Unpopular opinion about HxH? (arcs, characters, etc..)

Theo1899 said:
I have never engaged with the HxH fan community so I don't know if these opinions are actually unpopular or not

I hated the first arc. It was boring, generic and I couldn't wait for it to end. It didn't feel like the best way to open a show.

While I can't deny that it's an incredibly catchy song, I didn't like the opening theme. I'm a fan of upbeat and uplifting music but this one didn't click with me. At first I thought it was because I got tired of it due to it being the only song in the series but I've enjoyed other songs that were openings for way longer like the opening for the greek dub of dragon ball for example that was the only OP for both DB and DBZ

I have only seen clips on youtube but I believe that the 1999 version looks better than the 2011 version but that may be because I'm a sucker for good cel animation

franzdrake said:
Hisoka is a bit overrated compared to the other villains. He's certainly a great character and better than 95% of shonen villains but Chrollo and the royal guards and meruem are leagues better.

Missaliensan said:
Some arcs in Hunter x hunter are kind of boring...keep in mind i´m talking about the 2011 version.For example,the zoldyck family arc really lacked a payoff.The heavens arc is really boring and was only important because it introduced nen,otherwise it would be completely pointless.You wouldn´t get much merit from the Greed island arc unless you were really into videogames,which i´m not so i didn´t like that arc either.
So I still feel pretty 50/50 about the anime because the good arcs such as hunter hunter exams,yorknew,and chimera ant are amazing.
And also,Killua is an interesting character but i don´t really like him as much as some people do.I actually didn´t like him at all at the beginning but i guess i disliked him a bit less once i saw the character development he went through in the chimera ant arc.

NamikazeHime said:
Chimera Ant arc was unnecessarily long given the fact that it actually had only two interesting moments altogether - Komugi's and Meruem's relationship and Meruem vs. Netero fight.

Damerino said:
It sucks, does that count as unpopular opinion or should I write a long-ass text to prove it. Otherwise, I won't be doing that, Lmao

guych said:
This is MY OPINION but Killua is overrated. I liked him at first but as the story progresses, I found him more and more annoying and uninteresting. And Gon too. I thought he was the cutest MC but after the Chimera Ant arc, fuck Gon.

TaryNico said:
I don't actually know if these are unpopular opinions or not but

1) Kite should have stayed dead. It undermines Gon's entire arc from the previous arc and basically makes it so he doesn't have to face any real consequences or grow from any real struggles. Meruem's sister should have been her own character, not a reincarnated Kite.

2) The Killua "Illumi needle" felt cheap and was such a letdown. Everything building up to that was brilliant and really set up an arc for Killua to overcome his traumatic upbringing and struggles through his own willpower, not because Illumi's needle got taken out and magically fixed all his problems.

3) I don't like Alluka. Well, I don't really mind her per se, but her character just feels really empty and disconnected from other characters. Like Togashi made a little sister trope character rather than a real character whose affected by the things that go on around her. The cutesy little sister personality still, as if nothing happened, despite having been locked in a prison for years, having no contact with any of her family, being treated as someone not only not a part of the family but not human altogether, and seemingly being abandoned and forgotten by the one family member who did care about her and was close to her. She doesn't even react to all the things that happen after that. Alluka was not raised the way the other Zoldycks were and taught combat, people, including her own family member, are trying to kill her, crazy shit is going on, and she just seems to not really be fazed or be affected by any of it. As if her only connection is to be Killua's cute imouto and go "ni-chan". I don't know, her character just feels too contrived and "we want you to like this cute little sister character" rather than it happening organically.

Nanika, on the other hand, is adorable.

4) Speaking of Nanika, the Killlua "secret rule" twist that he was hiding from the family was a total copout. It's revealed that Nanika has all these interesting and intricate rules, and that Killua knows more rules than the rest of his family by way of actually treating Alluka like a human being, so you think he's gonna know this one rule as a trump card that could potentially have him avoid the potential blowback from the big wish, but we would have never expected it would have been that he gets free unlimited wishes.

It shits not only on everything that came before it in this arc, but also even more things from the previous arc. He took Illumi's needle out before they even went back to East Geurtou, so why didn't he think to use Alluka before to get rid of the Ants or heal Kite? Not only that, it makes him ridiculously overpowered to the point that all future arcs are null and void. Anything he wants he can just ask Alluka and he gets it, as many times as he wants, for free.

Rather than him being Alluka/Nanika's closest person so he knows that she'll never ask the same person twice in a row, or that healing comes with no after effects as far as her asking the next person something huge, or him being able to double wish or anything else.

5) In addition to the above, I think the splitting up of Killua and Gon should have been done a bit differently. Like, because of the secret rule he knows and after having revealed it to Illumi, he leaves immediately with Alluka after healing Gon and dissapears, devoting himself to Alluka's protection, forcing Gon to want to "hunt" down Killua so he can finally apologize to him. It would be a bit of a reversal for their relationship, in contrast to Killua who was always chasing and following around Gon, Gon is the one who goes after Killua. Idk, I always felt that the sorry at the end of Election Arc was a bit understated considering everything that came before it and in addition to the lack of consequences regarding Kite, it just felt like Gon got off scott free on an emotional level after all the wack shit he did (not completely consequence free, obviously, as he apparently can't use Nen anymore).

That being said, HunterxHunter is still a masterpiece and none of the above mars that.

ASAP_PHUNG said:
Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I wasn't a fan of what became of Knov as the CA arc progressed. I understand that his mental breakdown was perhaps important to demonstrate Gon's resolve or to show the strength difference between the guards and the extermination team. However, I personally wanted to see more of his combat abilities...oh well. From a thematic standpoint, I appreciate how mental health is taken seriously (e.g. it is seen as a genuine disability as the extermination team was very understanding of Knov's current state and no one tried to tell him to "get over it")

Shank_Man said:
Almost everything the 2011 series covered are great imo. But the latest arc (Succession War) in the manga is a big fking snore fest full with unnecessary exposition dump, but the fanboys eat it up and be like "urGh u jUst dOnt uNderStanD hOw cEreBraL iT is, iTs fOr sMarT ppL"

Probably the worst arc in the entire series. It doesnt help too when Togashi drop like 3 chapters in 2 years.

Kaneki5 said:
This show is overrated

fuckgendo said:
maybe it's bc im not a manga reader, but i felt like that the author just stopped with kurapika. after the phantom troupe he had no other redeemable personality traits. doesn't also help that his abilities are specifically for them. but i cant see where his character can go after this. like thats it. the whole revenge story. that was his character.

Psajdak said:
I wish there was more of Leorio.