Hunter x Hunter II
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=O How are you guys adding those?
Alternatively, Windows has Character Map. It's not so hard, once you get used to it.
Give it a try~
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i just don't see togashi changing his ways. he's slow at churning chapters:
1. for health reasonsNever been officially stated anywhere. Pure internet myth.
2. because he wants to lead a more balanced life. he probably draws 6 hours a day in a leisurely pace with little assistance. it's a lot of work but doesn't cut for a weekly.
Standard work schedule for artists on a regular comics deadline is closer to 12-16 hour work days, with 24 hour days not being at all unusual. Anyone who only works for 6 hours a day is incredibly lazy and should find a different line of work.
the rest he spends with his waifu, children, dragon quest, etc.
Oda did his weekly series AND a movie AND had a new kid. BS on any other creator that tries pulling "not enough free time" as an excuse. Get an assistant if you need one to cut back the work hours.
3. he needs time to think through the plot. hxh is more complicated than many other mangas. for example, other shounen can just pull random abilities up, but for hxh togashi has to think of many other factors like nen type, how the ability can be achieved through the nen type, etc.
And he's had 7 years while working on the ant saga.
You guys are totally jinxing us with this hiatus talk.
His TRACK RECORD (Which goes back to the sudden ending of YuYuHakusho, mind you) is what has set the precedent for hiatuses, not us noting that he's done so consistently. Are you trying to say if we believe really hard Bleach will end in three weeks and One Piece will start being 50 pages?
Ya'll are jinxing it by saying he isn't going on break, setting yourselves up for disappointment.
Better to be pleasantly surprised than sadly disappointed.
@phoenix_fire:Didnt we had the same discussion when togashi reached the 10chapter-mark? That he will definitively go into another hiatus, because he never publish more than 10 chapters in one go?
No, we didn't, because last time around he did 20, and we've been expecting that to be the mark this time as well.
Last time, when he passed 10, we got excited because "He's finally breaking the streak" and then lo, he only did 20 and didn't even resolve the ant saga at the time.
Once he hits 21, between that and the current anime, we can be a little more hopeful and optimistic, while still knowing in the back of our minds he might just decide at some point to take an 13 or 20 month hiatus again.
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@RobbyBevard:
Oda did his weekly series AND a movie AND had a new kid. BS on any other creator that tries pulling "not enough free time" as an excuse. Get an assistant if you need one to cut back the work hours.
And still everyone is bitching about him taking here and there a week off ^^
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@Don:
And still everyone is bitching about him taking here and there a week off ^^
And the thing with Oda is, aside from actual sick weeks (And they always say its illness when Oda is sick for a week, they never say that for Togashi) he's probably spending that week putting together the tankoban bonus material and doing random bonus illustrations for covers of unrelated magazines and specials and pop up books and whatever else. The man is prolific.
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Is this series going on hiatus again soon?
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I'm still concerned with the 'no assistants except maybe his wife' thing.
The truth is, Togashi doesn't have to work. I personally think he takes hiatuses when he gets frustrated with where the story's going, so he can reassess and rethink it and most importantly fall in love with it and find the motivation. He probably needs that constant drive in order for him to get through with it, as it seems he puts himself under more stress than he needs to with the aforementioned 'no assistants' thing.
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@RobbyBevard:
Are you trying to say if we believe really hard Bleach will end in three weeks and One Piece will start being 50 pages? Ya'll are jinxing it by saying he isn't going on break, setting yourselves up for disappointment.
So you sensibly argue that it's obvious we can't possibly affect things with our hopes and then in the next sentence claim that we're the ones jinxing things with those same hopes. Classy.
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So you sensibly argue that it's obvious we can't possibly affect things with our hopes and then in the next sentence claim that we're the ones jinxing things with those same hopes. Classy.
What you say can't affect Togashi's output. But it can affect your own expectation.
So yes, you can jinx yourself.
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@RobbyBevard:
What you say can't affect Togashi's output. But it can affect your own expectation.
So yes, you can jinx yourself.
Making yourself into a pessimistic crumudgen is not likely to improve your life. That's like jinxing yourself constantly and occasionally seeing a ray of sunlight when you're wrong. Besides, if I drive my expectations up high enough the hubris fueled fall might be hard enough to send me into a coma-induced dreamworld within which Togashi publishes TWO chapters a week.
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when i read on the spoilers about tsubone turning into a motorcycle i was expecting this
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I….don't think it's fair to call Togashi lazy just because he doesn't put in the ridiculous amount of hours other comic artists do.
Six hours of isn't a back-breaking day, but I'd hardly qualify it as lazy either.
I think we're getting too much of a sense of entitlement for his work, especially considering a lot of people read it for free..
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I….don't think it's fair to call Togashi lazy just because he doesn't put in the ridiculous amount of hours other comic artists do.
Unless he has a damn good reason like health issues (which doesn't appear to be the case) I don't wanna hear it.
Six hours of isn't a back-breaking day, but I'd hardly qualify it as lazy either.
It's extremely lazy for a comic book artist.
I think we're getting too much of a sense of entitlement for his work, especially considering a lot of people read it for free..
