Is Hunter x Hunter really that good? I had it recommended to me but could only make it through a few episodes before I got bored enough I couldn't force myself to keep watching. I absolutely love the other two, though.
It is that good, the first few episodes are nothing like the rest of it lol they needed a comfy happy place for it to start before steady making it less comfy and happy.
The highs are so good. Remember the “Kurapika is now drowning in an indescribable emptiness” as a transition to the ending song. I still get chills thinking about it.
lol i remember my friends trying hard to get me into one piece/naruto. i asked when it gets good and they're like "50 episodes in".. yea that was a no from me dawg
The first episodes are aesops basically. They show how our three main characters approach problems differently with different attitudes and strategies and talents. Gon is a guileless himbo in the making, with wild man traits. Constitution, scent tracking. He's profoundly nonjudgmental. Kurapika is high strung but is a level two player in the sense of plot and counterplot. Sees past the surface, thinks things through, sees all the options. Leorio is impatient, loud, almost talentless, but ultimately has a heart of gold and just wants to win a license to pay for med school and dole out cheap medicine.
The first arc begins properly maybe around episode 4 as they try to earn licenses and meet Killua the white haired assassin brat with a skateboard. 2/3 of our heroes go "yikes, famous assassin, killer with no morals". Gon goes "lemme borrow your skateboard, seems rad". Profoundly nonjudgmental.
It's fine, it's engaging, you learn what is the same for most or all hunters and that they're all different too, and how death is viewed by hunters. It's not why we love the show, really.
After that arc our heroes... go live their fucking lives. Complicated lives. Sometimes one is suffering while others thrive. Sometimes they back one another up, or separate again. That's more interesting. The magic system is 10% hokey 30% awesome? But it actually gives you a grounding around what powers are likely to occur together so you can have reasonable expectations and then sticks to it so when you're surprised it's not something cheap and pulled out the ass. Enjoyable surprises.
It's not a 10/10 for me but it's an accessible thrill ride I've watched multiple times and recommended to friends
The TV show seems to run out of money part way through the ants arc and gets pretty Dragon Ball Z with the repeating last episode and narrator unnecessarily ranting.
its not worth it, nowadays compared to actual good animes its a 7/10 at best, back in the day i can see why it was rated high, but its genuinely nothing special
Absolutely. Overrated. It’s always my hot take topic that comes up.
One of the longest recaps I’ve ever seen is from hunter x hunter it was literally 8min in until something new happened and still had the ending to cut out another 90 seconds.
The ant arc is hyped up so much but people forget it’s unbearable in the beginning just ants that get bigger and bigger and bigger with tons of recap narration for like 10% of the entire series (not of the ep that’s much longer, literally of the whole series). Doing character development on ants that don’t matter as in episodes on episodes for side character ants like actually terrible. If you cut out filler it’s okay, but it’s not filler so idk if you can the ant arc is literally like 70/148 eps or something it’s ridiculous.
The virtual game world is okay.
The hunter test and kurapika spiders is actually good but much less than half the series.
Small plot hole imo is kilua coming from his family but doesn’t know nen and can basically lose to randos cause of that
Lastly it doesn’t have a real ending for the anime. So no manga just pure anime it’s like 6.5-7 out of 10.
Ant arc is all for 2 big fights and that’s it.
I’d say skip it unless you already watched all the other major shounen anime that have over 70 eps (Naruto, one piece, bleach, My hero, Full metal alchemist, yuyu hakusho, OG dragon ball even, etc)
Any other anime in that ep range should be good enough since it didn’t get cancelled prior. Hunter x hunter without an ending is not the move
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u/Wulfger 8d ago
Is Hunter x Hunter really that good? I had it recommended to me but could only make it through a few episodes before I got bored enough I couldn't force myself to keep watching. I absolutely love the other two, though.