I haven't seen the show but I saw this fight and it stuck with me. I'm new to animation but wanna get better. Any constructive criticism would be super welcome.
The Luoxiaohei movie continues to look amazing!! It’s currently only released in China and Japan—but I hope there’ll be an international release with more international interest. 🐱
kurapika and tserriednich both have abilities that detect liars, but they have completely different functions. if tserriednich had dousing chain, he would have realized that theta was deceiving him much earlier, since his nen beast can’t distinguish between someone telling the full truth and someone withholding information. kurapika considers lying dishonorable, so dousing chain is more or less a barometer of honesty.
however, tserriednich’s nen beast is only concerned with defending its host—it wouldn’t be able to tell if theta lied to anyone else, but it punishes theta’s shooting as a “lie” because she contradicted her earlier promise that she could be trusted. and unlike dousing chain, which can work secretly but doesn’t harm its targets, the nen beast issues warnings that force potential enemies of the prince to be truthful and non aggressive or face some unknown horrific fate. and then you have king crimson parallel future, which more than makes up for the intelligence the nen beast is unable to collect.
tserriednich seems near invincible in a traditional fight, but if the final confrontation is with kurapika (who is open about his purpose and isn’t motivated to kill him) or theta (who knows more about his abilities than anyone else), or both, i think they’d be able to outwit him.