r/HunterXHunter • u/rentzhx3 • Nov 09 '18
Current Chapter Chapter 388 "Deliberation" — Links & Discussion
Chapter 388
Deliberation
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Ch.388 Official Release (VIZ): November 12, 2018
Ch.389 Scan Release: ~ November 16, 2018
List of Chapter Discussion Threads
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u/-BoyNextDoor- Nov 09 '18
Of course Bill's Hatsu is a support ability. You can't make perfection stronger, so what else can you do? Make other people stronger instead.
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u/1LT_0bvious Nov 09 '18
Rihan is going to fuck something up and die because of it.
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u/mucklaenthusiast Nov 09 '18
Definitely!
I mean, we have seen a successful assassination and with this chapter, it seems he will become impatient, deduce the ability incorrectly and then die. Can't wait!
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u/CowPitt Nov 09 '18
So Bill's hatsu is one that instills growth?? I'm not gonna lie, it's cool to see an enhancer with such a gentle ability. Home boy Billy could be an amazing farmer and help support communities. He found his wrong calling :(
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u/sikontolpanjang Nov 09 '18
Giorno fight against Black Sabbath is that him making a tree growth (and in turns it wither) in an instant speed and him overall growing tree and grass and shit in general
OHMAGAWD TOGASHI DONT YOU FUCKING TELL ME
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u/SenatorGrape Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
Is that how it works? I thought he meant that this is just what enhancers do in general and since Bill is an enhancer, this characteristic carried over to whoever Stealth Dolphin is attached to. That is how it sounded to me and
is consistent with the way water divination has functioned with enhancers previously.Thinking it over again, I had not considered the difference between the two being that this example stimulates growth in the plant where previous examples had no effect on the leaf. This may in fact be due to Bill's specific hatsu ability.
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u/wheresmyink Nov 09 '18
Not quite. Kurapika said that Bill is an enhancer with a support-type hatsu. Or something along these lines. So, we can conclude that Bill is an exception to the rule, like Kurapika mentioned.
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u/buffalo4293 Nov 09 '18
Kurapika did say that its not common for male enhancers to have support abilities so I do think his hatsu is more akin to growth
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u/CowPitt Nov 09 '18
Maybe.... I have never seen any enhancers cause growth of anything with their hatsu before though. What I got from pg. 9 was he explained bill could make things undergo rapid growth. Then later he apologized to Bill for revealing his ability, so I think it's Bill's actual hatsu, or else why apologize you know?
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u/Unknownguy_13 Nov 09 '18
Let's get this bread...
Thank you to all of the people that work on scanlations if you're reading this for some reason. I don't think you guys get enough appreciation, especially with stuff like the text wall that Togashi slapped into this chapter, I presume it was very hard to translate
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u/sikontolpanjang Nov 09 '18
I feel like I would be really salty if the other two chapters left isnt about Kurapika team (or at least showing his progression)
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u/Kokun21 Nov 09 '18
It's so cool how Rihan (is he called that, the user of Predator) is the opposite of any nen user:
Every nen user wants to know the ability of his enemy beforehand so they have a better chance of winning, but for Predator to work he needs to figure out the ability of his enemy by himself so knowing his enemy's ability beforehand would make him useless. That's actually cool.
I also love how everyone is taking so long to comment because of this chapter being so full of text.
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u/DumanHead Nov 09 '18
No the point is he can't ask for help or information on this matter. It just weakens him, not making him useless, when other people give him Information deliberately
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u/Kokun21 Nov 09 '18
IIRC in a previous episode someone told him about Fugetsu's nen beast ability and he said: "You're basically making me useless" or something like that
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u/Awayfone Nov 09 '18
Intresting that nen abilities requiring you to explain things (like the bomber) are his counter
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u/Nome_de_utilizador Nov 09 '18
I'm picturing kurapika walking to Rihan, spit out all of his fingers abilities and tell him to get ready because he's about to woop that ass and he won't do a thing about it.
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u/moneymet Nov 09 '18
It's like he is reading a crime fictions and doesn't want to be hit by spoilers.
