Shaka, when the walls fell. Update #3: ANN joins the “nothing to report in WSJ 50” parade, so it isn’t looking good. It looks like “I’ve seen false reports simply get recycled over and over until everyone just assumes it’s true” was more predictive than I’d hoped. There could still […] Read more
If I were to slap an idiom on that episode, it would be “Still Waters Run Deep”. Lest anyone think I’m unnecessarily bashing, let me re-state for the nth time – I like Shingeki no Kyoujin, and rather a lot too. Not only that but I think it’s rather good […] Read more
Never underestimate the power of bro-hood, ~degeso. It seems only fitting that Hunter X Hunter 101 should be a survey course in great anime. It’s all here – the ruthless, chilling and jet-black hilarious brilliance that makes H x H the masterpiece that it is. We also got a fair […] Read more
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
It might not sound like a big deal, but I think this is pretty major news. In a move that might have been inevitable, NTV is switching Hunter X Hunter to late nights. This Sunday’s broadcast will apparently be the last 10:55 AM new episode premiere – starting 10/8, H […] 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