Because she's the symbol of "strength." People miss this point. Togashi was highlighting duality. Buddhist/ Egyptian philosophies written all over this arc.
Because she was the only one he viewed as equal and greater then him. She is better then him in gungi. Hence why he started seeing her as not insect, but as someone equal to him
I watched this as it aired in 2014, and watch HxH from beginning to end multiple times a year for fun. I will never NOT cry at Episode 135. Togashi is a master and Madhouse perfectly animated his vision.
For real man! I started hxh again in 2011, because I read the manga and the chimera arc. I read they were going to animate It and in the ending arc I got my brother to see Chimera arc live with me week by week. Watching people react to It always brings tears to my eyes
The parallels between good and evil in this arc was mad crazy. The way Gon dipped towards the realm of evil for revenge losing his humanity and Meruem who was depicted as this merciless absolute go through such transition losing his monstrocity and gaining humanity is portrayed brilliantly. The thin line between who actually was the protagonist and the antagonist was very bleak. Usually in any shonen anime shows, magical powers are used to defeat said antagonist but the fact that a "bomb" was used to finish the chimera ants threat is pure genius writing. The narrator, the characters, the ost's everything was used precisely and perfectly to showcase the plot and the storyline. Greatest shonen arc of all times? Definitely
One additional layer being that while ants quickly evolve physically, humans quickly evolve through the extension of technology. Even though the Ants are portrayed as evil at the beginning, they are just a new species trying to find their place, and they seemed to grow more aware and humane over time. Meanwhile the humans capacity for evil through their form of evolution only grows, and is out of sync with their physical evolution, hence the irresponsibility and evil of nuclear weapons. Mureum died with the one he loved bathed in a white light and then a comforting and fading darkness. Netero died looking like a demon in a massive nuclear explosion. Gon sacrificed his humanity and all his potential for gruesome revenge. The monsters became human, and the humans became monsters. Leave it to HxH to deconstruct shonen to the point where victories feel like losses.
@@CDX7 Exactly. It seems everytime i rewatch this arc i discover some new levels and thematic ideas. Sure there are minor flaws here and there but this is the closest an anime arc will get to perfection.
Definitely one of my favorite scenes was Meruem lecturing a defeated Netero on how he was the entirety of his race and thus would always win, whereas humans are ALL individuals. The thing Meruem least expected, funnily enough, was to be proven so unbelievably correct that it would kill him. Not only because humans are individuals does it mean that taking one human life is equivalent (to humans) to taking all of them (whereas a single ant is nothing so long as it's not the head of a species), but human individuality means that they're constantly in a power struggle against eachother, inventing and scheming more and more ways to have power supreme, whereas the ants do not compete with other ants, they merely capitulate to the main power. As Meruem did not initially understand this, he did not expect Netero to have that kind of technology ready to use, because why would he? What kind of being would go out of their way to invent something like that, when would it ever be necessary? And yet, it exists, and that's why Meruem was so shook by Netero in that moment. He realized everything he said about humanity was correct, and only now considered the implications of how ungodly powerful individuality could be. Meruem was fighting for ants, fighting simply to win, or perhaps survive. Something natural and neutral, all things considered. Almost instinct-driven, no thoughts other than the propagation of the species ever even occurred (not including Komugi). Netero, on the other hand, was fighting specifically to exterminate everything Meruem stood for, because that's the lengths *that* individual will go to to win. And because individuals can *decide,* that became a possibility where it wouldn't have even crossed an ant's mind. Meruem saw what individuality can create and was terrified to his core, an emotion previously foreign to him. It's interesting to think about: Just as we individuals create horror fiction out of eusocial, collective creatures like ants, bees, etc (most notably the Xenomorphs from Alien), would eusocial creatures with sentience also create horror fiction about social, individual creatures like intelligent mammals?
"I may not be worthy, but please allow me to join you" is a sentence used by japanese women in certain kind of traditional marriage ceremonies. So, technically speaking, they got married before dying together!
@@rewrose2838 You're saying that as if they had time to have the whole traditional ceremony, lmao. Clearly Togashi used that to make even clearer how deep their bond was, and how it could be seen as an actual marriage.
It's the deep silence that every reactor has in the last few minutes of episode 135 after the credits roll. Realizing that you actually feel sympathy for who was once the villain of the story, but they've now become human. Incredibly done fr, your guys' reactions were amazing. I finished this arc months ago and honestly I still don't think I'll ever get over how good it was.
