Really fun video, just an information : This isn't a retcon or a modification of the previous nen system Veracious Cake (the guy that NewWorldReview took the translation from) has confirmed that the efficiency doesn't change Killua has still 100% transmutation and 80% enhancement The chart just means that killua has a easier time learning Enhancement techniques rather than Conjuration
Massive nerd moment but katanas are far from the most effective sword, theyre even heavier than most swords. Idc how much of a nerd im being this is my biggest pet peeve and you mentioned it in the video
Uhm, this VIdeo here gets a Part 2, right? Meruems Ability and how it can function and Togashi changing the Nen-Type of Youpi, Zeno, Silva, Ikalgo and Knov into the Direct Opposite? ...And why is Liam suddenly saying as if Fact that the emitted Statue is conjured, redconning even himself?
I've been saying this for a long time, the Ging probably dug out the complete diagram or can no longer be mapped to it. Either he is completely in the middle or the diagram is wrong and Nen works differently or he has found a new further form which stands above Nen and Nen is only a part of it. We will get the answers in 10 to 20 years on the dark continent :D
@@ChronosLawliet123 im willing to bet that since you can have "dual" affinities, that pariston would be the ultra rare case of being able to dip into ALL affinities and more so than most pure affinities. And i think ging has something similar
it makes sense that Killua was half enhancer. He has always shown to use enhancing abilities before nen was introduced. Like increasing his nail length and sharpness and the strength of that hand.
Technically, he could do that before he learned nen, so it may not be a nen ability. But it very well could be a nen ability, and honestly, if it is, that fills in a plot hole that has bugged me for some time.
@@jacobc.4134 I mean there are multiple examples of people using Nen w/o knowing it, seems likely to me that the assassination techniques are Nen-based but they don't present it as such because Killua etc. wouldn't be ready
I just found out he came back. It doesn't appear that his health has improved much, though... Was he just tired of focusing on his health while HxH was withering away? I'm just glad he's back in the game either way.
Honestly this has become one of my favorite channels on RU-vid. I cannot get enough of your videos, so I will purposefully forget about you for a few months so I can come back to lot of video I can just binge watch.
i always felt that nen category were a bit too restrictive for the purposes of the show and possibly simply unknown or undeveloped; nen hatsu always felt like a hyper-specialized combination of basic nen tecniques inside the ten ren and zetsu development with their advanced tecniques like min maxed to obtain an effect depending on the character development so it is interesting to see it finally developed and expanded.
I happened to be rereading chapter 148 today and on page 2 it is already stated that Gon is an enhancer tending toward emission. So the idea of having a tendency toward a secondary type was already present and stated during GI.
I totally called Komugi not being a specialist. You know why? It would mess up shipping dynamics. I have a theory of nen-based relationship compatibility: someone is compatible for a fated relationship with someone of an adjacent category or an opposite category. I panicked for a second when you said Meruem’s affinity had been revealed/changed, but him being an emitter doesn’t disprove my theory. According to this theory, Leorio + Gon + Killua + Kurapika is the perfect friend group because they make a loop on the hexagon following the adjacent/opposite rule. (Note that when I say “fated relationship” I don’t necessarily mean romantic. In fact, this could apply to nemesis as well.) Please try to disprove me in the replies. I’d love to further develop my theory.
How is that a theory? Personality is directly linked to nen affinity. It would be scuffed if HxH didn't consider this when creating character dynamics or they're affinities.
I feel like this makes a lot of sense. I recalled Killua turned his hand razor sharp near the beginning of anime as a “family technique” but it was 100% an enhancer move.
@@akoba1520 there are characters called genius’s who can unconsciously tap into nen without knowing it. Gon and killua were both extremely strong and fast. Komugi was also one which was why she was inhumanly good at the board game.
@@Handsomeguy-kj2jg That literally isn’t true (not that first part, there are people who can unconsciously tap into it) but Gon and Killua we WATCHED have their Aura Nodes opened and we saw the moment Komugi started using Nen to learn while going against Meruem. I think you need a rewatch.
