One of our friends over at KAI-YOU, Ryosuke, has written many Hunter ×Hunter studies before. In this article, he will do another based on the information currently available.

To those reading the paperbacks, this article will contain spoilers for the chapters that haven’t been collected into the paperbacks so far so please be careful.

Why did the battle between Hisoka and Chrollo took place at that timing? As a preamble, it was a necessary arc for the members of the Phantom Troupe to get onto Kakin’s ship but this article will look at it from a different point of view.

Prose: Ryosuke Editor: Tomomi Yonemura

The role of Hisoka

It was revealed that Hisoka’s full name is Hisoka Morow.

Amongst the fans, there are whispers asking if it could be a reference to the French illustrator Gustave Moreau. Many of them think that Moreau’s painting, Salome (Herodias’ daughter), is the basis for the character. It is also interesting that Moreau repeatedly painted the picture of the Sphinx, who would kill anyone who could not answer her riddles correctly. There is the opinion that if Salome is the basis for the character, then that means that Hisoka will win in the end but the author would like you to keep in mind that Herod repeatedly asked Salome to dance and that the New Testament is the basis for the story.

There are some who say, ‘But Hisoka is a man and Salome was a woman!’ but this will be disregarded as in the world of Hunter x Hunter, the concept of gender is very weak. What is important is the motif of the ‘head’ (which Moreau painted often).

Is Chrollo Jesus Christ?

Next is Chrollo Lucilfer. The name refers to Lucifer, the devil (serpent) that was cast out of paradise.

……With regards to Lucifer, there are endless interpretations. Therefore, this theory will be based on 17th century English poet John Milton’s Paradise Lost, or in other words, the Old Testament.

What is a devil? A person who does bad things? Not exactly. If you write that Lucifer lived in God’s asylum, in paradise, and suggested to Adam and Eve that they eat the forbidden fruit, then he sounds like a bad person. However, he destroyed the dystopia called paradise. He is a revolutionary. Devils are beings that shake existing values and force choices. One could call them hawks which have stopped thinking and who prevent conservation and vested interests.

Therefore, from the side of paradise, he looks like an evil person but he does not hate God. It’s the same as this hypothetical situation: even if the right wing and the left wing both dislike each other, the desire to better Japan is still the same.

The One Who Holds the Head brings chaos and growth to the story.

…By the way, did you know that this ‘One who Holds the Head’ and ‘One who is Deeply Involved with Jesus Christ’ composition has been done before?

It was Neferpitou and Meruem.

Now then, in certain chapters of the manga, Chrollo and Meruem descended as the last boss but what are the common points between Pitou and Hisoka? To put it simply, they are depicted as bringing chaos to the story and causing the protagonist to go through personal growth.

What will the new One Who Holds the Head bring?

In the Kakin arc, a character called Tserriednich Hui Guo Rou appears. He’s carrying the head.

Nietzsche is famous for his book The Antichrist where he is criticizing the structure of Christianity. He is similar to Tserriednich in that aspect.

That is why they become kings. The top of the hierarchy is the king. This is because a god is not a logical existence. Also, Tserriednich, who is both ‘The One Who hold the Head’ and ‘The One Who is Deeply Involved with Christ’ is more than enough to be a vessel for the king.

That is how I want to interpret the current information from Hunter x Hunter.

One important point is that Ging Freecss, who was depicted as the story’s arrival point, participated in the battle as a player and the most mysterious character, Don Freecss, probably set out to the Dark Continent as a player.

translator: nifa