Just a bit

thinking again about togashi has repeatedly cited the 1970s BL action/comedy shoujo “patalliro!” as one of his biggest influences, which means that due to various similarities too specific to be ignored, we can infer, to the point where we pretty much know for a fact, that the inspiration for killua was maraich juschenfe, a canonically gay transfem-presenting tsundere jealous uke who was also raised from birth to be the perfect assassin and quits to date the protagonist. who gets pregnant despite the series going out of the way to tell us that shouldn’t be possible because he’s “biologically male” (it was the 70s).

Ging was the only person to pass the 267th Hunter Exam. When the main four took the 287th Hunter Exam, it was Tonpa's 34th time taking the exam. It is also stated that Tonpa was 10 years old the first time he took the exam.