Hunter x Hunter Episode Eleven

You could say he really knows how to steal your heart.

The series of contests is wrapped up in today's episode. First, Leorio's predictably loses his match after losing bets on the gender of his opponent (so that he could examine her himself, because of course) and a game of rock-paper-scissors. This sets up a fight between Killua and a mass murderer as the deciding contest. And it's to the death. And it's over quickly. Killua rips his heart out. Not a figure of speech, he walks to the super-strong killer and rips his beating heart out of his chest. Because this isn't an early '90s OVA, the heart is covered in a shred of fabric, but it is still beating. And when it stops beating, and the mass murderer is dead, Killua sets his heart back in his hand. But hey, my prediction of Candidates in 5 was correct!

And while this arc was literally predictable, I don't think that detracts from how good it was. Every person, save Tonpa, had a part in winning the contests and we even learned something about a couple of them at the same time. The most interesting thing to me is how the rest of the group reacted to Killua straight up murdering someone in front of them. Leorio was horrified, Gon was nonplussed (as he knew about this already), and Kurapika asked him how he pulled off that technique. As for Tonpa, wait, no one gives a shit about Tonpa so I'll move on. Now, the action moves to a room off to the side where the group must spend fifty hours after Leorio's contest involved betting (and losing) that much time. Hopefully something interesting happens.