Hunter x Hunter Chapter 307 Discussion
- Thread starter DraugrLord
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- #30
Sephiroth472 said:
i feel like gon is coming closer and closer to netero. as opposed to immersing himself in training for so long, gon is growing through his fight
Um...anyone who would think that doesn't really understand what just happened. Gon's growth was unnatural and potentially may result in both his body and nen being crippled for life (well, probably not, seeing as he's the main character and all, but it's definitely a major setback), and his sudden aging, if it can't be reversed, means that he's probably just lost ten to fifteen years of his life.
This wasn't growing through a fight, it was a horrific side-effect of Gon's emotional trauma.
On another forum I hang out at there's been quite a lot of screaming about how the whole series is ruined now and Gon isn't Gon, and I'm sitting there going "good job Togashi-sensei" because the point of telling a story is to have a strong emotional effect on the reader. Gon is such a beloved character that this chapter hit most people like a punch in the gut (myself included). It took me a few days to even figure out how I felt about it and whether or not I thought it was a good plot twist. (Obviously, from what I'm saying, I've decided that it was good)
Though, call me jaded, but I suspected that Gon would have some kind of major trauma and/or loss of innocence at some point since waaaaay back in the York Shin arc (around the same time Gon and Killua were captured by the Genei Ryoudan). Nice to know my instincts are as good as ever (but a little boring - I don't get genuinely surprised by plot twists very often).
+1
- #31
I'm actually hoping that not Machi (she's his enemy, as cool as she is) but Leorio is going to help Gon. I hope he's gonna use his Nen to become a healer (cause he wanted to be a doctor)
I hope this as well. I really just don't see the series going anywhere after all this. I stand by my opinion that Togashi-sensei is trying to end HxH. That Gon's hope would be Leorio both enforces that and gives a slight beacon of hope against that.
Time will tell.
