Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 18: Chance Encounter

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After all, no story ever has made me as emotional as this one has. I'm glad we get to see Gon and Killua's potential as well as see them from Kaito's point of view, for he certainly has known Gon for a long time and can see just how quickly and greatly he is improving and growing.

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Cerita di Greed Island selesai. Nov 14, Corey Thibodeaux rated it it was amazing Shelves: For a Shounen manga, there haven't been too many one-on-one fights with our heroes vs Big Bads. Kurapika in the Yorknew City arc was probably the only one so far. Gon finally gets in on the action and This was a dense volume: Bomber is pretty legit for an underdeveloped villain - he quickly identifies Gon's strategy and counters with his own, taking full control of the battle.

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He also catches on that Gon will not go down physically - his spirit must be broken. However, as Bomber will soon realize, this is not a battle of strength at all. In flashbacks, you see how comprehensive Gon's training truly was, which is why this chess match is so entertaining. But Gon, ever the masochist, decides to put his pride before his own preservation and gets in a couple decent hits at the expense of getting his arm blown the!

Then everything just goes bonkers. The heroes' full plan comes into fruition and you can enjoy the carnage that follows. But seeing a child with an arm blown off fight a grown man with bombs for hands is not the most settling of images. And, as I've mentioned before, Goreinu is a stand-up dude. The heartthrob will be back You learn some history about the game and how Gon's dad is a prick of the first order.

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In trying to get to Ging, Gon and Killua are instead sent to Kite, Ging's student who we met all the way back in the first issue. After playing some real-life Pokemon Snap, our heroes stumble upon an emerging new threat: Enjoy the reprieve, because we're about to embark on some truly dark territory. Sep 26, Diana Lynn rated it really liked it Shelves: We have made it to the end of the Greed Island arc with an action packed last volume here. Basically, it's Gon, Killua and Biscuit just being awesome and Biscuit in her amazing true form.

The Bomber has been beaten and Gon wins the game and gets the ending Ging wanted for him. He takes three cards out of the game, one of them being accompany, and tries to locate Ging with it Instead of Ging, we get one of my the best characters, Kite. With that, we are led into my We have made it to the end of the Greed Island arc with an action packed last volume here.

With that, we are led into my favorite arc of the entire series, The Chimera Ant Arc, and I can't wait for it to start. Oct 18, Ananya Singh rated it it was amazing Shelves: Hunter X Hunter Mangaka: In a world filled with monsters, demons, hidden treasures, vast unexplored lands, there are people who are interested in these powers.

These people are called "hunters". Jin, Gon's father, is known as one of the greatest hunters in the world. At an early age, Jin left Gon with Gon's aunt, and his father left to continue his life as a hunter. Gon learns news of his father, and how he is not dead. At the age Series Name: At the age of 12, Gon leaves his town, and sets out on a journey to become a hunter, find his father, and follow his dreams.

Series Scanlated by Manga-Section and various other groups. Jun 01, jerica rated it really liked it. Biscuit and Killua defeat their opponents Biscuit reveals her true form. Gon gets hit repeatedly according to a plan. Their plan succeeds and they capture the Bomb Devils. They collect all the cards from the Devils which triggers an event for the card--a multiple choice quiz open to all the players. The highest scorer will receive the card. That was pretty funny, in the end, to have a multiple choice quiz. The trio comp Story: Meanwhile, making money in an arm-wrestling contest, Gon, Killua, and Leorio learn of the Mafia's two billion jenny award for the capture any member of the Phantom Troupe.

The three eagerly start gathering information on the whereabouts of the Spiders. As Gon, Killua, and Leorio search for information on foot and through the internet, Uvogin has already tracked Kurapika down as the two agree to a showdown in the city's outskirts. Kurapika and Uvogin have a deathmatch outside Yorknew City, the youth revealed to be a Conjurer whose self-imposed contract allows his chains to be effective against any Phantom Troupe member while able to become an Specialist while his eyes turn scarlet. Though Kurapika intended to interrogate Uvogin once restraining, he ended up killing the criminal with his "Judgement Chain" and buries his body in the desert.

After reaching a dead-end on any clues on the Phantom Troupe, Gon, Killua, and Leorio decide to take an interest free loan of million jenny for Gon's Hunter license to pay out rewards for information. While Leorio sifts through offered information, Gon and Killua discover they can use Gyo to find valuable items at a street auction, and start to use this method to make money. They meet an antiques expert who prevent them from getting swindled when they try to sell the items they found, and winds up making him their auction agent, for a cut of the final proceeds. By this time, the Troupe realizes Uvogin is dead with Nobunaga Hazama and Machi Komacine sent out to find any traces of Kurapika, which results in Gon and Killua following them based on a tip from an informant.

