HunterXHunter: What Happens After the Anime? 

I once heard that if the author ever dies (I just want to make it clear i do not wish for his death, in fact i want him to be healthy af so he can keep writing the story), his wife will take his place and continue the manga. He already taught him how he drows and the storyline,etc. On a more personal note tho, i used to wish that hxh will keep going and that one day we will reach a satisfying ending, like i really REALLY want that to happen. But the sad truth is that the chance of that happening is rather slim. Thats why i and many other fans is just slowly trying to accept the fact that this manga will never get finished, because its really good the way it is now. So many interesting new characters, plot point, backstory,etc. I'd legit be mad if they fuvked up Pariston's backstory somehow and make it so generic and predictable. So yea, just slowly tryna accept that this manga will never be finished. Pain.

@Fauzi Beak can u explain why people arent expecting it to finish tho

@omarha because Togashi has had a history of illness and back problems I believe and this is the longest hiatus in the history of the series. So it's not looking great 😭

@omarha its been over 1000 days since the last chapter.. i dont think hxh is in his priorities

cries in berserk

Yeah it does really feel like the start of a whole new era for where HunterXHunter was going. Really hope Togashi will get a chance to continue it

@SeaGee he's kind of stubborn, he could just hire an assitant or his wife (creator of sailor moon) to draw for him but he has said countless times he doesn't want to but what if worst comes to worst?? it will be a waste to see this series go unfinished...

@theater girl He actually has been showing his wife how to draw in his style so that if worse comes to worse she can continue the story in his place

@Yustev that shouldn't even be an option, we all want him to finish his series while he is still alive :(

@theater girl What if he continued to write the story instead which will serve as the backbone of the whole story? Similar to a light novel...

Its that thrill of the unknown. I think Togashi's done a great job making it as intruiging to the reader as it is to the characters in the story

@SeaGee also the fan base having crippling Blu balls. I'd do crazy things for more hxh

agreed the intrigue is insane

Could be easily the biggest arc in the manga, and Togashi adds another arc INSIDE that arc

@SeaGee I also think that’s the issue. He made the story too complicated and had basically expanded the universe to the a similar scale as one piece. And not every author has the drive to flush out a world that deep and complicated like oda. Also his health but also his laziness.

Out of all the things us fans want to see in the series, the top one is Togashi returning to good health

It is, you gotta read it

This man has yet to come back fam

Believe me your not missing too much the hiatus is killer. Once you start you'll catch up faster than Togashi.

It’s been over 1000 days since a new chapter has come out. Us HxH are suffering, but at the end of day, it’s Togashi’s story and I wish him well in his health and his endeavors because that’s way more important than pleasing fans

i mean they called them ants because they rapidly evolved from...ants, but yeah it could also mean what you said

But why couldn't the chimera ants evolve in the dark content, it literally took eating a couple meals over a few weeks to turn them into almost god's just feasting on humans. If they ate creatures on the dark continent couldn't they have evolved into even more absurd levels in a short time. I am one of the few that didn't like the chimera ant arc because how easy it was to power up in such a short time that it never felt earned. Just eat a hunter, have a baby, and it'll be super Saiyan in 2 weeks time

@Sid Citris they couldnt evolve because they were just ants... the other creatures of the dark continent were too much for the ants, and they could only evolve becasue they had a big queen who apparently had human descendance

@Sid Citris they were probably too weak to eat any of the powerful creatures to constantly evolve and not have their evolution be stagnant

@Rodrigo Calero Barrenechea Right one. The Dark Continent is just that powerful. Even if a Queen ends up eating one of those unknown but incredible creatures, and gets a King stronger than herself (and significantly stronger than even Meruem), chances are he’ll just get killed very quickly, not fast enough to be considered a sizeable force in that place Plus, there are multiple Chimera Ant Queens, that was implied in how their biology was explained in the Arc

It's something he loves doing, make a problem so later the characters solve it. Just so they could realize it was all for nothing

Kinda like any and all animes huh

@Travis reminds me of SDS when we thought that that the holy nights was like really strong group and gilthunder one of the strongest characters but turns out that he was just a bug compared to the actual villains.

Actually it was a threat to humanity just like the other 5 brought back from the dc. If they weren't stopped, whole humanity would've been pigs. Killua, Gon and the rest of the crew stopped a big threat.

