#hxh luzuru

[missazune]

Halkenburg Hui Guo Rou || HUNTERxHUNTER

“If you say we don’t need a king, then become king first, then say that...!!”

‘m trying to practice drawing him 🫠 wanted to draw all princes tbh

[moretheta]

do we think this a result of togashi navigating the red tape of shonen jump censorship or is he just being really funny

[morallygay]

every single information conveyed here is insane

[e-102]

I'm pretty sure Halkenburg has swapped out his people for many other princes guards, it seems like he used one moment killing Benjamins soldier to swap with one of Luzurus's men in chapter 386.

We know he builds up aura to create a shield and an arrow, which makes a rumbling noise that can be heard throughout the first tier of the black whale. To do this he needs to be surrounded with his followers. But here before we were introduced to the limits of his ability he builds up aura while Sumidori (the swapped in follower in Shikaku's body) approaches Luzurus's room. Why though? Sumidori approaches alone and kills himself. No one else is in the long hallway beside him.

At the same time Luzurus's bodyguard, Rice, falls backwards. INITIALLY! I assumed that the arrow had come from a front angle, but now I'm sure it came from the left, directly.

The first time we see Halkenburg use Grimal Les Dissonances he shoots pretty straightforwardly down a hall and through the soldier (Shikaku's) shield, but not through any walls. That plus the unknown parameters of his abilities at the time are why initially I didn't think he was doing anything here other than a test. But later when Halkenburg takes down Balsamilco he shoots him while hes in the middle of a hallway without Halkenburg on either side.

He knows exactly where Balsamilco is and aims through the wall. Now returning to Rice. At the time when Sumidori/Shikaku shoots himself I assume Sumidori's soul returns to his body very quickly, if not instantly. But when he wakes up Halkenburg is sitting directly in front of him in what looks to be his room, meaning at the time when there was a rumble to build up energy, Halkenburg and his followers never left his room.

How did Halkenburg shoot Rice without leaving his room? How did he know where to shoot? WELL! Halkenburg is the 9th prince, Luzurus is the 7th prince. Their rooms are right next to eachother, and every single room has the same layout.

so Halkenburg would know exactly where to shoot IF SOMEONE WAS ANSWERING THE PHONE.

Here's my attempt to visualize it, I left bodyguards that I could not find the names of labelled as 'Bg' and thank you to @fredfugues for your help finding names and bouncing my theories off you like m&ms off your forehead.

[clownishstarfish]

Kakin Empire princes; Would they treat you right? (An analysis)

1, Benjamin

Not really surprisingly, yes! He would be a good partner. I think he would prefer someone who’s physically more active and thus be more influenced by that but I think he’d treat you right.

2, Camila

Not really…. She seems like someone who’d emotionally manipulate you just to see what she could get away with. Like Nicole from Class of ‘09

3, Zhang Lei

Probably idk 💀 He seems like he’d try to call you something suave like Darling or honey but fail and just seem like a little weirdo. Love him tho he’s silly!!!

4, Tserriednich

NO BITCH!!!! NO!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!

5, Tubeppa

She’s the kind of partner to be scared (aggressively 😒) about being cheated on and thus treat her partner like they’re gonna cheat on her.

6, Tyson

UH YES????? Literally she would be an amazing partner I don’t even like??? Idk how to explain it but she’d act like a sugar baby minus the money and idk she just seems amazing I love her

7, Luzurus

I think he’d like… treat you okish and then eventually try to get you to smoke w him if you don’t already and if you deny it then he’ll be a little bit less nice. He just seems like the type 😒

8, Sale-Sale

NO!!!!!!!

9, Halkenburg

Yes. Do I even need to explain???? He’s the perfect man I will take this to my grave. He is amazing and intelligent and caring and amazing and great and I love him.

