all of the adults in hunter x hunter consecutively and repeatedly fail all of the children in hunter x hunter as a direct result of the fantasy culture. like the entire world in hunter x hunter is ridiculously broken. no one stopped a six year old who was abandoned at a pro fighting ring and asked him if he was lost. no one tried to call his fucking parents. killua doesn’t even realize there was anything wrong with how he was raised. gon (a child’s) reaction to being hit (while literally helpless and paralyzed) by hisoka (an adult, with all the power), then told that gon owes him for being allowed to live is not “holy shit i need an adult” but “i have to prove that i don’t owe him”. if you’re powerful enough there are no consequences for breaking the law because the mainstream police don’t have nen. the zoldycks can literally have everyone in the vicinity knowing where they live and what they do with no consequences. the outside of their house is a fucking tourist attraction for chrissake. the phantom troupe can literally massacre people whenever they want. all meaningful power lies in the hunter organization which is capricious and poorly run at best and downright corrupt and self-serving at worst and which actively condones child soldiers among its ranks. becoming a hunter essentially makes you a special kind of citizen and the easiest way to become a hunter is be very good at violence. the world is built in a way that allows the staple fantasy narrative of “adventure and conquering over enemies through physical violence is heroic” to play out and togashi, from the start, makes us aware of how dysfunctional a world that would be. that’s the core of why i say that hxh is a criticism/engagement/takedown (“deconstruction” is technically the wrong word) of YA combat-glorifying-type adventure fantasy. LOTR, Harry Potter, etc. i could go on about this for years
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# meta x meta # hxh is literally so good # like if you didn't understand the fact that the hunters are meant to be a morally ambiguous organization # the leader of the hunters literally drops a nuke # which in japan has always carried insanely more negative connotations than it has anywhere else # especially about the person who makes and justifies that decision to drop such a powerful bomb # and the person most alike to the previous hunter chairman in personality is # fucking pariston of all people # yeah i'm sure netero was sponsoring a healthy mindset in his organization by creating an environment that enabled Pariston # Literally the entirety of pariston's character is that he doesn't actually have any negative intentions as shady as he may be # He just does things because they're fun and he can # But that lack of having any true goal when you wield so much power can itself be harmful # The same way that Ging literally caring only for adventure and not giving a shit about other people # makes him such a hatable human being in everybody's eyes especially when he has a son # he doesn't even specifically hate gon he ju # st doesn't care about gon the same way he doesn't care about anyone else (via @linkspooky
The reason everyone other than Leorio, the only remotely Good Adult in the entire world, hates Ging is that Ging flaunts his assholeness and is an ass to everyone. The fact that he abandoned his kid is like. secondary.
But yeah, i love the way this is so in your face but so backgrounded by the manga itself. I mean:
This is considered a reasonable and acceptable answer. You can’t really get more blatant than this, but the manga keeps moving on - the manga keeps the tone and pacing and dynamics of a typical adventure story even while it shows you things like this, at least until the end of the Chimera Ant arc when it does explicitly show you the horror of everything in the narration and pacing for a bit there. But only for a bit.

















