Hunter x Hunter: The Xtreme Review (Phantom Troupe & Greed Island)

Here's the funny thing as I was Trying to Rewatch Excuse me , I'm trying to rewatch Hunter x Hunter and get to the York News City Phantom Troop arc , I'm starting to realize that , yeah , with the NIN system there's like more complications to it , like how with some NIN users they have conditions , like with Kurapika , and in fact let's go ahead and talk about this

arc just a little bit . Just a quick summary , because here's my thing . I meant to tell you this off the record , but I might as well . Let it be clear , I'm going to do a summary . I know I'm going to be skipping over a whole bunch of details , but that's the thing .

But if not , it's okay , we're gonna go over some major details . So I'm not gonna lie , we're spoiling some shit heavy . I encourage you to watch it , but if not , it's okay , we're gonna go over some major details . So I'm not gonna lie , we're spoiling some shit heavy .

I encourage you to watch it , but if you just want to tune in , we're here , go ahead , jb gotcha all right .

I was just about to dive right into the phantom troop arc , now phantom arc , kurapika is essentially the main character of this arc because keep in mind that with the Phantom Troop , aka the spiders , they're responsible for Kurapika's family being killed .

So while he's going out to try to kill them , gon and Killua is Getting this mysterious box that was given to Mito by Jing , who Essentially is trying to entertain this idea of Gon trying to Find him . So he's like Okay , let me just give him this box , and this box can only be opened Once he becomes a hunter .

So essentially , gon and or Killua pretty much piece together how , uh , they use their hunter license and a little bit of nin to open the box . Uh , kind of like the box animals from motherfucking reborn like . I can't wait till I do that review . I'm sorry , but , um , quick review , uh , on this arc , I'm sorry .

Essentially they're trying to obtain one , a copy of greed island , which is a video game where essentially you have this whole tron isekai experience where you get sucked into the game and whatnot , and that would be a , um , another clue , another mcguffin towards going trying to find his father . But we find out in this art .

Well , not really find out in this art , but it's more explained in this art how jing don't really care if gone finds him , because jing is more concerned with some sort of adventure or some sort of mission that goes beyond his responsibility as a father , and I'm like father of the year over here .

But yes , while all this is going on , kurapika is trying to do his mission to kill off the Phantom Troop and it's real funny how he was considered the chain dude by going and his friend uh , because they didn't really know who he was . Like that's how clever it was with paku , the uh mind reading big titty lady , uh , who can read minds .

Uh , fucking um , try to probe them from information . But because they didn't really know kurapika , like that uh , that served to their advantage . But essentially kurapika had these chains to where there's these conditions with these chains ?

And it's funny because he had this cold ass line I think it's in the 90s version to where he was saying that these chains are solely for the spiders , their sole purpose is to capture them and deprive them of their liberty , and I was like , ah , that's cold . So essentially , kurepika ends up going up against Ugo Oben .

He brought a fucking shovel to the fucking fight and beat the shit out of Ugo . But I'm going to explain a key difference in that fight later on , with the assistance of Kokugatsu . And essentially there's this massacre at the auction where a copy of Greed Isle is being held , the Zoldyck , um patriarchy .

The father and grandfather uh showed up and fought , crollo uh . What else ?

Um , this whole bunch of webbed , intertwined bullshit between kurapika gone , kil Killua , the Zoldycks and , of course , the Phantom Troop and also Hisoka obviously , and it ends off pretty emotional , fairly emotional depending on what version of the anime that you've seen , but overall pretty good arc . Now I will turn it over to Kokugasu .

How you feeling about the phantom troop arc ?

But we mostly get an opportunity of diving into other characters . It's one of the things that a lot of people are upset about now in the Hunter x Hunter manga because currently Gon still is . Without spoiling it , gon is still out of the picture at the moment . He's not our main , even though he's still the main character . We're not following him .

We're now following Karapika again as he's moving into , as he's going through his , he's going through the Dark Continent and getting more information and stuff .

So this is our first time we're really getting a chance to dive into our other characters as far as like their storylines , their back lot , their backstory of how it's affecting their lives and how they are going to affect and change the world . So , understanding first . Then . Uh , game does not want gone to find him like at all , like whatsoever .

It's not a game per se , it's one of those things of like he . He had this as a just in case he .

He literally told mito , I don't want him to find me , I I don't want him to come after me , tell him I'm dead and hopefully he just is cool with that gone , only pursued because he had a feeling that something was , that there was something more and Mido did a pretty good job at really hiding that shit .

But understand , gein does not want Gon to find him whatsoever . He does not . He's the ultimate . I'm Gon . I don't want to be a daddy , fuck that , I'm good . He literally had this as an entertainment . He's like , hey , all these things that he had set up was stuff that he felt would entertain his son more than finding him .

That was the whole point of this whole thing and we'll get further into it in the greed art , if I'm able to be on there , because you know life situations happen . But still , if I'm able to be on the greed art , I'll explain through Gein's friends about what it means , because life situations happen .

But still , if I may be able to read art , I'll explain through Gein's friends about what it means literally in the fact that Gein absolutely did not want Gon to find him whatsoever . It was a straight up serious thing . He's like I do not want him to find me , so that whole puzzle .

First off , he was never supposed to get a hero's license , but that's a hero's license , I'm so sorry . A hunter's license you know what ?

No , he literally just put this whole shit together . It's like do not find me . Even in the video he says hey , if you want to find me this might be a hint , but I'm gonna be honest with you I really don't want you to find me . He literally says that shit in both the old version and the newer version and in the manga .