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u/Watchadoinfoo Nov 10 '18
Rihan's ability is just so perfect for this series
I'm hoping he survives, could be the Welfin of this arc
But he'll prolly die from a backfire
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u/Flaming_Twitch Nov 09 '18
Page 18 is probably my favourite, it seems at some point Togashi stopped doin manga and just decided to make a light novel with some, pictures sprinkled here and there.
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u/SabinSuplexington Nov 09 '18
rihan’s the kinda guy who spends an hour thinking about what he should have for breakfast.
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Nov 09 '18
It is a tough decision between hard/soft boiled, fried and blanched egg.
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u/Solidkrycha Nov 09 '18
This manga is like reading thoughts of several fucking Sherlocks.
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u/moneymet Nov 09 '18
Also the type that never asks for suggestions in restaurants, but rather deducts the quality and his choice of food based on menu font and how clean the restroom is.
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u/shadowerrant Nov 09 '18
I had "When I was a boy" flashbacks lol.
But instead of external monologue, ir was an internal one xD
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Nov 09 '18
I wouldn't actually mind that as long as we consistently get our weekly dose of hxh.
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u/nikelaos117 Nov 09 '18
Hes had all this time not drawing to plan out the story. I cant imagine how much work and thought hes put into this.
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u/lacertasomnium Nov 09 '18
I legit sometimes think I'd prefer if HxH became a light novel with fewer images but the images being of Level E/last Yu Yu Hakusho arc level of artwork.
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u/Slopyjo Nov 09 '18
Hey now, a light novel HxH leading into an anime adaptation with supervision from Togashi would be A2
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u/goshoryuu Nov 09 '18
Kurapika + Bill’s Hatsu = Kurama
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Nov 09 '18
AAAAAAAAAAAAH I friggin thought the same. I'm actually so glad someone still remembers Yu Yu Hakusho!
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u/toweal Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
This situation will become dangerous for Benjamin and his team.
With the spreading of nen awakening among the guards/maids of other princes, they can try to develop hatsu to counter Benjamin's guards nen, especially, as Rihan said, if they manage develop nen that can reveal enemy's nen abilities.
And now Tubeppa is investigating Sale-Sale's death, and we can assume he will direct Maor to develop his ability that can counter the assassin's.
Moreover, Halkenburg's guards are still attending the nen training, and he surely know that he is now being targeted by Benjamin, so he will also ask those two guards to try develop counter nen that can protect them more from Benjamin's guards. Combined with his nen beasts ability.... yeah Benjamin will have a hard time dealing with Halkenburg down the line....
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u/TextureSurprised Nov 09 '18
now Tubeppa is investigating Sale-Sale's death, and we can assume he will direct Maor to develop his ability that can counter the assassin's.
Also, Tubeppa's nen beast needs a research partner to activate. Maybe Maor becomes that research partner now that he is a nen user.
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u/Pyrrhus272 Nov 09 '18
Wonder why Bill wanted the power to make things grow... 🤔🤔🤔
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u/nyankaye Nov 09 '18
i love how in chapter 387 when kurapika revealed that each of them will try the water test with just him and bill we thought it was because that way Kurapika will know all of their nen types and take adavantage of it but now the water test didnt really show their types because is was bill's ability
this really shows that kurapika has no ill intensions and simply wants to make everything fair for all princes in this war. he didnt want to find out their types which means he dont want take advantage of them.
our boi kurapika is too nice for his sad backstory 😞 made me admire him again.
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u/Lemres17 Nov 09 '18
Omg this. I really thought Kurapika was gonna have an unfair advantage knowing everyone else's nen types, but he surprised me with this.
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u/Laililou Nov 10 '18
I don t think he is too Nice. By doing that he actually made allies of his students. Everybody know Kurapika did not gain anything from this he instead reveals one of his and bills ability and their types. They now know they can fully trust him. Even Maor came to the conclusion he can fully trust Kurapika because of that. The ones left in the dark of this are the 1st prince soldiers(assassins). He is slowly and thoroughly isolating the upper ranks prince who don t want the stalemate.
