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Monster Hunter — How Japanese Fans React

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What Japanese fans actually said about Monster Hunter — reveals, trailers, and updates, pulled from Japanese YouTube comment sections and translated into English. Every quote is a real comment with its original like count, linked back to the source video.

2 reaction roundups · Updated Jul 1, 2026

Japan's most-liked comment about Monster Hunter

“I can say with full confidence that Lao-Shan Lung is fun. The first time, at least.”

ラオは楽しいって堂々と言えるぞ。少なくとも1回目だけは

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“The wind barrier nullifies your bowgun shots, the dragon wind-pressure says no thanks to melee — it's just not fun.”

風バリアで弾無効にするし龍風圧で近接お断りするし楽しくない

— @ああああ-y1l8u · 45 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • The wind barrier nullifies your bowgun shots, the dragon wind-pressure says no thanks to melee — it's just not fun.

    風バリアで弾無効にするし龍風圧で近接お断りするし楽しくない

    — @ああああ-y1l8u · 45 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • It'll be fun, sure, but the DPS is going to be miserably low and I can already picture it becoming a chore by the third hunt.

    楽しいだろうけどDPSは滅茶苦茶低くて三回目からめんどくなるイメージ

    — @tosaayu1 · 6 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • At first it was clearly "poison it and the wind vanishes, so use that to win!" — then they scrapped that too, and the answer to getting knocked on your butt just by getting close vanished, so it became "okay, so what are we supposed to do?" Of course people hate it. Poison finally had a clear purpose and they just deleted it — makes no sense. Same with Teostra and Nana. So "if it flies, flash pod" becoming the standard play was inevitable.

    最初は明確に「毒にしたら風が消えるから、それを利用して勝とう！」だったのに…それも無くなり、近付くだけで風で尻餅つかされるアレの対処法が無くなり「じゃあどないすんねん？」になったからね。嫌われるのは当たり前ですわ。 せっかく毒にハッキリとした意味が持たされたのに廃止って訳分からん。テオ、ナナも同じですしね。だから「飛んだら閃光」がセオリーになるのは必然ですわな。

    — @猫飯まっしぐら · 44 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • But that grind IS the fun part. I would like to state this for the record.

    あの作業が楽しいんだろうが。と、主張したい

    — @中村葵-j4x · 6 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • Told to get out of the Old World, told to go home in the New World, kicked out of the jungle. And yet, strangely, you can't bring yourself to feel sorry for it. That kind of Elder Dragon.

    現大陸から出ていけと言われ、新大陸では帰れと言われ、密林からは追い出される。 けど不思議とかわいそうとは思えない。 そんな古龍。

    — @桜ヶ咲春香 · 37 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora
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  • If Kushala came back in its Rise spec I'd be happy, but knowing the dev team, there's zero chance.

    クシャがライズ仕様で出てくれるなら良いけど開発的に絶対ないだろうしな

    — @すずよし-v9h · 59 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • The part that sucks is how it flat-out refuses to let your attacks land. As an action game, that's a genuinely unpleasant design.

    こっちの攻撃を拒否って来るのが糞なんだよな。アクションゲーム的に大分不快な設計。

    — @yosu2811 · 35 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • He was 4th in the urgent-quest lineup. I'll never forget sticking it out for three runs in a row and having everyone else bail on me.

    緊急Z順で4番目、3回付き合ったのに皆に抜けられた時は忘れられない。

    — @ちゃんきよ-s7t · 50 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • 🤓 "I'm salty, so I'll make it immune to flash pods." And the result was Extreme-state Kushala, a true king of garbage.

    🤓「悔しいので閃光無効にしますね」 そして出来上がったのが極限化とかいうキングオブゴミである

    — @よっちゃんねる-k4x · 14 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • It'd honestly be hilarious if you could pull a Levi-style spin-slash off the top of Lao's head and just go flying off into the distance forever.