Ok analysis over go home /lhj

[justin-peudeau]

THE NEXT KAKIN'S KING (OF THE DANCE FLOOR) : 7 TH PRINCE LUZURUS

Do you all feel like if Luz hears great music in a public place, he would just be like :

reject royalty 👑❌, embrace the groovie-groovie 🎵🕺🎶🔊✅

[moretheta]

I AM A BIG PROPONENT OF THIS THEORY❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

and i mean if we're looking at family resemblence...

listen i don't think they got it from their dad's side

Do you guys think we will also have a Tserri is actually Duazul's son reveal or is it a bit too easy? Anyways he looks so much like Camilla

[promoxie]

So anyway about Fugetsu ok, I THINK that she is one of the princes who haven't yet been captured by Benjamin (I'm taking Benjamin's "only four princes left!" to mean that there are "four left to be captured" because yeah I don't believe that we'd have all these princes murked all the while we was watching card games)

The last time we saw Fugetsu she was not staying in tier one, she was in a lower tier two medical facility. She's been held here since chapter 402, excepting when she went to tier one to give out Kacho's letters.

At this moment, two zodiacs are confirmed in tier two, although there is some confusion on whether or not this stand off Between Mizai and Botobai and Kaiser against Benjamin is happening in tier two or three... It is currently being assumed to be happening in the Justice Bureau, which is in tier two. If Fugetsu is lucky the she will still be in tier two where Benjamin's authority is being tested, or she will be close enough to the zodiacs to where she is left alone.

The missing princes are Zhang, confirmed, Luzurus, confirmed, with these two being the only princes that Benjamin seems to be worried about. The other two that are missing, since they aren't mentioned, are probably lower princes. This makes it possible to be Fugetsu and/or Marayam, the boy with the room displacement ability. It is also possibly Woble, but in my opinion, Babimyna would have heeded Benjamin's orders to "secure" the princes, even though he doesn't seem to be all bad buy and large. Maybe he'll come around...? Well we will wait for the next batch 👀 happy hxh anticipation y'all hehe

[basedkikuenjoyer]

The Succession Contest Poll

Surely this has been done but I think it's a nice bit of fun before we dive back into another leg of HxH. Simple poll, who'd you bet on in the Kakin Succession Contest as of Chapter 400? No easy way out for results, you're betting house money so take a stand:

[timeskip]

HxH 406 thoughts yippeeeeee

I saw some people point out that Nobunaga lost his sword recently to the Heli-ly, but in recent chapters was shown still with it... So he has a power (?) to MAKE NEW SWORDS? But he can't just do it immediately. It doesn't sound like it's conjured (also he's an enhancer iirc so he WOULDN'T have good affinity for conjuration anyways) so I have... zero guesses as to how he made his sword. It's nice to finally have a hint at his abilities though since we know very little about him :)?

I already saw this in the raws but GOD. IT'S SO AWESOME. Look at the STAIRS, look at how they climb into the distance.

I know we already knew she died but :( I liked her :( Bonolenov why did you have to do that :((

I do really like the Zakuro and Hinrigh conversation, trying to figure out what happened to her though. They're smart! They knew Lynch!!! They also know nen, and I love seeing characters try to puzzle out what nen ability could work--was it a disguise, or manipulation, etc etc and what did "Hisoka" want from doing this to Lynch. And now they're fully prepared to kill Bonolenov, and by extension, the Phantom Troupe... Yet another layer to the complicated mafia war

AND THEN WE GET TO CHROLLO'S SECTION. SO EXCITING.

There's so many answers here about Chrollo's goals on the Black Whale. We see exactly why he's here, what he wants to steal, where it is, how it affects his ability... He's planned it out so much. He even knows that Hisoka is on tier 1 and he could run into him...

And he's also planning to DIE if he has to. We know that the other Spiders want to kill Hisoka first in order to stop this, but Chrollo has already decided to go all in on not mattering as a person. He created the Spider, he will protect the Spider. He needs to kill Hisoka before they kill the rest of his friends, and his own life doesn't matter to him (same as we saw in Yorknew)!!! BUT I think the mention of him having "two conflicting emotions" is interesting because I think it might indicate that part of him also wants to stop this too. I doubt those emotions would be like... "rage and grief" which DO work together for this revenge plot. I think that he's going all in on the revenge against Hisoka to avoid thinking about this other conflicting emotion.

Going forward, Chrollo is going to fuck with the succession war. It sounds like he doesn't know about Kurapika's presence which coulddd cause some issues. I have a feeling they're going to run into each other one way or another.

