With the already-limited spring season now experiencing a necessary wave of delays and cancellations, my Why It Works columns are at last able to assume their final form: weekly odes to Hunter x Hunter, each column celebrating a different aspect of its collective majesty. Alright, that’s probably not actually going to happen, but I really could write about Hunter x Hunter’s excellence forever, and I was happy to ramble about the nen system this week. Let’s get to it!
Fighting with Impact: The Brilliance of Hunter x Hunter’s Nen System
Y’see this is why i’m devastated that you dropped Tower of God after what was admittedly an abysmal first episode. The rest has been pure gold and really plays into a lot of the themes and moods that made early HxH such a blast.