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Hunter × Hunter (2011) marries top-tier shonen writing with genre-hopping arcs, cerebral Nen battles and singularly terrifying villains, all while gleefully sabotaging every tired battle-manga cliché. Its only real stumbles are a sluggish opening pair of episodes, sporadic music misfits and a brief mid-Chimera Ant lull (eps 89-98) plus two deliberately stretched palace-invasion episodes. Still a flat-out masterpiece whose daring, psychological Chimera Ant climax towers above anything else in modern shonen.

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