I’m sure that if you know about both Hunter X Hunter and My Hero Academia, you’d either
hear or talk about how the two are both compared and contrasted.
Personally, I don’t go about comparing characters since they’re extremely different.
The one thing that did catch my eye was a compare and contrast between Nen and Quirks.
This probably isn’t the first time someone has thought of this, it’s probably been
even done with other anime that have known abilities or ways to execute a life energy.
Now going into this, I could’ve made this even more lengthy with explanations of both,
but I thought it would be better if I just get straight into it.
So, I’d hope that you have previous knowledge on either My Hero or Hunter, if not I’ll
go over it in a separate video with even more detailed explanations.
But let’s cover what we have here.
The first thing I want to approach is the accessibility between the two.
Now, Quirks are these special abilities that people can possess.
80% of the world population in the My Hero verse has a Quirk.
How you get that Quirk is passed down through genetics, but some might not be lucky enough
to have a Quirk even if you do have parents that have them.
I think the percentage on it’s own is a good enough explanation when thinking of it.
The majority of the world has a quirk.
On Nen, the only ones that are trained to use nen are already certified hunters.
The requirements to become a hunter and the hunter exams show how much people pursue the
job of being a hunter, but the miniscule number of those that become hunters out of those
that take the tests show how difficult it is.
Now, obviously there’s going to be a few cases where this doesn’t match what goes
on.
Some learn how to use Nen without being shown how to, and then unconsciously develop a Nen
ability with it.
Though you won’t commonly see this, you happen to see those that unknowingly use Nen
become very dominant in whatever human activity they take up.
Now on types, they hold a few similarities, but Hunter comes out with a larger number
and more defined types.
In My Hero you have Emitters, Transformation, and Mutants.
In Hunter you have Enhancers, Emitters, Transmuters, Conjurers, Manipulators, and Specialists.
Now, both My Hero and Hunter have hybrid cases, but it works differently.
With My Hero, you being a hybrid is a product of what you’re born with regardless, it
just can depend on how it’s used.
With Hunter, you can have a primary type and work with these other types still.
You not limited to one type, but it won’t be as easy to work with other types unless
you’re a specialist.
The next thing is on the strengths of both.
Now for Quirks, I’d say that a bunch of these advantages are based off how you get
your quirk.
If being fortunate enough, you can have an extremely powerful quirk just off what your
parents have.
Aside from that, I don’t see anything else since Nen has a lot of the same things that
would be considered strengths for Quirks.
For Nen, I think that it holds more strengths since it’s extremely adaptable and along
with that the training contributes further than it would with Nen.
With both you can train your stamina in said power, and you should be able to train the
potency with it too.
There’s more of a chance at capping with Quirks than you would Nen though since the
room to grow is extremely large.
Along with that, you can also train into other types that would make your arsenal even more
versatile.
Now, it’s time for Weaknesses.
This is where I believe Quirks win against Nen due to conditions.
Both Nen and Quirks have a condition where there’s a certain capping point on the use
of your power.
With Nen, once it’s completely depleted, you’re dead.
Along with that, exhausting your Nen is exhausting your life energy which means that if you can
barely use your Nen, you most likely can barely keep yourself up.
With Quirks, your Quirk and life are two separate things for the most part.
If you exhaust your Quirk, you can still manage with the energy you have in your body which
works the same way that it would in real life.
So, exhausting you’re Quirk isn’t exactly the same as exhausting yourself.
You can be capable of only using about 20% of your Quirk, but still completely function
and possibly even still fight.
Now, this is going to approach both sides on how they’re better than the other.
First is going to be where Quirks are better than Nen.
Now 80% of the world possessing a Quirk can be a good or bad thing depending on whose
viewing it, but it doesn’t speak on who have the Quirks you should be looking out
for.
The only ones where you do see that is the popular Heroes, but so far, we barely have
villains to contest them 24/7 until after the sudden up rise.
For the most part, the large percentage of people with Quirks had a somewhat positive
effect since it’s easy to navigate which the definitive strongest so you have your
calling card when in danger.
As it goes on it’s debateable since the large amount of people means that there could
be a large amount of heroes and villains.
But, for having a good period of peace while having this large amount means that they’re
doing something right.
This specifically wouldn’t mean that it’s better than Nen in that aspect since Hunters
deal with large issues under the shadows already which looks like peace on the surface world.
But I believe the large amount of people with Quirks means that there should be a good amount
of people able to save others and themselves instead of possibly being overtaken by villains.
Now where I think Nen would be better than Quirks, this is where you’ll see me contradict
in a sense, but I think it works differently for the verses they’re in.
With Nen, it’s great for the world that not everyone has an accessibility to Nen.
Some people are extremely powerful without it in terms of law, so you wouldn’t want
the extra add to it regardless.
Now when thinking of how many people can use Nen, you have to think of how many people
are capable hunters.
Those hunters grow to be reasonably strong people that can be workers of those either
good or bad, it’s majorly up to them and how they want to take the actions and receive
what comes after picking either option.
Altogether, Nen is extremely strong compared to all Quirks.
The amount of extremely strong Quirk users wouldn’t match the percentage of extremely
strong nen users, that alone can show you the strong difference.
There’s also how Nen users can train their abilities to be extremely powerful compared
to the training done for Quirks.
As an example, think of any Quirk possible that a user has, now imagine if that was Nen
ability and the training was on par with the top characters we see in Hunter.
That’d be far stronger than they already are, and that’s just due to more accessibility
on ways of getting stronger.
So, what are my final thoughts on this.
On an opinion standpoint, I’m in between on how many people should have access to powers.
With Quirks you have people able to defend themselves against danger, but at the same
time you have a possible increase on villains with power since there’s an 80% quirk user
population.
With Hunter I believe that it’s good to have only a select amount of people with power,
but at the same time such a small amount of them can run through an entire town which
shows there’s almost no defense for those without Nen.
So, I’m going neutral on that.
Between which is stronger, I’d rather have Nen than a Quirk since I can train it how
I want to be.
Hoping that you’re not born with an extremely odd and specific quirk is something I can
see me doing when there’s the better option right there.
Though Nen puts me in a higher risk situation than Quirks would.
So, I’ll say Nen if you’re willing to put your life on the line, and Quirks if you
just want to have a power out of your control.
Which makes Quirks sound better for the everyday man rather than possibly dying in the Hunter
exams before even getting to learn Nen.
Take that how you will, but that’s going to be all my thoughts between the two.
Now if you want me to go over things like Gon Vs. Deku or other versus fights like that
leave them in the comments and I might make that into a video in the future.
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