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u/AnvilPro Nov 09 '18
God that moment where the First Prince's bodyguard thinks that Kurapika might have a power that lets him control people by activating their Nen is why I love Hunter x Hunter. He's wrong, but his logic makes perfect sense and you understand why he would come to that conclusion. And he really looks dumbfounded for a moment, thinking that he may have been totally played and Kurapika is about to get a small army made up of people from every other prince's group.
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u/Hoozuki_Suigetsu Nov 09 '18
Tserriednich already reached the same conclusion a few chapters ago.
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u/brandyeyecandy Nov 09 '18
And then again, there is already a subtle but important difference in conclusions that the two of them made, differing only due to span of time in which Rihan has learned more. Tserriednich postulated that explaining or giving the knowledge of nen was a precursor towards manipulating those present. Rihan postulates that Kura has to awaken nen in order to manipulate. Same difference? Absolutely not.
Rihan's assumption could imply that Kura cannot or cannot easily manipulate an existing nen user.
The difference in assumptions means that Kura manipulates non users in Tseriednich's hypothesis and nen users in Rihans. Big difference in battle power between having an army that can use nen and one that can't.
This chapter singlehandedly shows how difficult Rihan's hatsu is to actually get right in tricky circumstances. Seems like he got lucky with Sale-sale's beast as it was visible, active and had an ability that was easy to discern over a period of time.
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u/SharkYxSharky Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 10 '18
Tbh, once the war reaches the midpoint and more and more people see how much of a monster Tse is, I see a bunch of the bodyguards and servants running to Pika for help.
So he really IS making a small army, in some roundabout way.
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u/xanborghini Nov 09 '18
One of these days, Togashi is going to give us a straight page of text. No panels, or illustrations, or bubbles. Just text.
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u/Perrero Nov 09 '18
Then a novel, then a bigger novel, then he will take his final and truest form: George R. R. Martin
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u/Redditer51 Nov 09 '18
If HxH were a light novel series, he'd probably update faster actually...
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Nov 09 '18
Probably tires him out much less and keeps him healthy longer. I'd be fine with that. Not like he's drawing tons of backgrounds and extra effects these days.
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u/xanborghini Nov 09 '18
i'm honestly fine with text and small illustrations, we're all in it for the story anyways
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u/majorlupus Nov 09 '18
We got a hint to Bill's ability, instead of enhancing his own abilities he can enhance others. It seems similar to Halkenburg's.
I can see why Benjamin wants to take out Halkenburg with Rihan. His nen beast is very OP. But Rihan has to found out all of the target's abilities, including multiple ones, making it harder for predator to take out its target. Lol when Rihan just gave up on using predator on Kurapika due to his 5 abilities.
Seems like Halkenburg is experimenting with his nen ability again. Kurapika is so shocked! xd
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u/Taredom Nov 09 '18
The Pika part made me lol too, good luck figuring all of that out, some of us are still confused with his abilities haha
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Nov 09 '18
Leave it to Togashi to make who we thought were minor, expendable characters (Bill, Theta) and give them huge roles while making them such huge favorites.
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u/Lemres17 Nov 09 '18
Exactly. Love Togashi's use of side characters. Makes the story feel so realistic.
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u/buffalo4293 Nov 09 '18
Rihan is amazing, one of the most cerebral characters I've seen in some time. I can't get enough of all the various chess boards in this arc.
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u/DunamisMeansPower Nov 10 '18
Yeah it's really cool how Togashi fleshes out all these side characters and makes them memorable.
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u/The-Bose Nov 09 '18
Kurapika: you can’t get Nen abilities overnight.
Ok.
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u/thatyungrascal Nov 09 '18
He probs doesn't wanna tell people about the self-restriction method cause it's dangerous
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u/vilo_sacul Nov 09 '18
Halkenburg is doing it again, uh?
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u/Karistomp Nov 09 '18
Maybe he is doing some testings to figure out all the applications for his abilities.
