Why Are There So Many Gon Video Essays ?

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@metalfury123 3 жыл бұрын

I liked how you said "Gon is a great villain" instead of protagonist to really nail in what you think of gon and personally I think your take is a good one even if i don't have the same take.

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

thank you! im glad you even noticed it lol

@Bjjboxing 2 жыл бұрын

That makes absolutely no sense. You don't know what a protagonists mean. A protagonist is a leading role in a story that has a goal. An antagonist opposes or stops the protagonist from achieving their goal. This has nothing to do with being a hero or a villain. Stories just usually have the protagonist also be the hero

@metalfury123 2 жыл бұрын

@@Bjjboxing so basically you wrote a bunch of nothing because i already knew all of that and i never once said anything to disagree with you on that.

@Bjjboxing 2 жыл бұрын

@@metalfury123 Being a protagonists has nothing to do with being a villain

@metalfury123 2 жыл бұрын

@@Bjjboxing ok and i never said being a protagonist doesn't mean you can't be a villain, i was talking about how instead of saying Gon is a great protagonist he instead said "Gon is a great villain" and villains are usually the antagonists of the story, so you're completely missing the point of my comment and thought you were smart by telling me something that is so obvious.

@aqwthetroop 3 жыл бұрын

I mean part of the moral analysis of Gon is under the framework of the real world. For example, you mentioned Gon entering a "kill-or-be-killed" situation of the Hunter exam as a moral failing on his end when EVERYONE there agreed to go into the hunter exams with those conditions in mind. Plus, of course Gon is going to have a bias towards people who helped him, it's the most utilitarian position to take when there are people actively trying to kill you at every corner. The other part of the Gon moral analysis that can be hand waved away (at least partially) is that fact that he is still a kid and not a fully developed moral agent. The brain is elastic and develops in response to the stimuli and conditions surrounding it (the 'nature vs. nurture' argument) and Gon himself isn't immune to the societal pressures and dangers of the world around him. Take any, ANY twelve year old and put them in Gon's shoes and they will most likely make similar or even WORSE moral decisions. Plus, like you mentioned at the end of the video, because he is constantly forced into life-or-death situations he's developed a very strategic mindset. He doesn't have the same approach (to himself) to his actions that the Phantom Troupe do where he has this dichotomous view that they either entirely de-humanize all life or entirely humanize it. He's not just running around killing people with no regard for life, he's a soldier in a war and has to make the "hard choices" in order to stop the bad people from doing bad things. Now, obviously, this mindset should sound familiar and it doesn't entirely excuse his actions. It should, however, provide an interesting insight to how people in difficult and war-torn environments succumb to the same cycle of violence that bred their circumstances to begin with. Take Melereon as an example, to Gon he's the 'other' the 'enemy' and isn't given the same human empathy extended to his friends and human allies because the chimera ants are blanket "evil" and their alliance is purely a tool. We're all susceptible to this type of thinking and I think Gon is just as flawed and human as the rest of us, not uniquely a 'monster'. To be fair some of my memory of the show is fuzzy after not watching it for a few years so some of my analysis is probably wrong. Edited to restructure my argument.

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

You make a good point. I guess the general vibe of HxHs society is a lot of more harsh than ours. Humans have somehow evolved essentially the same way but for some reason feels like the world could end at any minute. I guess any world that even has "hunters" as like a normal profession has to be more brutal than i gave it credit for.

@dex6872 3 жыл бұрын

It would be very cool if you also made character analysis videos on Hunter x Hunter, and share about what you personally think about them. You already made one for Gon so how about: Killua? Meruem? Chrollo? Hisoka? Pouf? Knov? And many more. I’d honestly watch all of them. You’re videos are entertaining as always! Left a like!

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! and believe me; it's all part of the plan 😈

@dex6872 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kreamsy Lets gooo

@VideoEssayWatcher5484 Жыл бұрын

When you’re dealing with someone as determined as Gon entering a Kill or be killed scenario isn’t psychotic, many young men in the military (U.S), are willing to throw down their lives and take others lives to “protect their country” Also Gon is probably used to this kind of attitude since he grew up in the wild.

