HUNTER x HUNTER episode 94 reaction and commentary: Friend x And x Journey
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- The Hunter x Hunter reaction and commentary series continues with episode 94, Friend x And x Journey.
In Hunter x Hunter 94, Friend x And x Journey, things heat up between Gon and Palm. Killua is also in the episode.
Hunter x Hunter Synopsis: If she's not chasing me with a knife necklace, I don't want her.
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Wow. I've heard the island girl story before but never knew the whole picture of it. Thank you for sharing!
I know a lot of people don't like the GonxKillua ship because they find it silly, and I'm not saying I actually believe the two are meant to be a couple /love interests, but this little side story about Killua attempting to protect Gon from an abusive relationship while keeping him at a distance out of fear that he won't be able/doesn't deserve to stay with him, coupled with the amount of emotion and desperation he exhibits simultaneously trying to keep tabs on Gon and make sure he's safe from Palm, while also trying to save the date from Ramott for Gon's sake even though he disapproves, was one of my first realizations that I was gay, 4 full years before I ever came out to myself. Again, I wouldn't go as far as to say these two characters belong together or anything like that, I can clearly tell that's not the author's intent, but I still think there are interesting parallels, at least, to a tragic one sided love story.
This is an interesting point since the creator is married to the creator of Sailor Moon and some of his more niche works lean more heavily queer. I would say that knowing the author has a habit of working queer characters into things in an understated way, I’ve always seen Killua specifically as being fairly queer coded.
Similar to you, I don’t know about ships, but he definitely has the abandoned queer kid energy. And there are some manners with which Killua regards Gon that do feel more romantic in writing style (not romantic in the feelings sense necessarily) and I think that also partially lends to that feeling.
Even if he did have any romantic feelings toward Gon, I don’t think Gon would reciprocate and honestly I feel like that would end up being a rather unhealthy relationship for him, at least as of how they are now.
"this is concerning because it is Nen."
well, I'd be even more concerned if it wasn't, lol.
oh wow you shared the story! thank you for that, I wasn't necessarily expecting it. you are a fascinating person and have led a fascinating life, Goodwin. fascinating and, to me, wonderful. Killua's moment in this episode is so gratifying and well-earned. you're totally right, it's the love in Killua's heart that gives him strength. Gon is the beloved, but the love comes from Killua. it could have been directed at another 'first friend' to the same effect. but because the extraordinary circumstances of their childhoods and their similar ages, Gon is the one he met at the right time and the right place.
I don't know how to explain it well but your life perspective/advice is so great. So many people try to give advice but just say the things they think people need to hear but isn't really helpful because they're not coming from a place of actual understanding or experience. What I love about you is that you speak on what you have good authority to speak on, can back it up by experience, and explore all facets of a topic, and always remain open minded to the way different people will experience things.
You never try to make something seem cut and dry because it never is but instead show how to look at stuff from different angles.
Thank you, I really appreciate that!
You have to imagine the willpower it takes to overcome the needle AND the psychological conditioning at the same time. It's not that it was just the needle, it's that it was on top of that.
And now that the needle is gone when he was able to overcome both, and only the psychological conditioning remains... It's kinda like weighted training for your emotional strength.
And yes, Killua is truly a source of light. Gon is innocent, but I think someone like Killua, who has seen the worst, but choosing to be good is a higher form of good than innocence.
Yeah AND after a series of defeats AND during a moment of extreme danger
Goodwin: * 10 minutes philosophical and psychological speech about how Killua's battling his inner demons and how is his love for Gon that'll make him overcome his fears *
Killua: * Rips out a pin needle his brother planted in his brain * "phew, now I'm good"
Haha I think it can be both. The pin is just symbolic. After all, those sorts of demons are often the direct result of lessons we take away and internalize from upbringing, some of them deliberately planted by our caretakers.
The magic needle is the kind of extremely literal metaphor that lazy TV writers abuse these days, but it's a shortcut that needs to be earned as a payoff for good character writing, which is why it works here.
Given that the annual Hunter exam has happened once more in this anime, Gon should be 13 by this time, not 12.
Yesss watching this in the background at work thanks :D
It was in this episode that I really began to feel like Killua, to oversimplify it a bit, loves Gon more than Gon loves him in return.
