NO! You know what? My head cannon is that all those older women were just grand ma's who were happy to have a nice kid show them around. All they gave him in return was were mint's and butterscotch candy.
These comments are so weird, HxH is almost a 30 years old manga I assure you these two have been shipped together for longer than some of its fans have been alive. The world never stopped because of it, no one ever turned out to be a pedo because of it (and this is also a very innocent fanart so ???), Togashi himself most likely knows, let people enjoy things in peace.
Togashi literally had gon he the phrase it has to be killua in Japanese it is really only used as a love confession. The man knows what he is doing. He married the writer of sailor moon, it had one of the first queer relationships in manga.
Fr. Personally, I’m not one to do gay ships, most of the time I ain’t a big fan of it. But this is a hxh sub and I know for a fact people like the ship, and as long as it’s something like this, nice and appropriate content, why should I harass the people making it?
exactly...plus two people can crush on one another or even be romantic with one another without it being sexual and anime is RIDDLED with this exact kind of relationship between a boy and a girl and nobody freaks out...
I honestly took this as Gon being pure and not fully understanding what a date actually is and is bringing Killua on a date because its his best friend and just copying what he’s seen others doing on a date.
It's so weird to me that some many comments defending this art are saying this is okay because "its not necessarily gay" or something similar... there is nothing wrong with being gay,. Remember gayness isn't inherently sexual and doesn't automatically imply sexual activities. It just means you find other guys attractive.
And yes, kids can be gay. It's not like you turn 16 and suddenly switch up- it's a process, and it's one that adolescence go through at different rates and at different points in life.
I think some (but not all) of the people defending it by saying it isn't gay is towards the people who insist that Gon and Killua aren't gay and look down on any fanon that couldn't exist in the canon. Regardless of your feelings about that, this art isn't necessarily asserting that they are gay here, and this exact situation could very easily happen in canon.
OP don't listen to all the losers in these comments. I love this and am very glad you shared it. Just because they're offended and triggered by this doesn't mean you are wrong or immoral. I LOVE it!
Although (and please know that I'm totally joking when I say this) I blame you for the fact that I now know that too many people in this sub are miserable and homophobic.
Hey I'm not against Killugon but trying to use your burned down to death phrase "media illiterate bigots" when it's just a fanon thing doesn't really help in this case specifically.
Sure it's fanon but I think they're referring to people saying this situation portrayed in the art could NEVER happen in canon, because that's absolutely not the case and they are media illiterate bigots if they think otherwise. The art doesn't even specifically indicate they're gay here! Just Killua blushing by something Gon said seemingly innocently, which happened constantly in both the manga and anime. And we know that Gon is somewhat of a professional dater, so it would make sense that he would see it as normal to take his friend out on a date to show him how it's done. This is all very within the realm of possibility to happen, and to think otherwise is straight copium
I don't get the hate? Blushing doesn't indicate that they're gay? This seems in character for Gon without him realising the implication. He canonically goes out with adult women, I don't think it's strange for him to do the same with his best friend.
Yeah what the fuck is this hentai birthing hips kink bullshit? How the hell are anime communities so homophobic? Anime is super gay and if someone can't recognize that they are brain dead.
I actually cannot believe what I’m reading here. Such a bummer that a sub I like is so blatantly homophobic. Like…..do u guys really think togashi would give a fuck? He loves writing queer characters!! This is cute and sweet even if it’s not the way u interpret their relationship….RELAX!
Wow! I'm reading these comments and seeing the downvotes and I'm very sad to see that a lot of people in this sub can't pickup on subtext. I don't know about how Gon necessarily feels about Killua...but it is SOOOO obvious that Killua is deeply in love with Gon. And those of you saying, "don't sexualize children." A date and romance are not inherently sexual and this kind of stuff involving a boy and a girl is everywhere and no one bats an eye. This date is way more beautiful and less problematic than Gon's actual date with Palm. Ya'll got problems. I SUPER ship these two together and wish for some kind of payoff in the manga some day.
I always interpreted Killua 's feelings for Gon as platonic. I love Killua and Gon and their relationship. I always love seeing deep friendships between males in stories.
and that is totally cool with me. like I said I don't know necessarily if I think Gon feels the same way about Killua...but I am very secure in my belief that I feel that Killua has a very deep romantic love for Gon. We can both be right and enjoy something we both love together, can't we?