@@zmss8537 also, for Knov being an emitter: hasn't it been all-but-confirmed that teleportation abilities are generally emitter abilities? Perhaps with the exception of conjured nen beings that can teleport others, but I'm not sure.
Killua's position on the chart might also increase his potential at learning emitter techniques, it would explain his mid ranged lightning attacks on rammot,youpi and the one that missed the flying foot soldiers in the forest. His position does make him closer to that category.
Juicy new info, great! To be honest I can't wrap my mind on the King be an Emitter (or an Enhancer), I mean the only actual hatsu we saw him performe was the ability to physically consume the flesh of a Nen user and inherit their aura and hatsu. The only cases we know (until now) of meta-ability on Hatsu are all about specialists so I always given by default he was a Specialist too due the fact that a non-specialist has 0% Affinity on Specialist ability. So it's weird unless the 0% is like a semplification and it's really "something like 0%" so a being with an huge amount of Aura like Meruem and the Royal Guards in generals could simply brute force that area too with some heavy restriction or such (for example the need of actually eat someone else is a quite decent restriction)
@@Oznerock In the original view, those have chances to "become specialists" and once they are they can do "specialists' stuff". As Kurapika isn't capable of using Emperor Time or the Dolphin unless he is with the Scarlet Eyes and we saw (also from the Divination tech). Now with the dual Affinity people like Kurapika are both Conj and Specialist so it makes more sense they can shift in a state between Specialist and no Specialist. To be honest before the Meruem case (from today) I never had an issue with the Specialist be a "forbidden area" unless you are a Specialist... With Meruem the need of the "almost 0%" arose. Until now I had no issue with a true 0% (aka impossible)
@@ITSONSIGHT. I don't understand the question. A Hatsu should be a personal application of the Nen forged due to your affinity with it... and (to me) it's a messy concept
@@YataVSTheWorld Just making sure you didn't think Hatsu = nen ability. That line of thinking has lead to things like r/hatsuvault where people post their own nen abilities.
I absolutely love Nen being a thing that is seen as a magical science. It's studied, tested, people learn new tricks and things about it slowly because it's so rare but when a new discovery comes out it feels like something that would make sense in the universe.
Togashi seems to be much more interested in advance and discuss Nen concepts than tell the story of the many HxH so-called protagonists. In each saga he just picks the characters more fit to address the Nen aspects he came up with.
I really hope the shifts/specification of so many Zoldycks may mean a return to them in the near (hiatus' not withstanding) future, or at the very least he seems to have put alot of thought into their placements in this chart so hopefully has some storyline planned out for them. Also PLEASE Togashi let me have my dreams of Gon regaining nen and not being gon(e) for good : (
The description for Gon's nen that I remember is that he has basically been reset to zero before he ever learned nen, so he's going to have to start over from the beginning. And given that it's implied there's going to be about 3 years of in-universe hiatus before we get back to Gon and Killua, he's probably going to be even better with a better ability when he does return. Personally, I'm hoping that Gon brings back his iconic fishing rod and integrates that into part of his hatsu, and has an all new hatsu that's much more thought out than his original.
Ikalgo's 2% emission could have something to do with the apparent aura jacket around his flea bullets as it's the same color as Gon's Jajaken: paper. It might be used to steer the bullets or add velocity. Alternatively be might be using it as a burst valve for his air gun.
i always thought that ikalgo's shooting ability was similar to how uvogin spit part of leech's skull but it has nen aura/ nen coating so when this video stated that ikalgo was leaning to emission by 2% 'Twas fitting.
Is leaning towards a secondary Nen type such a new concept? I seem to recall Biscuit saying that Gon was an Enhancer leaning towards Emission as early as the Greed Island arc. (Chapter 148)
The Alluka ultimate rating gives some credence to what I've been suspecting for a while now. Everything leans towards Nanika being an Ai, but there's not really been anything to suggest that any other Ai has been capable of doing things on the level that Nanika has. Coupled with the title "Codependence of Desire," I've been thinking that there is a possibility that Alluka is herself a natural but untrained nen prodigy and that Nanika is essentially acting as a focusing device with her as a battery. It would certainly help explain why Nanika ended up bonded to Alluka in the first place, and help to explain the unbelievable power they seem to be capable of.
my suspicion is that nanika taught alluka whatever the dark continents version of nen is. They are two separate beings with one body so wouldn’t they get double the desire points powering their nen (Killua can break the rules because they both want him to?)