Meruem: Born a king, Became a Monster, and Died after at last becoming human. Gon: Started out innocent, grew to know despair, and finally fell into the deep abyss and now lies crippled. The two of them worked in opposite ways
Mereum's story really is some of the most gripping character development in anime or any other storytelling medium. To see a brutal inhuman creature discover the best parts of being human was so beautiful. Especially contrasting with Gon sacrificing his innocence and goodness for a dip into evil and brutality
@@Mr.Mars90 but for how long? I think only 1 volume is confirmed and the mangaka is still in bad shape. The mangaka of Beserk died way too early too :(
Can you please tell me how to watch blindwave's reactions? I went to the link that they put in their videos but it transferes me to their site and nothing works there not a single video for hxh or even kemitsu no yaiba so what should i do? Please help
@@nihlify which is why the chimera arc suffers a lot too but atleast the chimera arc has an amazing finale and greed island is just a snooze fest through and through
"Poetic, beautiful." indeed. No big beams, no powerful transformations - just good writing and emotion to close an incredible though-provoking chapter.
Komugi and Meruem are two of the most beautifully written and executed characters. Their relationship and story is something that I will remember for the rest of my life for sure.
Just an fyi. In japan, when it was aired on tv, the the jolly part at the end was not played right away. There was a commercial break and then it was played. Now when streaming websites got the material they just pieced everything together minus the commercial breaks. But yeah id say it ruins the atmosphere created by the poetic death scene
@@alterp5108 Don't get me wrong, Chimera Ant is a 11/10 for me, my peak fiction, but Jesus I can't in good conscience let that one slide, which is why 135 will forever be a 9.999999/10 for me lol
The fact that this arc takes you from how you feel when you first see the King... to how you feel when you hear him called Mereum one last time.... crazy shit
It wasn't just his social context, he had some kind of genetic programming motivating to dominate everyone, too... *but* the story was showing the whole time how the incorporation of human complexity was messing with all the ants prior genetic programming in unexpected ways, so even with the king being born with a powerful biological drive to fulfil this role, it was still heavily foreshadowed that it would go this way.
He was born and immediately executed and ate his fellow ants for slights. His nature is one of survival of the fittest, and the idea that he is supreme and should take over. This didn't need to be told to him. He was a bit bored and lost, but he definitely wasn't a blank slate. "Is it better to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
this episode is my fav in the whole series bc of how tragic and beautiful it is. I was so excited to see rana react to this show bc i knew it would hit her hard just like it did to me. rip meruem x komugi
The character development for Meruem is just epic. It's incredible how he changed from a psychopath who everyone wanted killed to a kind soul who no one wanted to die.
Crying on 135 is for boys Crying on 136 is for men SPOILERS Seriously though, I hope they won't be disappointed that CA arc has one last episode. It's so great too! Reina and Brovada, Kite reborn, Ging... And after that, time for the best villain!
Nahid got it, ideology and emotions pushes the narrative/storyline. Think about the main characters goals and purpose. None of them are the strongest in the series. P.s react to jojo bizarre adventure to replace hunter x hunter
@Chihiro yeah same, part 1 (most of it) and part 3 (first half) are so hard to watch but you can' absolutely not skip them and have to endure so much just to get to part 4 and 5 :(.
@Chihiro Yeah it is definitely worth it. I hated part 1 so much I had to watch it over the course of like 4 weeks and with the first half of part 3 it was even worse and I had to "drop" JJBA for like 4 months till I hardly got myself to continue but with the part 3 egypt arc, part 4 and part 5 I just inhaled them. I think I eliminated all of part 5 withing 2 days :D.
The beauty of the Chimera Ant Arc is that while at a point Gon and Meruem (King) are equal in power, they never once fight each other, they even make a point of that when they walk right past each other in an episode and don’t even look at each other. Their fight is shown in a different way symbolically. The king, the antagonist, this evil inhuman being loses all his power and gives it up to gain humanity and die in peace. As he slowly becomes more and more human as he develops throughout the arc. While Gon, the protagonist loses all his humanity and gives it up to gain power and die in pain. As he slowly becomes more and more selfish and insecure and he feels responsible for Kite’s death and becomes obsessed with killing Pitou. Gon’s transformation was selfish, it’s an “anti-super sayin” moment, he didn’t do it to protect his friends he did it because he wanted to and he couldn’t cope with loss. That’s the beauty of HxH, ended a big arc in a way you don’t expect.
I always go back to when Micky quotes Paarthunax "What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" ... that's the King.
@@sunnyweather2655 If you're here watching not just anime, but someone elses reaction to anime, most would call that the near peak cringe. But here you are, trynna act hard lol.
16:03 in this instance i always wanted mereum to say: "i see...i had the whole world right from the start but i didnt realize it up until now" He was a king but in a way he never thought someone could be a king
Komugi , the ugly snorting duckling, a random character in the arc. Make us all cry for her death at the end like a baby. That's how you developed a character in people 💓
"i may not be worthy, but allow me to join you" is what people used to say to each other on their wedding day on Japan. I think they still do sometimes.
