Hunter X Hunter Ch 405 is out and I would like to talk about it. This reaction will have spoilers. If you do not want to be spoiled then stop now and go check out the chapter over at Viz Media or at Shonen Jump. AGAIN SPOILERS AHEAD.

So how will they go after at Hisoka. The latest chapter has catching up with the phantom thieves. To catch everyone up the phantom thieves are not here for the succession war but Hisoka. Before they got unto the ship Hisoka and Chrollo had there fight at heaven’s arena where Chrollo came out on top. Hisoka survived through a nen trick which revives him upon death and went after other members of the phantom troupe venting his anger for losing to Chrollo. Both are here on the ship with troupe now in persuite.

They maybe in persuit but as you see both are not going directly after the other. At least not in the way they want. The troupe do want Hisoka but they need to be careful about how they go about it. They are tit nit and want him to suffer for killing there friends. Something we learned in this arc they value highly . Even more so then we did after new new york. As for Hisoka he doesn’t want to face them all at once. he basically wants a rematch with Chrollo where he can do what he likes and pull his enemy apart.

We get that brought back up in this chapter how Hisoka didn’t see a reason to go after the ants and thus he just avoided them. It was the one arc he was not in as usually he pops up somewhere. A nice explanation as we must remember Hisoka isn’t the type of character who wants a strong fight. He wants a battle with some he can enjoy taking down. It is why he is excited to see what Gon becomes. All the potential he has gets Hisoka excited as he wants to take him down when he feels he is at his most powerful. It is a nice reminder as on the surface Hisoka does come off as someone who is looking for the strongest opponent he can face to test himself but in reality that isn’t it him at all.

Now the thing about this is there is a third element here as the mafia are also in play. The mafia are tied to royal family which one depends on which princess as I stated before. But all groups want to keep Hisoka and the troupe in check. Chrollo said best they are wild cards since they are not tied to anyone and to make sure they don’t lose respect the mafia will want to keep a handle on them. That and they don’t want the ship to be another New new york.

So for anyone confused we got introduced to the phantom troupe proper in the new new york arc where they went after the auction. This put them against the mafia and at one point Chrollo while he was hiding on the inside just told the others to cut lose and turned the city into a war zone as they laid waster to the mafia members. It was just carnage as Chrollo was just act like a conductor with his eyes close as the rest did there thing. A brutal scene indeed but that won’t happen here.

The mafia at the time did have there own nen user but non at the same level as the troupe. Most of them were just armed gangster hence the blood sheed as you need nen to stand up to a nen user. On the vessel we see the princes and those tied to them discovering and utlizing nen as it knowledge spreads through there ranks. As such it looks like the viscous beating the mafia took in New New York will not happen on the ship. We saw this before the last hiatus as Nobonaga attack on one of the families was stopped as he had no way to deal with the nen user ability.

Thus they way the troupe act here will be different and we see that. The main reason why they are here is to kill Hisoka but according to Bonolenov it is also for Chrollo to get an ability to kill Hisoka for good. It is an odd thought as it was a nen technique that save as him. As such you would think just simply removing his hands before allowing him to use it would work but if this is an indication it means Togashi wants it to be more. I guess a sign to tell us it will be a different battle when Chrollo catches up to Hisoka. That being said it is cool to see Bonolenov nen ability Battle Cantabile can be used as a way to give him transformation and allow him to play another role in this battle. We see him use to conjure armor or a giant sphere to attack his enemies. So this is anew side to take in as we see how Bonolenov use this new ability.

This brings us to Nobonaga as he notices that the Heil-ly family are not acting like a normal mafia. They are behaving the like the troupe in a way but in doing so doesn’t reflect normal mafia structure. Instead it reflects a group who just wants to wipe everyone out and they are trying to understand that. The introspective reminds me of batman looking at normal criminals who want things or payback making them easy to understand then we see the Joker who bring a new angle of it and just wants to see the world burn.

The issue with that is the mafia don’t like what they are doing as they need civilians. They are the customers and they need them to function. So despite all we the thought of maintaining balance and not go into a fight we see a fight is coming to Heil-ly as 3 of the troupe fighters are coming for them.

This is creating an interesting scenario as Chrollo is looking for a nen ability to help him not only deal with Hisoka but keep him dead. At the same time the troupe are being sent to deal with the Heil-ly who are sacrificing people to make stronger nen abilities. Thus is the troupe can pull this off they will have something to give to Chrollo. If it plays otu as straight forward as it sounds.

I like the chapter as it has been awhile since we caught with the troupe and I did like see what they are doing. Odd seeing Hisoka not sporing his normal due and looking like a normal person. But seeing Bonolenov ability have another aspect as well as what Chrollo might be think is setting up for a cool flash point. Can’t want to see it. Cool chapter.

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