Gon and Meruem Make Perfect Sense

[@mahistv]

What new parallels did you notice (or which ones I missed)?

[@agustin12689]

Meruem and Gon had a White hair lover with family problems

[@ХъюгаНаумова]

There's a tinfoil theory floating around that Gon has been affected by Dark Continent calamity during his transformation. I don't subscribe to it, but if we're collecting all the parallels we can add that.

[@dddmemaybe]

A pretty good parallel is Ging and Pitou. Ging abandoned Gon and left him with nothing to think about early on and he never learns to think about anything. Whereas Pitou tries her best to help Meruem grow and learn new things. It makes Meruem even smarter and Gon really stupid. It's kinda poetic that Gon kills the thing symbolizing what he was deprived of the most and himself together.

[@JetstreamS4M]

I dont know if you mentioned but Gon and Killua, one is trying to find his family, the other is trying to go away from it

[@justinn8541akaDrPokemon]

The irony of them having a lot of parallels and yet they never interacted with each other.

[@mahistv]

That's the point - parallels don't cross

[@orbboom6119]

Has someone made a fanmanga of them fighting? I wonder

[@OnlyLiarGameFan]

@@orbboom6119 Don't worry, @HiatusxHiatusfan69420 probably drew it 7 years ago.

[@nonchalantblack]

Glad you watched the first 10 seconds of the video

[@cartercorcoran6622]

Brilliant video and this comment is a nice treat to go with it​@@mahistv

[@dumaskhan]

In the 5th Element, the Antagonist and protagonist never actually meet either. They aren't even actively aware of one another. Even so, the arc to revive Gon is probably the best piece of story telling i have ever read.

[@mahistv]

I don't remember 5th element that well, but nice observation. I have mixed feelings about the last arc, obviously it's great cause it's HxH, yet I didn't really care about the whole election thing. Only about characters we already knew

[@tymoteuszfun6731]

I didn't really care about Alluka and I don't connect with Killua as a character, so I was bored the entire season, I just liked Ging and other mysterious hunters like the hacker

[@OPN_Ink]

You always have the best timing I was watching this arc this week 😂

[@mahistv]

Haha, my timing needs to be a bit faster)

[@ХъюгаНаумова]

Days since not overthinking chimera ants genetics: 0 I haven't even watched the video yet.

[@mahistv]

lol

[@makepr]

About em instantly knowing nen?

[@MDKX5]

Brooo you actually opened my eyes i didn’t even think about any of this 😮

[@mahistv]

I'm glad I did

[@stennostenno1346]

You noticed well how gon and meruem have the opposite sitting position

[@mahistv]

Funny thing, it's only in one scene in the "tomb". When he first sits with Netero, it's the same way as Gon.

[@oathstar18]

Amazing breakdown of these two characters and I’ve never noticed the scenes where they doing the exact same poses to mirror each other.

[@mahistv]

I appreciate your appreciation!

[@anonomit8229]

Gon and Meruem also never personally affected each other's lives, which is why it would make no sense for them to fight. Other than a generic sense of Ant vs. Human, Gon and Meruem have no reason to fight each other. Pitou killed Kite, and Netero harmed Komugi by trying to kill Meruem, which is why they are their opponents. Shonen Protags are usually affected directly by the Antag which is why they need to face each other. Aizen and Shigaraki threatened Ichigo and Deku's friends, Muzan killed Tanjiro's family, and Father is the reason Ed's dad wasn't around to support his family.

[@mahistv]

Well that's the thing. Togashi could have easily set up Meruem as a final boss, cause Gon saw Ponzu's corpse, who is not a friend but a person he knew, the whole Kite thing and so on. It's kinda like Shiggi and AFO, Deku never really interacted with him either, barely crossed at Kamino, but he became the final boss. Don't get me wrong I totally get what you mean and I just want to give credit to Togashi for not making it "yet another shonen boss battle"

[@beastboypro1058]

And at the end of the fight netero's dialogue about human was diabolical

[@mahistv]

Agreed!

[@44harbordale44]

The stunted growth joke was uncalled for.🤧

[@mahistv]

Got to keep them on their toes)

[@maximdobryshkin1469]

1:43 that animal on the left looks like the cute hamster meme. Togashi the prophet?

[@mahistv]

I can see that

[@bido8917]

You have great insight and a really great takes and taste, I really hope you grow bigger 🙏

[@mahistv]

Thank you, I hope so too :)

[@Shimatzu95]

11:17 diagnosing disrespect, that one truly got me

[@rainbowracer9576]

Excellent analysis!👏

[@mukizaraymond2509]

gon is 12. ofcourse he is going to skip over world scale dilemmas.

[@mahistv]

Yep, he is a child

[@tentoumushi-e789p]

I appreciate the love given here (in this channel) to the animes I've watched, especially Hunter X Hunter Subbed ❤

[@mahistv]

Thank you and welcome!

[@evilmurlock]

Great analysis, never though of it this way.

[@mahistv]

Thank yo, glad you enjoyed!

