Togashi Just Dropped a NEN BOMBSHELL!
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Really fun video, just an information :
This isn't a retcon or a modification of the previous nen system
Veracious Cake (the guy that NewWorldReview took the translation from) has confirmed that the efficiency doesn't change
Killua has still 100% transmutation and 80% enhancement
The chart just means that killua has a easier time learning Enhancement techniques rather than Conjuration
Togashi really retconned the nen system, and its a bad thing of course.
Massive nerd moment but katanas are far from the most effective sword, theyre even heavier than most swords. Idc how much of a nerd im being this is my biggest pet peeve and you mentioned it in the video
Is this another scam buddy boyo?
This was already known and abvious. You don't have only 6 type of nen users, each character is unique and has different affinity levels.
Netero mastering two of his worst affinities might be the rawest thing ever. Netero was just that guy
It means he had a lot of aura too since he is not efficient in those two affinities.
Also character fitting of him. What a beast !
Netero had that dawg in him
Netero is my idol
That's why he lost
The fact that Togashi chose to keep Ging and Paristons affinity secret on this diagram makes me even more excited for when we find out in the manga
Uhm, this VIdeo here gets a Part 2, right? Meruems Ability and how it can function and Togashi
changing the Nen-Type of Youpi, Zeno, Silva, Ikalgo and Knov into the Direct Opposite?
...And why is Liam suddenly saying as if Fact that the emitted Statue is conjured,
redconning even himself?
I mean, if we base our theories in Hisoka's personality test, I guess Pariston is probably a transmuter... No idea about Going tho.
I've been saying this for a long time, the Ging probably dug out the complete diagram or can no longer be mapped to it. Either he is completely in the middle or the diagram is wrong and Nen works differently or he has found a new further form which stands above Nen and Nen is only a part of it.
We will get the answers in 10 to 20 years on the dark continent :D
@@ChronosLawliet123 im willing to bet that since you can have "dual" affinities, that pariston would be the ultra rare case of being able to dip into ALL affinities and more so than most pure affinities. And i think ging has something similar
Ging is VERY interesting. I always just assumed Specialist, and never really thought it could be anything else.d
Nen is still, hands down, the best power system in all fantasy literature I've seen yet. Props to Togashi for the genius of it, along with his storytelling.
In all of literature, you mean?
Curse techniques>>>>
Jutsu’s>>>>
Devil fruits>>>>
@@realtruth1448 nen>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
@@realtruth1448 jjk has a confusing power system, jutsu are basic and inconsistent after a certain point in the story, one piece sucks and has horrible art
@@realtruth1448
4. devil fruits is the worst
3. Jutsu > basic
2. Curse > it's power uniqueness and with consequences.
1. nen > clear rules yet diverse.
I don't think the dual affinity thing is actually new. Biscuit actually sort of referenced it during Greed Island. There was a moment where she guessed Gon leaned slightly towards Emitter rather than being pure Enhancer when Gon found Paper easier to do then he was able to do Scissors. This is just the first time we've seen it for multiple characters.
EDIT: Thank you Ryuksgelus for the correction that it was Emitter, not Transformation. For reference, Chapter 148.
Yeah, and even way before that, this has been mentioned/talked about for a few times already. For example, during the review of Castor vs Hisoka fight. They talked about how Castor was using his Nen poorly because the doppelganger technique he used was ill suited for his Enhancer affinity. Another example is Kurapika's teacher also talked about Nen mastery and it's not uncommon for people to gain mastery on multiple type as they develop their Nen and/or technique.
Emitter. It was when he was practicing throwing a small Ten ball. We even got a panel at her imagining where she'd put Gon's lean.
@@Ryuksgelus Ahh, yep, double checked. It was Emitter. Chapter 148. Editing.
I actually think it’s new cause before it was more ambiguous. I think he was probably testing out ideas but didn’t go all the way with it until now
@@dreamon5409 I think that works against what they were just saying.
First part is Castor using his nen “poorly”, so it’s considered Castor’s use is actually bad b/c it’s against his affinity
Cause what Kurapika was saying was despite their affinity they were able to get better. Whilst this update to the system goes something more like they do have an affinity towards x alongside their other affinity
Komugi as a pure enhancer is perfect because it sets up what I always hoped for, that Ging was a pure enhancer except that he instead enhanced his brain function, making him a physical genius when it comes to copying abilities and incredibly adept nen control; but also lets him analyze, plan and execute attacks quickly. I want to see him as the Komugi of nen-battles.
I agree that this is actually the most likely explanation for Ging. It could be something else and whatever it is Togashi will do something really cool, but personally this would be the coolest possibility and right now I think it makes the most sense
@@MalkuthSephira Now we just have to wait until Togashi surpasses and blows away your expectations with something completely different yet even cooler. It's great that there's an author who can just keep doing this to/for the fans.
Then Ging will be unbeatable in any battle.
@@michaeledano8067 Hardly, he just needs to be forced into an unwinnable exchange or matched up with someone with a similar ability. Much like a precog this ability would be exceedingly powerful IF you didn't know about it before hand but becomes much more manageable if you get to plan for it before hand.
That's super hype, however there's something I can't shake off about this idea though.
It feels that everyone would develop abilities like that if it was just 'that easy'.
It's a problem I have with the "Hisoka post-mortem power-up" hypothesis as well, it feels as if every top nen user would just _post-mortem themselves_ all the way to power-ups.
That's a crazy twist. That would mean a guy like Razor could possibly be an Emitter-Enhancer.
No he’s stated to be pure enhancer
No he’s stated to be pure enhancer
@@dendo20p sorry i meant pure emitter🤦🏻
Nah not this guy
doesnt he also conjure the clown clones?
The fact that the man Togashi made a whole card game just for one arc should tell you everything about this mad lad and the most isekai non isekai arc that this is is awesome from the dope training with Bisky to the most badass dodgeball game so bests sports anime as well lmao
Wait card game? I don't remember, do u mean greed island? If so that makes sense, but I was always more curious if gungi actually had rules or something so u can play.
it fr had the potential to be a standalone anime ngl 😂
@@halinaqi2194 gungi felt like an evolved form of chest with some similar rules
@@halinaqi2194 gungi is an imaginary game only but it seems similar to chess and if i remember correctly you can stack pieces on top of another in gungi
WAIT GUNGI IS NOT A REAL GAME??
Togashi is really something else. Normally changes to a power system leave a bad taste in the mouth wether it is because it is inconsistent to previous facts or changes the feel of the story too much. And that is even in the cases where it is understandable because the story needed some additional depth to explore.
This is both consistent with previous facts, doesn’t change the feeling of the story, adds a world of depth both to events in the past and in the future… and the story didn’t even need it! The Nen system was deep enough as it was!
Togashi is really something else.
This guy really is that kid at school that never bothered studying but still nailed it.
I gotta say: Togashi is really something else. We're living in the best timeline.