@@MrSparklytuxedocat It could be, but that actually runs into another theory I have, which is that all of the Dark Continent "calamities" are just post-mortem nen abilities left over from whatever forced humanity into the "known world." Personally I think there was some kind of war between Dark Continent kingdoms of humanity at a time when nen was much more well and widely known amongst the general population, which led to various nen geniuses developing terrifying weapon type abilities that persisted after their death. That would also explain why they're mostly hyper aggressive or defensive towards humanity since that would have been the intent of the user that got amplified through their deaths. This would also lean more towards Ai feeding off the inherent power of the individual to fuel it's effects, since as a nen manifestation it wouldn't technically be a source on its own. It's always seemed strange to me that humanity could have survived in a place that is so obviously hostile to it's existence, but if you instead suppose that they're the ones who eventually made it that way it makes much more sense.
Thoughts on this theory? I think somehow - whether intentional or not, but most likely intentional - that Chrollo and the Troupe members have their own Nen-restrictions in place that are part of what fuel their insane power, and I think it’s stacked AF. Like, none of y’all think it’s weird how they never - no matter how badly they wanted to kill Hisoka - broke any of the Troupe rules? I think the tattoos and potentially some other factors are the Troupe’s version of a stacked and complex Nen restriction framework that is partly why they had such a shockingly fast ascent in strength and why they all always abide by the rules and didn’t even contemplate Hisoka betraying them-Hisoka said he wasn’t a member because he removed the tattoo, which, imo, means that the spider tattoo is what “makes” them into members of the Troupe. I think that they must have a similar restriction that potentially stakes their lives on the line for breaking their own self-governed rules. Thoughts? @NewWorldReview what do you think?
6:58 the better example would be the opposite i think, if these hypothetical enhancers where to trade enhaced punches, the one with 98% would run out of aura slightly faster
The HxH power system was already perfect but now it's even better. At this point I wish the animation studio would make their own story within the world of HxH but with different characters. Just so we at least have something to watch in the the meantime
Ging is a Specialist through some stupid self imposed condition named "I have to stay away from my son." I can't believe more people don't realize this
I’m just so happy that togashi is releasing content and giving us reasons to keep the love of the franchise going. I remember a few months ago you made a video basically explaining that as there’s no new materials there’s just not enough content to make videos for, now we have so so much!!! Eternally grateful for togashi rn.
The Wiki now WITHOUT CONFIRMATION OF SUCH states "Certain Nen users are directly in the middle between two affinities, giving them a dual affinity. This means that the Nen user is capable of mastering that Nen affinity at the same speed they would their natural affinity... However, the level and efficiency of the second affinity are still capped rules of the Nen ring. For example, Killua is a Transmuter-Enhancer, with Transmutation being his primary affinity and Enhancement being his secondary affinity. This means that while he is a natural Transmuter, he is in between Enhancement and Transmutation on the Nen ring. This enables Killua to master Enhancement techniques as fast as he would Transmutation techniques; his Enhancement techniques would only be 80% as effective, however."
I have always kinda looked at certain characters this way so it's really cool to have this become official cannon. It really makes sense with a lot of characters.
I just noticed in ch148, Bisky thinks that Gon must be an enhancer leaning towards emission. They even show the chart with him in between the two affinities. Seems like Togashi had this idea early-ish on.
Nanika being an ultimate nen user is incredible for the science of nen. That means that the creatures on the dark continent if nanika really is such a thing are nen users. And nen restrictions done very strictly can do some totally insane shit like crushing random people regardless of distance. It is sort of the same type of nen that was used to make the greed island game. We know for a fact that nen is a force of nature, individuals, although they channel powers and restrictions themselves and these are often based on their heartfelt beliefs and emotions, are not totally in control of nen. It is not like "mana", when Shizuku detects nen traps with her vacuum she does so without knowing that what she checked was nen; the world or nen itself is what checks it and so on.
