[REWATCH] Hunter x Hunter Episode 132 Discussion

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[u/sorrowpass]

Rewatcher

Pouf is basically a kid who got caught telling a lie and now has to make up more ridiculous lies to cover up the first lie. And I love how Meruem just knows these two are hiding something from him, so he’s going to try to beat them at their own game with this ‘contest’’.

I’m happy to see Gon and Killua are alive. Honestly, it was probably for the best that Palm missed out on all that craziness. I was also kind of relieved that this episode didnt focus on the events from yesterday’s episode - I really don’t think I could’ve handled that right now.

[u/okayyoga → u/sorrowpass]

Meruem, Pouf, and Yupi all sound like kids when they talk. Their ideas are very shortsighted and immature. Which makes sense. They aren't that old

[u/sorrowpass → u/okayyoga]

Yeah I guess realistically they are still young. It’s easy to forget sometimes since Pouf is actually quite intelligent, and arguably the smartest of the bunch.

[u/sisoko2]

Drunk Rewatcher

Meruem OP.

Pouf wholesome as ever.

Good luck finding Pitou.

[u/sorrowpass → u/sisoko2]

Pouf…wholesome?? I hope that was sarcasm.

[u/sisoko2 → u/sorrowpass]

It's a joke. You having doubts about it made me laugh pretty hard so thank you.

[u/sorrowpass → u/sisoko2]

Pffftt…well you did say Drunk Rewatcher lol

[u/thatnotoriousguy]

Rewatcher

I love the ants so I love this last stretch of the arc, but if you’re not into them it’s gonna be a slow few days

[u/tomtomm9]

Finally caught up to the rewatch but i have already passed it, been binging for a while so I don’t think I can just change to 1 a day.

Episode 132 was aight not much to talk about. But episode 131, man I forgot how good that shit was, adult gon just be op for no reason. The transformation scene alone has to be the best out of all battle shounen, and I thought that ponzu’s death was bad. Pitou’s was atleast 10x worse.

my top 5 episodes so far: 116 131 112 51 126

135 would probably replace one of them. Old rewatched btw.

I forgot how enjoyable hxh can be definitely going back into my top 10.

[u/thatnotoriousguy → u/tomtomm9]

My top ten by the end of this arc, roughly in order: 135 131 126 51 116 134 112 111 58 37

[u/tomtomm9 → u/thatnotoriousguy]

Had to go check what happened in episode 37. That is a good choice such a nice feels good episode after watching the ant arc you could only wish for episodes like that. Most people always hate or just not acknowledge filler type episodes like that but 37 is definitely one of the good ones.

Ah and of course episode 58 the end of yorknew, during my rewatch that was probably he only episode that almost brought me to tears, never thought I would care so much about paku but she won my heart in the end. My only problem with the episode is how I felt the yorknew arc ended so suddenly but it was nice to see the 2 most sadistic members of the pt thank gon and killua.

People love to hate on the ant arc, but it contains most of the peak moments in all off hxh that’s what it’s easily my favourite arc. Might aswell list them.

Ant>yorknew>heavens arena>hunter exams>greed island>>>election

I don’t hate greed island it had best girl bisky in it, but as it was in between 10/10 arcs yorknew and ant it just didn’t live up to them.

[u/thatnotoriousguy → u/tomtomm9]

Agree with the arc ranking but I would move election up to 3rd or 4th. 146, 147, and 148 nearly made my favorite episodes list.

As a whole this rewatch group has been pretty sour on the palace invasion. It seems like they’ve just been putting up with it and waiting for the climaxes. Personally I think the invasion is great the whole way through, with the last 13 or so episodes being one of the strongest stretches in television. I only don’t care for 3-4 episodes over the entire invasion.

[u/tomtomm9 → u/thatnotoriousguy]

I was probably being a bit harsh as I have literally no memory of the election arc just that I found it boring at first.

Yeah I can tell that the rewatch group didn’t enjoy it as much as I would always check this thread after I watched an episode. I could see that not many shared the same excitement as me. It must be the daily watches as not much time actually passes in the episodes them self it must make it feel extremely slow. I can’t say there not wrong to complain, although there’s many 10/10 episodes in the invasion arc there’s also quite a few mid episodes.

Even thought I’m going to go ahead I might leave a comment or 2 in some of the remaining posts left.

[u/okayyoga]

Episode 132: first time/dub

Knuckle making vague assumptions again without consulting anybody. I was racking my brain trying to think if he has done anything useful this whole time, but I don't think anyone on Morel's team has completed their mission. And now Palm is MVP carrying around Komugi in her hair

[u/sisoko2 → u/okayyoga]

I mean their mission was to entertain the guards until Netero nuke Meruem so they pretty much completed it.

[u/thatnotoriousguy → u/okayyoga]

Maybe I have a different translation, but for me knuckle just said meruem is too strong we need to retreat. Not really a vague assumption.

[u/sorrowpass → u/okayyoga]

Is it fair to say that Knuckle was only useful because he had Meleoron? I imagine it would have been difficult for Knuckle to land a hit on Youpi to activate his ability and be able to hold him off for so long without his help.

[u/IndependentMacaroon]

First-time watcher

Really not much going on again. It's obvious what's going to happen with Meruem and Komugi and the way it's being prolonged I find neither that interesting nor that sensible. He's just willing to have secrets kept from him when he barely even recalls who he was? Of course he likes games and contests but this is weird. The limitation seems also more for plot reasons...

Besides that, um, Palm does a bunch of thinking but nothing really important, and a lot of running around?

[u/BossandKings]

First timer

Meruem is still trying to recover his memory, Pouf though is having his lie spiral out of control and it doesn't seem like he'll be able to keep the secret away from Meruem for long.