But the boys being captured and brought back to the Spiders' base, where they are interrogated about the "Chain User.

Gon and Killua manage to escape Nobunaga by busting through walls, creating exits for themselves. By this time, Killua has realized from the Phantom Troupe's questions that the "Chain User" is Kurapika and suggests asking Kurapika how he became strong enough to kill a Spider so quickly. Meanwhile, the Mafia has hired several profession assassins to deal with the Troupe so the underground auction can be held. Among them are Silva and Killua's grandfather Zeno. At the same time, running off to personally participate in the auction, Neon is picked up by a disguised Chrollo Lucifer who gets close to her while setting up the conditions of his Nen ability as a Specialist to acquire her Nen ability to foretell the future which made her father rich.

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After knocking her out and sending her away in an ambulance, Chrollo summons the Troupe to hold a "requiem" for Uvogin my slaughtering everyone at the auction site. Chrollo also kills all of the hired assassins before fighting Zeno and Silva, revealed to have payed the Zoldyck Family for a contract hit on the 10 Godfathers.

With the Godfathers dead, Zeno and Silva no longer needed to continue the contract and leave the injured Chrollo alive.

In the aftermath, the Phantom Troupe members fake their deaths and covertly swindle the mafia with forgery of auction items created by Kortopi. Neon's ortune telling ability, Chrollo creates fortunes for the entire Troupe which reveal that their numbers will lessen with one being a traitor should they remain. Hisoka thinks quickly in altering his fortune to convince the Spiders to remain, sending Kurapika a text that Chrollo is still alive while revealed to wanting to personally fight the Phantom Troupe leader himself.

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Meanwhile, the Mafia withdraws the reward on the Phantom Troupe upon learning the members were from the Meteor City. Gon, Killua, and Leorio all offer to help Kurapika track down the Spiders again, enlisting the help of Kurapika's fellow bodyguard Melody to whose hearing allows her to home in on the. The group follows the Spiders, but Gon and Killua are captured once again. Kurapika quickly formulates a plan which he communities to Gon and Killua via a Leorio pretending to yell through his phone. A blackout is orchestrated at the hotel the Troupe take the two boys to, Gon and Killua providing a distraction so Kurapika can capture Chrollo.

A ransom note is left for the Phantom Troupe, demanding Pakunoda not reveal the memories she extracted from the boys as a hostage exchange is set up over the phone. Part 1 to September 10th: A hostage exchange is arranged over the phone, and Kurapika allows Pakunoda to meet with him first to confirm Chrollo is still alive. At the meeting she also agrees to allow Kurapika to use his "Judgement Chain" ability to plant chains around both Pakunoda and Chrollo's hearts. Pakunoda's chain is set to kill her should she reveals Kurapika's abilities to her allies, while Chrollo's chain will kill him if he uses his nen or communicates with anyone from the Phantom Troupe.

Despite disagreements, the hostage exchange is agreed to with Hisoka following Pakunoda and revealing himself as pretending to be a Phantom Troupe member so he can fight Chrollo. But he takes leaves when he learns of what Kurapika did to Chrollo. After the exchange, Pakunoda returns to the headquarters of the Spiders without Chrollo and sacrifices herself to restore trust among the group by using her Memory Bomb ability to transmit her memories and knowledge of Kurapika to her comrades. Later, after being unable to put the Geed Island copy in the Southernpiece auction, Gon and Killua decide to apply for one of the Hunter positions the billionaire Battera is filling to clear the game.

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At that time, unexpectedly run into Phantom Troupe's members Phinxs Magcub and Feitan Portan who reveal their group will not retaliate against Kurapika for fear for Chrollo as residual nen becomes more powerful after a user's death. But the two conceal their intention to find an Exorcist to dispel Kurapika's Nen. After the auction, Gon and Killua gain a preliminary interview with Tsezguerra , a Hunter and Battera's chosen interviewer.

He tells them they are too weak in their current condition to play. Though frustrated, Gon and Killua do not give up. They spend the next four days before the official interview developing their Hatsus, and pass with flying colors, shocking Tsezguerra with the speed of their progress.

At the same time, the Phantom Troupe acquire their copy of Greed Island. Gon and Killua have finally managed to enter Greed Island, as contracted players of the mega-billionaire Battera. The first thing Gon discovers is that the Greed Island ring and save data Ging left him contain nothing but a message to Gon revealing Ging is not in Greed Island, but encouraging Gon to enjoy his father's creation.

Disappointed, Gon and Killua decide the play the game anyway. They head toward a nearby town and on the way are introduced to Greed Island's card system of support "spells" and items, finding even money on Greed Island to be in card form, much to their dismay. Just as they start to have fun in this Nen based game, they are shocked by the sudden death of another player, one that had entered the game along with them, the death caused by an unknown Nen ability.