I think is because this fells more like a refinement rather than a change, you have one natural affinity, but there always been room to dip and lean in adjacent directions, from there to say that your affinity leans a bit on either, kind of makes sense, you can lean very little like 2%, to a full 50%, really think the most common would be to have characters lean to either adjacent one by a 10-20%, with 100% pure and splits being equally rare cases
so you still have all the previous simplified system working, you can check main affinity with the water test, that gives you a initial guidance, but then you have more granularity within the system
@@night2501 oh, for sure, but I think that even adjustments and refinements can have the effect I described. For example One piece with Haki. It is for the most part self consistent and clearly some form of it was always intended to be introduced at one point, but some of the refinements Oda has introduced were handled better than others. Or so I feel anyway.
I feel like it's not so far out the way that it comes off contrived. It is sensible in a way when you think about it since the closest to your natural affinity is close enough to still get a serviceable amount of that other affinity. This is interesting tho
Netero being a pure Enhancer and his Hatsu being a creation of his weakest affinities is 100% spot-on for his character. Remember how, during the Election arc, it's stated that Netero intentionally makes things more difficult for himself, the example being Netero's choice of Pariston as his right hand man. There is no way that Netero would ever play to his strengths when it comes to Nen. That would be too simple and easy for him.
Concerning Meruem and emission, think about how his aura manifests itself. Even unconsciously, those who encounter him can all but drop dead on the spot. Also how dare rip on Emitters! Zeno and Silva kick ass. At 11:23 by the way, you call them Transmuters instead of Emitters.
considering Netero was so OP with an ability that used the two Nen Categories furthest from his natural affinity, how strong would a purely enhancer Technique from Netero actually be?
The 100-type was so fast and powerful it was able to blitz the King and damage him (albeit not that much) which is something we suspect no other human probably could have done. The only reason the king was able to win was because of his superior durability and intellect which far surpasses any human. It makes me wonder what a pure enhancer attack from Netero could have done. Of course he probably still loses to the King eventually, but I suspect he would have done much more damage.
That being said, it’s crazy how Netero was so much better than every other human that he didn’t even need an attack from his own nen category to be considered the most powerful 🤣🤣🤣 just goat tings
Bisky actually hints at the idea of Dual-Affinities when she evaluates Gon's first attempt at "Paper" during Chapter 148
YES!
What did she say exactly? Can't recall
@@trollofjomleaf skating like it was gonna bust a nut but stayed still like a shit mark on a toilet
@@trollofjom it’s something along the lines of “holy shit gon you’re so big your dual affinities dangle like a horse”
@@hupphupp8483 that is exactly what she said word for word lmfao
This dual nen type was already a thing, he quickly explained it in Greed Island, with Gon leaning more to one side than the other
Exactly. This was while she was training Gon at emission nen. She placed him between Emission and Enhancement, but much closer to the latter.
Chapter 148
Yeah, I remember this too.
You're right ! we could see then that Gon was trash at emission, but ok at transmutation
No no that wasn't it....gon was a full enchancer but bisky was teaching him emission and transmutation to make him better rounded. U can master adjacent categories only upto 80%, but uf naturaul affinity is upto 100%. Now idk if with these new dual affinities u can get both ur affinities to 100% or what
From looking at different translations of this diagram it seems that the situation isn't a case of having two nen types, but rather that users find one of their neighbouring types more intuitive to learn than the other
Annoyingly, after looking it up, this 'other translation' is VeraciousCake's own tl;dr on said Reddit post so idk what to believe anymore
that seems like the more accurate explanation than having two types. Since that would more or less imply that you would have two types at 100% and a further reach on the nen ring, when in reality it's just leaning towards one neighboring type over the other.
Also interesting how a lot of these ratios seem to fit in with the usage of their users even though this wasn't something they knew. Seems like the subconscious plays a big part in nen, even more than we thought.
where are you finding this diagram??
@@pluviarium I find this quite logical as it would he like styles in sports, e.g. in mma you can have 2 guys with near identical physical attributes and have similar training backgrounds but one will be much more of a grappler and the other more of a striker. Personality and comfort in using techniques plays a lot in to what people tend to specialise in
Yeah, this is probably the best translation
Considering how closely tied to personality and way of thinking Nen is, it does make perfect sense that people may end up changing affinities over time but not easily or quickly, much like it's not too often people change personalities and certainly not overnight
Bri, wing straight up said to Gon and Killua that nen affinity can change later un life, rarely though
One's personality can easily be altered via traumas i would argue. or Even particuliar good events, like getting your first girlfriend or something
This Memo seems extremly Redconny and Odd. Im genuinly surprised Pouf, who we saw a thousand manipulation-type Hatsu from, isnt a Transmuter, as that Reveal would totally fit in.
@@nenmaster5218 Thing is from what i read the image comes from togashi's notes from a while ago. And stuff like affinities changing was introduced as early as greed island in the manga
@@sebastiansandoval4861 Liam speculated lots of stuff here, some even made no sense like him now saying as if its a fact 'Yes, Netero Conjures his Statue'.
He should have also mentioned that both Zeno and Silva are emitters and not transmuters. Honestly, the strongest characters now seems to be emitters.
Are they? I read somewhere that all white haired zoldycks are natural transmitters and all black haired kids are manipulators
@@wesleypoep4328 It was just a theory where the black hair ones were manipulators like Illumi, Milluki, and Kalluto, and white hair ones were transmutators like Silva, Zeno, and Killua. However, the theory was proven wrong by the chart sheet where it was shown that both Zeno and Silva are emitters.
I really liked that theory. Oh well.
@@faruquekhan3353
Well the illumi, milluki and kalluto part was accurate
@@JettSterling22 True, honestly in the current generation there are too many manipulators, and Killua is the only transmuter in the family that we know of and Alluka is a specialist. I wonder if Zigg Zoldyk is a transmuter. Man, I miss Killua in the story.
The fact that Abengane is ultimate makes me wonder if he could have exorcised Gon's curse if they knew where he was. It also makes sense that he is that high considering he can exorcise Kurapika's ability. Togashi might be planning to use him for something important, or just have in his back pocket.
If he could remove gons curse the cost would be crazy for him.
The Monster created would have been Meruem level and probably uncontrollable.
isn't Abengane dead?
I wonder if a requirement for being a nen exorcist is mastering your category to the ultimate level? That would make sense given how few of them there seem to be.
I thought the nen exorcist guy would end up joining the phantom troupe. They probably compensated him extremely for healing Chrollo.
or they killed him 😭😭😭
Yeaah they prob killed him lol
@@ayerazi probably
Or Chrollo take his ability I think it's necessary
they compensated him with his life🤣
This new twist is certainly gonna be a game changer for a lot characters and future events
it doesn't change its like that even before
Doesn’t seem much like a change, kinda the same as before
@@jbgplayz2891 It doesn't change the lore, but it means that Togashi now has more freedom when it comes to making abilities, especially when it comes to manipulators and conjurers abilities, since he can make characters "10% specialist" to explain powers that shouldn't work without giving them the insane versitality of specialists
I think this enhancer - transmuted should’ve been for Hisoka. the way he uses cards to slice throats is sick. Killua on the other hand seems like a transmuter genius the way he’s able to mimic electricity.
