If we are honest, this chapter was boring.
Deflating the tension sure is a trope subversion... but not a good one.
This was just nothing but more built up, which seems to never end in this arc.
I am very thrilled by the high stakes and the potential of this arc.
But right now Hunter x Hunter is not a pleasant reading experience.
Chapters don't lead anywhere. Infinite build up that alludes to great potential but seems to never stop.
Togashi doesn't even bother to name like a third of his characters anymore, making it very hard to even access all of the information he just bombards you with.
We went from the PT wiping out the ten strongest Mafia Nen users like the worms and dogshit they were themed after, and now we have the Phantom Troupe trolled by desk job guys.
I am honest I don't like the Morena guys at all. Morena is cringe. Her guys are shallow. Their motive is implausible and boring. Also don't feel like a Mafia at all, more like Batman villains. The Mafia plot so far has been hyper lame.
By the way, what kinda shabby mafia boss is Hinrigh? Like on Tier 1, mere guns can kill you, everywhere else you don't even have to bother to bring anything but knives into the secret lair of an enemy mafia full of psychopaths, which you suspect to be a trap? Like don't control mafias the black market? Where you can get stuff you cannot get in stores?? And that's with his ability not even considered, what was he gonna transform these knives into? He'd been better off with a surfboard for an alligator, guy makes so little sense...