He literally puts in the recording that he says I don't want you to . He told his own son I don't want you to find me . Matter of fact , let me tell you about your mom , which we never hear about , because gone says no , fuck that me , tells my mom . So fuck all that . I don't need to know about that .

But like on some real shit , though it's gonna , from what our understanding is , is that gone's mother is actually a very important thing to Gon .

Not so much as far as like for him per se , but more so the fact of , like Bleach , why it is that Ichigo's dad is actually very important to the story , even though he doesn't seem important until like much later on first day . It's kind of one of those things situations .

But yeah , so from our understanding , gong's mother is supposed to be important to gong's development and stuff like that , but it's just too early for us to know . So we've gotten that subtle hint and then we kind of move on from that type of thing .

Um , karapika has always been my favorite , just to be straight up with you . Uh , scarlet eyes , this is the original sharingan before sharingan . Yes , this came out before naruto , so naruto copied this we come out in 98 exactly naruto copied this . Oh , y'all people's like naruto is the ultimate . Everything's that no ?

This arc is what solidified Karapika being my favorite , just in all honesty .

So if he has to deal with people who might not be exactly good people in order to advance his goal to find his father , uh , that's just how it is . Like he's just straightforward , like he's not really naive . It's just there's more nuance to going than I thought there was .

It's just more like he's not stupid , but at the same time , it's like he's trusting and at the same time , he's willing to trust shady people as a means of trying to get what he needs to do . You know what I mean .

Even though he's responsible partially responsible for the death of his family , he still has to fight and kill this person in order to pretty much um fulfill this contract that he has with this chain that he got and he was even feeling like torture , like this eternal conflict , this pain that he was even feeling like torture , like this eternal conflict , this pain

that he was feeling , that even though , yeah , he killed this guy , but he still feels some type of way about it , the 90s version delivered that way better than the 2011 version , but the 2011 version was better from a fight sequence .

Now in the older version they like made it sound like , okay , they're just popping off and killing people out of nowhere . There was like no context , but in the newer version they fleshed out why everybody was there , who's the main players and all that . There was more build up in the newer version . So I appreciate the newer version for that part .

But also , uh , the main guy to gossy who make all this shit . Sometimes he has a bad habit of over explaining shit that doesn't need to be over explained , like there's just some things to where show us , don't tell us .

And there was some parts like how , um , for instance , that part where , uh , they were trying to explain hisoka or on crollo's , uh abilities and everything , and they were trying to over explain how their abilities were . I'm like , no , let the audience uh figure it out , you don't have to hold like , yeah , like you don't have to hold the gun and stuff .

Yeah , like you don't have to hold our hands about it . It's like the mysteries and the theory to where , like we need to figure out how it is , and then , once somebody come up with a theory that the most solid , now it's like oh , yep , that's it .

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I'm glad to see all of my favorite fairies in action and Mirror J better make a fucking appearance , because if I ain't in it , it ain't going to be me Gotcha gotcha , now Tuck same question . How are you ?

. I ain't gonna lie , I'm with Skip on this one , bro . Top 10 , top 10 , top 10 . I ain't gonna lie because , like , it was one of the first ones I watched , like , mind you , I started anime late in the game , so it was one of the first shows I watched . It was , I want to say , it was , one of your recommendations .

Okay , yeah , because it was one of the first ones I watched after .

That's really what had happened . I watched like the first two seasons and then she started watching it without me .

You know he said just throw me in the ocean because I'd rather die than share the same fate as my ancestors , and bondage and some shit like that yeah , you messed that up yeah , I messed up but yeah , I feel you though it was the same kind of tone and yeah , carapacabra became one of my favorite characters because of his whole arc .

So , starting at the beginning on why he was so reserved and what his plans were , and then eventually , my boy brought the shovel out yeah and when I found out what them chains was for , they serve a specific purpose .

Like how I said that uh paku , the mind reader um , was trying to get information on who was responsible for all this and eventually that led to them all showing up at the auction . Um , funny enough that the phantom troop they got bounties on their heads , so going to kill a figure .

Oh well , we turn these guys and we get enough money to go to the auction and get creed island . Cool , cool , cool .

So that's when the whole plot points converge , where uh kura pika um reunites with the gang um , pretty much build them in on what's going on and kura pika finally feels like oh well , you know , since uh , we in this together , I might as well trust y'all enough with the truth and blah , blah , blah . So he gave his exposition and they made their moves .

They had this very clever plan to where , okay , with Leorio and everybody , essentially they're gonna pretty much get the jump On the Phantom Troop at 7 o'clock At a certain date I think it was September 3rd , somewhere in that area and essentially they're gonna get the drop on the Phantom Troop . And while Gon and Killua deal with Paku , kurohika captures Chrollo .

Right after Chrollo Fought Daddy Zoldyck and Granddaddy Zoldyck and pretty much faked his own death , but you know he survived , obviously . But Chla was feeling unfazed by being captured by kurapika and pretty much was uh , had the phantom troop wrapped around his finger orchestrating the whole thing .

And then all this shit led to how paku had to go to the airport I think it was an airport and essentially had to relay a message with this . It was funny because I think the way she did it was she shot , like information to the other phantom troop members with this gun .

It was kind of I'm sorry for the hitman reborn references , but it kind of did feel like with reborn when he shoots those um bullets at people and just instead of killing them , he just give them something . Uh , yeah , pretty good .

