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

After two episodes that were just a step down in quality for the first time in… well, a very long time, H x H kicks off the York Shin Arc proper with an episode that cranks the awesome back up to 11. For an H x H fan – or […] Read more

Kurapika is the proof that massive progress in Nen skills can happen just as easily off-screen as on. Honesty compels me to admit that as good as it is to see Kurapika, I haven’t found the last two episodes as compelling as I did the Heaven’s Tower arc.  In fairness […] Read more

At long last Hunter X Hunter arrives in York Shin, and I suspect we’re going to be here for a while. I don’t know if this episode marks the “official” beginning of the York Shin Arc, but it certainly seems to be a beginning and an ending.  Especially coming on […] Read more

Even I couldn’t fail to recognize the name on that memory card… I’m continually amazed at the way Hunter X Hunter keeps finding new ways to entertain me.  Perhaps as much as any of the great shounen I’ve seen or read, H x H can  effortlessly slide from one style to another […] Read more