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Hunter x Hunter

Review of Hunter x Hunter

6/10
July 27, 2021
6 min read
6 reactions

HXH for me is an ok series, I found myself having some nice times watching the series but nothing that made it to my top 5 and here is my genuine opinion and I will try my best to give it the rating it should. I will start off by rating every arc one by one, exam - chairman election arc. The exam arc I think that the exam arc had a very bad pacing, here is an example and not just an opinion. One of the episodes in the exam arc the whole episode focused on Leorio trying to guess if a woman wasa woman or a men so he could advance to the next room, this whole episode focused on Leorio thinking to himself with some gags and a very quick backstory at the end of the episode.
I myself did not enjoy this very much and it kinda bumped down some stars for me. I would also like to add that hxh has very overpowered characters, what I like about an anime is that the characters grow power as each arcs move on but yet Killua could KO everyone and Gon if not some beat ups could get back up in an instant.I like when anime such as One Punch Man do that but that being the plot of the series not an actual shonen anime where they have to grow their strengths to beat people. Killua's mansion arc, going to be a quick one did not have much problems with it showed the characters growing in order to push the gate and Gon getting beat up by the gatekeeper while trying to get in was overall one of my favorite things in this anime, however pacing was still a huge problem but I wouldn't mind if the anime kept on being like that overall a good arc I found myself enjoying.
This was kinda ruined for me a bit tho because the next arc they completely forgot Kurapika and Leorio and just had them bought up way later on, they had such good character stories I wanted the anime to explore on but yet it took them so long that you kinda start to loose interest. Tower arc, I would have loved this arc if it wasn't for the pacing yet again, it had Gon and Hisoka fight and yet it didn't show his true potential and just like with Leorio and Kurapika you loose interest (not on yorknew city arc yet but they repeated that and didn't even show hisoka's and chrollo fight and it was the most disappointing scene on anime history ever.) Explored nen but I found myself thinking of it as a very confusing power system but maybe that's just for me so I won't take any points off.
Yorknew city arc, actually not that bad pretty amazing if I should say so myself I loved the phantom troupe members they we're all so creatively created and I love their unique powers, and now the scene which i mentioned before Hisoka vs Chrollo was so disappointing I completely lost interest after a few episodes and it totally killed the whole suspense and build up it had to it and that kinda ruined it for me since yorknew is my favorite arc of the series. Greed island arc, overall just a waste it felt like filler and the characters didn't even need to go to Greed Island even the characters said so themselves so I think it's pretty self explanatory why it's bad + phantom troupe came to greed island just because it kinda felt like they had to.
Chimera ant arc, this arc I heard so many people loved it and I was exited for it, I was actually exited for it despite the previous arcs disappointing me in some way however I did not like it that much. I actually loved the whole humans are worse than chimera ant's kind of complex and it was a pretty cool thing that represented humanity as a whole and I really enjoyed that.
The beginning had such a bad pace and I found myself sleeping in most scenes so many times but I still kept my faith that my expectations would be turned around.
Than came kite's death, again this was just a waste of character potential, I feel like they could have done so much with this character yet they did not, this was just another example of killing a character early and this goes to my next point. Kite being reborn was the most confusing shit i've seen on anime, I know about how his weapon lets him be reborn as the closest thing that's being born but his weapon makes no sense it has no exact power level and it just feels like random junk thrown together, I had to google multiple times the reason for his reincarnation and it's the most unsatisfying thing I have seen on anime to this day, the chimera ants we're also insanely strong and it wasn't even fun. It had one of the most confusing power levels and the chimera ants felt like goofy filler characters at times and it felt like random barf thrown together. I did like Meruem learning how to become human but I couldn't even focus when things like that we're filling up my mind and I couldn't even enjoy it when all I could think about was "what am I watching?" Adult Gon was such a cool scene however seeing from the damage it does it will never be explored again which is another big disappointing thing for me but I actually don't mind it much, it had such great writing.
Last but not least Chairman election arc, no problems at all felt like a good "ending" and I loved how Leorio expressed his feelings towards Gon and how their friendship was special and it was pretty nice to see, however I expected so much from Gon's reunion with his dad and that was not what I wanted at all, it felt so rushed for me and I did not enjoy it because I had so many scenarios on my head of how they could have met yet it was just gon meeting him at the election so another big disappointing thing for me, this arc is on my top 3 first being Yorknew city killua's mansion than election which says a lot because chimera ant arc is way more important and longer.
I think an anime should have a great introduction and make you want to watch what happens next but this was not the case and I kept watching because of the hype chimera ant arc had and I was midly curious, overall rating, 7-8/10. Should you watch it? Watch hunter exam arc and if that doesn't catch your attention do not watch it whatsoever, because an anime should have the basic key terms for being good a well self explanatory well written introduction, answer: no do not watch it but if your taste might be different than mine watch exam arc and figure it out for yourself.

Mark
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