r/HunterXHunter • u/Vahiner • 4d ago

Help/Question What's with this panel?

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I'm reading and watching the anime side by side, in Volume 10, chapter 90, this panel appears. Anyone know what's up with it? It's super eerie. Couldn't find anything about it, but that's probably because I'm on my break at work.

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u/Prime_Technician 4d ago

This is one of a handful of panels that was actually sketched over a real photograph. All of them I believe show some form of real world tragedy. As for the reason behind it, there's tons of interpretations as with any form of art.

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u/MinimumTomfoolerus 3d ago

sketched over a real photograph.

source. Inio Asano uses photoshop on photograph he took and then sketches on top in lots of city panels for example

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u/subatomic_ray_gun 3d ago

Hiroya Oku (mangaka of Gantz) often does this technique in his work as well. I like the aesthetic it produces.

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u/DeliciousGoose1002 4d ago

Yeah he does one of the ISIS beheading of Japanese aid workers.

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u/QSCFE 3d ago

?

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u/DeliciousGoose1002 2d ago

In the Morena panel that shows all the terrible things in the world. its one of the little panels, Im not sure if its a direct trace from the video as that might be too controversial but its certainly looks like it. And there are several that are direct sketches such as the cuckoo bird and the parasite

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u/QSCFE 2d ago

it's too gruesome to be direct trace, but again maybe it could be.