Review of Hunter x Hunter

I feel newer to the whole anime community the more I watch anime, and this creeps me out. I feel that I watch a lot of anime, but then there are people who have lives and are able to watch 100x more stuff than I could. Wait what? Where does this come from? Do you ever get tired of watching the same kind of stuff hundreds of times? These questions always pop up whenever I check someone's mal profile. I feel pathetic, any delusion I had for myself is nullified and I pull myself into a state of this emotional fuzziness... I have no sociallife anywhere in real life, since I go to school. I always complain about having homework, but there are people here who manage to work multiple part time jobs, and watch anime at the same time.

Hunter x Hunter -2011- is 148 episodes long... I project due the next day. I could never imagine anyone able to sleep for an hour and wake up before I could ever wake up, even if I had ever slept early. I managed to finish HxH 2011 in about a week, probably pretty average for anyone on this website. Lets check the math...148/7....hmm...21 episodes per day, my record for any existing series I had ever watched in my life.

But what is the secret behind this attachment? Shouldn't I be focusing on what is in front of me, like the project? Even I had no idea what I was feeling, and I probably still don't understand my attachment to this show today.

Shounen is for kids...Naruto is dumb hahahaha...elitist criticism is pretty common among younger anime fans-including myself-, and I see evidence of this everywhere, like Youtube comments, and comments on certain websites that turn into cat fights. I occasionally butt in into these certain online 'conversations,' just to act upon my youthful impulse of releasing tension that builds up in me.

' I grew out of the Shounen genre a long time ago.' As someone who is not yet considered as an adult, I do not understand the meaning behind this statement. I see these comments in reviews, claiming that a series is unrefined because it contains certain childish elements that make the series seem cliche, or not thought provoking and especially: frustrating. Younger fans such as myself would be enflamed by the sense of freedom, being able to establish an opinion for the first time, but the upbringing completely messes up any sense of sophistry

But what defines certain tastes? Do tastes even exist, or is really just the upbringing and regional/generational gaps that define what opinions everyone has in comparison to each other, on controversial issues? I feel very uncomfortable when I see such a divide, I want it to end but at the same time I contain an extremely high level of hypocrisy. Attempting to answer these rhetorical questions-ironically I'm calling -- rhetorical-is egotistical in respect. Unfortunately, I am also confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.

{{{{{Your senses are ablaze, and everything hits you at once. Tears roll down your cheeks, you feel wide awake while battling against the droop of your eyelids, trying to keep them open while the sky starts lighting up and the birds begin their routine chirping. What a sensation it has been...but has it really ended? It feels all too real to come to a close. In 30 minutes you have to walk to the bus stop, but the feeling of leaving something you love behind is heart wrenching. The memories created are irreplaceable, the young soul feels at ease. Shounen is the next step in exploration, the medium expands your horizon, Hxh 2011 is the nutrition that fuels what your future tastes will become, and this can apply to whatever your 'first love' is.}}}}}

I feel that I grew from watching this show; although many people who have not had the fortune of watching this show in the early peak stages of adulthood, or those who are too young to understand what it means to 'form one's opinion,' may think otherwise while watching this show in their respective time periods of their life. The young mind is constantly absorbing 'wisdom and experience' while the adult has a rather 'fixed mindset'. Learn from experience rather than from the 'sages and bards,' that chirp their 'conventional wisdom.'

Opinions on this show are split into 5 categories
1.HxH 2011 is a sophisticated take on the Shounen genre, and is not cliche in a certain sense..{insert list}...
2.The music and art, the characters, the plot, would smash 10/10.
3.Childish in the sense that Hxh is a shounen series, something that everyone can grow out of rather quickly.
4.OMG the best series ever, despite the flaws, the good stuff about the series makes up for the flaws.
5.Meh, its alright; I don't really see anything special here, not my cup of tea, because I have watched so much anime and the feelings I would have had if I had watched this series early, is nullified so I cannot rate this anime high.

And finally, here is what -I- enjoyed about this show.

Story - 6 - mainly because the story isn't completely new, but it is most certainly creative in a sense of how many episodes that the series is able to tell the story in, and not drag it on for too long.

Art - 7 - Bet everyone knows who studio MADHOUSE is...the series isn't completely trying to be flashy, the art is respectable in the Shounen sense.

Character - 8 - No, I do not ship anyone in this series; I like to see the characters interact, and the interactions are gold...this show elevates friendship to the next level, but only on the emotional level.

Enjoyment - 10 - This show has been the most enjoyable series I have ever watched, I mean, I binged watch this series for a whole week so that is saying something

Recommendation: I highly recommend this series.