Foil Characters in Hunter x Hunter
It's been a while since I've posted anything here. That's entirely by design, as I never intended this blog to be a regular thing. I just wanted a place to put analyses and other miscellaneous stuff I'm writing in between the big projects like novels and screenplays that I'm still slogging away on. I'm making a tiny bit of progress on those. At this rate, Hunter x Hunter might come back from hiatus before I do. Yeah, this is the third post I’ve done about Hunter. That might be a lot. But there’s something in Hunter that I want to talk about, so that’s what I’m going to do. Source: medium.com That thing is its use of foil characters. “Foil character” is one of those terms that I learned back in seventh grade literature class or something, but didn’t really understand because they just had us memorize it and didn’t really discuss it with us or give us meaningful examples. It wasn’t until more recently that I b...