Yawn – I flee to a different continent 6000 miles away, and I can’t get away from great episodes of Hunter X Hunter.  The more things change… This episode was really geared towards learning about characters.  It proves that there’s room in H x H to learn more about those […] Read more

I hope people keep talking about the impending demise of Madhouse, because every time they do the studio does something that really knocks your socks off. I’m fascinated by this continual talk about Madhouse being in desperate trouble, given that they continue to produce not just great anime, but anime […] Read more

Among the nearly innumerable things I love about Hunter X Hunter is the glimpse it provides into the mind of its creator. I loved this episode (surprise, surprise) but what really struck me when watching it was, surprisingly, the thought that Togashi-sensei must be an endlessly fascinating man.  It’s clear […] Read more

Maybe Kurapika should have listened to his Nen master a little better… This episode reunited the team who gave us the monstrously epic Gon x Hisoka fight (part I) from episode 35, director Matsumura Masaki and animation director Mori Tomoko, and it’s easy to see the results.  #35 remains the […] Read more

Poke-phantoms – gotta catch ‘em all! I don’t think it would accurate to call this episode the calm before the storm so much as the eye of the hurricane, as the intensity has been pretty high already and looks as if it’s headed for another peak next week.  This was […] Read more

One thing really jumps out at me with this episode of H x H – Kurapika’s soul is really hanging in the balance. As long as this series runs for a long time and we keep getting episodes of this quality from Madhouse, I can live with the occasional hiatus […] Read more

  You know character deaths are happening fast and furious when they can’t even get them into the Hunterpedia while they’re still alive… All I can say is, thank goodness Madhouse got Ishizuka Unshou Akio Ōtsuka to play Uvogin, because with that voice I can very much believe he’s the […] Read more

If the Whale Island mini-arc was the Yin of Hunter X Hunter, this episode definitely marks the beginning of the Yang. This may about as straightforward a H x H writeup as I’ve done so far, because that episode pretty much spoke for itself.  No Gon, no Killua, no Leorio […] Read more

Well, that had to be the shortest H x H pre-open ever.  But I guess it said everything that needed to be said. If there’s a danger with Blogging this show, it’s becoming repetitive.  Not H x H, but the blog posts – because there’s only so many different ways […] Read more