Nobunaga as a Enhancer - Transmuter made sense. He could elongate his sword. I think this is probably a clue to his yet-to-be-shown Hatsu. Maybe a Gin Ichimaru redo?
i feel like milluki could end up doing something really badass and becoming a fan fav. i was waiting for it to happen in york new city auction but he just left.
1. Hisoka stated from the beginning that the Glass of Water was not reliable, as the NEN affinity was related to the personality of the NEN user, thus, someone that changes their personality for any reason, would likely change their NEN affinity as well. 2. Kurapika is Conjurer / Specialist since the beginning. And it was also stated that most Specialists were also either Manipulators or Conjurers in general. It was also stated that Manipulators and Conjurers were the ones more inclined to become Specialists *later on*. (Since *later on* was mentioned already, it also implied about changing/addition of NEN affinities that were not there from the moment the NEN user was initiated on NEN). 3. Killua is leaning towards Enhancer the more he becomes more friendly, while Gon is more likely to become a Specialist the more he goes to the Psychopath route (if he ever re-awakens his NEN, of course). Just some evidence from what we have so far since forever, pointing that this new confirmed information is not a retcon, but something that was always there anyway. Just like Hisoka most likely used his Bungee Gum during the Hunter Exam to steal the weapons of the vengeful examiner that wanted to kill him, but we did not see it happening, since we were not introduced to NEN yet. Wing also confirmed that is through NEN that Hisoka makes his cards solid and sharp like razors. Illumi was also using NEN already during the Hunter Exam. I think it's brilliant how whenever we get new information about Hunter X Hunter, it does not feel like a retcom, but rather something that was indeed there and we simply did not have the whole information before. This makes Hunter X Hunter a solid piece and makes it even more enjoyable!
Weaaaaak writing "I couldn't write some of the characters out of the corners I backed them into so here's this." It's essentially writing in an unknown twin brother of a main character you killed off to have your cake and eat it too.
@@RaffyART1995 yeah, I am I liked it before this horribly written arc of way too much to juggle - too many fish out of water characters with zero characteristics being explained the same things over and over again and nothing of any importance or consequence has happened as a result. You could literally flip the pages and just know someone who knows more is explaining it to some interchangeable character.
Now you can see that homeboy Togashi didn't jusst have the rawest sessions of Dragon Quest while on hiatus. He's redefining his manga and pushing his story in directions we could never think of.
If I remember correctly in early york new city arc Uvogin hinted (if not directly) point this system about kurapika about his nen can be this this or both but not the direct opposite side of the nen graph system. . . So I dunno if this concept is new.
netero also use emission and transmutation when using zero hand. and i think thats why zero is his strongest attack, because its the closest type from enhancement. also the reason why meruem can easily cut through an enhancement body is because he put all of his enhancement auras on his statue, since he so confident about his punch speed, its just a waste to put many auras on his body
I really don’t think it’s dual-affinity. Just what they lean toward when using their hastu and the training the undergone in their preferred neighboring category.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Ging is a somewhat impossible ultimate level enhancer that enhances his own affinity types, paired with his inborn talent of copying moves after seeing them once.
Komugi benfitted from her frailty and blindness because it meant her brain had less input to calculate so all she could do was enhance her gungi calculations to extreme levels, I imagine if she ever lost she would immediately have an aneurism. Also Meruems emitter affinity is likely just because emitter is like, a default control of Nen. But Meruem was still a Chimera Ant and as a king could absorb affinities and abilities through digestion.
Nen really feels like ki or chakra from naurto. The more nen you have the stronger you are. But he did give leeway to make someone stronger or weaker depending on where they train. But a specialist still wins right? I remember them saying a specialist can access 100% of all powers.
No, only Kurapika has this 100% affinity mechanic, most specialists aren't that strong. Being a specialist just means you have a skill that doesn't fit the description of the other categories like seeing the future, stealing hatsus, etc.
