The first to a huge line of videos to follow.
I’ll explain the rest in the end.
Now I wanted to a video on one of the protagonists that I like, and I feel that involving more
Hunter would honestly great.
So, this is going to be on Gon, I mean you knew that already.
When I was getting into Hunter for the first time around, I was very interested with the
positive direction that it had and how it flown through so well with all the interactions
Gon had with the people of his town and those around him.
Being the child of one of the greatest hunters of all time would most likely register to
the way where people do look at Gon, but all of that is mostly based off his own character
and the experiences he’s shared with him.
He’s the star player to rise from that island and it’s great.
I love that approach because of how common that really does happen and realism is tied
in reasonably well with Hunter when it comes to characters.
Like how some cities will have a star player at some game and the person goes out in the
world to represent themselves, they by default represent the town they’re from.
Like a basketball player from a small town that makes it on into the big leagues or the
number one in your PR goes on into one of the bigger Smash tournaments and places high.
It’s great!
It’s also great that Gon does make it an action to return because no matter where he
does go, that’s always his home.
Then when he gets onto the boat, he’s supposed to be all “woah man, everyone in here is
scary” or something along those lines because that’s something people would expect, but
the innocence, intelligence, and strength of this character is what stuffs out all of
that.
Those three attributes also contribute to the arcs to come.
Going to skip to him in Yorknew cause I’m honestly just going about what comes to mind
here.
Him and the Phantom Troupe…
Now obviously we can’t have that be a factor here.
That’s unable to happen and would be completely difficult to work that to the plot we had
originally, and I don’t want to do that.
The thing is, if there was side series of manga to where we had an approach to where
was given the greenlight by Togashi and was made by a different manga, so it doesn’t
bother him, I would’ve loved to have seen Gon with the troupe.
When Nobunaga was trying to fill the void of Uvo and recommended Gon, I honestly could
see it here because of the characterization and the apparent traits shared among enhancers
like Uvo and Gon.
Though he won’t join them, he believes he doesn’t align to them by any means and most
likely he’s going to be against them for Kurapika.
Though I love that it’s shown that Gon isn’t completely different than the troupe and their
belief.
The idea around “how are you going to kill people that have nothing to do with you”
and then proceed to threaten the life of Komugi in the Chimera Ant arc.
Along with that he’s grateful to Binolt for the help in training, but completely disregards
his serial killing history.
It’s interesting!
Now on his intelligence.
He’s obviously affiliated with hard-headedness and dumb at times, but his unorthodox answers
to fights, his attention to detail of the setting, how he internalizes general information,
all of that.
Best example let’s look to his Adult Gon form.
The fact that he internalized the information given by Kurapika, crafted his most aggressive
emotions around this, potential took from Bisky, Morel, and Pitou on how they apply
Nen through their body, and then pushed that all into this form goes to show you his level
of understanding.
I also want to attribute to him during the entirety of Chimera Ant to the point of intelligence
because of how well he had done against the ants.
Some he overpowered, but for the most part he was outplaying his opponents using his
strength with it.
I think the biggest thing that I also give him is the simplicity of Janken.
This has happened in manga before Hunter and many anime after, but how directly it works
with Gon is honestly why I’m so tied to it when it comes to him using such a simple
ability.