Hunter x Hunter Chapter 395 Discussion

Feral Machi

That is all

Perfect chapter as I have been craving for some Chrollo related material for YEARS... and a Phantom Troupe flashback while at that??? W chapter! 😍

4/5



Togashi keeps outdoing himself every week since his grand return from the hiatus and this was perhaps the most unexpected content from this story arc so far. The questions we've been asking for years, Phantom Troupe's origin story is finally upon us and it seems like it's going to be a juicy one at that



We start off with Henrigh checking his cat cam for Hell-ly members and find out that they have been disappearing via a nen ability. Wang offers info to PT about their possible whereabouts and PT are more than happy to search forgot em. We get some great Nobunaga, Phinks and especially a menacing Feitan panel while they enter a suspected room. Nobu cuts through the wall, which promptly seemed like his nen ability but Togashi is still keeping his abilities under wraps for now. They seemingly find out their hideout but no one's there to be found. They scour around finding nothing of too importance

Nobu then claims, they remind him of themselves which I brought up in my last chapter review. Togashi is not being subtle about this at all. Phinks meanwhile, denounces that claim adding that they are not this blood-thirsty which perfectly segues to the Troupe backstory when Nobu exclaims that they too were once savages and searching for purpose in this twisted world



We get to see young troupe members enjoying themselves in this massive wasteland regardless of their condition. Makes you really wonder, what happened for them to turn so sour & cold against the world? We get to see young Uvo with Machi, Franklin, Chrollo and Shalnark playing around with this mysterious videotape which has been a subject of theories for more than a decade now. We also see young Phinks & Feitan, who look like the typical bully type. Chrollo, on the other hand, looks cheerful and full of life & excitement. He brings the tape over to young Pakunoda and my heart quickly sank. Seeing Paku & Chrollo interact was just so heartwarming considering what went down at the end of Yorknew arc. They are then joined by two other girls, one new and one we're very familiar with. Girl named Shields, who was briefly in the Kurapika flashback. They try to dub over the tape with their own voices while there is a group supposedly kidnapping young meteor city children.



There are lots of things to take from this chapter. Why did phantom troupe even formed? What incident occurred for them to have chosen the path of chaos? Shiela was the one who witnessed the kurta massacre, does she has something to do with it? Was she a PT member? Why did Kurta massacre occur in the first place? Was there something more than just the precious Kurta eyes? Did the massacre somehow coincided with these kidnappings of meteor city children? So many questions raised again after this one chapter



I'm very excited to witness the conclusion of this flashback. Togashi purposefully brought this up now and there are elements of it that might tie some hanging plot threads from wayyy back. Atleast, im hoping it does but man...another week another banger chapter. Togashi is on a roll rn

This is what I’m talking about Togashi! Amazing first part to the Troupes flashback. Unreal Sheila is also in this knowing that she was from Kurapika’s backstory as well. Could switch to Meteor city present day at any time and show us some Gyro. Doubt it but would be a way to transition into it maybe at the end of the full flashback.

Aaaaaaah this hurts like a mofo after my recent reread





Great chapter, can't wait for the next one





@Mei-o_Scarlett This is what the Kid Pirates flashback could've been like. W for Togashi.

I do remember there being someone who had inspired Kurapika to become a hunter. I had forgotten it was Shiela. Am guessing she's the link between the Phantom Troupe and the Kurta clan.

Finally, Meteor city and Phantom Troupe backstory. It was about time to see what was going on there since we knew this place was shit. Hopefully, we will get to see the Kurta clan massacre and what led to it in the next few chapters.

Porfin un capitulo bueno e interesante, cuanto tiempo tuve que soportar de texto y dialogos aburridos de deducir cosas o mierdas asi!!!

Lets go waiting for the phantom troupe past from ages and is that the Sheila we see from the Kurapika one shot, it can have a connection to why they massacred the Kurta clan.

Some unexpected backstory on the Troupe, nice.

Melhor mangá de todos.

CuratorAntoine said:
chrollo, paku and others creating a fan dub for Power Cleaners.. feels like im reading a fan fic XD. seriously tho, best chapter in a long long time.

to get them to dub is cringe, I agree it looks like a cheap fanfic... made by ai probably 👎

xZabuzax said:
I don't care about their backstories though, I want to see them in the present, not the past so it got kinda boring again with their backstories, at this point I just want this arc to go somewhere since it's taking forever to get anywhere, meh.

meh x2. this is too long of a flashback to show how much they developed blah blah... it's just a concept so cliche the we become adults and got over the hate for the world and the edgy feelings blah blah. actually, a very misplaced flashback. 3/5



fabrizioghobrini said:
Feitan bad boy 😂



Maisyyy said:
I'm glad he realized the wonders of a hair straightener xd

argh... now I can't erase the image on my mind of Feitan waking up like this and spend precious time straightening his hair 🤣🤣🤣