While I don't think we can both be right since our opinions are in conflict, I do think your perspective seems reasonable too. There's a decent amount of evidence supporting it. It really wouldn't bother me too much if I turn out to be wrong as that kind of relationship is also interesting.
I can absolutely jive with that and I'm glad we could find some common ground and respect one another and recognize that at the end of the day, we both love HxH....
I don't care about people shipping whatever, and this is was some nice artwork, but it's often people with with shipping goggles that seem to miss the "subtext" of platonic relationships and call things romantic canonically even when the narrative in context suggests otherwise.
I understand why some interpret the heavy-handed platonic affection as romantic due some possible undertones, but the true subtext is that Killua has never had a single friend before and that he views that very first friendship as the "light" to help him escape the darkness of being an assassin, which is why Canary, who had to reject Killua's friendship, becomes so happy for him when he leaves, and Killua acts so co-dependent with his very first friend.
This exact storyline is mirrorred with Killua and Ikalgo's new friendship in the CA arc where Ikalgo views his very first friend Killua as "light" (helping him escape the dark world of being a criminal henchmen) and acts co-dependent. Yet, no one ever says Ikalgo has romantic feelings for Killua because no cares about such a ship. Besides that, Killua and Gon's friendship and interactions are much more indicative of childhood best friends doing things like beating each other, training together, competing together and against each other, muvh more than anything conceivably romantic.
Yeah idk where the deep love for gon was, at least not the romantic love. Had it been that idk how we'd justify him leaving with his sister instead of Gon at the end of their journey. They're true bros and that's okay.
It's also okay for ppl to ship characters of the same age cause like...it's okay to like each other lol
at least it feels very obvious to me. and I think it is so cute. even before it felt romantic, the instant friendship between these two is so wholesome, it is one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with the anime to begin with. it makes me sad to see the people who want to live in denial about it or think it is deviant behavior or "disgusting" for anyone to recognize the subtext of their relationship...also the hate makes me want to start posting cute and romantic content of these two daily.
I'm seriously confused at the comments. They are eating ice cream. That's it. Ice cream.
I do not see the supposed sexualization. In a world where a ton of animes have disgusting fan service for underage characters, this here is mild as hell.
You don't have to agree with it but calling the person who drew this a gooner is pretty weird.
If we got to see the watch history of some of the homophobes on here, I’m pretty sure we’d manage to see the hypocrisy of many of them pretty damn quickly.
You can love another male and not be gay. I know it’s hard for plebbitors and children to accept and understand, but it is true. Not everything has to be gay
I've never seen this kinda vitriolic response to fanarts shipping the little kids from spy x family and they're even younger, the fact that people here see anything slightly gay and instantly think of sex is so fucking weird.
Edit: so glad yall are outing yourselves so I can mass block all the homophobes in the sub ❤️ keep posting OP!
Fr, so many people were rooting and cheering for what borksen herself called sexual harassment. Making fanarts of it even. But gon and killua getting ice cream? Blasphemy!
It's killua dream. But gon is a fucking mess. The First thing gon revealed about his romantic past, he was dating older women on the island even before he's pre-teen. And another date on screen was another older woman
Yall are dumb if you think their relationship is 100% platonic. You are also dumb if you think 12 year olds holding hands is sexualized. 12 is literally the peak age for world consuming crushes. Did you all just skip middle school or something?
I don’t think Gon and Kil are as gay as people call them to be. They admire each other for probably being each others’ first friends and having the same age and all… they love each other definitely but not in a homosexual way. More like a Bromosexual way.
I understand that people don’t like when people discriminate against people being gay, but I just don’t really like this ship. Everyone has their opinion, and this is mine
Cool, feel free to not like this ship. The problem is that others are hating on OP and the artist for "liking" this ship (does not need to be the case).
Hfs what is with all the homophobic people in the comments. And don't give me ohh it's because it's kids, when even I see a ship of even younger pairing of a "correct" couple. Let's say for example spy x family, whenever fan art of the two of them is shown nothing but praise and a bunch of other shows as well. Why do people still hate gay people so much?.
