquote. If not, a poorly phrased statement but even so the context should have made it clear I wasn't saying the series presents Hisoka positively, especially when it's well-established that he acts primarily on what's entertaining. The point being it does lead to sometimes helping people despite it being in self-interest. That sort of behavior, regardless of the simplicity, is stronger characterization than something like Aizen whose just a bad dude who does bad things because evil. It's also stronger characterization than having Kirito grow the most off-screen and fluctuate in personality dramatically because of it. Gon is pretty consistent in what's been described, as well. Either way, whatevz.

Lol Sounds like a disaster.

There's an item (the scythe) and a couple final smashes that can insta-kill at over 100%. You can turn those off if it matters too much. And, like, 1 stage with hazards that do, but that stage was on Wii U and sucked every bit then as it does now.

You're literally impossible to have a discussion with. Like, you'll ignore all ythe nonsensical character contradictions of Kirito because you like SAO, but even the simplest of characterization is some massive flaw in anything you don't like. A part of good characterization is conflicts that make characters behave differently or in contrary to their normal actions based on circumstance. Hisoka will help others, but he's a pretty simple character and it always has a selfish motive. That's not a contradictory statement. Really, explaining baby's first writing lessons has become super boring again. I've had my fill.