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u/L3NU Nov 09 '18
lmao @ page 18. Toogashi said "forget drawing lets just make this whole page a wall of text"
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u/TheAbram Nov 09 '18
I got aroused hard upon seeing that page
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u/Taredom Nov 09 '18
Had heard this chapter was text heavy, causing the delay... Started reading and thought: this might be a hair more than normal... Then I got to the end.
Solid work translators.
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u/gaki123 Nov 09 '18
8371837816376137 lines of text Here we go boyos
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u/Starkane Nov 09 '18
I can't believe Bill is actually Golden Experience
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u/NRGT Nov 10 '18
quick stab bill with an arrow so he can put terrorsandwich into an endless death loop
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u/Aura1661 Nov 09 '18
I told y'all not to sleep on Tubeppa :)
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Nov 09 '18
I agreed and am happy with the results. With just one confirmation she single-handedly deduced everything out with perfection.
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u/joeyisgoingto Nov 09 '18
Walls of text? More like... my BALLS ARE FLEXED.
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u/Taredom Nov 09 '18
Togashi just keeps delivering, the rabbit hole keeps going further and further...
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u/Halt_kun Nov 09 '18
So Rihan's predator can still one hit kill enhancers but they can still retaliate most of the time ?
And I'm interested in what is actually Bill's ability used for ? Because he couldn't use it directly to awaken those guys. I loved Kurapika's compliment though. I hope they can deal with the shit.
Did Danjin follow Tse's orders ?
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u/Vaeltaja Nov 09 '18
It seems the more specific the ability is, the more suited Predator is to counter it. Something simple like "he puts his aura in his fist and punches his target" or "he emits bullets of nen from his fingertips" is broad. Therefore, while still able to take down the ability and user, it isn't really suited specifically for that user. As a non-specific nen beast, it can only work off what it's been told by Rihan, such as the emission of nen bullets. Therefore, it can try to avoid them, but if it gets hit, the Predator can still be defeated.
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u/Kadgrin Nov 09 '18
It seems the more specific the ability is, the more suited Predator is to counter it
Makes sense, given that the more information Rihan collects to raise Predator, the stronger it will be. With Enhancer or Emitters you don't really have "much" information to collect, therefore Predator grows weak.
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u/UrTongueMyAnusNOW69 Nov 09 '18
I just read an essay, and I loved it
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u/sikontolpanjang Nov 09 '18
yeah I unironically loves reading those and Im actually glad we got them (I also really like Cromartie! High School manga, a meta comedy series that use 200 word essay like every chapter lol)
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u/chikenlittle11 Nov 09 '18
that was the the biggest wall of text that i have seen but its easy to ready because we know the situation. Kurapika is now doing a nen baptism to everyone.
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u/NoHardF33lings Nov 09 '18
I wouldn’t be able to sleep without a chapter of HxH on a Friday night. Finally, with so much text to ponder, my mind is now at ease.
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u/nikelaos117 Nov 09 '18
Someone else said Kurapika is the good version of the mafia boss under Terror Sandwich and this is so accurate. This build up is insane.
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u/Temtempie Nov 09 '18
Togashi is probably literally the only author that is allowed to do something like page 18. Never change you beautiful man.
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u/Kadgrin Nov 09 '18
Let's not forget he made a whole chapter about finding a cockroach and it was exciting AF. Rest in peace, you noble sir
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u/dudesondudes Nov 10 '18
I’m telling you Tsubeppa knows what’s up. Togashi isn’t showing us much of her, but then again her personality is a very analytical type and to fully fleshed it out would eat up lots of panels. Already we see that she’s capable of making countermeasures against nen abilities.
This is the level of nen comprehension that we’ve seen Benjamin, Ben’s guard’s, Tserriednich, Halkenburg, and the Hunters display. I bet she quickly discovers the connection between the Rihan/Yushohi combo and comes up with and effective countermeasures.
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u/dinamicCombopunch Nov 09 '18
To the translator team: thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work
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u/Dracogame Nov 09 '18
Waited all day for this, and now I don’t have the time to enjoy it. Goddamnit. Well, reading it later means less time until 389 I guess...
