This is Why Hunter X Hunter is a MASTERPIECE 

I was about to mention that fight . It was lit .

I think it’s a highly rated fight from one of the best arcs, could be why

was great for sure

I remember thinking how tf is kurapika going to beat him!?

Also made it even more shocking when Kurapika completely dominated him

Morel is my favorite character for that exact reason. He is my idea of the perfect hunter. He's strong, versatile, caring, intuitive, etc from the moment he's introduced.

@@crowowlraven9971 I didn’t like morel when he was introduced. But man he grew on me. His fights are so ingenious plus his character it’s impossible to not like the man.

I love this “fight” as well. It’s enjoyable every time I watch it (watching as I type this funny enough) Not really a fight but another scene that’s highly underrated is when Netero hops out of his airship and basically forms a crater from his landing. Such a casual feat but crazy when you really think about it in context, as right after that a bunch of applicants died or got disqualified because they were scared to die from a fall which for Netero is like hopping out of bed

My thoughts exactly, it also shows us how abilities themselves aren't as important as how they're used

I still don't understand why it even happened, like was killed for nothing

Agreed, fantastic, Hisoka sometimes doesn't play even when he's 'playing'

@@westonprice6272 now that you are mentioning it i don't remember why, was he following them, i will look for it again.

@@TheRougeAnarchist exactly.

I like that fight too because it was a challenge for Feitan But it also shows how he would lose 1v1 to a royal guard

@@aceclover758 Nah Feitan at his full strength could have crushed Zazan easily, he wasn't even back to full strength that's why it was challenge :) 😁✌🏻

Tonpa vs the prisoner where tonpa immediately gave up was funny, actually it was extremely funny but it was not a good fight. I consider it a fight because there was a winner and loser.

One of the worse fights idk what you mean

@@aceclover758 what? he stated he was rusty (saying he wasn’t nowhere near at full power) and at that he didn’t even use his most powerful move. furthermore, THAT attack he DID use wasn’t even at its fullest potential lol. pouf would get decimated. youpi would put up a pretty good fight WITH his transformations. and i feel like feitan and pitou might be on par with each other.

The way Gon fights are written is oddly similar to how Jotaro's fights are written in Jojo. Once he's in range, he has won, there's no real question about that. So instead the fight is just gonna be him and his opponent trying as hard as they can to position. Its just like chess. Or gungi, ig.

I love that fight.

@@maagic2031 aptly put! Great comparisons tbh

I agree Gon's fights are always interesting and awesome

Gon's fights are always the most captivating, immersive, and interesting to watch

Exactly! This video was just underrated fights. Saying that it's a masterpiece because of these fights is presumptuous and redundant. HxH is a masterpiece REGARDLESS!! He completely mistitled this video.

@@wadewilson8011 you know what made me love hunter x hunter is it's flow of information. This shows how much of an experienced mangaka Sir Togashi is. This shows he very well knows about how this cruel world works. We get a glimpse of it in the Chimera Ant arc. Clash of ideologies in Yorknew City arc. And also the fabricated world of hxh in the first arcs and how it can turnover truly a magnificent writing. Masterpiece 🌟

I say it underrated cause it showed gon selfish/childish nature tht imo foreshadowed gon acting the way he did in the chimera arc

So true Gon v Genthru was awesome

Bruh i know HxH is a masterpiece but still togashi needs to put fighting scenes! More actions! Then the haters will nothing to say

That's also where we got the most scaling for Razor funny enough, a throwaway line on how he is responsible for facilitating all the emission nen on the Island, the whole island! So that means every time somebody uses one of the cards that uses emission nen, he is responsible for facilitating that, incredible.

It also helps that they had no idea what he was capable of, aside from strength. Razor recognized all of their strength and knew a fight with them would probably end up with both sides dying. But the troop didn't know the complexities behind the space they were in, and getting there already took calculated effort. As soon as they get on the island a "GM" appears?? An immediate alert system is in place apparently and they have no idea what else could happen. It isn't clear what Razor could actually do as an Island GM, and only ended up sending them away.. not even banning them.

Still crazy how Razor is only a great level nen user. Imagine how powerful he would be if he powered up by going on some training?

@@lastskyy It's not the lack of training. 24/7 he's constantly emitting nen non-stop for the spell cards on Greed Island. So he probably never has access to all of his aura at any given time.

@@DavidNwokoye Razor probably set a condition the goes somewhere along the lines of being confined within Greed Island making him extremely OP. He is a prisoner after all

Completely agree

very true no one comes close to him in terms of manipulation

I love that arc, Pariston became one of my favorites immediately, he only did what he did bc he enjoys the thrill of hunting and Cheadle never understood that

Uh, nice one! Given the fact that Hisoka is my very favorite character, it is not surprising my likability towards Pariston, as both have such a strong sense of Self in just doing their own thing, independent of any other sides around them. Pariston is fascinating to witness.

lol now that i think about it, yea to anyone who can't use Gyo, it would look like Shoot's just flying on nothing lol Unless of course the hands are solid manipulated objects..in which case...who's other two hands does he have lol unless only one hand is real, and the other 2 are just conjured copies of it

Well said I concur

When shoot took so much damage and he landed that first touch was epic

True that. And being an examiner doesn't mean he was a good fighter. We don't know the nature of the test Togari applied. Maybe it wasn't an interesting test (something like Menchi did) and that could be exactly why Hisoka attacked him.

