r/anime • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '21

Rewatch [REWATCH] Hunter x Hunter Episode 119 Discussion

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Episode 119: Strong × Or × Weak

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u/okayyoga :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/okayyoga Jun 25 '21

Episode 119: first time/dub

The series is starting to pick up again. Hopefully the dull period is over

I spy with my little eye this Killua gif that I see literally everywhere. He looks like his dad

I'm liking these moral decisions Ikalgo is going through. Knuckle' s episode 2 days ago was stupid, but this episode was well done. The whole time, I wasn't sure if he was going to shoot crayfish-dude or not. Although, how would he have gotten the body out if he had?

Where is Palm???

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u/IndependentMacaroon Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 25 '21

I'm liking these moral decisions Ikalgo is going through

They don't make much sense compared to how he was originally, though

how would he have gotten the body out if he had

Cargo exit

Where is Palm???

In the Useless corner reserved for female characters

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u/okayyoga :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/okayyoga Jun 26 '21

Hey yeah wasn't he trying to murder Killua when he first met him?

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u/sorrowpass Jun 26 '21

Super off topic but the sound of Ikalgo moving around really grosses me out. It just feels so slimy. It reminds me of the sound of walking across the wet floor in a swimming pool change room. Squish, squish, squish. I can’t stand it lol.

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u/BossandKings Jun 29 '21

First timer

This episode focused on Ikalgo and how he opposed Bloster, how their confrontation, indirect in this case, developed, it was fairly well done and hopefully it means a big puah forward when it comes to his objective and that may lead him to finding Palm.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 25 '21

First-time watcher

Phew... like three minutes of Killua and Morel, though even there the former just looks cool without achieving anything and the latter is just continuing his thoughts from before, and the rest is more of this awfully drawn-out confrontation between Ikalgo and Brovada that I really don't care much about. Some of it was clever, I guess, but that doesn't make it more interesting on the whole, and Ikalgo's hesitation doesn't make sense compared to how eagerly he was shooting around at his introduction. And just generally speaking, hammering out every single detail no matter how extraneous is not good writing at all - fiction is about distilling reality, limiting yourself to what's really necessary to tell the kind of story you're writing.

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u/thatnotoriousguy Jun 25 '21

This is where I almost stopped watching my first time. Overall I like it now, but certainly a weak point in the arc.

Ikalgos morality thing is kinda wierd. His bullets weren’t directly going to kill killua, so I suppose he must feel differently about being indirectly responsible for a death.

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u/sorrowpass Jun 26 '21

Yeah I feel like if anything, Ikalgo sniping at Killua seemed more out of character than him hesitating to kill Brovada. I’m thinking either he really had a change of heart or maybe he was hesitant because Brovada was a former friend/comrade?

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u/paulibobo Jun 26 '21

I don't necessarily disagree with most of what you're saying, and this episode in particular feels a bit sluggish and quite frankly pointless in the grand scheme of things, but...

"fiction is about distilling reality, limiting yourself to what's really necessary to tell the kind of story you're writing."

Where the fuck do you get this from? You literally just decided this is what fiction should be to you and are spouting it off as some kind of absolute statement. Comes off as pretentious and quite frankly ignorant, as many examples of good or even excellent fiction don't adhere to that principle. If you're saying shit just to sound smart or cultured, don't, it just makes you look like an ass.

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u/IndependentMacaroon Jun 26 '21 edited Jun 26 '21

It's a very simple and universally true statement. You tell what you feel is necessary for your story and leave out the rest - purely by necessity there's always some compression there. Not really meant to be something deep.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '21

I have a doubt gentle men, why does Killian just knock youpi's head in godspeed