Review of Hunter x Hunter

There is no greater way to passively generate "helpful" clicks for your reviews than dumping on something universally liked (or vice versa). It doesn't matter the quality of the review, as long as you indicate displeasure at the "pacing" or the "character development" you get a free pass. The inept mind most surely loves their little catchphrases. So I am going to say something controversial AND brave... I reallly really like Hunter x Hunter. I know, whacky opinion right? Yoshihiro Togashi is probably a genius. Certainly within the realm of manga he is anyway. The creativity on display within Hunter x Hunter is from mypurview of the shounen genre is matched by few. The setting and world, Nen and how all the chess pieces are placed on the board for each arc is glorious. Togashi regularly sacrifices the battle prowess of his MCs in any given arc to allow victory to be harder won through tactics and thought. Killua and Gon are amazingly talented, but they NEED to be because everyone they come up against in their journey is similarly so. That is the primary appeal of Hunter x Hunter. The arcs are distinctly structured and multiphasic and the conclusions are regularly a mix of satisfactions.

But everyone already knows this anyway... I can't say that Hunter x Hunter is completely my aesthetic and taste and while I think the Ant arc is fantastic and uses it's time wonderfully, it is also too long for my own sensibilities. My personal favourite arc may be yorknew, because Kurapika was the MC we always deserved. Now my only wish is to see the next part of the manga adapted because the following material produced by togashi trounces all before it...