[@vaho250196]

you said come comrade, and here i go

[@kcam_12]

10/10 analysis!

[@mahistv]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@Mahendra_Choudhary_M]

Idk about in-verse But by story, they didn't want a character to die the way it could by their fight Like Hissoka and Netero or Hissoka and the Ants In simple.... They didn't want to compare them I think

[@mahistv]

I don't think so. Togashi just didn't want to write in a basic shonen formula for some parts

[@bobbymiczobby]

Videos always help distract me from work, 10/10, per usual

[@mahistv]

Thank you, glad to hear it helps to take your mind off of things

[@bobbymiczobby]

@mahistv always XD

[@Phanton404]

>Edition is on point >Interesting views >Didn't spoil the manga Probably the only good HxH creator around

[@mahistv]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!

[@Vectorcollapse]

Great video. Yes, they're two sides of the same coin which is how I view Kurapika and Chrollo. ❤

[@mahistv]

Thank you. I've never thought of Chrollo and Kurapika like that. I will now...

[@GOKAN5]

Togashi has always surprised me when its about Storytelling The entire show is always awesome to watch and enjoy. So many parallels its just nuts😂, Hope he gets better though I wanna see more of those banger Storylines he can make. Hey mahis whats your opinion on Hunter x hunter?.

[@mahistv]

I hope he gets well too, but I've given up on ever seeing Gyro come into play, let alone the end of HxH. I love this show, it's my top favorite of all time.

[@MarianaBello-fq3hx]

5:56 what anime is this?!

[@mahistv]

My Little Monster

[@TheYashakami]

Parallel lines cross on the horizon.

[@mahistv]

Hmmm, I'm not sure

[@TheYashakami]

@mahistv "horizon in the middle of nowhere" is a slept on anime.

[@mouseofharry1703]

Horizons are imaginary. Illusions of perception

[@TheYashakami]

@mouseofharry1703 we're talking about a story written by some guy, a really cool guy but a guy, whether it's an illusion or not is irrelevant.

[@darken2417]

One thing I really hated about the ant arc is that many ants that survived were just forgiven and allowed to live. Even the one we are most supposed to care about Colt even says that if the Queen was still alive he would have continued to do what he did before. Also it killed off Ponzu.

[@LPVince94]

Wasn't the ant that killed Ponzu the same that got crushed by Bonolenov? In general there weren't that many surviving ants at the end of the arc. Kite, Colt, his sister (who might even have been innocent as far as we know), Koala, does Palm count?, Meleoron, Gyro, Ikalgo, Welfin and Bloster.

[@darken2417]

@@LPVince94 Not sure I think she was killed offscreen. As for the ants I'm very certain none were innocent. They all ate people and brought back people for the hive. And they were all loyal to the queen as far as I remember. The ones who were never in the Queen's army I'd say are more innocent. But we don't really know what they did in that short amount of time like Palm. Whereas Kite being reborn and doing nothing evil is the most clearly innocent.

[@mahistv]

The one who killed Ponzu was killed by Benelenov. The others... yes and no. Colt, Welfin, Ikalgo, maybe Brovada were redeemed. Reina was never "bad" she was just a working ant. The sealing ant-girl, crock-man and a bunch of others we've only seen once were never touched on. They were just introduced as "magic-beasts", so they went to do whatever Chimera Ants do.

[@darken2417]

@ The issue with Colt though is that after everything ends he said he would do it again for the Queen. And I wouldn't call him redeemed after so much evil he did just because he sided with against Meruem in the end. He didn't do that for good reasons, the only reason was that he was loyal to the Queen. Just checked, Ponzu isn't killed by Bonelenov. Its by the ant when she is trying to escape and then eaten. Benelenov killed the ant that ate Ponzu. You have to admit Ponzu had a great design, now gone forever due to this arc.

[@Popotato7777]

Peak analysis

[@mahistv]

For a peak show!

[@Psub950]

I'm still sad about Meruem and Pitou dying

[@mahistv]

I felt bad for Pitou too, she was obviously bad, but she could have turned out good

[@MarianaBello-fq3hx]

​@@mahistvPitou was good by later in their life. Pitou wasn't born evil, unless if you consider cats to be evil (which is resonable)

[@vaho250196]

yo Mahis please do deconstruction of Laios from Delicious in Dungeon

[@sross720]

I hope you keep this hunter x hunter streak

[@mahistv]

Unlikely, shit's not getting any views)

[@rstorm7568]

I unfortunately got the cougar reference.

[@mahistv]

Haha, lol

[@buggyjune6570]

You ever gonna do demon slayer again 😢😢😢

[@agustin12689]

I hate how Meruem was the strongest but we never saw him eat nen users when he was being created. I always thought that was something needed to make his power seem believable.

[@ХъюгаНаумова]

Just one tasty Pockle is probably not enough, but Meruem remembers eating a nen user before his birth, and we know for a fact that at the time if Pockles and his associate hunter's deaths the queen was only nursing Meruem and no other ants or guards. So Pockle was fully digested by queen and all of those nutrition was given to Meruem.