Succession war-wise, upcoming plotlines and theories:

Kurapika's next nen class should have happened before the funeral procession, and during it, Sarahell (Camilla's have-not soldier) was supposed to attempt to curse Woble

The funeral procession is going to be an opportunity for Halkenburg-as-Balsamilco to use his ability, maybe? We don't know what his plan is in the 10 hours he has in Balsamilco's body, but either way it's going to bring Halkenburg back to tier 1, where he'll presumably have contact with Benjamin. If the theory that Halkenburg intends to put himself/one of his followers in Benjamin's body is correct, this could cause a major shift.

Melody, Kacho, and Kaiser haven't done their Prince Luzurus assassination yet, but that's supposed to happen. Killing him would also destabilize the mafia conflict even further and possible usher in martial law if Benjamin is able to.

Chrollo is going to try to break into the succession war and steal *the very things creating it.* This will likely destabilize things, or maybe give an opportunity for the princes to no longer need to be part of it? No idea.

Chrollo is also looking for a nen ability, and his stolen power lets him set conditions for an ability he wants to find. I didn't believe the theories from last chapter that Chrollo might end up wanting to steal one of Kurapika's abilities, but if Chrollo doesn't know about Kurapika and is only looking for a specific kind of ability... that seems like a perfect opportunity for Chrollo to get close to him, for better or for worse, attempting to steal judgement chain. I cannot imagine how difficult this would make things for Kurapika. Alternatively, he could go after a prince, or Kurapika's allies... There's a lot of options on tier 1, which is why this is scary

There's other plotlines going on, but these are immediate ones, and ones I have thoughts on right now.

Also, for the place the treasures are: I'd be SHOCKED if at least one of them wasn't HERE:

It also seems clearer now that these coffins (?) are powering at least one of the treasures. Maybe the sword given to the winner of the succession war? Either way, it seems like the divine mummy is the one that needs to be destroyed in order for Kurapika's plan to save Woble to succeed, so either way Chrollo and Kurapika are aiming for the same thing now.

[justin-peudeau]

Prince Luzurus in the background, secretely being shoked and vibing at the same time by how his bodyguards rap so well

tiny tiny tiny chapter 383 hxh succession arc spoiler

We don’t talk about this enough.

[moretheta]

oh duazul... woman that you are.... mother that you are.....

[ninthprime]

hxh 401 post

read the scanlations a few days ago but wanted to hold my thoughts for the official tl….

kurapika bro you’ve been in the mafia too long!! you can’t just solve everything with shooting!!!!!

in all seriousness i can’t believe togashi just added plot 23. well this kind of replaces the existing beyond plot so whatever. more importantly though i can’t believe he got me instantly invested in a character who was a rando last chapter. i feel like we got a lot of who longhi is here…it reminds me when ikalgo came out of nowhere in the chimera ant arc and instantly joined the main cast. i really like how her “i have to tell the whole truth” condition of her nen contracts reflects how betrayed she feels by not knowing the truth of her origins this whole time.

incredible panels. that middle one of beyond obscuring her/taking over her thoughts is so good

currently balancing three theories in my head rn:

tserriednich is the “obvious” candidate for beyond’s kid due to his resemblance to a younger isaac and uncanny nen talent. this also kind of seems too obvious to me. (i do think theta is probably one of beyond’s kids, though- it’s her or one of tserriednich’s childhood friends.*)

duazul has not one but multiple kids with beyond. halkenburg bears enough of a resemblance to longhi that there’s a panel in this issue close up on her eyes that both myself and multiple other people i’ve seen mistook it for him, but tubeppa also has the high cheekbones. on top of that camilla’s plan with her have-nots is basically a copy of beyond’s plan, and she already knew nen. luzurus looks so much like brocco (the cha-r leader) that i figured he was his kid, but who knows. the only thing this doesn’t solve is how they were able to do the seed urn ceremony if they don’t have royal blood, which applies to the tserriednich theory too. which means my favorite theory i’ve seen so far is:

oito is beyond’s child. woble would then be a legitimate contender to the throne by blood and a member of beyond’s family. i don’t think oito would know this, and we know a little bit about her background- she grew up poor with multiple siblings- but i get the impression those are the kind of situations beyond was taking advantage of, unfortunately. oito appears to be in the 25-30 year old range, so the right age for beyond’s plan.

basically all of these have heavy drama potential, so they all seem valid depending on execution.

