Review of Hunter x Hunter
I will go through every single aspect of rating part. Story: is great! BUT! One big but is way they have represented it in anime. Every single event is over-extended. I'm pretty sure the main story would fit in 64 episodes. Its terrible when you have something interesting going on, but it gets boring super-fast because it takes like 20 episodes to get to the point and then, after 5 minutes, main event ends. Art: I will take it as animation. Disgusting. Same as story, every single fight last for 45min, while real fight lasts for maybe 15-20 seconds. Its frustrating to have every single fighting movefollowed up by 10 minutes of backstory, thinking and whatever.
Sound: While OST in general was decent, listening to 2-3 same songs over 148 episodes gets annoying so fast.
Characters: Maybe best part of the anime are characters. I can't recall a single character being "out of the character", having unreal develpoment or being annoying in general. Every major character have its own flaws and positive sides, and by the end of the anime, I still had sympathy for most of them.
Enjoyment: Narrator is most annoying thing I've ever heard in my life. He is explaining every single detail that is on screen. Like, hello, I have eyes too! Other things, as said in Story and animation part, it is EXTREMELY OVER-EXTENDED! If they've cut-off all unimportant things, flashbacks, delaying events, it would be probably best anime ever. But like this, its extremely boring. One example: Probably best event in the anime was about to happen. End of that episode, everyone is prepared to go on, clash is about to happen! THIRTY-FIVE EPISODES LATER: IT STILL HASN'T EVEN STARTED. Enough...
Overall: 5. Praise for characters, story was meant to be good, but marketing did the thing with delaying everything. In my opinion, this is most OVERRATED anime of all times, and if you, dear reader come across this review, for the love of God, skip watching Hunter x Hunter!