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I just watched Hunter x Hunter episodes 19 - 21, and listened to Media Club Plus Episode 7 "Untimate Gon's Mistake", discussing those episodes. Spoilers below the fold.


The crew had a great time discussing how wild the nonchalant reveal of "oh I can just look it up online" is, and the fact that Pokkle just... has a laptop, and traffic jams on multi-lane freeways headed into the city. And yeah all of that rules, the way this show does world-building is awesome. BUT --

holy SHIT y'all the Hunter x Hunter world map reveal!

look at this map LOOK AT IT

Like we start off with South America and Africa next to each other, rotated. Okay that's fun enough, but what's that between them? Japan!

To the south of that is North America, rotated. Which, sure, fair enough. But it's the Mercator projection of North America, where Alaska is bigger than the whole lower 48 states, even though in this rotation Alaska is closest to the equator! What the fuck!!

But my favorite part of this whole design is Eurasia, rotated 90 degrees... with a MASSIVE inland sea and strait cutting it in half from the Laptev Sea in the (original) north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. It's like someone fucking punched West Mongolia and snapped the continent in half.

this RULES


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