Hunter x Hunter Episode 130-131 REACTION

Gon was broken. The arc is about Mereum becoming human and Gon becoming a monster. The author tried to mirror these two as they inverted each other on the moral spectrum. As they sit in the same pose etc. Man HxH is great. OP is my favorite but HxH is a close second.

Mra Keung

That fact that Ruff barely speaks but you see his eyes going haywire over the screen trying to take in what happened... perfect encapsulation of everyone watching this

Saiyasha

38:59 the single moment in the entire anime that you can hear killua's footsteps, he was so desperate that he forgot to use it

XD exactly lol. Palm as an ant got balanced out hahahaah. her human flaws corrected. lmao, it it hilarious

Michał Zienkiewicz

this episode is like 1/3 of the reason why people want reaction to HxH lol

Sean Nelson

Yo Ruff this reaction was everything I hoped and more my guy, keep it up bro. Glad you're fuckin with the series so much

One of my favorite things about hxh is how they avoid making this fight triumphant. Because how many times have we seen this play out? A cherished mentor figure is killed by an insanely powerful enemy. After much training, and even after that needing a last minute sudden power boost, our protag manages to defeat the hated enemy. And the music gets all bold and triumphant, the sun comes out of the clouds and shines directly on the face of the protag who has passed out from exhaustion but has a huge grin on his face. A friend finally shows up and seeing him there and thinks "That's our protag! He really did it!" and we pan into the sky and there's a voice over saying something like "And now you can rest in peace my mentor". This... this was not that. HxH recognizes that revenge based battles are not celebrations. They are battles that happen only after you've already lost. They did a similar thing with the Phantom Troop mourning Uvo. I love that that's the approach they take. They don't celebrate the fight like so many shounen anime would in this spot; they tell the story as the character they have written would feel. And in fact Pitou actually won this. Gon's goal was to get Kite back. Pitou's was to prevent Gon from being able to face the King. Only one got what they wanted out of this fight. Gon won the fight, but Pitou won the war. And the brilliance of HxH is that they realize it and tell it that way.

sandbun

I'm here for THAT punch in the next arc lmaoo

Ok Great

i sometimes cry just from being emotionally overwhelmed. like so many feelings at once coming from the show and i start crying

Lemonkatze

This was what I paid for, seeing THIS reaction. There were other parts I've been waiting for but THIS is the biggest moment in the series, for me. The next one I wanna see will be coming along soon

John Cabral

remember how i told you that previous people sinced a darkness inside gon. a caged beast of sorts. well pitou just broke the lock on it.

Sylph Whitewing

To sum up gon’s transformation, as killua stated, gon would’ve have achieved that power by training. So he would’ve been powerful once he was older

enrike funes

be carefull tho there is spoil in it

Oooh you're gonna want to watch reaction videos of this haha. I personally got into reaction videos in general because I saw one of this particular episode one day.. It never gets old.

Frederic Faddoul

Gon is the perfect example of naivety and innocence being corrupted by the evils of the world around him. That's why he is one of my favorite main characters of all time. He isn't a moral character, unlike many shonen MCs (not that being moral is a bad thing). He waits for someone to betray him so that he has the excuse to fuck them up (like he told Meleoron, and like he did with Genthru. Gon is what can happen when someone doesn't have a proper person to guide you in the world, and let's the evils of the world develop them instead. Right, I'm done being pretentious now

OleBrr

REMINDER: must watch after credits scene in EP 135!!

Yousif Bolifa

The entirety of Gons character so far was building up to this…and it was the most Satisfying character payoff ive ever seen in all of anime

LANA Dashie?

You've seen Killua's rise into light, and now you've seen Gon's fall into darkness

Justin V

Besides One Piece, Attack on Titan, Code Geass, and Black Clover, I don't think any anime ever shook me as much as Hunter x Hunter did with Gon's merciless slaughtering of Pitou. Holy hell...

Kevin Schomaker

A goated reaction for a goated episode. 🤌🐐

Grady

Yo I never noticed the sound of his footsteps there, that is crazy!

Grady

What a great reaction! I remember when I watched this the first time how hard it gripped me emotionally at this peak and during the arc build up. It's been over for me for a while and I still think about it - especially this part. The only other anime that can get to me emotional and hyped like this has been Black Clover.

