Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25814498-20150505201606/@comment-25814498-20160617141959

@Stand: I'd say thank you for the criticism, but... Actually, never mind. Thank you for the criticism. However, as you were very "direct" shall we say, I hope you won't mind that I treat you wit the same courtesy.

First, your point about water in the human body being highly dispersed throughout the body; this is simply not true. According to The Molecular Biology of the Cell, a human body cell is approximately 70% water, with the other 30% consisting of proteins, glucose etc. Blood plasma on the other hand is almost entirely composed of this, with a water content of 92%, and constitutes 55% of the total blood volume. You also said that triggering an explosion due to this would only cause "bruising" and "local damage... with negligible effectiveness", and I must ask. Do you have any idea as to what you're saying? You just said that an explosion in essential blood vessels and vital organs would cause "swelling" and "bruising". If you would like to see the absurdity of this statement in action, I ask you to click this link. It shows a video of a bag of organic waste being thrown into a volcano and exploding, exactly because the volume of the water increased so rapidly that it caused an explosion. Can you see the similarities? The difference between this and the Hatsu I proposed is simple; my concept speaks of an entropic explosion (the volume increases exponentially without a large amount of heat) and the video shows a steam explosion, the only distinction between the two being the amount of heat released. I barely need to speak of the ludicrousness of your second point. For one, even if an entropic explosion of the level I described weren't possible(which I do not believe to be the case), all of the "best case scenario's" you described would be all that is necessary to kill your opponent. Why use that instead of "punching your opponent"? I believe that if you thought hard enough you could think of several reasons, but I will list a few for you anyway; you could hide your Nen with In and kill opponents instantly without needing to get close(if you read my Hatsu correctly you would see that this is possible), force an opponent to keep their distance due to the risk of instant death, bypass powerful armour and defensive techniques that would other wise be too sturdy etc. Like I said, if you used your imagination I'm sure you could think of several more.

As for your third point, I could say the same thing for literally '''every other hatsu in the show. '''"If you think about it, the effectiveness of Jajanken Rock is a completely nullified by many basic applications of Nen. Enhancers could simply use Gyo on a certain part of their body to completely defend against the technique. Emitters could simply keep you at a distance so that you never had a chance to use it in the first place, and attack you before you could finish the attack. Manipulators have so many ways to solve it I don't even want to bring it up. Transmuters could just turn their Nen into a sturdy material to cushion the blow of the attack. The best you could do is against conjurers and specialists, as their abilities are very conditional."

In one sense you do have a point. This ability is not omnipotent, but I never claimed it to be so. If someone had complete knowledge of the hatsu before hand, they could adequately prepare against it, but as I just said, the same can be said for every hatsu. Then again, many of your points I simply disagree with. The hatsu/user is not so weak that any enhancer could simply use Ken and completely nullify the effects of the hatsu; at the least blood vessels in their nose and eyes would explode and they would experience the bruising and swelling you spoke of before. Know however that increasing the amount of Nen used in the hatsu would cause the water to expand at a faster rate. Emitters would not have an advatage because as I said in my description(which I'm honestly not sure as to whether you read it), the user is able to extend their Nen away from their body; in other words they don't have to be touching their opponent. Manipulators would be able to get past the user, not the hatsu, as is the case for every Nen user. Transmuters would only be able to do so if their hatsu involved "tangible stuff", I.e hisoka, but transmuters such as Killua and Bisky would be helpless. You're correct with your point about conjurers and specialists, but as I have said, it is the same for every nen user.

After reading your fourth point, I think you've simply misunderstood my hatsu. It causes an '''entropic explosion. Explosion! '''It is not the same as Palm or Wings Water Divination test. The person isn't just inflating until they suddenly go "pop", they explode, "a violent blowing apart of something" as google defines it. The user isn't just holding their opponents hand for 15 minutes and waiting for them to blow up, they're encomposing their opponent in Nen and tearing them apart. Think of Dr Manhattan and the way he kills people if you're having a hard time visualising it.

I know it isn't an ability that can be used against things that don't hold water; it's a hatsu designed for killing, and not much else. That's why it's very good(despite what you say) at its one purpose.

As for your last point, what you are discussing is a completely different beast. The point of my hatsu is kill Nen users from the inside; it is able to bypass defences that would otherwise be extremely difficult to counter and can kill specific Nen users without a massive risk for collateral damage. The point isn't to simply create a massive explosion, it is to create an extremely focused and deadly explosion which cannot be countered and is extremely lethal to one opponent.

In short it is a simple ability derived from a single purpose; to kill an opponent in an gruesome, violent and effective fashion. After reading what I have said above you should see that it is efficient, imperative and simple. What do you know? Not much apparently.