Muruem said that he doesn't want to repeat his word twice but in the end muruem keeps asking if komugi is still here with him and it shows that how komugi is very important to muruem
It's not until he dies that you realize you had grown to care for his growth and the love that came with Kamougi. It's nice how love changes things like that ALSO The way Meruem's arc paralleled with Gon's downward spiral
you know, its awesome to watch things in a group like this... But being alone while watching this is just perfect, cause you can cry as much as you want.
The ultimate show of subversion. You anticipate Gon finally fighting Pitou, only to be shocked and dismayed at how brutal it is. You anticipate the King finally being defeated for dozens of episodes, a huge climax, only to have it end end up being the most mundane death imaginable - and feeling sorrow over it. A masterclass in storytelling.
Yeah the waterworks start pouring right after she asks is it okay for her to be this happy. You remember how hard of a life she had, and to actually find love and true happiness. It's so beautiful. Going into that ark I never thought I would end it crying over the villain. You had to hate Meruem in the beginning, but the way the story is crafty to see how he discovers his humanity is just spellbinding.
I just realized while rewatching, Diego might not have even been a dictator. It’s his 30th year of retirement. That means his body double, never was assassinated in all that time. What if the body double, started to be the one to make decisions. Even if Diego was a dictator at one point, it seems like he found peace. The quote, doesn’t seem like what a dictator would write.
I love the super SUPER delayed reaction to what happened. I don't normally watch anime, but the time it takes for this crew to have synapses firing is 👌
I am Japanese. I'm glad you guys enjoyed Hunter Hunter! Meruem was born as an absolute king and didn't know what was important. However, I met an important person named wheat and changed my mind. I can't forgive him for brutally killing a number of people, but maybe he too was unloving and pure. He finished a very beautiful end among the bad guys. I'm translating it in the application, so I'm sorry if it doesn't get through.
You should see Evynne’s video on Welfin and Meruem, each are about 5 minutes. The Welfin video explains both the King and Welfin begin their awakening with their true names: Meruem and Ziakahal... and complete their awakening (of their humanity and empathy) with the name of their strongest human connections: Komugi and Gyro.
From "Strength is the greatest power there is in this world!" to choosing to live out the rest of his life with his loved ones. Discovering humanity was the end of the monster. Togashi really is a genius who will make you weep for and empathize with a character who only a few episodes prior was killing children and eating humans.
I’ve cried two times from watching anime in my life. 1. Attack on Titan - Erwin Smith My Soldiers RAGE final Speech. 2. Hunter X Hunter - Komugi and Meruem final moments
That thing that make HXH different from other shonen anime, is that they're not concentrating on fights, but more on story telling.. that's why this is one of the best anime..
I once read that the poison allowed kamogi to see and not be blind anymore giving her some time to see merium, I cried when he said if they can play again cuz i knew it was coming
List of things Togashi did in this arc -The protagonists became vicious monsters, with a never ending depth for violence (both Gon and Netero, as evidenced by their skull like visage when their rage shone through), meanwhile the antagonist went from a horrifying monster to an empathetic human (even his drawing style made his face look soft and much more human at the end). -Mereum started off telling Komugi: I will not repeat myself. In the end to her alone he repeated himself -He also started off looking down on Komugi for being blind, but was blind himself at the end. -Mereum was born to be the final, insurmountable king of the world, but decided that his life's purpose and the meaning of his birth was for the moment's of gungi with Komugi Each Royal Guard suffered depending on their own humanity. Pitou also nearly became human and died happy, knowing she saved her king from Gon. Youpi learned some empathy/respect and suffered in the end, but still believed the King to be the ideal Ant. Pouf never came close to becoming human, had the greatest one sided love for the King, and suffered the most. He died alone knowing the King abandoned him for a human, the very thing Pouf hated most in the world Another thing that some like myself missed but native japanese speakers didn't: When Komugi says "Please allow me to join you" it's implying in an old fashioned way her desire to be his wife, not just to die with him. There was also some symbolism involving the Marshall and Spy pieces in the end, but I don't understand the game enough to explain it like other users have in other videos
HxH: Emotionally devastating ending scene
Me: ugly crying
HxH: *queue circus music*
lmao, at this point i legit wait for it
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah man I felt so weird balling my eyes out while that music played XD
I know. Like HXH NOW IS NOT THE TIME
The only time I ever questioned HxH's sound design
Meruem: "Komugi, will you say my name one last time?"
*_ugly crying_*
And cry again just for reading the comentoo T^T
100% me
Meruem at first: i will not repeat myself
Meruam at last: komugi are you still there?
