#koala hxh

[s0ftand0nly]

Some more ants. I probably should have standardized a short body type at some point

[stingray-art]

A Chimera Ant themed search and find colouring page that I initially made for @greedislandchallenge card #95, Secret Cape. It will be featured in Volume 1 of the Greedy Zine!

Answer key below the cut 👀

Did you find everyone?

[sharknark]

killua koala parallels || how i imagine their getting to know eachother convo went

[theclearblue]

The mark of an exceptional shonen to me is if it can make me love an m/f ship.

[skkortysoup]

smash bros announcer: MIDDLE AGED MAN!

[i-heart-hxh]

I saw a poll about bad writing moments in the CAA and a lot o people think Kite's revival is bad writing, I can see why some people might think it was bad writing, but it looks like some people didn't understand that Kite's revival taking off importance of Gon's arc in the CAA is the whole point, I think Togashi wanted to show that Gon's rage and self-destructive behavior was a big mistake, Ging even tells Gon that Kite would never sacrifice for him if he didn't have an ability to survive.

Yes, I definitely agree!

I think my first time through the series I was a little disappointed that Kite "survived" after all of that, but my opinion on this changed later. Even as someone who tends not to like fake deaths very often in fiction, I feel like the way they're done in HxH, they usually have enough foreshadowing/set up in advance and purpose in the storyline that I don't take issue with them.

In the case of Chimera Ant Arc, characters being reborn was a major theme throughout the entire arc, so to me Kite's rebirth doesn't feel like a stretch. Also, because I feel like second chances is a major theme of the series, Kite's rebirth strikes me as part of that. Both Kite getting a second chance at living, and Gon getting a chance to "make things right," between them (in Gon's view--of course Kite doesn't see things the same way as Gon does). After his rebirth, Kite gives Koala a second chance to live a meaningful life, too.

I also agree that the fact Kite was reborn helps emphasize the pointlessness of Gon's revenge and throwing his life away. As I've said before, I don't feel Togashi condones bloody revenge, and having Kite ultimately survive after what Gon did on his behalf helps make what Gon did that much harder to justify as a "good thing."

[nynyhaha]

Souls are canon in the HxH verse.Kite is proof.

His body

His new body AND soul.

He was NEVER EATEN.

His ability was most likely what cause him to be reborn.But others are also reborn regardless of their choice,like Colt and Reina.Somehow,Kite ended up being born looking similar to Reina and a girl the Koala mafioso ant shot.How is a mystery,since the ant queen chewed everyone up,some people were consumed as MEAT BALLS

Possibly,the wish to live on is what made some people be reborn as ants,like Gyro.But was EVERYONE reborn who was eaten?We know some ants have human memories,but the guards and meruem are made of a sum of humans and animals.

Meruem alone must’ve required LOTS of energy,meat,gene material etc.And somehow,in his case and in the case of his three guard siblings,the queen actually CREATED NEW SOULS.

Did she do this with mere soldiers too?If not,does every ant have a human past,but not everyone is able to remember?So many questions.

BUT THAT BRINGS US TO

UVO SAN WHO CAN HEAR CHROLLO!!!!

Chrollo asked neon,if she believed in souls.He does believe in them,now more than as a kid when he said he doubts the existence of a JUST afterlife,so he must purpose the killers of Sarasa and get revenge.It seems he now very much hopes there is some part of a person that lives on.

He might not think the afterlife is fair.Or he might not be sure Uvo will be fine,even tho the poem says “rising up to heaven”,not hell,haha.Maybe because it’s directed at Chrollo who cares about Uvo.Either way,Chrollo seems to be spiritual but not religious.

He’s existentialistic and does what he CAN do to fulfill Uvos will.

You’re right,Chrollo.Souls exist.And Uvo can probably hear you.

[arcaladiwoompa]

Greed Island Server challenge: Koala. Another poem on the theme of regret, this time about Kurapika.

[noisepartythumpingmusic]

HxH Questions! Ideal end/future for your top 5 hxh characters? Which hxh character most likely to win in hot dog eating contest? Which 3 non-main hxh characters would you enjoy seeing a spin off for/chapters focusing on them? Which character(s) do you think would be most difficult or most easy to therapist to?

Fun questions! Thank you friend, sorry about my delay answering.

Ideal end for top 5 characters:

Gon - Wildlife photography, amateur drummer, married to Killua

Killua - Successfully kills his dad, retired early, married to Gon

Alluka - Fashion design school, marries Zushi and Amane and Canary

Leorio - Kills Ging

Kurapika - THERAPY

Hot dog eating contest: Oh it's Uvogin no question easy easy easy

Spins offs for Rat Kite, Koala and Zepile! Do some kind of like...Inside man stealing nazi gold from nazis or something.

Easy to therapist to - Mito really needs a kind empathetic ear that will help her bury a body

Hard - Killua would be a nightmare disaster in the therapy room. Too smart and too stupid simultaneously.

Thank you friend!

[bootlickerhawks]

i usually like fast paced writing but i admit i really like the slow buildup of the threat the chimera ants pose

and i really like that we get to see the chimera ants POV and the evolution of their colony (plus the implication that the chimeras might remember their past lives as humans is *chef's kiss* delicious)

[snowshinefivez5]

Who is the last 🧁 for?

