There’s just nobody like Togashi Yoshihiro. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – material like this makes me wonder how Togashi is able to write as quickly as he does, not complain that he isn’t faster.  The layers upon layers of subterfuge and psychological intrigue he builds […] Read more

Chalk one up for innovation and weakness of the flesh. Unless you’re one of the contingent who soured on Hunter X Hunter during this arc because of the narrative structure and narration itself, you’ve been utterly spoiled like me by the astonishing – and astonishingly consistent – run the series […] Read more

That apology didn’t really sound sincere to me… It’s hard to believe that there’s been complaining about the latest run of episodes of Hunter X Hunter, but there has.  In fact, it goes back to the days when the manga first introduced this part of the story.  I suppose it’s […] Read more

  The torture continues… At this moment it’s utterly pointless to compare Hunter X Hunter with anything else currently airing.  It’s a combination of the fact that H x H is at a ridiculous level and the fact that we’re in the midst of a historically weak season, but I […] Read more

Do I really need to say anything? I needed some time after watching that episode before I could even begin to give order to my reactions.  Not least of which because I was physically shaking when it ended – even now I’m still trembling a bit.  It’s truly astonishing that […] Read more

Watching this arc really is the agony and the ecstasy… I wrote a lot about last week’s episode, and I suspect next week’s is going to be impossible not to likewise discuss at length – so I feel as if I really need to control myself now.  In my defense […] Read more

I’m going to the well time after time in trying to sing the praises this series deserves, and all I’m coming up with is pure awe at this point. So – there goes another 10 seconds.  10 seconds that seemed to encompass a lifetime and 22 minutes that seemed to […] Read more

It’s not that often I can say this with anime, but I’ve truly never seen anything like what Hunter X Hunter is doing right now. By my calculations something in the neighborhood of 20-25 seconds passed during the course of this episode.  That means, in the last three, we’ve seen […] Read more

I suppose if Togashi-sensei can turn one minute into an entire episode, I can get a few paragraphs out of it – but boy, he sure doesn’t make it easy to describe what he – and Madhouse – are accomplishing here. Where does one even begin to try and break […] Read more