Criterino Iquerino

Thank you my man! I want to kiss you right now! bless your kind soul for engaging discussion!

Your point was magnificently put! I don't any beef with that.

I shouldn't have put too many points in a single post, so I'll try to condense it into a few short paragraphs.

Togashi-sama come up with really cool, really interesting, really fresh concepts. I believe that's his greatest advantage as a writer. But none of those concepts he uses none of those concepts to challenge you. It just reinforces your beliefs. Humans are both good and evil and they can go far into both sides of the spectrum. A monster will become better if they meet a kindred soul. I agree with all of that.

Now I don't mean every piece of media should be disagreeable or every piece of media should raise difficult moral questions. Let me clarify myself with an example:

An animated work kinda similar to Meruem and the Royal Guard's arc I feel is the Samurai Jack and the seven assassins story. If you haven't watched it, it's the first four episodes of Samurai Jack season 5. Before watching the show, I used to think exactly what Jack's father thought, "People make their own choices and it leads them here." After watching the show, my beliefs changed, "Perhaps some people didn't have control over their environment and it made them what they are today." Before watching the show, I was a pacifist, "Killing is never okay." Afterwards, "Shit, maybe there are instances where it is justified." I mean, it's not black and white either, I still think about the events in those episodes think what was morally right and wrong.

HxH is a really fun show where characters face dilemmas. I think that's the part I'm dissatisfied with, the characters face dilemmas but the audience rarely does.

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