[froglegsz]

my favorite thing about hxh is that every chimera ant had a name but this guy was just named fucking koala

[thecrow1994]

"I'm sorry... for wishing things were easier, and for trying to run away from them. I'll live, even if it hurts. So when I die, I'll be able to say: I gave it my all"

This is such a beautiful quote and it was said by a goddamn koala. Hunter × Hunter is unreal.

[phantomchaos]

Well everybody, I finished hunter x hunter. The first viewing was better than anticipated. As a huge yu yu hakusho fan, my friends and coworkers told me all the time that I had to watch hxh, but I put it off. After watching it, it's definitely one I would rewatch. It's better than I thought it would be. It's a great anime.

[splashgarden]

ants and kites

[i-heart-hxh]

Hi again! I've had this thought in terms of hxh meta that I personally have not seen discussed, so I'm gonna dump it here for you! There's an underlying theme I've noticed of characters throughout the series being one that lost their other halves. Like, most obvious, Leorio and Kurapika lost their childhood best friends. Melody lost her friend to the devil's music. We see Nobunaga lose Uvogin, and so on. So Killua saving Gon instead of letting him die after CAA seems to be a "breaking the cycle" so to speak, although I'm not sure what that would even mean! Nothing much to say besides those details I've noticed, but I wanted to know if you had thoughts? Or perhaps it's just an interesting background detail that is up in the air in terms of being significant?

Hello, thank you so much for sending an ask again! I've put some thought into this topic as well, so I'm happy you brought this up! How I'm answering this is both somewhat abstract and far-reaching in the series so it's a little difficult to summarize and express simply, but I hope you and others might get some meaning out of it!

I strongly believe that one of HxH's great overarching themes is the transformational power of love and how it grants people second chances in life. In this post I'm referring to love in a broader sense, not just romantic love, as of course many different types of love are portrayed and have deep importance in HxH. We see the theme of transformative love in so many different relationships and instances that it's difficult to even summarize them--a few examples are Gon and Killua, Meruem and Komugi, Meruem and his Royal Guard, Ging and Kite, Killua and Ikalgo, even in less major character pairs like Ging and Razor (Razor: "Ging taught me it took only one person, one person in the entire world who will trust you, to save you.") and Kite and Koala, but that's only scraping the surface. I reblogged a previous wonderful meta that pointed out the domino effect of Killua's act of kindness towards Ikalgo, which ended up changing the ultimate trajectory of humanity's war against the Chimera Ants. This is a great example of this theme in action!

But of course, while meeting and loving someone can transform that person's whole life, so also can losing someone significant. It can set someone on a completely different life track than they would have been on had they not lost them--Kurapika, Leorio, Senritsu, the Phantom Troupe (especially with their flashback in recent chapters), Gon and Kite, Kacho and Fugetsu (though this hasn't played out all the way yet) come to mind, but there are many more throughout the series as well. Not all of the losses that fit into this are someone losing their other half/most important person, but there's a solid enough percentage that it certainly seems to be a trend Togashi is establishing and exploring.

It's difficult to explore one of these themes in depth and with honesty without the other--love happens, loss of loved ones happens, both are deeply transformative, and both can ultimately be placed under the broader umbrella of the transformative power of love. After all, if losing a person causes someone's entire life path to change, chances are they loved them a great deal and the force behind the change that occurs in their life is the love and grief they still feel after the loss.

HxH has many tragic elements and Togashi certainly doesn't shy away from the heart-wrenching and long-lasting results of loss, but I think it's fair to say from the 400 chapters we have so far that HxH's themes are not ultimately tragic and hopeless on this topic by any means. In HxH:

Death is not always insurmountable, i.e., Kite, the Chimera Ants in general

The life path one ends up on after a major loss need not be a tragic one, i.e. Leorio deciding to be a doctor and help children in poverty as a result of losing his friend

Death in itself can be an act of love, i.e. Meruem and Komugi, Netero and humanity

Even if one ends up on a dark path as a result of loss, that doesn't mean they can't be saved by someone else's love for them, i.e., Gon and Killua, this could also end up being the trajectory for Kurapika and Leorio potentially?

With Gon and Killua, their whole relationship is based on them transforming each other and giving each other second chances:

Gon saving Killua simply by not judging him, befriending him, and showing him another life path

Gon retrieving Killua from the Zoldyck family when Killua's resolve broke down because of Illumi

Killua pulling the needle of out of his head out of sheer love for and desire to protect Gon

And of course Killua not allowing Gon to die, simultaneously saving him and transforming Alluka's life.

(And Killua's ability to save and help Alluka is of course, a direct result of the kindness Gon extended to Killua and the love Killua has for Gon.)

There's no way to know for certain what will happen in their future, but I definitely think their relationship has one more transformation in it at least, in the form of a reunion and reconciliation.

So, in summary, I think these themes of someone losing a person who was their other half and how one continues to live after that are another way of exploring the broader theme of what it means to love someone and be transformed by meeting them, which I see as a primary theme of HxH. I also think some of these relationships are intended to be comparisons to or foils of Gon and Killua's relationship in a sense (especially Kurapika and Pairo and Kacho and Fugetsu, but others as well), expanding on the themes of their relationship and how a love that deep affects people, both in beautiful and in deeply painful ways.