Review of Hunter x Hunter

I hold the unpopular opinion that Hunter x Hunter is awful. Most of the reasons people praise it, I believe, have a weak basis due to generalizing events and cherry picking as well. For example, Gon. People like to paint him as a conflicted character, but he has mostly bland characterisitics with some inconsistencies thrown in. The Yorknew City arc helps illustrate my point. Most of the internal monologue and dialogue is hamfisted (like when Kurapika first explained Nen contracts), as it seems Togashi doesn't know how to deal with exposition. It also doesn't help that he is terrible at tone shifts; the tone is allover the place here and mostly comes off as edgy(Feitan likes to torture people for fun and it is thrown in the viewers faces a lot).

The Chimera Ant arc is extremely flawed. The largest issue is the narrator. It is god-awful writing skill if you have to directly explain what is happening to the viewers, especially when we can see it for ourselves; the narrator explains things that we can see on screen. There are also more terrible character cues here, like when the narrator had to flat out explain Shoot is a coward. Direct characterization is an awful writing practice since it is lazy.

Togashi does excessively explain. It also happens in the manga haha!there's like pages of literally paragraphs in each text bubble. HxH also does not seem to know what it wants to be. It does not have a clear concept or something. It does not have it's own characteristic. Does not have a novelty aspect about it. Sure naruto has it's flaws but you get a gist of their world, their ninjas, and whatnot but HxH is like sorta a mix of things and u don't really know what a hunter is until way way later on where they briefly touch on it.

There is a lot more flaws.