Review of Hunter x Hunter

hunter x hunter was a solid 10 through the conclusion of the Yorknew City arc. The Phantom Trope were such an exciting villain to the story, and the wildcard Hisoka was brilliant from the very beginning. This was the peak of the show. Then came the Greed Island arc. It was good, but sadly not on the same level as the past story had been. Bisky and the dodgeball match practically save that season from being average. And then we had the Chimera Ants... possibly the worst executed thing I have seen since Game of Thrones season 8. It blows my mind how anyone can label thisarc as good. First off, 60 episodes is a joke. Stretching one plot over almost half of the show led to the obvious mistake of awful pacing and boring development. Focusing on the Queen Ant and her Officers for the first 25 episodes, then just throwing them away, was the biggest waste of time ever.

However, the biggest flaw of this arc is with the characters. Gon's character was absolutely ruined in this. I can just list off things he did that made 0 sense and didnt follow his character traits from the previous 70+ episodes. Being willing to kill an innocent girl? Taking hostages? Like what? But the biggest shit show with Gon out of everything is his interaction with Kite. A man he barely knew, and had almost no connection to, was his driving force the entire arc. Gon was willing to lose everything, including his father and his life, to avenge some dude he knew for a couple days...laughable. Remove Gon from the arc and its a decent storyline.

Meruem and Komugi obviously amazing, best thing by far to come out of the Chimera Ant crap show. Neferpitou's character was wasted and the writer figuratively spit on us by showing glimpses of redemption from her just to make her some bland predator who blindly follows the King

Fun show, decent show only however. Maybe if the show hadn't abruptly ended then the Chimera Ant arc wouldnt pull the show down so much... but sadly its all we got. Without a conclusion anywhere in the near future all we can do is reflect on how much potential this show had and subsequently threw away.

Oh and whos idea was it to not have Kurapika in the last 80 episodes? And to only have the Phantom Trope in like 5 of those 80 episodes? Cmon man!