Um , I'm sorry , rambling and shit , but um , anybody else want to add on to york new city , like with the massacre and how they handled the rest of ?

The members have their own goals , but they're pretty much joined up with this team because , um , to an extent , their um group project goal is like somewhat convenient for them .

But my point being is that hisoka reminds me of orojima in the sense to where , yeah , I'm on this team , but I'm not really a part of this team because I'm really just trying to get closer to this one dude , like how Orochimaru wanted Itaki's eyes and Hisoka yeah , or Sasuke , while Hisoka just wanted to kill Chrollo .

I think it was just like a challenge thing , like , well , it's like he's like a strong motherfucker , it's like he's like this strong . It's like I , I just need to fight this guy , I need to beat him . I don't know , I don't know what it's about I think it's more than the manga .

He can see that gone has significant amounts of potential , which is why it is that he gets hard , as every time he's around him bravely okay , he's all good , just does not need to be around children at all , whatsoever no , not stop . Don't do that . Clowns are already scary as fuck as is , but bruh him , nope Worse .

Look , there's only one other character that Hisoka absolutely respects enough , but he , you can tell he has moments that he be itching for a fight , but he still don't want to fuck with that nigga because he knows that that nigga's that nigga and that's Killua's brother .

That's making an Itachi reference . Jinx , you owe me a soda .

And he did it in the most menacing Way possible , like his hair was standing Up and everything and his hair was long as fuck , everything right and his hair as long as fuck .

The phantom troop never fails , even if members do die , is never the leader . He has been the leader of the phantom troop for ever since it began . He has no one ever questions his leadership because everybody's like he's just that strong and literally . To be honest with you , this is not really so much of a spoiler because it has not been put into anime .

Technically , it's not even considered canon enough yet because it's it's supposedly kind of fam . It's like an ova per se .

But there was like a written out fight , like an actual full drawn out fight between Hisoka and Chrollo when he finally got an opportunity to fight him and Hisoka almost got killed like legit , he was the only person that actually almost killed him .

And that's considering the fact that , remember , hisoka went so far , to the point that he willingly lost his arms back in the tower . So he willingly did that , just so he could prove a point onto something . And in this case Hisoku was pulling out all the stops and legitimately almost died . So it's like Kuro-no ain't nobody to fuck with .

He is a real person to fight , he is an absolute monster and Hisoku is just all into that . But the funniest thing is that Kurapika , after having the conversation we've gone , of course Our main character hit the talk no jutsu . Before talk no jutsu . Just hit the talk . No jutsu . Before talk , no jutsu . Just hit the homeboy conversation .

Hey look , if you give into your rage it won't make it any better . You already know it's not gonna bring no people back . But at the same time I understand your frustration and in the end carlo was just sitting here like bro , I don't really care , it was a job . A job is a job . That's just what it is . He's like I didn't care . It's not was a job .

A job is a job . That's just what it is . He's like I didn't care .

So I'm like , oh well , shit , our employer is dead , so we don't get no money from this .

Dude sticks pins in his face and completely reshapes his face to where you can never recognize him . It changes his entire voice . There is no level above that . There is absolute master of disguise .

Aside from that , obviously , I'm sorry , my bad . So yeahoka Wanzu was getting so pissed off because of the fact that , literally aside from the fact that Kurapika had an opportunity of killing Chrollo and he didn't , so he was happy that that didn't happen , but literally put a bind on his heart and said if you even think about using any type of nin ?

So then , literally , hisoka's like oh yeah , we finally got this . It's just like , yeah , I really can't use no nin fight . So then , literally , hisoka's like oh yeah , we finally got this . It's just you and me , we about to do this . Let's duke it out right now . And he's like I can't actually fight you . He's like what the fuck you mean ?

He's like I can't use nin , so I can't fight you at all . So yeah , it's going to . So , um , yeah , he said it's gonna be a one-sided fight and his uncle was so damn mad . His face was the dumbest face .

He's gonna be down with it . He would goropika . I still want to fuck over this deal because I just don't like Hisoka like that and I really don't like Chrollo . I think we're going to do this . Just completely fucks over the whole deal . He's like I didn't kill him . We still stuck with the agreement , but I can't get my fight .

I'm like that sounds like a you problem .

So one of the things about it is like it's Okawanda being the most screwed over , even though he was the one who betrayed everyone . And , of course , we'll never forget that Bungie Gum has the properties of both rubber and gum , but still , it's one of those things also . I just had to put that in .

with you . The fact that someone walks in with a vacuum cleaner and is the most deadliest person in the room at an auction is the scariest thing to me . This is one of those things like oh , this is just a vacuum , it's just a cleaning lady , she's just cleaning , she got a vacuum .

Oh , this vacuum is made purely out of my men and it sucks up whatever I want it to suck up . I feel like there's another thing into that , but we're not going to go into it . Ha ha ha .

Probably could wind up showing up just being like hey , hey , and it's like oh , you brought a shovel for your visit , yeah , yeah .

But no , yeah , but it's like you know he shows up to . Obviously . This is one of those moments that you have , obviously , top tier . Ichigo calls an ambulance , kurapika brings a shovel , yusuke calls the police ahead of time , like this is usually one of those badass character moments .

You're just like all right , we're going to be prepared , because at this point somebody's dying . The shovel could be for me , it could be for you , but honestly , I'm the one that bought it , so I already know who it's for Type of thing . Just walked in prepared and then buried him and the funniest thing , they still never found him .

