Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20161205164344/@comment-26871067-20170622220516

Jaadowgg wrote: "Steal Chain" is the fan translation, remember. Perhaps the official English will have a different name. Who knows? Also, I don't think it's any more lame than "Dowsing Chain". They're kind of on the same level of unoriginal names.

Anyway, question, how do you feel about Kurapika's Index finger ability being shown on the cover of Volume 33 when the ability itself was just shown in this chapter, which will be put into tankouban form two volumes later? It's actually not a fan translation. Like Chain Jail and Emperor Time, Steal Chain is the part of the technique that's given in English (the fan-translation part is "Thieving Index Finger", if we've read the same scanlation). "Theft Chain" would have been better, IMO.

As for it being on the cover, I wouldn't go so far as to say "that was a mistake", more... I don't know why that was the decision made. A lot of the HxH fans I know via social media all had the same "oh that's what the cover was about" reaction, and it just feels like a very weird move. If it had been something seen in the actual series without being explained yet, sure, that's what foreshadowing is basically. But this was just sort of ??? We guess Kurapika likes dolphins now??? and then months later it gets picked up on. Admittedly that wasn't intentional, it's not like Togashi sits at his desk going "haha they're gonna LOVE it in eight months or whenever" no matter what some people seem to think.