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icharchivist · 5 years

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@peggaboo replied to your post “What are the major markers that you think advanced killugon...”

I always see the difference in their parting in the anime as a) Gon pushing through the hurt of the separation by focusing on his next goal - look how his expression changes from smiling to hurting before he looks up and the determination comes on, and b) the anime crew not knowing if they'll get to make another season and having to -

- make two last episodes that felt like a satisfactory ending to their adaption. Personally I think they did a great job but that's just me.

Oh yeah i can understand that tbh, it was a creative decision that was supposed, on a personal journey term, to give a good note to Gon’s character’s ending.

Like if we stick to it on a personal journey way, it is a good choice because else it would have been very bittersweet. The manga does go on about how Gon isn’t content once he achieved his goal which i don’t think the anime knew, or if they did, i doubt they wanted to end the anime on such a note as “the whole journey we just spent? Just destroyed Gon have a nice day”

i’m almost certain tho that it was kinda agreed upon that they will end the anime there until Togashi has advanced the manga, which is also why the manga chapters’s look like an ending as well. Togashi gave Gon’s arc an ending (for now, until we get to explore the aftermath of “what happen when your shounen goal ends up being unsatisfactionary”, if we get there) so the anime would have a place to stop. Gon’s expression in the manga was necessary for the set up of his arc’s continuation - but for the anime to end on a good note, it needed to change it a little and i get it.

So characterwise I get the idea and I don’t think it’s too bad per se.

My point with this specific post though is that I’ve seen people using it specifically against Gon in term of him “not caring about Killua at all anymore” which is just not true and not alligning with the vibe of the manga.

if the decision was okay on character standpoint, most of people who blames Gon for the separation uses this scene by making it all about how Gon disregard Killua, and it is a misinterpretation of the intend, yes, but my point there is that, it wasn’t even in the manga to start with so let’s best not use that as an ammo for “Gon not caring about Killua anymore”

This post is... very old lmao but i seriously used to see rants against Gon on how he treated Killua almost everyday so there’s a lot of things I got very petty about. Since this post was specifically about Gon and Killua’s relationship i wanted to address this misconception in some way.

It’s not the anime’s fault it focused on individual character journeys- i get the choice and in the end, it’s better for a fufilling arc on Gon’s part - but it ended up being lackluster for a lot of shippers who couldn’t stop bringing it up.

But at the end of the day, if someone wants to analyse character’s motivations they need to know about the way it was done in the manga, not the adaptation. And I mean it purely on an analytic standpoint - preferences of how the storyline was done ecompass adaptation and all of that, rightfully so. My point is however that you can’t use something that was changed in the adaptation to make a point about a character since you likely lose the original nuance and meaning in the process. (except if the change was specifically made as a reckon for the full lore of the story, but that wasn’t the case there. But that’s a whole other can of worm about how to approach adaptation changes and all.)

If you see me nippick this sort of things in others posts you can be certain it was likely 98% encouraged by spite over arguments i saw tossed around ahah.

So yeah no real hard feeling on the anime (at least not anymore, i might have misguided my bitterness when i wrote this post), more hardfeelings on how some fans used it for the wrong reasons y’know?

Take care!

#peggaboo #i hadn't talked about hxh in forever lmao and when i do it's back on my salt about how gon was treated by the fandom #ah the more things change #ichafantalks hxh

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