The little details man. Fucking Togashi is an absolute master
Or even at the start of the episode he says, "Then I will repeat myself"
THE WRITING IS PERFECT
lets pray for his fast recovery. we need his art and intelligence
@@TheFiddler69 shut up
Let’s see if I cry again
I cried again
Already know I will
Edit: less than a minute into the video and I started thinkin about it, already tearing up
Bruh
I did
Almost man
The weakest character was the only one that could defeat the strongest.
Because she's the symbol of "strength."
People miss this point. Togashi was highlighting duality.
Buddhist/ Egyptian philosophies written all over this arc.
Because she was the only one he viewed as equal and greater then him. She is better then him in gungi. Hence why he started seeing her as not insect, but as someone equal to him
I mean netero killed him either way...
@@zafiruzoma6234 A human bomb killed him, not Netero
@@henriquemartins7206 bruh
Meruem was named by his mom, "the Light that illuminates all"... and komugi is blind. Coincidence? I think not!
fuck Togashi bruh i want him to recover already we miss his writings
“YOU CAN CRYYYYYYY AGAIN”
I have never cried at a scene from anything the way i CRIED to this
Underrated commentttttttt
vocalist-san slap the sh-t out of our faces
That happy "Next Time on HxH" theme music pisses off every reactor I've ever seen :)
Komugi: *Dying* Meruem, I'll join you soon.
***Cheerful Music***
Well the main villain is dead so why not celebrate?
@@mico5536 he became a good guy ? Wtf are u saying
Ikr, I wish they would cut the song in some of the episodes
@@mico5536 Good *sarcasm* . 👍
Komugi: Meruen, I'll join you soon.
Madhouse: Now stop crying
If you pause at 18:46 you will get the perfect image of everyones reaction to this episode.
Turning this into a meme
It’s like a renaissance painting or something lmao
HAHAHAH
nope 18:51
I watched this as it aired in 2014, and watch HxH from beginning to end multiple times a year for fun.
I will never NOT cry at Episode 135. Togashi is a master and Madhouse perfectly animated his vision.
I always cry too!!
Yeah, I did watched about 30-40 times but STILL cry.
For real man! I started hxh again in 2011, because I read the manga and the chimera arc. I read they were going to animate It and in the ending arc I got my brother to see Chimera arc live with me week by week. Watching people react to It always brings tears to my eyes
I tear up everytime I saw Komugi cried and ‘Understanding’ ost plays in.
The parallels between good and evil in this arc was mad crazy. The way Gon dipped towards the realm of evil for revenge losing his humanity and Meruem who was depicted as this merciless absolute go through such transition losing his monstrocity and gaining humanity is portrayed brilliantly. The thin line between who actually was the protagonist and the antagonist was very bleak. Usually in any shonen anime shows, magical powers are used to defeat said antagonist but the fact that a "bomb" was used to finish the chimera ants threat is pure genius writing. The narrator, the characters, the ost's everything was used precisely and perfectly to showcase the plot and the storyline. Greatest shonen arc of all times? Definitely
Props to Madhouse studios. I can't see anyone else animating H x H this well. They have to do it again when the anime returns in like 100 years
One additional layer being that while ants quickly evolve physically, humans quickly evolve through the extension of technology. Even though the Ants are portrayed as evil at the beginning, they are just a new species trying to find their place, and they seemed to grow more aware and humane over time. Meanwhile the humans capacity for evil through their form of evolution only grows, and is out of sync with their physical evolution, hence the irresponsibility and evil of nuclear weapons. Mureum died with the one he loved bathed in a white light and then a comforting and fading darkness. Netero died looking like a demon in a massive nuclear explosion. Gon sacrificed his humanity and all his potential for gruesome revenge. The monsters became human, and the humans became monsters. Leave it to HxH to deconstruct shonen to the point where victories feel like losses.
@@CDX7 Exactly. It seems everytime i rewatch this arc i discover some new levels and thematic ideas. Sure there are minor flaws here and there but this is the closest an anime arc will get to perfection.
Definitely one of my favorite scenes was Meruem lecturing a defeated Netero on how he was the entirety of his race and thus would always win, whereas humans are ALL individuals. The thing Meruem least expected, funnily enough, was to be proven so unbelievably correct that it would kill him.
Not only because humans are individuals does it mean that taking one human life is equivalent (to humans) to taking all of them (whereas a single ant is nothing so long as it's not the head of a species), but human individuality means that they're constantly in a power struggle against eachother, inventing and scheming more and more ways to have power supreme, whereas the ants do not compete with other ants, they merely capitulate to the main power.
