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Gon-san
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About
Gon-san (Japanese: ゴンさん) is a nickname given to an adult form of Gon Freecss[1], the protagonist boy in a Japanese manga Hunter × Hunter[2] written by Akihiro Togashi. This muscle monster with glazed look filled with deep despair has been a popular subject for parodies since its shocking arrival in 2010.
Origin
Gon's adult form showed its silhouette during the battle with a Chimera Ant Neferpitou[3] in the 305th chapter of this manga, and he fully appeared on the next 306th chapter which was published on Weekly Shōnen Jump released on April 26th, 2010.
![cfd.jpg FOLLOW ME. I DON'T KNOW How, BUT HE HAS FORCIBLY GROWN...!! TO AN AGE WHERE HE CAN DEFEAT ME!!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/822/cfd.jpg)
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The battle with pitou ended in the 307th chapter. However, the readers had to wait over a year to know whatever becomes of after the battle where Gon paid a great cost for win because this manga's serialization suspended between the following month and August, 2011.
Spread
The sudden appearance of this baby-faced adult having too macho body and ridiculously long hair surprised many manga readers and its very surrealistic lulz immediately made a headline on the web. Then, 2channel or Futaba Channel (2chan) users who thought they can't call this Gon without an honorific anymore started to call him as "Gon-san" in awe. And numerous photo collages, illustrations, and parody videos for Gon-san soon became to be created on those anonymous boards, pixiv[4], Nico Nico Seiga[5] and Nico Nico Douga (NND).[6] The presence of Gon-san rapidly increased among Japanese internet users throughout sharing those parody creations via many affi-blogs, weblogs summarizing 2channel threads for revenues from EC sites affiliate programs.
![Gon-san Shift-JIS art 1](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/827/2a4.jpg)
![Gon-san Shift-JIS Art 3 | FIRST /y ︵ Yili:::: ヘ | COMESメ ////...-i.) こ's. RO CK. . I ㄙ 丿](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/830/907.jpg)
![Gon-san Shift-JIS Art 2 : r. // ,ー,Tt entは キ了.. Fy](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/829/e61.jpg)
Gon-san Shift-JIS arts by 2channel users
Many of videos are reprinted to YouTube as usual.[7] Additionally, tens of fan art for Gon-san or Adult Gon are also posted to deviantART.[8]
2014 Anime & Official Merchandise
4 years later, Gon-san finally appeared on the 131st episode in the anime series aired on May 27th, 2014. At this timing, BANDAI announced the release of a figure of Gon's adult form on the web site[9] and the official Twitter account (shown, below). People got surprised at this 430mm figure which more than 70% of the height is occupied by the hair, and soon noticed that the file name of a picture in the page was "GONSAN.jpg" even though the page didn't mention to the online fame of Gon-san at all.
『HUNTER×HUNTER』から、自らを強制的に成長させたゴンの姿を全高約430mm(うち300mm以上毛髪)を超えるボリュームで立体化! HUNTER×HUNTER ゴン 『HUNTER×HUNTER』から
— プレミアムバンダイ (@p_bandai) May 28, 2014
Shortly after, Twitter users began posting a vast amount of photo collages utilizing pictures of Gon-san figure under the hash tag "Gon-san Crappy Collage Festival" (ゴンさんクソコラ祭り).[10] This online craze was covered by reddit[11], and reported by Kotaku.[12]
![#ゴンさんクソコラ祭り](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/858/78d.jpg)
![#ゴンさんクソコラ祭り](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/856/8a5.png)
![引っこ抜かれて、ゴンさんにだけついていく。](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/857/19d.png)
![食べにくそう。 #ゴンさんクソコラ祭り 正しい箸の持ち方](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/859/961.jpg)
![#ゴンさんクソコラ祭り](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/848/dd9.jpg)
![ゴンさんを満載、片舷20門、全40門のゴンさん発射管を誇る、重ゴン装艦へと改装された アルティメット北上さまだよ。 その威力は圧倒的と言われていたけれど、活躍する機会が微妙になかったんだよね。ちぇっ。 #ゴンさんクソコラ祭り #艦これ](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/852/45e.png)
Various Examples
Videos
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Photos
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Compilation
Illustrations
English is one of the personalities of Gon-san for many people because the 306th chapter images that leaked first on the web were English fansub version. So, Gon-san speaks in English in some illustrations even though those are drawn by Japanese users.
![ゴンさん](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/866/71d.jpg)
![ゴンさん](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/864/f77.jpg)
![ゴンさん This way .. follow me](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/862/b22.jpg)
![蝉ドン](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/873/f7a.jpg)
![ゴンさん](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/865/caa.jpg)
![無題 ばらないか) THIS WAY...](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/869/cf9.jpg)
![水見式](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/868/0fe.jpg)
![ゴンゴウさん](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/848/874/ec5.jpg)
![我ら、魔法少女隊!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/867/e55.jpg)
![二度とスルースキルを使えなくなってもいい!!それ程の決意と覚悟](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/848/875/261.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
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[1] Wikipedia – List of Hunter × Hunter characters # Gon Freecss
[2] Wikipedia – Hunter × Hunter
[3] Wikipedia – List of Hunter × Hunter characters # Chimera Ants
[4] pixiv – Search results for the tag ゴンさん
[5] Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag ゴンさん
[6] niconico Douga – Search results for the tag ゴンさん
[7] YouTube – Search results for the keywords ゴンさん OR Gon-san
[8] deviantART – Search results for the keywords Gon-san and Adult Gon
[9] Premium Bandai – HUNTER×HUNTER ゴン (Japanese)
[10] Twitter – Search results for the hashtag #ゴンさんクソコラ祭り
[11] reddit – New Gon-san trading figure is a deadly weapon / 05-28-2014
[12] Kotaku – Unforgettable Anime Figure Spawns a Memorable Meme / 05-29-2014
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