Isn't it implied that the ants come from the dark continent if not just outright told they do

I'll keep my fingers crossed that we'll get to see a conclusion one day. I'll hold on to hope!

my hope is that togashi overcorrects and does a year time jump to where the colony has been established and they’ve been on the continent for 4 months. kurapika is blind now for an unknown reason. tserriednich and beyond are working together towards some end. hisoka, jing, pariston, melody and bisky are midbattle and fighting something in the dark in a cavern. all that’s left of the spiders is machi and nobunaga, and they want to find and kill hisoka and ging for taking out chrollo. but they’re in the process of building a defensible fort with what’s left of the nen users and civilians. cut to whale island, gon and the old sea captin are titled back in lounge chairs smoking an L while surrounded by an unreasonable amount of smoke shows on the boat. fade to black. fade back in, satotz enters the zoldyck butler house, he’s revealed to have filled gotohs position. he walks down the hall to his room, enters the bathroom and looks at the razor sitting next to the sink. so much tensions. he looks in the mirror, picks up the razor and he shaves off his mustache to reveal a tiny tiny mouth that was under there the whole time. he smiles.

Oh man, now I want this too! I hadn't considered a timeskip but heck that'd be interesting to read. I'd vote your version over a long trip to the dark continent Also hahahaha the Satotz bit

if you caught any of the eva rebuilds, they're a good case study for the value of time skips in story telling. angus truskett, one of the hosts of heyfam pod, mentioned that the pov character and the viewer both being completely in the dark while the whole world has moved on puts the viewer in a really receptive state and allows for much more interesting explorations of the non pov characters. in the case of a massive and long-lived franchise like eva, i think it helps to move the emphasis of the story from the lore/mythos/mystery box intrigue to focusing on the characters and the themes and message that the author wants to explore. also, functionally it allows the author to either streamline or redirect some of the story elements/character relationships that they may have otherwise played out to uninteresting ends. I think a time skip would do much of the same for hxh. gon's story from chapter one is wrapped up. leorio wasn't set up on a very meaningful character arc. if togashi were to get real spicy, you could honestly just have a standalone series where he is solving hunter medical issues a la dr. stone or something along those lines. kurapika seems pretty stagnant as a character, and i think an interesting turn would be to let grandfather time take him out. the most compelling story i can see out of him is inadvertently building a new "kurta clan" out of melody and the rest of the side characters and have them carry out his justice. looking back on the series, the one character that has actually gone through significant changes is killua. i noticed this especially in the ant arc. him deciding to clear out the civilians was working against his past instincts, and it ended up being the best thing that could have been done. also with him and ikalgo. i know there's some friction about how fast they both help each other, but i think it's a cool turn to see that without the needle in his forehead, killua is able to emulate some of gon's best traits. for that reason it's kind of ass that he's out of the main plot of the series right now. the time skip would allow for new pov characters and deeper explorations of their motivations and how they react to challenges. i was super stoked for the dark continent arc, but with all of the time in between, i don't see how it can be very compelling from a artistic standpoint. it's just like netero said, there weren't any people to fight there, just death itself. for that reason i think it's good that there are enough people on the boat that we can see a full on naruto style army v army situation. but the continent itself seems like kind of a dead end. at least that's where i'm at now. i don't know if you've ever read toriko, but it also has a "dark continent arc" that takes up the full second half of the series. it's really similar to hxh in that the habitable area of the world is very small, and the lead in to the "gormet world" is the intrusion of higher level creatures. the gourmet world is insanely dangerous, and each area has unique hazards that the characters have to learn to adapt to. like one of them is this mountain that has immense gravity and they have to learn how to use it to learn monkey martial arts so they can fight the monkey king in order to collect his testicles to use for a mythical gourmet dish (yes it is ridiculous and also very heartfelt and fun). the difference here is that the four main characters are essentially like four dios/ four supermans/ four kenpachis with unique powers and good personalities. and every time they eat one of the mythical dishes, it powers up their "gourmet cells" which continually ramps up their power. hxh is way less hyperbolic and nen is very specific and hard to adapt so it seems that the continent's challenges will be completely out of reach, so the character/mental conflicts have to really take center stage. all of that to say, the only fight i'm really looking forward to is giro and the 5000 ant hybrids vs satotz, ging, kite, and the greed island squad. also i highly recommend toriko. the manga not the anime, even though the manga gets real rushed at the end. *content warning* it's a great series but the author was arrested for child prostitution in japan in the early 2000s. i personally think that term is a little abstracted it should be for r****g a child, but w/e. *content warning end* thanks for the response, sorry for the essay, love your content and your analysis. if you want to read a super chill manga that is hella heart warming, read bartender. if you have addiction problems, avoid it. but it's about a slice of life manga about the best bartender in the world that makes people drinks that are so good that they help them resolve their personal/interpersonal conflicts. it's not like getting hammered, they have one drink and they're like "oh ! the god of the glass ! i forgive my sister!" pretty cute

