Hunter x Hunter 124-128

Always disappointed in Netero, everytime I watch this conflict. He was too afraid. Too afraid of considering the possibility that Humans and Chimera Ants could live alongside each other. He saw the King contemplating. He saw the King wanting to talk istead of fighting. He saw the King learning, who understood that strength was meant to protect the weak. He even said himself: "Gotta finish this quick before my heart gets swayed." He knew he would have gotten swayed because the King had started to walk the right path. But he didn't accept that. Because, ultimately, he was just a human, who feared a species that could overtake the human race as the number one race in the world. So instead of talking, he turned to petty taunts and insults...just to end it in a blood bath. While his Nen was out of this world, in his heart, he was a small and scared little human. And that's how he acted. Shame on Netero. His actions were based on fear and arrogance. Nothing more. Crazy, how a human who's over 100 years old can look like a petty child infront of Meruem, who was maybe a month old. Talking about "how Meruem shouldn't underestimating how much humans can evolve"....only to blow himself up lol. Is self destruction with mass casualties what he calls "evolution"? Bitch, look at Meruem. His species were nothing but small ants probably a year ago. THAT'S evolution. More evolution than the human race had gone through in thousands of years...We Humans haven't evolved at all. Society has become complex but humans today are still humans - same they were 2000 years ago I mean...Netero knew that, right? That's why he as so afraid of the Ants and was willing to die to defeat them, even if the Ant King didn't even wwant to fight...who was Netero even trying to fool by saying that... Netero was a human over a hundred years old. And how did his "wisdom" show? Instead of accepting who was standing infront of him, a young king who hadn't been a year old - instead of accepting that there was good in that "child's" heart and respecting the path he was trying to walk, and crucially, instead of guiding him to the right path for a better future, he just resorts to violence. He had learned nothing in 100 years. He shouldn't be the one talking about "humans and their infinite potential" If anything he's proven himself wrong. Humans don't evolve. At the end of the day humans always resort back to violence and destroy everything that stands in their way with an irrational sense of "righteousness" Meruem was a living being/organism, literally meant (programmed via DNA) to rule the world. First thing he did, when he was born, was kill some dudes. Yet he was smart enough, conscientious enough and had evolved enough to a point where he'd pause like: "Hold on. It ain't that simple!" Meahwhile Netero, the human who had lived for longer than 100 years, had no choice but to make it as simple as that by forcefully turning it into a "kill or be killed" situation because that was all he was willing to understand. So sad and pathetic edit: regarding the fight, Netero neither tied with Meruem nor outsmarted him. He was getting it handed to him. He lost two limbs and used up all his Nen - and Meruem was just scratched up a little. Carrying a bomb in your heart like a maniac isn't "outsmarting" someone ...it sure as hell isn't "wisdom". What the hell... All his talk was petty and his last action was a suicide bombing. Where the hell is the wisdom in that?!

Dr. Foppo

love your reactions!

Oliver you didnt understand the arc if you really think he didnt learn anything from komugi

The games he were playing with Komugi would've have absolutely no effect on his fight with Netero. His basic approach to ALL the games he played, even those before he met Komugi, was to keep going until he could spot their rhythm and disrupt it. This is something he was doing before he even met Komugi, and it's what he did during the fight. The games with Komugi taught him nothing helpful during the fight. The fight was structured completely differently than the game, and since he had the basic strat beforehand anyways, there was nothing to take away from it that would've helped him during the fight. The King was hyper intelligent and strategical from the beginning (not that there's much strategy to "he can't hurt me, so might as well fling myself at him until I find an opening or get used to his rhythm" in the first place). The episode uses imagery from the games he played, but if you use your head, you quickly realize it made no difference. You could've just as easily used imagery from when he was playing chess before he met Komugi. The logic is the same, and the lesson is the same. It literally doesn't matter that he was more accustomed to spotting patterns because of Komugi, because at the end of the day Netero couldn't hurt him, and the King could take as long as he needed.

Scryehard

I'm glad you picked this show. I recommended it on YouTube and Discord. It's one of the best stories in any medium I've taken in. It's a very human and relatable story with compelling characters, some you haven't even met yet!

Netro is so great lol now you know why the old man hype when he was introduced lol also it wasnt aunt jemima its ant jemima

Sean Nelson

If you thought that was 🔥🔥 you have no idea what your in for next

Kevin McCain

Yeah difference is gon never actually did it and is a child having a breakdown.

Steven Fechter

So close to 131!

Michael Wilson

That part where Gon basically held komugi hostage is a throw back to when the spiders had them as hostages and on what he said to Chrollo(the leader) he straight up became what he was against at that time

I have been waiting for this reaction!