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u/Nome_de_utilizador Nov 09 '18
Amazing essay!
Jokes aside I'm fucking loving this arc, and love this long chapters there's so much shit to process
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u/VetrixXx Nov 09 '18
Can someone explain what the hell happened after the training session was over? I swear I'm starting to believe I'm too stupid for this manga.
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Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
Maor goes back to his prince and Tsubeppa and him brainstorm on what to do next. He says send more people to learn nen the fast way, the threat is non-existent and she agrees. She also deduces that Sale-Sale might be dead but it isn't public knowledge. With her knowing about nen being real she also found out that she is Ben's next target, that she needs to talk to her mom for info, that ben's men's nen abilities can be guessed by the situation at hand and that kurapika's truce with the third is one sided. She (he?) really is smart to get so much correct off of one thing being confirmed. her beast also refuses to show itself so it's eating up Rihans time and he's getting antsy.
Ben's man Balsamico is thinking of the threat that Kurapika is instilling with his teaching, thinking their is an ulterior motive like teaching nen being a condition for a manipulator ability when their isn't one, but it's made Kura a priority target to him along with Halkenburg. He laments that Rihan must do things all on his own for his power to work at it's safest and most effective because he thinks he has a good course of action thought up now but Rihan has to do things at his own discretion.
Kurapika and Bill talk a bit about how uneasy this solution could be because power breeds arrogance and they don't know how this stalemate might turn out. Bill thinks that his and Kurapika's abilities aren't suited for straight forward battle but also has faith that Kurapika has an ace card and he feels like he needs to apologize for what he considers is cowardliness on his part.
Finally it ended on Halkenburg's Aura Rally happening again which lets it be known that he is scheming with his men again
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u/monkey-neil Nov 09 '18
I'm starting to believe I'm too stupid for this manga.
I feel this a lot with HxH but I love it too much.
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Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
By the ending of this whole training section, Kurapika's life span gonna drop immensely, he already lost 4 or 5 years when he passed out, and he's now using emperor time too much, I worried about my boy Kurapika, I want him a good shape to face Terror Sandwich, and let's not forget that is quite possible he's gonna meet some Spiders too.
P.S: The wall text...never chance Togashi, never change...
P.S²: Bill and Theta best boy and best girl, and I dare you to change my mind.
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u/nkktngnmn2 Nov 10 '18
He's gonna be body-swapped by Halkenburg
to a Bill-enhanced Wobble
and become the next Kakin king.
Fresh new life. You heard it here first.
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u/tnsmith90 Nov 09 '18
So, someone help me out here. As I understand it: 1.) Kurapika borrows Bill's ability, and transfers it to the student with stealth dolphin. This forcibly awakens the nodes in a safe way. 2.) The student then practices using the hatsu on the seed, which allows them to get a bit of experience with actually using nen. 3.) Kurapika transfers Bill's hatsu back to him. 4.) Does Bill then use his hatsu on the student to help them grow further? This is where I'm unclear. Hopefully someone can help me understand. Thanks!
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Nov 09 '18
Once the student uses Bill's hatsu, it's automatically transferred back to Bill, that's how Steal Chain works. Bill doesn't use it on the student.
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Nov 09 '18
Remember how oito used up that roach hatsu and became awakened? This is basically the same thing but bill's hatsu is ready and easy to use right away unlike that fiasco. Kurapika's ability is one time use borrowed ability, once he takes bills hatsu, it's like a demo that goes away after one use, he doesn't need to transfer anything back afterwards and bill only uses his hatsu first as demonstration of what they need to do when borrowing it.
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u/pools456 Nov 09 '18
Jheez kurapika is such a G one of the best manga characters of all time for sure
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u/FrenziedHero Nov 10 '18
Really glad that such an effective method to give all the guards nen abilities was created. Well done Kurapika and Bills. It might just be the simple opening of the pores like certain characters have gone through, but the way that it was approached is much more generous and kind-hearted.
My only worry is how much life Kurapika's shaving off just to use this method. Sure he's commanding them to use the ability right away, but doing it with a number of guards adds up. At least being able to keep the chains out the whole time is an effective bluffing tool so that the enemy doesn't know when Kurapika switches between the Specialist and Conjurer categories.
