Hunter x Hunter 412: And You Thought Pronouns Were Tricky
I'm not going to dwell on this little aspect of Kakinese too much because I feel like I'd just be rehashing what the chapter itself says, so let's focus on a pretty funny Kurapika face as he tries to puzzle this out. Apparently we've been misgendering poor Shimanu this whole time. She's the humble attendant in Room 1014. Nice little detail that's cropped up about someone we've known this entire time. And quite cool to clarify these characters have been speaking a different language the entire time. Or is it just the names? Kakin was a bit isolated from the global order until this arc kicked off.
Interesting either way. It's a little tricky but makes enough sense. There's a subtle tonal aspect that doesn't translate well but makes it very clear to a native speaker if a name is masculine or feminine. Now, why on Earth would we take all this time to focus on something so small?
Woble is the same case, and Queen Oito was taking advantage of this linguistic quirk to cover the deception. You know what? Good on Bill for catching this one. Leads to a pretty tense scene where we have Kurapika using his lie detecting chain to smoke this one out. The Woble on the ship is actually Oito's nephew. So we do have a good explanation for where Kurapika left off last chapter. Though the gambit doesn't quite seem to be as effective as previously hoped. We also have the very fair question of where the female Woble is at this point in time. Seems like Oito legitimately does not know. The ramifications for the Succession Contest itself are also up in the air. Interesting stuff and hey, once again the Team Twinsies portfolio looking strong because now we have our out to keep Woble out of contention.
Moving on, we get an update on Beyond Netero. The man behind so much of this even though we haven't seen him for a while. Turns out he's been busy filing a lot of lawsuits, which between that and those glasses I'm loving this new side to him.
But what this scene really does is bring out a very interesting side to him. Seems like Beyond has a vested interest in bringing the Kakin Royalty down to the level of ordinary citizens. There's a lot of intrigue there but it's kinda hard to pin down where Beyond may be going with all of this, especially when we have all this extra context of the curse-bearers and his own offspring infiltrating the royal family.
All told, these first two chapters really feel like the typical setup we get in these batches every other year. I'm sure things will start getting wild soon but we've got some great new layers to this roiling game of political intrigue.
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Conversation that has gotten more and more plot-relevant. Will Oito's sister corroborate her description of their family situation? What kind of death was Shimanu imagining?
