i know this is probably a lukewarm take rn but i am OBSESSED with the messy, bloody web of whatever the fUCK togashi has got going on with the spiders and sheila and kurapika and pairo and the kurta massacre...
like.. the entire reason for kp’s interest in the outside world came from stumbling upon sheila. she GAVE him dino hunter. had they not found her in the woods that day, who the fuck knows what pairo and everyone else could be getting up to right about now??? sheila being the possible reason for the massacre is killing me!!! after helping her and her opening the world for him, all he gets is a revenge plot.
also will be thinking about the following for the rest of forever:
by some stroke of a miracle, fate, or cosmic juice, kurapika gets his hands on the tape that they dubbed in chapter 395. it still works, by some miracle, and he plays it. in the background of this shitty bootleg version of the clean-up rangers, he hears someone shushing and saying, “shut up sheila! they’re recording!!”
and his entire world shuts down.
because there’s really only one sheila it could be. he knows it. he’s always been suspicious of it being her that “found” his people, slaughtered like animals.
the message the spiders left behind suddenly makes sense. they did take something from the spiders, after all.