In Hunter X Hunter I notice a difference to this stereotypical male monster and female human couple with the characters Meruem and Komugi.
 |
| Meruem and Komugi playing Gungi |
Despite being a non romance anime series they are probably one of my favourite and most emotional couple relationship I have seen. Demonstrating a unique developing relationship between a monster and a girl.
 |
| Meruem |
The monster Meruem doesn't look that monstrous most of the time, but he certainly isn't fully human. At most he had a very inhumane monstrous personality who had no concern for life. Even straight from birth he forced his way out of his mother fatally wounding her and then left to start his human killing spree leaving her to die. He even kills his own kind for not doing as he pleases.
In the following video shows him killing the first humans he encounters:
As shown in the video Meruem's respect over life is non existent at the beginning. By the fact he kills the parents and child only to decide they are "inedible" to him essentially making their deaths even more pointless. The series perfectly illustrates this even further by adding no sound effects to the deaths of this innocent family as well as no voice acting to show how disposable these characters were. Meruem is a monster, though not monstrous in appearance he isn't fully human and acted monstrously. So already he is completely different to those like Phantom of the Opera, having no tragic cause for his personality, pure evil from birth.
The female character Komugi isn't described or even shown shown to be pretty, at most cute. As shown by how scruffy her hair looks, bushy eyebrows and snotty nosed. She is also blind and lives with a poor family of twelve and the only way she provides of use to her family is to participate and win in Gungi (a board game in Hunter X Hunter) for money.
Meruem encounters her when he tries beating multiple professional board game players to prove his intellect and show his superiority in more then just his born abilities and physical power. He sees her as the most feeble human he has ever met and yet he finds himself getting closer to her as he never manages to win a single game against her yet finds their games enjoyable, asking himself questions and wonders what he wants to do with her. This starts to develop his humanity and learning to protect those weaker than him
As shown in this following video as he ponders whether he should kill her or not his actions surprise himself:
Komugi exclaims how no one has treated her so nicely before she met Meruem is very ironic after we know how evil he was and the fact he was deciding on killing her. This could be illustrating how easy it should be to be nice to people that even a monster can learn to be nice and that people can change their ways given the chance ("even a monster"). Also, this can be due to the fact that Meruem is only a few days old, he still has much to learn.
I also appreciate the ending not being a soppy happily ever after, more of an anti-happy ending. After Meruem's fight with Netero (an old man sent to eliminate Meruem) Meruem barely survived and was poisoned by a biological weapon. As shown in the following video, he explains to Komugi that the poison is slowly killing him and it will effect her as well if she stays around him, however he wishes to spend his last moment with her. Despite hearing this she wants to join him in his final moments saying she is the most happiest she has ever been and they both believe they were born for this moment together.
Not only making a unique relationship between the usual male monster and female human but making emotional and impactful moments then a typical happy ending romance story. It even makes it look like Komugi is beautiful in Meruem's eyes towards the end of that video, watching her lips and looks like a bright light to him despite being a dimly lit room. The same with Komugi, despite being blind Meruem is the most amazing man she has ever met.
When it finally ends towards their death the black and white pieces from the Gungi board game are used to symbolise their connection as playing Gungi is how they first met (the black piece is Meruem, the white piece is Komugi).
As shown in the video Meruem's respect over life is non existent at the beginning. By the fact he kills the parents and child only to decide they are "inedible" to him essentially making their deaths even more pointless. The series perfectly illustrates this even further by adding no sound effects to the deaths of this innocent family as well as no voice acting to show how disposable these characters were. Meruem is a monster, though not monstrous in appearance he isn't fully human and acted monstrously. So already he is completely different to those like Phantom of the Opera, having no tragic cause for his personality, pure evil from birth.
 |
| Komugi |
Meruem encounters her when he tries beating multiple professional board game players to prove his intellect and show his superiority in more then just his born abilities and physical power. He sees her as the most feeble human he has ever met and yet he finds himself getting closer to her as he never manages to win a single game against her yet finds their games enjoyable, asking himself questions and wonders what he wants to do with her. This starts to develop his humanity and learning to protect those weaker than him
As shown in this following video as he ponders whether he should kill her or not his actions surprise himself:
Komugi exclaims how no one has treated her so nicely before she met Meruem is very ironic after we know how evil he was and the fact he was deciding on killing her. This could be illustrating how easy it should be to be nice to people that even a monster can learn to be nice and that people can change their ways given the chance ("even a monster"). Also, this can be due to the fact that Meruem is only a few days old, he still has much to learn.
I also appreciate the ending not being a soppy happily ever after, more of an anti-happy ending. After Meruem's fight with Netero (an old man sent to eliminate Meruem) Meruem barely survived and was poisoned by a biological weapon. As shown in the following video, he explains to Komugi that the poison is slowly killing him and it will effect her as well if she stays around him, however he wishes to spend his last moment with her. Despite hearing this she wants to join him in his final moments saying she is the most happiest she has ever been and they both believe they were born for this moment together.
Not only making a unique relationship between the usual male monster and female human but making emotional and impactful moments then a typical happy ending romance story. It even makes it look like Komugi is beautiful in Meruem's eyes towards the end of that video, watching her lips and looks like a bright light to him despite being a dimly lit room. The same with Komugi, despite being blind Meruem is the most amazing man she has ever met.
When it finally ends towards their death the black and white pieces from the Gungi board game are used to symbolise their connection as playing Gungi is how they first met (the black piece is Meruem, the white piece is Komugi).
No comments:
Post a Comment