As Meruem did not initially understand this, he did not expect Netero to have that kind of technology ready to use, because why would he? What kind of being would go out of their way to invent something like that, when would it ever be necessary? And yet, it exists, and that's why Meruem was so shook by Netero in that moment. He realized everything he said about humanity was correct, and only now considered the implications of how ungodly powerful individuality could be.
Meruem was fighting for ants, fighting simply to win, or perhaps survive. Something natural and neutral, all things considered. Almost instinct-driven, no thoughts other than the propagation of the species ever even occurred (not including Komugi). Netero, on the other hand, was fighting specifically to exterminate everything Meruem stood for, because that's the lengths *that* individual will go to to win. And because individuals can *decide,* that became a possibility where it wouldn't have even crossed an ant's mind. Meruem saw what individuality can create and was terrified to his core, an emotion previously foreign to him.
It's interesting to think about: Just as we individuals create horror fiction out of eusocial, collective creatures like ants, bees, etc (most notably the Xenomorphs from Alien), would eusocial creatures with sentience also create horror fiction about social, individual creatures like intelligent mammals?
yorknew arc was better overall
Even more feels that her touching his face at the end, she definitely realizes that he isn't human but doesn't effect her feelings in the slightest
"I may not be worthy, but please allow me to join you" is a sentence used by japanese women in certain kind of traditional marriage ceremonies. So, technically speaking, they got married before dying together!
No, that is only comparable to a proposal for marriage from Komugi.
@@rewrose2838 You're saying that as if they had time to have the whole traditional ceremony, lmao. Clearly Togashi used that to make even clearer how deep their bond was, and how it could be seen as an actual marriage.
LMAO the music at the end kills the moment every time
I watch it with arabic subtitles and the translators cut that part off to not affect the emotion climax of the episode , glad they did
I was mad as shit when that happy ass music came on LMAOO
At least the English dub cut that out
@@gonefreaks4677 yea but that aint comparable with the subs especially when it comes to HxH
King of Kings how is it even a meme
Remember when Meruem ate some kids? Now we cry for him... what a god damn show ❤️
Fr tho😭😂😂
Say what you will about the ants but they were basically just animals until they started eating evil humans and then the wanton cruelty started
#TheAntsDidNothingWrong
Haha kid brain goes yum yum
Lol. Fck him. I cried for komugi not for that ant king.
The true queen is dead.
RIP Komugi
Kite is queen now.
@@maosama3695 he’s a guy yho
@@angelsalazar7119 keep watching 😎
@@Kamal-nw7rx oh boy and I did haha 😎 I now know why he’s a “queen” but I still miss his old self 😔
No matter how many times I see this scene it still brings a tear to my eye
It's the deep silence that every reactor has in the last few minutes of episode 135 after the credits roll. Realizing that you actually feel sympathy for who was once the villain of the story, but they've now become human. Incredibly done fr, your guys' reactions were amazing. I finished this arc months ago and honestly I still don't think I'll ever get over how good it was.
queue cheerful music
Meruem: Born a king, Became a Monster, and Died after at last becoming human.
Gon: Started out innocent, grew to know despair, and finally fell into the deep abyss and now lies crippled.
The two of them worked in opposite ways
The realization Komugi and Meruem had that they were both born to experience that moment was just so beautiful and powerful.
This might be the best moment in the entire series and no main character is even involved. Outstanding work by Togashi
Agreed. I hate that the director decided to kind of ruin the moment, by putting that super happy music at the end.
jr4chargers yeah makes no sense lol
I almost liked this but I noticed the likes were at 69
@@strangerdanger431 thanks bro keep it even
Komugi and Meruem are an absolutely bonkers level of story telling.
Mereum's story really is some of the most gripping character development in anime or any other storytelling medium. To see a brutal inhuman creature discover the best parts of being human was so beautiful. Especially contrasting with Gon sacrificing his innocence and goodness for a dip into evil and brutality
Meruem: You ready?
Komugi: Yep!
Narrator: They were not ready.
This arc is such a masterpiece God I need Togashi back to continue the manga so we could get a new season COME ON TOGASHI!!
There rumors saying that he’s dying in ah hospital I REALLY hop thats not true
@@ssplif5415 those rumors are fake , but he is in a serious bad condition
How are you feeling with him being active on twitter
i found your comment and had to reply, HxH is back!!!
and we getting the troupe story. go read it!!!
@@Mr.Mars90 but for how long? I think only 1 volume is confirmed and the mangaka is still in bad shape. The mangaka of Beserk died way too early too :(
Man, with the Normies finishing this arc and Blind Wave starting it, this week is gonna be sweet
Can you please tell me how to watch blindwave's reactions? I went to the link that they put in their videos but it transferes me to their site and nothing works there not a single video for hxh or even kemitsu no yaiba so what should i do? Please help
@@zeirra. aren't they watching it in dub
@@zeirra. I'm watching it with VPN
Havent they been going for over a year?