@NotSteven01 3 жыл бұрын

In regards to your "Gon is a child" rebuttal, you say that the situations that Gon applies his child mindset to are not situations a child should be in. I have a problem with this, this argument does not contradict the fact that Gon has a child mindset, because even if he is not in a situation a child usually finds himself, that doesn't matter, what matters (to this argument) is that he responds to those situations like a child, ergo, the argument "Gon is a child" has validity. And I don't know if its true that a child wouldn't go to the hunter exams to find his dad. Consider this, Gon admires his dad, so he has motivation to find him (some children don't, so just clarifying that) and Gon has the power to actually achieve his goal (at least he thinks he does). Gon didn't struggle through the exam excepting Hisoka, which himself was an outlayer in strength. And then the tournament but I think that is not the point. Sorry for the little spill but what u think.

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

100% agree. I think I was having a hard time verbalizing my thoughts in the "Gon is just a Child" argument and I've had a couple weeks to think about a way to better phrase my displeasure with the stance; "Gon being a Child doesn't excuse his heinous acts" is more what I meant. I think taking Komogi hostage was what rubbed the wrong way more than anything. But it was also the little things like his fight with Genthru and his "reaction" to the phantom troupe that made everything click for me. In those situations the "childlike mindset" is clear to see and supports the motivations for Gon acting the way he did. However when you take into consideration *what* he was doing and *why* it makes the child argument a bit hard to swallow. Like I said in that segment I do plan to make a video elaborating a bit more on this topic but for now I hope this comment helps provide a bit more context into my thought process. Thanks for the comment ! ❤️

@NotSteven01 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kreamsy If you don’t mind me responding again, your argument now is better in my opinion as it addresses the point. I don’t have a heavy stand on the Gon is a child thing, It was just the way you responded that had me confused but now is clearer. Just a last thing I want to add and you don’t have to discuss it since you are making a video already. You might want to consider that Gon has a lot of power which allows him to get away with his child mindset (assuming you agree that he has one), so something that an actual child may not do but wants to do, is something Gon can actually act upon in the spot. And this kinda relates to what I was saying about going to the hunter exams.

@teppichverkaufer9047 2 жыл бұрын

the reason why he got extra angry against pitou, was because she didnt just kill kite. she messed him up pretty bad.

