![]() Of course, the plot’s events stray from just the fights: a standout moment comes when Meruem, the invincible and godlike monster, finally develops feelings of sympathy for Komugi and humans. Their fight, as wonderfully choreographed and characterized it is, is super short and anticlimactic, ending when Netero commits suicide to drop a NUKE on Meruem…only for him to get back up like nothing happened a few chapters later. Meruem hardly uses any Nen with his fight against Netero, barely feeling pain as he dismembers the world’s strongest man over and over again. Gon rarely does anything but wait angrily. Knuckle’s APR ability, perfect for disarming an Ant as strong as Youpi, doesn’t amount to anything when he fears for the death of his comrades and cancels it. ![]() A triumphant event like Morel trapping Royal Guard Pouf is robbed simply because Pouf’s raw power counters his perfectly. While the Nen system of HxH is complex and requires a high IQ from both the reader and the characters to fully understand, many of the wild tactics from our characters here never work. Through (admittedly forced) narration, many of these fights are revealed to take place in the span of a few minutes, with our protagonists barely causing the Ants any actual damage in their respective fights. The biggest part of a shounen climax are the hours-long fights, spanning episodes and chapters with powerups, clever moves and emotional victories, but Togashi refuses to give the reader that here.
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