ben0119

Hydra snake head tail! And they absorb chakra! "I want to feel it more." Uuhh... A snake clone, really? Why are they acting like the clones have minds of their own and not just the same person? I don't remember that ever happening expect that filler episode where Naruto's clones rebelled against him. How do you not notice a SNAKE CRAWLING ON YOUR BODY? LOL Mitsuki subdued her so easily. This writer doesn't fall far from the tree of Kishimoto after all. A shame.

I was right, it is Zabimaru!

Hinata looks great. The other ones look fine. Except Sakura who looks dead and emotionless for some reason.

They couldn't investigate people without publicizing it??

I don't like how old old and tired Naruto looks. Even if Hokage is a tough job. And Kakashi looks like he hasn't aged at all!

Really hate the vocal fry of the girl in that Gamefly ad.

The culprit is the class rep?! Whaaaaaaat?!

Hey nice ad letting people know about Samurai Jack on your website, Adult Swim! I wonder if Demarco ordered that ad.

Fear leads to anger... and anger leads to Super Saiyan!

I was joking LOL. Mind training? Come on... Is that a new form? Lame the upgrades are just recolors now. Cooler's Super Shredder form was cooler. Yeah bring you back so you can just be killed again. Didn't think that through did you, Frieza.

Is that Kai a woman? Why you are my tree? Gaining muscle size is one thing, but she grew in height and size. Pretty sure that's not possible. Wait, did Calida just use Super Saiyan 2 to defect that??

A place like this would be Hell for someone like Frieza lol. My theory is your Hell is personal in Dragon Ball.

Another universes mortals are stronger than their Destroyer, and that Destroyer is stronger than Beerus?! I call bullshit! Beerus, and Whis, for that matter (isn't he stronger than Beerus?) have been built up as untouchable this whole time. And somehow Goku's team will beat these guys? Well, maybe someone else does, or they ganged up on, but come on.

She-Broly... wtf. So she achieved Legendary Super Saiyan? Whatever the fuck that is. Broly used to be filler, keep in mind.

You can't just make someone go Super Saiyan by trolling them. Come the fuck on.

He's not Satan. He just sends people where they need to go.

MIDDLE OF YOUR BACK SERIOUSLY?!

Frieza. Goku must have re-lost his damn mind. Just when we thought he was getting back in character. Why would Frieza care if the Universe dies if he's just going to to back to Hell anyway? Unless the afterlife gets wiped out it with its respective universe? But wouldn't not existing be better than Hell?

So, last week, we got the full OP, and in English. The song is bad, by the way. Made especially obvious by the previously cut parts added back in. And that "HOO-HOO!" is just silly.

Why were both threads floated? In any case, this is the winner, to alleviate any confusion.

Yeah and the two I could actually stand, Kurapika and Leorio, are barely in the show after a certain point. But the way Gon acts almost comes off like he has a mental disorder. Blindly defending and liking some people no matter what they do. Maybe it's a form of quasi-sociopathy? At least Killua makes enough sense as being raised by a family of assassins. It wasn't the ideal childhood. But Gon basically had a normal life in a village, aside from having no dad. Also, he wants to become a Hunter to find out why his dad did that instead of being around? You'd think he'd hate him for being a deadbeat. Maybe it's because he hasn't met him yet so he's just at the "where's dad" stage, or not old enough to make that leap. I have to admit I didn't really think poorly of my own dad until I finally met him at like 8 and spent enough time around him over various visits to realize he was kind of an asshole putting up a transparent facade and I really wasn't missing much by not having him in my life. How about Naruto who is basically ninja jesus and people become better people just for having known him and being in his presence? It is silly, I admit. But I think HxH goes too far in the other direction that makes characters unsympathetic, and Gon himself who also acts nonsensical on top of being somewhat amoral. Oh. But I wonder if those other cultures are any different as far as morality goes. I guess I didn't make it to that point. I mean, I don't remember anyone taking to Gon to task for letting someone die just so he could get a fucking badge. Well a lot of worlds won't be sunshine and rainbows, and a corrupt and/or evil governance is a pretty common trope present in shonen and anime in general (including The Big Three and Black Clover), but there's usually always a moral compass to this, usually the protagonists, who contrast this. I can't really recall anyone calling out other characters or the government (which basically isn't even a factor in the arcs I watched, unless you count Hunter Org which seems to just do whatever it wants.) I guess I just don't see the appeal of watching a show about assholes. Like with Mad Men, the whole 60s and advertising stuff is neat, but the characters are pieces of shit. No thank you. Well, I thought Hunter x Hunter was supposed to be a brilliant subversion of the shonen genre and thus above all the rest. Besides, a lot of what we see in shonen might be exaggerated, but not too far off from what we see in real life. Sometimes not far off at all. There were and really are rich assholes like the cartoonish over-the-top nobles in One Piece and Black Clover. Making slaves literally carry their masters around on their backs? Yeah, that kind of shit has happened in human history. That's why it's not believable to have such a shithole of a world and have no one question it.

