Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20161205164344/@comment-26871067-20170801214851

Jaadowgg wrote: How do you feel about Dude being a genius? I was expecting it but was still annoyed by it. Kurapika needed a Nemesis for this arc after all, and it was certainly going to be Tserriednich. He's the reason Kurapika is on the boat, after all (at least initially, things are a little more complex with a baby in play). It was frustrating though, I honestly would have preferred if the guy already knew nen... but then that would have begged the question of "if Tserriednich is the only prince who knows about nen, how would the others still be alive at this point?"

Like, there's definitely a way to work around it in a way that I personally would be more satisfied with, but... It's a shonen manga and what better way to hype up the threat than to have him be a nen genius? It does feel cheap to me is all, but I do recognize that this kind of thing is kind of a genre staple.