It seems funny to have to say something that should be so obvious, but this episode really made me realize how much I missed having Killua around. With Chihayfuru in the rear-view (toss a coin, bow twice and clap twice for a second season) it’s nice having Hunter x Hunter […] Read more
Between Hunter X Hunter and Chihayafuru, Madhouse is having one amazing season. I don’t know if I’ll put it on a par with its Spring of five years ago with Oh! Edo Rocket and Dennou Coil, but it’s damn close. There’s certainly no shounen out there quite like H x […] Read more
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
A source linked to the Hunter X Hunter franchise told the Mainchi Shimbun paper’s Mantan Web site that production on the first anime film based onYoshihiro Togashi‘s manga has been green-lit. Even though there have been two television anime series, including one ongoing one, there have not been a theatrical anime in the 14 years of the manga’s […] 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