@Wagomu and Outerspec
I completely forgot about Gon’s conversation with Ging, so point taken. I still don’t see why you are so adamant that there has to be a main character in this arc.
In your previous post, you explained that relevant to story means “relevant to Gon.” Ant arc was about containing a catastrophic threat and G&K are just minor players in it. Most of the hunter extermination team were newly-introduced and we have an entire species that literally came out of nowhere as villains. Yet for some reason this arc is completely acceptable and DC is not simply because the latter doesn’t have an MC in sight…
Then we have GI. Oh yes, it has G&K all right, yet was also completely boring. We could have done away with most of the training montage. But somehow DC, no matter what, is automatically inferior because it will not involve any MC. Right.
My point is that, obviously, presence of main characters is not the major factor in determining an arc’s quality. So why are you so immediately dismissive of the idea of an arc simply where there’s no main character involved?
Of course we have our own opinions on how the story should go. You obviously prefer HxH to be more structurally-sound and to stop waddling about and return its focus on furthering main characters plot. You also want Gon or any main character to be included in this arc, perhaps through a timeskip, and who knows that might happen the very next chapter. Any fool and his brother have suggestions on how to improve the story.
Well with the expansion of the HxH world the return to unresolved MC issues is not going to happen anytime soon while the inclusion of an MC in DC is still up in the air. Not all of our wish list is going to be fulfilled. But the key issue is, is the story interesting enough regardless?
I already explained in the previous post why the focus on top-tier makes sense and why many of us care (whereas you see it as nothing more than battle porn), so I won’t go into that.
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By the way, no one's abandoning the main cast. In my view this focus on the top-tier will just last one arc. G&K are basically taking a breather after all that they've gone through in the ant arc. You can call this a transition arc to once and for all showcase the top-tier. Surely this isn't a mortal sin?