Anyone who’s read “The Most Dangerous Game” will certainly feel right at home with the premise of H x H 13, the first episode of new material in three weeks. As usual, the hunter exam is really more about mind games than physical challenges, though the latter are certainly a […] Read more

Happy Holidays to all.  Alas, the only present H x H left under the Festivus pole was a recap episode.  With that big fat lump of coal in the stocking you don’t expect much, and indeed, boring recap episode was boring.  But we did get a few shots of Mito-san […] Read more

I must confess, I’m taking a certain sadistic delight in watching fans of the 1999 series complain about this one. I can only imagine that a lot of viewers were probably turned off by the first half of this week’s H x H.  To pace the episode so that the […] Read more

The key line of dialogue from this week was certainly when Kurapika said, “As long as he’s on our side…” This is what I said here two weeks ago: I really wonder if after two fake “to the death” matches Killua’s may end up as a real one – and […] Read more

Hisoka is making a case as the character who gets the most out of his screen time of any this season.  You don’t see him much, but the trail of devastation he leaves in his wake is pretty impressive. I was a little surprised by the direction this episode took, […] Read more

A couple things have now been established in H x H – first, that this series is capable of being highly entertaining even without Hisoka.  And second, it’s a really, really bad idea to piss off Kurapika. Episode 9 seems to confirm that this series has gotten over the hump, […] Read more

Hunter x Hunter seems to have found its stride, delivering the goods with arguably it’s most “shounen-ish” episode so far. It’s a really good sign when you’re surprised when an anime episode ends, and that was the case here.  I felt as if it had lasted about 10 minutes, and […] Read more

I confess, I’ll be very interested in seeing what the fans of the first series think of this week’s Hunter x Hunter.  To me, they seem a pretty surly and hard to please lot – much the same as they’re saying about me when it comes to Last Exile… I […] Read more

After five episodes I’m beginning to see what all the buzz for this series was about. I’d initially thought to do a digest post on this series, but to be honest the last two episodes have been interesting enough to demand a full post on their own.  Given that it’s […] Read more