He was completely just missing . He's just missing , that's it . They're like we have never they never recovered his body . That's even scary and this is one of our heroes that did this Understand . Our heroes not only killed someone , but they never found the body . Dun , dun , dun , like a Smash Bros type shit .

Just saying like unsolved mysteries Doom just disappeared and no one ever . I'm just saying like Unsolved mysteries Doom just disappeared and no one ever knew what he was asking .

We've had an opportunity to kind of like get an understanding , a little bit more of an understanding , outside of the explanation . That happened in the last episode , but it's okay .

We had a better understanding of what Nen is supposed to be , but now we're getting to see the creativity of Nen , of understanding how it more influences a person , like the most creative thing we've seen Nen was . Of understanding how it more influences a person . Like the most creative thing we've seen Nen was Bungie Gum . At this point , just real talk .

So now we get a chance . It's like oh , my Nen ability , I can fully create an entire construct of my mind and use it as a weapon type of thing . Like that's some next level stuff . Like you just don some next level stuff . Like you just don't think about stuff that's not something you would think about .

Like you would think about men , like how you would use Ki like in Dragon Ball , and I think I actually just shared a core onto that , or Black Clover . Yeah , even like yeah , black Clover as well too , and stuff , whereas , like , you use it to enhance your abilities Huh , push past your limits . Yeah , and it's like so , that way you can see , oh my god .

Hold on .

Yeah , like there's a reason why a lot of old school anime like fans like when I say old school , I mean people who watched anime in the 80s and 90s , like anime in the 80s and 90s type , because now work is at an old school . But you know , that's besides the point .

Yeah , no , that's why a lot of people are like yeah , Naruto is not original , this is a straight up copy from previous anime . They're like what are you talking about ? And then proceeds to show like Hunter x Hunter and you're like oh , you know , I've never really heard of this anime before . I've never really heard of this manga .

Okay , let's remake it in 2011 .

Some people are like , oh well , she's a servant , she's a butler type thing . I'm like okay , but understand who she's the butler for yeah , you can't let that slide .

If y'all have not read the new comics , what so ?

This arc , to me , was still one of the best arcs because we did get a chance , obviously , to explore more about Karapika , but this is also one of the ones where we got a chance to understand his nin ability , because we did get a chance to like dive back into it , um , or understanding how it works for him and understanding also this might also be considered

a Naruto reference , if you may understand this Understanding that once he activates his scarlet eyes , he now his whole mint system completely changes from where his nin ability is . He's extremely far from a special class and as soon as he activates his nin ability , he instantly is a special class and not just any special class .

His nin , uh , his , the amount of din that he has also increases as well , like significantly , and so sharingan makes you super saiyan per se is kind of the idea here . So again , before naruto , still keep in mind on that . But yeah , it's literally like his .

His nin increases significantly , on top of the fact that it also changes his complete class , and being a special grade class is that he has a whole special type of ability that matters into nothing .

But he winds up increasing that even more so by putting a you could say a curse , but a chant on his chains where he infuses all of his special class nin ability , everything that he gets from his scarlet eyes into his chains , by making a condition . As long as he follows this condition , his nin ability is damn near unbreakable , literally .

Even more to the point where crollo is like he's um , some of the other fandom troop members are actually trying to break it and they're like it's , it's difficult .

His nin is , it's immense , it's unexplainable why it's so powerful , but it just is , is one of those things of like , just because he put that condition on top of his scarlet eyes , made it to where , at that point , karapika was one of the absolute strongest nin users in the world from that point , and so it's like it's an imaginable thing , into that , and so

it was great to get an opportunity to kind of dive into the characters of like .

Oh , so there is something that can actually allow them to become immensely powerful , whereas I'm not without jumping into without jumping into the next arc , well , no , not the next art , but the arc afterwards where keelua gets a more understanding of his inability and pretty much becomes a god per se , literally , literally karabiko wanzo , just becoming an immensely

powerful nin user . But then the saddest thing that happens is that he falls off from this point . So that's why some people were very happy into the new arc , where now we're diving back into him again , because after this arc he just disappears . We don't know anything . Anything was going on . We don't know nothing about him anymore and he's just gone .

And so it's like damn , what happened to that god tier dude that we've just like did he ? Did he go after the rest of the phantom troop ? Like did he just say that he gave up ? Like we don't know anything , he just walks off and he removes contact from everybody .

We do see him a brief moment when they try to call him and he sees that he has a call and then ignores it and that was about about it . So it's like dang .

But this one was really great to be able to discuss as far as , like , karapika's starting development , understanding how this past has affected him and how he's like I'm out for revenge to kill the people who took my entire clan from me , sasuke , but I mean literally . It's just like it's a pretty thing , but that's what I have for right now .

My apologies , I do have to go ahead and get off , but what I do plan to do for you guys listening and JB , I know we had we discussed it before . It's been a while , it shouldn't take me long . I might make a quick five-minute video explaining the NIN system , explaining the NIN class system that we can probably use .

So I will probably make a video into that and see if I can . We'll talk about it further .

Okay , alright , I'll talk with y'all next time . Y'all be safe Later .

Ultimately , I do say , yeah , this art was great . Most of them are Really hoping that the anime Well , I'm really hoping that the arts get animated somehow , but if it don't , then ah well , you know , there's always the manga . So do give the anime a chance , both of the anime , like the older and the newer , if you can , if you have the time .

Um , I know some people can be particular about the art style and everything , but I swear there's just some things that the older version does better than the newer version and then sometimes the newer version does things better than the older version .

