Review of Hunter x Hunter

HxH has a ridiculously high rating! Here, on MAL it is over 9.0, the anime itself is described as "mature shonen", "dark shounen" and "shonen/seinen hybrid", and, judging by amount of reviews, praised by many. Mishappen to believe this information, I decided to watch the series fully, by each arc my investment into the series went so low to the point that I just stopped caring. The last two arcs broke me completely. This review contains only SOME ridiculous points of the show. 1. GON'S BIGGEST FLAW or DEATHS AND MURDERS CAUSE NO EMOTIONAL IMPACT ON THE MAIN CHARACTER MOSTOF THE TIME
Gon grew up on the isolated island with his aunt as caregiver, who is definitely not abusive, Gon himself never had traumatic experiences, there are really no premises to his mental strength or extreme coping mechanisms and at the same time it is never explained or reflected by Gon in any way (if we do not count his reckless and fearless actions), making him look like some mentally indestructible Terminator in the first series. His first signs of fear were shown only when he faced Hisoka, this is the first we see his emotional crisis, but everything before that is brushed off.
No, the mention of the "cruel and mysterious Hunter world" does not explain anything and it seems like an excuse. How does one ignore that without any previous experience? The rest of the main cast seems to be emotionally damaged, but still Leorio does not look like a person who also has mental capacity to keep goofing around in the same manner after being so much stress. For "mature shonen", it is a VERY BIG FLAW. This made me unable to relate to this character for the whole series. His character does not change. Even after the last arc we cannot observe any mental agony, just like nothing happened.

2. KILLUA'S CHARACTER DESIGN
Killua is a 12 year old child of family of assassins, he went through intensive training of killing and resisting any poison. Lately we see that he knows the techniques of creating the afterimages of himself and ripping of hearts by making his fingers and growing out fangs for a short time. He also can endure the high amount of pain and voltage. His personality can characterized as dark and edgy. He joins the main cast immediately, ultimately becoming the best friend to Gon.
If you read this for the first time, this is not a joke, I am not trying to manipulate the words and definitions; this is a real main character, introduced in the first arc; this amount of information was dropped like a bomb. Dropping a lot of information is essential for this anime in general.

3. LOTS OF INFORMATION GETS RENDERED USELESS, IS REPEATED FOR NO REASON OR SPOONFED THROUGH NARRATION
If I recall correctly, this phenomenon was the key of Arena, Greed Island and Chimera arcs.
For Arena one, it is constant repeating of different techniques of newly introduced battle system, of course the techniques were described by users of those techniques.
For Greed Island, it was an explanation of how that magic Isekai-MMORPG-Cardboard game works and of card mechanics. Intuitively, I realized that there is no point to get into this stuff, as any bush piano would be explained anyway. Of course, all information about it becomes useless after the end of the arc.
Chimera ant arc. Anybody, who watched it, remember the narrator part, that transformed the animated series to audiobook or just a book, if you watch with subtitles.
a) Sad story of the dictator, which does not affect plot at all
b) Killua:
- Something is weird.
"Killua felt something is weird...".
3 minutes of in-anime time is stretched to several episode, mostly consisting of narrated exposition. All of a sudden, there is description of everybody's feelings.
c) Long explanation of atomic bomb and that is a cruel invention of humanity.
d) Relationship between villain and that girl.
Narrator is summoned in three cases:
a) To make a sudden plot twist, because information wasn't told from the beginning
b) To stretch time
c) To describe something what was failed to describe directly through animation
This was THE LAZIEST EVER WRITING I ever witnessed.

4. AUTHOR EITHER TRIES TOO HARD TO MAKE CHARACTERS FIT TO THE STORY OR THROWS THEM AWAY IMMEDIATELY
This anime has lots of characters, so much that this is insane. Some appear in interval of 50-60 episodes or even more, the most outrageous is disappearing of MAIN CAST Kurapika and Leorio, considering amount of backstory they were given. Both appear in the 3rd arc, then do not show up till the end, where Kurapika has a cameo role. It is even more bizarre that in the manga Kurapika again becomes the main character while Gon and Killua mess around on their own somewhere else.
Many characters were introduced to be forgotten an instant the arc ends. It can be noted in the Chimera ant arc especially. I could not care less, when each ant started to pop up with their own story, special abilities, some of them even shown sort of mental anguish, but this is was waaay too much. The way the characters were introduced made an impression of very bad school musical.

5. B MOVIE WITH LOTS OF REFERENCES
Considering amount of references and genre switches (deadly trials, battle tournament, criminal action, isekai-cardboard game, the invasion of aliens and politics-chase with sudden culmination of the series by final meeting of Gon's) throughout the anime, with poor execution and sudden switches, brought up in style of "by the way, your father left you the box" or "by the way, teleport him to Kaito", this whole series were like B movie with monster as cheap props (this one goes to most of the ant soldiers with terrible design).

Instead of B movie, I can give other good comparisons:
* The parody anime without comedy
* The DND game of 12 years old ADHD kids on crack
* The fever dream
* Romeo and Juliet help Anakin Skywalker to defeat Voldemort in Mortal Kombat
And one comparison from myself:
If you grew up in the third world country or in any similar environment, then you probably acknowledged with the concept of the street markets.
Be it stands, tents or stalls, they are filled with goods starting from food and ending with instruments and clothes. The latter part has quite low price and corresponding quality: clothes become raggedy way too fast, the threads are hanging out all over the place, just their appearance confirms how poorly made they are, and all of it is quite often accompanied by the attempt to reproduce the logo of some popular brand, which created some frankensteins as Abibas, Beebok, Nice, etc., though sometimes the creativity of makers goes even beyond that. I will attach the link to popular image hosting of an extreme example below.
https://i.imgur.com/jZ91lfC.jpg

If Hunter x Hunter was a piece of clothing or an accessory, this backpack would be its cousin.