You missed completely that Netero is not a heroe. He doesnt care at all about the humans that will die with the Ants alive. He only cares about the king being strong and getting a good fight. So no Netero would not care to die of natural causes and the bomb exploding with people close. It wasnt even him that proposed them to fight that far 😂
Someone already mentioned it. But Aoi Todo in JJk s2e21 after losing Boogie Woogie, he says “The act of applause… is an acclamation of the soul.” This is a direct callback to Netero’s “you believe I cannot pray with a single arm? A prayer comes from the heart.” Gege LOVES HxH and constantly references it.
It's not nen. It's not an individual's overwhelming talent. It's not even the pinnacle of human achievement. It's a cheap mass produced weapon popular with small dictatorships. I love this moment for how it recontextualizes the entire conflict. The ants weren't ever truly a threat to humanity. They might cause a significant level of destruction and chaos if they spread out, but their hierarchical system that only values and prioritizes the pinnacle of ability could never truly stand up to humanity's cooperative and cumulative efforts. If the king had valued the contributions of those he saw as lesser and not immediately killed Peggy, the one ant interested in learning about the world they live in, he might have found out about humanity's abilities and technologies and the precarious position the ants were in. Instead he learned the hard way.
It's Meruem's arrogance that spelled his doom. It wouldn't matter if he knew about how actually precarious his position is, he truly believed in his superiority. He wouldn't truly understand the gravity of it until the end, when it was already too late. That's his nature.
I sort of understood the difference between humans and ants in a different way, it’s not so much the difference in human cooperation vs ants hierarchal social structure which gives humans the edge, but rather human individuality, tribalism and hate which wins us the war. The ants could never create weapons like this not because they are dumber or less cooperative than humans, but because they are smarter and more cooperative. Bombs built to destroy your own kin, the absurdity of such a device, defies reasoning to the ants. That’s just how I viewed it tho.
16:19 And there it is. Like I've mentioned in episode 55-56 when Gon question Chrollo "how can you kill people who have nothing to do with you?" we have Gon at his darkest and lowest where he doesn't care about anything and would kill an innocent person just to get what he wants WHEN he wants - since he already waited an hour and is not willing to wait anymore or have any delays. The way we see in this arc the King becoming more human and Gon becoming more of a monster when confronting Pitou is brilliant.
21:58 Also, another fun fact before I forget, when Netero mentions “evolution” it actually has a double meaning, the word used in Japanese can both mean “evolution” and “malice”. So Netero means “you know nothing of humanity’s infinite potential for evolution/malice”. After all, during the whole arc we explore the themes of humanity’s humanity and cruelty, the fact that humans and monsters (ants) aren’t so different after all.
This is only half true as "evolution" and "malice" are completely different words in Japanese. What it actually is that manga(and sometimes novels too) use something called a "furigana". Furigana is used to give the reading of complex kanji characters in a more easily readable form, that is hiragana. In this case, the author used the kanji for one (either malice or evolution, can't remember which) while using the furigana for the other, thus giving the statement a double meaning.
@@keremcantarhan Thank you! I had no way of explaining that because I couldn't remember correctly how it was written, so i explained it the easiest way I could.
@@dubious3d Oftentimes, it's because people insist that the "evolution" translation is wrong, and that it should just "malice," since they didn't completely understand the theme of evolution in this arc.
Here's what's dark: what made Netero's plan fool-proof was the fact that, if the King insta-killed him and Zeno, poor man's rose would have gone off, killing *EVERYONE*
Still a win, everyone participate knows the risk of death, making sure Ant dead more important than anything else, still the old man managed to profit from it. Being a peak but aging martial art holic doomed to lose skills slowly and suddenly he gets a chance to stage his own final showdown, what a blessing.
Remember what Netero said at the beginning of the arc; "i don't think i can accomplished this mission without sacrificing someone", he was referring to himself, what a chad.
