Hunter x Hunter Chapter 311 Discussion

Well, at least he didn't pull up a Yuyu Hakusho on that one. Though that chapter wasn't really good either.



Why do they even want to gain time if the King is about to die ? Why didn't they just bomb him in the first place ?



And what is with that part about ants/humans' cruelty ? That's stupid. The following pages were properly inane, especially coming from a guy who just did fucking nothing and lived off his royalties and stuff for more than a year (give or take a few months).



Hopefully he'll get back on his feet (we're all used to these "below average" moments in HxH ever since the beginning of the Chimaera arc) . . . next week. And this time, no more sudden hiatus out of nowhere, pretty please.

At last this manga is back,I lost hope of it coming back tbh :)

Babels said:
mrDovydas said:
Strange chapter, really confusing. No Gon or Killua, and the King is probably going to die just because of poison. But Togashi is a genius, he managed to show that people are worse creatures than ants.

I must have missed that part. I just saw a person being hid in a box for a while to save the lives of many other people (Wow, that's really cruel) and a bunch of people who are sad (If they're worse than ants, then why should we care?) and then a bunch of people who are happy and apparently not sharing their wealth. OK, fine. If Togashi thinks that being a bleeding heart is more important than storytelling, great. So how about donating some of his own money to a good cause? How about "all the proceeds from manga vol. whatever are going to charity"? He certainly doesn't seem to need the money, given that he can take long breaks whenever he likes. As it is, it just seems like Togashi is trying to reprimand his readers for being wealthy and horrible and buying leisure items like manga.



Whats the matter?  Feeling guilty?  



Its because Togashi cares about high quality story telling that he made this chapter the way he did.  Its not about who is "better" humans or ants, Togashi is facing the reader with the reality of human cruelty.  In real life human beings truly are vastly more cruel than any other animal, of course, not everyone is cruel, but some of us are, so what right do we have to judge Chimera ants and call them monsters.  The same goes for judging other countries, ethnicities whatever.  No human being has the right to dehumanize another.  I believe thats part of Togashi's message.  The cruelty he depicted is more than about income inequality, he depicted police brutality, oppression, war on top of the the realities of the rose bomb which is essentially an exagerated nuclear bomb.  I think you've got a lot of nerve making assumption about Togashi's finances.  Do you know how much he gives to charity?  Do you know the people in his family he's supporting?  Do you know how much he works on HxH during these Hiatus?  I don't know the answers to these questions but unless you do I don't think you have any right to criticize him about it.  If he's reprimanding anyone it might have to do with how ethical the practices are of the corporations involved in the manga industry as opposed to individual readers



I think this was a very profound chapter, apparently its gone over a lot of people's heads on MAL, but I for one am truly impressed by it.

mrDovydas said:
Strange chapter, really confusing. No Gon or Killua, and the King is probably going to die just because of poison. But Togashi is a genius, he managed to show that people are worse creatures than ants.

I must have missed that part. I just saw a person being hid in a box for a while to save the lives of many other people (Wow, that's really cruel) and a bunch of people who are sad (If they're worse than ants, then why should we care?) and then a bunch of people who are happy and apparently not sharing their wealth. OK, fine. If Togashi thinks that being a bleeding heart is more important than storytelling, great. So how about donating some of his own money to a good cause? How about "all the proceeds from manga vol. whatever are going to charity"? He certainly doesn't seem to need the money, given that he can take long breaks whenever he likes. As it is, it just seems like Togashi is trying to reprimand his readers for being wealthy and horrible and buying leisure items like manga.

I'm disappointed. there was a chunk of what some would call 'wasted page', the art was pretty good otherwise but everything was just confusing. No Gon or friends either on the big comeback chapter? I'm disappointed...

Finally it's back!! Yeah!



But i don't like the ant-arc to end like this. I waited for a Gon x King fight.

i waited a year for this?

The whole theme of humans being as evil, or worse than ants has been pretty clear throughout the arc. But it's great to have it spelled out this way in the end. Those pages with the hypocrisy and  horrors of humanity are great.



The bomb being the ultimate evil is of course referencing the nuclear bombs, a big part of Japanese culture.



This is one thing I actually even really liked back when this chapter first came out. I never understood the people that wanted a Gon vs Meruem fight instead of this. The poisoning is a great plot twist, and I like how you can suspect it already in the previous chapter with the nosebleeds of Meruem and Youpi.

is it me or the art looks better ?

Strange chapter, really confusing. No Gon or Killua, and the King is probably going to die just because of poison. But Togashi is a genius, he managed to show that people are worse creatures than ants.

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                        finally finally .....ITS OUTTTTTT

For those confused, the implication is that the bomb Netero used is going to kill the king eventually anyway, due to the long term poison effect that it causes. The rant about human cruelty was a little unrelated, but delivers the point that such a weapon (already an obvious parallel to our own nuclear weapons) was beyond even the imaginations of the ants. Main idea is that the king will die sometime which is pretty good because at this point he seemed unbeatable.