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Dog Cheadle - Hunter x Hunter ep. 137-139: Media Club Plus S01E44
🕑 Added 2025-06-04 00:05:47 +0000 UTCWelcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us.
We start off this new season immediately in the soup of a horrible election, thanks to the intentionally poor planning of Isaac Netero. After spending some time with the new dysfunctinoal family of Ging, Pariston and the other zodiaks, we meet up with the old dysfunctional family of assassins, the Zoldycks of Kukuroo Mountain where we learn that Killua has a secret cursed sister.
This week we cover episodes 137-139, titled Debate x Among x Zodiaks, Request x and x Wish, and Alluka x and x Something. Next episode we'll be covering episodes 140-142, titled Join Battle x and x Open Battle, Magician x and x Butler, and Needles x and x Debt.
Featuring Keith Carberry (@KeithJCarberry, @KeithJCarberry), Jack de Quidt (@jdq) Sylvi Bullet (@SYLVIBULLET), and Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000)
Produced by Keith Carberry
Music by Jack de Quidt (available at notquitereal.bandcamp.com)
Cover Art by by Annie Johnston-Glick (@dancynrew) anniejg.com
To find transcripts of the episodes, go to http://TranscriptsattheTable.com
Comments
Michael Weems
For the Zoldyck names thing, it's worth noting that in contemporary Japanese, puns/wordplay/neologisms like this are as likely to be in reference to English words as Japanese ones, so it could totally be as simple as "kill" for Killua and "illusion" for Illumi. Alluka is the one where the verb angle is clearest. As a sentence, 「あるか」 means "Is there?" or "Do you have?" and as noted 「何か」 means "something" or "somehow." Taken together, 「何かあるか」 would mean "Is there something wrong?" or "Did something happen?" Taken separately in the context of Alluka's power, it calls to mind a little dialogue where Nanika is asking someone "Do you have a wish?" "Something that you want?"
Megan M
But what if...Cheadle is the dog who kills Killua???
