[Introduction] Whew, finally, I got to doing this.
I have a lot I need to finish for September, hopefully I’ll be able to.
I had my first part obviously and now is the time to finish this all off.
[Kortopi] Kortopi.
I don’t think that anyone would be that surprised that I don’t have much to say
on his character.
All that I was able to get from him was that he was one of the quieter types and that he
had an interesting nen ability.
For having a nen ability circulating around copying, that can tell you a bit about Kortopi
actually.
I have a headcanon idea that Kortopi is actually a full-on follower of Chrollo because of the
similarity of copying in their abilities.
It’s either Kortopi found Chrollo and developed his own ability off his own experiences of
being with the troupe (which wouldn’t really make sense because you want to have something
notable about you before you join the group) or had some sort of issue of not having as
much or being alone in general, which led into the creation of ability.
At least with that, I know I’m able to base something off Kortopi.
Not my headcanon, but his ability.
That’s a good thing to take note on for both Nen and honestly even stands.
If you can’t make up your thoughts on the user, think about the abilities.
If you like the abilities, you’ll probably have more to think about it, but if you don’t,
then it still would be nice to attempt to look into it.
[Bonolenov Ndongo] The next troupe member is Bonolenov Ndongo,
and before talking about his character I’d like to address Togashi’s writing on his
character and foreign customs in general.
With Bono’s characterization and background you can already see a large amount of culture
influence with what a lot of his character is about and how he came to be.
The piercings was one thing because that’s already a large thing that people do take
notice for certain Eastern cultures, but what got me is the beliefs and reasoning behind
the piercings.
Along with family, religion is an enormous factor into what makes up a lot of the cultures
and how they come out to be.
Togashi’s awareness with both of those things shows the large awareness as not only a person,
but a mangaka and being able to incorporate it into his manga is just another thing on
it’s own.
You can see the powerful attributes of family when it comes to people like the Zoldycks
or even the troupe, but when it comes to I guess culture if that’s what I want to generalize
it into, characters like Bono and even Netero give you a well enough example of that.
Now, on Bono in specific.
I love seeing him being one of the more sensible members of the troupe.
He holds himself in higher regard than to fall to simple things like rage and wrath.
I also had never seen him doing something unless it was completely necessary to him,
and even then he doesn’t just go all out.
I also love that even with him not being from Meteor City, he still has a home that he holds
pride in and cares about massively.
It wouldn’t be too crazy to say that’s where his power comes from too because it
full-on technically did.
His battle cantabile is amazing, and I’m wondering if the Jupiter thing he has going
on and Sun thing Feitan had going on is meant to connect.
I think that’s all I have to say for him for now.
[Shizuku Murasaki] The next troupe member being Shizuku Murasaki.
Look, one of the laws of being a human is that everyone is allowed at least one fictional
character that they lowkey highkey love.
Shizuku is that for me.
Meaning that if you want to make art on Shizuku, or link any art that already exists, and by
link I mean have the artist provided with it like linking me a tweet, then I’m completely
down for it.
My twitter is Kaleb underscore IA, so hit me up there for any of that.
But for my reason, obviously it goes past just appearance.
Shizuku’s character design has her as this extremely cute character who looks like she
should be a nice person for the most part.
With the arm wrestle between her and Gon, you can see that she’s reasonably respectable
to for what happened, but it just turns out that she’s actually just not one to get
upset.
I’ve never seen Shizuku lose composure but that’s because she really has no composure
to maintain.
She’s intelligent, but this intelligence lacks any real sense of morality at all.
Not to go in depth on manga spoilers, but that example there for those that know is
probably the best one.
Something that she shouldn’t be saying at all, and it’s on something she should at
least remotely care about but she still goes ahead and basically tells a joke about what
happened.
She doesn’t show emotion to anyone really, be a fight, regular interactions with fellow
members, or even a fortune that tells her about her inevitable end.
I can see that not being that big of a thing with the troupe though because I’m sure
that they all know that it would happen one day and they could try to challenge the fortune
because they’re strong nen users, so no reason to lose your head over it.
She doesn’t have the best memory, or well…
Being honest it’s just pretty bad.
That’s another large reason I like her, because I can relate with how bad my memory
normally is.
I think that’s about it for me.
[Pakunoda] The next member is Pakunoda.
I know through all of this I’ve avoided calling the troupe evil, and I have yet to
see a member as inherently evil too, but Pakunoda is a level of messed up that is probably normal
to the troupe, but crazy to me.
The two things that I will always remember Pakunoda for is her loyalty to the troupe,
and what she did to Squala.
I think about what happened with Squala more to be honest with you.
She wanted to hear the truth come from Squala’s mouth even though she got all of the information
she needed from him with her abilities, and with the whole trade between the two, he wasn’t
willing to do so, but she still wanted to hear it come from him.
