From the manga you read, which art do you like most?

Noragami’s art is my favorite art right now in that every panel could be, like, framed. It’s simply stunning in every single shot. That being said, Tokyo Ghoul:re’s art is probably the style I’m most a fan of.

I actually quite enjoy Togashi’s style as well, though the quality does vary widely at times. But some of the art from the election arc and from this current arc takes my breath away. Black Butler’s art is also wonderful!

Gon’s anger when he encounters Pitou again does not come from his need to view them as a monster, but rather the unfairness of what’s happened and what’s happening.

I definitely don’t disagree with you that
his frustration being related to unfairness! The ideas are not mutually
exclusive; I believe another layer to that unfairness is that part of
the reason he thinks it’s unfair is he does view Pitou(understandably!
Completely understandably) as a monster. You don’t have to agree of
course, but do you mind if I explain why I said that?

The struggle of
humans and ants to empathize with each other instead of categorizing
each other as monsters to be eradicated or cattle to be eaten was a
recurring theme. I don’t think Gon was concerned overmuch with the fate
of humanity, but Kite did warn him about this tendency of his here:

Gon did not want Pitou to be a creature who was capable of camaraderie, which Pitou’s actions with Komugi proved they were. I think that indicates that Gon did view Pitou as a lesser, eviler being, but was certainly frustrated when that was proved not the case. However, you are entitled to disagree!

Which houses from HP would you put main protagonists/antagonists from hxh and black butler?

EEP this is such a great ask *wipes tears*

HxH:

Gryffindor: Gon, Palm, Phinks, Netero, Knuckle, Nobunaga, Uvogin, Shizuku?, Benjamin, Bisky, Ging, Morel

Hufflepuff: Leorio, Oito, Alluka, Youpi, Fugetsu, Melody

Ravenclaw: Kurapika, Chrollo, Machi, Milluki, Komugi, Pouf, Cheadle, Knov

Slytherin: Killua, Illumi, Hisoka?, Feitan, Kalluto, Meruem, Pitou, Shalnark, Kacho, Tserriednich, Pariston, Silva, Zeno, Kikyo

Kuro:

Gryffindor: Lizzie, Agni, Wolfram, Francis Midford, Edward Midford

Hufflepuff: Soma, Finnian, Snake

Ravenclaw: Sieglinde, Gregory Violet (?)

Slytherin: Sebastian, O!Ciel, R!Ciel, Grell, Madam Red, Cheslock, Undertaker, Lau

That anon about Lizzie and her feelings for the real Ciel (don’t get me started on how much I hate that plot thread because I have zero reasons and near infinite anger) made me think of Hairu and her “love” for Arima. She’s so attached one might even call her obsessed, and yet — she doesn’t know him, she hardly knows herself, she’s just “in love” with the idea of him.

SAM I DIDNT KNOW YOU READ KURO!

Yeah, I think that’s a fair comparison, though the key difference is that Lizzie and Ciel are equals in a sense whereas there was always a power dynamic difference between Arima and Hairu. But I agree that Lizzie was so focused on the idea of Ciel and she did not love him, and she hid parts of who she was to accommodate for this role she had been assigned: Ciel’s future wife. I’m very interested to see where her development goes and how it will parallel O!Ciel’s development.

Could you explain two things about Gon? Why did he let snake, owl and bat chimera ants live? I can understand Binolt but these ones would definitely kill more innocent people and they didn’t do Gon any favour. Also what was Gon’s anger about in ep 116, that Pitou showed care about another human, that she didn’t care about Kite, about Kite’s death or was he just trying to project his self-hatred on Pitou? Would he be so out of control if Pitou killed Kite but it wasn’t Gon’s fault at all?

Sure! I’m always happy to talk HxH.

I think Gon is not a fundamentally bloodthirsty person. He does understand killing is wrong, he just–makes exceptions for the rules according to his childlike mindset. He didn’t kill Genthru either, for example. His goal in those scenes I think was to survive, not to kill, whereas when facing off with Pitou it was to save Kite and then get revenge.

It’s also the case that Gon has a very egocentric, childlike mindset (and I’m using egocentric in the clinical psychological sense, meaning that all children focus on themselves and that is natural and not a criticism). He is not in this business of being a hunter, or even fighting in the Chimera Ant debacle, for the good of humanity or to save humanity. He’s in it for finding his father, and for saving Kite because he views Kite as a substitute for Ging. And he’s a child, so this isn’t wrong, but throughout the entirety of HxH, Gon is not really motivated by grand “for the good of the world” ideals, so his letting them go seems pretty consistent to me.

As for Pitou, I do think Gon is to an extent projecting his self-hatred onto them, and that is because his entire life he’s felt like he was not enough for Ging to stick around. Abandonment is really abusive and traumatic for a child, and Togashi really portrays its effects accurately. And then Ging goes one step further and essentially sets up a game Gon has to pass in order to find him and “earn” the right to meet him. So when Pitou kills Kite, someone he views as a Ging substitute, Gon is devastated because of two reasons: 1) Kite gave his life to protect Gon, showing Gon that he valued him in a way Ging never has, and he just lost that, and 2) Kite gave his life to protect Gon, meaning Gon was not strong enough to save his father figure and keep him with him, which is reminiscent of the root cause of his trauma: that he’s not enough for Ging to stick around.

For Gon’s specific rage that Pitou showed care for Komugi, I think it comes down to the fact that he wants to see Pitou as a soulless monster. It’s easier when we hate people who hurt us to see them as having no good in them. But seeing that Pitou does care for people brings up the same question Gon didn’t understand when he confronted Chrollo in the Yorknew City Arc: how can you care about your troupe but kill people you don’t even know so indiscriminately? And the irony is, of course, that that’s exactly what Killua’s entire family does. If Gon accepts that Pitou can care for people, then that challenges his assumption that Pitou is a monster, and if Pitou is not a monster, then he has to take a cold hard look at himself and see whether or not his revenge might, in fact, be unhealthy for him. But Gon again can’t give up on things, because if he gives up on something it probably exacerbates his fears of his lack of self-worth (thanks Ging), so it’s really terrifying for him, and tragic because he’s like a child.

you know i noticed something when dabi said the “hero killers will im going to make it reality” something tells me he doesn’t just admire the hero killer remember what stain said to endevoir? and endevoir was the one credited with his capture? I thought that this here is about exposing endevoir for his revenge I thought this here was refereing to endevoir

Yep. Endeavor very much is the embodiment of what Stain’s philosophy wants to take down, as well. If Dabi is Touya, that probably is part of what motivated him as well–specific revenge on Endeavor.

so Elizabeth knew she didn’t love rCiel blavat said about Elizabeth obsession it must of refered to lizzie obsessing over rCiel not loving him

I think so. As @aspoonofsugar wrote in her meta earlier, I think Lizzie was… I’m not sure of the word exactly–attached? to the idea of Ciel (R!Ciel). Because she knew she’d marry him, she decided to love him, but she didn’t really know him or herself, so it really wasn’t so much loving a person as loving an idea, or a wish.