So that's why it's kind of like with Fullmetal Alchemist , where , in a sense to where , like , the older , fullmetal Alchemist was all right , but the Brotherhood was more faithful to the manga . So , yeah , that was the only main advantage , brotherhood had it was more faithful to the manga .

A lot of people prefer it , a lot of people love it . So either , or Whatever you pick , but either way , we are going to conclude this part of the hunter hunter extreme review .

Next up is greed island , to where , essentially , gon and keel will get tron isekai into his gang and we just going to explore more into that and then , once we get done with Greed Island , then we get to the best arc of it all , chimera Ant . That's a fact . Until all that happens , it's time to stay nerdy . We are zoning out .

You already know the drill with the links attached to the episodes . You know , follow us on social media if you want to , but for now take it easy . Hunter Hunter , greed Island . Let's go ahead and zone in on this one , koki , I'm not going to lie . Short arc , 17 episodes . Really it was just a matter .

It was like a training arc or more like a formality , to where you know , gon is trying to find Jing and essentially Greed Island is like a clue to figuring out what he is . And that's the funny thing about Jing . Here's what I don't like about Jing .

I was telling Playboy in the last installment when we talked about york new city uh , where , what it was , either york new or heaven's arena yeah , it was heaven's arena because you weren't on for that one , but essentially it's like ding is emotionally manipulating this kid . Like , on one hand it's like oh so you're really trying to find me ?

Huh , all right , well , let me give you some clues . But uh , at the same time you don't give a fuck about going finds him , and then he's , and on top of that he's . I know I'm kind of jumping around , but let's all . Let's be honest , it's not a whole lot to talk about with this arc .

Anyways , like at the end of the arc , kite shows up and essentially showing that , oh yeah , kite's been telling y'all , uh , he's kind of my boy and basically I've been keeping up with y'all the whole time and I gotta say I'm kind of disappointing you , my boy . What are you doing ?

Trying to find me , trying to rely on friends , like what the fuck are you doing with friends ? I'm like bro , like father of the year for real .

But other than that , you know , greed Island is essentially this game where here's the funny thing back in the day , like not the 2011 version , but the 1990 version to where using game technology and anime was almost unheard of , so the way they were going about it was kind of interesting to where you know how , with sword art online .

See , this is why I kind of wish that professor tuck was on , because I was going to make a reference to where it was sort of a line SAO gamified anime . But Hunter x Hunter , greed Island , anime-ified gaming .

That's totally not Mark's words , not mine , but I would just say pretty much much like kind of gave gaming culture that anime appeal to , where , since we go inside this game , you get like isekai'd into this game and you collect these cards , almost like fucking I was gonna say fucking Kingdom Hearts , chain of Memories , and then , um , you collect these cards and

and of course , people gonna try to steal them from you . That's kind of the point of greed island , where everybody's trying to get all these cards to win the game and you have all these different teams where it's team razor , team bomber , and they're doing all these different games .

And there was like this cool dodgeball match with team razor , like it kind of reminds me of dodgeball the movie , and then with team bomber . Oh man , team bomber reminds me of that main dude , kind of remind me uh , what's his face from tenjo tenge .

Uh , like it's almost like almost the same dude , except like different clothes and whatnot , but like it's almost the same . That guy that's like he's always up to something . He's just like that suspicious dude . And speaking of suspicious fucking Hisoka , we get that one part where , oh , he's checking out little boy's booty holes and I'm like bro , like what ?

But you know what ? I'm going to pass it on to you Kokugasu , what's your impression of Greed Island ?

of has more of like comedies , a little bit better animation style , because it's newer and stuff . But there's also a vast difference with the manga , because one thing about it is that the manga tells the story by actually fucking telling the story .

So that's the reason why you start having panels that's just nothing but full of words when you're transitioning that to anime . Anime relies on the manga panels to help tell the story , to get things through . They rely on the visualization . That's pretty much what anime is . It's the visualization of the book .

So it's like when you have so much that you're just doing full-on explain , like so many light novel stuff . And a lot of animation studios don't transition novels into shows .

But like the same thing when we were talking about hisoka's bungee gums , like you don't have to explain it too hard , it's like we kind of get what's going on true , and that's why it becomes so funny .

Because of the fact that there's so much that's explained in the manga and relies so heavily on trying to show things and not tell , we lose a lot of information .

But this the premise of it is is the fact that when gone , kilua and like everyone joins in when they go into the game , there's already in a rise . There's already a bunch of different factions and a bunch of different shit going on .

Greed island was meant to be a forever game , but a potential end as well . It had to be made as a video game to the point that there is a beginning . There , isn't it ? Because keep in mind how the system itself works . You have to collect 100 slot cards . Then you have spell cards , which are separate .

There's a lot you to be that you can just use , but you have to buy them . Then you have the unlimited cards . Well , um , your undefined cards or something that you can just grab and use them however you see fit . Yeah , but keep in mind how the system itself works . Okay on this .

This is how it works into it , each card aside from having a great level of rarity and then also like how many of those cars are able to be there , but also how strong and how powerful those cards are as well . So keep that in mind onto the case in the reason that that's become so important .

This is where we get more of an explanation in the manga than the anime and that's where , I say , stuff gets lost . So with the way this works out , if you use a card , if you use one of the slotted cards , it can never turn back into a card again . So if you return it to its item or its real version form , it can never revert back .