    ラオの頭からリヴァイ斬りしたら どこまでも飛んでくとかくれたらオモロいかもしれん

    — @FOREVER238n · 48 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • The moment a dev says in an interview "it's a monster the staff are really attached to," I stop trusting them. With Kushala alone, the question of whether players actually have fun fighting it is completely missing. Even in the original it permanently goes into flight mode when near death — trash spec — and in World it's a towering pile of crap that nullifies every counter. Every time, my only impression is a cringe "my ultimate made-up monster" a grade-schooler would design.

    インタビューで「スタッフの思い入れがあるモンスターなんです」とか言ってる時点で信用ならない。 クシャルダオラだけユーザーがソレで遊んでほんとに楽しいのかどうかすっぽり抜け落ちてて、初代からして瀕死になると常に飛行状態になるとかいうクソ仕様で、Wでも全対策効果無効とかいうそびえ立つクソ 毎回小学生の考えた「ぼくのかんがえたさいきょうのもんすたー」みたいな寒いモンスターって印象しかない。

    — @TGOA-gu8vr · 1 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • For now I'm just praying Lao doesn't turn into a slog once they bolt him onto all of Wilds' new gimmicks.

    ラオはとりあえずワイルズのギミック系と組み合わせてグダることにならないことを祈る。

    — @黒黒-e5u · 17 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • ✕ Strong ✕ Weak ◯ Just bad

    ✕強い ✕弱い ◯クソ

    — @isorokuyamamoto4032 · 1 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • Is Kushala going to be Rise-based or World-based? Only Capcom knows.

    果たしてクシャはライズベースなのかワールドベースにするのか すべてはカプコンにしかわからない

    — @K1三代目 · 16 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • A Fujitoku-produced Kushala — the landmine smell coming off that is off the charts.

    藤徳プロデュースのクシャとかいう地雷臭が尋常じゃないやつ

    — @不幸さん-w4s · 36 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • So nostalgic. On pure tankiness alone he was the gatekeeper of Generations Ultimate, and the second you finally beat him everyone ran Lao weapons.

    懐かしすぎる タフさだけでダブルクロスの門番やってたし勝ったあとはみんなラオ武器握ってたなぁ

    — @CB-baseball-like · 12 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • ???: "Allow me to show you the true strength of Kushala Daora."

    ？？？「クシャルダオラの強さ、見せましょう」

    — @moyashiorganic2871 · 103 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • Just getting to see Lao-Shan Lung in modern HD is already more than enough to make me happy.

    今の高画質ラオシャンロン見れるだけでもう嬉しすぎる

    — @シャぐら · 160 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

  • A Kushala Daora that built up resistance to flash and poison stripping its wind barrier, AND learned to drop stationary tornadoes on top of that, was — to put it mildly — a literal pile of crap.

    アイボーの閃光と毒による風鎧解除に耐性つけたうえに置き竜巻まで覚えてきたクシャルダオラは控えめに言ってお排泄物でしたわ。

    — @acount_t_0915 · 92 likesMonster Hunter: Hunters Explain Why They Hate Kushala Daora

  • That said, I really don't want them suddenly cranking Lao's entire moveset into hyperspeed out of nowhere either 😅

    かと言ってラオはアイボーのボレアスみたいに急に全体の動きがスピードアップとかされても困るんよ😅

    — @まっさん-q6t · 98 likesMonster Hunter Wilds Ascendance: Lao-Shan Lung and Kushala Daora Return

Editor's note

Kushala Daora hate is a load-bearing part of Japanese hunter culture — “not hating it would be the weird part.” When Wilds: Ascendance brought back Lao-Shan Lung, the nostalgia came fully hedged: fun… the first time, at least.

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FAQ

Where do the Japanese reactions to Monster Hunter come from?
From the comment sections of official Japanese YouTube channels. We pull top comments, quote real posts only, and show the actual like counts at the time of collection.
How accurate are the translations?
Each article keeps the original Japanese alongside the English translation. We adapt slang so it reads naturally, but we never change the meaning or invent quotes.
How often are new Monster Hunter reactions added?
The site updates daily. Whenever Monster Hunter has a new trailer, episode, or piece of news, a fresh roundup lands on this page — 2 so far.