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He was given the most explosive emotions of the royal guards while simultaneously having the least variety of emotion. It's an extremely powerful subversion of expectation to have the character who seems to be the one most in touch with human emotion to actually be the one capable of the least. Pouf is emotional, but his range of emotion is very slim.

This runs in direct contrast to Youpi, who as a character was designed in a way meant to fool the audience into thinking he would be the least human. Youpi was created from magical beasts, he should be the most monstrous, as he is lacking the aspects that give the other ants their humanity (this is not true, I'm just saying what the audience is being led to believe). Youpi is also given a menacing appearance with a broad figure and little clothing, which immediately makes the viewer think that he is a brawler and not a strategist. On the other hand, Pouf is given a slim figure and nice clothes to give the idea that he is more of a thinker and not much for brutish displays. Additionally, Pouf is made to play the violin, making his character seem interested in the arts (which is a trait associated with individuals with greater connection to emotion).

i find pariston's personnality to be depicted in a much more negatively emphasized way in the anime. the manga made it more subtle, which made him more of a mysterious character, that we want to understand and get to know. the anime however leaned into this "darker" side much more in a way that now feels almost forced to me in some scenes ;

the two scenes above are prime examples of this. the first one shows a enormous difference : the anime attempted to make him seem overly scary in a scene where the author still conveyed the character's personnality through their words but didn't think it was necessary through facial expressions. the anime makes it seems like it's a complete "fake personnality" pariston puts on in public, while the manga makes it slightly more complex. it's like the anime wanted to over-exagerate.

the second scene i also have a problem with, because it kind of erases the true emotion pariston felt in that moment by making him look heartless and dark. the context of this scene is pariston's sadness over netero's death, because he wanted to "play with him more". while i do believe that this motive for grief is NOT normal and shows some big mental difference from pariston who is more focused on having fun and challenges, the manga depicts a very honest reaction from him, which he hadn't showed before. it's like the anime gave him a stereotype of "putting on a happy face mask to hide that i don't have emotions and am deeply psychollogicaly disturbed" while the manga makes it more nuance by giving him a bit more emotion??

(highlighted are the 'boku' instances in this one scene. it's not that much since it is him introducing himself and explaining his situation but still. notable)

Like bro is really hammering it in lol. He's gotta be intentionally playing with the troupe, dropping little hints that it's him by, well, acting like himself. To see how far he can get without them noticing. Bc this would piss them off sooo bad lmao. That he was right under their nose from the getgo even dropping little hints? Those are little hints and not huge ones bc the troupe does not know illumi ofc. Anyway so maybe kalluto is just a side-effect of this.

He also used 'boku' (once) when talking to mizai later btw, when, of the troupe, only he and kalluto were present.

Correcting and exposing myself for being WRONG. I just saw this while skimming for instances of illumi pronouns, which means he has used 'boku' at least once.

highlighted in pink is ‘boku’ again, highlighted in green is him using ‘ore’ just before.

english version + bonus funny face hisoka

(highlighted are the 'boku' instances in this one scene. it's not that much since it is him introducing himself and explaining his situation but still. notable)

Like bro is really hammering it in lol. He's gotta be intentionally playing with the troupe, dropping little hints that it's him by, well, acting like himself. To see how far he can get without them noticing. Bc this would piss them off sooo bad lmao. That he was right under their nose from the getgo even dropping little hints? Those are little hints and not huge ones bc the troupe does not know illumi ofc. Anyway so maybe kalluto is just a side-effect of this.

He also used 'boku' (once) when talking to mizai later btw, when, of the troupe, only he and kalluto were present.