@anvitamohan7939 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir

@akazienoel2009 2 жыл бұрын

Many? I feel like most are so damn similar, comparing to other characters I feel like there aren t enough ;-; Or at least it s just that I don t agree with most people, I don t think he s an angel, but a monster is a bit much And to the child thing (since I m the person to say ‚he s just a traumatized child‘), the reason a lot of children wouldn t do that is because they don t have the power to, Gon has. Gon was strong enough and had a legal guardian to allow him to do that suicide mission. Everything Gon is are classic child behavior thing (selfishness, hypocrisy, narrowminded, lack of morals/black and white thinking like there s just good and evil, nothing else. Good is what hurts me evil the opposite) the difference is that that usually doesn t weigh that much as children usually aren t put in life or death situations where their decision influences everyone else‘s survival. Gon shouldn t have been in these situations in the first place, especially not as a child. I d say Gon acted realistically like a human would in an extreme situation, and not only that, Gon showed a lot of mercy and kindness to people but also the opposite, he s really human. He didn t lose his humanity in the chimera ant arc, he just lost himself completely. It s normal that people make bad decisions under a lot of pressure, especially when guided by emotions. His actions were wrong, he hurt people, including himself, but I don t think he s a monster, he s a human child. I think he s neither a sociopath, psychopath, narcissistic, manipulator, abuser, monster, or anything like irredemeble. He s a damn child, he will grow, and hopefully his morals will take a turn after calming down (in the end he lost his nen power so he s back to the beginning, just with some changes). I think that is his chance of learning again, like a normal child/teenager. So resume, I don t think he s a monster or just a hypocrite, selfish person or anything. He is selfish, but not more selfish than your average child in a traumatizing situation I d say, not to mention you could weigh out selfish and selfless actions as he showed a lot of kindness to people where other people in hxh wouldn t. Not to forget I feel like the world in hxh is generally more morally questionable, especially hunters, as ours. To be selfish and self interested is a common trait among hunters, and people seem to just accept it, ntm killing someone or seeing someone dying isn t that uncommon in the hunter world. I think of Gon s story as a loss of innocence and a childhood, like a child put in extreme situations, not a monster slowly showing his true colors and destroying everyone around him. He s still learning, he hasn t even done so much compared to other hxh characters, like hunters. I just feel like a big deal of Gon s personality and actions are explainable with his age and trauma. It s no wonder he hurt people, and himself, he was blinded by his goal to prove himself to Ging. I personally think saying he s a monster (or anything in that regard) is a bit extreme or villainizing him too much, though I also think saying or acting like he s an innocent little kid is ignoring what he went through. He s complex, as he s a complex human child, but I don t think that he has any trait that differs him so much from other people from his world, he s selfish, and so is nearly everyone else. A human isn t a nice perfect being or a demon is disguise, it s a mix of both, so Gon making mistakes, hurting people or caring more about deaths from loved ones than strangers doesn t make him less human, so I feel like I said this already, but he didn t become a monster or was one from the beginning on, I d say he was a traumatized child put in an impossible, unfair situation, then cracking under the trauma and pressure which results in him making impulsive, irrational and immoral decisions, which finally ends up hurting him and everyone around him. He s a victim like a lot of the other characters from hxh. So if that wasn t clear, I don t think Gon is the villain, I don t think hxh even was a real villain, they all seem like different results and stages of grief and trauma. I don t think that a story like hxh even needs the one villain, but if you really want one, we could say that nearly every single character is a villain if hurting a person is enough to be one. Though then I d just prefer to say, there aren t any to begin with, just different types of people, different trauma responses, different ages, different personalities. I don t think Gon is such a odd one out there (in the world of hxh), I just honestly hope he knows how to deal with what he experienced from now on. Forgot to mention, I personally think that any of the he s a villain, monster or anything, is a bit of black and white thinking, he can have different stages of morality throughout his life, not to mention that you can be a saint in one person s life and the villain in another s, Gon s just like any human a mix of different shades of grey, neither a saint/hero nor a monster/villain which makes him human, and that alreaey makes him quite a complex character, I personally think that Togashi writes really good human characters, none feel like to only be thr villain or hero of the story, but a human on their own. Which is why I think Gon is more complex than just ‚He is a monster/villain/etc‘ or ‚He is a saint, little innocent kid, etc‘. He s human, and aside from him being put in awful situations which makes it hard to analyze him, he doesn t seem to be that much like the odd one out that the most evil out of all. (I know I repeated a lot of things, it s just hard to keep track when writing a lot/also that is just my take on his character though/)

@gaming1zanagi-1999 2 жыл бұрын

I think that my main gripes about Gon is his kind of hypocrisy. Like in Phantom Troupe arc according to Pakunoda's bullet memory moments Gon said something about stopping Kurapika killing the Phantom Troupe but instead later on he just went overkilled Pitou for the sake of revenge and doesn't even feel bad about it while Kurapika instead felt remorseful for it. Like if Pakunoda's bullet memory can't give a false memory and Gon did said that to her then how will he supposed to stop Kurapika from killing out of spite?

@government1476 3 жыл бұрын

Who the hell thinks gons an angel

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

I wish you could've seen my face when I found that comment

@jhonnytejeda9321 3 жыл бұрын

I think that is actually one of the biggest virtues of HxH, that you would have a hard time defending the moral compass of any character not named Leorio. Kurapika is losing himself in a selfdestructive quest, yes he has a reason to do so, but being able to understand someone doesn't justify them. Killua from his conception is bound to have a messed up sense of morality. Gon is straight up psycothic, let alone him going off the deep end, this kid has been looking at murderers and their victims without any reaction to it. And the rest of the characters that are relevant they are or selfish pieces of shit (Ging, Netero) or straight up psychotic, the Zoldycks, Hisoka, the spider. I would made an argument that a requirement to be a Hunter is to throw away your sense of morality and sensibility towards human life. My point is, Gon being like he is is logical, because he is exactly like most people around him. And good video man :v

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

You know I just realized Gons morality is even more insane when you consider the adult he's spent most of his time with was his aunt mito. 100% positive parental influence and Gon still acts like he was raised by Ging or something. Dude was born a lil crazy.

@SkullTheLegless 3 жыл бұрын

Is it just me or is this audio super messed up?

@Kreamsy 3 жыл бұрын

Only in the first half I'm afraid. (I couldn't re-shoot it due to the nature of the video). I had my gain set WAYYYYYYYYY too low and I basically had to Frankenstein some kind of solution. The second half should be better tho (knock wood 🪵) apologies.