Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20161205164344/@comment-26871067-20170621170928

Pigzillion wrote: I'm not sure about a new power system outside of Nen, since it's one of the most well fleshed out power concepts in the entire shonen genre, but I suppose it could work he executes it well enough.

Got any ideas you think could work as a new power system? Just vague concepts; nothing too detailed. The introduction of parasitic nen admittedly threw a wrench in my idea, so I've been thinking about it on and off for a while. It's possible that nen will be expanded on in this way more, new kinds of nen. It'd be interesting if Gon developed a latent subconscious nen ability as well, honestly. He still has aura and it still flows, so it'd be neat to me if he ended up with either a subconscious nen construct, a nen parasite, unlocked powers with a new rule system, or outright harbored a Dark Continent being like Nanika that apparently feeds off their host's aura. Which seems similar but not the same as a nen parasite, admittedly. We know Nanika is a DC being now, but whether that means she can or cannot be a nen parasite... who knows.

But Killua's ability to circumvent Nanika's apparent "rules" without any lessening in power (if the request -> wish's power was a particularly harsh restriction, abandoning it would make her wish-granting weaker) implies to me that it's not a nen ability. So if there's a new DC being-esque power system, we could be looking at a more standard "I do what I want" kind of power. I think that'd be a shame if it were the case, but it would certainly be less complex... not that Togashi has given any indication that he's interested in making HxH less complex. I'd hope that nen wouldn't be retired entirely in this case, and perhaps it'd be something only specific human characters (which, again, some hints have been made re: Gon being inhuman in some way and there's a precedent for not-entirely-human Togashi protags, plus Gon's direct familial link to the DC) would be able to use. I definitely wouldn't feel solid in predicting a Togashi system, so I guess that's all I've got thoughts-wise.