Allison

I appreciate that you acknowledge Gon is not a monster. He's human who has suffered immense grief and trauma. It's a somewhat popular sentiment that you see in comment sections to say he became a monster, but to me.... it's like, what do you expect from a literal child who is so lost in grief, calling out desperately for help, and the only person there is the one who killed his father figure and now has the goal to kill him. Maybe he's a monster in the physical appearance sense during the power up, but his actions and emotions are a very real side of humanity.

Jer

Yeah this is how you make a 12yr old an MC... ask what would happen if they had as much power as they wanted and showcase how crazy they are. It just sucks the story doesnt continue into gons adult life cause everything is set up for the story to be super long like one piece

Jaya Norman

Oh boy loved you're reaction in this one, i cried so much, this episode is a rollercoaster indeed. So good, by far one of the greatest moments in anime

You did good, Pitou. Time to rest.

Cody

Isn't it 135?

This is what separates Gon from other shonen MC. Togashi dropped subtle hints throughout the manga hinting on the morality (or lack there of in certain situations) of Gon. Here is an interview from Togashi in 2017 that goes into a little about Gon and what he wanted from Hunter x Hunter (1998) after finishing Yu Yu Hakusho (1990) and Level E (1995): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0W7vp3XMAgta1q?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0W70K-WQAQ8DZ2?format=jpg&name=large

Knocking Master Jiro

And Gon said he owed Kite after completing the Hunter Exam in the manga

Knocking Master Jiro

Tears of appreciation for a beautiful scene.

Knocking Master Jiro

interesting

Knocking Master Jiro

That is what can be done if you don't care what the price you pay with Nen is

Icy

Here comes the explanation: do you remember how Nen works and what Kurapika does? The pacts and conditions. Well, here what Gon has done has been a pact from Nen, for a few moments of power, he has sacrificed more than his life, he has sacrificed his talent, his future, and his ability to use Nen again. Gon says so. '' I don't care, I'll use everything. '' You might think, so anyone can do this strong if they make a pact of Nen? No. This was made possible by two things: Gon's HUGE talent and determination. Anyone with less talent, would have achieved much less power, and without sufficient determination it cannot even be done. Here Gon, after realizing that Pitou has deceived him and having crumbled the last little light he had left, our innocent protagonist, succumbs to anger and sacrifices everything. He does not think of Killua, he does not think of doing good like other typical protagonists. This chapter is great

I rewatched the entire serie with a friend like 3 weeks after finishing it (adn after getting into the manga, 1999 version etc), i can say that its even better at rewatch (except for the start, when you feel a lot more the problem of censoring which is not a problem in a first watch) also, u feel that the first chapter is really important , they really fucked up in the fact they put it in chimera ants because it throws off a lot of some scenes like hanzo vs gon which becomes way more "cartoon" than emotionnal unfornutaely, kite is litteraly why he wanted to become a hunter etc, there is some subtext that is missing in the 2011 anime (again its not that an issue at first watch)

I know what you mean about the tears RuffSenpai I think its every emotion all in one or the feeling of pure astonish. The first time I saw this ep tears were running down my face but I wasnt sad I was in aww.

James Gonzales

It’s vague but it does the job of being short and direct. If people didnt understand what gon was trying to say in the anime, then they aint smart enough to watch hxh

Alan moreno

(now to preface this as a "For those who care") “I don’t care, so I’ll use everything” is kinda a vague translation. There’s actually a more refined translation for it that goes: “Enough, I don’t care what happens to me now. I’ll need all the power I’ll ever have!” Which makes more sense in the grand scheme, follows the Nen logistics better

Yagi di Hoshi

131 is really a perfect episode. So much was fit into one 20min episode, where other animes would try to stretch it out across maybe 2 or 3 episodes. Gon transformation is probly on the same level of iconic, as Goku tranforming into super sayian for the first time. Another fellow One Piece reactor, “Roger’sBase” dubbed episode 131 of HXH as THE BEST episode that he’s ever watched. He claims is better than any One Piece, FMAB, My Hero, and even better than any other episode on tv; and it’s kinda hard to argue against it. It’s truly a Masterpiece, from the animation, to the music, to the overall impact it has on Gon, and on the anime as a whole

Alan moreno

Most people regard the equal power thing as wrong as in the manga which is written by Togashi what she says is that his claws could reach him not quite the same as equal power.