@@zeirra. that might be you problem... Works fine for me
This show and playing happy-go-lucky music right after the dark/sad moments 😩😂
Mickey how can you say you hate Greed Island when barely paid attention to the arc 🤣
The pacing is just horrible bomber is uninteresting only good thing was dodgeball game
@@theanimeman989 The pacing was fine, the chimera arc had similar pacing issues if you want to take it that far.
@@nihlify which is why the chimera arc suffers a lot too
but atleast the chimera arc has an amazing finale and greed island is just a snooze fest through and through
warlordryudo The first time I saw the bomber get trapped and heard “show me rock” I was like REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Erik Nilsson yes it does lol the middle drags like hell lol yorknew is my favorite arc
"Poetic, beautiful." indeed. No big beams, no powerful transformations - just good writing and emotion to close an incredible though-provoking chapter.
Meruem has one of the best character developments in Anime.
We went from hating him to crying at his death, this is character development
Komugi and Meruem are two of the most beautifully written and executed characters. Their relationship and story is something that I will remember for the rest of my life for sure.
The preview for the next episode music kicking in after that heart breaking ending always makes me chuckle
All dislikes are from Pouf's account
This made laugh out loud 😂🤣
@@Stak0 lol u didn't get it
@@Stak0 so what? I can't like my comment? I'm a fan of my own comments bcoz i write dope shit😂
One of the greatest moments in the entire series INSTANTLY shit on by the terrible decision to go straight to the "Next time on HxH" jingle.....smh
I agree. Not sure what the director was thinking.
The only reason why it never feels right to me to give this episode a 10, I really need to slap whoever let that shit slide
Just an fyi. In japan, when it was aired on tv, the the jolly part at the end was not played right away. There was a commercial break and then it was played.
Now when streaming websites got the material they just pieced everything together minus the commercial breaks.
But yeah id say it ruins the atmosphere created by the poetic death scene
@@trofulds It isnt even necessarily apart of the episode. Ending songs shouldn't affect your overall scoring
@@alterp5108 Don't get me wrong, Chimera Ant is a 11/10 for me, my peak fiction, but Jesus I can't in good conscience let that one slide, which is why 135 will forever be a 9.999999/10 for me lol
The fact that this arc takes you from how you feel when you first see the King... to how you feel when you hear him called Mereum one last time.... crazy shit
noone ever expected to cry for meruem xD that is how good Togashi is !
Meruem was never evil by nature. He was literally born being told that he should be King, And he acted accordingly.
It wasn't just his social context, he had some kind of genetic programming motivating to dominate everyone, too... *but* the story was showing the whole time how the incorporation of human complexity was messing with all the ants prior genetic programming in unexpected ways, so even with the king being born with a powerful biological drive to fulfil this role, it was still heavily foreshadowed that it would go this way.
He was born and immediately executed and ate his fellow ants for slights. His nature is one of survival of the fittest, and the idea that he is supreme and should take over. This didn't need to be told to him. He was a bit bored and lost, but he definitely wasn't a blank slate.
"Is it better to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
this episode is my fav in the whole series bc of how tragic and beautiful it is. I was so excited to see rana react to this show bc i knew it would hit her hard just like it did to me. rip meruem x komugi
The character development for Meruem is just epic. It's incredible how he changed from a psychopath who everyone wanted killed to a kind soul who no one wanted to die.
Crying on 135 is for boys
Crying on 136 is for men
SPOILERS
Seriously though, I hope they won't be disappointed that CA arc has one last episode. It's so great too! Reina and Brovada, Kite reborn, Ging... And after that, time for the best villain!
Mannn I cried like a bitch about reina and her mom. Plus that Ging reveal was so hype, what a great episode
*looks up at the sky* oh, it's raining. dammit, I cry every time.
Bad day for rain 😭
“What a terrible day for rain”
“It isent raining, Sir”
“Yes... it is”
@@Ricky727wow everyone who gets this is a legend.
@@leguan278 you are a person of culture I see.
Very underrated scene. It hits different for different groups of aged people. For me this is best Hunter Hunter episode
I cried again. That ending always gets me.
6:50 they did not noticed that meruem repeat himself and throughout the last scenes which suggests that he is truly changed
Finally time to binge watch the whole chimera arc reaction! My patience is godly!🙂
Goddamn wtf how did you do it?
Patience worthy of a HXH fan.
@@colmen100 I wont lie: It really helped that yaboyroshi powerd through that arc at an imense pace contrary to the normies.
