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i want everything.

to sing offtune, to dance offbeat, to kiss my lover a million times, and to have a life i've been dreaming so long of.

the songs make me want to love feeling.

oh man, this is on me for saying YEARS ago i would talk more about this and i don’t think i ever did. so sorry...

when illumi confronts killua during the hunter exam, he tells killua that gon is “眩しすぎて“ (mabushisugite, “too bright/”too dazzling”).

this is the same phrasing killua uses to describe gon in the “you are light” scene:

both crunchyroll and viz translated “mabushisugite” differently in both scenes, so it makes the parallel less apparent to non-japanese speakers:

what i wanted to write in depth before and never really got to is that in both of these scenes, killua is thinking of himself as darkness, aka the exact oppoosite of gon, although he never says it himself. this is reinforced by the chapter covers/titles for these respective scenes:

multiple other characters like illumi, netero, etc, refer to killua as someone of darkness/engaged in “underworld work” (闇 商売, yami shoubai, lit “dark business”), but killua doesn’t.

… idiot.