Joe

well, here's the thing: Pitou said that gon's power was equal to the king's, however, pitou hasn't seen the king after the poor man's rose. After yupi and pouf merged with the him, he is now even more powerfull so pitou's standars of what the king's power is is outdated, Post Poor Man's Rose Meruem is way stronger than before so even if gon was in condition to fight the king in the "grown up" form he wouldn't be able to defeat Meruem. And as for gon's transformation: That is one of those nen Covenant/contract situations where he put on himself (just as Kurapika did), a condition in an equivalent exchange in order to archive this power, and the condition/Convenant gon created was his own death. Gon traded his life, thats the meaning behin pitou's and his words when he said "idont care if this is the end"

Izaya

Reminding ruff to watch after credit scene at episode 136

Zerozaki

I don't know if there's a mistranslation in the anime with Gon's power being equal to the king, I remember from the Manga that Pitou said Gon could hurt the king, but Netero also hurted the king but didn't kill him.. Also Pitou said it not knowing that the king got stronger..

Pam

YES YES YES Finallyyyy!

EasyWinUnited

Holy hell, I wasn't expecting you to tear up at this!!!!! Big hugs to you!!! <3 Did you also notice how Killua's footsteps were heard for the first time in the series when he went to push Gon out of the way of Pitou??? What a powerful scene! I really don't have much to say other than that LOL... Man, what a reaction.

Jessica Sutherland

man am glad i expernced this all over again i only watched hxh once so its 2nd time watching u react to it. and dang i watch and still all the emotions

MadSwag

“Did Gon turn into a Jojo?” I’M FUCKING DEAD.

Now this I will see I didnt watch the others but I'm here for this one

TheJoestarWithTheStrawHat

I've been waiting 2 months for this

Kakyoin

This wasn’t even a fight, it was a damn execution.

we call him uncle gon in China

My lord this essay you wrote is quite interesting, long but very informative 👌

That line about being happy to be the same as Kite was the nail in the coffin lol, so messed up but poetically beautiful at the same time. yeeesh

David

One thing that makes the Gon/Pitou fight so beautiful, is that it was all contained in a single episode. No screwing around, no dragging it out. Just one single episode where every single action and movement carried so much weight. A true masterpiece

