Every so often Killua reminds us of the first line of my post from way back at Episode 33… This has been an amazing trip, this “Chimera Ant”. I look back now and it’s been almost exactly a year since the journey started (Episode 76, to be precise) and to […] Read more
Well, damn – I hardly know where to start with that one… This is a snippet of what I wrote two weeks ago, after the blooming of the miniature rose: I’m very, very reluctant to try and dig into the deeper meaning of what we saw… It will simply invite […] Read more
Not more damn analogies, Enzo! When literalism fails you, a writer must look elsewhere for means to get their point across. Togashi-sensei, Koujina and Madhouse keep pushing me, forcing the linguistic equivalent of Chimera-paced evolution in the effort to communicate how mind-bogglingly good this series is. And since Togashi himself […] Read more
To try and do justice to “Chimera Ant” – how can it be done? At the moment I can only think to borrow the words of Dave Eggers – it is indeed a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. I’m pretty much incoherent after that whopper of an episode, so you’ll […] Read more
HE IS BACK Update: the official return date is the 6/2 issue of WSJ. The tagline: “What is being aimed for is darkness. What is being hunted is hope. What blocks the way is endless despair.” Hunter X Hunter is returning to Weekly Shounen Jump, starting in June. This time […] Read more
“Idiot”, my ass… I’m not patient or fastidious enough to regularly track who the animation directors for specific episodes of Hunter X Hunter are, but I’m assuming they brought out one of the big guns – Mori Tomoko or Abiru Takahiro, maybe – for this one, and likely next week’s […] Read more
Never underestimate the power of a crying child to reach a woman’s heart. And if she’s a shotacon, well, so much the better… There was pretty big news in the world of the Hunter X Hunter anime this week, though it’s of the unofficial variety and thus may qualify more […] Read more
Togashi Yoshihiro continues to be the sorting hat of mangaka. with the help of Madhouse and Koujina-sensei. This is a landmark episode of Hunter X Hunter, though only for personal reasons. It’s the first time in at least a year (to be honest I can’t remember the last time) that […] Read more
Time is definitely an elastic concept with Hunter X Hunter. Among the many things I must credit Togashi and Koujina-sensei with, it seems one is temporal manipulation, because there’s no way in hell that was 22 minutes. In terms of real-time it seems as if this might have been one […] Read more
You know, this show is actually pretty good. Hunter X Hunter really is the gift that keeps on giving. There’s seemingly no end to the ways it can entertain and astound me. To those who complain that “Chimera Ant” is too paced too slowly I can only ask – why? […] Read more