Hunter x Hunter Vol. 7: Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 7
- ISBN
- 9781421503325
- Publisher
- VIZ Media
- English release
- Pages
- 192
- Chapters
- 55–63
Hunter x Hunter Volume 7 pauses the arena action to explain and repair Hisoka's preceding performance. Its contents begin with “As for Hisoka…” and end with “Next”; this discussion reads only pages 7–17 of the licensed VIZ preview. Keep the previous paperback alongside it for the match being discussed. The opening offers a technical aftermath rather than a fresh fight or an independent entry point. It does not establish where the arena story ends or review the remaining book.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
The damage to Hisoka's arms initially looks like part of his invincibility act, but Machi's work separates bodily repair from the illusion of effortless recovery. She stitches the tissue together before he covers the visible seams with his own abilities. His final smooth appearance therefore depends on another person's specialized skill and a disguise, not simply on willing his injuries away. Machi also challenges the excess of his performance, while Hisoka flirts with the possibility that he deliberately invited injury to watch her work. The possibility remains his playful claim. The explanatory panels then distinguish adhesive aura from the surface illusion placed over it. That separation lets the reader revisit a spectacle as a constructed trick without treating either technique as unlimited healing.
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Lines from this volume
Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“Maybe I hurt myself on purpose so I can see your work up close.”
Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“Oh yeah... I should hide the seams. That way it'll look like they were restored by magic.”
Taken as a throwaway, this is a vanity beat before the chapter shows his two abilities, and the page does lean that way. The idea is not even his: the balloons in the black panel before it, addressed to him, say the edges are a bit ragged and that his Bungee Gum and Texture Surprise can cover them, and his "Oh yeah" concedes he had not thought of it. Granted. But the next two pages say what the trick is for, and it is not vanity. He introduces it with stage patter ("Take this ordinary handkerchief..."), slaps the cloth on as skin on p. 15, and the narration notes that to most people the arm would seem to have healed itself. Then p. 16 adds the detail that matters: a mere touch would reveal the wrong texture, but Hisoka thinks that makes the deception more exciting. The disguise is built to fail on contact, and he prefers it that way. "Restored by magic" is exactly the right phrase. A magic trick is a lie the magician enjoys nearly being caught in.
Hisoka has both arms in pieces after the Kastro match, and the easy reading of this aside is that it is bluster, a man pretending the injury was a choice. The pages argue the reverse. On p. 9 the woman sewing him back together asks whether the match was performance art, says he didn't have to do all this, and calls him an idiot. He sits still while she works her nen stitches into the stumps on pp. 10 and 11, says "Brilliant." beside a reattached hand flexing on p. 13, and only then offers this. The "maybe" is coy, but nothing on the previewed pages contradicts it; the volume's own cast page calls him a murderous magician who is waiting for Gon to ripen. Pain is not the cost of his hobbies, it is one of them. The line is a confession dressed up as a joke, and she answers it with a bill: 20 million for the left, the same for the right, and "Fork it over."