narutojunky
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OP is certainly a super critical piece of fiction that folds in many critiques of power and has addressed very deeply many issues including those listed above as well as gender and otherness and other things, the list is simply too long for this conversation.
The Impel Down Arc was a post modern masterpiece. The idea that a bunch of people who freely exchange gender but are considered criminals are sent to a literal hell and within that hell manage to build their own world of paradise! Beautiful.
However HxH is great because of the story involving the super killer ant colony. That arc allows for the introduction of a sympathetic humanism to be applied to essentially a non-human character. This is a common strategy in manga to flip the villain, but the way that it is handled is masterful and fully shows how far our empathy as people can grow all without being impressed by super cool explosion powers (like Vegeta or Piccolo...)or a need to have the villain prove themselves in service to another ideology.
