There are some anime with concepts or characters doomed to fail from the start, but that is not the case with Hunter x Hunter, however everything it could made wrong it was made wrong, it takes the award of how much screw up it made with its concepts.
Story 2/10:
Each arc consistently feels different and distinguishable from one another, which is good, but it also consistently has a lot of build up to a very dissapointing ending, every conflict is solved by the dumbest reasons, which can be unpredictable, but unpredictable bad in a sense of how will they ruin this arc this time? Problems are solves by luck, mercy in the part of the enemies, plot-conviniences, opponents giving up, random interruptions, random ways, ect...
Characters 0/10:
The worst part of the anime by far, going by the main ones:
Leorio - used mostly for the unfunny joke of being an useless adult-looking guy compared to the rest of the children, has no plot-relevance whatsoever and it feels it was created (and given a lot of screen time) just for this 1 moment later on that has no impact whatsoever. Was expecting them to make him a zero-to-hero kind of character, but nothing interesting was made out of him.
Kurapika - the best out of the bunch, he started out good, then was forgotten, then had an arc dedicated to make him shine where they gave him only 1 fight, after that he went back to being useless and forgotten again.
Hisoka - a pedophile clown loved by everyone in the anime community, doesn't have much of a personality outside of being 'horny for children', he does its job at being a creepy villain until later one he doesn't do that anymore.
Killua - He started as an awesome character, edgy and ruthless, demostrating the violence and harshness of the hunter world, so much so that in this 2011 version they had to censor some of his actions. When he started hanging out with the Main Character Gon, his character just went downhill, all his cool traits were left behind and he just became the annoying brat nº2, since the annoying brat nº1 was
Gon - the MC, a kid that behaves like a kid, for a harsh a violent world it is portrait on, this kid gets out with a lot scot-free, having a happy-go-lucky attitude when its no place for it. When having a kid as a MC, the show has to make ways to make them work, like having the intelligence to maneuver the others, but Gon is also as dumb as it gets, every problem he has to face he doesn't have to struggle for it, it is resolved by luck, avoiding it altogether, or mercy from the opponents. When he started he had a very interesting way of fighting style by using a fishing rod from a distance, but even his only interesting feature was removed later on, now he solves his problems by brute force alone, which for a kid, he shouldn't have.
Conclusion:
I gave it a 3/10 rating but that feels too generous, I'm struggling to find any positive points to justify it, the 1st ending was fire, the character Melody was very well done, and the Kurapika arc... had a good concept but was handled very poorly, at least started decent.
