Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9051002-20170820023748/@comment-9051002-20170821011444

I'll try to sumarize my post that was lost.

"Manifest thoughts" you're completely ignoring the first part of the description "Hisoka can apply his aura to any thin surface" if it was not summoned but changed then it's not conjuration, it's transmutation.

Hisoka is a transmuter, the original creator of Texture surprise (John Doe) was also a transmuter.

It's also a common misconception that ALL transmutation is invisible. What if you transmute the color of an object or texture? what would be the point of it if it was invisible?

We don't know enough about Morel's ability to say 40% of proficiency will have X effect on the smoke puppets. Morel is mainly a manipulator so he's a bad example anyway.

Let's talk about Biscuit instead. She's a transmuter, she changed her body to appear young, she doesn't walk around being invisible. Even tough transmuted Nen is invisible.

Texture surprise is a special ability that changes the TEXTURE of a thing. Do you think it would make sense for TEXTURE to be invisible? If so then Hisoka would look like a freak to everybody after his fight with Chrollo, but he looks normal because the WHOLE POINT of texture surprise is to fool people.

John Doe also changed his face with a hankerchief and his victims and the general population could see him. If it was conjuration he wouldn't need a real object like a hankerchief he could just summon it.

So that's why Texture surprise is Transmutation, you don't see Shizuku using a real vacuum cleaner to make Deme-chan, just like texture surprise wouldn't need a real hankerchief or another object to work.