HUNTER × HUNTER || Building Rapport & Camaraderie

HxH Translation Tidbit

In the following post I will attempt to explain how Hisoka nearly got himself killed asking Illumi for permission to fuck Killua.

This is the scene in question:

As you may remember, Illumi asks Hisoka to help him in capturing Killua to prevent him from using Allukas powers to help Gon. Hisoka then turns to Illumi and asks him the following:

ところで、僕はキルアをやるのは、ありかい？

Both the manga and anime translate this as

By the way, am I allowed to kill Killua?

Which is fair enough, except that Hisoka never mentions killing him at all. The verb he uses is やる which literally means “to do”. It’s used as a euphemism for killing, but, you guessed it, it is also a euphemism for, well, sex. But how can we tell which one Hisoka is referring to?

Here, his gesture comes into play. Of course, the anime is faithful to the original. This is Hisoka in the manga:

The gesture is even more prominent here.

For everyone who isn’t savvy in Japanese nonverbal communication:

His hand gesture appears to be セックス (sekkusu), lit. Sex. It’s used so you don’t have to actually bring sex up in a conversation, but still make it clear that you’re talking about dirty stuff. Usually, this gesture requires the thumb to stick out between your middle and index finger, but this version is sometimes used as well. Since HxH appears in Jump, they might have had him change it as a form of censoring, but that’s just me taking guesses.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_sign)

On the Japanese wikipedia site for this sign it says that the thumb represents the penis, and the index and middle finger represent the vagina, it is possible that for this reason Hisoka chose the middle and ring finger instead, since Killua is a male.

In any case, it is clear that Hisoka is using this gesture to communicate to Illumi that he is talking about dirty stuff here. The fact that his words could mean both things work in his favor. He probably just said that to provoke Illumi, anyhow.

And that’s how Hisoka nearly died because of a stupid joke.

My son….my light, my starts…..

HUNTER × HUNTER || chapter 231

Testing out my new sketchbook with Killua ❤

KILLUA ZOLDYCK precious child. I wanted to do an illustration but I hadn’t never drawn him so here is a little study.

ハンター ✖ ハンター || No. 303

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Baby Kiru

I do love all the posts talking about how lovely and wonderful Leorio is, don’t get me wrong

But he’s technically not the weakest in the group.  The 2011 anime just made him look that way

In terms of combat ability, yeah he’s probably the weakest.  He hasn’t really used his Nen in a full on battle so who knows.

But the 2011 downplayed his natural strength a lot, which makes me sad.

In the manga (and in the 1999 anime technically), they talk a lot about his physical strength as much as his emotional strength.  

During the Zoldyck Arc, he actually opened the Testing Gate by himself before anyone else after training for two weeks

And later on it’s mentioned that when everyone opened the Testing Gate on their own, Leorio was strong enough to move two of the gates

Weakest in combat skills?  Probably.  Weakest character of the main four?  Certainly not.  Leorio is a beast