Originally Posted by
Hemoglobin
HxH 126 - Holy fucking shit. After a sea of shit episodes for the past few months, this episode comes along and is one of the best, if not the best, in the entire damn series. That was absolutely amazing. Netero is one of the most badass persons ever. When he was all shriveled up and old looking I felt bad for him, then he pulled that shit at the end. So damn good. I honestly don't know whether the king is alive or not. He better not be. I don't care about tough you are, you don't survive a nuclear bomb. And honestly, no one else can kill him unless there's been some other insanely powerful person hiding.
Of the people currently involved in this arc, I'd say Gon is next most powerful person of the good guys. We haven't seen him fight yet with how he is now, but I seriously doubt he'd be remotely anywhere near Netero's level. And talk about a badass way to go for Netero. I'm guessing he had it installed after he knew he was going to fight the king. It's crazy just how powerful the king was in comparison to Netero who was insanely powerful himself. The zero hands attack battered him a bit, but he wasn't in too bad of shape. If that bomb didn't kill him, I don't know how they're going to deal with the king. The people left can't even handle the royal guard, except for maybe Gon who I imagine will end up defeating Pitou.
And on the topic of power levels, this makes me wonder if there's anyone who is stronger than Netero. The only other character that we know about that I think has any potential in that regard is Gon's father. But we know pretty much nothing about him, so who knows. I know they won't, but I hope they tell us what the hell happened after that fight. I want to know if the king is alive or dead! More than likely they'll switch off to another POV. That's another thing that was amazing about this episode. They focused on one POV. No constant switching between characters that kills any built up suspense. It always irritates me when they think it's a good idea to switch between 3 - 4 different groups in an episode. 2 at most, anymore than that and it just feels like there's no episode progression most of the time. This time they actually focused on this one fight for an entire episode and it was spectacular.