Review of Hunter x Hunter
This is a very fun anime if you turn your brain off. I enjoyed this one, especially towards the beginning. There are 6 arcs in this shonen, and the quality of the show varies wildly between them. Id say there are 2 halves of the show, with the show massively dropping in quality past the yorknew city arc. The characters are a little generic but they are fun to watch. Hisoka is by far the best part of the show. He is an unpredictable pedo clown and he serves as a villain I guess? Whatever it is, hes great. The main cast is okay, albiet abit one note. Leorio is fun, but hes a bit one note. Kurapika is just the average revenge arc guy. Killua is likable. Gon, our protagonist is kinda like spongbob but stubborn. His power level throughout the show literally makes no sense. He can keep up with killua in the first arc because hes a child of the forest i guess, and also can beat up larry wheels without the use of nen in the second arc. According to some people hes also some great anti-hero or something??? Like fr if gon is a great anti-hero, then spongebob is the new walter white. I also think that people give too much credit to the "nen" system which to me, seems tacked on and lazy. Its literally your own superpower with "drawbacks" and the show towards the end doesn't even follow its own nen rules with alluka. Its very obvious that the show created nen AFTER the first arc finished because its just a plot hole that NONE of the hunter applicants besides the nen trained ones knew about it when there are nen-ed up publicly broadcasted battles in the major arc after. The phantom troupe is mostly randomly computer generated anime characters, but there are a few cool ones I guess.
The show really takes a plunge when we get to greed island, which was one of the biggest wastes of time imaginable. The villian of this arc was so bland, and the ending of it was dumb.
One of the largest issues of this arc was that it destroyed the shows sense of scale, and this issue is never resolved. There was also large amounts of exposition for a place that will never be returned to since it was in a video game.
The chimera ant arc has the slowest pacing in the show. They strectched maybe like 30 episodes into 60, mindbogglingly slow episodes, especially towards the ending part. This arc wastes your time unlike any other. Morel was in the smoke for like 5 episodes. Random ants appear just for the sake of wasting our time like cheetu. Komugi was also so contrived, it was hard to take the ending of this arc seriously. Ants having people-memories when it was convenient is also some plot bullshit,
The election arc is really boring, as it keeps cutting back to the bard of hunters and literally no one cares about them.
Overall i'd give the first half of this show like an 8, and the second half a 4, averaging at 6. This is one of those shows that gets worse the more you think about it, but if you can refrain from that and just watch the material then it is a fun show. It suffers from some shonen bullshit, such as exposition and narration problems, and battles where they just stand there and explain their tactics to each other and also scale problems, but it kept me entertained and im not going to lie to yall I had fun.