Let's say you get to one of the higher tier cards , like not the triple zero card , but like the triple , but the double zero one and the double zero two cards are those higher ones . There's only three of those cards . Let's just say , because of whatever situation they get into , they wind up using those cards because of what they are .

Because of what they are Like , the 0001 card is an entrance to a very specific forest . So if you're trying to traverse through areas , you have to open the door . Once you've opened the door with that card , it can never turn back again . That means the rarity of that card has now gone from 3 to 2 .

There's hundreds , no thousands of people , no what , yeah , 8 , yeah , a thousand , because it's only a limited amount of copies . So it's like a thousand people playing this game and let's just say , even out of their rarity , those three people get this and those three people use that card . Guess what ? No one is able to finish the game anymore .

The game is now deemed completely unbeatable because the people use the cards . I see we got a new addition , but welcome in . We got a new addition . What's good Professor .

They were trying to be like oh I won , I beat . But then there's some people who don't want to beat the game . Because the game ? Because it takes place inside the game world , which let's just go ahead and say we , we all know that it takes place in the dark continent . We all know this . There's no question about this .

Um , we're just waiting for the full confirmation inside the manga , but everyone pretty much agrees that this takes place in a dark continent . There's just like , there's no way this takes place literally in a game system . You're teleported to a whole different continent .

But if he stays alive and is able to continue the writing , everything that happened before is supposed to be important , like the chimera ants .

Even though a lot of people don't like the Chimera Ant arc and I know we're not reviewing that yet , but I'm just mentioning the thing about it is it's very clear that the way that the Chimera Ants are , there's no way they existed in the regular continent . They had to have come from the Dark Continent .

That's where you start getting all of these other estranged animals and creatures and stuff from . These chimera ants had to have come from the Dark Continent . There's no other way to explain it . And so it could be a possibility that in creating that game because keep in mind also who's supposed to be watching the chimera ants it was supposed to be Kite .

It's his job to make sure that they don't get out of control , not just him , but some other people . But the government keeps an eye onto it , but has this been happening since the beginning ? We don't really know .

It's a possibility that maybe these Chimera ants traversed back from the Dark Continent , and it could have happened also from when the game Greed Island was made . Because of the fact that everyone pretty much has an agreement that Greed Island takes place in the Dark Continent , you're able to leave the game . You're not stuck there permanently .

I'm glad that you said that because this reminds me how Tuck I was just saying how I wish Tuck was on , because I was going to make a comparison to Sword Art Online , to where how SAO gamified anime , greed Island anime-ified gaming Pretty much .

But you know , it really depends on how long old buddy's gonna live . We just lost toriyama . So it's like I don't know , I don't know , bro , kind of it , kind of in that feels , right now he's around . If I'm correct , he's older than toriyama is . So I don't know , like you don't know , how much long old boy got , just saying .

So , just , we're hopeful that we'll be able to get kind of an explanation . Otherwise I might just want to be in a left in the wind situation . We're gonna see . But it's one of those things like , yeah , there's something into greed island where there's all these different factions . Um , there's some people who don't want to leave the game .

They enjoy the game because out in the real world you have to use yeah , you have to like suffer consequences . Whatever it is that you're going to do in greed island . There are no consequences if you kill another player . That player was just weak . The only way you can legally kill someone out in the real world is having a hunter's license .

You know how difficult it is to get that shit .

I'm going to make a video because you did remind me earlier on that I'm still very upset . I'm upset that I wasn't able to be honest to that episode review . That's on me . Situations happen . But I'm very upset still at how horribly you guys explained that NIN system . So I'm obviously going to go into .

It's very complicated though that's why I'm going to make a very short video to let you know that the actuality is not that complicated . It's very simple to understand . It's very simple it is . But anyway , that's . That's a discussion for another time . That's not for this review , because then I'm going to go into a tangent .

It's going to take up most of this time and I'm not going to do that .

But anyway , understanding with the nin system for those who do understand , and I'm just going to go through this little explanation to this , your nin abilities are made stronger based upon stipulations that you put onto them . Keep in mind , onto this chaotic nin is weak .

Controlled nin is strong , and what I mean by that is this if you establish rules , you make your nin stronger oh , it's more like you're .

Hunter , yeah , I don't know , but if you , if it helps for you to kind of get understanding into it . So the flow of nin for karapika is different when he activates his scarlet eyes , which is very , very similar . And again , I'm going to make sure I make this very well known that the sharanan was clearly stolen into this and I want you to understand this .

I purposely set up this , set up this explanation for this review . I literally just shared when Toby Rama no , yeah , yeah , when Toby Rama explained how the Sharingan works when he was reanimated and explained it to sasuke . I just shared that to the face group group today . Okay , keep that in mind .

That is a completely different flow of chakra that gets released and it reacts with the optical nerves and it creates the sharingan . It is the same thing for the scarlet eyes and nin . A different flow of nin flows through the body when the scarlet eyes are activated . It's the same thing . Naruto stole it . I'm just saying that anyway , now that rant's over .

So , but karabika's special grade nin . The one thing about it is is that what makes his nin so powerful and what makes it so difficult for that , for um , for chrono to even try to break it because he can't , is because of the stipulations that's been put , those rules that's been in place .

As long as karapika follows the three rules that he's put in place of his nin , it is nigh unbeatable , literally , and that's the reason why it's such a big thing . Into it . It would have to be something significantly more powerful than his nin , which , by putting those rules , already puts his in top tier . Keep that in mind . He put those rules .

