Shiken said:
the fuck did i just read an omake?
I agree with you this far. The art is forgivable; Togashi's proven he cleans it up brilliantly before the volume releases. The conversation was a bit out of left field, but I can see how it might be relevant in the future and that it's an interesting concept to think about if nothing else.
What really got me was the characters. I thought, when I started reading, that this was a chapter that got rejected from the Chimera Ant arc. I'm still not sure what exactly it's getting at or why Kaitou's a girl. What would have worked better was a conversation between the roulette clown and Kaitou regarding the 'I can't die this way' power, I think.
I want to say hopefully next week will make sense of this, but it seemed that Kaitou said his farewell to Gon in the whole contact me/I'll contact you bit. For a reunion with so much emotion in its backstory, this chapter failed miserably.
To be honest, I really thought it was Kanary when they mentioned the red hair... This chapter's just all over the board.