Hunter x Hunter Chapter 420: Did Hisoka Notice Tsuriel's Ability? — What Japan Said
HUNTER×HUNTER最新420話 ヒソカはツェリの能力に気づいていたのか、日本の反応
Hunter x Hunter's newest chapter reopens one of Yoshihiro Togashi's favorite tricks: making readers argue over what an unnervingly perceptive character actually noticed. Across 234 comments under a reaction-compilation video titled bluntly “Did Hisoka Notice Tsuriel's Ability?,” the top comment (113 likes) frames it less as a power question and more as an instinct one.
From there the thread turns into a full theorycrafting session — fans stack up competing explanations for what tipped Hisoka off, from a tilting floor to a hidden ally to raw aura-and-presence detection, then split over whether the Nen ability in question is even strong enough to be worth Chrollo's attention.
By the end, most of the comment section has stopped debating Hisoka's motives entirely and moved on to guessing how badly this is going to go for the person he's watching.
Hunter x Hunter's newest chapter dropped readers into an argument Yoshihiro Togashi seems to love setting up: does an unnervingly perceptive character actually notice what he appears to notice, or is everyone just assuming he does? A reaction-compilation channel packaged the chapter under a blunt title — did Hisoka notice Tsuriel's ability? — and the 234 comments underneath turn into a full theorycrafting session that never quite lands on one clean answer, with fans building on each other's evidence reply by reply instead of just piling on with one-liners.
“Turns out Hisoka's instincts and read on a situation are scarier than his raw fighting power.”
やっぱ単純な戦闘力以上に直感とかセンスがエグいっぽいなヒソカ
That's roughly where the thread starts and keeps circling back to — less a power argument, more an instinct one. From there, replies stack up competing theories for exactly what tipped Hisoka off.
“I love the theory that he noticed the floor was tilting.”
フロアが傾いてるのに気づいた説好き
“There's also a chance he noticed Bonolenov hiding nearby.”
隠れてるボノレノフに気づいた可能性もあるね
Other commenters skip the specific trigger entirely and go straight for the mechanism, working out just how many senses Hisoka might be running at once.
“He can read presence and detect aura at the same time, so he's strong enough to clock someone as a Nen user even while they're in Zetsu. Combine that with reading killing intent and he could probably sense danger on pure instinct from a hostile Nen Beast or ability, too.”
気配読みとオーラ探知が両方できるから、絶でいる人間を念能力者として認識できる強者だろうな。 殺気読みも合わせれば敵意ある念獣や念能力の攻撃にも直感で警戒くらいはできそう
Then the thread pivots into its one real disagreement — not over what Hisoka noticed, but over whether the ability he's watching is even worth anyone's trouble.
“I figured if Chrollo wanted an ability that could guarantee taking down a monster like Hisoka, it'd have to be something like precognition — but if even Tsuriel's current level isn't enough for that, is Chrollo really going to bother stealing this one?”
クロロがこんな化け物ヒソカを確実に倒すために盗みたい能力ってなると、未来予知とかだろうなって思ってたけど今のツェリでは歯が立たなかったか、クロロが盗むんかこれ
“As a ‘guaranteed kill’ ability, this feels way too weak. In this manga, ‘guaranteed kill’ isn't some phrase they throw around lightly.”
「確実に殺せる能力」としては弱すぎる この漫画の「確実に殺せる」はそんな軽い表現じゃない
Nobody settles that one, but the thread does agree on something else: whatever Hisoka's plan is, letting this slide clearly isn't an accident. Multiple replies tie it straight back to something he told Illumi at the very start of the series.
“Isn't this the same thing he told Illumi way back at the start — that he only spares someone if killing them right now would be a waste?”
今殺すには惜しい存在だけ生かしてるの❤️って初期の頃イルミに言ってたやつじゃ
“I think Hisoka's senses are just cranked all the way up right now — he vaguely picked up that there's something above him and that Tsuriel's there. Then he looked at her the same way he looked at Gon after Gon stole that plate: like she's ‘not ripe enough to fight yet,’ so he let it go.”
これ今ヒソカは感度ビンビンで何となく上に何かがあることとツェリがいることに気づいたんだと思う。 そんでゴンがプレート盗った時みたいな目でツェリを見て、まだ戦うには熟れてないから見逃したみたいな
By the time the theorycrafting winds down, one reply lays out the fullest version of it — Hisoka's senses cranked up just enough to clock that someone's there, then deciding she's not worth the trouble yet.
“Tsuriel's probably going to die some dumb, pointless accidental death right at the peak of everything finally going her way.”
ツェリ、順調に思い通りにいってるピークであっさりしょうもない事故死しそう
Whatever Hisoka is actually planning, the comment section stops arguing about his motives well before the thread ends — everyone's more interested in guessing how badly this goes for the person he's watching. Between a joke about an “awakened” Togashi refusing to do the obvious thing and a dead-serious bet that Tsuriel doesn't survive her own good luck, the fandom's money is clearly on comedy over confrontation. Nobody in the thread expects a clean answer before the next chapter, and honestly, most of them seem to prefer it that way.
FAQ
- What's the debate in this Hunter x Hunter reaction video about?
- The video collects reactions to Hunter x Hunter's newest chapter, built around one question straight from its title: whether Hisoka actually noticed Tsuriel's Nen ability during the scene, or whether something else tipped him off. Commenters never fully agree, offering theories ranging from a tilting floor to raw aura detection.
- What theories do commenters have for how Hisoka noticed?
- Suggestions include that he felt the floor tilt, that he spotted a hidden character named Bonolenov nearby, or that he simply combines presence-reading and aura detection well enough to sense a Nen user even while they're suppressing their aura in Zetsu.
- Do commenters think Tsuriel's ability is a real threat to Hisoka?
- No — one heavily-liked reply argues it's too weak to count as a “guaranteed kill” ability against someone like Hisoka, and speculates that Chrollo would need something else entirely, like precognition, to actually take him down.
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