* edit: actually i’m thinking about it now and i’m like 75% sure that what’s going to happen is that morena is going to kidnap and use one of tserridnich’s childhood friends like she threatened to and that friend is going to just happen to be the one that’s beyond’s kid. and then everything asplode

[morallygay]

Nasubi’s kids’ names are clearly chosen by their mother (+references by togashi) so that’s also a cool interesting thing to analyze

Btw the queens’ names themselves are meaningless and just reference their order (ex. unma -> 1, duazul -> 2, etc)

Unma:

Benjamin -> existing name, european origin

Tserriednich -> germanic sounding

Halkenburg/Halkenberg -> germanic sounding

Duazul:

Camilla -> existing name, european origin

Tsubeppa/Tubeppa -> the hxh character is the only thing that comes up when looking up that name

Luzurus -> close to real european name (Lazarus). Lazarus is mostly/typically a german name altho it’s not of germanic origin linguistically speaking (fun fact: the emphasis is on the second syllable in japanese, and not the first like how you’d want to pronounce it; it’s RUZÛRUSU -> luzurus, not luzurus)

Tang Zhao Li:

Zhang Lei -> chinese sounding, like his mother (->and the only chinese sounding names)

Katrono:

Taithon -> like Luzurus, close to real european name (Tyson)

Swinko-Swinko:

Salé-Salé -> clearly a meaningless made up name following the pattern of his mother’s name (->and the only ones with this pattern) (fun fact: “salé” means “salty/savory” in french. Just a coincidence)

Seiko:

Kachô

Fûgetsu

^all 3 japanese sounding names (->and the only japanese sounding names (?)(almost?)(basically, yeah))

Sevanti:

Momoze -> made up, to my knowledge. can be japanese sounding but not necessarily. (possibly a perversion of european mimosa/mimoza? but probably doesn’t matter anyway)

Marayam -> close to real sounding european name (Maryam among other variations)

Oito:

Waburu/Woble -> I’m gonna be honest with you idk where the hell that name could have come from. english sounding anyway if woble/wobble is the correct interpretation of the japanese katakana. Not that it should matter since woble is most definitely oito’s child and there’s nothing special/hidden about her.

In the context of the possible Beyond child among the princes and the Halkenburg reveal, of who is who’s biological child/parent, what we learn from this analysis is that

1st queen Unma and 2nd queen Duazul both have similar european and germanic sounding names for their princes, so not much we can induce there. For example Benjamin and Camilla both sound like they could have the same mom based on their names, when you compare them to other queens and their child(ren). Yet it’s basically certain that benjamin is unma’s child, and camilla duazul’s. And Tserriednich and Halkenburg both having germanic sounding names was thought of as a hint to them having the same mother who named them, but with Benjamin’s name being that, the thought doesn’t amount to much more.

Considering both names and physical resemblance, with the question of whether they are biological mother/child:

Unma <—> a) Benjamin ✅certain (name is inconclusive but physical resemblance is strong enough), b) Tserriednich: 🟠inconclusive (inconclusive name (debatably close to brother Halkenburg for being germanic sounding); weak physical resemblance), c) Halkenburg ✅certain (other than it being explicitly confirmed: inconclusive name (debatably close to brother Tserriednich for being germanic sounding) but physical resemblance is strong enough)

Duazul <—> a) Camilla 🟡technically-inconclusive-but-actually-likely (inconclusive name; strong but ultimately inconclusive physical resemblance, likely for other reasons), b) Tsubeppa/Tubeppa 🟠 inconclusive (inconclusive name; inconclusive physical resemblance), c) Luzurus 🟡technically-inconclusive-but-actually-likely (inconclusive name; inconclusive physical resemblance, but note the resemblance to Brocco Li, strongly hinted to be his biological father) (but at least 1 of them has to be her child)