It is important to underline the fact that the bomb used was "low budget" and "massively produced" meaning, in short, that humanity has by the point of the series far surpassed the capabilities of even the strongest nen users (with a few edge cases 😊). The ants basically never stood a chance even if no hunters existed whatsoever.
Fun fact: The Bomber's hand explosion ability is called Little Flower. In the HxH universe, that ability is most likely a reference to the Miniature Rose bomb. Idk if its necessarily confirmed to be so, but it is a very cool reference and slight foreshadowing of this rigged game that Netero played
If accidental then Togashi really likes relating explosions to flowers but even then it ends up working in universe because Genthru would make the same association anyways.
its probably not intentional. The word for fireworks in japanese is 花火 (hanabi), which uses the kanji 花(hana) for flower and 火(hi) for fire. So it's less of a Togashi thing to associate explosions and flowers and more of a japanese thing. What i'd say its a smart writing move is the constant reference to flowers in palace fights preceding Netero vs Meruem. Usually, death is associated with flowers withering. But in the manga panels of the near deaths of Knuckle and Shoot we see flowers _blooming_. We can then later associate this with the Poor Man's Rose, that causes death when it blooms.
@@XuhXum It's safe to assume that Hisoka thinks he can beat anybody. During the Yorknew Arc, after his fight with Castro. There's a monologue by Machi (in the manga it's from the narrator) that says Hisoka thinks that he's the strongest.
Remember when netero was first introduced, he played a game with gon and killua where he only used one arm and one leg to keep the ball from the kids. And in his final moments he only had one arm and one leg to fight rhe king. Full circle
And not only that, back the hunter exam the last contest was a fight between 2 the winner is who forces his opponent to admit defeat after using all his cards without killing them..same concep Netero came up with for the king to win he should make him admit defeat without killing him after Netero usee everything he has Another full circle
The other translation for "Never underestimate humanity's infinte potential for evolution" is "Never underestimate humanity's infinite potential for malice". Both are very much fitting.
to me the malice one is the correct one because of his action of using a nuke, he was talking about humanity potential for destruction, if you switch malice for evolution it gives a beautiful meaning that makes no sense in that scene, even that ghostly face shows that he is not talking about any beautiful thing there.
@@decoy9854 i know, that's why i said "to me", it's the same with english sometimes you choose a word depending on context, so to me the context of the scene is better translated with malice instead of evolution.
@@luizrbf01 The point is that you don't choose one. The word is used because both are meant to be used. Personally I wish the sub translation showed that.
@@luizrbf01 It's not the same, there is no "correct one". Japanese often annotates the pronunciation of kanji next to/above them. In the manga, Netero pronounced "malice" as "evolution". That makes no sense if you actually _listen_ to Japanese because they're completely different words just as they are in English, but in the context of the story, that's what canonically, objectively happened based on the information provided to us. The manga is very unambiguous about that. As for the _interpretation_ of that event, what you could take it to mean is that Netero _said_ "evolution", but that he meant to additionally imply "malice" with that. Or perhaps he simply meant "malice" but highlights "evolution" as the way that enables this limitless potential. You could even read is as him attempting to put it in the terms of the Chimera Ants, whose ability to evolve their biology is second to none, but humanity's ability to evolve their use of technology eclipses even that.
The crazy thing is not only does Gungi play direct role in this fight , but Meruem's and Komugi's games before foreshadow parts of how the entire palace invasioj takes place . Its amazing .
@@antoinebrg6299 yeahh ... Not the entire palace invasion but a lot of parts of it ., it's not easy to notice though as the game pieces have very different names . Like there is a scene of "The spy hasn't done anything this whole game but now it controls the whole board" ... Is how Welfin plays the most important role at the end .
Loved the reaction. Ange was spot on when he said the statue behind netero looks like god. The chants netero using are “bodhisattva”, the idea in Buddhism that describes someone who has reached a state of nirvana and only lives to alleviate suffering of others. By that logic, the statue is Gautam Buddha himself. Looks like Buddha too. 😊❤
"a prayer comes from the heart" 🥲 why I shed a tear though such a sick fight, it's not the most fleshy in anime, but damn if it's the most badass in overall feeling.
