Review of Hunter x Hunter

Hunter x Hunter is an anime that is carried by incredible characters, design, and ideas. The characters in this show are written incredibly well allowing you to see their psyche and what motivates them. You even come to love even the villains such as Meruem who at the beginning is the most hateful As*hole. People like Killua, Hisoka, Kurapika, and Leorio are incedibly well written and leave a ton of room for you to love them. Not just the characters make this show enjoyable. The art, voice acting, and sound design for a 2011 show are great making you feel like this show came outrecently. There are also some very well written arcs of this show engrossing you in the story.
However, this show does have a couple of relatively large flaws with this show and the main one is pacing. This show could have been 120 episodes and not 150. Hunter x Hunter finds it very hard to know what the watcher wants to see. They show you these awesome fights with great action, then leave the characters doing what feels like just waiting. For example, the first half of the chimera ant arc before the king is born, this show just drags on showing the watcher things that have almost no affect later. I finished this show an hour ago and I have already forgotten what 90% of what happened before the king was born. Also, some other arcs are kinda mediocre like the first 25 episodes of the show are very middle of the road.
Either way, this show has great action, art, voice acting, charm, and especially characters. I would give it an 8.5 but I'll round it up.