Tang Zhao Li <—> Zhang Lei ✅certain (name + physical resemblance)

Katrono <—> Taithon ✅certain (name is inconclusive but physical resemblance is strong enough)

Swinko-Swinko <—> Salé-Salé ✅certain (name + physical resemblance)

Seiko <—> Kachô and Fûgetsu ✅certain (physical resemblance is inconclusive (good with Kachô tho) but name is enough + other reasons)

Sevanti <—> a) Momoze 🟠inconclusive (name is inconclusive; physical resemblance is inconclusive), b) Marayam 🟠inconclusive (name is inconclusive; weak physical resemblance but tbf he’s a fucking toddler. also Nasubi has black hair so maybe this prince just takes after his dad for once) (I don’t like the “Marayam is Beyond’s child” theory bc it doesn’t make sense for his child to be this young imo but I gotta say when I gotta say that this helps it) (but at least 1 of them has to be her child)

Oito <—> Waburu/Woble ✅certain (name is inconclusive; physical resemblance is inconclusive bc it’s a fucking baby but unless some 4D chess nen memory manipulation has happened for some reason yeah obviously she is Nasubi and Oito’s child) (and then it turns out that’s exactly what happened and woble is the child of beyond who somehow made it so kurapika would be oito’s guard (even though he was intending to be halkenburg’s and it was oito’s doing) bc he knows kurapika’s competence and odds of successfully protecting woble and intent to essentially be in the succession war since he’s looking for the eyes which are possessed by one of the princes, through pariston who knows it bc he’s sheila and btw that’s part of why he resigned his zodiac seat (even tho it was leorio who recommended kurapika), to give kurapika the opportunity to know about tserri and get roped into the succession war and—)

[tokiro07]

I've realized that in doing my reviews for Undead Unluck and Ichi the Witch, I'm putting a lot of focus on remembering their stories, events and themes but not much on doing the same for the rest of Jump

In the interest of trying to improve my engagement and retention for Jump as a whole, I'm going to try summarizing the events and narrative or thematic significance of every chapter in this week's issue from memory (only looking up things like names for accuracy)

If this goes well/isn't too difficult to do, I may start to do this consistently, but we'll see. With that:

Toki Reads Shonen Jump 2024, issue #46

One Piece: Luffy and co. are revealed to have been captured by Road, Hajrudin's navigator, who doesn't accept that the New Giant Warrior Pirates are now subordinate to the Straw Hats. This may lead to internal conflicts within the Straw Hat Grand Fleet

HxH: Kaiser has Fugetsu visit each of the remaining Princes on the pretense of delivering letters from the deceased Kacho so that she can use her ability to infiltrate Prince Luzurus' room and assassinate him. I honestly have no idea how this will contribute, I feel very lost when reading HxH piecemeal

Mission Yozakura Family: The Yozakuras begin their battle with the Asa-possessed Taiyo. Things are going too well, so the Bad News phase is likely to come up soon

Undead Unluck: Julia fights her way to Apocalypse and nearly loses an arm in the process, but Apocalypse's vision of justice allows him to return to his senses and show Julia Juiz's memories in retaliation to Luna's attempts to cheat. Apocalypse's death may in and of itself be the trigger for Unjustice

Me & Roboco: Three brothers straight out of a romcom move next door and try to hit on Roboco, attracted by how unattracted she is to them and their one-note, stupid gags. This is a rare gag that actually puts Roboco on the backfoot

Sakamoto Days: Shin and Heisuke reach the maze-like B2 of the prison and meet Tenkyu, a member of Slur. Tenkyu likely wants to find Atari for Uzuki's sake, which will likely put him in conflict with Shin and Heisuke and make him the antagonist of the arc

Elusive Samurai: Shizuku's human emotions of love and jealousy allow her to manifest a human body at the cost of her divine powers, saving her from vanishing from their overuse. With Mima and Shizuku's divinity lost to both sides, the war between Tokiyuki and Takauji can no longer rely on miracles or divine protection

Witch Watch: Suzuka once again asks for help cheating on one of her grandmother's traditional arts tests, this time on haiku. Tenryuu's perceptions of haiku are changed in the process, though this likely won't have...too big of an effect on his character going forward