She also knew she would be able to make him snap and if he snapped Nobunaga would kill
him, and that’s exactly what happened.
She had mentally played him in everyway possible and didn’t even have to be the one to kill
him because she was above the whole situation.
I’m with Killua when talking about her, her abilities are extremely terrifying and
don’t really have to have anything to do with lethality.
But, on her loyalty to the troupe which is probably the most notable thing that most
people will see about her.
While I will say it is loyalty that binds her to her actions, but what she did was actually
the best thing possible for the spider.
It’s just that she had to go against what was set out in priorities to do what was best
for it.
She could’ve left Chrollo to die, but with him being such an important thing for the
spider, it was her call to not do it.
I don’t think I have anymore to say aside from how much I credit her for her all-around
intelligence.
Onto the next member.
[Kalluto Zoldyck] I want to save Kalluto for my Zolydyck video,
so all that I’ll say here is that I love his nen ability.
[Feitan Portor] On Feitan Portor.
I don’t know what I want to approach first.
There’s his design, his sadism, or anything else.
Well, let me talk about him being in the troupe.
I had seen some talk that Feitan didn’t exactly do that much in the Yorknew Arc, but
I think he was able to establish some of what the troupe’s history was like or what they’re
about.
That’s before us looking further on into the troupe’s past later in the arc.
There was what he said along with Franklin when talking about who they are, stating they
just get what they want when they want it.
And then there’s when one of the last men alive had threatened the troupe for wiping
out everyone, and he was trying to threaten them with stuff like, “Well take out everyone
you love, family…”
And all of that.
But then after Feitan ends him he says, “Family, what’s that?”
That’s something I always question when on the dynamic of the spider because they
pick up family-like attributes with some of the relationships from the characters, a few
of which I mentioned in my previous video about the troupe, and even with those attributes,
the spider isn’t exactly a family even then.
With far enough history certain things will be extremely harder on the group, like the
death of Uvo.
Though when we hear about 4 and 8 dying, they don’t even get a mention by name.
It makes me think a lot with what Feitan gives us there, but more on him.
You don’t really see the worst of him until he’s mad beyond belief, and at that point,
everyone can see it and feel it.
The ones in the show more than us at least, because he had actually almost killed some
of the troupe with his Pain Packer.
With that anger you also see the more vocal area of his sadism instead of how he usually
quietly manages it, being the interrogator for the troupe and all.
He’s also one to hate when it looks like an enemy of any kind looks like they’re
getting ahead of themselves, but even with that, he’s a prideful and wrathful man when
it comes to returning the favor to those same enemies.
I also love his design because of this…
Well how am I supposed to describe his fit.
Gothic or spooky, I feel like both are wrong and I just find it being cool all around.
[Chrollo Lucilfer] And finally, the head of the spider, Chrollo
Lucilfer.
I think I can only go off the general thoughts I have Chrollo because he’s one of those
layered characters to where there’s legitimately so much to him that can’t be condensed.
One of the large reason I love Chrollo is because every time that I do come back to
Hunter to look into things about him or anything relating to the spider, I’ll find something
that I originally didn’t see.
That’s usually due to further understand, growth and all of that, but I love seeing
it in him specifically.
He’s a huge reason why I go back to a lot of what I’ve enjoyed in my past and do a
double take or even a few more to see what else I possibly left out.
I think what solidified my interest in his character and gave me the motivation to go
back was his interaction with Gon.
""Why indeed...because they have nothing to do with us?
No..
On second thought, it isn't that simple how to verbally express our motives.
I'm not fond of it.
But oddly enough, or perhaps it's not that odd.
Is that the key to finding myself?"
The scene alone had asked so many questions to me and added on this general aura to Chrollo,
this aura being as dark and mysterious as possible.
Who really is Chrollo?
We’re obviously not going to get the most information for him anytime soon, but I don’t
think it’s required, at least for me.
I may ask about who he is, but the question is rhetorical if anything.
I think a lot about villains that have lived throughout a whole movie or anime that have
lived and died with no past being shown to us and I think I was always better for not
knowing.
Along with that, characters most likely give you all the information you need to make out
an idea of who they are without actually giving up any background information.
Chrollo does exactly that and the most general idea of who he is just goes back to what I
mentioned, the spider.
Now, aside from his character, I love his design.
Togashi’s ability to design dark characters like Chrollo and Feitan is something I love
seeing because there’s not too much being done with characters, but the designs are
definitely near complex.
Chrollo isn’t done over the top with his design like some villains I have in mind,
though that’s it for now.
I have a lot to pin point on his character, but again I’m just giving my general thoughts
on characters with videos like this.
Possible Hunter character analysis videos
in the future.
[Outro]