@@laurafurtwangler8848 so like pitou? He/she was considered a specialist right? Bc they could heal and had a lot of strength too. But I’m going off the anime things could’ve changed. Just the ants were like the first glimpse of someone like krillen fighting cell. Still a powerful person but pails in comparison to their power.
@@laurafurtwangler8848 I thought so. But I definitely see what you are saying some are weak but there are some who aren’t. Thank you. I still love the anime and hopefully soon it’ll come back. I mean bleach did after 8 years. So I’m hoping we get more soon.
where did you get the information about individual's ranking? (ultimate, genius, excellent, great), couldn't find anything about it besides the 6 + adult gon ultimates
This was explained by Kurapikas master a while ago, and with that guy that made a clone against hisoka, like its cool we now have a graph to assign characters, but theres nothing new here.
With the Ant King being an emitter his aura effects now make a lot of sense. If he was given time to learn and perfect his aura projections he would be literally untouchable. He could just overwhelm everyone near him without moving and crush them under the weight of his nen alone. And this isn't even taking into account what he could do dipping into manipulation or enhancement on top of it. Very scary as he could become the nuke itself with enhancement or control people with manipulation simply by being near them.
One thing I always wondered is gons chant before his attack a nen restriction to increase its power. If not he really should've made it one since he says it evertime
One thing I'm curious about is how common this knowledge is in the world of HxH itself, since it seems that water divination can only distinguish your primary affinity. Does everybody learn it eventually or is it a secret between select few that have the experience or abilities that would reveal it to them?
I wanna ask. Is there any possibility of a Conjurer- Manipulator or Manipulator-Conjurer, or you have to bypass Specialist first as your dual affinity... ?
for me first form Meruem was a specialist but after fighting netero and almost dying, eating the royal guards developed a new nen affinity because Pouf is a manipulator and Youpi is an enhancer so it makes more sense for me that the second form Meruem changed into a pure emitter.
That Ikalgo vs Uvogin idea is off the mark. These positions are strictly about training and how fast characters level up. It has nothing to do with aura usage or power. Ikalgo's placement just highlights the fact he is is primarily a ranged fighter who learned to create bullets from his body. His Enhancement is likely just his form of self healing to reform his tentacles after making said bullets. That slight lean towards Emission is very very slight because he doesn't fire off any nen liek Franklin or even power up his bullets with Shu like Gotoh with much if any aura. Leorio and Franklin both use a lot of aura for their abilities and charging up is Enhancement. Netero's Buddha is not Conjuration. Conjurations can be seen by normal people unless masked with a condition like the Guardian Spirit Beasts. Conjured objects also form separately from their normal aura shrouds. Netero turns his existing aura shroud into a statue in the exact same way Razor creates devils. More importantly his Buddha only exists for microseconds so he is very briefly making use of a ton of aura.. I believe it makes full use of his best aura aura types. He forms the statue out of his massive aura shroud, uses transmutation to give it a metallic form, emission to suspend it behind him, then only has to dip into Manipulation for those fractions of a fraction of a second to attack.
So, if Meruem is NOT a specialist, how come he can absorb the powers of the nen users he eat? Should we take it simply as a biological characteristic of the chimera ant king amplified by nen?
I was annoyed with the system since it meant some users just weren't capable of greatness because of their affinity due to specialist getting the cheat of 100% to all so the neighbor affinities weren't usually able to dip into specialist. I had hoped specialist would be an ability that sat in the middle of the chart instead. However when mentioned that enhancers are so basic that they are the only ones capable of dipping into every affinity with efficiency actually made it make sense. Still bothered but at least happy to see how people who have simple powers can use them to take out way more powerful foes.