We have seen Gon make some questionable decisions up until this point that pushed me to begin to view him as very selfish character in a way that’s very well written. And not necessarily selfish in that he just is at his core a selfish person, but rather (to steal someone else’s explanation) he is just very authentically a child with a moral barometer that isn’t fully matured having to make a lot of big decisions and surviving multiple life changing and nearly life ending events. Going through that, he acts as a child with Gon’s disposition would be expected to. Thoughtless, selfish, and a confidence that feel like an ever changing balance of misplaced and earned. A lot of his strength that bolsters that confidence has been gained without the tempering and wisdom of an adult fighter who’s trained for years. I feel like the writing portrays these aspects of him hyper realistically and sometimes painfully.
With Killua, he was thrown right into a vat of trauma to cook the moment he was born with no care or regard for how it may destroy him. His cunning and skill, to contrast Gon’s, is a mix of finely tempered skill and almost too much wisdom. The subtle ways in which you can see his PTSD manifest throughout the show, especially as he starts to heal, often get overshadowed by his skill. Sometimes his training can feel more like coping mechanisms than just a skill. He has leaned so heavily into every aspect of survival, trying to claw his way into a life he might actually get a chance to enjoy.
It was really in these last few episodes that I started to recognize them not just as characters, but as their own stories and as parts of a whole in a greater story.
I will also say this really made me reflect on his friendship with Gon and the kind of codependency he has developed with him. Gon has this way of just overcoming things with sheer force of will without seeming to be burdened with the painful weight of it. And I think that is a big part of what Killua sees in Gon. A want for himself to embrace his own best qualities without having to feel the weight of his past, without having to overthink every movement, without having to his family in his ear repeating everything they’ve drilled into him again and again. He just wants to simply be, and he admires the way that Gon can simply be. The way that Gon wasn’t overtaken by his thoughts but chose positivity a few episodes ago when he declared Kite was alive, and helped pull Killua out from where he was drowning in his own mind.
Killua’s view of Gon feels like admiration, like a bittersweet wish, and I think that’s also why he’s so protective of it. He loves Gon sure, but after everything he’s survived the way in which Gon exists just feel precious to him. And I think where he’s at right now in his growth, to see that snuffed out would just break that hopefulness in him that he almost attaches to Gon for safe keeping.
Killua, in nearly every way, has gone above and beyond for Gon again and again and again. By contrast, Gon’s reciprocation of their friendship at times feels lacking in some key way that the writing capture well but is difficult to put into words.
Through rewatches and thinking back on it more and more, I think that aspect comes out clearest in moments like the volleyball game, in his fight with the bomber when he strayed from the plan for his own sense of pride he knew very well that losing would have cost multiple lives, in the way the other characters seem to fuss a bit over Gon and whether or not he’s hurt but when he rescues Killua from his own family little if any such care is shown to him but rather a sense of “okay I got what I wanted, we can go now.”
To be clear, not having the same depths of feeling or expressing it the same way is not wrong, nor is simply wanting different things. But it’s a stark contrast compared to how we see Killua as he continues to grow.
Which is the final point that I begin to really hone in on around this time. Gon continues to grow in a sense, but his trajectory for all that he develops does not feel hopeful or as “upward/forward progress” in the same way Killua’s does in a very key spiritual sense. In those way it feels like they’re on somewhat opposite paths. Or maybe discordant paths would be more apt. There’s this spiritual incongruence that feels like it continues to grow as they do. In many ways, that incongruence makes them compatible but in many other key ways feels like it actually makes them incompatible. For example, this being one of the first times I started to worry that Gon may get to a point where he’s holding Killua back from his own path. Can Killua get to the future he’s so clearly reaching for while he remains this attached to Gon? And would it hurt more to see that friendship we’ve cherished suffer so that Killua can flourish or to see Killua sacrifice some his potential so that we can hold onto a friendship we’ve cherished?
This was the episode that I realized this show feels like it has no true main character. Or rather, the world itself is the main character and we are just bearing witness to some of the many varied stories that take place within it and the lessons they hope to teach us.
P.S. ✌️ sup, I wrote this novel half asleep bc I woke up and saw this got posted and my brain had to vomit it out RIGHT THIS SECOND on my phone like a dumbass. So please forgive any typos or any areas I might have overindulged in or been a bit more word salad about. I hope these ramblings made sense.
This is one of my favorite shows and I apologize for letting my autism loose untamed in the comments. ;-;
Have a good night/day/morning everyone!
Very nicely said.
It's interesting coming back to this episode from where I am now in the show (116 as of writing) where a lot of this has become clearer or been forced to a head.
I don't think it's possible to really exhaust the topic of Gon and Killua. But a few things that come to mind:
Yeah Gon is a child, one who has had to cope with not really having much guidance accept for a mental image of this mystical, almost godlike figure that abandoned him. In a way, Gon failing at anything or not being in control of his own outcome is a reckoning with his abandonment and uselessness.
