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Old 2013-06-09, 09:02   Link #3021
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Altering bodies is not clearly transmutation. Transmutation, as far as we've ever seen, is 100% about manipulation of the aura itself. That's why we see training exercises like forming numbers from 0-9. It's about fine-tuned control of what your aura is. The examples we see of transmutation hatsu are people who give tendrils of aura specific and useful properties. Gum, string, electricity... not one of them changes the form of a pre-existing object. Based on what we know of the categories, that sort of change is far more likely to be manipulation. Don't get too caught up on the name and ignore literally everything else we've ever been told.
The name has nothing to do with it. "Biscuit uses her transmutation to change her shape." is a stated fact. It's not my fault that the school descriptions can get vague sometimes. It's the same as Hisoka's Texture Surprise.
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Old 2013-06-09, 11:39   Link #3022
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Decent episode although I can't say there was that much real development in the grander scheme of things, other than Colt getting his face smashed in. The fights were pretty much more of what we've already seen. The Ants deciding to fight one by one was kinda annoying but at least Kite's awesome scythe made up for it.

I suppose there was that small hint at the end that Gon's moral naivety might be his undoing but It's kinda mixed for me because I'd already decided not to pay attention to the moral aspects of the show any more. It always did my head in, especially when Gon was always portrayed as the moral compass. On the other hand it seems a lot like that's going to get subverted so maybe it'll be worth it now.
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Old 2013-06-09, 11:57   Link #3023
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Gon a moral compass? Not really, he has his own morals that do not always fit in what normal western society would consider "normal". The best example would be his behavior during the Yorknew arc. Especially his anger towards Nobunaga.
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Old 2013-06-09, 12:34   Link #3024
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-EPISODE 83-

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Old 2013-06-09, 12:49   Link #3025
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The name has nothing to do with it. "Biscuit uses her transmutation to change her shape." is a stated fact. It's not my fault that the school descriptions can get vague sometimes. It's the same as Hisoka's Texture Surprise.
Again, please quote it ever being said in the manga. Her altering her body has, as far as i can see, never been attributed to any of the schools of nen. If it was ,it seems clearly a manipulation type of nen, too.
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Old 2013-06-09, 13:01   Link #3026
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Gon a moral compass? Not really, he has his own morals that do not always fit in what normal western society would consider "normal". The best example would be his behavior during the Yorknew arc. Especially his anger towards Nobunaga.
His attitude towards Nobunaga during that arm wrestling match is ironically one the few moments where I've felt it was justified, but it's always been clear to me that Gon had the moral compass despite that compass being blatantly broken at times.
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Old 2013-06-09, 13:33   Link #3027
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Again, please quote it ever being said in the manga. Her altering her body has, as far as i can see, never been attributed to any of the schools of nen. If it was ,it seems clearly a manipulation type of nen, too.
I'm sorry, maybe this feels a bit cheap to you, but if it does, so be it. I'm not really interested in spending hours plowing through manga material just to prove something minor. If you want to believe your headcanon is more canon than actual canon, and wikis are written by people who don't know anything, go ahead.


Or perhaps YOU could explain to me how manipulation, a school that is about controlling the behavior of people, animals or objects, is "obviously" responsible for transforming someone's shape.

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Old 2013-06-09, 18:42   Link #3028
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I'm sorry, maybe this feels a bit cheap to you, but if it does, so be it. I'm not really interested in spending hours plowing through manga material just to prove something minor. If you want to believe your headcanon is more canon than actual canon, and wikis are written by people who don't know anything, go ahead.


