![]() There’s a helplessness that has festered - Kite was taken, killed, raised from the dead and tortured repeatedly, the subject of cruel experiments. He’s physically stronger, older, probably taller. The one who is most pertinent to this episode, of course, isn’t even a Chimera Ant: Gon. There are the shifts in Pitou and Youpi - the former becoming more caring (at least in matters relating to the King) and the latter becoming more self-aware and respectful. There’s the King, whose motivation and values have shifted to such a degree that Netero feels almost uneasy about fighting and refuses to listen to the King’s words, lest he be swayed to the King’s side. The narrator is specifically speaking about Palm, but it describes so many people in this arc. “While her appearance hadn’t totally changed, Palm was clearly no longer the same person. Then Killua sees Palm, and what the narrator says next is the crux of the episode - and the arc as a whole. This begs the question: Is she at all the same anymore? We know that certain Chimera Ants can regain at least some of their human memories given a strong enough push. At the end of the previous episode, we saw Palm emerge from the cocoon reborn as a Chimera Ant. Don’t make Killua spill his guts about his fears and worries about Gon and cry his eyes out. My emotions are frayed enough every week. Halfway through this episode I was all set to make obvious jokes about how Palm suddenly became Bayonetta, but then this happened.
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