The boys decide to head to Masadora, the City of Magic, where they are joined by a fellow hired player named Biscuit Krueger who assumed them easy pickings before seeing them defeat a pack of giant cyclops they easily defeat. Their spirits are buoyed but they quickly meet up with more monsters that they can't find weaknesses for; all the while, Biscuit watches them, quietly judging, and quickly becoming frustrated with the boys' wasted potential. She eventually reveals herself as a year-old Hunter disguised as a young girl while forcing Gon and Killua into being her students, using an an attack by another player, Binolt, as a teaching tool.

Biscuit begins teaching Gon and Killua advanced Nen applications by having the pair dig through rock pinnacles and fighting monsters in the badlands outside of Masadora. After months of practice, both Gon and Killua develop their own signature Nen abilities. Killua then leaves the game to take the Hunter examination, wherein he is the only applicant to pass. After collecting all of the cards, Genthru and his accomplices blow up every member of the alliance except for Abengane , who is able to exorcise the bomb off his own body. Abengane then warns Gon and Biscuit about the impending threat.

At the same time, the Phantom Troupe arrives onto Greed Island to find an exorcist for Chrollo but find out that Hisoka has been hired to do the job. Gon, Killua, and Biscuit, in their quest to collect all 99 specified slot cards to win Greed Island, begin contacting other players in order to trade information regarding the remaining cards. But the Bomb Devils, Genthru's team, are nearing completion of the game.

In order to prevent Genthru from winning, the teams realize a need for one team to gain a monopoly on the only card in the game that no one has yet acquired--"Strip of Beach. The alliance has to beat the pirates in competitive sports and win eight games to force them out of Soufrabi, but the majority of the players are useless. During the search for companions, Gon's team finds out that Hisoka is participating in the game and meet up with him. Killua comes to realize that his true motive for being in Greed Island is to find a Nen exorcist that can remove Kurapika's curse upon Chrollo Lucilfer, and it is also revealed that Greed Island is taking place within the real world.

Gon's team subsequently bands together with Hisoka, Tsezguerra's team, and a Hunter named Goreinu , thereafter heading back to Soufrabi in order to defeat Razor in a deadly game of dodgeball. The game of dodgeball continues, as both sides quickly whittle down to a few members.

Gon unleashes his new Nen technique against Razor as an offense, surprising competitors on both sides with the tremendous amount of aura he can produce. With the help of both Killua and Hisoka, Gon manages to defeat Razor and his 14 Devils—-thus earning the rare card and the potential to make copies. Genthru, aware of their earnings, threatens the lives of Tsezguerra and Gon's team unless they concede. Tsezguerra decides to stave off the Bomb Devils for three weeks to give Gon and Killua time to recover. Under Biscuit's tutelage, the pair trains their Nen in order to battle against Genthru. Meanwhile, Hisoka regroups with the Phantom Troupe as they've just found Abengane.

Kalluto , Killua's younger brother, is revealed to have joined the Phantom Troupe. As Tsezguerra is pursued by the Bomb Devils, his team ends up leaving the game to Battera's mansion and then told that the reward for completing Greed Island has been canceled; this therefore ending all of the contracts of the Greed Island players. Now that Gon and his friends are the final contenders in Greed Island, Genthru and the Bomb Devils begin their assault onto his team. Gon, Killua and Biscuit confront Genthru and the Bomb Devils and upon defeating them, succeed to assemble all the cards necessary to complete Greed Island.

Having lost their queen, the Chimera Ants are spreading beyond their native homeland to establish their own colonies. Some attack Meteor City, and the group of assassins known as the Spiders, are called home to fend off the invasion. Meanwhile, in the Republic of East Gorteau, Gon and Killua realize that entire populations of towns are going missing.

They decide to find out what's happening and try to stop it, but Gon soon realizes he's not alone, and whoever's following him is not friendly! Killua is under attack!!

Confronted with a sniper that's shooting Flea-Bullets from afar, Killua must predict where the next shot will hit or fall victim to the fleas that are draining all his blood. But there are more surprises in store as other snipers aim to take a shot at him. Being a human dartboard was not on today's to-do list! Meanwhile, Gon's silent stalker finally reveals himself The Day of Departure.

Gon might be a country boy, but he has high aspirations. Despite his Aunt Mito's protests, Gon decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a legendary Hunter. The Hunter hopefuls begin their journey by storm-tossed ship, where Gon meets Leorio and Kurapika, the only other applicants who aren't devastated by bouts of seasickness. Having survived the terrors of the high seas, Gon and his companions now have to prove their worth in a variety of tests in order to find the elusive Exam Hall.

And once they get there, will they ever leave alive? Focus Your Mind As One!

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