Just my two cents :)I am so sick of people making this stupid argument. What about the people who do pay good money for his work? Aren't they entitled to a quality product?
And fine, maybe those of us who don't pay aren't entitled, but it doesn't change the fact that he gives off the impression of being a lazy artist. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Incidentally, I'm at Greed Island now in my readthrough of HxH.
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I….don't think it's fair to call Togashi lazy just because he doesn't put in the ridiculous amount of hours other comic artists do.
Six hours of isn't a back-breaking day, but I'd hardly qualify it as lazy either.
I think we're getting too much of a sense of entitlement for his work, especially considering a lot of people read it for free..
Just my two cents :)Sorry but it is. This has nothing to do with entitlement or anything but 6 hours a day is an incredibly short time to work per day.
I mean I used to have even more school lesson than that and school life was incredibly easy and unstressful.Although I would agree that calling him lazy because he doesn't have the dedication anymore to commit to the same degree as his peers(I mean seriously how many of you guys could work consistently at least 16 hours a day, I'm no slouch but that is even to much for me) is going way to far.
People who work that much to sustain themselves on pure work ethic that would be ridiculous.
They do it because their passionate about it. I don't blame togashi that after that long that he seems to kind of get burned out.
And if you're in that state no amount of duty sense will substitute for your lack of creative drive that results out of that.
But oh well in the end it's all speculation (I mean nobody really knows how much he's really working) and nobody knows for sure what's really up with him. -
I am so sick of people making this stupid argument. What about the people who do pay good money for his work? Aren't they entitled to a quality product?
I disagree. When you buy a volume or a weekly magazine, you're entitled to the contents of the magazine/book.
Not the guarantee of a consistent release schedule.I mean, I do agree that togashi has some sense of duty to his fans.
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Frankly, (hiatus or not), I can't wait for the beginning of the new year so all this hiatus talk can GO. AWAY.
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If there's going to be a hiatus soon, it should be after chapter 330. So with chapter 330 we should find out if Togashi is going to take another break.
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I buy the volumes and I am satisfied with this series.
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I'll be dissapointed when Togashi goes on hiatus again, but I think I'll live. Although if it's after a particularly amazing chapter with a great cliff-hanger, I'll probably start moaning anyway.
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If HxH was the only manga that I read than the hiatuse's would annoy me but since it's not than…...it doesn't bother me
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For everyone in denial about the upcoming hiatus, I just want to say this is going to be you in a few weeks, except replace the word "Earthbound" with "Hunter x Hunter" and "news of EB on the virtual console" with "Togashi going on hiatus after 20 chapters again":
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Haha, good one, but I've been following HxH for ages and my reaction has always been and will be that of "a new fan"…
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VOLUME 28 WILL RELEASE HERE ON SEPTEMBER 4, NEXT YEAR.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1421542609?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1 -
SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well, nothing change for me ._.
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can anyone remember me the site with the tankobon scans? thanks
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@Gourmet:
VOLUME 28 WILL RELEASE HERE ON SEPTEMBER 4, NEXT YEAR.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1421542609?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1Here?
Rpgjay, I'm an old fan and I act like the new fan :( fuck the Hiatus haha, I'll live through it though, I got other good stuff to read and I like the series enough to wait for it.
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Eh the last hiatus didn't hurt too bad, it will just be insanely annoying for the series to stop in an arc that has really only provided set up so far.
The election is heating up, old characters are getting the spotlight and it seems that the Chimera Ant Arc characters aren't going to be thrown away or forgotten. Things are going too well in the series. Hopefully, if there is a hiatus, Togashi will have set up a brilliant plot twist or cliff hanger to leave fans eager because seeing Togashi's trademark hiatus note at the end of a chapter next to a panel with Killua smiling saying "I will save you Gon" would be such a buzz kill.
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For everyone in denial about the upcoming hiatus, I just want to say this is going to be you in a few weeks, except replace the word "Earthbound" with "Hunter x Hunter" and "news of EB on the virtual console" with "Togashi going on hiatus after 20 chapters again":
[qimg]http://earthboundcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mitch3.png[/qimg]This picture made me go to my SNES bin and grab my Earthbound game cartridge, which thankfully still works, along with the system (after smacking it a couple times).
As for Hunter X Hunter, I'm more like an old fan, even though I didn't start until just before the last hiatus began (3/4 into the Ant Arc). I'll be disappointed, but I won't be terribly surprised.
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Well this is a little off topic from the current will they/won't they hiatus discussion but here goes:
Out of complete boredom and curiosity I recently started watching Yu Yu Hakusho to see if the series compares to Hunter. Despite being 30 episodes in, I have heard a million times about the abrupt ending due to him plotting stories that, at the time, did not abide with the JUMP mentality. So question is, do you guys think that Togashi was plotting a prototype York New, Chimera Ant or even Election story arc before the demise of Hakusho? A lot of the character archetypes resonate between both titles' protagonists (despite Yuske maybe being having a bit more character compared to Gon) so I could picture the Togashi pitching these arcs in a title ongoing at the end of the post-Golden Age/sales downfall JUMP.
