Happy 100th episode, Hunter X Hunter.  It doesn’t seem right that on this occasion it’s the audience that receives yet another present, but so it is. It’s a milestone week yet again for the best anime on TV, as Hunter X Hunter reaches it’s 100th episode.  I’d rank this alongside […] Read more

Change is inescapable everywhere you look this week, if you’re a Hunter X Hunter fan. It certainly feels strange, doing a Hunter X Hunter post on a Wednesday afternoon.  I’ll get used to it, of course, but after two years of Sundays my entire perception of the series feels a […] Read more

Today certainly marks a milestone for Hunter X Hunter, but not in a good way. In case you missed it, there was some big news this week on the Hunter X Hunter front.  The move to late nights forces us to contemplate, for the first time, that the unprecedented run […] Read more

Hunter X Hunter is well on its way to developing the longest-ever list of people you really, really don’t want to piss off. We have many centers of power in the Hunterverse.  We have the Phantom Troupe, and of course the Hunters Association – another group we haven’t seen the […] Read more

Meanwhile, in Meteor City… Come on, surely you’re going to trust Togashi-sensei unreservedly by now.  With most authors, leaving the main story at one of its most suspenseful junctions ever right at the close of a fantastic and emotional episode would seem to be folly.  Not to mention abandoning the […] Read more

That’s pretty much how you do an anime episode, just like that.  Got it?  Good. The vagaries of the anime schedule are what they are – every week brings its ebb and flow, its ups and downs.  But then there’s Hunter X Hunter, which doesn’t torture us with three-minute recaps […] Read more

Some semblance of order has been restored to my universe – H x H is back. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, though I’m not certain that would be possible in this case.  There’s no denying it was a good reminder of just how much of a grip […] Read more