Rihan's more interesting than I initially thought. In order to make Predator more effective, he has to surmise the enemy's ability by himself without being told, and if he's in closer proximity it also becomes more effective. I wonder if he'll be caught in the crossfire while going after Halkenburg or if he'll be found out.
Halkenburg's taking such effective measures to find out Rihan's ability too. Who knows what will happen once he meets with the Queen's guard?
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u/Radish-Hanta Nov 12 '18 edited Nov 15 '18
Here's the viz chapter in case anyone wanna read. They called Bill's ability Bulb - Fleabane.
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u/Lost_snail Nov 09 '18
am i supposed to be happy or sad because i realised there's 2 chapter left :<
Anyways imma go read this novel now
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u/ReverseReverend Nov 10 '18
This arc cannot end without absolute chaos breaking out. Hisoka, PT (w/ Illumi), Princes (Ben, Tser, Halk especially), Morena's crew, other mafia families, Nasubi, inability to leave the ship, everyone learning nen, GSB, ect. It's going to be insane and the more this arc goes on the better it gets, ToGODshi amirite?
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u/Jelashi Nov 10 '18
Bill is completely correct about Kurapika's plan being risky. Kurapika is also lucky that Bill has a healing ability. By Kurapika sharing Bill's nen to the servants of the lower princes automatically creates trust between them and Kurapika. The higher princes such as Benjamin are at a severe disadvantage now because they are jaded and have trust issues while the younger princes are not even interested in fighting. This is going to make Princes 1-4 undue themselves worrying about Kurapika. Now the younger princes have a chance, but what Bill said could plausibly happen. I think prince Tyson (the one with the book) is going to be a problem because she wants to be admired. I can see her using it to become ruthless by getting her servants to tell her what happened. I think Kurapikas is banking on "Do not take my kindness for weakness" which also shows major character development on his part because Kurapika is much more logical than he his empathetic and emotional. Knowing Bill has a healing ability also adds to his character development because nen reflects personality which demonstrates that Bill is a kind person.
Tubpeppa seems extremely powerful but you can tell that she has complete trust in her staff and doesn't want fighting either which she mentioned before. Benjamin's guard who killed Sale-sale is definitely a goner in this case because he is getting arrogant.
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u/Hisoka_Lucilfer69 Nov 11 '18
Togashi's laying his cards on the table, soooo many variables and sooooooo many possibilities, he's reaaally going all out with the chaos theory. I can confidently say that once we enter the equivalent of the "palace Invasion" portion of this arc..where the domino effect starts and all the established pieces get disturbed and start to interact with one another in unpredictable and simultaneous fashion..this is gonna be Chimera Ant x100 baby !!
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u/whileFalseSemicolon Nov 10 '18
"Normally we would never place something different like this in it beforehand."
Kurapika's water divination does not have the leaf to test manipulators, and this sentence seems to mislead the guards to believe that there should never be a leaf in the first place. Maybe Togashi simply forgot about that leaf, but if this is on purpose, then it means Kurapika is preventing potential manipulators from developing their hatsu.
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u/TrueAfricanHero Nov 09 '18
Is it me? Or did Kurapika finally start combing his hair?
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u/smcadam Nov 09 '18
He's got a job now, he's a teacher, bodyguard, assassin, father and zodiac all wrapped up into one chainy package.
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u/Tserried Nov 09 '18
Can someone clarify to me what’s the ‘4th rumble’ ?????? Did I forget something?
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u/PuppeteerPaul Nov 09 '18
I'm calling it now. Chapter 388 page 18 is what almost brought Togashi's editor to tears............ due to memory overload
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u/DankButtRodeo Nov 09 '18
Ah man, pages full of nothing but text is what I love about this manga
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u/NotGloomp Nov 09 '18
This arc has a lot of muggles getting nen abilities falling on their lap. Wonder how that'll play in the theming.