It doesn't change anything. All this new info relates too is the learning rate of each character. Every character still has the same limitations as before. Killua's Enhancement and Conjuration still have the same max potential and limitations. The only difference is that Killua can more easily reach that potential with Enhancement. That influences how powerful he is at any given point in his life but means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Killua is so talented he'll be like Netero and Ging before he's even 30 with his potential in every category having reached their full potential with a million different abilities.
That ultimate conjuration guy makes a lot of sense, he conjured something that undid angry scarlet boy's nen curse thing on Satan
True i think he missed that lol
Best comment of the day and
I absolutely agree that this is ultimate conjurors stuff.
Angry scarlet boy haha
The Komugi reveal highlights an important feature of Nen:
Your abilities are partially limited by your imagination within your category
I think Ging enhanced his mind and his entire being - instead of creating an attacking ability.
it makes sense that Killua was half enhancer. He has always shown to use enhancing abilities before nen was introduced. Like increasing his nail length and sharpness and the strength of that hand.
That's an assassin technique
maybe enhancing his blood to avoid poisoning
Technically, he could do that before he learned nen, so it may not be a nen ability. But it very well could be a nen ability, and honestly, if it is, that fills in a plot hole that has bugged me for some time.
@@tengoodquestions killua was immune to poison before he even learnt nen so this point doesn't even make sense
@@jacobc.4134 I mean there are multiple examples of people using Nen w/o knowing it, seems likely to me that the assassination techniques are Nen-based but they don't present it as such because Killua etc. wouldn't be ready
I really like how unsurprisng this was for me. When you started to explain it I was like, "yeah, sure, this fits the system."
Crazy idea but yeah, being a pure Enhancer COULD make you the best at using unfriendly affinities.
In Netero's case, his whole thematic point was transcending his own limits, and enhancing THAT aspect of yourself might very well allow you to break rules in an equal and opposite way to Specialists.
Do you think that makes sense?
Yeah.. That whole flashback episode of him was awesome. Wish we could've seen more and he's still the strongest human shown in the series yet. (Idk if Big Gon is qualified since he was a temporary state)
Considering what his ability was, it's not so hard to imagine he could do it with 40% either. All he did was make a statue and then move it with preprogrammed Reponses using his own hand movements as an input system. We see actual conjures make more complex things with special powers (his statue couldn't do anything in the same vein Kurapika's chains, knov's smoke, or Knuckle's IRS) and we see actual manipulators able to exert more control over their targets with more flexibility even. Heck most use phones, game consoles, or just words to input commands and all of those have more room for complex commands at the touch of a button.
However, as a 100% enhancer he could enhance his statue's toughness and smack power to the point all those weak points don't matter. Who cares if his controls are preprogrammed and stagnant if it moves too fast for you to block or dodge and hits hard enough to throw you kilometer away.
@@aaaron192 you're probably right on the creation and functionality of the ability, though I think it doesn't necessarily make my point baseless.
Especially because even if the ability is straightforward, its actual use by Netero is insane, because he conjures and dispels the whole thing near-instantly for every single attack AND seemingly looses no significant amount of aura after thousands of uses.
He only became tired in any regard after Zero Hand, which by default uses everything you have and also was more efficient aura use with the actual damage dealt by Emission.
Tl; dr- yeah, you can create that ability with 40% in needed affinities, but using it like Netero MIGHT take some form of "limit breaking" in the terms I expressed, and it also makes thematic sense imo.
With the revelation that Meruem is an Emitter being revealed, I'm just imagining him flying around DBZ style unleashing devastating nen blasts as part of his selection plan
Also looking back it makes sense with him being one, given his tactical use of En both as an overwhelming outburst on the surface to find Knuckle and Meleoron, but also his gentle 'Firefly En' as I call it
The perfect cell of the hxh universe
Also his personality is nothing like an enhancer-type
@@Barwasser well to be fair, he would have needed more than a week being alive to have a real "personality" , after all, he was true to his feelings and straight foward to komugi and Pamu when he got his memories back
@@Vulga true. but his whole fascination with strategy-based games is counter to the rather straight forward approach of characters like Gon or Uvogin...
@BeWater People hang onto that test a little too closely and people can be more nuanced. Meruem was also pretty short tempered and straightforward when he became obsessed with a certain topic.
12:10 This actually makes a lot of sense to me. Abangane was /seemingly/ revered for his Nen Exorcism, to a point where a high ranking individual in his own right sought him out.
The Ant King being an emitter makes some sense in retrospect. His aura was enough to drive a single person partially insane with fear- while that was in large part due to the nature of his nen, I think part of that was subconsciously due to his emitter-type.
He probably could but he never did that. Pouf broke Knov. All he did was scare Pitou, Zeno, and Netero because he was very very deep in his feelings over Komugi's injury until he composed himself.
@@Ryuksgelus well he at least aged the wolf guy like 100 years by ren blasting him
I thought he was specialist
Dammit i feel he’s still an enhancer, can someone reference anywhere he uses an emitter ability in the manga/show?
@@IronKingify after his resurrection he shows his true hatsu. He wasn't an enhancer he was just so powerful he never had to use any abilities in combat.
Togashi still hasn’t shown what is Juice Lord Tonpa’s nen affinity. I would guess that it’ a special specialist who can use all categories at 200% from birth and later in life he trained his Conjuration affinity and used it to create The Juice
He is specialization-enhancer
Togashi didn't reveal his affinity since he is the final antagonist so he wants to keep his abilities secret until the final act
He doesn't even need nen. He low diffs Meruem with just pure aura.
He's not even a Hunter lol
@@JustJeff777 Well, Meruem wasn't either. ;)
I'm.just happy that he is maturing the series and collaborations with more artists to convey his work
Togashi not just dropping bomb ass chapters but crazy detailed tweets giving us such sweet info
I just found out he came back. It doesn't appear that his health has improved much, though... Was he just tired of focusing on his health while HxH was withering away? I'm just glad he's back in the game either way.
Amazing call back from Togashi. In the greed island manga bisky mentions that killua must lean towards enhancing due to him performing better in the initial rock smashing than gon. It is not a retcon it was just not as developed an idea as it could be
I can totally see Meruem being an Emitter. He could do a variety of things at the highest level but what he did best was emit his dominance, literally and figuratively.
From looking at different translations of this diagram it seems that the situation isn't a case of having two Nen types,
but rather that users find one of their neighbouring types more intuitive to learn than the other...
@@nenmaster5218
This gives me questions though..
So did netero find the things farther away from him easier or was this just a conditioning trick?
Also, shouldn't it weigh in where the personality tips towards?
Also, it would make more sense to have dual types because you CAN change your personality and it would be a little weird to suddenly pop from 1 affinity to the other overnight because your convictions and resolve have changed enough to tip the scale from left to right completely.
