Hunter x Hunter Quietly Foreshadowed Meruem's Fate With an Overlooked Scene

Meruem from Hunter x Hunter holding the world in his hands.

Yoshihiro Togashi’s Hunter x Hunter is renowned for its intricate storytelling and layered characters, and nowhere is this more evident than in the arc surrounding Meruem and Komugi. Her mastery of Gungi, a fictional board game, humbles the Chimera Ant King, teaching him lessons in patience, vulnerability, and ultimately, humanity. At first glance, Komugi, a blind and frail young woman, seems to be an odd match for Meruem, the apex predator of the Chimera Ants.

&#x2715 Remove Ads Meruem devises a move that should surely clench his victory, only for Komugi to counter and immediately force Meruem’s concession. Komugi explains that she invented this signature move, Kokoriko, which involves isolating the King piece and eventually eliminating it from the board, exactly how Netero and the Hunters eventually defeat Meruem.

&#x2715 Remove Ads Isolate the King, Then Remove Him from the Board Komugi's Strategy Works, but to Her Detriment Close The manner of Meruem’s defeat—a nuclear weapon of mass destruction, Poor Man’s Rose—is another darkly poetic twist. First, the violent eruption of the bomb mangles Meruem, and then, when it appears he has recovered, the radiation slowly poisons him and everything close to him.

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