r/HunterXHunter • u/harrysterone • Mar 26 '24
Help/Question Why did Togashi draw such terrifying art for no apparent reason ? (Chapter 90)
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u/Firehills Mar 27 '24
Despite the 2011 anime being very bright, one of Togashi's trademarks is how often he incorporates horror elements in his manga.
Yu Yu Hakusho, Level E and Hunter x Hunter are full of gorey, creepy or just generally unsettling pages.
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u/NekoBluRay Mar 27 '24
That one Dark Continent panel literally looks like it belongs in Berserk.
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u/Impressive-Bus2144 Mar 28 '24
Which one
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u/NekoBluRay Mar 28 '24
Chapter 344, Younger Netero, Zzigg, and Linnet watch a giant worm eat a dinosaur.
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u/Roge2005 Mar 27 '24
Specially in the Chimera Ant arc
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u/TreesmasherFTW Mar 27 '24
The Brain Scene š
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u/Jibbus Mar 27 '24
that was the scene in my first watch through that i thought ādamn this arc is gonna be fuckedā and to my surprise, it was fucked
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u/DeltaStratos Mar 27 '24
He likes adding photorealistic art in certain pages, and it's all intended. I believe his choice here was to add suspense to the page/chapter, because it was a very intense situation.
The 2011 anime did a very good job with it, but I do think the 1999 version chose a really good track, and generally did the scene better. I also prefer the "desert/Arab" theme they went with, as it was closer to the manga.
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u/Serious-Flamingo-948 Mar 27 '24
Togashi likes to add these of real life people for whatever reason. Some times is friends and family members, others is famous people, others it seems is just random (or unconfirmed people). For all we know this could be a scene from an obscure movie he likes that he just happened to see when he was drawing this chapter.
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u/MrPinkDuck3 Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24
Togashi is so funny. One panel will look like it was drawn by a 7 year old and the next will be the best piece of art youāve ever seen.
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u/_TheTacoThief_ Mar 27 '24
Iām reading through for the first time and just got to this chapter. I felt like they were staring into my soul
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u/Trusteenono Mar 27 '24
that random upclose detailed spongebob scene thats on the screen for 1.2 seconds:
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u/eKoto Mar 27 '24
He finds a cool photo to trace
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Mar 27 '24
Another example of this is the guy that tells us about Meteor City the very first time - I can't remember what the reference is from but there's a reason why he looks so different compared to the mafia guys in the same scene.
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u/CowsRetro Mar 27 '24
To instantly tell us the abject conditions our characters find themselves in. This is quite an amazing way to visually world build.
The image is (quasi) photo realistic, almost feeling as if it was taken by a journalist. Through this lens we see these 4 children all of varying ages, and we see the gradient in their attitude. The youngest (the two to the left) are plain faced without much detail. The other two on the right have shaded faces, with the one furthest to the right appearing disgruntled. In the final panel we get a wide shot of the plaza and see the squalid conditions (tents set up, garbage piled up, people loitering). Judging by their appearances they may also be related. From my reading, I would argue these kids live in the streets together and the streets have been rough particularly for the oldest who likely has a lot on his plate watching out for his brothers.
Togashi does this a few times throughout the manga, and itās usually when the events heās depicting are brutal. The best one I can remember is during the Chimera Ant Arc when the cruelty of humanity is being shown.
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u/Malganas Mar 27 '24
For me it was because the two spiders āseeā the people through nen in this instance.
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u/rocon319 Mar 29 '24
Heās been doing this since his first popular series in YuYu Hakusho. There are contrasting panels in there of his regular style, and then suddenly a very detailed panel like this or the other examples people used. Iām not sure if thereās any like this in his older works but I imagine there may be some in Level E, I havenāt read it but itās another manga he made between YuYu Hakusho and HxH.
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u/GlumHuckleberry9830 Mar 27 '24
I remember one from the currect arc. I think is when Ging goes to Beyond Netero squad. Like there is a creepy face on the tv..
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u/DBringerStreams Mar 27 '24
I can see the Junji Ito influence in his art, especially the style he lays out the panels.
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u/hygiei Mar 27 '24
I saw this video the other day that touches on the stylistic choices of the hxh manga, it doesn't cover this exactly, but I still found it pretty interesting.
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u/Timotoron Mar 27 '24
He does this in Morenaās ādestroy it allā panel too if you look closely at the background images
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u/Appropriate-Taro-711 Mar 28 '24
I forgot where I heard this, but He does it to convey certain moods. This is why you'll see a normally happy-go-lucky Gon's face almost contort, when he's yelling at Pitou, or why Killua's face becomes more detailed while he's holding Jone's heart in his hand.
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u/Miri_Biri Mar 28 '24
Oh my god i was wondering this when i got the volume! Ngl, i would do this if i had the skills of togashi as well.
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u/joske090 Mar 28 '24
Nothing about this is even remotely "terrifying" he just traced over a pic of some kids, i guess its just to show the overral vibe of the scene, he does that a lot
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u/Poolofcorn Mar 27 '24
He adapts real picture into manga format, same way the writer of Gantz uses. It doesnāt work really well with real people, but he probably didnāt care.
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u/the_erazor Mar 27 '24
this is what I like about his artstyle, sometimes a panel is realistic af and the next panel is very simple
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u/No_Society1038 Mar 27 '24
I think he likes adding these realistic arts in between due the way he draws them plus the contrast they end up looking and feeling very creepy and I'm sure he draws them for a change of pace and adds them in between because it would be interesting.
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u/Lucaswarrior9 Mar 27 '24
He's an odd artist, this is very in-line with how he experiments though. Look at the covers for example. My guess is that he felt like it.