#HxH Menchi

[drippingviolets3]

I love the way HxH handles writing strong women!

I never see anyone bring this up so I’m kinda sad, but HxH, despite mostly being made up of male characters, has great female characters because instead of having girls who reject femininity, or who’s femininity is the only real substance they get, they have their femininity *be* their strength.

Take Menchi for example. Cooking is typically presented as a woman’s job/hobby, and she gets mocked for being a gourmet hunter. But she proves that it’s her strength by properly testing the examinees and having them grab spider eagle eggs. It’s dangerous work, but produces results that most would take for granted, and it’s why she takes such pride in her title.

Machi’s nen surrounds sewing and stitching, and it’s technically a healing ability as well as a deadly attack. Sewing is made to be a feminine hobby, and healing is depicted as something feminine as well, but Yoshihiro took that and made it into an unquestionable strength. Machi can literally reattach severed limbs, and also strangle or decapitated someone with her threads as well. I even love how her hair color in the 2011 version is pink, a color commonly associated with nurturing and healing, and yet she’s such a deadly threat. It’s a small detail that establishes her healing capabilities without taking away the fact that she can and will fold her opponent’s ass like a omelette.

Bisky is a gem hunter who cares about her appearance, but is a hard worker and cares a lot about strength. So much so that she trains to be stronger and have stronger nen so she can appear dainty and wear clothes she finds pretty, even creating Cookie not only for her masseuse capabilities, but also to help restore her and her body after a fight and hard training.

I wish I could see this more in the media. If you have any other opinions or want to add on to this, please feel free to do so!

[s0ftand0nly]

Just a couple examiners…

I think the gif export fucked up the transparent parts on menchi

[todo-the-wrestler]

Menchi

Artbreeder

Anime 2011

Artbreeder

Anime 1999

メンチ(ハンターハンター)

[bip-n-bops-drawings]

He solved it

Todo solved the Rubik's Cube.

A task in the Hunter Exam.

トードー

[usagi-best-boy]

Menchi, Gourmet Hunter

Hunter x Hunter

[lindsayfrazerdraws]

[elmarcyarka]

Buhara stealing food

[flowerofthewave]

So how did that scene go down for them uh...

[yumivik]

Spun the wheel again with @camilliss but with 70 different characters, and drew them in 30 minutes

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

@doodle-storm !!!!!!!!!!

a few months ago @iwritenarrativesandstuff shared some of @doodle-storm's headcanons for which pokemon various hxh characters might have, and I found some of the choices REALLY charming and fun. i had to do some doodles about it.

i hope y'all enjoy! (full view for better quality)

[honeyfractals]

hxh characters who I'm pretty sure no one else liked except for me

[leviathiane]

PRESENTING!!!!!!!

[redsyapcorner]

id like everyone to guess whats going on here

[todo-the-wrestler]

『HUNTER×HUNTER』THE STAGE

That's all I can settle for, blurry pictures of my favorite character. Unfortunately there is no more.

In the meantime, I've already found out who played the role of Todo.

I don't know why he didn't take any photos of this character. So far I have not received any response to my request. He has played a total of four roles in this play. Whether there are only pictures of two of the characters or also of the others, including Todo, I don't know. The actor only posted pictures of the cabin boy and Pokkle.

I would have loved to see this musical, but unfortunately it's only shown in Japan, and if it's going to be on DVD or BD, then it's probably only in Japan.

#ハンターハンター #トードー #舞台ハンター

[karui-loves-it]

Unfortunately, only twelve answers and ten pictures are allowed. I know there are many more hot HxH characters who are completely underrated.

If your favorite isn't there, you can give your answers in the #hashtags.

[pikamemfo]

HxH Reread Chapters 8 - 14

• Biggest question is why anyone would run this exam without pay? (Aside from Hisoka the Lunatic and Tonpa the Weird, that is)

• Love how the first things established about Killua are his conflicting desires for a) competition, a way to prove his skills (perhaps the lingering touch of the Zoldyck pressure, a need to prove yourself worthy of the name); and b) his desire for safety. Here, for example, he tells Gon to stay close as someone he feels he can compete with confidence that he'll emerge without any serious harm, whereas he runs from Hisoka knowing he's a threat.

• Simultaneously, Gon demonstrates his perception and ability to judge a person's character as he instinctively denies Killua's admittedly accurate claim that he's like Hisoka despite only knowing him for two hours.

• Woahh, Leorio withstood a direct card attack from Hisoka? Really sad they cut this out in the anime because it's a pretty cool thing to note indicating that he really is Hunter material to have gotten through to this stage, and also adds some reasoning to why Hisoka lets him "pass" aside from just showing reckless bravery which doesn't seem to be the kind of thing Hisoka would approve of unless it's substantiated by some hidden physical strength.

• Speaking of which, I do like the rather crazed look Hisoka has when killing people. I think I personally prefer the anime's serene depiction of this atrocious clown as it's a bit more chilling but there's definitely merit to the sheer insanity emanating from his maniacal laugh.