Or perhaps YOU could explain to me how manipulation, a school that is about controlling the behavior of people, animals or objects, is "obviously" responsible for transforming someone's shape.
Agreed, even though he's right in that I don't think her type was ever expressly stated, there's far more evidence supporting her being a trasnmuter than there is her not. Manipulation seems very unlikely.
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Old 2013-06-10, 01:14   Link #3029
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Agreed, even though he's right in that I don't think her type was ever expressly stated, there's far more evidence supporting her being a trasnmuter than there is her not. Manipulation seems very unlikely.
Changing one's body seems like standard manipulation ability, and the actual way she uses her ability seems like it too- it's possible she COULD be transmutation, but i don't see a single hint toward it beyond "Hisoka thinks so" (and transformation being closer to materialization).
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Old 2013-06-10, 01:32   Link #3030
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Changing one's body seems like standard manipulation ability, and the actual way she uses her ability seems like it too-
How is changing one's body "standard manipulation ability"? Can you please explain this?
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Old 2013-06-10, 02:30   Link #3031
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How is changing one's body "standard manipulation ability"? Can you please explain this?
Because it's about altering pre-existing objects. The different between moving something and rearranging it is negligible. How does transmutation have anything to do with it, other than the name?

Of course, it could also be neither and be Specialization or something.
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Old 2013-06-10, 04:41   Link #3032
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We don't even know if her transformation's nen based. It could just be an advanced form of Killua's technique (which gives him claws).
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Old 2013-06-10, 05:03   Link #3033
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I suppose there was that small hint at the end that Gon's moral naivety might be his undoing but It's kinda mixed for me because I'd already decided not to pay attention to the moral aspects of the show any more. It always did my head in, especially when Gon was always portrayed as the moral compass.
Gon's a moral compass? Since when? I guess it's about time I catch up to this show to see this for myself!
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Old 2013-06-10, 07:37   Link #3034
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Well off the top of my head, suppose the first example would be when Gon told the ship's captain to let Leorio and Kurapika fight each other in the first episode. It wasn't that bad then but it kinda built up, I felt.
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Old 2013-06-10, 09:44   Link #3035
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Because it's about altering pre-existing objects. The different between moving something and rearranging it is negligible. How does transmutation have anything to do with it, other than the name?
Except.... Manipulation isn't about moving things, let alone rearranging things. Who's misinterpreting the definition of Nen schools now?
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Old 2013-06-10, 10:42   Link #3036
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Except.... Manipulation isn't about moving things, let alone rearranging things. Who's misinterpreting the definition of Nen schools now?
Of course it's about moving things. The first example we see is the top-guy in the tower. Apparently he was pretty bad at it, but he was making the tops move around and attack things.

Unless you want to make some sort of distinction between moving something and ordering something to move? I personally don't really see any practical difference, at least in the results.
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Old 2013-06-10, 10:45   Link #3037
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There's also the water test. The sign of a manipulator is that the leaf moves. (But the sign of a transmuter is that the water changes its taste, so there's that.)
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Old 2013-06-10, 10:49   Link #3038
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There's also the water test. The sign of a manipulator is that the leaf moves. (But the sign of a transmuter is that the water changes its taste, so there's that.)
Yeah, I didn't want to mention that because I don't think the taste thing makes sense, but I guess there's also that.
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Old 2013-06-10, 10:55   Link #3039
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Because it's about altering pre-existing objects. The different between moving something and rearranging it is negligible.
Is it? I'm no sure. This isn't confirmed but I think the difference between manipulation and transmutation is the alteration of the mass and the properties of an object.

I think (again, it's no confirmed) that transmutation can alter the mass (from a big object to a tiny one, for example), and even chance the properties of an object's matter/substance (from liquid to solid, for example, or from aura to, say, electricity).

I don't think manipulation can do any of this. I think manipulation is just the ability to make objects or people do what you want them to, but it doesn't chance their properties.
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Old 2013-06-10, 11:06   Link #3040
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Is it? I'm no sure. This isn't confirmed but I think the difference between manipulation and transmutation is the alteration of the mass and the properties of an object.

I think (again, it's no confirmed) that transmutation can alter the mass (from a big object to a tiny one, for example), and even chance the properties of an object's matter/substance (from liquid to solid, for example, or from aura to, say, electricity).

I don't think manipulation can do any of this. I think manipulation is just the ability to make objects or people do what you want them to, but it doesn't chance their properties.
If you make a piece of paper fold itself in half, isn't that changing its size? Do that on a molecular level and doesn't that change its properties?
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