Don't apologize! Love long comments. I'm actually working on the big 20th Century Boys video atm which is full of time skips so good to get more perspectives. I liked your original idea of having Kurapika be blind after the timeskip. Give him a blindfold so we're not sure if he still has his eyes under there. I think there's ways to keep him interesting there. I think it's a tough thing to land, jumping into a new plot with new main characters. Keeping Kurapika out after giving his this development makes us want to see him more than anything else. Again a great reason for a timeskip to get him back into the story. I'm honestly expecting some sort of MacGuffin in the dark continent. Some "thing" that everyone wants to get to first that'll kick off all the tension. but who knows if we'll even get there anyway. I was thinking of Toriko too! I've only read it through once a while ago now but I was feeling the similarities between the two. Particularly when one of the examiners in the hunters exam is a "gourmet hunter". That stuff about the author has been the main reason I'm hesitant to pick it up again. I remember enjoying a lot of the start though yeah some of those ending reveals and pacing are super rushed. Particularly that final power up for Toriko. Ill add Bartender to my to-read list! Could use a nice chill manga to read after all this 20th Century Boys

Are Gon or Killua in the new arcs?

@Harvey Price I think their story has more or less finished until the big ending

@Jibbs 27 sadly

It’s back

I love this. I had the same thing happen to me when I went through Monster for the first time. Ever since, Its been a series that's been hard to beat for me

Same man. Was big into cowboy bebop/dbz/Gundam, most intro animes. Since I watched HxH i have binged countless more anime hoping to fill the void HxH has left since the last episode of HxH..not a big manga fan but i may just have to start reading lol

Nothing will fill that void. Bu Death Note and Full Metal Alchemist might fill some, to some extent these 2 animes are masterpieces too.

@Redapple have you read OP?

If you enjoy those you would love Beet the vandal warrior. I'm like you, those were hard favorites and I just started pushing my thirties haha. Claymore is more series but I enjoyed the stories/power scaling.

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You haven't watched good anime then

@Samsung Smart Fridge any you'd like to recommend?

@You decide what my name is well first of all I would like to make it clear that I am not saying that these anime are better than hxh. In fact, I think hxh is better than most of these. I was simply commenting on op's slightly exaggerated statement that makes it seem like there are no other good anime other than hxh. Now, the anime I would recommend are- Monster, Attack on titan, Legend of the galactic heroes, Higurashi (2006), Vinland Saga, Fma: Brotherhood, Banana Fish, Jojo's bizarre adventure and this relatively new political mecha anime called "86".

@Samsung Smart Fridge interesting. I may consider watching some of these. Thank you.

🔥🔥

The new season is gna break the internet, 8 flipping years we’ve waited🔥

@Basit Naruto yes ❤

@Basit Naruto there is no reason

WAIT WOAH… ITS COMING BACK???

Agreed

What are them parallel stories? I only have seen Gon/Meruem, at times also feels like Gon and Killua/Ging and Kite, Killua/Pouf and Gon/Killua.

Hopefully his health picks up so he can do just that

He’s back !

Well guess what 😂

He’s back

Thanks! There's certainly a lot more world building in these arcs which is great, I love this sorta stuff

And nanika looks like ai too

Isn't it a boy??

If they'll animated DC and SW, it's mostly on respect on Togashi. Anime industry is still an industry about money. DC and SW is technically set up arcs to a bigger arc we should've gotten that we didn't get hence animating it will not produce that much money.

Thanks! I am planning to do a follow up video to this one so I'll try and add that in

and im trolling on the last part

He gets in so much pain that he can't get up to go to the hospital. I don't think he's working during this hiatus.

Unless togashi is Ging and want to adventure into some new things

@Sunil Choudhuri Togashi said even when he isn't directly drawing panels he's ALWAYS working on the story. He also said the back thing in a comment in the back of a released volume, and it was not the last volume. I don't want Togashi to push himself too far, and if he ends up not being able to finish it I will still have nothing but admiration for the man...but stockpile theory is still possible, just don't hang your hat on it.

@8bitmagic Does he hire artists ? Does he not want to, in some way ? His net worth is in the low dozens of millions

it would be so cool tho like omg rmmr those large birds they saw in the east, imagine how the creatures would look animated on the west

Idk it doesn’t feel like it, realistically yeah but he could do so much with it

Yeah, right. Until he decides to include an alien invasion after the dark continent arc.

What about Gyro? 😞

I feel like I’ve heard things about the dark continent having an interdimensional portal tho

I've got my fingers crossed some YT animator will decide to give it a go 🤞

it would be amazing if the old studio decided to animate the whole fight even if the manga never continues. would be cool as an anniversary OVA or something

Thanks! Yeah it does suck to think that it'll probably never be finished. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for new chapters one day

After Gon and Killua master their nen they for the most part only interact with other nen users so it's very possible it could be a pretty well kept secret among general society. In the anime after the tournament arc they continue on to do york new city which is a personal vendetta for the characters so it makes sense they wouldn't be doing any hunting, after this we see the greed island arc which is another personal journey for Gon so it makes sense he wouldn't be worried about hunting during this period, and after that we see the Chimera Ant arc which is completely dedicated to hunting. I don't really understand your point of "them didicating themselves to a hunt" the entirety of the ant arc is Gon dedicating himself to hunting Pitou, and the rest of the hunter society is dedicated to hunting every ant to stop them from taking over the world.

