Review of Hunter x Hunter

After hearing how great and perfect of an anime this was, I was very excited to watch it and join the ELITE club of those who had the PRIVELAGE of watching HxH. DO NOT BELIEVE THE HYPE. This was false advertising. I never wanted to stop watching an anime so much. It was literally so boring and felt like filler episodes the whole time. I forced myself to keep watching this horrible story because I wanted to get to the "good part" that put this anime at such a prestigious title among all other shonen... It never appeared. This was absolutely the most overhyped anime ever, and itwas horrible. You couldn't pay me enough to watch this show.

The characters were superficial; there was no depth in any of them. The arcs were supposed to be amazing but each one didn't even connect with each other. At one point, the anime turned into a card game to "catch them all". These arcs, the building blocks; THE FOUNDATION of an anime story; just felt so random and very filler-like.

Here are some problems I had with it:

They didn't push the main story.

There was no real in-depth character development throughout the series.
- This was especially annoying when we were supposed to understand the weight of specific moments in the show about characters in which we knew NOTHING about, except the fact that they had less than 20 minutes of combined screen time???

After each arc, the characters basically disappeared from the story (Kurapika??? Phantom Troupe???)

The fights were not great at all in this show.

And the most annoying thing, the arcs were HORRIBLE.

- Hunter Exam arc: 99 cent store Chunin exams but ON SALE without anything exciting. First, they walked for a few episodes, and then they ran for a few episodes. After, they cooked. Then they play mini games. Lastly, they play a game of hide and seek with no interesting encounters.

- Zoldyck Family arc: They went to Killua's house to pick him up.

- Heaven's Arena arc: Just trained and barely even covered the actual heaven's arena tournament.

- Yorknew City arc: Cool "bad guy group" was on the loose. They had some cool interactions. Kurapika, someone we were supposed to feel bad for, had some cool screen time. However, in an arc where background, character development, and an in-depth understanding of Kurapika is crucial, it was lack luster because we never learned anything about him. The Phantom Troupe was a cool idea, but they just disappear after this. They don't have any depth to them. They're supposed to be super powerful but never really do anything. Overall, this was the best arc in the anime, but it was below average (AT BEST) in general. If you didn't find this arc interesting, you definitely won't like anything else here-on-out about this anime.

Greed Island arc: Worst arc in the anime. The characters move to a new area where they really just collect cards. How is this interesting at all? No connection to a story. They jump in a PC, collect cards, and then jump out.

Chimera Ant arc: Overhyped and super random. It starts out with no context and just a sudden problem for some reason. The main bad guys (chimera ants) were super random and just became a problem in the story for no reason at all. There was a super important connection the audience was supposed to feel but the main character, Gon, literally just met these characters; how are we supposed to fall in love with characters we barely know? The pacing was horrible. There was like 4 episodes for 4 steps at one point. The main bad guy (the king guy) looked promising but played checkers the whole time. Very boring fights. (Spoiler maybe?? Doesn't matter, don't watch this anime) Gon has his big moment with a generic power-up that literally looked HORRIBLE. He was supposed to be feeling super angry with intense feelings of darkness, revenge, and PURE RAGE of violence and betrayal.... and all he did was grow a few of feet and grew his hair out. If pure rage, hatred, DESTRUCTION, is supposed to look like Gon on this power up, then we have to move away from random evil power ups in the industry. In the end, there was no point of this arc. Just super random and very superficial.

Hunter Chairman Election arc: The arc really just covered some rigged voting system.

In a story where it's about Gon trying to find his dad, he barely gets any clues at all; just at the end of the show (last arc) for the most part. There was no flow at all to the story. It seemed like 6 filler arcs put together to make the "best shonen anime ever". I really have nothing good to say about this anime. It never got really good; I sort of just pushed through because of the hype that just led to disappointment. It was the most boring thing I've ever watched. Watching paint dry would be more interesting than watching HxH because at least the paint would dry quicker, and you would be done within a few hours.

Basically, this 9+/10 rating is not doing the actual show justice. If anything, it's lucky to get a 4/10. I do not recommend watching this show.