Oh, he stole liberally, and without shame from hxh. The entire Chuunin Exam is a bastardization of the hunter exam, characters included.Originally Posted by MFauli
Oh, he stole liberally, and without shame from hxh. The entire Chuunin Exam is a bastardization of the hunter exam, characters included.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
Akatsuki : Phantom Troupe
Chakra : Nen
Orochimaru : Hisoka
Kuripaka/Gon :Sasuke/Naruto
The list goes on and on.
Chakra, Nen, Reiatsu, Haki...it's all just Ki really.
Your reasoning makes my head hurt
Akatsuki : Phantom Troupe - Yeah, because HxH was the first series to introduce the concept of an evil organization
Orochimaru : Hisoka - And the concept of an antagonist
Chakra : Nen - Read Ender's post
Kuripaka/Gon :Sasuke/Naruto - Now you're just being retarded
You're usually smarter than this:
Akatsuki: Outlaws of opposite personalities traveling in pairs of two. Sound familiar?
Orochimaru: Because every antagonist introduced in an exam arc is obviously going to be a creepy pale-skinned pedo?
Chakra: Both chakra and nen gave way to more intricate abilities than Chi/Reitsu.
Kuripaka/Gon: Sorry I meant to type Killua/Gon. Yes the rivalry of the pure protagonist with his shrewd best friend is a common throughout shonen genre, but Gon's best friend having an obsessive relationship with a criminal older brother doesn't sound familiar? If not also coming from an elite mercenary family? Weren't the Uchihas the police of Konoha?
The entire chuunin exam arc was probably ripped off the Hunter Exam arc.
And just in case all of that doesn't make things plain enough:
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"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
And they're both lazy writing.
Ki is just "inner energy my characters can shape themselves" while Nen/Chakra is "Ki I can make do anything my plot requires".
It's all just poorly defined magic shit, or defined magic shit that the writer ignores anyway whenever he needs it to.
That's how all shounen anime is.
1. Introduce mystical energy.
2. Explain rules for mystical energy.
3. Introduce characters that ignore those rules. Call them "special".
I actually think you were right the first time.
Gon and Naruto are both typical shounen protagonists. But Sasuke is a lot more like Kurapica than he is like Killua.
I mean Sasuke/Kurapica is literally two character obsessed with obtaining power so they can avenge the slaughter of their clans. Also magic eyes.
Sasuke is just Kurapica if you take away Kurapica's redeeming qualities.
Killua may have the whole "comes from an elite family" thing in common with Sasuke, but their personalities couldn't be more different. Killua is geniunely friendly with his rival, he has a playful personality, and his driving motivation isn't vengeance, it's freedom.
Last edited by DarthEnderX; Sun, 11-04-2012 at 07:31 PM.
Has this actually happened in HxH?
Gon is 'special', but he's also reinforcement and his powers are pretty generic.
The Nen rules are applied pretty consistently. Even the exceptions, which are "allowed" in a moment of passion, but have terrible consequences.
"After all, I am strangely colored."
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