God,...i have found you
Nahid got it, ideology and emotions pushes the narrative/storyline. Think about the main characters goals and purpose. None of them are the strongest in the series.
P.s react to jojo bizarre adventure to replace hunter x hunter
YES! YES! YES! YES!
Dude I was gonna suggest the same. They gotta do Jojo next
@Chihiro yeah same, part 1 (most of it) and part 3 (first half) are so hard to watch but you can' absolutely not skip them and have to endure so much just to get to part 4 and 5 :(.
@Chihiro Yeah it is definitely worth it. I hated part 1 so much I had to watch it over the course of like 4 weeks and with the first half of part 3 it was even worse and I had to "drop" JJBA for like 4 months till I hardly got myself to continue but with the part 3 egypt arc, part 4 and part 5 I just inhaled them. I think I eliminated all of part 5 withing 2 days :D.
@@tadk1312 why y'all hating on pt1 man. Put some respecc on my boi Jonathan's name.
I haven't cried this much for anything in a VERY long time.. it impacts me so much.
The beauty of the Chimera Ant Arc is that while at a point Gon and Meruem (King) are equal in power, they never once fight each other, they even make a point of that when they walk right past each other in an episode and don’t even look at each other. Their fight is shown in a different way symbolically. The king, the antagonist, this evil inhuman being loses all his power and gives it up to gain humanity and die in peace. As he slowly becomes more and more human as he develops throughout the arc. While Gon, the protagonist loses all his humanity and gives it up to gain power and die in pain. As he slowly becomes more and more selfish and insecure and he feels responsible for Kite’s death and becomes obsessed with killing Pitou. Gon’s transformation was selfish, it’s an “anti-super sayin” moment, he didn’t do it to protect his friends he did it because he wanted to and he couldn’t cope with loss. That’s the beauty of HxH, ended a big arc in a way you don’t expect.
This has been a really amazing adventure, I remember the first upload of the Chimera Ants arc Episode 76, man what a joruney.
Love how nearly everyone who's watched this episode gets annoyed by the happy music at the end xD
I watched many different ep 135 reaction video and still can’t find any way to stop crying
I always go back to when Micky quotes Paarthunax "What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" ... that's the King.
Very much cringe
Sunny weather stfu
@@sunnyweather2655 😂😂😂😂
@@sunnyweather2655 If you're here watching not just anime, but someone elses reaction to anime, most would call that the near peak cringe.
But here you are, trynna act hard lol.
How did most of you guys manage not to cry. lol
Kudos to the girl, I feel you.
At the end of Arc the monster ( Mereum ) become a human and the human ( Gon ) become a monster.
16:03 in this instance i always wanted mereum to say: "i see...i had the whole world right from the start but i didnt realize it up until now"
He was a king but in a way he never thought someone could be a king
I BEEN WAITING FOR THEM TO COVER THIS EPISODE OMG
LMAO love the quick jump into the "Next time!" If they had played the ED instead, people would have bawled. No time for grieving.
Narrator-san with the respect right there. He gave the spotlight to the both. He knows.
I think there's a whole show to unpack after you finish it. It truly can be fully appreciated on a rewatch for most people in my opinion...
Cried again, thanks guys. Took me days to get over first time watching this.
When ever I think of this episode this moment I end up teary-eye
Komugi , the ugly snorting duckling, a random character in the arc. Make us all cry for her death at the end like a baby.
That's how you developed a character in people 💓
"i may not be worthy, but allow me to join you" is what people used to say to each other on their wedding day on Japan. I think they still do sometimes.
This is literally the only show that has made me tear up
And that right there is what puts HxH number 1 for me... I’ve seen this episode at least 10 times and I still cry every time... masterpiece
Muruem said that he doesn't want to repeat his word twice but in the end muruem keeps asking if komugi is still here with him and it shows that how komugi is very important to muruem
14:50 onwards is one of the most powerful emotional moments in HXH, who knew. Who knew.
Love how Gon and Meruem were heading the opposite way.
It's not until he dies that you realize you had grown to care for his growth and the love that came with Kamougi. It's nice how love changes things like that
ALSO The way Meruem's arc paralleled with Gon's downward spiral
This anime arc always makes a lot of people cry. Majestic.
Until this day one of the most amazing moments of all anime history. They were born for that moment.
Nahid and Rana: I could never have thought about this outcome.
Mickey whispering: I was right. :)
Mereuem asked 'Komogi are you still here'?
Me : literally shattered ☺️
you know, its awesome to watch things in a group like this... But being alone while watching this is just perfect, cause you can cry as much as you want.
