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Hunter x Hunter

Review of Hunter x Hunter

9/10
Recommended
February 29, 2020
4 min read
10 reactions

[Spoiler Warning] Flawless adaptation, Hunter X Hunter is one of the best shonen manga and Madhouse adaptation elevated it to be the best one in anime. Consistent every chapter and without almost any form of filler is a pleasure to watch. Story: Hunter x Hunter story is about a boy searching for his father and nothing more around the main story than that besides spoilers in the manga. Hunter x Hunter REAL story is around his arcs, is an arc based series rather than other ones like naruto or one piece where they have a main story. But that doesn't make hxhinferior, at the contrary it has imo the best story arc ever created in shonen (chimera ant) and what makes it better than naruto for example is that this series have sense in every way, almost everything that happens in hxh have sense (literally almost everything, Togashi even took the work to create the most polished battle system ever) and that is a plus considering shonen deus ex machinas. Another thing that is a plus is that like One Piece hxh plot feels connected and they are not arcs just for the sake of make more arcs.
I give 9 in this section just because Greed Island, a "short" arc that stills feels dragged because all the unnecesary information to advance the plot in this one, plus forgetteable villians (is like skypea in one piece but shorter and the second half still doesnt get good)
Let me write one thing i just remember, Chimera Ant story arc is the most interesting arc i saw in shonen, full of interesting thoughts about humanity and how we could act if a superior species apppears to erradicate us and what happens if that superior species takes our good and bad traits. The only thing that i have with this arc is 2 imo bad episodes. Imagine what a masterpiece it is. 9/10

Art: Madhouse are GODS, 148 chapters with consistent quality, climax moments in the series animated to perfection, just look at *SPOILERS* Ryodan requiem for Uvogin in 99 and 2011 and see the difference for yourself *SPOILERS* is a pleasure to watch every chapter, just thanks to god that Madhouse is real and they were the ones that animated this series. 10/10

Sound: Chimera ant arc has the best ost ever made in shonen and Ending 2 and 5 are easily top 10 endings in anime, besides that at the beginning of the story the ost is repetitive and misused a lot (literally there is a happy song next to one of the most emotional scenes in the series), but that are small things it is still one of the best ost ever made for a shonen
Just something that i remind... Please take attention to killua footsteps, in one moment in special is the only time they can be heared. 9/10

Character: Killua Zoldyck and the Chimera Ant main antagonist are best protagonist (along with Gintoki) and villian made in the genre period, then you have your typical long running series memorable and forgetteable characters, it isn't like One Piece where almost anyone is extremely charismatic and memorable but almost all of them have character development and someones like the ones i just mentioned have character growth... something that isn't very common in shonen. 9/10

Enjoyment: I didn't enjoy the first arc just because my friends gave me the hype that i was going to see "the best series ever"... I remember when killua thinks that he have the same age as gon so because of that he thinks about make a firendship with him, I compare this to how Johnny and Gyro meet and the later one was vastly superior than hxh one. But after that arc i started to enjoy hxh a lot until Greed Island that i just wanted to skip... Then it becomes the best shonen anime after Greed Island...
Dont see this as "The best series ever" hxh isn't that. But without a doubt after chapter 73 becomes at least a god tier shonen series, nothing to envy to other ones like Fullmetal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, Gintama or even One Piece manga. 9/10

Overall: Madhouse adaptation of Hunter x Hunter is without a doubt a shonen masterpiece elevating the manga a lot, fixing a lot of issues that it has and animating the best arc ever made in the genre flawlessly, it isnt the best series ever hell even the best anime ever. but it is one of the best (for me the best) shonen animation ever made until this point. 9/10

Mark
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