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Episode 71-72

Recap: Gon, Killua, and Hisoka use teamwork to overcome Razor's strongest attack, and they defeat him after Gon passes out in exertion. Having earned Patch of Shore, G/K are quickly contacted by the Bomber. Tsezgerra offers to stall for three weeks in exchange for Card #75, while Gon trains and Killua schemes on how to defeat Genthru. The hunt is on between Genthru and Tzesgerra, and we find that Genthru has killed the old guy paying the prize money for beating the the game.

Okay, so was the bomber never playing for the prize money or did he just do this to get rid of the guards, or what? Feels like a dumb villainous move just for the sake of being villanous.

I continue to enjoy Gon's concessions to practicality. We're talking about the guy who will only punch the ball if he gets to break his best friend's hands, or will decline to win against Razor unless he's passed out. He's predictably all-fucking-in on taking down Genthru (and stupidly blurts out his name in anger), but he accepts Tsezgerra's deal proposal that lets him scheme and train ahead of time. I also like that for a change, he doesn't take immediately to his training. Bisky tries to advance Gon's Emitting skill from "Level 1" to "Level 5" in one go, but three weeks just doesn't seem to be quite enough time - and thus far, we aren't there yet. Should be interesting to see what Killua comes up with.

Watching hunters' strategy is always fun. On Greed Island, it's obvious that while fighting and Nen are powerful, having the right cards is a massive advantage. The guerilla tactics that Team Tsezgerra employs early on are successful because they have a greater supply of Accompany and Leave cards. So when Team Bomber finally mobilizes, their first course of action is to establish superiority in mobility - followed by a reversal of the cat-and-mouse game. Our big advantage is that Genthru underestimates the hell out of Gon. How much longer will he have that edge?

We've moved past it now, but the end of that match is fantastic, weird-ass Killua sandwich included. All three of G/K and Hisoka are needed to withstand Razor's smash; Gon goes full SSJ3 (including his body being unable to handle the strain); Hisoka deals a finishing blow purely for ego. Really nice spectacle, and it's almost weird that it happens at the beginning of the episode, feeling anticlimactic.

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* Ging really is a shit father, lmao. But he seemed like a real redeeming force in Razor's life.

* Bisky's coveted Nen ability is... a nurse. Killua facepalms hard, but isn't this actually very useful for healing his hands? In any case she isn't hooking him up with the cure. Also, the two of them are bonding during Gon's training - cute.

* There are some people, like Bisky or Killua, who lie only for obvious gain. And then there's Hisoka... who lies for no reason at all.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness