And… we’re back. Kudos to the show for incorporating that lesson on
Nen/Ten/whatever into the intro, because I was having a hard time keeping that stuff
straight even when it hadn’t been two weeks since I’d last
watched an episode.
Man… watch enough of this stuff and you start getting a lot more aware
of which hyper-specific feelings/memories a given story evokes. And this show’s making me think of Akido class
in grade school so seriously that I can pretty much smell the specific
cleaning fluid that my sensei used to wipe the gym mats down with.
Which is to say, once again… after a while, a good shonen serial starts to feel more
like a weekly, visceral escape which can’t be evaluated in normal plot terms. I’m not a member of the
audience, watching Gon and Killua act out this drama - - I’m right there,
training with them. This is the best way to explain how a show can be so
compelling to fans who’ve watched from the beginning, yet bafflingly
boring to newbs.
Along that line, I’m honestly debating if I’ll just breeze through the
rest of this arc (which is so much easier now that I’ve got the CrunchyRoll
app set-up on my X-BOX, natch). See, I let the player run the next few episodes
accidentally and, by all appearances, this show gets even more… comprehensive
about its tournament plot than even YU YU HAKUSHO did. Again, that’s not bad,
per se, but it does present me with the odd threat of potentially devoting a
whole a write-up to a critique of Gon’s training techniques.
Stay tuned and see how I’ll handle this. In the meantime, maybe one of
you lunatics could chime in about the theory about shonen that I’ve outlined
above? Have you ever enjoyed a series viscerally like that?
Watch “Destiny X and X Tenacity" and decide for yourself, then read my comments on the
previous episode.
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 | Tom Pinchuk’s a writer and personality with a large number of comics, videos and features like this to his credit. Visit his website - - tompinchuk.com - - and follow his Twitter: @tompinchuk |
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