• Not that I think it makes a significant difference, but it is interesting that the manga has a rando next to Leorio and Kurapika who survived Hisoka's initial onslaught and is actually the one who came up with the plan to run in the first place. It's nice to see that even our rational blonde is so startled at the sheer force that is Hisoka that he just follows the plan without any monologuing.

• The dialogue above is about Hisoka but I think it offers an interesting framework to view transmuters in the series, specifically Hisoka, Bisky, and Killua. All three individuals rely heavily on their instincts (as Bisky says at one point, she herself has lied so much in her life she can tell instantly when she's in the presence of someone else who's faking something) and they're quite adept at judging people (Hisoka's the one who came up with the nen-MBTI test which is, more often than not, quite aligned with the characters we see). That said, perhaps because of the efficacy of their own judgement, these characters find it especially hard to take someone else's word for it unless they themselves are thrown in the face of the facts themselves. For example, Silva told Killua to stay away from the Phantom Troupe but Killua doesn't truly consider that advice as legitimate until he's staring down Machi and Nobunaga first hand. There's a similar concept behind Killua finding it so hard to break away from the instinctive feeling of fear telling him to flee.

• It's interesting that the first person who has ever judged Gon's strength/potential specifically with no knowledge of his relation to Ging is Hisoka. In turn, Gon liked the excitement of that pressure, of being judged and deemed worthy, of fighting for Leorio's safety and feeling useful which are all things he is looking for in his journey.

• I think it's a pretty sweet moment when Kurapika tells Gon to keep the incident with Hisoka silent knowing it would undoubtedly worsen Leorio's mood by making him feel incapable, but I can't tell if saying the following is his genuine attempt of comfort or just another one of his roasts 😭 (Second two are def insults--Kurapika's a mood for sure):

• I wish we got to see more of these interesting subsects of hunters like the gourmet hunters or the disease hunters later on…if we do make it to the Dark Continent, I hope these characters and professions take the spotlight since we spend much of the story taking a look at the overarching ideology of a Hunter but not necessarily their day to day lives which would be fun to investigate

• Hanzo is such a dork—I can’t believe they made him so serious in the anime:

• They really changed this part of the exam a lot in 2011's adaptation. Not that I think the anime version is horrible, but I wonder why since the sushi element really helps its characters shine. Like, for example, we see Kurapika falter despite having an advantage due to his weirdly widespread knowledge (seriously, what books is this guy reading to learn about such random, specific things that no one else knows like cultural chastity symbols and the ingredients in a foreign dish) because it doesn't occur to him that Menchi could be judging arbitrarily and not as a proper examiner. Granted, he's not wrong to expect her to be as reasonable as the...er, highly functional and esteemed establishment that employed her (okay, maybe he should have guessed), but it does illustrate a blind spot in his logic that comes from the unexpected he can't prepare for beforehand.

• It's a really small moment but I love this panel where this guy who devalued gourmet hunting coming around to really appreciating not just the danger involved in the craft but the merit of its product and someone else's treasure. Just a bit of heart added to the story!

• I wonder why Menchi came around to liking Hanzo after yelling at him during the exam and blaming him for her decision to fail the entire cohort. Power of sushi, I guess. Similarly, it's an interesting tidbit that Killua was Satotz's favorite...no clue why though.

• Love the reiteration from Satotz that it's the Hunt that fulfills the hunter's Desires, not the item itself that they're searching for. I know I keep harking back on Ging's advice at the end of the election arc but it's such a coherent throughline embedded into the story. It's a little ironic, even, that Gon becomes a hunter to look for Ging, but only truly becomes a hunter when he embraces this mindset after he's lost his nen and comes to stop idolizing his father. (Sidenote: Hisoka is one of the character I think best embodies the Hunter philosophy even though, as Kurapika says, he's incredibly blood thirsty and has no tangible goal he's seeking aside from self-fulfillment.)

• I love how Killua admits he throws on this aloof cute-child act so no one ever gets close enough to know what he's actually serious and cares about. It's a defensive mechanism to prevent his enemies (or his family, really; looking at you Illumi) from finding out what matters to him as they could use it as a threat to force his obedience. But Gon is able to detect when he's lying or not, knowing that he's not quite like Hisoka although his family are assassins (in fact, Gon probably guessed, although he might not know why, that Killua threw out this statement to gauge his reaction). And because Gon is listening completely unbiased (and this is part of his ambiguous morality coming in, because Gon straight up doesn't care that Killua's a murderer so long as it's of his free will and he hasn't done anything to Gon or his friends specifically), Killua starts to feel more comfortable letting his guard down around Gon throughout the story and revealing his true self

• Is the echo rhythm just a movement technique kind of like Assassination Classroom's stun clap, or is it an application of nen that Killua uses without knowing he's using it (like Gon using zetsu before he knew what aura was)? I feel like this instance might be the former, but the claw sharpening thing seems a little too biologically strange to not be a nen-based application in my opinion.

• I stand corrected from chapter 2, we do see Kurapika voluntarily sleeping at least once more!

• Killua giving off Hiei vibes here, tbh. He really does have a lot of similarities to Hisoka like the intrinsic bloodlust and need for challenge.