Seriously – did anyone doubt for a second that Gon would put out “Rock”? 60 episodes is something of a milestone for any anime, and as I marvel at yet another stellar episode it makes me inclined to reflect back over the last five cours. It’s frankly pretty amazing how […] Read more
The beginning of a new arc of H x H brings with it a whole lot of excitement. OP4 Sequence: So long York Shin (the arc, not the city – yet), hello Greed Island (the arc, not the game – yet). With a new arc, we get a new opening […] Read more
This week’s Hunter X Hunter had me wrestling with a dilemma of sorts. It’s fair to say that I was looking forward to this ep as much as any anime episode all year, but fate intervened and left me a twisted, wraith-like creature with a bout of food poisoning. So […] Read more
I can count on one hand the times in a year an anime makes me LOL just in appreciation for the awesome, but that’s probably the third or fourth time Hunter X Hunter has done it. If psychological intensity is your bag, it would be hard to top H x […] Read more
If you’ve been impatient for me to criticize the Madhouse Hunter X Hunter, your long wait is finally over. There’s no new episode next week. How could you do that to me after such a great episode, and that cliffhanger? There – never let it be said that I’m not hard on […] Read more
With this many iconic characters running around, the hard part with H x H sometimes is figuring out who the star of the episode was. As always with this series, it’s a mark of its greatness that it can offer an episode with no action in the middle of an […] Read more
As many epic fights as this series has shown us so far, I get the sense that the big dogs haven’t even started to hunt yet. This episode was certainly a bit of an emotional roller-coaster, though that was to be expected under the circumstances. It started out feeling like […] Read more
I can honestly say that almost none of that went as I expected. Before I launch into my usual weekly praise for H x H – I’ll warn you, it’s coming – I want to single out Sawashiro Miyuki for some praise here. Not because I don’t still have issues […] Read more
Finally, someone comes along who can give the Phantom Troupe as good as they get. There was an awful lot happening in this ep of H x H – as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago there are several different threads in the story at the moment any one […] Read more
OK, that was officially my favorite H x H episode that didn’t feature my two favorite characters… You know the drill – episode was awesome, blah blah blah. Well, sorry, but it was – with a beautifully creepy and almost sentimental buildup that led to one of the all time-sucker […] Read more