Hunter x Hunter Chapter 403 Discussion

wildhood said:
As nice as it is to see Kurapika get screentime, I hope we see more of Hisoka soon, and what he's up to. And more Phantom Troupe stuff.

Kampos said:

what's worse is that at least one chapter will be wasted on Gon 😭

wildhood said:
As nice as it is to see Kurapika get screentime, I hope we see more of Hisoka soon, and what he's up to. And more Phantom Troupe stuff.

Lolos1453 said:

Gon couldn't be more removed from this arc why would he show up

ReMightyRon said:
I am convinced that Halkenburg is the son of Beyond and Unma, the first queen of Kakin, biological mother of Benjamin and Halkenburg and "mother" of "Tserriednich", has been working with him since Nasubi inherited the throne of Kakin, but why? In chapter 402, it is revealed by the Kaiser that the justice department discovered that Unma made a kind of deal with Queen Duazul, the second queen of Kakin, to protect Halkenburg from assassination attempts by her older brothers. However, why did she only do this with Halkenburg, but not with Tserriednich? And why does she have this favoritism with the ninth prince and not with Benjamin, the first prince of Kakin?

- First of all, Tserriednich is not her son, but Duazul's, and probably the deal she made with Duazul resulted in the exchange of the order of succession with Tserriednich, so originally the unpronounceable is the ninth while Halkenburg is the fourth!

- Secondly, it wouldn't make sense for the 1st queen not to favor Benjamin, he is the GENERAL of Kakin's army, instead of Halkenburg, Halk has many supporters in the kingdom, but nothing exceptional compared to the other older princes.

In this perspective, Benjamin has more influence and strength than his biological brother, unless... BEYOND is helping him because HE IS HIS SON. This information gives more legitimacy to this theory:

* In the initial chapters of this arc it is said that Beyond helped Nasubi win the war of succession, so, within Kakin, Beyond is the second with the most influence, only behind Nasubi himself.

* According to Longhi's assumption, Beyond infiltrated his children with curse marks to help those he is supporting.

* Each curse is directed at a prince, we can deduce this from this speech by Longhi "Beyond didn't know how many princes he would have in the succession, so with each birth of a prince he made several children with these marks".

* The rental families are people who share the same political views as Beyond and most of them are high-ranking members of the Kakin kingdom.

* For Beyond to recruit so many people without Nasubi noticing his plan, he would have to have someone with a lot of influence to help him (that's where Unma comes in, helping to recruit all these people).

* Even though Halkenburg doesn't have any exceptional background (his history is only being the 2nd place in the archery world championship and having a degree in physics from the most prestigious university in the world of HxH), for some reason, he has many supporters in the army and justice branch of the Kakin kingdom (I suspect that, don't I? lol). For those who don't know, the most powerful princes all have an external force supporting them: Benjamin (Kakin royal army), Tserriednich (Heil-Ly Mafia), Luzurus (Cha-R Mafia) and Zhang Lei (Xi-Yu Mafia).

* In the chapter. 350, Halkenburg posted on Facebook that Tserriednich is the only one of his brothers who sympathizes with him (perhaps Tserriednich knows about the dirty dealings that Duazul and Unma did because they have connections with the Mafia. Morena must know about this too and there is a high chance that all her hatred for Tse and Kakin is because even though she is Nasubi's biological daughter she was excluded from the royal court while Tse, a child of the Heil-Ly family, is there in the royal dispute).

Something that reinforces this was in this chapter,403.On the page where Unma appears, behind her there is a room where there is a maid in front of a crib with a mobile, as if there was a baby there. So why the hell is there a baby in Unma's room? Because it is Beyond's son who the curse is aimed at killing Prince Wobble! The timing matches perfectly with Wobble's birth, it can't be a coincidence. So, what would be the justification for Unma having a baby in her office other than the reason she is working with Beyond? The baby is not hers,otherwise he would have to be in the succession war too (or maybe this is actually Benjamin's secret that Kaiser also mentioned, this child could be Benjamin's son).And this leads to another point: who Beyond asked to see in chapter 401 could have been Unma and it must have a lot to do with this child!

xZabuzax said:

@Rifle Easy there buddy, I won't go as far as to call it "peak fiction writing" because it's not, but I do respect your opinion about it.

Whenever I feel like reading a wall of text I will simply look elsewhere, I'm reading a manga here not a VN, and this shitty arc feels like I'm reading a VN and I'm not the only one complaining, I didn't sign for any of this crap in HxH, this arc is way too boring and I don't care about 95% of those random NPCs either since all of them suck so reading this crap with random boring NPC isn't my cup of tea.

But I'm glad you are enjoying it.

xZabuzax said:

@Rifle I didn't read the Chimera Ant Arc in the manga, but I did watch the anime and it was ok, I'm not an HxH fan or anything, it's just a 7/10 anime IMHO but at least I did have some fun with the anime somewhat, I've watched the Classic HxH and the New HxH so I'm mostly anime only in this franchise, I only started reading the manga from this arc and dear god, it's a pain, I don't know if the Chimera Ant Arc in the manga is as bad as this one with all that goddamn text but if it is, then chances are I won't enjoy it much either, and the art is kinda ugly too so it makes it even harder to read.

But that's not my only complaint about this arc anyway, my other complaint is that this arc doesn't seem to have any main characters in it, they are just random NPCs, these lame ass random NPCs have way more screentime than Kurapika too which is crazy, at least the Chimera Ant Arc had main characters in it and more interesting characters too, this arc doesn't have it, at least not for me.

I can't even root for anyone here because I don't care about any of those lame-ass NPCs, why are those shitty NPCs getting so much screen time? the Chimera Ant Arc was nothing like this, at least not in the anime, but I say enough is enough, just bring Hisoka back or something to make this shitty arc a tiny bit more interesting again.