[@ХъюгаНаумова]

The other thought that I have: the predisposition to Nen is partly genetical, because there are whole species of magical beasts and because people have the scopes of affinity to Nen that differs wastly but often stays consistently high in family lines even when there's no attempt from parents to teach the children Nen (neither Ging nor Sylva tought Nen to Gon and Killua, and another unconfirmed but likely Nen genius from a line of geniuses is Tserriednich). But this predisposition does not mean by itself that a human will even know that they have Nen potential or learn it. So it's not just probable but certain, that there were plenty unawakened people with right genes for Nen usage eaten by queen of the ants, since she digested at least couple hundred people daily during Meruems incubation. (I have no idea what's up with her nuclear furnace of the appetite, perhaps it's because of her own stolen genes) On the other hand, there is no reason why person's genetics would change after they awaken Nen, and since ants steal DNA, not Nen directly, there should no difference whether queen eats a person when they are unawakened baby or wisened Nen master if that is the same person with the same genes. What is inherited from people is the ability to awaken Nen, not Nen itself. The mechanism that turns all ants into potentially good nen users and the guards into awakened from birth powerhouses is totally busted, but otherwise we wouldn't have such an interesting story and it is neatly explained by chimera ants coming originally from the Dark Continent.

[@mahistv]

@@ХъюгаНаумова Well, he kinda did. At least Pockl, and then he himself said that sometimes (which implies several times), he'd be fed with something delicious, which means Nen user.

[@ХъюгаНаумова]

@@mahistv KZbin decided to delete my first comment with that same point. And as far as I remember Pockle was eaten when the only fetus the queen fed was Meruem and maybe Kites reborn body got some.

[@janterri3539]

His mom ate nen users and so he basically ate them indirectly.

[@daniell1483]

This anime is the perfect shonen/shonen deconstruction. Nothing else seems to measure up now, HxH is just that good.

[@AdeelHussain-hu5vn]

Gon lost his humanity while meruem gained his 💀💀

[@real.sandro]

This is the first phrase I thought of when I clicked this video 😹😹

[@JustinChilders-r4p]

Gon never had humanity

[@duyanhbui5386]

i don't think gon even have his i think he a souless homunculus

[@MarianaBello-fq3hx]

​@@JustinChilders-r4p Saying Gon is inhuman makes the entire CA arc about nothing.

[@mahistv]

Yep, that's exactly right

[@jannis11]

noIce

[@mahistv]

Thank you!

[@TheBigKei1]

Я хоть особо и не следил что говорится в видосе. Но уловил что монтаж стал лучше.

[@mahistv]

Хаха, спасибо большое. Может стоит пересмотреть? :)

[@doublejump2908]

This video got a lot of stuff wrong about the story I don't even know where to begin.

[@mahistv]

I don't know how to respond, if there are no examples

[@mouseofharry1703]

Like what

[@shortnap3464]

well gon did not ignore when he sees chimara ant saves a human, actually instead he got angry because a BAD chimara ant was doing something GOOD which forces his mind and force him to rage. Still he did nothing to neferpitou until she attack him again with intent to kill. Even with all the motive and rage in the world gon forces himself to not hurt neferpitou when he sees him help SOMEONE DOES NOT CLOSE TO HIM. So this video can be deleted and world lose nothing important at all :)

[@junknuggets9556]

@shortmap3464 can be deleted and the world would lose nothing important at all :)

[@michaelhodges8590]

Gon held himself back For a handful of moments and was actively trying to get the chimera ant to attack him by outpouring killing intent to make it act in self defense. Actively! Actively! Pitching for a fight that had no reason to happen outside of him ignoring the good of the chimera ant to get his fight Only holding himself back out of a warped sense of justice that he was pressing against and eroding as each time the chimera ant spoke to him he got closer to just attacking without being provoked. Gon is not a good person, in fact a straight up awful one, and the inverse parallels will exist and are accurate wether you like them or not

[@shortnap3464]

@@michaelhodges8590 "Pitching for a fight that had no reason to happen outside of him ignoring the good of the chimera ant to get his fight" Are you high on something :D. They killed his friend cold blood and even after that Gon still gave them a chance to heal komugi. Any normal good person would attack killer of his friend on the spot. He did not outpouring his killing intent, he already had good reason to kill the ants and very good reason to be angry and he had to hold his body from attacking her with puching the floor because he had to wait his friends murderer to heal some unknown person. Maybe empaty is hard thing to do but if someone cut of your loved ones infront of you maybe you can understand why he is angry and not a bad person.

[@mahistv]

By ignore, I mean thinking about if AFTER the fact. He did this 3 times at least, where he or somebody else acted outside his worldview and it didn't affect him long-term at all.

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

Meruem and Gon's narratives didn't require them meeting so they didn't have to meet. Gon's beef was with Pitou and Meruem didn't have to see Gon to display his growing humanity

[@mahistv]

That is also true