It's like you didn't read one of the key sentences I wrote. Kayaba used current technology, of the future this world takes place in. A future where the base technology is already more advanced than our own. So you need to stop judging it based on "what we currently have." Stop with your myopic view. So yes, the creation of SAO was a big deal in the show, but not as much of a leap as it would be to create it in our world. I think that's pretty obvious. And like I said, Kayaba did not create it on his own. He had a development team of other brilliant minds. And I can't remember, but it may have been mentioned that there were other VR games before SAO, but Kayaba's just blew them all out of the water. I'd have to go back and re-watch the first episode, but it wouldn't surprise me. It would make sense. I mean, he obviously didn't invent the concept of a virtual world so he was clearly building off something. And I don't get the whole age thing. Many of our brightest inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs were making big leaps, starting when they were young. That's why we're so impressed with some of them. Especially people in the tech and gaming fields?? I mean, I don't even get why you're so hung up on that.

Now why would I want to root for people like that? Gon liking certain people regardless of what they do is pretty stupid, too. Also we were sold a bill of goods, of sorts. The way the first arc starts, it presents things as if Gon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio are going to be the main group. But they split up, and we see Kurapika and Leorio only infrequently after that, if at all. Doesn't help especially since the latter two are preferable to Gon and Killua. Huge casts of more of the same, yeah I really want to see that. In most shows, movies, etc, there would be a character or characters that would point out how fucked up things are, and maybe even do something about it, or try. They'd also call other characters out on their amoral behavior. Here, everyone just goes along with it. Not really sure what the purpose of that is. It doesn't make the protagonists sympathetic when they aren't much better than some of the antagonists in morality. And like I said, it comes off as if human psychology works differently in this world. Even in some of the shittiest, most awful places in our world, you'll have people who live there that will point out "yeah this is fucked up." Maybe they can't do anything about it, but they'll definitely at least recognize that. I mean, it would be one thing if only certain cultures and places in the HxH world were like that, but the whole HxH world is like that. That in itself just isn't even realistic. But, mostly the show is just boring and a whole a lot of nothing. That's why I dropped it when it came down to us watching Gon and Killua level grinding exp and farming gold by chopping people in the back. Is that supposed to be a selling point? It would be one thing if some of the Hunters or others with their level of power kept each other in check, but most everyone in the show are assholes with dubious morality. I mean, who does anyone even identify with in this show? You knew what I meant. They got in the property. Was anyone else getting in? No. And you just helped make my point by saying the protagonists wouldn't have gotten all the way in. So, "asking to come in" really isn't good enough, then.

I already told you I agreed with you on the time skipping over character development being a flaw of SAO Aincrad. To create what this game is touted as in-universe, he'd have to create a new OS and a new game engine. I'm still not sure if the game world is stored on the servers, or the game systems themselves. The latter would make more sense, but it's a HUGE, hyper-realistic world that's indistinguishable from the real one, aside from the fantastical elements, of course. The point being, no one ever feels they are looking at "graphics." Maybe it's more accurate to say the characters are transported to SAO? So, they go to the servers? I don't know. Is that detail ever explained? Maybe if we go back and re-watch the first ep... So yes it had to be created with computers, but he still had to create new software and such for the game to work, I'm thinking. This isn't unheard of. Games can't always just recycle engines or use something similar to previous engines. Sometimes you have to start from the ground up, and that would certainly be the case with something on a whole other level, like SAO. Again, he had a development team, so not by himself. And I thought we were going after Kirito, not Kayaba? No one ever complains about Kayaba that he shouldn't have been able to create this game. It also misses the point of what the show is supposed to be about. Or, maybe things don't have to be so black and white? Maybe that. He created new stuff, with existing technology, of a possible future world, mind you, so not our currently existing technology. I thought all the code was Yui and he was just copying it over to the item. You're really making too much of out of this. But like I said, he's not "hacking" anything. He's in the admin console, so, he's just accessing. The code wouldn't have to be unique to keep the devices hack proof, because as I said, they fry the user if tampered with, and are useless after the user is dead since connection would be severed to the SAO servers. But I'd imagine it probably has to be unique code for such a revolutionary technology and device? Either way, Kirito wasn't "hacking" anything, so it's irrelevant.