Review of Hunter x Hunter

It is hard to review this anime since it is not complete - at least the manga is not. However, I will say I enjoyed this quite a bit. It felt a lot like Yu Yu Hakusho, but more lighthearted for the first half of the series. It was an adventure in every sense of the word, and a charming one at that. The second half of HxH feels almost like a completely different show, with a much more serious tone. The pacing was pretty bad sometimes, and I did skip some episodes that seemed pointless to watch. There was also a narrator, and Ithink this was a mistake. The audience is smart enough to know what is going on; we don't need somebody to point out the obvious. I realize that there is a narrator in the manga for this portion of the story, but I think the director should have scrapped this idea and just let the words of the narrator be heard in the thoughts of the actual characters themselves. That being said, some of the episodes in the CA arc are extraordinary. It was really hit or miss in this arc.

I would probably give this an 9.5/10 when considering all of the arcs put together.

* Hisoka & Netero are incredibly well-written characters