Okay, episode 131, a.k.a. the best episode in all of anime. I wrote this comment quite a bit in advance in anticipation of this reaction lol. There’s a lot here to discuss. First of all, this is one of two episodes in this arc where I think the anime really shines in comparison to the manga, the other being 126. Overall I still think the manga works better for this arc due to the narration, but the big moments like Netero vs. Meruem and Gon vs. Pitou are presented so freaking well in the anime. That being said, I do still prefer how the manga handles the last third of this episode; while I love what they did in the anime with the black-white-and-red and the beautiful soundtrack, the stark imagery in the manga is just so beautifully tragic and really portrays the weight of the situation in ways the anime just couldn’t. The rest of the episode, though, is where the animation truly shines. Gon’s transformation is godly in the anime. It’s just a couple of panels in the manga, and while I like how absolutely evil the manga portrays it, even more so than the anime, there’s just no denying how freaking epic it is here. The animators went all out, and the soundtrack is perfect. There’s also more build up to Pitou’s death in the anime, which I believe helps the pacing. Speaking of Pitou’s death, that’s what I’m going to be focusing on for the rest of this comment: an analysis of Pitou’s character. For full disclosure: much of this is my opinion, not fact. A lot of it is also taken from other people, i.e. various youtube comments and reddit threads, and while I cannot remember where all these analyses are from, I feel it necessary to admit not all these ideas are original. Also, while I normally use he/him pronouns for Pitou, considering the ambiguity around the character’s gender and to make it easier to separate them from Gon, I will be using she/her for the rest of this comment. So, did Pitou deserve to die? It always disheartens me when reactors are glad to see her be killed. They saw her kill Kite and just refused to change their mind that she was “evil.” Let’s get this out of the way: she was not evil. A lot of people excuse Gon’s actions because he’s only twelve. Pitou is about a month old. She was clearly growing as an individual in ways which I will discuss in a bit. However, I do think Gon was reasonable in killing her, if not only because she was going to kill Gon. At the same time, I’d argue she would’ve been reasonable in killing him, because he did pose an active threat to the people she cared about. Let’s discuss Pitou’s morality: Pouf gradually descends into rather selfish evil. Youpi has the most drastic change towards good, before reversing completely towards Pouf’s side after the Miniature Rose. Pitou only ever changed for the better, but it was the most subtle. However, she clearly wasn’t a saint or anything. As many of her detractors will be quick to point out, she would continue being a mass murderer were the king to demand it. She’d kill millions for him. You cannot completely morally defend someone like that. However, she had begun to show clear signs of genuine human morality outside of the king’s wishes. The most blatant example of this is her apologizing to Gon when she finds Kite’s corpse. To clarify, she had no clue who Kite was until she saw the corpse. She was not lying to him beforehand; she genuinely didn’t know who he was. In what way does apologizing to Gon benefit the king? In what way does telling him beforehand that she has to execute him benefit the king? It doesn’t. She did it because she genuinely felt bad, because she was genuinely sorry. And she was probably sorry because she could understand how Gon felt; being put in the situation where the person she cared for most in the world (Meruem) could be hurt via Komugi, she was able to empathize with his pain, and understand why her having killed someone he cared for so deeply (who, especially in the manga, is basically a father-figure to him) would be the same as if he had killed Komugi or even Meruem. She genuinely cared that she had done him that harm. But she had to kill him, because he did pose a threat to the king. There are some interesting contrasts between Pitou and Pouf in regards to codependency and selflessness; Pouf is an example of a bad relationship. He thinks he cares about the king, but he doesn’t. It’s sick. Pitou, on the other hand, does actually care about who the king is as a person. She doesn’t want Komugi to be hurt because she’s the reason the king is who he is, and she loves the king. However, she’s perhaps a bit too selfless, to the point of being self-sacrificial. I do feel bad that she had to die, and she did have to die. There was no way around it. This part of the arc is a tragedy, and it’s largely Pouf’s fault (I honestly blame him more than Gon for killing her). Even if I liked her, and even if there was a possibility that she and the king together could’ve become good people who used their powers to help the earth, the story wouldn’t have allowed for it. It is extremely sad, but it had to happen. Like Romeo and Juliet dying. The events of the story wouldn’t have allowed for it to have happened any other way. At the very least she had a good death, knowing that she had protected him from the only being who posed a genuine threat to him. Speaking of Gon and selfishness vs. selflessness, his and Pitou’s final nen uses in this episode are essentially the completed, full-circle versions of what we had been taught in Yorknew City: Pitou’s love for the king was so great that her nen allowed her ability to continue going even after her death. It was completely selfless; solely because she cared for the king. Gon’s, on the other hand, was completely selfish. It was for revenge. As I mentioned, it makes sense why Gon would have to kill her; she was trying to kill him, after all. But even if he had been justified, his reasoning wasn’t. Another one of my favorite series, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, discusses this theme at length: the idea that killing is never justified if the mindset is wrong. Gon was killing Pitou out of selfish anger and vengeance, not self-defense (as evident by him sacrificing everything to kill her). That’s what makes it immoral. As for Gon’s sacrifice: as the episode mentioned, he sacrificed all his nen to do it. He sacrificed more, too, though: as Pitou mentioned, he used his own life energy to do it, which was translated as “compressed his own life” in the manga. Between that and Killua suggesting the consequences would be worse the longer he used it, it’s very likely he greatly shortened his own lifespan in using this power. This is only a theory, because all I have to go off of are those two things, but it’s clear he sacrificed everything. Okay, I think that’s all I have to say. Hopefully you enjoyed this analysis. Can’t wait for the end of the arc!

N

Its here boys

Paulius Juodsnukis

that was a good one

Heno Tsegaye

im not ready

David Reid

131 is literally master class of how to make an amazing episode wowwow

Michael Royal

Omg omg omg

Glow Lazer

🔥🔥🔥

Spicynoodle

Let’s goo thx ruff

Kelvin Collins

Oh God it's here

David

I literally just opened patreon to check for this episode and it was uploaded "just now". It's fate. I'm SO HYPE FOR THIS ONE. Let's gooooo

Louby Trahan

Never clicked this fast! The hype is REAL!

Tjxavi

Yeah finally

Karus

ITS TIME FOR THAT MOMENT

Rikin Patel