Review of Hunter x Hunter

I started watching this anime because my randomly assigned college roommate suggested it was the best anime ever made and that I should see it. It's worth noting I've seen close to all of the major influential shounen such as the entire Dragonball series, Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood, the entire naruto series including Shippuden, and other animes that I wouldn't consider shounen but classics that most people have seen in the anime world. The reason I state my anime watching experience is because when I watched this show I consistently observed parts of the anime that seemed to have been ripped or "stolen" from the classics.Now I suppose you could make the argument that ripping parts of an anime to make a new anime is kind of like influence, but it seemed excessive at times. The end of the anime, in general, seemed like it stole a lot of its content from the Dragonball series which caused me to resent this anime in the end. The fight scenes at times did have originality, but most of the time it just seemed like I was watching scenes that the writer was specifically trying to rip fighting parts from other popular shounen just to be safe that the fighting scenes were up to par. The plotline wasn't particularly original in any sense, but I was at least moderately entertained when thinking about the plot which is why I gave the storey a 6. The main character and side characters Gon and Killua seemed unoriginal to me when thinking about the Dragonball series. Gon just seems like a ripoff of Goku or Gohan in his adventurous nature and the way in which he interacts with different people in the series. The old wise hunter master also seems like a ripoff from the old man in the tekken series, but his fighting abilities were entertaining to watch so that saved the characters from being a 0 to a 5 for me. I enjoyed this series to a decent degree as I was viewing it in a very difficult time in my life when I was taking difficult classes and socially wasn't doing too well since I moved to a new city to go to school and I needed something to distract me from all the bullshit and this series has a large number of episodes so that was a benefit for sure.

Overall, I am not sure why people praise this anime so much on this website. It seems to me like most of these 10/10 reviewers haven't seen other shounen and aren't seeing the same unoriginal content in this show that I am seeing. 7/10