A Thematic Look at Hunter x Hunter’s Chimera Ant Arc

Here is the link to a PDF of the essay.

A comprehensive look at the use of Anime as a visual medium in exploring themes such as “Humanity” and “Individuality” in Hunter x Hunter’s Chimera Ant Arc (yes there are massive spoilers), with a direct look at the character arc’s of Gon and Meruem (the Ant King). This paper was one I had written for a school assignment, therefore it is both fairly long and formal, I doubt I will post things with this exact style for the foreseeable future. Yet I immensely enjoyed how it turned out and ended up doing fairly well on it. The body of the paper speaks for the more thematic look, while the captions to all of the scenes (yes those are important to the paper) describe the mix of cinematography, shot framing, use of angles, and other visual elements that add to the production overall. This paper had very specific formatting to it, so I’m just gonna link to the PDF, any other post to this site will be hard coded into the page.