@Khamazon straight facts

@Khamazon So, instead of really hunting, the story is focused on other things? That's kind of my major gripe with it. Why even call it HunterXHunter if hunting isn't even the main focus anymore? We can only speculate on the future of this series but the point is hunting or being a hunter has taken a back seat in favor of other elements. It could be a setup for something but so far, it's as I said. And general society wouldn't know about nen? Please. The tournaments are televised. Someone is bound to put the pieces together for the general public to understand. Either that or explain nen some other way (magic, martial arts techniques, etc. would still explain whats happening without really knowing it's nen).

@Dizzy Dial What is your definition of hunting? Because if an entire arc dedicated to destroying a group of monsters isn’t hunting then idk what is. And it’s very possible that people don’t know what nen is. Something you have to remember is that you can’t actually see the nen abilities if you are not a nen user yourself. The most they would see is people being weirdly strong/fast/durable

@Khamazon true, I believe it was stated in the manga, that Gentruu(the bomber in greed island arc) was considered a terrorist in real world, when he blows up things there were no traces cause it's entirely made of aura.

We will😭😭😭

Cheers! I really appreciate that

@SeaGee any news about Gon's mother in the manga?

Nothing about the mother yet sadly

its kind of sad that gon and killua retired, i would love to see them getting stronger lol

Why did gon and killua retire

Thanks! And don't worry, it's not just you. There's a heck of a lot of dialogue in these chapters. I needed to make this video to put it all together myself!

Thanks so much! Glad to hear that it all came together well

Togashi is a stuborn person

AND? Youre nen-type? ?

Thanks! I'd recommend checking it out. Some of those latter chapters get really wordy but still worth the read I'd say

is he though? i'm starting to lose hope

@imran ahmad same

Don't give up hope

@The Thinker dude it’s been years, if he ain’t better by now then he may never be as he is getting older so it may be getting worse who knows

@Demon Timing wait does he take these long breaks and then comes back with chapters or does start making chapters from when he gets back to ?

Ooo I'd be keen for that. That would explain why we haven't seen Hisoka at all on the dark continent voyage

Exactly

Thanks so much, really appreciate it

Thanks so much!

Thanks! Some forewarning for when you get to reading: these chapters get very wordy, especially the Succ War ones. But still worth the read imo

A theory that i have is that, us compared to the dark continent is like ant compared to human. Just imagine a small patch of dirt on a country. Ofc theres things such as "if dark continent tree so big then why no see". I think someone or some people made a barrier around our world so that in a way we re protected from the dark continent, this would explain why we need guides to go to the dark continent because these things can open a part of the barrier i guess. Still doesnt explain how if the world biggest tree is just a sapling compared to darks continent trees then why are we not blocked from the sun tho

@Fauzi Beak cuz the earth isn’t flat lol

@Kooler i know, but what can a man do but theorize at this point

HxH last season was empty honestly.... and had too many story lines to continue!!! It was just a Gon healing quest and pointless (if its a last season) chairman election!!! We didn't even see Leorio full abilities and Kurapica and triple spiders just disappeared... so many cool story lines and possibilities! Especially after Chimea ants cool arc last chapters were kind a empty.... not to mention Gon and others never even went to unique places where only hunters can as was advertised during hunter exam...

@Fauzi Beak I think the trees grow in sparsity from the sheer size, trees compete for nutrients in the soil and sunlight stunting the growth of other trees which might explain why there isn’t a forest as tall as the atmosphere blocking the sun.

Want some Nen-Secrets? Thats my Term for 'Info Nuggets i found by scouring the Manga over and over again.

Thanks! Glad the pacing of the video worked!

Yeah those latter chapters get very text heavy. It did make them all feel a lot longer though which was nice. It just felt like there was more content

All the succession war stuff made me stop reading it tbh, the story became so convoluted and the long texts just droned on and on. It’s nice to just get the cliff notes from BRvid channels lol

@David Yacobian I almost gave up too, idk if writing the inner monologues of so many characters was worth it or not. However, I really loved the parts with with Tserriednich. Those parts made it worth it for me.

It's back

​@zskayrr don't give me hope 😂

@arash mokhtari wish I could have given it to you sooner 👀

Thanks! Really appreciate that!

You and me both! I need that Hisoka fight animated

Want some Nen-Secrets? Thats my Term for 'Info Nuggets i found by scouring the Manga over and over again.