The ultimate show of subversion. You anticipate Gon finally fighting Pitou, only to be shocked and dismayed at how brutal it is. You anticipate the King finally being defeated for dozens of episodes, a huge climax, only to have it end end up being the most mundane death imaginable - and feeling sorrow over it.
A masterclass in storytelling.
absolutely
Yeah the waterworks start pouring right after she asks is it okay for her to be this happy. You remember how hard of a life she had, and to actually find love and true happiness. It's so beautiful. Going into that ark I never thought I would end it crying over the villain. You had to hate Meruem in the beginning, but the way the story is crafty to see how he discovers his humanity is just spellbinding.
I didnt know why, but somehow there's always someone cutting onions when im watching this episode. Damn anime onions
I just realized while rewatching, Diego might not have even been a dictator. It’s his 30th year of retirement. That means his body double, never was assassinated in all that time. What if the body double, started to be the one to make decisions. Even if Diego was a dictator at one point, it seems like he found peace. The quote, doesn’t seem like what a dictator would write.
bruhhh 136 is the ep that makes me cry the hardest, I can't wait for the next one.
I love the super SUPER delayed reaction to what happened. I don't normally watch anime, but the time it takes for this crew to have synapses firing is 👌
STRIGHT FACT I WAS CRYING WITH YOU LIKE THE ONE THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN CRYING BEFORE
I am Japanese. I'm glad you guys enjoyed Hunter Hunter!
Meruem was born as an absolute king and didn't know what was important. However, I met an important person named wheat and changed my mind. I can't forgive him for brutally killing a number of people, but maybe he too was unloving and pure. He finished a very beautiful end among the bad guys.
I'm translating it in the application, so I'm sorry if it doesn't get through.
You should see Evynne’s video on Welfin and Meruem, each are about 5 minutes. The Welfin video explains both the King and Welfin begin their awakening with their true names: Meruem and Ziakahal... and complete their awakening (of their humanity and empathy) with the name of their strongest human connections: Komugi and Gyro.
This was the best arc of the H&H series, so glad you guys reacted to this! Thanks!
At the end, when Gon's voice appeared Can you shut your mouth
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Finally! I wanted to watch your reaction.
From "Strength is the greatest power there is in this world!" to choosing to live out the rest of his life with his loved ones. Discovering humanity was the end of the monster. Togashi really is a genius who will make you weep for and empathize with a character who only a few episodes prior was killing children and eating humans.
I’ve cried two times from watching anime in my life.
1. Attack on Titan - Erwin Smith My Soldiers RAGE final Speech.
2. Hunter X Hunter - Komugi and Meruem final moments
Catche me crying EVERY TIME I see this ep.
That thing that make HXH different from other shonen anime, is that they're not concentrating on fights, but more on story telling.. that's why this is one of the best anime..
I once read that the poison allowed kamogi to see and not be blind anymore giving her some time to see merium, I cried when he said if they can play again cuz i knew it was coming
List of things Togashi did in this arc
-The protagonists became vicious monsters, with a never ending depth for violence (both Gon and Netero, as evidenced by their skull like visage when their rage shone through), meanwhile the antagonist went from a horrifying monster to an empathetic human (even his drawing style made his face look soft and much more human at the end).
-Mereum started off telling Komugi: I will not repeat myself. In the end to her alone he repeated himself
-He also started off looking down on Komugi for being blind, but was blind himself at the end.
-Mereum was born to be the final, insurmountable king of the world, but decided that his life's purpose and the meaning of his birth was for the moment's of gungi with Komugi
Each Royal Guard suffered depending on their own humanity. Pitou also nearly became human and died happy, knowing she saved her king from Gon. Youpi learned some empathy/respect and suffered in the end, but still believed the King to be the ideal Ant. Pouf never came close to becoming human, had the greatest one sided love for the King, and suffered the most. He died alone knowing the King abandoned him for a human, the very thing Pouf hated most in the world
Another thing that some like myself missed but native japanese speakers didn't: When Komugi says "Please allow me to join you" it's implying in an old fashioned way her desire to be his wife, not just to die with him.
There was also some symbolism involving the Marshall and Spy pieces in the end, but I don't understand the game enough to explain it like other users have in other videos
No puedo creer que cada vez que veo esta escena lloro.
Joder que hermoso es HxH
このシーン見る度、泣かずにはいられない(*T^T)
And yep, still cried again just watching a little of it. This episode was so good, and so sad.
And that is one of the best arc endings in anime history folks
Isn't it scary that the second in command, Secretary Bizeff, looks so much like Mike Pence...
lmao i never noticed that. true tho
My exact reaction to seeing this episode's reaction get posted was, "Oh no, we're already here. I'm not ready to cry yet."
It’s the last scene of Komugi face for me. When she say I’ll be joining you. 😭😭😭