Not having a reliable translation makes this even more complex now.
@@NeoUzzy I hope AND think its just a pure 'learning speed'-thing.
i always felt that nen category were a bit too restrictive for the purposes of the show and possibly simply unknown or undeveloped; nen hatsu always felt like a hyper-specialized combination of basic nen tecniques inside the ten ren and zetsu development with their advanced tecniques like min maxed to obtain an effect depending on the character development so it is interesting to see it finally developed and expanded.
haha i like how he he updates on this new system, like a game patch note
😂😂😂
Netero also had to spend years upon years in prayer and devotion to learn the 100 type guan yin bodhisattva, which undoubtedly added to its power.
I think this actually simplifies the nen system, because it makes things clearer that a lot of abilities dip heavily into neighboring types to work properly.
There's less guessing as to what exactly something is because things that combine two parts are easier to pinpoint.
Edit: Meruem being an emitter is somewhat of a surprise, but also not a huge surprise because he really did not use Nen for anything other than the absolute basics.
Edit2: Abengane being an ultimate conjurer makes perfect sense, because he manifests the curses into a physical form that he has to live with instead of affecting his own body.
He might be the one exorcist that isn't Nanika who could have exorcised Gon from his curse.
The troupe wasn't looking for specifically him for no reason to exorcise. These guys definitely know things
considering Netero was so OP with an ability that used the two Nen Categories furthest from his natural affinity, how strong would a purely enhancer Technique from Netero actually be?
The 100-type was so fast and powerful it was able to blitz the King and damage him (albeit not that much) which is something we suspect no other human probably could have done. The only reason the king was able to win was because of his superior durability and intellect which far surpasses any human. It makes me wonder what a pure enhancer attack from Netero could have done. Of course he probably still loses to the King eventually, but I suspect he would have done much more damage.
That being said, it’s crazy how Netero was so much better than every other human that he didn’t even need an attack from his own nen category to be considered the most powerful 🤣🤣🤣 just goat tings
I totally called Komugi not being a specialist. You know why? It would mess up shipping dynamics. I have a theory of nen-based relationship compatibility: someone is compatible for a fated relationship with someone of an adjacent category or an opposite category. I panicked for a second when you said Meruem’s affinity had been revealed/changed, but him being an emitter doesn’t disprove my theory.
According to this theory, Leorio + Gon + Killua + Kurapika is the perfect friend group because they make a loop on the hexagon following the adjacent/opposite rule. (Note that when I say “fated relationship” I don’t necessarily mean romantic. In fact, this could apply to nemesis as well.)
Please try to disprove me in the replies. I’d love to further develop my theory.
Palm won't like this
Could be something he thought of or it could be he wanted to vary the friend group’s abilities as well lol
Interesting theory though
This does have some basis. After all, Hisoka uses a personality test to figure out nen types.
How is that a theory? Personality is directly linked to nen affinity. It would be scuffed if HxH didn't consider this when creating character dynamics or they're affinities.
@@iballisticduals3048it's a theory because it's not confirmed that nen affects relationships in this specific way
Now we'll never know of it will matter until when/if it happens but Miluki being like 5 percent specialist is very interesting, since normally you can't access the specialist type at all unless you ARE a specialist yourself. Having Miluki be even just 1% specialist could potentially lead to some very interesting developments of his nen abilities. Or Togashi could just be trolling tf out of us, God i love Hunter x Hunter
Veracious Cake confirmed that the efficiency doesn't change, Killua has still 100% Transmutation and 80% Enhancement but has a easier time learning Enhancement techniques rather than Conjuration
This is what the chart really means
Just want to make some comments
1. It seems like rather than when someone is placed between 2 types it means "you can use 50% Transmutation and 50% Enhancement", its actually "you can learn Enhancement rather easily", but your own percentage isn't changing. So for example Killua is Transmutation-Enhancement, meaning that he has easier time picking up Enhancement compared to pure Transmuter, but his affinity percentage for Transmutation and Enhancement did not change and are still 100% Transmutation and 80% Enhancement. When it is explained that one's can "change their type", it doesn't mean if you're Transmutation-Enhancement but you train Enhancement only, you'll become Enhancement, its just mean that maybe if Killua train Enhancement more than Transmutation, his placement in the diagram would more leaning towards Enhancement (so instead of 50%, it became 60% or 70%, which mean he has even easier time doing Enhancement than ever before, but the conventional percentage is still applied with 100% Transmutation and 80% Enhancement). If this diagram created when Togashi finished Greed Island or even Chimera ant, then it would explain why Gon is pure Enhancer. In Greed Island, Bisky mentioned that Gon is Enhancer that lean towards Emission, but since he practice Enhancement more than Emission (on top of the Transformation may did something too), then he became pure Enhancer, which is make sense
2. I actually have problem with some of these characters placement within the diagram. Ikalgo, Knov, Silva, Zeno, Knuckle, and to some degree probably Meruem. But honestly, the basic idea and most of the characters placement are spot on imo
As for your point #2: I understand taking issue with Ikalgo's placement, but why the others? They all make sense to me.
@@calliopeshif7581 Its...kinda hard to explain since they all have some sort of different problem. If I were to explain each one, it'll probably be too long. You can just ask them one by one if you want to know, I'll give you my view.
If you thonk about it Killua is using eletricity to Enhance his senses, enhanciment dont mean only becoming more strong.
@@gabrielrasilva Well, yeah, I know that
Knuckle and Knov might seem counterintuitive, but it makes sense when you think about it for a while.
I think Togashi even has room to upgrade nen with a “cross affinity”
Kinda like the idea of Magic: The Gatherings Color pie/wheel. Where opposing colors can have decks together that have very weird synergies. Normally called “Enemy color pairs”
Togashi has done something very similar with this recent update of Nen very reminiscent of “ally color pairs” so the thought came to mind lol
Multicolor jank ftw
The reason for the nuanced percentages like 98$/2% , in my opinion, is because togashi literally understands the rules of the nen world like we understand the rules of the physical world. He knows what that 2% aspect is, not as some head cannon BS to spice up the narrative, but because he can pinpoint exactly what aspect of their power leans towards which type of nen. Its like the difference between us readers making a statistical guess vs togashi making a calculated equation.
It's cause of the ink spray :)
Just as blindness helped Komugi turn her enhancer ability into one for imagination instead of punching, I'm hoping Gon being nen-lost is a restriction that will lead to a new ultimate evolution for him. Perhaps his fighting potential goes down to Hunter Exam Levels, but he'll find something new through his time without nen. Just hopefully not boring like he enhances other's abilities, unless it makes Killua cooler.
This is not a change or retcon! Gon was labeled a dual nen type way back in Greed Island by Bisky. The data book was just not reliable. Togashi was always thinking this.
Some of this info isn't entirely new. In the manga, When Bisky saw Gon learned how to shoot a ball of aura at a distance quickly, she theorized he was an Enhancer leaning Emitter.
