This is not okay.
That is the saddest HxH episode I've ever seen. I'm actually crying, then I thought I'd recovered myself, and then the ending just kicks in really hard.
This is just so so sad.
Especially since we found ourselves immediately at a position where we hated all chimera ants... and then bit by bit, there were a select few we thought worthy of respect in some way, Colt for example (whatever happened to Colt and the other baby? They only showed them once more...), later the others that started to fight on the Hunters' side.
The king though, he always was the target of hate, fear, our wish for elimination. He was born a powerful, dangerous thing that meant humanity's enslavery and extinction, the end of our freedom, something we abosulutely had to kill in order to survive... And Netero saw to that happening despite him seeing the change within the King.
Already then I felt they should not do it. Because he had changed, and I truly believed that if they let him live, he would rule justly. This so, more and more during his change the day they stormed the palace.
I did think I understood, that Meruem would still just have "let them live", the humans, peacefully maybe so but there was something that he said, that they would live in "restricted areas"... but he also promised they would never eat humans again. That sounded more than fair. Maybe it was the taking of the absolute freedom?
This really fucks with your mind though. /Are we as humans even worthy to be the one surpreme species/ Of course I would say, no we are't. Now that the chimera ants turned out to be more humane than humans even, I find it very hard to not want them to live.
And Meruem turned into a beautiful, wise, gentle ruler... who met a tragic end... it is beautiful in its tragedy, as he can be with Koumogi... but the scene where he asks her to hold his hand and she touches him, that tore me up the worst.
I truly believe he would have been the fairest ruler there could ever have been. He was turned into an omnipotent, omniscent creature, an enlightened buddha if you will (again, also this was in his name, bless his mother), he would have ruled better than any human ever could.
So that's also why this is so sad - humans again are left to their own rule, nothing much changes for them, chaos and suffering and unfairness still prevails.
This was absolutely heartbreaking to witness.
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