I thought people already knew this? They did say which ever affinity you are is 100% and the other affinities next to yours is 80%. So i imagine that you can use both of them since your capable of using your 100% affinity and the 80% affinity at same time since the percentage shows that you are capable of using them. Especially at the same time
Yeah, we knew that you can use more than one type, but it was revealed that some people just have an easier time learning their non-natural types than others
The affinity it’s the ability to master the category. Example: Killua is leaning a lot (50%) to Enhancement. This means that for him learning Enhancement tecniques is as easy as learning Transmutation tecniques BUT his potential on Enhancement is still 80%! Like Conjuration, it will be hard for him to master it but still has 80% potential on that category. Another ex: Ikalgo is still 100% Enhancer, it is his main and UNIQUE category BUT he is slightly better at learning Emission than for example Gon. It’s all about Speed an effort of training/ learning/ mastering a category which is not yours, not Just percentages thrown here and there 😊
The Wiki now states "Certain Nen users are directly in the middle between two affinities, giving them a dual affinity. This means that the Nen user is capable of mastering that Nen affinity at the same speed they would their natural affinity. However, the level and efficiency of the second affinity are still capped rules of the Nen ring. For example, Killua is a "Transmuter-Enhancer", with Transmutation being his primary affinity and Enhancement being his secondary affinity. This means that while he is a natural Transmuter, he is in between Enhancement and Transmutation on the Nen ring. This enables Killua to master Enhancement techniques as fast as he would Transmutation techniques; his Enhancement techniques would only be 80% as effective, however."
I always think of Abengane cause he’s the exorcist who removed the bomb on himself, then helped Chrollo. Like he has to be extremely good at what he does and this confirms if
regardless of this fact we already know that your primary nen affinity didnt neccissarily determine the only nen type you could use, just the style your most compatible with
Honestly, I always thought that Meruem was a Transmuter. Reason being that, if I remember right, his natural Nen Ability allowed him to devour Nen users and thus turn their flesh into power. The more he ate, the stronger he became... though I don't believe he used it that often?
The concept of leaning towards categories isn't really new. Biscuit mentionned that Gon was leaning towards emission in Greed Island. Also the reason Meruem is an Emitter is maybe due to absorbing his royal guards.
What Bisky said was that learning your adjacent categories (in Gon's case Emission and Transmutation) improves your overall mastery of Nen as well as your natural affinity
What about Feitan(Best character) who uses Transmutation to change his aura, Conjuration to creat a type of pain packer to match said aura, and emission to shoot out said attack from the respective pain packer. (Already confirmed rising sun is not the extent of his ability just one form of pain packer)
Wow, I had this theory that I wanted to share with the HxH community; that nen categories are more flexible . However Togashi was quicker (or I was slower since my oponent was the hiatus x hiatus master)
Correct me if wrong but this isn't new right? All the information on specific characters is but the concept isn't. I remember Biscuit saying back in Greed Island that Gon was an enhancer leaning on emission. After he was able to complete the emission test where he launches a little aura ball towards a rock in less than an hour. Edit: I looked it up I'm right. Chapter 148. Even shows Gon on the Nen ring. So I guess this is a retcon by Togashi.
ngl, i already assumed they were of varying affinities and that the label as "enhancer" for example was just the summarization of their strongest leaning. That's generally how it would work in a more life like scenario anyway, you'd rarely have anyone that was just 100% full specialization (though it would happen), but even then it still doesn't make sense to consider them as such. In all honesty I believe the nen efficiencies are just suggestions. Morel can reach ultimate just as netero did, it just requires intense training, (and maybe a visit to the dark continent for some of that long life juice) like netero did. That is the real point I think this makes. Anyone can really do anything, you just might have a harder starting point, and you can theoretically reach any level from the floor.
I feel it was already hinted at that any type of nen could be learned and mastered though. Obviously people are born with a proclivity to one or another but that it was perfectly feasible to have skill, even mastery, with multiple. The greed island arch is a great example for this.
8:54: What? No, it can just be Emitted and until now LIam has always admitted so and even after a while stopped saying 'Conjuration OR Emission' and came to say 'Yeah, its most-likely emitted? Wheres this coming from??
Retcon, Retcon, Retcon. Anyway: So Meruems Ability must be Manipulation that seperates his own Aura to go and strongly manipulate the Victims Aura so it completly seperates and oes to the User and accepts him as its new Master.
This isn't really a change cause the rule always was that if you were one nen type you could take from the immediate nen to the sides and still be effective. This was kastro's failing he was a enchancer and instead of dabbling in emission/transmutation tried to be a conjuror/manipulator.
