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Episodes 134-136

Recap: Despite Pouf's best efforts, King Meruem remembers Komugi thanks to Welfin. Meruem finds Palm and admits his defeat and kills no one else. He spends his final hours playing Gungi with Komugi, whom he infects, and they die in each other's arms.

In the aftermath, humanity revokes the sovereignity of the NGL (already collapsed) and East Gorteau. Brovada does not remember his past, but he reunites the Chimera Ant version of the little girl (Colt's little sister) with her mother; Welfin heads to Spider territory to seek Gyro; the baby that Colt raises is Reina but Kite; and Killua insists on being the one to heal Gon.

Chairman Netero's will/succession plan is displayed, and it involves assembling the Zodiac Leadership and gaining 95% of the Hunter population's vote. We finally see Ging on screen.

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Episode 134 is brutal. Incredibly long with Welfin preposterously losing his hair and aging a hundred years, and it recaps territory that I thought was already finished with 133. Even so, Meruem's sparing Welfin, Knuckle, and Melereon finally confirms that he has chosen his humanity over his antdom.

Palm's scene with Meruem is brutal. She's confronted with the face of evil, far more powerful than she, making a demand that she's prepared to die to prevent from being fulfilled. Predictably, she's freaked out... but the reason is (as always) perverse. Palm is freaked because her enemy is nothing close to the evil that has been advertised. Instead, he promises non-violence in the face of his mortality; she's the one empowered in the scene. Her loudest shrieking comes when she seems Meruem kneeling before her - She was aware that her side had used the dirtier tactics, but was never prepared to think that they were used against someone who had redeeming factors such as compassion, humility, or forgiveness. Existential moment for her.

And then we're forced to watch Meruem and Komugi actually spend their last minutes together, and my god it's killer. The whole episode screws with format, with no OP and a different ED, and three separate times when you think you've seen the most gutwrenching part, only for each return to be more emotionally crushing than the last - Meruem waking Komugi ("It's time to play," followed by the mid-episode break); the two playing what seems to be a final game and being honest about their fates, followed by the ending credits... and then their disembodied voices coming back for a final three minutes, as Meruem keeps asking if Komugi is there, and whether she'll hold his hand while he takes a quick nap. FUCK. Personal life has been rocky and this really got to me afterward.

As for the epilogue - it just makes me happy to see, and it's so damn sweet to see Kite reborn. Not a ton to analyze there. Humanity continues to be both depraved and heartening. I'm excited to see Ging in the next arc.
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