This is kinda just Togashi expanding on that.
I feel like this makes a lot of sense. I recalled Killua turned his hand razor sharp near the beginning of anime as a “family technique” but it was 100% an enhancer move.
I hate to break it to you, but he straight up didn’t have Nen, it was a family technique
@@0xCaera Can I get a source on this? sounds like straight bull to me
@@0xCaeraWhat Gon used there wasn’t a Nen technique. He used a technique that’s the foundation for a Nen technique.
@@akoba1520 there are characters called genius’s who can unconsciously tap into nen without knowing it. Gon and killua were both extremely strong and fast. Komugi was also one which was why she was inhumanly good at the board game.
@@Handsomeguy-kj2jg That literally isn’t true (not that first part, there are people who can unconsciously tap into it) but Gon and Killua we WATCHED have their Aura Nodes opened and we saw the moment Komugi started using Nen to learn while going against Meruem. I think you need a rewatch.
Togashis greatest strength and weakness is that he fleshes things out in an extremely detailed way. The original series lined up a pretty straightforward story with four main characters. Them after the hunter exams he was like nah then split them into three separate paths. He introduces and mentions characters that you know will show up but when is really anyone’s guess. This series has so much potential and sadly it makes me think it might never get a proper ending the way he’s planning it out.
Didn't Biscuit kind of touch on this when she was training Gon and Killua in Greed Island? I think it was when Killua was smashing rocks or when Gon's emission blast made it further than what she expected. She placed Gon somewhere on the ring between Emission and Enhancement.
I am pumped to see how this changes how people view nen users as a whole and with this revelation this late in the game I expect it to largely impact future battles.
NGL, I wasnt surprised to find Ging placed not on the nen ring yet, but I was half expecting him to be placed in the dead centre of the ring, having equal access to every affinity at the same time, but still being classed as ultimate, because he is just that guy.
Wow! Why do I feel that this might be true? 🤯And at this point people would just accept Ging to be that guy in the center because he's being so mysterious. 😆
But i really hope he isn't. Or if he is, he's story will prove it.
theres a way to make that happen, thing is the first condition is to be a specialist, the second is to create a hatsu that increases your proficiency with other affinities and lastly to save time, you should create a hatsu that makes hatsu
I had the same thought !! But maybe he have a nen category and with time he mastered all the other nen types and the the more types you master other categories become easier to master but you have to be a genius in nen to unlock other categories and master them!! I hope I made sense 🙏
That would feel too cheap imo. I much prefer the "Netero-route" where he very clearly still follows the normal rules of nen instead of being some kind of "asspull ultra-specialist" but instead managed to reach such an extreme mastery of nen that he doesn't really need to care about affinities anymore
@@user-zz3sn8ky7z it's very similar to netero but ging instead just masters more types of nen because he is a genius, just from the things I see him do in anime and manga I had a feeling that he knows more than the other nen masters he even know what would happen in the election he even asked for a paper and a pen ready and predicted that they will make a vote 😂😂 even the things he can do in the manga shows that he is a genius at the highest level.
Meruem definitely makes sense as an emitter. I mean the only times he actually used abilities (other than basic nen feats like enhancing his attack and defense and using gyo and en) was when he fired that massive rage canon that he inherited from Youpi and then when he transformed his en into light particles and emitted them out all over the place. His thing with gaining the aura of those he eats is just a natural ability he has. Kinda like Meleoron's natural ability to turn invisible.
No, waht this tells us is Meruem is using Manipulation+Emission and that this is a thing, which we could impossibly know before
What are you even talking about? It was never a thing that you can only use one type of nen.... You're not stuck just to your affinity....@@slevinchannel7589
Again, morel is a perfect example. Something tells me you don't really know hunter X hunter lore at all and are just talking out your rear end. Perhaps you have a faulty surface level grasp of the series and it's power system but you definitely don't know it all nearly as well as you seem to think you do.@@slevinchannel7589
@@slevinchannel7589you also clearly didn't watch the entire video because he very clearly states that meruem has been revealed by togashi to be a pure emitter. I was simply saying that his affinity makes sense since from the abilities we've seen him use, they all lean heavily into the use of emission. It has never been stated that you can only use one type of nen or even one type of nen at a time. It's an AFFINITY.
I dont find it odd that they ranked Abengane as ultimate since i have this vague memory of the phantom troupe saying how rare it was to eliminate nen, and how hard Chrollo had to look for someone like him. To me eliminating a nen ability like that could easily be considered top notch or the pinnacle of what his nen branch could do
It's not simply that he is the best Nen exorcist, it's also the fact that his use of exorcism is so masterful that he does not directly suffer the consequences of whatever he exorcises.
The exorcist from the hunter association likely have to bear the cost herself to remove the curses, but Abengane would likely have survived removing the super curse, although the men beast created would have been something ridiculous and possibly horrifying.
About Netero's ability, I always thought that there is a chance it is actually an enhancement ability in a very specific way, and now after we have a confirmation that Komugi is an enhancer my theory might actually be true. What if while summoning the 100 handed bodhisattva Netero actually Enhances his feelings, specifically his feeling of gratitude, which was what he was training for over 10 years. If that is true, then Netero and Komugi are the most advanced enhancers who are capable of enhancing weird concepts of passion to the game or feeling of gratitude to create these broken abilities.
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT
I swear to you for the past two years I've been a Hunter X Hunter fan I've had nothing but time to stew on the intricacies of nen and I KNEW togashi had deeper details of nen that he had either yet to reveal or didn't showcase in full. Looking at all the nen users of the series it became apparent that some users had more affinity for one type adjacent than others, and you could tell which one it was before even seeing their abilities based on hisoka's test. Togashi truly does never fail to amaze.
Personally I don't think the rabbit hole ends here, far from it, but you have NO idea how cathartic it was to see a theory that no one else would care enough to pay attention to prove to be true. Baby steps, baby steps.
Ok
Just came back from Togashi's puzzle exhibition where this new system is covered, crazy that you come put with this video right after.
Biggest twist, that I can't believe went unaddressed in this video:
Knuckle is a Conjurerer
Knov is an Emitter
I think everyone knows knuckles is a conjurer, he literally conjures stuff as his ability, also he's never shown to charge his hits.
@@zmss8537 that is very true.
@@zmss8537 also, for Knov being an emitter: hasn't it been all-but-confirmed that teleportation abilities are generally emitter abilities? Perhaps with the exception of conjured nen beings that can teleport others, but I'm not sure.
It stands to reason that Knuckle’s APR and IRS are Conjurer abilities.
Knuckle has always been a Conjurer though and I'm pretty sure all teleportation-based attacks are Emitter
Remember, Wing said that Enhancers were really powerful when Gon asked about how to develop Hatsu. He was hinting to Gon to to how versatile Enhancers can be.
I wonder if since gon has lost his nen once he regains it he might get a dual nen type or maybe even some pseudo post partum nen
Well now I look forward to youtubers re explaining nen as a power system in more 40-50 minute videos and then covering all of the updated charecters
I absolutely love that nen affinity is a spectrum. Nen is my favorite magic system ever, and I read fantasy books too (any of Mistborn’s three different magic systems alone are better than most if not all other anime/manga, and that’s just one series).
Magic ???
A Mistborn fan and a Hunter x Hunter fan??? I'm not alone???
(please don't spoil lost metal)
@@scarfie5877 don’t worry I’m too behind I’m the cosmere for that to even be my next read. I still need to read Bands of Mourning, Arcanum Unbound, SA 3&4, Dawnshard, and White Sand first
Ooh, if you haven't read bands yet... it's really good, especially from a magic system standpoint. Won't say more than that, but yes, overall, taking the cosmere magic system as a whole (in how it ralates to the different worlds and the underlying principles) may be the only fantasy magic system that can rival nen in complexity
I love how sentimental objects can have nen. I’ve definitely had some shirts since high school that still have meaning to me and it feels like they got my nen in them lol.
Killua's position on the chart might also increase his potential at learning emitter techniques, it would explain his mid ranged lightning attacks on rammot,youpi and the one that missed the flying foot soldiers in the forest. His position does make him closer to that category.
Nen has turned into 2k builds💀
I really hope the shifts/specification of so many Zoldycks may mean a return to them in the near (hiatus' not withstanding) future, or at the very least he seems to have put alot of thought into their placements in this chart so hopefully has some storyline planned out for them. Also PLEASE Togashi let me have my dreams of Gon regaining nen and not being gon(e) for good : (
The description for Gon's nen that I remember is that he has basically been reset to zero before he ever learned nen, so he's going to have to start over from the beginning.
And given that it's implied there's going to be about 3 years of in-universe hiatus before we get back to Gon and Killua, he's probably going to be even better with a better ability when he does return.
Personally, I'm hoping that Gon brings back his iconic fishing rod and integrates that into part of his hatsu, and has an all new hatsu that's much more thought out than his original.
This also confirms on thoughts I always had like how Zeno's peak is stronger than Silva, BIGLY. Or how despite zeno's age he would probably still give Silva the workaround. It also puts the thing about Killua being insanely top talent and why they care so much to control him into perspective. Killua has the potential of being stronger than Zeno. Maybe even greater than Maha?
Killua being transmuter-enhancer also explains the things he is able to do like the hand thing and the nail thing and whatnot. He is tapping into Nen without being told so this is possible explanation for that.
I wouldn't be surprised if Chrollo is the exact same affinity as Kurapika. He is conjuring that book and bookmark after all
Chrollo is a pure specialist in that diagram
But I agree that would've make sense
11:23
Silva and Zeno are actually classified as 100% Emitters, not transmuters. I also thought all the white haried Zoldycks were transmuters and the blacks manipulators but I guess not.
7:30, I'm a bit more flexible in my thinking on this revelation. I think that Togashi is doing it as an example of higher education. When we look at the Chimera Ant Arc, we have to understand that we were on an adventure with *rookies.* Those instructing them taught them at their then level, not at the more advanced level; we got the bare basics. Kurapika gave us a glimpse of what was to come with his particular abilities, which he went on a discovery mission on his own for. He was the first clue from the beginning. When his Scarlet Eyes activate, he becomes a Specialist. Because he's telling the story as if we're witnesses to the development of our protagonists, he has to keep us ignorant of certain higher level stuff. Bear in mind that there's very much discovery occurring in this series.
As they progress, they earn greater exposure to more advanced Nen users. Those users can then impute wisdom, teach philosophies behind their combat arts, and share information that they happened upon during their time as Hunters. Our protagonists are now reaching into the _collegiate_ level, if you will. With that, they're carrying us along too. We're on the adventure with them, so we're learning with them too. I don't consider this an alteration or retcon, but an *enhancement* of the information that we already had. We're now ready to dive into it.
Artists like authors often trick readers into believing things that they never actually stated. This is important to understanding our diabolical minds. Was it the narrator, or was it a character who said it? Also, who is the narrator? If the narrator isn't the author, can the narrator be wrong? Is the narrator deceiving us? Did we make assumptions based on loose interpretations of what the narrator actually said? See? It's a mind game. I use these techniques myself in a series that I've set for release as a rudimentary web toon in 2023. We do this to intentionally cause controversy, spark intense debate, and consequently spike the popularity of our work. The more people argue about it, the more people are going to read - AND - the more they'll drag others into it to confirm their biases. This is how we make a franchise truly great.
Example: Gohan was stated to have the *most potential* in Dragon Ball. But does that also make him the most powerful? That was the question that we were essentially asked at the end of the Cell Games arc of the Cyborg Saga. Answer: No. It only means that he *could be* the strongest *some day.* It's up to Gohan to make that happen, not the author, not the reader / viewer, not the villains, not his allies, and not his family. Gohan isn't the strongest because he doesn't want to be, and Beast Gohan doesn't count yet because that's a future event, not a present event. The only retcons involving Gohan stemmed from including him when Toriyama actually didn't want to (Super Hero is a perfect example; it was originally purely a Piccolo feature, but the producers pressured him to add Gohan for the fans). This is why a lot of situations involving Gohan don't actually make sense; they seem like he pulled them from where the sun doesn't shine. That's because he did. He had already written the narrative, then had to alter it to include a character that he didn't initially plan to use.
Anyway, that's an example of how outside perspective can ruin what an author has in mind, and how we play these mind games with our supporters. Had the fans and rest of the project team just let the artist work, things might have panned out differently and better. Maybe we would've seen Gohan organically become the most powerful after a life changing event made a strong enough impression. For Hunter x Hunter, Togashi has a lot more control over the narrative and the characters. He basically tunes us out. So, I believe that he's forcing us to learn at a slower rate so as to build a much stronger bond and understanding of the world. This is what I call the wondrous experience angle, and seeing it expertly at play is exciting. There's a certain magic to these revelations as our minds expand to grasp what he's pitching at us. We're having a lot of, "Ohhhhh! So, *THAT'S* how it works," moments.
This is exactly how to go about giving impressions, then subverting them. We made it work in our own minds a certain way, but nothing breaks when he tells us how it actually works. It all fits together like a cleverly designed puzzle.
As another author, I 100% agree with all of this
@@MalkuthSephira I can't believe that I wasn't notified about this comment. My bad. I figured that it would appeal to other authors especially. We're quite an interesting bunch, aren't we? How much do you enjoy using that trick that I spilled the beans on? Know the best part? The readers are still going to fall for it even after I told them lol
Dude hunter x hunter right now has been so lit.
Just in time of hxh manga coming back. I definitely need a reliable hxh channel 💕
I thought it was already established that a nen user can lean towards neighboring nen affinity. So this is not much of a surprise? Maybe just the placement of some characters
Yes it was, you can't master other types with 100% affinity if that's not your nen type.