Detail: If you watch it with the english dub you will hear he saying "Meruem King of the Ants, you would never underestimate the bottomless malice in the human heart..." And soon blows up
Its how you see that Gon is a piece of shit that deserves no protagonist role. Even before all this he always bugged me and I actually wanted him to just die 😂
5:59 Netero didn't stop the bleeding by growing over new skin, he's just so strong and has such good body control that he flexed his leg hard enough to stop the blood flow
It's a big dick writing move to be like "So I built up this deep, complex power system for over a hundred episodes. But fuck that shit, humans got nukes."
Thats sick tho. The writer erased from us the concept that human weapons can harm individual with nen. So Bazooka and even bomb is not expected to be used as a final resort ( referenced from uvo fighting mafia ) What shocked almost all reactors is that the culmination of human malice is advanced technology was used by netero as final resort THAT IS SICK!
Maybe a bit late to put this context, but in the original Netero said " you knoe nothing of humans potencial for malice". First Netero is a villain among villains. He cares little about the human lives that the ants would take. He was there basically for the fun. Second, since he used a cheap bomb that ended up being the downfall of Meruem, he is basically saying that the strongest of humans weapons wasnt necessary to deal with Meruem, putting humans as the strongest but also the wickest for creating something capable of such destrution
The arm and leg that Netero lost was the same one he tried not to use against Gon during the exam on the airship, foreshadowing since the beggining T_T
Point of this arc was to show that humans are the only species that will kill itself just to prove a point, every scene you saw while the narrator was explaining about the dark side of humanity was based of REAL life events, Rodney king, Chinese square massacre, concentration camps, Vietnam executions…..the biggest threat to humanity is humans, a mouse will never make a mouse trap but humans made nukes just to wipe out other humans……humans potential can either go right or left…gon and netero are prime example of how light and dark humans can be
7:42 In JJK… You remember when Todo said to Mahito, after having cut his hand,... at the top before Yuji gave the final blow to Mahito. it's inspired by Netero's words at that precise moment
Fun fact: The arm and the leg that netero lost in this fight is a throwback to the episode where he made Gon and Killua take the ball off him. He lost the limbs he used during that episode 👀
I’ve been waiting for this one! STILL to this day my favourite fight of all time in anime/manga. I’m glad you guys loved it, it’s such an epic moment in the series, especially Netero’s trash talking 😅
Haha, Netero doesn't just walk around with the Miniature Rose in his chest! He had it implanted for this fight specifically. If he had managed to win without sacrificing himself, I imagine he would have had it removed.
I don't think Netero always had the poor mans rose in his chest, I think he had it implanted before coming to the NGL but if not, dropping dead at a super market and just taking out a city is nuts
One thing I dont see people mention much but I find really cool is how Netero (that here represents humanity) seems like he is bowing down to Meruem after he stabs his heart. But Netero is running away from him. He doesnt want what humanity has to offer him anymore
I was confused a bit by this sub because when I watched it in sub, Netero said something like "You know nothing about humanity's infinite potential for malice". It gave me chills so I remember it clearly.
whenver i see the ending of this episode i always wonder what would happen if Netero had a heart attack in a shopping mall, but aside that, this is one of greatest episodes in shonen history. I also don't feel sad for Netero's death honestly, he wasn't the type that wanted to fade away in a hospital bed, he wanted to go out like a warrior, fighting someone worthy of defeating him while he was still powerful, and that's exactly what happened, he enjoyed his "final act", as he called it.
