The thing that most struck me most about this masterpiece is how the entire Chimera Ant arc felt like one long work of literature, like a 19th century baroque novel or a Shakespearean tragedy. It's rife with symbolism, irony, themes, and felt appropriately mature and tonally rich. Some of the passages spoken by the narrator were so beautiful and memorable (e.g. the humans in the sky line), and the narration served to create the feeling that I was reading some intricate tapestry of prose. I loved how tragic and anticlimactic the death of Meruem was, because it was richly meaningful in tandem with the themes presented by the arc; and it's because of this that I speak of him in the same way I do as Macbeth, or Oedipus, or John Milton's Lucifer. Some scenes, like the match-cut of the boots stomping on the insects between the Rose bomb used on human cities spoke to me on a visceral level, just as Classic Lit does.
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hiatus x hiatus lmao
the thing that stuck out the most to me was the hiatus
I hope it comes back this summer.
Yeah I don't really care but on another note, is it just me or is transmutation the shittiest nen type?
>enhancers have ooga booga big dick strength/speed/stamina
>emitters are the only nen users capable of truly efficient ranged fighting and can pack some serious firepower
>manipulators have to fulfill their win condition and then the fight is simply over
>conjurers can create an object with some broken special abilities that don't even need to be realistic
>specialists go from situational to complete bullshit
It seems like transmutation kind of got shafted. Only bungee gum is good and that's only because Hisoka is Togashi's pet.
What can transmutation do that you can't do better with other types?
Giving properties to aura -> conjuration does it better, you can just create the real thing AND actually separate it from your body as well
Ranged fighting -> emission is much better since the aura can be detached and sent elsewhere
You usually read that transmutation is the "most versatile" type but how is that true? The most versatile is either enhancement by virtue of giving you an all-round stat boost, or emission because it's more flexible overall. Manipulation and conjuration are the least versatile but also the most potentially broken.
Am I retarded or did Togashi not think this through?
This shit again.
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this but unironically.
Does nobody have an opinion on this?
To expand a bit there's also the body and object modification aspect as well but isn't that more of a manipulator thing than a transmuter thing? Bisky apparently uses transmutation for making her body look different but that doesn't make much sense when you think about it. Transmutation is about changing the properties of aura, not of matter (otherwise what Illumi used to transform into Gitarrackur during the exam would be a transmuter ability)
Try reading a book for once.
Biscuit doesn't know why her body turned youthful. Her masseur however turns aura into various lotions for training purposes as well as spa treatments via transmutation.
Also, Morel's entire thing is producing smoke-like aura and manipulating it so the versatility of transmutation is still seen in how other people use it as well. Same for Feitan whose Rising Sun converts Aura into a blazing sun that would kill anyone present. There are just fewer transmuters or abilities that utilize transmutation in the series. However, any time someone shapes their aura to look like anything that's also transmutation as well but just the more basic aspect of it.