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Well this is a little off topic from the current will they/won't they hiatus discussion but here goes:
Out of complete boredom and curiosity I recently started watching Yu Yu Hakusho to see if the series compares to Hunter. Despite being 30 episodes in, I have heard a million times about the abrupt ending due to him plotting stories that, at the time, did not abide with the JUMP mentality. So question is, do you guys think that Togashi was plotting a prototype York New, Chimera Ant or even Election story arc before the demise of Hakusho? A lot of the character archetypes resonate between both titles' protagonists (despite Yuske maybe being having a bit more character compared to Gon) so I could picture the Togashi pitching these arcs in a title ongoing at the end of the post-Golden Age/sales downfall JUMP.
As far as I know, it's the Chapter Black saga from YYH which could be considered some kind of "embryon" to what was to become HxH, if only for the battle system. If you've only watched 30 episodes, then you're not there yet.
I also have the impression that he experimented with some darker stuff there, but seemed to "chicken out" in some particular cases. Kinda Pell and the bomb, if you get what I'm saying.
And although the last arc (the one that ends incredibly abruptly) is pretty bad, there's a series of stand alone, disconnected chapters at the end of the series, one of which is incredibly dark and mature, that reminded me a bit of the darker Chimera Ant parts of HxH. That's probably just me.
If you want to spoil yourself, that's the chapter:
http://www.mangareader.net/272-19166-5/yu-yu-hakusho/chapter-172.html -
Those end of series vignettes were actually some of my favorite parts of Yu Yu Hakusho.
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You know, I just realized one of the main reasons some hunters may dislike Ging other than being a deadbeat father.
He is the creator of Greed Island, which a lot of hunters were trapped in for years,lol.
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You know, I just realized one of the main reasons some hunters may dislike Ging other than being a deadbeat father.
He is the creator of Greed Island, which a lot of hunters were trapped in for years,lol.
I don't think it's known. I don't remember it being mentioned in widespread info anywhere there.
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I don't think it's known. I don't remember it being mentioned in widespread info anywhere there.
It was casually mentioned before that played the dodgeball game with Laser, and the room was full of hunters. (or Reiza)
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Just took a quick peak at Yusuke's last fight in the manga… is that it??? In the anime the final fight was great, it just ends in the manga without anything cool happening.
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@Gourmet:
Here meaning the United States!
International forum so maybe you should have used United States, I knew the answer already I just like to check it(since you didn't have a location in profile), when someone something of that sorts and says here I know its an American XD.
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Just took a quick peak at Yusuke's last fight in the manga… is that it??? In the anime the final fight was great, it just ends in the manga without anything cool happening.
Togashi seemed to want the manga to end quickly. Which is why everything after the tournament in the Three Kings Saga was rushed as all hell.
While the Three Kings Saga was probably the worst, I still consider it a shame. There were good ideas put into it, and seeing the old cast from the Dark Tournament was sorta cool I guess. Even if they improbably got roughly S-ranked strong.
Besides I still think the third act of Chapter Black was worse, if only because Chapter Black was fantastic until Sensui brought out the Sacred Energy bullshit. Talk about quality whiplash.
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You know, I just realized one of the main reasons some hunters may dislike Ging other than being a deadbeat father.
He is the creator of Greed Island, which a lot of hunters were trapped in for years,lol.
Though Green Island was an extremely rare game. I don't think the general Hunter populous would have been able to obtain a cartridge let alone feel the need to pay for a game that is infamously dangerous in the Hunter world.
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Just watched episode 11.
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Hmmm York New is gonna suffer.
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I love how they show the humor in the current anime adaptation. XD
To be honest, the way they show cased Killua's killing was decent. I wonder how they would they keep it up. :S
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I was expecting the heart edit, but they changed even Jonas' backstory, skipping the incident with the cop..
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I thought they did the heart scene really well.
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That was a really clever way of censoring the heart scene yet keeping it as gruesome. Kudos to them.
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Not as good, but not bad.
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I don't quite remember how the first series handled the heart scene, but I liked how it was portrayed in this episode, it didn't look as anatomical as I would have liked it to but it was decent enough, besides if I were a parent I wouldn't want my kids watching that. So I think censoring wasn't so bad this time.
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In the original, he had the heart, but when he smashed it in in his hand, it popped like a balloon. I can't wait to go to other forums and hear about how the anime's ruined due to the scene being censored and how much better it was in the original even though it was extremely obvious it was going to have to be censored.
Edit:Agreed that they shouldn't have changed Jonas's backstory though.
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Did anyone else laugh when Killua actually gave him his heart back?
This version of Killua is so polite.
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And here I was looking forward to seeing Jones. I've watched the old anime, the way Jones was handled was brief but wellmade. Key component here is how the examiner introduced Jones to them rather than Leorio recognizing him on his own. The music could have been a little more subtle too. While I do lean to agree the censor can be acceptable, the rest of it wasnt as good as in the first movie. They didnt even include to change his voice after having his heart ripped out. Was that for censorship or? Yeah, having your heart ripped out isnt going to change the tone in your voice the slightest, especially when its seen through the censor that the heart was ripped out, a bit of acting along with it would have made it more believable.
I didnt like the woman either, her old anime counterpart left me with more of an impression.