It's absolutely painful and disgusting to think that humanity had already developed that horrible bomb before all this..this was not a bomb created to kill the ants..it was created to kill eachother. Humanity has infinite potential for evolution and evil..afterall, the ants despite hating eachother and killing eachother..they never devoted so much time to develop anything so horrible just to kill eachother
Meruem never stood a chance against humanity, our potential for destruction is much greater, we know this because unfortunately we eventually do this to ourselves
Moreover, Todo dropped an in-universe reference to HunterXHunter because he is a weeb. And he was not the first to do so - moments before that, Itadori used a pose that looks suspiciously like Jajanken AND there was a scene foreshadowing this one, where he read a bunch of shonen to get good at his shonen powers.
An EPIC battle. Netero-Sensei is goated 💪🏻
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Code Geass pls
yeah and that was him in is waning days, imagine his level at his prime
You guys missed the "Finger Arrangement" when Netero do the Zero Hand
You missed completely that Netero is not a heroe. He doesnt care at all about the humans that will die with the Ants alive. He only cares about the king being strong and getting a good fight.
So no Netero would not care to die of natural causes and the bomb exploding with people close. It wasnt even him that proposed them to fight that far 😂
Someone already mentioned it. But Aoi Todo in JJk s2e21 after losing Boogie Woogie, he says “The act of applause… is an acclamation of the soul.” This is a direct callback to Netero’s “you believe I cannot pray with a single arm? A prayer comes from the heart.”
Gege LOVES HxH and constantly references it.
Thats epic
@@CarlieAndAnge it is!!! Tho I'd like to correct myself it's s2e20 sjsjsjs
But jjk stinky
Todo belongs in hxh.
@@blakec8549… no?
It's not nen. It's not an individual's overwhelming talent. It's not even the pinnacle of human achievement. It's a cheap mass produced weapon popular with small dictatorships. I love this moment for how it recontextualizes the entire conflict. The ants weren't ever truly a threat to humanity. They might cause a significant level of destruction and chaos if they spread out, but their hierarchical system that only values and prioritizes the pinnacle of ability could never truly stand up to humanity's cooperative and cumulative efforts.
If the king had valued the contributions of those he saw as lesser and not immediately killed Peggy, the one ant interested in learning about the world they live in, he might have found out about humanity's abilities and technologies and the precarious position the ants were in. Instead he learned the hard way.
The Greatest threat to humanity Will forever be itself
well said
It's Meruem's arrogance that spelled his doom. It wouldn't matter if he knew about how actually precarious his position is, he truly believed in his superiority. He wouldn't truly understand the gravity of it until the end, when it was already too late. That's his nature.
I sort of understood the difference between humans and ants in a different way, it’s not so much the difference in human cooperation vs ants hierarchal social structure which gives humans the edge, but rather human individuality, tribalism and hate which wins us the war. The ants could never create weapons like this not because they are dumber or less cooperative than humans, but because they are smarter and more cooperative. Bombs built to destroy your own kin, the absurdity of such a device, defies reasoning to the ants. That’s just how I viewed it tho.
16:19 And there it is. Like I've mentioned in episode 55-56 when Gon question Chrollo "how can you kill people who have nothing to do with you?" we have Gon at his darkest and lowest where he doesn't care about anything and would kill an innocent person just to get what he wants WHEN he wants - since he already waited an hour and is not willing to wait anymore or have any delays.
The way we see in this arc the King becoming more human and Gon becoming more of a monster when confronting Pitou is brilliant.
Pitou has something to do with gon though
@@vgautamkrishna5197 ye but he threatened to kill komugi who had nothing to do with him
@@areeba7045 yeah
"He's been Armined" is wild 😭😭
😢😂😂😂
I couldn’t help but burst out laughing
goddam it XD
Can't believe I got spoiled in a hxh video 😂😂 it's alright tho
21:58 Also, another fun fact before I forget, when Netero mentions “evolution” it actually has a double meaning, the word used in Japanese can both mean “evolution” and “malice”. So Netero means “you know nothing of humanity’s infinite potential for evolution/malice”. After all, during the whole arc we explore the themes of humanity’s humanity and cruelty, the fact that humans and monsters (ants) aren’t so different after all.