He's already in top 10 . It would have to take somebody who is strong enough to be beat top 10 men . So someone has to be in that top tier or they would have to completely do what gone does . And I'm not going to spoil for those who haven't gotten to that point in the anime .

If you're waiting for a review , we appreciate it , but a big sacrifice would have to be made in order to break it . That is how powerful his nin has become by putting those rules in place . But if he never put those rules in place , chrono could have broken his nin , his nin's uh spell that was put onto him , those chains , almost instantly .

That is how vast of a difference nin without rules and is with rules is . That's where that discipline comes into play . An amateur fighter versus a very well seasoned fighter .

kind of like be through the opponent um , more than the opponent you know , kind of like be through the opponent more than the opponent . You know , kind of like you know your opponent more than they know themselves , that kind of thing . Yeah , so I can't feel it . So understand this .

It boosts your power up 10 times and the more you can establish more rules and then boost it up even higher . So you establish 20 rules , kaioken times 20 per se . Okay , let's just say in that aspect , okay per se . Okay , let's just say in that aspect , okay . But if you break the rules , your nin is destroyed .

Kayo can , for most people believe , because it hasn't . Toriyama never got a chance to fully fully confirm it , neither did toyotaro . But toriyama never fully confirmed it before he passed . But most people believe that there's two ways that goku contracted the heart disease . One , he got on yard rat or two , he got it because kyo kin destroys your body .

By pushing those limits you're pushing your body strength more . Yeah , most people feel this kyo kin like . There's more people who lean towards the kyo kin situation . So let's just say that's the , that's what it is . Let's just say that's the reason he got the heart disease because he used kaioken so much and so strong and his body couldn't handle it .

Whatever the case may be , so we put it in that aspect there . What it is is the fact that , um , when you destroy your , if you break your rule that you set in place , your nin is destroyed , it kills your nin . You can lose it forever .

He was killed by disease Remember he was Dude purposely infected him and that's what the time frame came into and purposely did not let him know about the disease until it was too late . So the disease was also made to kill him very quickly .

So even if he wanted to use NIN to like , restrict the disease , he would have to have known that he was sick in order to do that . He would have to have known that he was sick in order to do that . So he was purposely they purposely like he was purposely made sure that he did not know this information until the last moment .

So that's why he was going to die anyway .

But if it wasn't for that illness , he he would have , probably , I would say he would have been the strongest nin user , because keep in mind also is the fact that it was a good pop , like he has the ability , whoever he eats , just like other chimera ants , is mostly because the fact that he was deemed king from his mom his mom , whatever it is that she

ate , she gave birth to , so she ate . That power was transferred to her baby him being king . Wherever he ate , he absorbed that power into himself . So every time he was eating somebody , he was absorbing their power into him and becoming stronger and stronger each time .

Let's just be honest , it's nin , because all the special grades is all the bloodlines . Just gonna be honest on that . Special grades , scarlet eyes sure ain't gone . Anyway .

. I say , as far as about the rules , is the biggest mystery for Greed Island is is the entire island fully fabricated of nin , or is it nin affecting that particular part of the island ? And I put it in this aspect here Are these NPCs ? Were they actually real people at one point or were they fully fabricated by Nen itself ?

Either way , you would have to be an extremely strong-ass Nen user to manipulate that much in the area . So in order to increase that Nen's power , there were rules that were put into place . Those rules that were put into place , those rules that were put into place , are the game's rules .

That's the kind that help explain how powerful the nin , how powerful nin can be In the world , because that's just how strong it is , literally to the point when you can create an entire game world the size of an entire fucking island , a huge island at that . And this can actually happen if you establish rules . That's how strong nin can be .

But it's one of those things of like , like we mentioned . It's a discipline . So when you put in that there , that also kind of helps , really kind of put into play how strong Nen is , how powerful things could be , and how much of a world manipulator that Nen can be as well too . If you really know what you're doing , you establish those rules .

You're pretty much set .

Versus mine it'll be more like concentrated to where it's gonna have a shorter beam , but at the same time it's like it's more concentrated , it's gonna pierce right through yours and it's gonna reach longer and faster at the same time .

able to do it . When they do attack it seems small but extremely powerful , like , for example , piccolo's special beam cannon . When he first did his special beam cannon it would only go straight . That was it .

But once he refined his ki , got more understanding , got more control over it , he was able to turn it around in midair and control his ki on where it goes .

We're going to talk about that when we get to that review , but yeah there's so much that goes into play .

So that way they have all of this , and so it's like it was a really awesome concept and was one that we were super excited kind of jumping into and the story could have been fleshed out a little bit more . Everything felt kind of rushed for a moment , and it was . It was because every single time the same thing has happened with hunter .

Hunter that has been , that's still happening right now . Uh , we're questioning his life , he's sick , he knows that he's dying , but every time that he thinks he's going to die , he winds up rushing the story .

And then he doesn't die , which we're happy about , but still One of those things is like we're having to keep rushing the story so as much as stuff that we wind up missing . So then we kind of get a chance to go back and see more about what was supposed to be there , type of thing . It's the same thing that happened with Ty Kubo , with Bleach .

It's the same thing for him where a lot of people really complained about how the Quincy arc , how it went in the manga . And it was for the same reason because Kubo felt like he felt horrible and thought that he was going to die and wound up spending time in a hospital . So he wound up rushing the story . So there's a bunch of stuff that even he said .

There was a bunch of stuff in the story that was supposed to be there that he skipped because he thought he thought something bad was going to happen and he didn't want to leave his fan base with no ending , so he skipped it . He's doing better now and now that's being animated . The anime is getting a chance to explain more of what was been missing .

