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Episodes 27-28

Recap: Gon and Killua arrive at Battle Tower (or whatever) and start making money off fights. They encounter a highly enthusiastic kid whose teacher can manipulate ki. On floor 200, Gon and Killua run into an incredible ki... Hisoka, who's blocking the way like a Snorlax. Wing decides to help Gon and Killua.

There's not much to report on the physical action front here (Gon "discovering" how strong he is actually kind of rubs in how fucking stupid that training arc was outside Killua's pad), and the four-pointed Ren philosophy is not very interesting.

But introducing ki is a nice step in explaining how we're gonna increase our characters' power levels without... well, without "let's wear 100lb weights on our backs for 3 days." The thing is, when you contextualize power levels into physical strength, it's always going to be embarrassing - these guys are physically weaker than I am, then after three days are able to open the thousand-plus-pound doors. If all it took was three days, why weren't they already at that level?? When we move into legitimate fantasy-battle territory, I'm much more able to let go of the author's awful sense of physical strength and into the world of power levels and Kamehameha wars.

Love Hitrollka. Also, I surprisingly like Zushi, who's so damn artless and earnest. And upset about losing his juice.

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* New OP visuals and ED song. The new ED isn't as good, but I appreciate that it fades in as the narrator gives us the outro.

* The logistics of the Battle Tower make no sense at all and I refuse to think harder about it to try to justify it and/or poke holes in it.

* Killua saying Zushi's stance has no holes in it is pretty cringe-worthy.

* Loved that Zushi was the betting favorite vs Killua. Something about that really amuses me.
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