Before we start, what you are looking at pic related is the face of an ill, psychopathic potential murderer kid, we can start then, i will say that if you expected wanpiss tier plot, villains or writing out of this series, you are retarded, HxH is the most redpilled shonen in existence.
>at the first arc of the story Gon is 12 year old and has no problems with seeing people kill each other, he doesn't care, indifferent to death and murdering >he becomes best friends with a hitman kid and has no problems with it he doesn't care, still indifferent to murdering >he cares about helping his mentally unstable friend to kill all the guys who killed his entire tribe, this same friend is the one who joined a mafia that deals with killing, drugs, weapons and other horrible things like human trafficking just to satiate his revenge, our MC doesn't care anyway, he wants to help him even >willing to kill an innocent girl just to kill someone to satisfy his revenge, not even Kurapika thinks about doing this >takes innocent girl hostage as well >the color of the aura in his body changed the moment he made his last nen usage, restriction and pledge, give me something worse than death in exchange to receive the power i would have gotten if i trained without rest for decades until i kill my only target and satiate my revenge urge because i need to kill >aura becomes dark, revealing how fucked up his future self will be, even fucking overpowered nen ant with the dna of a cat shits its pants >along the entire series people gets scared about him because he can grow into dangerous shit
Get your shit together, HxH is seinen, most people don't get it while watching it, you have to read the manga or be very smart to actually notice what is it all about.
The manga is only in weekly shonen jump because the autor got a great deal, otherwise it would be straight seinen, a long story about the evil of humanity in our sick ill world.
Hunterfags are the mostentally I'll people I've seen on this board. At first I use to cringe but now I just feel bad for them. I hope you lazy mangaka someday makes makes a new chapter, so that you guy can get your sanity back.
William Sanders
I cant imagine coping THAT hard for defending the Yandere-dev of manga.
Adam Jackson
*most mentally
Gavin Jones
>pasta a thread died for this
Andrew Russell
Based cherrypickingbro
Chase Thomas
That may be so and all well and good by there's no justification for why the character is like the way he is. He just "is" and you're expected to just accept that the character is 100% unusual and not normal by any sense "just because". It's lazy. The kid was raised in a comfortable household for 12 years. If he abused since birth or brought up in a warzone, fine, but as it it's just another instance of togashi throwing a mish mash of shit that he thinks is cool together that make for "cool le epic scenes!11" but have no ultimate cohesion making for, at the end of the day, an unsatisfying story that's just a series of >wow that was cool moments scattered here and there amongst the tedium.
What didn't get touched on very well in the 2011 anime was how Gon grew up with animals. He spent more time in the harsh wilderness of his home island than with children his own age or other people. Kite's first appearance should have been at the very beginning of the show where he kills a large predator that was going to kill Gon, then turns around and angrily reprimands Gon for disturbing said creature's territory. Nature has no morality, only what is "good" for a species and "bad" for a species. Animals will become close and protective of things that benefit them, become aggressive and defensive towards what hurts them, and dismiss what does neither. This makes Gon a very practical and selfish person. Feelings can benefit or hurt as well, so when someone hurts Gon in an emotional way ((such as confusing him)) he reacts with the same confused ferocity as an animal might and he is fiercely protective of those who have benefited him in some way, like you said. He has a moral code but he doesn't even understand what morality is which makes him seem hypocritical.
tl;dr Gon is an exploration of animal morality/darwinistic morality and a definite deconstruction of typical MCs.
If that whole beginning sequence why the fuck was it left out of the 2011 series? I see that it's part of the 99 version. That's some glaring oversight right there on the part of the people planning the adaptation.