Every single reaction video on this episode has to have this comment lol
This is only half true as "evolution" and "malice" are completely different words in Japanese. What it actually is that manga(and sometimes novels too) use something called a "furigana". Furigana is used to give the reading of complex kanji characters in a more easily readable form, that is hiragana. In this case, the author used the kanji for one (either malice or evolution, can't remember which) while using the furigana for the other, thus giving the statement a double meaning.
@@keremcantarhan Thank you! I had no way of explaining that because I couldn't remember correctly how it was written, so i explained it the easiest way I could.
I've always liked the translation that says "malice" it gives Neteros words a totally different meaning 🥲 good explanation!
@@dubious3d Oftentimes, it's because people insist that the "evolution" translation is wrong, and that it should just "malice," since they didn't completely understand the theme of evolution in this arc.
10:05 carlie was QUICK to have humans just be cattle😭😭💀
🤣
Eren will be rumbling from the grave. 😅
Lmao she folded immediately and was like “Thats the best we’re gonna get”
Here's what's dark: what made Netero's plan fool-proof was the fact that, if the King insta-killed him and Zeno, poor man's rose would have gone off, killing *EVERYONE*
damn a new discovery despite watching and reading a lot of hxh contents 👏❤
Ok, I didn't realise that point even after so many rewatchs. Impressive!!!
🗿 This old fck was insane
When bro said someone had to be sacrificed he was NOT joking 😂
Still a win, everyone participate knows the risk of death, making sure Ant dead more important than anything else, still the old man managed to profit from it. Being a peak but aging martial art holic doomed to lose skills slowly and suddenly he gets a chance to stage his own final showdown, what a blessing.
Remember what Netero said at the beginning of the arc; "i don't think i can accomplished this mission without sacrificing someone", he was referring to himself, what a chad.
"You believe I cannot pray with a single arm?"
Always gives me chills.
I also love how this idea is revisited in 131 with a certain move
It is important to underline the fact that the bomb used was "low budget" and "massively produced" meaning, in short, that humanity has by the point of the series far surpassed the capabilities of even the strongest nen users (with a few edge cases 😊). The ants basically never stood a chance even if no hunters existed whatsoever.
@Hsple0 they couldve just nuked the entirety of NJL instead of sending hunters
Come on its just a Cartoon. Don't take it seriously 😂
@@mastouriedam5845 You need to understand how dangerous nukes are it can affect the whole world after effects
@mastouriedam5845 NGL said "No Metals !1!!1!1"
@@adnanaragon I think the message of the arc is important. Cartoon or not lol
Fun fact: The Bomber's hand explosion ability is called Little Flower. In the HxH universe, that ability is most likely a reference to the Miniature Rose bomb. Idk if its necessarily confirmed to be so, but it is a very cool reference and slight foreshadowing of this rigged game that Netero played
Never noticed that
If accidental then Togashi really likes relating explosions to flowers but even then it ends up working in universe because Genthru would make the same association anyways.
I feel like an idiot for never noticing this
its probably not intentional. The word for fireworks in japanese is 花火 (hanabi), which uses the kanji 花(hana) for flower and 火(hi) for fire. So it's less of a Togashi thing to associate explosions and flowers and more of a japanese thing.
What i'd say its a smart writing move is the constant reference to flowers in palace fights preceding Netero vs Meruem. Usually, death is associated with flowers withering. But in the manga panels of the near deaths of Knuckle and Shoot we see flowers _blooming_. We can then later associate this with the Poor Man's Rose, that causes death when it blooms.
Remember back in the airship when Hisoka and Killua thought they could beat/kill Netero?
Yeah.
Netero actually lost those limbs he used on Killua and Gon during the catch ball game😂
Hisoka didn't think he would win. He just wanted to fight him
@@XuhXum It's safe to assume that Hisoka thinks he can beat anybody. During the Yorknew Arc, after his fight with Castro. There's a monologue by Machi (in the manga it's from the narrator) that says Hisoka thinks that he's the strongest.