They've been piecing in more stuff that's been in there . So some people's like , oh , it's filler . No , it's not filler , it's explaining what was missing . Is what this actually is ? So but with this anime , with hunter hunter was , it was kind of like they animated what they had per se .

So there's stuff that went missing , like there was supposed to be more to that cult that was there , but we just kind of rushed it through the cult was . They were just trying to take the cards and the leader was really just going to kill everybody and steal all of their cars to make sure he had all the slot cards because he absolutely wanted to win .

And once I realized what the triple zero card was , I was like , okay , I get this Tuck . Are you prepared ? So if Skip was on , I would have made this mention into this . But Maggie so one of the things about Maggie is the man who sailed the seven seas . Oh my God , wait , simbad . So Simbad is the man who sailed the seven seas .

Uh , oh my god , wait , fuck Sinbad . So Sinbad has his own kingdom . All these different concubines , all these different power and shit . That is the reward if you beat greed island . The triple zero card that you can choose to take with you is an entire kingdom with 10,000 loyal subjects who will follow whatever laws you have in place .

By winning , you literally become a king in the real world .

I would have like a shadow monarch and I'll be one of the citizens there . That way I can keep track of everything . So I would have a king .

Everybody think that's the king , but in reality I'm the king , just to make sure all my citizens is good to go make sure we ain't got bullying or like people trying to do stuff because they lower class citizens , stuff like that , but low key .

I be going on vacation , like you know what I mean , once a month okay , honestly , a lot more than I thought it was gonna be . I'm not gonna lie to you , yeah , but if I if I'm like , if I'm like not , if I'm like , if I'm like not trying to be like that . Honestly , man , I'm tearing the city up . Man , we having a party every day .

It's going to be like a strip club with 10,000 people , especially with all them big moms . It's the whole way . What's the name from Game of Thrones ? I won't have no males there , it'll just be me . Oh God , look , castor Male , another male , get him out of here . Ain't nobody gonna be keen with me ? Bam , bam , that baby .

He'll be alright , he'll be alright .

What would you do if you had a whole kingdom of 10,000 loyal subjects ?

I'm going to have my mansion , I'm going to have my winters , I'm going to have my servants and , of course , family and friends can always visit , but of course everything's going to be for the . How dare you ?

Like it would be pretty much like that to where I would definitely have , like my gaming studio , film studio , like a whole bunch of shit going on to where you know , like how we talked about before , to where I want to give the guys that's like the up-and-comers , the entry-level guys that want to get into those industries , like give them a fighting chance to

get themselves in there . So I'm like let's just establish a kingdom to where , hey , here's this uh training ground per se and you go off and do your thing .

It'll be kind of like a college town in a way , but except , no , y'all can still stick around if y'all want to , but the main thing is we just help y'all along the way you know , I got you , I got you well I mean otherwise yes , oh yes , it's your nonsense , bro , but no , um .

You better be careful about what you're doing and stuff . The card system is very simple . You got these cards . They range from H being the most common and weakest to SS being the rarest and the most powerful one , which , of course , the triple zero card is the only SS Starting card .

One is an s rank , but yeah , so it's like we have all these things I already mentioned . As far as about the card , you can turn the card back into an item , but once you do that , it'll never go back . But also you have to be mindful , because you can't just hold on to a card .

You have to put it in your inventory um , which does let everyone know that you have this card and the reason that it does . That is one fairness for all other players .

But then the other thing is also , let's say you try to hold on to the card and you don't put in your inventory , within a minute it'll turn back to his item form and it will again , will never be able to go back into his card form again . So now you fucked everybody on that . So congratulations , I hope you .

You know you played yourself and you played everyone else . Now everyone's coming out to kill you because it's your fault . You're a dumbass , but for reals though it's . But otherwise , yeah , I mean the system itself , the greed system itself wasn't bad . It was pretty simple as far as the whole island , how the game system works .

It was pretty straightforward and still pretty fun . But it was pretty fun to watch . I mean , I hadn't played it . Obviously I thought about it Like how would I play it ? I probably would , but probably not , I don't know . Would you play Greed Island realistically ? I don't know .

Yeah , knowing the potentials , aside from the fact that you have to have Nen to use it you also have to be really knowing what you're doing . Because these are the kids .

This nigga was strong as a motherfucker though , god damn this nigga was strong . But then , of course , you know , bungee cum saves the day . I like how , even with the bungee gum , it still wound up . They still almost lost , like they did almost lose that dodgeball game . So it was .

It kind of felt like , oh you know , it really felt like it was like a really tight game Into itself . But I don't have much to say on dodgeball game though . Like was there any detail that I missed ? Jb , or ?

Uh , yep , that's it cool , anybody got ? Yep , that's it Cool , anybody got ? Just anything y'all want to add on Before we close this out .

note . Bro , this is going to be Crazy nerdy news because there's so much Animated and dropped this season .

I'm like , okay , let me check this out Windbreaker , some others yo hell yeah . Reincarnated as a Slime .

We will be back for the Chimera Ant arc and , let's be honest , I'm going to blaze through the election arc because it's like 12 episodes and not much of what's going on . Yeah , like there's nothing going on in the election , I know , but come on . I've got an honorable mention , but for the most I know .

But come on , I got like honorable mention , but for the most part . Chimera Ant is going to be the last arc of the Hunter x Hunter Extreme Review and we're going to be closing it out . So , yeah , just stay tuned for that .