@@ultimatepotato5438 Yes. I dont get why this additional information is a "game-changer" or "twist"
@@rookmaha2177 Yeah seems like they don't even watch or read HxH. For the sake of content I guess.
Is leaning towards a secondary Nen type such a new concept? I seem to recall Biscuit saying that Gon was an Enhancer leaning towards Emission as early as the Greed Island arc. (Chapter 148)
9:20 Kastro tried that, look where it got him. If you're not Netero, that sort of thing is liable to get you killed.
Kastro doesn't have that intensive training that Netero gone through to refine his aura. Also Netero was more than 100 years old.
It's a stupid argument.
1. Hisoka can kill nearly every character in the series if he wants to so that is a bad argument in itself. Hisoka is just that op. Just because you lost to Hisoka does not mean your ability is bad.
2. He could have killed Hisoka if he would have used his Tiger Fist from the getgo and didn't go for Hisokas arm but instead pierce his heart / head. Castro was arrogant and his goal was not to kill or beat Hisoka but prove to him that he is now superior.
Also, Kastro is not even a master enhancer while Netero surpassed his enhancer affinity and was "naturally enlightened" to achieve all of them.
He conjured the Bodhisattva, manipulated it's limbs, had the aura, strength, speed, of an enhancer and emits a nuke beam. Not sure where transmutation is though.
Juicy new info, great!
To be honest I can't wrap my mind on the King be an Emitter (or an Enhancer), I mean the only actual hatsu we saw him performe was the ability to physically consume the flesh of a Nen user and inherit their aura and hatsu. The only cases we know (until now) of meta-ability on Hatsu are all about specialists so I always given by default he was a Specialist too due the fact that a non-specialist has 0% Affinity on Specialist ability.
So it's weird unless the 0% is like a semplification and it's really "something like 0%" so a being with an huge amount of Aura like Meruem and the Royal Guards in generals could simply brute force that area too with some heavy restriction or such (for example the need of actually eat someone else is a quite decent restriction)
Tell me what you believe Hatsu is.
0% isn't true as stated from the start (conjurers and manipulators having the highest chance).
Specialists are 0.X% basically is how I understood it.
@@Oznerock In the original view, those have chances to "become specialists" and once they are they can do "specialists' stuff". As Kurapika isn't capable of using Emperor Time or the Dolphin unless he is with the Scarlet Eyes and we saw (also from the Divination tech).
Now with the dual Affinity people like Kurapika are both Conj and Specialist so it makes more sense they can shift in a state between Specialist and no Specialist.
To be honest before the Meruem case (from today) I never had an issue with the Specialist be a "forbidden area" unless you are a Specialist... With Meruem the need of the "almost 0%" arose. Until now I had no issue with a true 0% (aka impossible)
@@ITSONSIGHT. I don't understand the question.
A Hatsu should be a personal application of the Nen forged due to your affinity with it... and (to me) it's a messy concept
@@YataVSTheWorld Just making sure you didn't think Hatsu = nen ability. That line of thinking has lead to things like r/hatsuvault where people post their own nen abilities.
Nen is so much fun! Seems like Togashi just added more detail on how to interpret this complex system rather than change things. I mean unlike some other power systems like Bending where only the Avatar can use multiple abilities, Nen was always designed to allow for individuals to access other abilities and be creative about it. Your affinity is just more what comes naturally to you. Probably why this personality test of Hisoka is so accurate. Nen has always been tied to what you want and value in life or how life shaped you. Interesting that Meruem is an emitter. I remember a theory back in the day that Pokkle reincarnated into Meruem and I did not really think much of it then but was reminded of it now. Interesting that they are both emitters!
i think this was explained before, you can be 100% enhancer but still be able to get some affinities from the nearest Nen category, only you cant be 100 enhancer and 100 transmuter simultaneously
Tbh, I feel like this is something we all felt and Togashi is now confirming
This always made more sense to me. Even with a main nen category you are still always closer to one than the other right next to it. It was impossible that people were smack in the middle. Which isn't to say they still cant use or shift the one closest to them or move further away.
Do you think a nen limitation could be used by a pure type as to not use their 100% affinity in their ability to boost the power of the other types adjacent to them on the nen wheel?
For an easy example: a pure enhancer setting a limitation and giving up enhancement in favour of using an ability focused around emition and transmutation at a level above the 80% mastery rate?
I think it could be something cool to see someone essentially give themselves a dual nen affinity with a say 90%+ on both sides but they aren't adjacent typings ya get me? It could probably lead to some interesting skills if that was the case
Wasn't this already stated during the greed-island arc? During Gon's training, Biscuit said that Gon's affinities are closer to emission than to transmutation. So it's easy to assume that "100% affinity" was just a simplified version for teaching purposes and people can be anywhere between the extremes.
Togashi seems to be much more interested in advance and discuss Nen concepts than tell the story of the many HxH so-called protagonists. In each saga he just picks the characters more fit to address the Nen aspects he came up with.
God I love how Togashi is finally back and just giving us SO much new information. Here's hoping he keeps it up!
yeah but if he has to take another health hiatus i wont be mad or sad about it. i hope he takes enough time for himself
The Nen system is truly the most helpful anime reference material I've ever used in real life. The personality test alone has so much depth and now this 🤯.
Thank Togashi and you all for being the thinkers that keep life interesting 🙏🏾
Based on personality test and even this new info, I would still be a specialist whose unique specialization would allow 100% effectiveness in conjuration and manipulation, but 20% (or less) effectiveness in all other fields.
Considering the... Style of Dolls Milluki allegedly Manipulates I'm not quite sure we want to know what that 5% specialty Manipulator skill is.
Ikalgo's 2% emission could have something to do with the apparent aura jacket around his flea bullets as it's the same color as Gon's Jajaken: paper. It might be used to steer the bullets or add velocity. Alternatively be might be using it as a burst valve for his air gun.
i always thought that ikalgo's shooting ability was similar to how uvogin spit part of leech's skull but it has nen aura/ nen coating so when this video stated that ikalgo was leaning to emission by 2% 'Twas fitting.
ALLUKA NEN CATEGORY CONFIRMED. Side note, I always thought she’d be a Specialist for both personality and the nature of Wish Granting, so this is satisfying as heck.
nen has always been incredibly interesting, this is just great
Thoughts on this theory? I think somehow - whether intentional or not, but most likely intentional - that Chrollo and the Troupe members have their own Nen-restrictions in place that are part of what fuel their insane power, and I think it’s stacked AF. Like, none of y’all think it’s weird how they never - no matter how badly they wanted to kill Hisoka - broke any of the Troupe rules? I think the tattoos and potentially some other factors are the Troupe’s version of a stacked and complex Nen restriction framework that is partly why they had such a shockingly fast ascent in strength and why they all always abide by the rules and didn’t even contemplate Hisoka betraying them-Hisoka said he wasn’t a member because he removed the tattoo, which, imo, means that the spider tattoo is what “makes” them into members of the Troupe. I think that they must have a similar restriction that potentially stakes their lives on the line for breaking their own self-governed rules. Thoughts?