Remember when netero was first introduced, he played a game with gon and killua where he only used one arm and one leg to keep the ball from the kids. And in his final moments he only had one arm and one leg to fight rhe king. Full circle
And not only that, back the hunter exam the last contest was a fight between 2 the winner is who forces his opponent to admit defeat after using all his cards without killing them..same concep Netero came up with for the king to win he should make him admit defeat without killing him after Netero usee everything he has
Another full circle
The other translation for "Never underestimate humanity's infinte potential for evolution" is "Never underestimate humanity's infinite potential for malice". Both are very much fitting.
to me the malice one is the correct one because of his action of using a nuke, he was talking about humanity potential for destruction, if you switch malice for evolution it gives a beautiful meaning that makes no sense in that scene, even that ghostly face shows that he is not talking about any beautiful thing there.
@@luizrbf01 it's both, since they are interwined, and that's how japanese works.
@@decoy9854 i know, that's why i said "to me", it's the same with english sometimes you choose a word depending on context, so to me the context of the scene is better translated with malice instead of evolution.
@@luizrbf01 The point is that you don't choose one. The word is used because both are meant to be used. Personally I wish the sub translation showed that.
@@luizrbf01 It's not the same, there is no "correct one". Japanese often annotates the pronunciation of kanji next to/above them. In the manga, Netero pronounced "malice" as "evolution". That makes no sense if you actually _listen_ to Japanese because they're completely different words just as they are in English, but in the context of the story, that's what canonically, objectively happened based on the information provided to us. The manga is very unambiguous about that.
As for the _interpretation_ of that event, what you could take it to mean is that Netero _said_ "evolution", but that he meant to additionally imply "malice" with that. Or perhaps he simply meant "malice" but highlights "evolution" as the way that enables this limitless potential. You could even read is as him attempting to put it in the terms of the Chimera Ants, whose ability to evolve their biology is second to none, but humanity's ability to evolve their use of technology eclipses even that.
The crazy thing is not only does Gungi play direct role in this fight , but Meruem's and Komugi's games before foreshadow parts of how the entire palace invasioj takes place . Its amazing .
wait for real ?
@@antoinebrg6299 yeahh ... Not the entire palace invasion but a lot of parts of it ., it's not easy to notice though as the game pieces have very different names . Like there is a scene of "The spy hasn't done anything this whole game but now it controls the whole board" ... Is how Welfin plays the most important role at the end .
12:27 bro when I saw the arming png slowly popping up I couldn't help but laugh
Netero : Boom 💣
Armin : first time ?
Netero came first though...
It's kind of iconic how netero used nukes to kill an ant
It wasn't a nuke, it was just a very powerful bomb.
Loved the reaction. Ange was spot on when he said the statue behind netero looks like god. The chants netero using are “bodhisattva”, the idea in Buddhism that describes someone who has reached a state of nirvana and only lives to alleviate suffering of others. By that logic, the statue is Gautam Buddha himself. Looks like Buddha too. 😊❤
"a prayer comes from the heart" 🥲 why I shed a tear though
such a sick fight, it's not the most fleshy in anime, but damn if it's the most badass in overall feeling.
Its pretty fleshy considering Netty boy lost an arm and a leg
(I know you meant flashy btw lol)
20:05 " he's been armined " 💀💀💀
7:45 Clock that moment Carlie and Ange, this was an obvious inspiration for Todo's "act of applause is an acclamation of the soul" back in Shibuya
Detail: If you watch it with the english dub you will hear he saying "Meruem King of the Ants, you would never underestimate the bottomless malice in the human heart..." And soon blows up
Gon to chrollo “how can you kill people who have nothing to do with you”
Also Gon “Next time you try to delay me I’ll kill her” you gotta love it😂
😂😂
Its how you see that Gon is a piece of shit that deserves no protagonist role. Even before all this he always bugged me and I actually wanted him to just die 😂
8:35-8:40 this reaction here, is one of my favs of all time❤❤
it's beautiful. Probably same face I made the first time I watched it.