Exactly. When you take into account the type of writer that Togashi is its safe to assume that Togari was in fact using Nen given what we learn later when its finally introduced officially. Togashi effectively put us into the shoes of a non- nen user since they wouldnt be able to tell wth is going on. It would just look like a normal fight.

@@SolidSnake240 👏👏👏👏👏

I actually have the opposite reaction; Genthru's Hatsu was incredibly situational, and incredibly short ranged, with a ridiculously long activation requirement; I was legitimately frustrated with how they handled those 3; Killua with his equivalent knowledge of nen, mixed with his insane assassination skills could have easily killed all 3 of them, and let's not even get into Bisky, who absolutely could have taken all 3 out, in one go, without being injured. I also refuse to believe that Gent's Ten/Ko would have been strong enough to even take a single Jajanken. If before even learning Nen at all, Gon was able to make Netero use his other arm, without knowing, just for funsies, I refuse to believe that fighting Genthru would have been more difficult then that.

You underestimate Genthru so much. He was strong enough that even a one star hunter was cautious against him Killua was still a newbie, he would not have taken on all three by himself Biscuit could’ve but they let Gon have his way. Genthru’s ability is far from situationational Guy can explode anything he grabs and his stronger bomb only takes two conditions he can do at anytime

But genthy stinky tho

Well said

@@aceclover758 thank you!!!

Especially the way it ended. It seems like this super tense battle, Killua and Palm had contention even when they were on the same side, and then…Killua just breaks down crying, not because he’s losing this battle, but because he’s losing everything else while this battle goes down.

Yeah I've heard fans, even those of the spiders heavily, call that "filler" and I'm just like...this is so good. Theyre primary reason is that they were formed there and some ant who made herself queen is morphing and destroying there home-area. They are all really ready to kill these evil ant beings regardless of there own morals, and by doing so actually help. This doesn't even feel like they are anything but dark AF when a few ask to be killed whom had been turned into chimera ants and they just straight up oblilerate all of them. A contrast to the end of the arc where we see a decent amount of them simply chilling with no intention to keep harming people or even being pretty damn helpful in there own ways, and with a will to live. I suppose I asked that question "whom would be fine with this, or want to live?" before this and many may have not, but upon rewatches I'm lost on what the fans are missing tbh.

exactly but no hates for those animes since i also fell with them but yeah hxh is far way better

I think they were using nen, but we as viewers didn't learn about it hence we can't see it.

@@Nucleotron Facts. Its actually genius when you think about it.

Even though at the time it was just a "magic trick", in 1999 he also covered up the shoulder wound (itself setting up Hisoka's predilection for getting himself injured in a fight for the hell of it) with Texture Surprise.

Them both using nen is the only real non plothole explaination for how Hisoka got injured in that skirmish - when explaining nen on the Black Whale Kurapika stated that the gulf in combat strength between a nen user and a non nen user is literally greater than that between an adult and a child.

@@Ebon_Sean Considering that a nen user can paralyze or kill a non user by just directing aura at them, it's far greater than that. More like an adult and a newborn baby.

Seriously i get chill to this day every time I watch that moment.

That I have to agree on

It's the most DBZ-esque and least strategical fight of the series lmao.

Nah. Meruem vs Komugi was the best fight. It hits straight to the kokoro.

@@m.zahiruddinmohhar6492 it's more of a game of the mind for Meruem and Komugi. The despair that Gon went through, the questioning of whose fault was it and the slight hope he had when Pitou conjured Doctor Blythe to only be let down when Pitou instead fixes its arm and threatens to kill Gon, this really pushed him to a state of no return. The cold eyes and emotionless face that Gon has in the fight against Pitou shows that there is no regret, no second thought, no other way to proceed for him. The tragedy of our main protagonist whom we have followed from the start really hits on the heartstrings, leaving a feeling of indecisiveness, not really knowing who was right in this fight.

That was a good fight

Honestly all the GI fights are pretty great imo

YES! This one just gets forgotten, but both it and the fight with Ikalgo just before are great.

That's what I said too! I'm kinda confused how it's sooo forgotten that even a video about underrated/forgotten fights forgets it lol I guess in that case it must be the ultimate underrated fight maybe 🤔

I recommend HxH to everyone, even random people I see dressed in anime clothing

Did you win the scoffoff thought?

Good one.

I watched the 1999 anime before I read the manga, and I got really confused thinking a chapter or two had been lost somewhere because I had no idea it was filler. If I made youtube videos, I would surely highlight those episodes as the best filler in the series, possibly in all of anime; it's just that seamless and adds so much.

