rewatched 2024-07-25 15:44 | critically: 9.5 enjoyment/vibe: 10 | few jp only, a lot eng/eng+jp 8 years+ since first watch? damn, still one of my top 5 anime jp: medium-hard diff is actually true. there is no way with my current level i watch chimera ant jp only, i won't fully enjoy it. first few arcs was not so bad. didn't realize: - hisoka is so weird - leorio is not useless. he is so real in election arc. wonder what will togashi write about him. - a lot of fights are actually short, netero meruem fight, gon pitou, morel pouf. youpi knuckle shoot is the longest. - komugi role is so huge and her final moment with meruem is one of the best moment in the anime - forgot a lot of things. kite reborn, royal guards and king got poisoned because bomb, meruem komugi final moment, phantom troupe arc ends in 交換 between kurapika and pakunoda exchanging chrollo and gon killua and kurapika sealed chrollo's nen, ... - gon actually didn't lose his nen in the end don't know why i was thinking that. (2024-07-26 22:48 damnit it's actually in the manga ch 344) - there are still a lot of potential for continuing the story. more so now that all of the boys are separated - the pacing is so slow compared to fmab, i rewatched this after i rewatched fmab. but it gets better, i don't know if it gets better or i'm used to it. fmab is still the pinnacle of conciseness because of this, concise, amazing story, has ended. - chimera ant arc is insanely longer relative to other arcs - gungi is komugi's life, her happiness. my first watch i didn't understand komugi, like why is she like that type shit, but now i understand. arc tier: - chimera ant | phantom troupe yorknew auction - zoldyck | greed island | heaven arena | test (well, the rest of the arc) 9.5 reason: - chimera ant best arc but can still be improved, sometimes a drag, narration too long, a lot of repeated scenes, but it paid off in the end - power balance. ~~in election arc seeing hunter single double star gets easily~~ i take my word, being hunter doesn't mean he is strong, illumi and hisoka is just stronger. but they are so strong. look at genei ryodan, feitan can summon a fucking sun. - alluka's power is too insane, there is a lot to be explained and justified in future episodes and chapters (hopefully) - pacing