Togashi might aswell have given enough on coherent nen scaling with post rose meruem and adult gon. The nen abilities were the worst addition to the system since togashi never clarified actual rules to them so we got people pulling stuff like phasing through objects or turning into vehicles of all things. Then there’s the moronic decision to make the chimera ants sympathetic by giving them arbitrary arcs when the dudes were trying to kill five million people for no reason—but hey this went on for so long in the arc I guess the audience was supposed to accept that the ants were partially human. Togashi could’ve done so much with the dark continent and ngl but he just doesn’t. Personally I don’t care for the blood and gore—this manga was always pretty violent. What did stand out was how badly kite was handled. It’s like how oda just killed off ace so quickly after his introduction despite him looking up to be a really big contributor to the cast. Also I hate how leorio and kurapika were just entirely sidelined for three straight arcs in a row—mind you, the chimera ant arc alone is 116 chapters long.
Not even bait at this point. I'm assuming you're an 2011 anime only, because only those tards have these sort of brainworms. You're brain is so poisoned by twitter agendas, that you can't appreciate a good story (by animanga standards anyway).
Nen rules are clearly established and within those boundaries they get reasonable additions and deeper mechanics, like Nen Beasts or Nen Curses.
>we got people pulling stuff like phasing through objects
Seperating your Nen from your body and creating a Nen space with rules has been clearly established as a main strength of emitters since greed island which result in something akin to small-medium range teleportation. Knov and Leorio are emitters and they designed their hatsu around this mechanic
>turning into vehicles of all things
Clever application of a conjurer ability. Not every conjurer is a badass with chains like Kurapika.
>Then there’s the moronic decision to make the chimera ants sympathetic by giving them arbitrary arcs when the dudes were trying to kill five million people for no reason
Chimera ants are sympathetic because they inherit the traits of the species they consume, eg. eating humans backfired in the end, which is something Meruem acknowledges in his fight against Netero (saying the human ego disrupts the collective bond between ants). Sure they have no reason to kill people, but humans don't have a reason either. One of the points of the arc is to highlight the aribtrary nature of these conflicts. Chimera Ants are strong enough to kill an unarmed human, so they do that to increase the strength of their colony. An average ant with no intelligence doesn't need more reason. The problems start the more intelligent they get when they start eating humans. That I need to explain this to you on a supposedly leftist board is indicative of state of this shithole.
>I guess the audience was supposed to accept that the ants were partially human
You sound really dumb, no offence. They were partially human, that is just fact. You can choose, wether you want to feel sorry for them or not in the end. That ain't the point of the arc. Netero represented humanity at its best and worst and showed all the meathead shonentards that love to powerscale, that it means nothing when you can nuke somebody to oblivion. Chimera Ants may be the most powerful in an individual battle, but they are only a B Level threat to humanity as a whole and pale in comparison to the other threats on the dark continent, which have mostly no fighting power but other means destroy human civilization. The current antagonist Tserriednich is shown to be an even greater thread than Meruem although he would lose against him (everyone would lose to Meruem individually), because although he was born human unlike Meruem, he has no capacity for qualities like empathy unlike Meruem.
>What did stand out was how badly kite was handled.
Kite has been handled pretty well (if you actually read the manga). I would have preferred him dying, but a major theme in this arc was reincarnation so being salty about him being reborn is missing the point.
>Also I hate how leorio and kurapika were just entirely sidelined for three straight arcs in a row
Kurapika and Leorio are getting the spotlight right now while Gon and Killua are out. Shonen meatheads like you just want the main cast to be everpresent while not actually contributing to the plot like One Piece. Nor Kurapika and Leorio had a reason to be in the Chimera Ant Arc.
>Togashi could’ve done so much with the dark continent and ngl but he just doesn’t.
Dark continent hasn't even been reached and we still have plenty of world building. A place where the strongest indiduals like Netero and Zigg Zoldyck can't compete. Unstoppable forces of nature, which explains why only the shorelines have been explored (allegedly). Yet you are still complaining? While the greates arc in all of hunter is still ongoing, you are complaining that we are not already at the dark continent We will probably never get there, because of the scale of the succession war and that is fine. Hunter x Hunter is already a top tier story. ogashi has learned from the nightmare that was Yu Yu Hakusho. Nearly destroyed his body and psyche, because the capitalist goons at Shueisha wanted to keep that money coming in. Now he writes at the pace his body lets him and we actually get a story he wants to tell. Appreciate it or don't, but try at least to not be an insufferable consoomer who is mad that Togashi isn't shitting out a half assed story in a weekly format anymore (looking at you Oda). I know its hard, but just try to be less of a bitch
>>29510> I'm assuming you're an 2011 anime onlyWith the exception of the election arc, I’ve largely only read the manga of this series. I think the anime is too censored to get the feel of this series done right
>>29511>>29510And no. I did read about the fact that chimera ants take the traits of their host via phagocytosis. That’s why some could even use nen and remember the memories of the people they ate.
That didnt suddenly change my opinion over how I felt they should’ve been handled by the midpoint of the arc. I *don’t feel any remorse for these creatures*. Plenty were fucked up and evil even before being reborn as ants and the manga explicitly outlines this. No I don’t care for Togashis messages on humans somehow being worse than ants because that message is the easiest example of false equivalence one can point out.
The chimera ants were objective villains. They run around eating whatever makes them stronger, predate on the weak, and have a rugged hierarchy built on physicality and combat prowess over intention and reason. They murdered people often without any intention of growing their own colonies but out of malice and sadistic pleasure. You really wanna go and compare that to people starting wars with each other over resource scarcity, long running cycles of hatred based on unresolved tensions surrounding oppressive regimes and inequality, or even just for the sake of liberation from a worse entity? That part of the arc (it was around the point when meruem started opening up to kugomi I think) in particular made me feel even less sympathy for these creatures than their initial opening just for the fact that I felt being gaslit by the author.
No. The ants are straight villains and there’s no reason not to believe so. Nothing in the chapters redeems the majority of them no matter how many excuses you want to make up for them and nothing will. Their presence alone has created five thousand major threats to known world and 400k+ people were murdered anyways within weeks of their arrival in the ngl even with the hunter association on their asses.
Maturity is often not morally grey.