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

After 111 episodes of brilliance – and a preview full of spoilers – Hunter X Hunter can still utterly surprise me.  That’s brilliant writing and direction, plain and simple. Here’s the truth – when this episode ended, I broke out laughing for a good five seconds.  It’s not as if […] Read more

Shoot, I think I’ve figured out what you were talking about… We’re getting a one-week break for the New Year (most anime do take it) but happily, the Hunter X Hunter NTV schedule for January has finally populated with new eps starting on the 7th.  Sorry for the false alarm […] Read more

I don’t want to say that episode was tense, but if my phone had rang my upstairs neighbor would have seen something like this… As arcs go, “Chimera Ant” pretty much redefines epic.  It’s epic in terms of length, it’s epic in terms of scale, and it’s epic in terms […] Read more

This is a dangerous post for me to write. I’m at the point now where I’m harboring serious thoughts that no series should be as good as Hunter X Hunter for as long as this one has.  I mean – it must be unfair or a sign of the apocalypse […] Read more