The left hand and right leg that he lost are the ones he used against gon and killua on the airship showing up his subconscious bias
Y’all think the arc is dying down now 😭
Rip netero man real one
the only anime where the saying "just nuke him lol" is actually valid.
The narration in this episode proves to me that Togashi is the best shonen author by far
5:59 Netero didn't stop the bleeding by growing over new skin, he's just so strong and has such good body control that he flexed his leg hard enough to stop the blood flow
It's a big dick writing move to be like "So I built up this deep, complex power system for over a hundred episodes. But fuck that shit, humans got nukes."
Thats sick tho. The writer erased from us the concept that human weapons can harm individual with nen. So Bazooka and even bomb is not expected to be used as a final resort ( referenced from uvo fighting mafia )
What shocked almost all reactors is that the culmination of human malice is advanced technology was used by netero as final resort
THAT IS SICK!
Maybe a bit late to put this context, but in the original Netero said " you knoe nothing of humans potencial for malice". First Netero is a villain among villains. He cares little about the human lives that the ants would take. He was there basically for the fun.
Second, since he used a cheap bomb that ended up being the downfall of Meruem, he is basically saying that the strongest of humans weapons wasnt necessary to deal with Meruem, putting humans as the strongest but also the wickest for creating something capable of such destrution
R. I. P Chairman Netero 🙏❤
The arm and leg that Netero lost was the same one he tried not to use against Gon during the exam on the airship, foreshadowing since the beggining T_T
"he´s been armined" lol, for me it was in reverse
Point of this arc was to show that humans are the only species that will kill itself just to prove a point, every scene you saw while the narrator was explaining about the dark side of humanity was based of REAL life events, Rodney king, Chinese square massacre, concentration camps, Vietnam executions…..the biggest threat to humanity is humans, a mouse will never make a mouse trap but humans made nukes just to wipe out other humans……humans potential can either go right or left…gon and netero are prime example of how light and dark humans can be
7:42 In JJK… You remember when Todo said to Mahito, after having cut his hand,... at the top before Yuji gave the final blow to Mahito.
it's inspired by Netero's words at that precise moment
Fun fact: The arm and the leg that netero lost in this fight is a throwback to the episode where he made Gon and Killua take the ball off him. He lost the limbs he used during that episode 👀
I’ve been waiting for this one! STILL to this day my favourite fight of all time in anime/manga. I’m glad you guys loved it, it’s such an epic moment in the series, especially Netero’s trash talking 😅
In Netero and Meruem's fight I was actually cheering for Meruem
Next Eps. 131 gonna be the best rage moment in the entire anime you ever seen
Haha, Netero doesn't just walk around with the Miniature Rose in his chest! He had it implanted for this fight specifically. If he had managed to win without sacrificing himself, I imagine he would have had it removed.
I don't think Netero always had the poor mans rose in his chest, I think he had it implanted before coming to the NGL but if not, dropping dead at a super market and just taking out a city is nuts
im glad this segment was longer than usual. happy to see you react to the epic fights
One thing I dont see people mention much but I find really cool is how Netero (that here represents humanity) seems like he is bowing down to Meruem after he stabs his heart. But Netero is running away from him. He doesnt want what humanity has to offer him anymore
I was confused a bit by this sub because when I watched it in sub, Netero said something like "You know nothing about humanity's infinite potential for malice". It gave me chills so I remember it clearly.
It's both.
"He's been armined" ahh💀💀 20:05
“Did his skin just grow over” had me laughing 😂
the point of this battle is to show that the humans are actually the real monsters here on this earth.....
i guess the evolution can also be read as malice, i think that makes sense as well considering all the things we have done with bombs / nukes.
another great reaction guys, thank you!~
I've been waiting for this reaction from you started, effing love you guys 🫡❤️🤙🎉
Meruem: Tell me my name.
