However, for me at least, I did not get interested in until the future arc. That's practically more than halfway through the series. There were a FEW decent fights here and there before than but nothing too captivating. I guess what really had me was that they consistently dragged some parts out. It's noticeable in every arc and because of that, I had to put this series on hold and start a new series just so I could have my "anime fill" for the day. Sure there are plenty of anime that does this, but Hitman was really bad with this.
This show loves to put fillers within the arc and loves to have recap episodes and tries to play it off like it's really part of the story (though it's not as bad as Naruto). So occasionally, I would say something similar to this, "Really, that was an episode? C'mon it should be better than this." Of course other anime do similar things, but with Hitman just really irked me the most. You will know which episodes will be recaps and you can skip them if you so choose to. For me, I have to watch every single episode, special, ova, movie and etc of a series.
So as my first review comes to an end, let me just answer a few more things:
Is this one of the best anime series that I have watched to date? - definitely not
Is this worth a re-watch? - only less than a handful of episodes so basically no
Would I recommend this to people looking for a new series? - nope
Would I recommend this to people looking to kill some time? - maybe
Could you take a pass on this anime? - yeah, you are not really missing anything
However if you are interested in Hitman Reborn, I would have to say that, stick with the manga, the anime definitely does not do this series justice unfortunately. Though a few OP/ED's were pretty decent :-)
Not trying to bash the series out there for those out there who likes/loves it, but I'm just obviously voicing my opinion on how I felt about this series. It's definitely not the best nor the worst anime I have watched. I'm just sort of disappointed that my friend hyped it up as much as he does with One Piece, so I probably was expecting too much from this. Hmm... what do you know, my review wasn't all that short lol.
