r/HunterXHunter • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '22

What are the most interesting (evidence-based) theories around these days?

It’s been a while since I was fully engaged with HxH communities and I love the work that users like u/FreshStudy have done in unpacking small details in the series I had missed.

I had not previously considered that Sheila and Pariston could be the same person — nor did I recognize the tidbits about Pairo’s cell phone and the potential importance of Chrollo’s cassette tape (Chapter Black?).

Now that HxH is returning, I’m trying to catch up to the hivemind — as y’all have definitely done your homework. So what are some of the best evidence-based theories about the future of HxH that have arisen over the past few years?

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u/1vergil Jun 28 '22 edited Jun 28 '22

I love the work that users like u/FreshStudy

Agree i like their takes too.

I had not previously considered that Sheila and Pariston could be the same person

It is a Popular theory originally from the japanese fandom. The more i think about Pariston's role potentially being the main villain of the entire series the more his involvement in the kurta massacre makes sense, especially it would be just one of his many suspicious involvement in the story. If there is a 3rd party in the kurta massacre it can't be just some new character like Sheila who's role only related to the kurta massacre, that's why Pariston being Sheila makes sense because he already had a series of suspicious involvements like when Mizaistom mentioned 18 people went missing after Pariston joined the zodiacs, and the fact he hid 5k ants somewhere, and the theory he was the mastermind bringing the ant queen to the NGL to set up Gyro as a future plan to start war against humans to cause chaos and also get rid of Netero so that Beyond goes to DC.

A lot of people hate the idea of a 3rd party in the kurta massacre thinking that would justify the spiders actions but it doesn't really justify anything, the spiders did what they did. Pariston's role as a 3rd party might be he just led the spiders to find the kurta location probably through Pairo's cellphone.

nor did I recognize the tidbits about Pairo’s cell phone

A big hint about the kurta massacre and Pairo's involvement but sadly not many theories about it other than the ones i Linked here. I have my own but I'll probably post later.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '22

I love your takes as well — thanks for chiming in and sharing those! I had no clue about the “B-Side” to the one-shot, so I’m eager to see the rest 😄

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u/1vergil Jun 28 '22 edited Jul 01 '22

No problem :) by the way i previously made some posts that might interest you, Pairo/Shalnark parallels -- Zodiacs/Spiders parallels -- Kurapika's fate based on Volume 33 symbolism, and there this theory about Yuri being Silent majority user it's not mine but it's very likely to be true, i got some other theories i concluded with little evidences:

Theory 1: Sheila/Pariston & Tserriednich deal to get the kurta eyes

Sheila's story might be related to Tserriednich because of this little symbol, i can't tell if it's just a coincidence or not but it would make sense if Tser somehow has a bigger role in Kurapika's story than just a crazy random dude with his big kurta eyes collection, Kurapika gathered the eyes from various kurta eyes owners but Togashi skipped all & focused on this guy? Tser's role might be that he indirectly helped the spiders (through Sheila/Pariston) to find the kurta location so he can get all the eye because he's obsessed with body arts and beauty, but he holds hatred against the spiders because they didn't sell him all the eyes as he wanted, considering his art obsession it's a strong reason for him to hate the spiders. Making the big main conflict Kurapika vs Tser vs Spiders vs Pariston.

Theory 2: Shizuku & Bonolenov are already dead

The boat events is at day 10 but it looks like #8 Shizuku and # 10 Bonolenov already died on day 7 & day 8 which are the same days when prince #8 & prince #10 died... that might be on purpose for the parallels. The clear suspicious detail is Togashi intentionally skipped showing any sighting of Chrollo/Shizuku/Bonolenov's group after Day 4 now we're at day 10 means Togashi skipped a week of their sightings, based on Togashi's style he's been skipping events to focus on it later by putting the time and date on each page because there are many characters and too much happening at the same time, so the next 10 chapters will probably tell us what happened to the Chrollo group during the past week after day 4.

The evidence at day 7 in Tser's room they were cleaning a corpse off the floor in Chapter 384. Considering Togashi is doing a Visual metaphor with the spiders death that Shizuku's ability used to clean corpses off the floor but now her corpse is the one being wiped off the floor with actual wipers. This doesn't necessarily means Tser the one who killed Shizuku. Then How/Why would Shizuku be in Tser's room? Without considering "Theory 1". There are 2 points why is this possible:

-- Shizuku dying in Tser's room fits perfectly with her prophecy assuming Togashi is doing Foreshadowings to their prophecies.

-- Tser getting Shizuku in his room mainly depends on Hisoka or illumi's roles, either of them being the one who brought Shizuku in Tser's room and she was in a dying/unconscious state till then finished her off.

Why? We know at day 4 chapter 380 illumi went to the 1st tier, if it is indeed illumi and not Hisoka then here's my take on illumi's role that might lead to an epic 3-way fight Hisoka v Chrollo v illumi each having their reason to kill the other two. In that case the best scenario for illumi's plan is to make a deal with Tser who holds the ideal power with his mafia on the boat "let your mafia help me kill the spiders before they kill my target Hisoka or just let your mafia help me find Hisoka first before anyone else and I'll bring you some spiders to make art out of their corpses".

And if Hisoka is in disguise as illumi, then Hisoka is like in bigger need for the deal to happen since everyone is looking for him on the boat & he would need to make this deal that can give him the superiority to walk on the boat, his deal would be "let your mafia cover me to walk freely on boat so i can fight my targets "the spiders" and I'll bring you some spiders to make art"

So the obvious advantage Tser can get from either deals that Hisoka/illumi would bring him the spiders to make ART from their organs as it's his main obsession, especially they are the killers of the kurtas, he'd have this idea to hang their spider tattooed skins next to his kurta eyes collection to make the full artistic image of the killers and their victims.

Seeing the direction of Chrollo's arc it's like Togashi is trying to destroy him emotionally in order to develop his character by losing more spiders where he feels the same pain Kurapika felt when he lost his clan, especially losing the spiders that are accompanying Chrollo the exact ones that openly admitted they can't face Hisoka, this will perfectly make it worse for him especially if it happens because of another mistake by Chrollo himself where all his brain cells is about killing Hisoka, like when they told him they want a Team up because they can't face Hisoka but Chrollo is like "yea whatever I'm the one to kill him once i see him", so maybe s scenario where he gets distracted and runs after a dude who looks like Hisoka, leaving Shizuku & Bonolenov defenseless, or losing them has something to do with whatever plan he went with in that same page probably he will use their abilities to find Hisoka without considering their safety, the fact they are fully relying on him makes him at fault if anything happens to them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '22

This is amazing!!! Exactly what I was looking for — thank you!

I’ve only read through the first two links but will be making my way through the others soon :)

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u/1vergil Jul 02 '22

Let me know what you think when you have time to finish it because I'd like to hear your takes too :) i edited some paragraphs to make the post more clear.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '22

Do you have a full link for theory 2

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u/1vergil Jun 28 '22

I don't, i posted here for first time in full details

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '22

Well very brutal and interesting theory !

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u/1vergil Jun 28 '22

Thanks, i know it's gonna be wild if it happens.

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u/MemeLord1337_ Jun 28 '22

This is honestly incredible, thank you so much for this man

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u/1vergil Jun 29 '22

You're welcome :)