This is largely a gift and has really beautiful, admirable, ENVIABLE things to it. The unbeatable spirit, the "freedom" he seems to have. But the reality is that it's not totally real, it's probably something built up in self defense against something really brutal and painful. Killua will not be able to see that until he catches up somewhat, then he will step inside of that world and be like... Oh... It's not as glorious in here as I thought.
Killua can't see it but, granted the fact that he has a good self radar and always a north star, the relative complexity and challenge of his upbringing, as well as his very early realization that he wanted to escape it, make him probably further along, even though he looks less sure
Such a great episode for my boi killua 😤
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Kind of confused, not sure if you realize Killua pulled a physical Nen needle out of his skull. It wasn't symbolic for him as much as us.
No he realized that it was a nen needle just the take away for us is the more symbolic battle it represents
Personally I think it works the same with or without the needle. It just gives a physical representation to a real, non physical thing
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Ahh okay! Sounds good.
The sweater goes hard
0:39 I agree 100%, which is why I consider the whole "needle in the brain" thing a questionable narrative choice, Killua's emotions were enough for me, sometimes more is less...
nice
I feel the killua scene adds a bit of credit to Morels (big pipe guy) attitude about nen. While it may have seen tough when he talked down to killua when he honestly did make the right decision to hit gon and hightail it out of NGL here we have the flipped situation where killua wants to run from a character that it turns out he can infact beat.
It is a general show of power in this episode but i believe it also speaks to nen about how important your mental state is and how much a mental block can affect you. I’ve experienced it personally in my life as well the difference in performance after a mental block lifts and it is unbelievable to witness.
I believe Mental blocks and mental baggage should not be underestimated for him much they impact our ability and motivation.
That scene is so cool for how important it was and how much it keeps coming up in discussion. I think part of the complexity is that Morel is right and wrong at the same time. The message is correct for Killua, fundamentally, if applied to his SPIRIT. It also was perhaps not the time and was done in ignorance of how powerful the ants actually are
@@AGoodwinTV Very true. in contrast you also had netero as part of the trio who seemed to pick up on their potential ignorance. Netero to me seems to be very wise and well....quite experienced as we later learn and it really shows in the higher up hunter trio entering the NGL. Netero while initially confident and focused on the mission seems to have no issue in admitting he is weaker than Pito/ the king at first glance but simply forms the game plan around that (picking off the lower level ants and thinning out the crowd).
He seems to embody Morel's philosphy in spirit as we see one of the most powerful nen users not falter in front of a challenge but instead change tactics and leverage his strength as only he can. He doesn't fight head on, and he does not run away.
You should react to DBZ Abridged if you haven't already seen it, it's hilarious.
eeeh idk some stuff came out about the creators of it being complacent when their buddy was doing something strange I heard, so maybe not.
@@ellie7252 Oh crap, I didn't know. That's really unfortunate if that's the case 😦
Cmonnn your a smart guy you must of known on some level right about what your ex did for work before she told you right?
I did have an inkling but did my very best to avoid it. It also was not pressing at first cause she was on a long break do to the difficulties of Covid
Don't underestimate people's ability to believe what they want when it comes to cute girls/guys. There are intelligent adults who send money to imaginary internet fiancees that just randomly started texting them one day, and will tell you with 100% certainly that they are absolutely not being scammed.
@@trickster721 For sure. It was one of many moments of karmic reckoning for "it could never happen to me."
I was talking, half joking but also for real, to a friend the other day about how if you think XYZ doesn't apply to you in a romantic situation, you might just not be at a certain level of attraction with someone.
@@AGoodwinTV Yea your right about that. I always said split the bill until they are your gf but when you really into them from the start you do whatever it takes to impress them so i was paying for everything and was happy about it. The swtichup was crazy ahaha
Just got done watching your last video and this one pops up lol 🙌🏽🤌🏽
I’m so happy I found your channel again! I used to watch your AOT reactions. Although I really can’t watch sub, HxH is one of my favorite anime and I’m happy to see you reacting to it. Your reactions have a lot of depth to them, which I genuinely appreciate!
Furthermore, you do not know it, but your reactions helped me get through a very difficult time a few years back. My mom had just passed away and I was a disaster. I was essentially an insomniac who was dealing with grief and no direction on what to do or the future. Your reactions gave me a sort of pseudo-company during a tremendously lonely time.
Wow I can't really express in a comment how much that means to me. Thank you