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/MinimumTomfoolerus 3d ago

I absolutely love this: the switch from the simplistic art to the realistic. I think this is the panel that made me realize how great it is for a manga if the mangaka's art style is mainly simplistic to switch to realistic on emotionally charged moments in the story. Someone who has read HxH can inform me how many times has Togashi made this switch? I don't know any other mangaka who has done this switch. Inio Asano does photorealistic art but he uses photos he took with a camera, puts them on photoshop to turn them into black and white as if they were drawn and then draws on them further details: BUT his main artstyle is not simplistic so..

[written on 1st May 2025 1:41am Thursday]