OK, Killua is definitely the normal one in the family… It becomes increasingly clear that nothing of any consequence comes easily in the world of Hunter X Hunter.  Life is a test, and the entertainment comes from watching how people react to being tested.  Sometimes the tests are literally just […] Read more

Like many of you I was hoping for a new OP this week, but even though I was disappointed in that respect, the episode itself satisfied me in every other way. I’m continued to mull over what Satosz said at the end of episode 21 about the Hunter Exam not […] Read more

Well, I guess those rumors that Madhouse would be toning down that side of Hisoka’s personality can be put to rest… It’s great to have H x H back after a hiatus week – it’s so unlike anything else in my blogging rotation that I really missed having it around.  […] Read more

While it’s no secret that any episode that looks closely at Killua’s soul is going to go to a very dark place, I was surprised by the way the remainder of the hunter exam’s final phase played out. For me, Killua has always been the saddest character of all the […] Read more

Gon is GAR. That is all. I thought Hunter X Hunter was going to have a rough time equaling the epic power and intensity of the blockbuster episode 16, but this week’s effort might just have done it.  And the fact that it did so while featuring a character – […] Read more

I confess, if you floated the proposition two months ago that Hunter X Hunter was going to be one of the better series airing as we entered February, I would have been highly skeptical.  But you’d have been right, and I’d have been wrong. I’d also have been skeptical that […] Read more

It seems pretty fitting that the “Hunter Vocabulary” this week was “too bad”, because that seems to be the mantra of anyone who crosses Killua’s path. There was really no way this episode was going to live up to the colossal blockbuster that was  episode 16, and it didn’t really […] Read more

In the battle of epic island arcs, Shounen Sunday vs. Shounen Jump, Fairy Tail vs. Hunter x Hunter, Madhouse takes the lead over A-1 Pictures with the best episode of H x H and one of the best anime episodes of a young 2012. That was just about the culmination […] Read more

The fish hunts the fly, the bird hunts the fish, and the boy catches the bird.  But in the world of the hunter, everyone is hunted. I think what I’m enjoying about H x H isn’t so much the challenges themselves, but the fact that they act as a sort of Rorschach […] Read more