Netero:🙏🤌🙏✊🙏👍🙏✌🙏👊🦵🙏🤛🙏🤜🙏👉🙏🤙🙏👎🙏🤏🙏🤘🙏🤚🙏🤞🙏👆🙏✊
🙏👏🙏🖕👄🤞🫀💥👋
the prayer from the heart & don't understmate humans are pure chills
8:45 - Still funny that Killua thought he could beat the old man
Love your guy's reactions, keeping doing what you're doing!
dude brought a nuke to a fist fight
Funny, but not a nuke, just a very powerful bomb.
the mentioning of Armin had me laughed so hard in this show lol
whenver i see the ending of this episode i always wonder what would happen if Netero had a heart attack in a shopping mall, but aside that, this is one of greatest episodes in shonen history.
I also don't feel sad for Netero's death honestly, he wasn't the type that wanted to fade away in a hospital bed, he wanted to go out like a warrior, fighting someone worthy of defeating him while he was still powerful, and that's exactly what happened, he enjoyed his "final act", as he called it.
It's pretty obvious he only had the bomb inside him for the fight 🤦
8:33 Noooo, they missed Netero's middle finger....
Don't forget that netero has less than half his prime power, young netero fighting meruem would go crazy
Netero is the mother f'ing reaper here. He walked in knowing death was coming with him.
It's absolutely painful and disgusting to think that humanity had already developed that horrible bomb before all this..this was not a bomb created to kill the ants..it was created to kill eachother.
Humanity has infinite potential for evolution and evil..afterall, the ants despite hating eachother and killing eachother..they never devoted so much time to develop anything so horrible just to kill eachother
A while ago I wondered when you guys would catch up to LM reactions. I can't believe it happened here!!!!
Been waiting for HxH reactions ❤
Absolutely Masterpiece 💜🖤💜💜
20:05 HELP 😭😭😭
"hxh having a emotional moment"
Carlie: he's been armined
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yo wtf is that scene bro, my eyes water SO QUICKLY watching that netero meruem finale
LMAO I CAN'T with that ARMIN EDIT
Can't believe the subtitles did the best line, "don't underestimate the evil of humanity" like that
Meruem never stood a chance against humanity, our potential for destruction is much greater, we know this because unfortunately we eventually do this to ourselves
Netero did it first here, and Todo Aoi followed.
Moreover, Todo dropped an in-universe reference to HunterXHunter because he is a weeb. And he was not the first to do so - moments before that, Itadori used a pose that looks suspiciously like Jajanken AND there was a scene foreshadowing this one, where he read a bunch of shonen to get good at his shonen powers.
Anime fans when they learn what a reference is
Meruim got turned into Voldemort 😂
Netero = 🐐
there are some badasses out there but netero is surely on top
Netro was a beast
Netero survived the dark continent and then died from a creature of this place
Omg youre almost there...
The way you casually just said "Oh...he's been Armin'd" omfg 😭😂
yeah humankind has been around long enough to have weapons and tech beyond their imagination
Rest in peace Netero 🫡
good night, Meruem
We need your reaction on kaiju no 8 please please please
Netero the OG
He has to make his job done, even it's become ugly. GG Netero
If there is a hell...I will see you there 🥶
A prayer comes from the Heart!
Aoi Todo (JJK) got inspired by this scene!
He's been Armined 😭😭😭😭😭
Carlie didn’t just say “he’s been Armin’d” with a sad/shocked face 😂
that Armin pop up was slick
Not Armin XD
after a few episodes, gon is going to use the homeless man's rose on pitou 😂
Esse luta é simplesmente épica, uma das melhores de todos os animes, muito bem coreografada eu amo
会長は凄い男だな
Oh Naur! --- Carlie
Armin was Meruem'd*
Absolute peak
Guys wait till u see gon in full power in finali