Review of Hunter x Hunter

There are a few words that are capable of describing HxH, one of those words is hype. Easily one of the most enjoyable shonens out there. As a word of warning, some people may consider the first bunch of episodes slow and maybe even not enjoyable, but, while I understand that saying "watch it until x episodes, it gets better" is stereotypical, it's completely worth it for HxH. While the story isn't always told in the best way possible, when it's good, it's great. The chimera ant arc quite possibly encapsulates all of what makes HxH good and bad at the same time. It'll give you a reasonto be excited and it hypes up every encounter to the best of it's ability, and at the same time it'll take a while to get to those parts, way more time than it has any right to. It's very common to have a moment be ruined by having too much dialogue interrupting the action, even when some of my favorite characters were present, they were ruined when it quite literally took a whole episode to explain their abilities, and to rub salt on the open wound, they don't do a good job of explaining these abilities anyways. The common theme is that it will over complicate things that are actually simple to understand. It doesn't happen as much as I might make it sound, but it stands out. But the fights are easily some of the best I've seen and easily make up for any of the short comings, completely enjoyable when the action gets going.