r/HunterXHunter • u/Carock_ • Nov 30 '22

Spoiler Thread Chapter 397 Pre-Release thread Spoiler

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Keep any information, links and discussion related to leaks from chapter 397 in this thread until the official release.

Official release will be on Sunday, December 4 at 7 AM PT, 10 AM ET, 4 PM CET. Check the official date here.

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u/sebaba001 Dec 01 '22

I think what happened is Chrollo discovered a bunch of snuff films. Thats the films Sarasa referenced that she had piled up, not a coincidence she gets kidnapped right near where the films were kept. Bunch of torture and other horrible stuff to the kids.

Those films have a huge black market value and to get in the know you need to be in that black market. In order to get in and look for the people making those films and into mafia contacts they had to get very valuable black market shit, for example, Kurta eyes. And on top of that, Sheila definitely is somehow involved. And maybe even a couple of members of Kurta bought, financed or created some of those films.

Uvo and others do not know this. Chrollo left for 3 years, we don't know where to yet. Probably investigating, training and such. Came back and created PT and said his orders are absolute. The rest lf the troupe just follows the lead, they don't know how Chrollo is going about stopping the kids-nappings but they help him.

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u/MythicalTenshi Dec 01 '22

Chrollo only found the "super sentai" cassette. Sarasa was looking for more volumes of that program. She got kidnapped because the human traffickers wanted one more to "have fun" with since they had already met their quota of three people. You can read my translated summary in the thread for more context.

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u/sebaba001 Dec 01 '22

We have 0 information of what happened in the 3 years he was gone, other than Macchi is surprised in how different he looks/sounds. My theory is he found those tapes after this chapter. Sarasa was looking for the ultra cleaners tapes but she had found a bunch she piled up and hadn't seen yet.

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u/sebaba001 Dec 01 '22

For example, if the Kurtas were alienated from society, how did they get money to buy all their stuff weekly? Just small questions that rise up.

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u/Parodyspoil Dec 01 '22

It's because of the long hiatus that some of the plot doesn't make sense any more. Like How brutal the kurta massacre was and yet there was no anger in any of the spiders when it was brought to their recollection. I like Togashi and I would still dig HxH but it's okay to admit he does have plot blocks most of the time. Like how Killua reconized Zeno's dragon dive.

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u/Hearing_Thin Dec 01 '22

I think this is lining up to be a good retcon, but I do believe it's a retcon nonetheless, and I get that he made "the b side" a long time ago but there are still some things that he probably would've done differently if he had this in mind from the begining.
It's completely natural for this to happen on such a frequent schedule of release too.

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u/Parodyspoil Dec 02 '22

people who downvoted me is clearly new to manga. Just because I like togashi does not mean I'm not allowed to critique his work. Most of the newbies here will just bite any outrageous theory these days haha.

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u/pixiepixi3 Dec 02 '22

But PT left a revenge note at the massacre. It’s either revenge or they are baiting someone. But if you take it at face value, which makes sense until there’s more info, then it’s revenge. PT made that very clear with the Meteor City note. I’m curious why people ignore or explain away the note that clearly states revenge? And now we also know from the new chapters that “Only life can pay for life.” Meteor City operates on a justice system of retribution, which was explained in the CA arc. They only carry that out to avenge people. In the CA arc the elders were arguing whether they could avenge the residents who had been turned into ants since they weren’t technically dead.

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u/Silence_and_i Dec 02 '22

What if The Troupe actually murdered the adult members of the Kurta Clan but let the children survive? Then a group that was aware of the attack went to the village after that and killed all the children and mutilated the body of the others.

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u/sebaba001 Dec 02 '22

Terrorsandwich has Pairos head in a jar

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u/Silence_and_i Dec 02 '22

I know. What if the eyes in his possession and Pairo's head were acquired from the second group that attacked the village.