Blue Box: The boys basketball team goes out of their way to keep Taiki and Chinatsu separated out of envy, resulting in Taiki being locked in a shed. This moves the focus back to the main couple and adds a little bit of drama to their relationship, which has otherwise been going pretty swimmingly so far

Akane-Banashi: Shiguma is diagnosed with throat cancer and may lose his voice; Issho dissolves the Shiguma School and forcefully inducts Akane into his own school. Whether Issho plans to sabotage Akane's attempts to learn Shiguma's Art or aid in it is unclear, but Akane will certainly learn something useful for it in the process

Kill Blue: Shin sacrifices himself to save Juzo from losing the cavalry battle. The battle will likely conclude next chapter, as otherwise it would now be two-on-one

Nue's Exorcist: To better understand Rido's philosophy on love, Gakuro asks to be introduced to Rido's girlfriend; it turns out that she left him because she has a terminal illness. This will likely impact Gakuro's views on love and motivate him to make a decision on which girl to confess to - hopefully we'll take the polyamory route?

Kagurabachi: Hiruhiko continues to pressure Chihiro into risking the lives of civilians so he can convince him that they're both the same kind of psychopathic killers, but instead Chihiro finds a new way to use Enten to escape his trap. Chihiro's views on murder are further elaborated on as the idolization of the Swordbearers as the heroes of the war is criticized

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo: Chojo is plagued by visions of perverse tragedies occurring to the women around him that will supposedly damage their faith in him. An ominous voice tells him that fate cannot be avoided, suggesting that even after saving the women, his strange behavior in the meantime may have still hurt his standing

Astro Royale: Himuro's backup cops are revealed to be artificially created Asteroids, taking drugs to enhance their abilities that are specifically designed to synergize with Himuro's Astro. The possibility for artificial Asteroids raises the threat level beyond what people happened to wish for when they didn't know they'd get powers from doing so

Yokai Buster Murakami: To save Kuin from execution by a council of Gendo Ikari imposters, Murakami convinces each of them to take on a new, albeit kind of cliche persona; in the process, he establishes Kuin as the new Gendo-like leader of the exorcist organization. Whether Kuin will continue as the leader is questionable, but such a sudden rise in the ranks has troubling implications for the series' longevity

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi: Kiyoshi decimates his proctor for the Grand Cross exam, denouncing the ideology that talent is necessary to reach that rank. Kiyoshi may or may not have precluded himself from being given Grand Cross rank in doing so, but his convictions to Effort and Friendship will likely prove far more valuable

Hima-Ten: Tenichi goes to Himari for advice on his potential relationship with Kanai, which she seems all too happy to give. With this early of a development, something is either going to get in Tenichi's way (likely the new girl, Kanna) OR they'll date for a short while and break up

Ichi the Witch: Ichi rejects Uroro's proposal to go on a witch hunt, earning the approval of the Witches Association; Ichi is finally given his iconic uniform, and Kumugi is forced to join Team Desscaras. This likely marks the end of the prologue, and the real story can finally begin

Shinobi Undercover: Hibari is troubled by her lack of friendship with Mukai, despite being assigned to be her best friend, and asks Yodaka's advice; receiving nothing helpful, Hibari just becomes confused until she's attacked by Miyake and needs to protect another classmate. The main difference between Hibari and Yodaka is likely that Hibari puts on an act while Yodaka is genuine, which she will likely learn through getting to go all out against Miyake

Hakutaku: To gain experience and get some networking in, Hikuma and Noto join a game jam; there, they meet Seo, a programmer, and likely their first major rival, Kitahara. This both builds the roster and establishes the flow of the series, as competitions like this will likely be a recurring element

I think I had a little trouble this time since it's my first attempt, but I remembered a lot more than I actually expected! If I do keep up with it, my hope is that I'll have better insight than I did this time, as I don't have a strong connection to a lot of these series and can't remember or articulate their themes as well as I can for my favorites

If I end up refining this process, great! If I end up dropping it, oh well! For what I got done this time, though, I did enjoy it, and I hope you do too!