Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Silva, Killua's father.
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Continuing my interpretations of HxH characters based solely on descriptions from Media Club Plus by @friends-table with Killua, the one who is immune to poison.
Killua is about Gon's age and has white, spikey/puffy hair like a flame above his head, almost. He's wearing a white longish t-shirt and is carrying a skateboard.
My friend @fayferre for a holiday gift asked me to have my partner describe one of my favorite hxh drawings for them. Since none of us have ever seen the show, this drawing would get to make the telestrations game go another level or two deeper.
The prompt provided was:
A man who's not even a punk because he's wearing a white longsleeve t-shirt, but he is holding a skateboard, and is wearing casual clothes like jeans and black high-top converse. In the other hand, he's drinking a beer. His hair looks like a white cartoon flame
With their permission, I present this wonderful and radical rendition of Killua
Are you planning on giving the live action Yu Yu Hakusho a watch? I don't think it looks very interesting, but I do feel obligated to know how it turns out.
im sort of hostile to this crop of live action anime adaptations as a baseline but because it's Yu Yu Hakusho I do have a bit of morbid curiosity. I don't believe in it fundamentally but I'm always willing/hoping to be surprised.
By the way if anyone reading this has been listening to Media Club Plus and watching Hunter x Hunter, ESPECIALLY if you're watching for the first time and having a hard time slowing down to the pace of the show, I recommend checking out the first 3 episodes of the Yu Yu Hakusho anime. Just try 3 eps. If it doesn't click, no harm done
Anonymous User asked: Regarding the recent Media Club Plus bonus episode: My anime history bona fides are spotty at best, but since it has largely been overlooked in the west outside of being the venue of weird tape copying weirdos in the 90s, I just wanted to mention Ranma 1/2s implementation of the trope. It's kind of split in two -- Ranma's dad, Genma, who is only barely lecherous in comparison but does so mostly via Ranma because he's trying to get him married, is mostly just a scared-of-his-wife-guy. And then there's the actual lecherous master, Happosai, who trained Genma, who is honestly the horniest implementation of this, and is also almost always portrayed as an actual villain every time he appears.
I don't have a real thesis with this, but hearing y'all talk about HxH in conversation with Dragon Ball got me thinking about how Ranma 1/2 ran almost concurrently with the original Dragon Ball. The works have completely different goals, and while I could never vouch for Ranma in the modern era for ... infinite reasons, it, and more directly its fandom in that nascent era of the internet, are still a fond memory.
Actually I almost brought up Ranma 1/2 during the recording but figured it would take too long to get into and maybe wasnt worth it since i knew it was going to be a long recording. good to have it here on the cohost anyway. definitely a contemporary of Dragon Ball in terms of weird horny old martial arts guys
anyway i watched 40 episodes or something of Ranma on Hulu a few years ago when i was bedridden with strep throat for a few weeks. it's total madness. it's not very good but it is fascinating.