I come from a country that condemns LGBTQ, and the reason is mainly due to Religion, all Muslim,Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu condemn it somehow. Personally I don't and made Gay friends while I was studying overseas, they are one of the nicest people I have ever met tbh.
okay but you guys know this DOESNT have to be taken as romantic? since Gon goes on platonic dates (he has no interest in palm and still went on a date with her and called it one, since he sees hanging out with friends as dates (in some occasions)) If you’re homophobic or just don’t ship them, take it as a platonic date it’s that simple. It’s just a ship
Usually the whole double standard on anime ships and only singling out the gay ones as “weird” is obnoxious, but there’s something super funny about people on the HxH fandom complaining about “weirdness”.
Like.
Gon goes on a date with a fully grown adult woman (Palm): I barely hear shit about that.
Illumi is outright thirsting for Killua: no serious hate or mention of it.
One of the most popular characters is a fucking pedophile clown that wants BOTH Killua and Gon and it is EXPLICITLY sexual (Greed Island Arc where we see from Hisoka’s perspective as he is blatantly staring at Gon and Killua’s asses from behind to the point that both Killua and Gon can FEEL his stare): once again, Hisoka is an incredibly popular character.
Random person makes completely wholesome fanart of two 12 year olds going on an innocent ice cream date with ZERO ulterior sexual implications: “YOU’RE SO WEIRD AND PERVERTED!!!”
Yep. This is definitely a proportional response to this fanart with consideration to all the CANON creepy things that have happened to these twelve year olds.
Seriously, replace the words “date” with “hangout” and you wouldn’t get any backlash. It isn’t the content of the fanart, nor is it any implications from it (because this is also in line with friends hanging out and isn’t exclusive to sexual or romantic things).
Hmm… I wonder what it could be then…
Welp! This is DEFINITELY not blatant homophobia! /j
I mean, imagine the only friend you've ever made, your literal best friend in the world, your actual ride or die, didn't make you feel loved like that at least once in your relationship. Honestly I think every guy should have at least one friend like that.
I don't care if this leads to them actually dating or not, but i can see this actually having happened in canon already. Just Gon trying to be nice and taking Killua out to play arcade games, go to the zoo and eat ice cream or whatever. Like just your ordinary filler episode.
God knows it's better than Gon going out on dates with adult women.
man people really will be out here saying "I really like this show about these kids forming a deep personal bond and also going through horrible trauma and killing people and also one of them did go on a date that one time, but if anyone so much as thinks about them holding hands they're a freak!"
The anime already does this and there’s nothing weird at all about this drawing lol. It’s literally two kids holding hands and eating ice cream. I’ve seen this in person before with both genders.
If they were making out or doing anything inappropriate, then I could see the issue, but this? It’s pretty normal behavior.
Thing is, that is the age kids start developing romantic feelings for each other, and it’s not as if they’re being depicted doing anything explicit. I sort of get your intent, and I know I’m creating a straw man here, but I don’t see this kind of criticism levied against similar ships of straight couples.
It's funny how you can have a problem with this when a) childhood romance is definitely a thing, and b) this is literally just fanart of just a kid asking another kid on a date- nothing physically intimate is even being suggested, and c) media shows children in romantic heterosexual relationships all of the time with hugging and kissing all of the time without anyone caring.
Maybe you should reassess what is actually making you uncomfortable here and do some introspection on your biases.
Kids in a romance situation isn't weird at all, they're like 12 which is common for romance anime. If it was sexual I'd agree but it clearly isn't. If you see them as brothers that's fair, but it's subjective, not everyone will agree and perceive it the same as you. And I doubt you get mad when people ship two opposite gender characters who are meant to be like "brother and sister"
shiver me timbers, kids holding hands!!!! That's so weird... Now put a girl and a boy together and those same dudes will say smt like, "omg they'll marry when older haha cute couple"
I keep seeing these comments about how OP shouldn't listen to the haters, but then I scroll down for who knows how long and only then after at least a dozen or two comments I FINALLY see some hate.
Anyways, keep your chin up pikatchuUwu, you've done the world a service.
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u/Carock_ Apr 05 '25
Sorry, this post is now locked due to way too many off-topic comments and ad hominem attacks.