What is the worth of Hunter x Hunter?
It is made of excellence and deserves to be on our Enlightenment list.
62.5%
5
It is too unremarkable to be on on either of our lists.
0.0%
0
It is vastly overrated and deserves to be on our Relations list.
12.5%
1
I have not read this manga because the Chimera Ant arc looks like a draft. Brb, gonna watch the anime then return to the manga.
25.0%
2
8 votes
| Hunter x Hunter is now up for vote. Decide if it will attain its Enlightenment license or... wait a minute. Didn't I just write something exactly like this? Uhh. Just remember this is for the manga, not the anime. RULES: 1. You can only vote for a title if you've finished watching/reading it. You must've read or watched at least 60% of the published content for unfinished titles. There might be exceptions for very long finished titles as they are decided on a case by case basis, but usually amount to more than half of the published content. 2. Write your vote at the very top of your comment. 3. Below your vote, give a substantial explanation to back it up. It doesn't have to be lengthy; it just needs to cover the points you want to make. 4. If you have only read/watched the adaption/source material of the respective nominee, please state so in your post. 5. It will take a minimum of 5 votes for either Enlightenment or Relations to make it into any of the lists as an anime (3 votes for manga). If it fails to reach that, it will be deemed Invalid. 6. The votes for Enlightenment will have to outnumber the votes for Unremarkable and Relations for it to be included in our list; the same goes for Relations. If it fails to reach that, it will be deemed Unremarkable. 7. Behave yourself. We accept discussions and debate, not flaming and incoherent fanboy/fangirl behavior. 8. The fate of the poll will lie in the hands of the officers if it turns out that there are more first time voters than regulars or the series cannot be gauged by both voting and discussions. This polling process will last 14 days. BEGIN |
Ducat_RevelNov 23, 2014 8:27 PM
| OPTION 1 - ENLIGHTENING Well, first of all, I want to express my happiness that we finally get some poll again, not to mention 4 manga polls consecutively, yey =3 Let's see if we can get another manga poll coming soon. KINGDOOOOM Now, to the Hunta Hunta mango: HxH started off with normal shounen setting. We got a cheerful kid as protagonist that started off a journey of endless adventure to find his father. Along the way, he meet up with two dudes and a trap, befriend them and forming some kind of a team. They have a share of adventure, bonding time, parting ways, etc. Based on this short summary, HxH sounds like cliche shounen, no doubt. What makes HxH different is the execution, credit to the lazy-ass Togashi. There are a lot of detail in HxH. In most of the fights, we got to see the sequence of the characters' thought, their tactics, their psyches, their observations, everything related to each and every move they make. This kind of details are furthermore imbued by the complex Nen system which allow the creation of powers with a set on rule. Not to mention all the rules and items in the Greed Island arc where Togashi basically create a new MMORPG from scratch. The best thing about HxH is that all those details actually makes sense/ follow a series of logic in the execution throughout the series. This is something really incredible honestly, considering most manga, not just battle shounen, doesnt have that much thought put in the detail and the logic behind them. Unlike most decent series with extravagant and abundant detail like... Mahouka.... wait, mahouka is too bad for comparison, but you know my gist. Togashi actually use his brain for all the logic behind most action and speech in the series, with some consideration to the psychological analysis too. Ofc, there are also some fucked up thing in HxH that togashi put in it, or how sometimes it looks like togashi doesnt really care on the character design and just make some weird ass characters because he's too lazy. All in all, HxH can be said, arguably, as one of the best battle shounen series ever created, along with Konjiki no Gash and FMA imo. Apart from some strange shit and crappy art (especially in the CA arc), HxH is an engaging series with incredible detail and plot story, not to mention a series of wonderful characters, from a psycho shota, a cute yaoi waifu, a vengeful trap, a sadistic pedo, and many more. |
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| Option 1 - Enlightening A masterpiece among shonen, Hunter X Hunter takes elements from the likes of Dragon Ball Z and its predecessor, Yu Yu Hakusho, only to end up doing something completely different. Storytelling is straightforward in presentation, making the actual story easy to understand, but as the story progresses subplot upon subplot is added with extreme subtlety yet with a solid enough presence to make the readers not forget that they exist (I'm looking at you, One Piece). Characters stray far, far away from the archetypes they start off as, adding layer upon layer of complexity (and more importantly, humanity) to their actions. Villains who waste time doing what villains in cliche shonen normally do (standing there and talking forever) are punished brutally, and this manga also has one of my favorite group of villains ever (the Phantom Troupe). It's this manga's themes where it shines the most though; from a missing father figure's impact, friendship, revenge, what it means to be human, chemical warfare, morally gray ideals...and I can go on and on, but you get the idea. The manga's artwork isn't the best and it could certainly do with less Hiatus X Hiatus, but a great shonen it is and to the Enlightenment List it goes. |
| "The more inexperienced you are, the more you want to show off." - Oreki, Hyouka |
| Lazy copypaste from the aniem thread, but I guess it's ok since this is basically the same: Option 1 - Enlightening HxH is probably one of the most well-written action Shounen in the past few decades and it greatly deserves to be on our list for several aspects: 1. The characters initially appear as stereotypes, but are delightfully varied and detailed upon closer inspection with many classic characters that appear to share "good tropes" having plenty of ambigious traits and vice versa. One can also not udnerestimate the amount of empathy Togashi puts into his characters and their rather realistic course of action they take during the entire series. 2. The plot that - just like the characters - takes on a familiar shape at first but then deconstructs, undermines, subverts and mixes them up so that they usually take a more realistic, gritty form. The only real downside is the artwork at times, but given the quality of the writing this is not that much of a problem as one is usually too immersed to be *that* annoyed about it. |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Option 1 Been in kind of a slump, but I'll try to come up with something serviceable hopefully. Hunter X Hunter is one of the best Shonen Jump series of all time, if not shonen period. From the impeccably sharp action thriller of Yorknew City, the elaborate socio-economic schemes in Greed Island, the scathing and thought-provoking concepts about humanity and war in Chimera Ant and the tense and sharp-witted politics of the Election and so much more, Hunter X Hunter is ambitious, intense, awe-inspiring, humourous and subsequently so versatile. It takes nearly every genre you could find in a shonen series, plays it straight, twists it, chews it up and spits it out, you name it. Even the early arcs have a perfect balance of high-spirited fun and dark undercurrents to give a more tense and haunting air about everything that happens like the early moral quandaries in the Exam arc that raise some interesting questions while having dire consequences on the characters and exposing more of them bit by bit and Zoldyeck Manor which peers into a scary side of Killua's family and the dynamics among all the other Zoldyecks as just a really messed up family in general. As for Heaven's Arena, yeah it's a necessary evil for introducing the super power component of the series, but Nen is such a meticulously thought out energy in the series which would serve to help make later arcs so great, and it's still a very fun arc in itself, so it's not too huge of a concern. In short, Hunter X Hunter is a fantastic culmination of everything the demographic typically has to offer and then some for this multi-layered, broad and dark odyssey that I feel should sit on the highest echelons of the media of anime and manga with its density, heart and scope. |
| With 4 votes for Enlightenment and no other vote, I draw this poll to a close. Thank you for voting. |
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