As I collected experiences and ventured deeper into the World of Anime, my attention was slowly attracted by other genres while gradually maturing. Big hits like Attack on Titan catched my attention to recent shounen again, although AOT did
surprise me positively at first, the hype soon died out for me and I couldnt enjoy it as much as I would like to. The good thing is that it motivated me to check out other new Shounen, one of which was the adaptation of Hunter x Hunter by madhouse. At first it did not seem to stand out much, all i saw was little kids and naturally my expectations were to get just the same old battle shounen without any special elements despite following the shounen formula. Arriving at the second big arc I was mostly convinced otherwise and marathoned the show.
Sure there are arcs that arent the best and here and there you may discover some flaws, but the greatly developed and fleshed out charcters, especially some of the villains which i consider some of the best I have ever seen make up for it. One thing I liked in particular was the dark atmosphere that the show has in later arcs without being too edgy or tryhard, just right do indulge yourself in excitement to some events. There are also some twists, although the signs are indirectly given for an later upcoming plotwist, there is still room for improvement for some major plot twists and their foreshadowing which wasnt touched well enough. What i liked on the other hand was that the plot always moved in an unpredictable pattern and the suptle implemetation of philosophical and moral aspects into the world, characters and events in the series. The visuals were done decent and improve with later arcs, specificaly fighting scenes look fluid and good.
Another very appealing part of this anime is the audio, which was superp and was at times reminiscent to that of Death Notes ( same studio ).
Perhaps my biggest complaint would be that the show left many threads untied, meaning that it kinda feels incomplete, and even though the manga is officialy ongoing, the mangaka is on hiatus until further notice.
Well at the end of the day I view hunter x Huunter as my favourite Anime, so my rating can be considered highly subjective.