@NewWorldReview what do you think?
they (feitan, nobugana, phinx) were 100% willing and ready to break the rules when chrollo was grabbed. so staking their lives on it doesn't work
I happened to be rereading chapter 148 today and on page 2 it is already stated that Gon is an enhancer tending toward emission. So the idea of having a tendency toward a secondary type was already present and stated during GI.
I had always been thinking that the enhancer category could enhance more than just their phsyical bodies, to "enhance" something can have ALOT of different applications, enchanting ones intelligence, enhacning ones senses, healing, even enhancing more abstract things or even things that aren't apart of the users own body.
Nen has over time seemed more and more like a Spiritual awakening being used as a fuel in the manner DBZ and Naruto wanted to use chi/chakra, but kept coming back to bigger power ups. Nen is more imaginative and between rereading Meruem's arc and rewatching Chapter Black in YYH, I started to see Meruem vs. Netero as two opposites of a very spiritual spectrum of power. As such, I'm a little disappointed he didn't plop Meruem in between Enhancer and Specialist, it would have made in the this center point like he found some enlightenment between his raw power and his ability to absorb raw nen like assimilating their soul to his own, somewhere between deep inflection and being truly wild as a predator. As if that center point was a power Netero was close to reaching and tried so hard to get to despite it being against his natural affinity as a human and martial artist. He was so close to reaching that Enhancer-Specialist mid-point and his Zero hand helped Meruem get there, if Togashi went that route, seems perfect. Perhaps Ging will be the one he reaches specialist from natural enhancer since he seems to have used his ability to understand nen instead of choosing a big bang punch, it would be sick if he enhanced his brain function to understand abilities like Leorio's and then put multiple simple abilities together like Chrollo.
I don't think this is the right way to go with this as Netero nearly beat this monster with his weakest affinity ..
If he used and enhanced his strongest afinilty, Meruam wouldn't even have been able to damage him im sure, Im placing netero far higher on the food chain them Meruem.
His whole life has been a devotion to his death battle, his whole life has been him conditioning himself, and even doing shit like making the rat his chairman even tho he pisses him off just so he makes his own life more miserable just for a chance.
If he funeled this into enhancing ... No shot Meruem won. Neither of them would be put in "the center"
Meruem doesn't even understand nen afinity im sure, he's intelligent but he just uses basic nen stuff to overpower his opponent. It would be an insult for him to study nen. If he can be beat in gungi, he can be beat in nen-tactics.
I think if anyone would "transcend" or whatever, it's probably gin or some weird ass character that has nothing to do with the show, that would be beyond our current comprehension of nen right now.
Like how he revealed that life on earth is but a spec of dust in the grand scheme of whats really going down in the world.
You wouldn't get it unless you saw that episode. We understand and comprehend it, but only because of that information, we wouldnt otherwise have understood it.
The Alluka ultimate rating gives some credence to what I've been suspecting for a while now. Everything leans towards Nanika being an Ai, but there's not really been anything to suggest that any other Ai has been capable of doing things on the level that Nanika has. Coupled with the title "Codependence of Desire," I've been thinking that there is a possibility that Alluka is herself a natural but untrained nen prodigy and that Nanika is essentially acting as a focusing device with her as a battery. It would certainly help explain why Nanika ended up bonded to Alluka in the first place, and help to explain the unbelievable power they seem to be capable of.
my suspicion is that nanika taught alluka whatever the dark continents version of nen is. They are two separate beings with one body so wouldn’t they get double the desire points powering their nen (Killua can break the rules because they both want him to?)
@@MrSparklytuxedocat It could be, but that actually runs into another theory I have, which is that all of the Dark Continent "calamities" are just post-mortem nen abilities left over from whatever forced humanity into the "known world."
Personally I think there was some kind of war between Dark Continent kingdoms of humanity at a time when nen was much more well and widely known amongst the general population, which led to various nen geniuses developing terrifying weapon type abilities that persisted after their death. That would also explain why they're mostly hyper aggressive or defensive towards humanity since that would have been the intent of the user that got amplified through their deaths. This would also lean more towards Ai feeding off the inherent power of the individual to fuel it's effects, since as a nen manifestation it wouldn't technically be a source on its own.
It's always seemed strange to me that humanity could have survived in a place that is so obviously hostile to it's existence, but if you instead suppose that they're the ones who eventually made it that way it makes much more sense.
@@louisatrey5725 no
@@_Tao__ What a remarkably well thought out reply.
I don't like the idea of it very much. In ways it makes sense, but it just feels more like something done to explain inconsistencies and weirdness in power sets by just saying "oh yeah they can be dual affinitied". He's usually known for planning things out meticulously, but this seems more like an attempt to bandage something he never really explained in-depth and had very awkward classifications.
But sometimes mystery and weirdness is just fine, especially when dealing with personality-powers. Now it just feels like more wiki fodder.
I have still not recovered from Meruem+Komugi
Togashi just being a chad progressivist by announcing all his characters are on a spectrum
I mean... Biscuit pointed this out in the greed island arc while training Gon in emission. She pegged him at about 80 enhancer/20 emitter
It’s just like Hisoka said to Gon and Killua.
*«There’s much to learn about nen.»*
People like to think that many nen users belong to the Specialist category just because of their mystical and complex abilities, however that isn’t necessarily true.
It is possible to get pretty far with any affinity.
So, if Meruem is NOT a specialist, how come he can absorb the powers of the nen users he eat? Should we take it simply as a biological characteristic of the chimera ant king amplified by nen?
Didn't Silva and Zeno just get revealed as Emitters? Something that changes the fact that White-Haired Zoldycks are always Transmuters?
11:25 Zeno and Silver are shown to be emitter yet he still says Transmuter
Zeno and Silva being emitters *made more sense too.. Like transmutation is applying the properties of certain matter to your nen by experiencing it.
Funny to think that young Hisoka ate so much gum, he became one of the strongest nen fighters in the series.
@@46corazon I also thought that being transmuters fits them better but it’s shown that Zenos abilities involve a lot of emission, he also used a basic emission technique in his fight with chrollo outside from his techniques, Silva basically throws two big nen balls so it kinda makes sense
@@timhertens8502 yeah like if they were transmuters though, did they got shot by energy dragon blasts multiple times in training. lol that's what I asked back then.
Meruem being an emitter, not a specialist as I always thought, could make kind of sense, I guess.
But weirdly enough like a reverse emitter scenario. Emitters seperate their aura from their body, whilst Meruem could seperate others aura from their body and transfer it to himself after eating them.
Or perhaps it is an enhancement of his ability to eat in the same way that Komugi enhances her ability to play Ghungi
@@nnnik3595 Yeh maybe, and the reason why that type of enhancement ability isn't common might be because cannibalism isn't normal? Being an ant on the other hand doesn't stop him from eating nen users
i took it as that being a trait of his lineage , being the ant king and all that.