Review of Hunter x Hunter

0/10 - Don't waste your time! After several long weeks, finally managed to watch all the episodes of this terrible show. Without giving away any spoilers, I can tell you there is little substance to this show. This show is all over the place and the main character is a stubborn kid with no real focus on accomplishing his main goal. We are introduced to new characters throughout the entire show and none of their stories are fully flushed out. There are often times when the main story line has something interesting happening, but then for 3-4 episodes we are stuck watching random side charactersover think minor details. By the time we get back to the main story all the tension that kept you on the edge of your seat is gone and the resolution is often anti-climatic.

You know a show is poorly written when they have to waste minutes and sometimes even entire episodes to actually explain why a certain action would have the consequence that it does. A good show would set up the conditions for its "magic" and then through action show what happens.

Example: Death Note. We are told about the rules of the notebook and then through out the show we see it put to action. The narration doesn't have to literally tell us that killing certain people will result in the protagonist being discovered as a murders. We are trusted as an audience to just know that. In Hunter X Hunter we are held by the hands and literally told what the consequences of an action would be, nothing is left for the viewer to figure out.