![]() ![]() Mastering chess, checkers, and shogi in mere days, he begins to play the fictional game gungi against a small, blind girl. While Gon, Killua, and the other hunters prepare to exterminate Meruem, the ant king spends his time studying a variety of human games. Forcing the Hunter association (an organization made up of individuals with extraordinary abilities, who are exempt from most laws and limitations) to send in a team to deal with the ever growing threat the ants pose to humanity. Meruem takes his three royal guards and takes over the neighbouring nation of East Gorteau. Following the birth of the ant king, named Meruem, the ant queen dies, and the soldier ants go into disarray. Where this arc truly begins to shine is around the 100 tp 15 episode mark. Resulting in three-fourths of the arc’s episodes being mediocre, even at their best moments. While it is evident that deeper themes are being developed, the writer never stops to take his own story as seriously as he should. Apart from the occasional chuckle at the expense of a goofy looking ant or its equally as laughable powers. Finding myself bored out of my mind over the course of another 20 episodes. As we are shown both the benefits and downsides to the individuality we as humans exhibit.Īfter retreating from NGL, the heroes begin their training and not much of interest occurs. Giving us the first glimpse of the complexities the arc wishes to convey in its theme. Traditionally a species with a hive mind with no sense of individuality, the ants began to experience a paradigm shift as their new human features take hold. The only part of the arc that manages to stand out this early on is the interactions between the main chimera ants. The Ant Queen is merely a giant ant, with no other animal’s traits.įor about twenty episodes the arc mainly consists of the characters struggling to fight back against the ever growing ants, as they grow feeding on more humans. You can make them raid human villages all you want. Silly, short octopus monsters are not terrifying. While the writer wants to set a dark and bleak tone to start of this arc, it is hard to take seriously when ants emerge from their pods fully clothed and with very cartoonish designs. With the ants resembling lions, bulls, and even mixtures of whole assortments of beasts. The murderous creatures begin as humanoid insects, but quickly evolve the traits of different animals. This is where the arc’s first major flaw caught my attention, the design and attitudes of the chimera ants themselves. The ant queen is capable of digesting other species and passing these traits along to her offspring, and after eating two human children her drones can satisfy her hunger with nothing but. The odd, insect body part leads them to the isolationist nation of NGL, where the citizens are under attack from creatures known as chimera ants. Tagging along with Kite’s current mission to look into the mystery of a strangely large ant mandible. ![]() ![]() Opening with the heroes of the story, Gon and Killua, running into Kite, an old acquaintance from Gon’s childhood. The arc in question begins at episode 76 and carries on, at a snail’s pace, to episode 135. Even still, it is not as often that a work so close to thematic perfection is pulled down into the depths idiocy by the writer’s own negligible decisions. HUNTER X HUNTER CHIMERA ANT ARC SERIESIt is not often that a work of fiction, so adequately and intelligently, analyzes the complexities of human nature, as the Chimera Ant arc of the anime series Hunter x Hunter (2011). ![]() One claiming man is good, while the other shakes its head in fervent disapproval. Altruism and egoism are two theories that have developed into an antagonistic relationship. What is humanity’s true nature? Philosophers, like Thomas Hobbes or Joseph Butler, have discussed this topic since the dawn of enlightened thought. ![]()
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