One of the most fascinating things about Ging is that 4chan is much more willing to explicitly agree that Ging is a shitty dad than they are with Endeavour. Might just be that BNHA is so wildly popular, but I used to just go in HxH and BNHA threads and you know, every week people would be defending Endeavour and crowing about how they hoped Endeavour got the best arc ever because “SJWs” but you pop into the other thread and they’d be like ‘GING I like him but what a DICK he pisses me off’.

Ging is… such a well written character in the narrative. Like, it’s fascinating because normally a character like him is, well, a lot of anime dads are like him. But the framing? The framing of Ging as ‘just being this normal anime dad living his life abandoning his kid’? And then the further string pulling of the narrative which ups the ante ‘this is kind of shitty isn’t it though? Isn’t this narrative kind of shitty?’ And slowly builds things up until Ging is being shitty in the same way he always was, but the stakes are higher! (Gon on his deathbed)

Fascinating. Togashi truly wrote an amazing story about a shitty dad.