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I agree it was very good combat wise, but I think it showed us how much Gon had become better and stronger and also showing us that Gon is still week compared to the likes compared to people like Meruem or Netero. Also that Knuckle won makes it much better. I think from the fact that Gon lost shows us that he still has a long way to go and it was also essential for Killua's needle removing

That would be emission, the ability to cover something with Nen then launch said something over a distance, not sure manipulation can even be done with objects and if it could he wouldn't need to catch them (which he said took him months to do) Hilariously Hisoka is very well equipped to ruin the day for emitters who for some reason use objects instead of just opening portals in mid-air since assuming this was a Nen fight Hisoka probably bungee gum all the blades while Tonari was doing his pointless juggling. It can also explain the blades coming back since his aura is still active on the objects. It could also be the Tonari is a terrible awful transmuter for virtually the same effect though instead of launching the blades he is covering them with Aura in order to be able to catch and retract them, unlike Hisoka he can't do anything else so he needed to train throwing and catching them while his Aura is only responsible for the 'boomerang' effect. This better explains his confidence that Hisoka won't be able to catch them since if they are both transmuters and he doesn't understand the gap between them he wouldn't understand how Hisoka can possibly use his bungee-gum to attach his aura to the blades then instantly catch them, cause ... they are sharp! I think either way this puts Tonari as an absolute trash Nen user

@@blueplayer6197 , manipulator and emitter are similar in that they both emit nen. They differ in controlling nen, emitters control nen like what razor does, he gives commands or rules for his nen constructs. Manipulators on the other hand infuses their nen on objects just like what illumi and ironically, morel does. They can also set rules on said objects that has their nen. That's why it's a bit annoying to hear that morel is a transmuter when he is in fact a manipulator and his pipe is a very important part of his fights because it's the source of his smoke which is what morel controls and manipulates.

​@@ernesthader1109Morel is a manipulator according to Togashi, he maniuplates smoke puppets, who said otherwise? Ponzu as well she manipulates bees, the way Tonari is using his blades is not manipulation, absolutely can't be. His knives are being thrown and caught, they aren't being magically mind controlled from a distance and he mentioned training to catch them, manipulation wouldn't need it, they'd float around like Morel's puppets doing their own thing. Razor is conjuring for his devils, his emission is his ball that he used to blow up the troupe's ship, possibly the teleportation as well and it's likely he then controls his devils not with manipulation but emission (since there's no medium, unlike morel's pipe), Leorio is an emitter as well with the whole long distance punch thing, the idea is launching something or launching aura and then having some control over it at a distance, control that's nothing like a manipulator's which has full control or basic command control, this is seen with razor being able to 'magically' move his ball after he already threw it. And is one way to have blades come back, just very poorly. And again the other way is transmuting, transmuters manipulate their own aura, that's how Killua makes his aura electric and how Hisoka makes his Aura stretch, so one could imagine a sticky aura attached to the thrown blades and used to pull them back, effectively being a strictly worse bungee gum. It's 100% not manipulation, he has no true control and he said so himself and every maniuplator be it as weak as a random ant soldier or as strong as illumi had full control over at least 1 target, so it's either transmutation (dragging them back after thrown, but not at a controlled speed so he has to learn to catch) or emission (using the blade's natural spinning momentum to slightly curve the trajectory back at himself, again requiring him to physically catch) Illumi's needles aren't what's being manipulated, manipulators usually need a 'medium', like Illumi's needles, shalnark's well.. needle... and remote control, Ponzu's beehive, yada yada, the object allows them despite not emitting their aura to still have connection to the target and use commands. Which is why ponzu can only command the bees with simple commands, Illumi isn't moving the needles on his own but rather the people attached to the needles and why the first comes first served rule shalnark mentions exists - because once a medium is stuck to a target it's already loaded with the maniuplator's aura. No maniuplator that I can remember emits their aura, they all use a medium which becomes an aura hub to anything that touches it - though many of them detach their target from the hub (bees, snakes, smoke puppets) but in exchange they are limited to simple commands Well Ponzu being a slight exception since she has a leaning towards emission which is why she can control her message bee a little further than the hive (probably, can't really explain where her emission affinity came from otherwise) Edit: actually woops, Melody is half an emitter half manipulator, she is using sound that she emits aura with to manipulate anyone who hears it (so her aura is now in their ears presumably), so that's a neat way to be an emitting manipulator, certainly better than a message sending bee

You mean Cheetu? He's a moron... but he's a dangerous moron. ;)

It was also solid foreshadowing that despite the immense power of these beings, and however one interprets the conclusion, is that despite all that raw power, all the abilities and how young all the chimera ants were, they didn't have the training, nor did they have the technology humans do. In the end it almost makes humans look worse than them, which was a point meant to be made, but it is bone chilling. So when the leopard Ant Cheetu is involved, to him he has to win cause "all the speed." Then he makes an actually bad creation where Morel is just laying down lol, and you see how much inexperience with something so powerful as well as intelligence in itself. In a way the intelligence part is a good reason for not even close to all people being able to really tap into nen past anything basic on top of it.

how does one misspeak so badly 😭

yeah i love that one as well

I was thinking of mentioning this out of pure humor. But it turns out that Komugi has her life at stake every time they play.

So true. That bungee gum save in the one movie was a brilliant show of this too. It's demented and well followed up on.