# Talk:Kurapika

Made a mistake in last edit summary, should have said first, second and fourth arcs. 83.71.96.175 (talk) 12:11, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

You can hem and haw about how you think this or that time Kurapika behaved girl-like all you want, the fact remains he is completely flat chested, and refers to himself as a male after removing the disguise when capturing Kuroro. He's even topless on the cover of Volume 14. "But wait", you say, "He could be binding his chest or taking hormones or have had plastic surgery!" Yes, and Leorio could be too, hell he could be a secret second survivor of Kurapika's clan. Anything's possible, but you have no good reason to think so. -Zyrxil (talk) 23:07, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
new template has lost voice actor: Yuki Kaida--83.190.93.124 02:16, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Is this the only picture that's allowed?  Is there anything else that doesn't make him look so lame?
-- 130.163.11.22 (talk) 17:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Pic changed. Zyrxil (talk) 01:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Awesome pic, thanks for finding it :)
--130.163.11.22 (talk) 13:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Why you think that he is a girl ?
Courtesy isn't only for girls. Or maybe you don't like that he is so cute.
You think that there is a girl that can fight Ubogine and win ? If you think so why can't be a boy with that cuteness?
Probably you don't understand why he hit Leorio that time, you like to see someone naked ?
Don't need a proof to know that he is a boy, this is clear from his appearance.
But if you want a proof see epizode 49, Vezze said:"All men who are kissed by me will become my slave". And Kurapika said that time :"Thank God she didn't kiss me"
It means that he is a man. --A.ouerfelli (talk) 19:29, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Or maybe Kurapika meant "that would have blowed my cover and everyone would know I'm female. At any rate it's obvious that Togashi is PURPOSEDLY maintaining a doubt about Kurapika gender, this is a classic in shounen manga, for example in Fly no Daibuken, there was a doubt about Aban sex due to a lot of controversial situations about his gender.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.126.87.132 (talk) 09:32, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Kurapika's had his shirt off in both the comic and the TV show. In the guide, he's listed as male as well.-Mr. Toto (talk) 15:26, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Excuse me for my poor English.
""that would have blowed my cover and everyone would know I'm female"" so why disguising as a girl ? is it a double disguise ? if it is then why hiding gender? there is no reason clarified before that the anime ends. How you answer someone who tells you that he has doubt about Hisoka's gender? the answer is "there is no reason to think so" It is true that the doubt about gender is classic in shounen but it occurs in the anime between characters themselves and not out of the anime between watchers. In the anime he is treated all time as man.
"If we suppose that Kurapika is a girl hiding her gender, then she must be cautious and not let anyone know about her gender and she must disguise! if we suppose that she is doing then it is "nonsense diguise" because it is not discovered at the end like classic shounen, and this did not modify the watched scenario. We continue thinking about disguising, so this disguise is successful because none of the characters has treated Kurapika as woman and the watchers have seen this, but some of them are doubting, so they must see something from Kurapika that the characters in the anime have not seen, what is it? Nothing! Probably because of a classical appearance that is considered as girlish; so we must consider that appearance like the characters in anime consider it."
If we ask questions like: how much hear I have on my head? or how many leaves in that tree? or what is the name of the grandmother of the grandmother of that person? or what are the bits stored in this magnetic card? Then these are Valid questions because they ask about a truth so they have a meaning.
But when we ask questions like: how much hear on Leorio's head? or how many leafs in the tree where Hisoka were resting at the 4th exam? or what is the name of the grandmother of the grandmother of Hanzo? or what are the bits stored in Gon's hunter license card? Then these are invalid and nonsense questions because they ask about unthinked imagination, so in imagination there are things that are defined and ones that are not but in reality all  things are well defined. In Togashi's imagination (I mean hunter x hunter) there are definitions represented in the anime and ones that are represented in the hunter's guide and there are no contradiction between these two representations of the same imagination. And we must consider only definitions that are included there.
For example the definition "Kurapika's blood type" is listed on the guide.
We can note (in episode 1) that Gon caught a fish heavier then him and brought it out from water, physically it is not possible but this is part of imagination so the physical rules and definitions are not the same as in truth so what we will say about the social definitions? perhaps they are radically different between two different countries so what we will say about the difference between an anime and the reality? I mean the definition of girlish appearance.
When Kurapika hit Leorio because he leaves the shower without clothes, some people have considered that behaviour girlish because IN THEIR MANNERS this is legitimate between two persons with the same sex. That is not polite. We can note that Yoshihiro Togashi travelled to other countries and saw many different cultures and religions, he shows us the different personalities of characters, he made Kurapika reserved unlike the others (Gon and Kilua had a shower together and see each other naked).A.ouerfelli (talk) 21:18, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

After talking with Roxas255 I readded the image. At the time it wasn't clear why the image was changed (lack of good edit summary). The current image in the infobox is to reflect how Kurapkia normally looks and the former pic was moved to another section more relevent on what he looks like when his eyes change color.陣内Jinnai 22:35, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

If that's the goal, then the image should be changed yet again. The old image (which I added) was with Kurapika's eyes red under black contacts, so you don't really see the red. -Zyrxil (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
If that's how he commonly looks, then yes, that should be the goal. Do you have a link to that file (we can't post the image itself on the talk page) to compare. I would also prefer it be from the original work, the manga, in color if possible. I don't know if that was the case for your image.陣内Jinnai 19:55, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Kurapika/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Nominator: Tintor2 (talk · contribs) 13:18, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Z. Patterson (talk · contribs) 02:05, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
The article looks well-written.  I have some points to address.

"ScreenRant" should be changed to "Screen Rant", and "GameRant" should be changed to "Game Rant".
I would suggest archiving the links with WP:IABOT.  You may use the Internet Archive Bot Management Console, as I frequently do with anime-related articles.  This decreases the likelihood of WP:LINKROT.
The book Togashi Empire needs a publisher in the citation to avoid citation messages.
The citation for "Shocking Hunter x Hunter Anime Ending That Togashi Rejected Surfaces" should not have the purple highlight when you open the source.  This happens because part of the link has #:~:text= in the URL.  Ensure URLs do not have text that start with #:~:text=.
I would remove filler words, such as "so" in the sentence "He said he started the project without expecting it to be so tiring."
I would change instances of "while", as noted in Gog the Mild's GAN/FAC checklist.
Overall, good work.  If you make these changes, I plan to make this a good article.
Z. Patterson (talk) 02:05, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I tried doing everything you asked but sadly I don't have the archiving tools. If possible could you use it? Cheers. Tintor2 (talk) 11:38, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
Nevermind. I managed to install it through my cellphone. Tintor2 (talk) 16:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)
@Tintor2: I have determined the article is well-written, is well-structured, has no original research, is written in Wikipedia's tone, cites reliable sources, and attributes sources when appropriate.  I recently promoted the article.  Good work. Z. Patterson (talk) 01:07, 24 April 2025 (UTC)