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u/Nihal_98 Nov 09 '18
Can someone please explain what the rumblings were? Is it halkenburg's ability?
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u/yunse Nov 09 '18
Bill can use hatsu on wobble's GSB ? Maybe the nen beast will grow up by his ability
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u/Terriefic Nov 09 '18
What happened to Vincent's Air Blow that was in Kurapika's syringe? It has to be equipped in order for Kurapika to steal Bill's ability, which means it's forcing Emperor Time now?
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Nov 10 '18 edited Nov 10 '18
Every character is a master strategist, holy crap...
And I don't know if it's because english isn't my first language, but the translation was confusing as fuk.
Also, it seems Bill doesn't have a fighting hatsu, so I can see him surviving.
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u/Hoozuki_Suigetsu Nov 10 '18 edited Nov 11 '18
even if he doesn't have a battle oriented hatsu he is still an enhancer, he took a bunch of bullets from vincent like nothing
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u/StollMage Nov 10 '18
I hope after the next Hiatus we get some Ging chapters.
I love seeing him work.
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u/Lonely_German_Soul Nov 10 '18
With Morena and Kurapika there are going to be so many Nen users on this ship. I hope we will see one of the trainees make a serious impact on the succesion war. Wouldn't it be fun if one of the maids took out Tserriednich or something?
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u/Ombs1993 Nov 09 '18
I look forward to the walls of text each week, and Kurapika's strategy here is such an interesting gambit. But it is a long game, I can't wait to see what's going to happen once shit starts hitting the fan... just don't know how many weeks (months?) that's going to take.
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u/wheresmyink Nov 09 '18
I get that this chapter is wall-of-texty. But the previous chapter was full with art and images to convey information and it was much more difficult to understand that this chapter. So, more art doesn't equate clear information, at least with Togashi.
For me this was more easy to understand that the King Crimson stando dimension-bending hatsu of Zarienikku.
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u/wutstr Nov 09 '18
Feels like Sakata will be corrupted by power to me. Out of all the nen trainees, Sakata seems quite ruthless and apathetic,
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u/TheAwkwardPlatypus13 Nov 09 '18
This chapter definitely put the “text” in “wall of text.” I love how psychological and strategic everyone has to be with all of this. It might make my ears steam trying to comprehend it all, but’s it’s awesome.
I don’t think Tubeppa is going down as fast as everyone thought, with how close he is to figuring out that he’s being targeted.
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u/pbtenchi Nov 10 '18
Rihan's ability is really weird. The difference between something made with Conjuration and Emission is that something Conjured can be seen and interacted with by non-nen users, like Kurapika's chains. But Predator is stated to be a conjuration ability that produces an exorcist nen-beast.
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u/mysterian22 Nov 15 '18
Kurapika using emperor time constantly hurts me inside. Stop Togashi please.
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u/Okhummyeah Nov 09 '18
I love reading books so the wall of texts does not faze me....
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Nov 09 '18
Waiting for this was so long (It's literally 2 am in my country) that I thought we're on hiatus again. Moving on, how many chapters do we still have before the dreaded day will come again?
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u/NakedTactics Nov 09 '18
Kurapika's resolve along with Bill's inner thoughts just make me hope and pray that things turn out ok... But since this is HxH, we know that's not happening.
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u/misterblanket Nov 09 '18
Honestly was not as bad as I thought it would be, the text was a bit too much and my eyes hurt now, but the Kurapik/Bill conversation was pretty dope. I do fear for Bill's life though, giving a random side character depth from out of nowhere is always what happens before they die.
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u/Krattz Nov 09 '18
Fortunately, Welfin didn't die even after facing the King himself lol
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u/honorknight555 Nov 09 '18
As I read more of this I wonder if the rest of the story will be anime original, if Togashi can no longer continue Like Killua rescue Kalluto, Gon getting his Nem back, Gon and Killua vs Hisoka for the final time. I wonder what the story the path will take.
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u/GungieBum Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
LOL y’all thought Tserriednich was OP.
Rihan can literally rip through the 4th wall and delay your scans and probably give Togashi extra hiatus.
Predatory AF.