Hunter x Hunter Chapter 364 Discussion

Vincent got played hard. Kurapika's 200iq lol. Now Babimyna pays a visit

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                        Kurapika asking Woble Hui Guo Rou to trust him...interesting especially after using his ability. He never ceases to amaze me.



The Emperor's Time has its risks of life reduction of course. I'm not surprised that Kurapika is taking that risk to get the job done.

aight dis story startin 2 get gud again

Mikasa said:
seconds_to_dere said:
Mikasa said:
Docking years off your life as an old senile person... that's hardly a drawback.







Heard of Chairman Netero? He's an old "senile" person...



Nen users slow down their aging



Still not a huge drawback. Especially with the DC fruit that gives you life.





Togashi is slipping there...



Dude, check Netero's age in the wiki pretty sure he's over a 100

This drawback is great, Emperor Time gives Kurapika 100% mastery over every Nen type, all because his scarlet eyes grants him Specialization Nen.

Healing

Lie detector

Chain Jail (only works on PT)

Judgment Chain

Stealing abilities temporarily and passing them to others (even Non Nen users like Queen Oito)

Like how much of a special snowflake can you be? here have this very harsh restriction packed with it. Kurapika's versatile arsenal of abilities demands an equivalent of sorts.

24 hours of usage takes 10 years of his lifetime, A week of usage takes 70 years of his lifetime.

Drake1000 said:
Mikasa said:
ffs here we go again with people not understanding Nen.



Emperor Time is just a phase Kurapika calls when his eyes are scarlet. He did not create the six-hatsu power. The life-drainage is not a restriction. This is a case of pure genetics. Same as Hatsu. You can't decide which Hatsu you're good at. The eyes seem to have an effect.



So believing that the advantage and disadvantage of the eyes being connected, can be a case of believing that "nature tends to balance itself out" but in no way are they "balanced by nen restrictions"



It's not just a phase Kurapika calls when his eyes turn scarlet, it's an actual Hatsu/Nen ability that Kurapika activates, and Nen abilities are known to have drawbacks.

Scarlet eyes don't necessarily mean Emperor time, first he enters a specialist state then he activates emperor time.

But it's still a Nen ability with a restriction, it's not something natural. Same as any other Nen ability with a drawback.

can be a case of believing that "nature tends to balance itself out" but in no way are they "balanced by nen restrictions"

Yes it is a Nen restriction because Emperor Time is a Nen ability. It's not nature m8.











The fact that people keep saying "every ability MUST have its drawback" shows they're really thinking like FMA rather than HxH. No. Restrictions are not a must. It simply says that, if you want to give your ability an incredible boost that you would otherwise not be able to (due to lack of talent and/or time to train properly) you can use restrictions instead.





Now, SE not being ET is true in the sense that just because Kurapika is pissed, doesn't mean he has to use his specialist powers.



But, when his eyes are red, he automatically becomes a specialist. What kind of Hatsu you have is genetic. You cannot change it. He is a conjurer through no choice of his own (except inadvertently due to personality), his becoming a specialist is the same.



Now, his specialist ability happens to be  boosts in all hatsu areas. All genetics so far.



But his exploitation of this, and creation of the other chains, that's all him.

Now technically since he can now change his eyes at will, ET HAS become somewhat of a mode, but it still remains a genetic trait and not a condition. His age-draining is simply a side-effect of the eyes, not something he's chosen.



Why not? Because Nen doesn't work like that. You don't "negotiate" 1 second against 1 hour, you just set up a constraint and see if it works. Proof? The first condition Kura proposes to Izu was "I cannot fight anyone beside the spiders", which Izu thought was a weak constraint that would not boost the chain "enough"... as in, you just keep making it harder and stricter and see how far it takes you (a chain around his hard took it far enough), but you don't just "talk" to  Nen in another dimension and trade body parts like Ed in FMA.

That's a pretty hardcore restriction that Emperor Time has. However, given what it allows Kurapika to do, it makes sense that it would have a crazy drawback.

Mikasa said:
Docking years off your life as an old senile person... that's hardly a drawback.







He probably won't even get close to be old, that's the problem. We don't even know how much he's used his ability when he was getting back the eyes of his comrades offscreen and doing other jobs (he's pretty careful, I'll give you that, but when it comes to his mission, he kinda loses it, so I don't know).